skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not back then. This was before "Retina" iPads, but the iPod Touch was Retina. You had a 960x640 screen vs a 1024x768 one. More pixels, but not so many more that it should block an OS update.
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> So to those in the know- when can we expect to see VLMC finished?

No clue. Noone seems to care enough.
Everything Worthwhile Is Done with Other People – Adi Magazine
otherwise he would have resigned. So he chose to keep going, until....
Does it click when the power is off?
Apple's current keyboard (among other reasons) is preventing me from replacing my mid-2010 MBP. It feels terrible to type on and dust motes apparently break them. As usual, they are sacrificing user experience for a meaningless saving of a few grams and/or millimeters. As it stands now, for the same price, I can buy a much more powerful laptop with a better (though, still not great) keyboard and just emulate OSX for the applications I use.
Exposed files leak details Russia's domestic surveillance
Just remember that you, me, and all the rest of the smart people are undoubtedly the subject of someone else's "You won't believe this idiot I had at work today" story.
Yes. You can tell because in addition to their lines of business they have these massive cash sinks tinkering away on random stuff. Why does Uber need to hire people to write a tool to eliminate null pointer exceptions in Java? There really might be a sustainable business - but it won't be doing most of this stuff:

https://uber.github.io

https://lyft.github.io
Obviously it's been a while, but the local business calculation I observed was, it was always better to not be sued than to be sued. And if the suit was unavoidable (e.g. guy is just nutso-litigious) it's better to have declined all business with him in the first place.
> Between the ages of 25 and 40, the share of STEM majors working in STEM jobs falls from 65 percent to 48 percent. Many of them shift into managerial positions, which pay well but do not always require specialized skills.

While technically true, I would argue that many of the most successful managers are at least in part successful because they have a really strong background in the field they are managing. Most people want to be managed by people who understand some of the nuances of what they're doing.
Living in a company town earning company scrip to spend in the company store is an old business model and one that had never, ever gone well for the resident-workers. There’s even a word for it: serfdom.
Uber & Lyft are public companies now, and by definition are now more accountable to public markets than whims of VCs.

Is the board composition the reason you think VCs still have a sway on them ?
besides for the needed UX work and a little development effort I don't get the latest buzz about dark mode.

Dark mode is not necessarily better than non-dark mode, and it should be a basic feature for every software anyway.
Free markets require agency on the part of the participants. Network effect businesses in many cases devolve to central planning, because it's more efficient.

You don't need computers to do this stuff. The problems and solutions that the Soviet Union faced in central planning are not dissimilar to what Uber faces in its corner of the universe. Fundamentally, Uber sells a product that is too expensive for the market to adopt in critical mass. So they implement price controls, first by flooding external capital, and then by squeezing the suppliers.
Happens every day all over the world. It's just such a mundane event no one writes newspaper articles about it.
I can confirm this, as I am an owner of two 2018 Macbook Pros for 7 months and I did not even realize that the click was fake !
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They can upgrade the technology to a much bigger screen, like the one in an e-reader, for a smaller profit but much better value for students.

If they don't change their hardware, at some instant in the future the inflexion point could even bankrupt them.
Yeah because that technology is right around the corner...
Corporate Gibberish Generator
The history of most of these is terrible. Many actively log / aggregate and in some cases sell your data - are based in non-US jurisdictions so no recourse. There is going to be a reason cloudflare does better - they are more trusted.
ok, I finally registered here to say this: thank you and the VLC team!
Also... the only feature that I always missed when playing music with VLC instead of winamp: Enqueue. Meaning: adding a music file that gets put in as the next song and not at the end (or played directly)... is such a thing planned at all? I can't be only one (actually, I haven't found a player that does this since winamp :( )
A statically typed language for the Erlang VM
> But this is the root of alcoholism and suicide in Alaska

More accurately, conditions today ripe for alcoholism and suicide may be borne out events following contact. There's similar issues in Canada, Siberia.
Those are paid and this one is free?
Trust with what? Warp is specifically designed to reveal your IP address. This is as anti-privacy VPN as a VPN can be. Which is absolutely not surprising coming from a US corporation.
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Automated Reports with Jupyter Notebooks (Using Jupytext and Papermill)
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Imagine the guy up there, screaming "This is hopeless, there's no way we are EVER going to make any money!!"

So yeah, he's supposed to say that. It's as if he didn't say anything.
Allbirds calls out Amazon for its unsustainable knockoff of its sneakers
Some will blame the upcoming recession on trump. It’ll actually be caused by another Silicon Valley bubble. They’ve run out of cheap money and now the hobby investors are refusing to take the bait.
Brilliant!! Just for that I'd love you but you also happen to be an awesome individual.
From the interview:

"For a patch to get accepted, it needs to be maintainable as well as useful [...]
Which means that we put a lot of emphasis on quality. So, with any code we get sent, we need to make sure that we can still maintain it in 6 months, 1 year, or 2 years… And that’s why we have a lot of features in VLC that some consider completely useless and why we don’t have others that some people think are important. It’s not because we’re stupid, it’s just that the code needs to be clean—if it’s not, you don’t get in."

(emphasis mine)
That's because developers shouldn't be making estimates in isolation. They only know what they know about themselves. People who watch developers across many projects can better understand the 'likeness' of similar projects, similar inputs (in terms of developers), and then talk to developers about the differences of a given project to come to a better estimate.
That sounds awesome. If you don’t mind, could you talk about what you did some more?
Hmm, interesting. Unfortunately I wasn't planning on compiling VLC myself, but maybe I should.
Change in culture isn't enough to explain it either. Hunting and trapping culture is still strong in the north. There's not much else going on.
Full Disclosure: I work at Amazon.

Everything you've said here is effectively worst-case scenario and you are treating that pessimism as skepticism when they aren't the same thing.

So let's be clear on a few aspects of this that are bordering on absurd:

1. The actual incentive for Amazon is building a remote healthcare business. The idea that Amazon is going to somehow force providers to direct you toward "cheap" treatments is asinine. Why in the world would they care? This is entirely separate from Amazon's insurance, which it doesn't own.

2. No they can't. Twice now the premise of your argument is that Amazon is somehow able to dictate what healthcare providers do. They can force a nurse to overstate the dangers of pregnancy? Are you serious?

3. This is either the most naive statement you've made, or a bold-faced lie. I'll assume the former. The treatment itself is provided by Oasis Medical. They are not owned by Amazon. Amazon owns the technology. Oasis owns the care, including, patient records.

I'll agree with one thing you said: people don't understand privacy. This is no exception. While invasive invasions of privacy only require a visit to a website, medical privacy has been default on for decades.

Another thing people on HN don't seem to understand: There is an enormous different between skepticism and pessimism. The latter makes it incredibly easy to ignore the content of your messages as nothing more than a conspiracy theorist. There are probably a sea of valid complaints about this program, unfortunately they get buried under a sea of absurdity that the world outside of HN completely ignores.

It's unfortunate.
you can rmdir $PWD no problem. as long as there are no files in it. i guess it catches almost all cases though.

come to think of it, when would you ever want to rm -rf/? even in a chroot it doesn’t seem like a thing you’d want to do.
It's like a lambda ref, yes.
C++ really stays the ugliest language around. It got better, but still is horrendous.
That’s the lazy “blame the violent colonialists” approach though. There’s a very high suicide rate amongst Greenland natives as well.

Perhaps it’s because so much culture was surrounded around food gathering? Modern technology coming around and wiping out the need for most of your tribe to hunt and gather is going to have a big impact on cultures like that.
Even worse, I have a <lastname>@gmail.com address. I have gotten everything from multiple years of tax form from New South Wales to tickets to a wine tasting in South Africa. One of the most fun was church choir info from Germany.
At this point I have a multilingual "You have the wrong address" email that I will send once and then create a rule with an auto-reply and auto-delete.
I always assumed Let's Encrypt was an NSA front so that they can decrypt most of the https traffic.

Remember just after the Snowden revelations all the 3 letter agencies were very worried about https adoption rising, then their concerns suddenly disappeared.

However I have no idea how encryption works so maybe my hunch is stupid (I remember that the NSA impersonated a certificate authority for that purpose).
Hey HN! I've been building this for a while, but up until now it's been a read-only HTTP debugging tool, and today's my first foray into proper mocking, which opens up a whole new world of fun (and practical use cases).

Let me know what you think :-)
Can someone explain the difference between warp and warp+? I’ve read the blog and the App Store description, both of which completely fail to identify the difference.
Last I heard it was in the order of tens of millions of euros [0]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/france/comments/736ghk/ama_je_suis_...
But I don’t think you should be put in jail for telling the truth. It’s basically what this law is about.
> Why not buy them bus tickets to Ontario?

There are no roads to any of the 25 towns in Nunavut.
The article mentions MUSCULAR, but neglected the follow-up: shortly after the leaks, Google began encrypting all of its internal traffic over its own fiber links.[0]

First, it's worth pointing out that "encrypt everything in flight always" is not prohibitively expensive on modern hardware; also that your own internal network should not be viewed as an impenetrable bastion where you can let down your guard, just because you keep a close eye on the external routers.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-en...
Race conditions in a single threaded application? Please get this Java developer out of here.
>Now everyone knows it’s true, but still nobody seems to care…

That just about sums up every bad act.

Lots of people were aware of all the bank fraud and toxic loans leading to the 2008 real estate bubble, no one cared leading up to it, and no one cares now.

The Googles/Facebooks/amazons are collecting and doing unsavory things with your data, whether you ever used their services or not (shadow accounts), no one seems to care.

Governmental spying on citizens? Hell the Government had a program which included secret kill lists, flew military bombers into foreign countries to drop bombs and kill a citizen. Even when the US failed to kill the citizen and the family sued, their case was dismissed as the courts denied any right to know who was on the list, how they got on the list, and even denied acknowledging the list existed...yet no one cared.

Imagine a foreign country flying military missions in the US and dropping bombs on a foreigner in the US, based on the foreign governments secret kill lists. It's pure insanity.
Companies either want to be earning money from an API, or they want to keep it secret.

An internal API which people reverse engineer and use is just going to lead to hassles later when you want to change the API, when people start writing bots or abuse the API in ways you hadn't imagined, or expose bugs in the API the official client didn't.
Not only to mitigate timing attacks, but also to limit fingerprinting by data-harvesting entities.
Yep. I make some changes that SIP would catch, but I'm mostly comfortable with the boot into Recovery -> run a script -> boot back again. It's not kext stuff, though.

I might have to use PurgeWrangler for an older iMac. Apparently, can keep it mostly enabled, but you need to mind updates and be ready to recover if your modifications are invalidated https://github.com/mayankk2308/purge-wrangler/issues/2#issue...
I'd say it's partly VCs but also the fact that, once they stop growing quickly, they need to start turning a profit, to justify a big valuation.

As long as they're still growing they can blame any losses on the costs of expansion. The hard part is becoming profitable once that growth period is over.

My feeling is that Uber, Lyft and WeWork will really struggle to turn big profits, there's just not enough differentiator to allow them to charge higher prices than other market participants.

with Uber/Lyft the endgame appears to have been self-driving vehicles, but it seems those are a long way off mass market adoption, so it's not likely they can sustain themselves while waiting for that to occur.

I'm not sure what WeWork thought the long term deal was...
Yep! And I can see it physically depressing when applying pressure.
I think that's their corporate font. Works fine for big text on a telly I guess.
No you wouldn't. I was responding to this ideas that all the really skilled people are well known.
I don't think so. The law doesn't oblige me to abstain from searching information (IANAL), and it really must not, because it won't be technically enforceable unless you are willing to go to the space of totalitarian state solutions, and overall decrease of rights people enjoy just to expand one particular (and not particularly well tested) legal concept. I think it worth keeping in mind that attaching word "right" to some legal novelty doesn't necessary means it is something sacred, and even just good. We always have to assess cost/benefits balance, and not just declared intentions when looking at laws. RtBF conflicts with rights regarding searching facts/data which everybody needs to make informed decisions. Therefore it cannot be pushed farther without rather unpleasant consequences.
It is part of the gdpr law.
The last commit on the master branch was in 2017:
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlmc/commits/master

That's a real shame because there are lots of people who would really like to see a good open source video editor. Blender's built-in NLE works but it isn't as well-developed as VLMC could be (it's not the main focus of a 3D modeling program). I think Natron lost its main developer around that time as well. It's as if we almost had a broad revolution in open source video editing, but it petered out before hitting 1.0.
In the USA, green card and naturalization applicants are required to be fingerprinted for FBI criminal background checks.

Cant apply for green card without being fingerprinted.
The solution is to just request a password reset and own "your" account.
> been damn close ... 30m

> that your hair stands up ... is utterly false

Please stop, 30m is not close. This is advice given in wilderness first aid training for possible warning of being hit not a 30m miss.

I'm going to trust them over you.

*edit: should also say that in my WFA they said you may or may not feel it, and if you do feel it you may or may not have enough time to react to it. The only reaction you really have is "lightning position" which is a tight ball of a crouch. Lying down completely is thought to be more dangerous, so don't go diving.

Also I've seen lightning about 30m off as well, it struck the mouth of a wooded trail I was considering exiting, my eyes were focused on the exact spot it struck. Hesitation probably saved me, though it was blinding and deafening. Thunder that close is really something else, absolutely the most violent sound I've heard in person.
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Yes, in some circumstances, they were put there -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Arctic_relocation

Reserves did not exist for 1000s of years. The indigenous were nomads, and now are more grounded in territory.
"Why? Why would it not simply stabilize at say 20% higher than now?"

How about 100 or 150%? Above 100 USD you may be able to afford gas. Many people can't.

"That is either word games or nonsense. People will keep extracting oil and there is only finitely much available at reasonable prices."

There are two points you ignore.
Falling ROEI (return of energy invested) on energy invested. Good oil has a ROEI over 20 (over 100 AFAIK for the first wells long time ago). This is sinking. It is 1:2 ROEI for shale gas. At 1:1 if does not make sense to try extracting.

The same with money. Energy and money are interlinked.
www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/01/wealth-and-energy-consumption-are-inseparable.html

Have a look of the money invested for further exploitation by big oil companies. Constantly sinking. The problem is you need high oil prices to justify investments. At the same time running an economy above 100 USD for oil is tricky. People can simply not afford it. Maybe you can, again, many people cant.
Looking at WhatsApp's website [1], instead of saying "your messages are definitely end-to-end encrypted at all times" they say it's "available", as in this sentence:

> WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption is available when you and the people you message use our app.

Is that what you're referring to?

[1] https://www.whatsapp.com/security/
The article didn't mention points at all. It said "agile", but only, like, once.

It also didn't mention Evidence-Based Scheduling[1].
Also, the evidence-based-scheduling article doesn't mention points either.

[1]https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/10/26/evidence-based-sch...
OK, so "this kind of statement is part of the problem" when it comes from a male but would not be "part of the problem" if I self-identified as a female?

(BTW, the original question was rhetorical, and so is this one. I'm not actually looking for an answer.)
the rapid melting of that ice is going to have some pretty large impacts on local eco systems, I don't think the issues are all that separable
I think I'll just go back to piracy...
No, this is a common misconception. Consider the difference in electrical potential between two trees that are 35 feet tall, and one that's 20 feet tall. Is there a difference? Yes, but it's not a big one, and when you consider the overall path length from the cloud to ground you're talking about a miniscule difference.

Additionally, there are other confounding variables. Taller trees are typically older, and have larger root systems. Maybe they're better grounded, relative to younger trees, and so they are better pathways. We just don't know enough yet to say for certain why lightning strikes where it does.

The only thing I will say, is that if you're outside and have nowhere to go, the best place is to be in a dense forest, but not close to any particular trees. The odds of you being directly struck in a forest are incredibly small.
Totally agree with that analogy having worked @ Shopify. We shall see which is more durable long term.
Are you referring to the same Apple that pushed a silent update to REMOVE the hidden Zoom server?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20407233
They laid off 400 marketing employees in July[1], out of 1200 total. If you assume an average salary of $75k (not sure how accurate that is; just the average in my non-CA market per Google) and a cost to Uber of 1.3-1.4x that (so ~$100k), that cut $13M every 3 months (of ~$40M for the team total). That's just payroll for 1 team and they employ 22k employees worldwide and 11k in the US. It's not difficult to see them spending $5B every 3 months.

1: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/29/uber-cuts-about-400-jobs-fro...
Free software is only concerned with software.

If you publish your software, you are required to release everything needed to develop it further, yes.

However, if you publish your paper, you are not required, under the free software principles.

If I am wrong, show me where the FSF/GNU say that.

I believe your argument is that there's a clear parallel to publishing a paper and publishing the software.

However, there's also a clear parallel to, say, publishing an internet service based on free software, and publishing the software. This lead to the AGPL.

The GPL does not have that requirement, which means it isn't a free software principle. It could have - I think I've heard Eben Moglen say it was discussed early on. But if so, then having a telnet server, or ftp server, or anything reacting to the network, would require the ability to download the source.

> free software people have been working out these "reproducibility" issues in practice for decades before the biologists even got on the bus.

While biologists were working out other "reproducibility" issues long before there were buses.
As of sometime in the last 48 minutes, it doesn't.
More like two decades ago.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
> break down projects into the smallest deliverable "chunks" that you can

Step 1: Figure out how to do this

Step 2: Do it
Is your legal relationship with Cloudfare the same as with your ISP? Is Cloudfare liable for the same things as the ISP? Genuinely asking, I have no clue, just a vague sense that it's not apples to apples.
I’m still #700K on the Warp waitlist

Edit: And the wait is over!! WARP is now available!
Sometimes you need to make pragmatic choices.

There are scenarios where you may be more concerned about the folks running (or not running) the local network that you are operating on than the larger surveillance operation.
Interestingly...

I have a collection of subtitled videos from several years ago. When I obtained them, I watched them in VLC with no problems.

A year or two ago, I had the urge to watch them again, and I wasn't able to use VLC, because it could no longer display the subtitles correctly. This prompted me to start using mpv instead of VLC, for pretty much everything. But I'm still confused at how VLC could have lost the ability to play files it once handled perfectly.