skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't see numbers but IIUC a major issue was that they had a generally bad reputation and did most of their sales in the UK. It sounds like they priced in UKP.

Others maybe considered it an opportunity, however as part of the looting the owners set up a different company that owned the land. That company was not being sold and demanded a fairly high rent, so the two potential buyers decided to pass at the last minute.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-49854380

It looks like they did get a deal once they agreed to sell the land and may be up and running again soon:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-50143581

The real issue here was the company being looted by the owners and brexit at most made it harder for them to continue looting. The submitted article is obviously completely ignoring the main issues. There are probably better descriptions of the real issues around, but the best overview I saw (not at all a neutral source but with sources for most claims):

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1175358929162907648.html

Or see the BBC coverage:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c2y152g95yxt/wrightbus-adm...

I saw a couple of those links from discussions on Slugger O'Toole that have some good comments but rather low signal/noise ratio for someone just interested in this issue.

https://sluggerotoole.com/2019/09/28/the-problem-with-earthl...

https://sluggerotoole.com/2019/09/25/1200-jobs-lost-as-wrigh...
CloudEvents Spec Hits v1.0
Yes, for those who really need to stay on Gitlab.

Where my thinking is at right now, though, is that Gitlab has just tangibly demonstrated that they don't deserve a great deal of trust, and so I'm not inclined to trust any opt-in or opt-out choices.

Even if they're effective at the time they are introduced (which I don't really doubt they would be), I am not comfortable in relying that they won't change the deal in the future.
What is the value?

Honestly I view all of this (digging into someone's personal correspondence from the past) as extremely overly voyeuristic, rather than having actual value.

If it wasn't meant to be public originally, I don't want it to be public. It does not respect the original author's intention.

(Not trying to be hostile - but I just wanted to say this.)
We're willing to try anything.
Anything but actually reduce CO2 emissions.

Because growth is untouchable.

And we can't decouple GDP and energy growth.

Our great filter if we're unlucky with climate sensitivity and feedback loops.

The sad thing is, we're not even trying.
You're playing an important role in the economy of unread newsprint. Just keep throwing it away and someone gets to keep their job.
> barter medical work for venison

exactly where did you live in the 80's?
What you need is a form of moderation. An actual group of workers who's job is to collect data, validate a test case is reproducible, or at least that there's telemetry of a problem having happened. In edge cases they could at least collect some data and try to isolate where a problem might exist so that better tests / data collection can occur.
Why should those of us who want to efficiently investigate crime in our neighborhoods, and who want criminals caught and prosecuted quickly, restrain ourselves from cooperating with the police we pay to do just those things? It's not like they're asking us for footage of activity inside our homes.
That might be because XSLT was very hard to use. There were some XSLT processors, but none of them were in-browser or anything close to that. There were promises of browsers that would implement it, but AFAIK no browser really did. XSLT didn't have a simple syntax either. Looking at XSLT, it basically does what most templating engines do these days. But in a more complicated manner. Just look at Wikipedia's example [1].

About ease of use in programs, if you were using XSLT, you had to output XML which then had to be put through an XSLT processor. If you are outputting XML to another program or database or whatever anyway, that would be possible. But if you are only outputting XML so it can be transformed to XHTML by an XSLT processor, for which you had to write something in XSLT, you could just spare all the hassle and directly output HTML anyway.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSLT#Examples
What would happen if he opened the right door?
It's simple: choosing again switches from a losing outcome to a winning outcome and vice versa, thus the probability of winning by choosing again is 2/3.
There are all these stories like Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court where someone goes back in time.

If someone went back in time with sword and armor made using modern metallurgy, would they be considered magical? The armor would likely be lighter and more maneuverable while still providing protection. The sword would likely be lighter, sharper, and more durable.

Just an interesting thought experiment.
I heard someone a while back mention that he treated discord like verbal discourse: ephemeral. Perhaps not everything needs to be logged.
I concur, it also reminds me of this famous quote : “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ” —Aristotle.
> a -40C day is usually much more enjoyable than a +40C day

I can't believe I just read this :)

With an appropriately-sized and designed HVAC system, home, and fans, 40C is completely comfortable indoors. If your home is designed well, you probably don't even need a whole lot of energy to achieve this.

The difference is, in 40C you can also be outside at any part of the day, for any duration (especially in the shade). I haven't spent a great deal of time at -40C, but I can tell you my experience is that it was pretty miserable to be outside in, even bundled up.
I was a bit surprised to see Americano as a coffee choice. Turns out it’s basically the plain coffee Americans make in regular coffee makers every morning.
If you see untapped potential in the company, why not just quit and start a competing company? If the company you work for is mildly successful, it sounds like there's room for more competition and for you to grab a larger share of the market if thats your goal / ambition.
If it is unspecified we should probably assign some positive probability that the host did it on purpose. At that point, it is better strategy to switch doors.
It’s in the original statement of Monty’s Paradox: it is strictly the case where Monty Hall knows which is the good door, and always opens bad doors, then offers you to swap the one remaining door for yours. Anything else isn’t Let’s Make A Deal’s Monty Hall problem.
Oh I’m sure. Just putting it into some context.
The premise of the article seems odd to me. Am I just unusual in the fact that my interests and curiosity are very closely aligned?
Wow, that was interesting. I'm shocked they make this sort of thing public.
"Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos - Steven Strogatz, Cornell University" is available[0] on youtube as a series of 25 lectures. (From 2014.)

From the description:

"This course of 25 lectures, filmed at Cornell University in Spring 2014, is intended for newcomers to nonlinear dynamics and chaos. It closely follows Prof. Strogatz's book, "Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering."

The mathematical treatment is friendly and informal, but still careful. Analytical methods, concrete examples, and geometric intuition are stressed. The theory is developed systematically, starting with first-order differential equations and their bifurcations, followed by phase plane analysis, limit cycles and their bifurcations, and culminating with the Lorenz equations, chaos, iterated maps, period doubling, renormalization, fractals, and strange attractors.

A unique feature of the course is its emphasis on applications. These include airplane wing vibrations, biological rhythms, insect outbreaks, chemical oscillators, chaotic waterwheels, and even a technique for using chaos to send secret messages. In each case, the scientific background is explained at an elementary level and closely integrated with the mathematical theory. The theoretical work is enlivened by frequent use of computer graphics, simulations, and videotaped demonstrations of nonlinear phenomena.

The essential prerequisite is single-variable calculus, including curve sketching, Taylor series, and separable differential equations. In a few places, multivariable calculus (partial derivatives, Jacobian matrix, divergence theorem) and linear algebra (eigenvalues and eigenvectors) are used. Fourier analysis is not assumed, and is developed where needed. Introductory physics is used throughout. Other scientific prerequisites would depend on the applications considered, but in all cases, a first course should be adequate preparation."

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbN57C5Zdl6j_qJA-pARJ...
I would argue that people who have that low of a level of computer knowledge shouldn't be using IoT anything in the first place -- it's too dangerous for inexperienced people to use.
Hi HN! Been spending the last week or so hacking away at this side project. I'm hoping it might be useful to some!

I'm really big into ambient sounds when working (e.g. listening to sounds of cafés / rain / etc) and I find that they help me focus, since they don't distract me as much as music. I typically use a number of sites (e.g. brain.fm) or find a youtube playlist. Though, I thought this experience could be improved upon + I wanted to learn how to make a Chrome extension, so I made this.

If you have a moment to try it out, I'd love some feedback! Do you see it being helpful? What's it missing?

This was meant to be a small project to get a bit of a break and scratch my itch to design/code something, but I ended up getting really into it and can see this growing into something bigger (e.g. a productivity suite of tools) - any ideas on where I could take this would be awesome too!

P.S. made a quick landing page that has more details too - feel free to have a look here: https://rofocus.com

Thanks!
If I were in your place, I would start by scraping LinkedIn using Python or Golang and creating a large database, keeping relevant information and keywords for each user. Then I would come up with some sort of clever algorithm to sort the data into some kind of sparse graph with takes into account the distance between the nodes (i.e. how close each of the user is to one another) and then use a search algorithm to search for a specific user and or a number of closely related users.
You’re not misunderstanding Tor. Indeed, if you control more than 50% of the nodes then you can feasibly deanonymize clients.

Tor circuits tend to go through many countries and rarely do they go through the same country twice. Not sure if this is part of the node selection criteria. But if you can’t have two nodes within a circuit go through the same country, and someone identifies you, then you’re dealing with a hell of a global adversary.

FWIW I think many people are concerned more about being monitored by their local governments rather than foreign ones.
Copyright Holders Try to Stop Ravel's Bolero from Entering Public Domain (2016)
Check out CoCalc[1], formerly Sagemath Cloud. It is a project with a lot of history (think of SageMath as python-based open-source Mathematica alternative). It supports Jupyter and Sage notebooks.

CoCalc also supports Julia, LaTeX, R.

I'm using Google Colab[2]. It's the direct equivalent, hosted by Google. Not quite open source, but it's free (and does it matter if a cloud service is open source? If you want control that open source gives you, you run things locally anyway). Disclaimer: I work there, and use it at work daily.

For a Colab vs CoCalc comparison, see[3]. In my brief experience, CoCalc UI is currently snappier than Colab; but I haven't written any large notebooks in it yet.

There are other Python cloud services[4] which I don't have any experience with.

[1]https://cocalc.com/

[2]https://colab.research.google.com/

[3]https://www.forbes.com/sites/gregoryferenstein/2019/08/18/a-...

[4]https://www.dataschool.io/cloud-services-for-jupyter-noteboo...
"Hi"

[says they're typing, work on something while I wait]

[6 minute pause]

"Are you there?"

"Yes"

"I'm getting an error when using [tool]"

"What's the error?"

[2 vague barely related lines in a long error message or traceback]

"Could you show me the full error message and the command you tried to run, please?"

By the time the full troubleshooting process is over (which usually amounts to "follow the instructions in the error message"), I've lost track of whatever I was doing and wasted who knows how much time.
I rode my bike to work in -48C, and rode every day of the winter for 4 years.

I would never, ever describe it as miserable. I loved it, and can't wait to get back North (Yukon)
Parkinson's Law (1955)
This is how things have worked in tech for at least the last 10 years (which is when I first noticed it). People that don't have the same problems as FAANGs cargo culting FAANG tech because it works for FAANG.
The difference between kicking a stuffed toy and a live pet?
Maybe I'm mis-remembering, but IIRC their protocol is proprietary—even though the code is open source.

So it was more like "you can read the source, but can't do anything new or different with it."
I was in Whitehorse, YT for 4 years, loved it. Can't wait to get back North. Once it's in your blood, it's hard to stay away!
The main problem I run into with it is webcomics bind left/right to page navigation, and aren't smart enough to not do it when alt is held.
I was in a situation similar to yours in 2012. I had worked for a small business programming and social media marketing firm. It was only the owner and myself working in the business – as well as subcontractors.

It was spoken about between the owner and I for years how we would grow the business and I would eventually become a partner.

We started at 32,000 a year, moved up to 70,000 a year, and moved up to $120,000 a year. When it was time to decide to take a contract worth several hundred thousand dollars… The owner decided not to because she didn’t want to grow the business that large.

I felt as though I wasted three years of my life working for a company that had no intention of actually really furthering my career -and my livelihood.

The following month I quit and left for another business. It sucked. The whole entire process. Leaving and explaining why.

My advice is to move on and try not to focus too much on it. You did as best as you could.
While I think you're exaggerating the difficulty of doing this without involving an external service, I fully acknowledge that it's easier to have someone else take care of the whole thing.

But that convenience comes with a cost.
I think the main problem with Git Lab and similar services is Git's inability to store anything other than code. If issues, wikis etc. would be stored in a Git repo itself, with the services potentially offering conveniences like web/email access etc. switching would be trivial. Git hosters would then need to be very, very careful and extremely competitive, as moving somewhere else would be a matter of minutes. There are some effords on this front[1], but I don't really know if anything will come of it.

[1] https://github.com/sit-fyi/sit
Telegram clients are also open source. Unfortunately, not the server, though.
In French publishing, the role of Disney's "Mickey Mouse" is played by Maurice Ravel's "Bolero".

The work ultimately did enter public domain on Sunday, May 1, 2016:

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/1940369/copyr...
Yeah I appreciate your comments, but I respectfully disagree.

I have tangible reasons why I believe that fully automatic weapons, chemical weapons, biological weapons, and nuclear weapons should NOT be legal for civilian ownership in most cases (am open to someone appealing or stating their case -- eg I'm a weapons creator and wish to create weapons for the state).
It may be the server code that is or was unavailable. The app has always been open.
Seems like a pretty big change to me. Not only has the folder name changed with no indicator that it has changed, but now since it's "W" instead of "A", it's near the bottom instead of at the very top. Plus, Windows 10 now has /way/ more pre-installed applications, which means you have to do a lot of scrolling before you get all the way to the "W" section.
What you’re probably remembering is the fight between them and forks about interoperability. Forked versions aren’t allowed to use the signal servers (and therefore talk to other users). This is in contrast to federated protocols such as matrix, where there’s space for many clients.
Are there any android OEMs that ship Signal as the default messenger application?
Interesting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception).

Does anyone know if/how this applies to international airports(as is the case in this story) , and/or our coasts?
Is it the same as an Americano? That term comes from Italians' observations of how WWII-era U.S. soldiers took their coffee: they watered down the strong Italian espresso to approximate the weaker coffee they were used to sipping over long periods back home.
Is that the 50c really signalling disposable income? Or just that it signalled that the newspapers were being read by humans and not just sitting in a pile somewhere?

To my intuition 50c per day doesn’t signal a useful amount of disposable income even in 2006 dollars.
Nonsense. Github Enterprise at my last job (used there since 2012) was so much more refined and reliable than Gitlab EE is at my job now, which has much worse UI and no good flow at all. All Github clones (like Gogs, Gitea) lean on the Github UI for a reason, ignoring Gitlab. It's a mess.

Since Microsoft's acquisition, even github.com is progressing refinement at a higher pace than gitlab.com ever did, and I'll be thrilled when I get my company to switch to Github again. Pricewise, Github EE is much better value for the dollar than Gitlab EE; most features that Github doesn't have are rather half-assed than wholesomely done in Gitlab.
True enough. But (assuming they actually implement this in this way), there's nothing much that can be done about it aside from acknowledge that trusting them was a mistake.

You could always just abandon the account and never use it again, I suppose.
>> Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other
kids, this crap they teach us bores me...

Here's a thought. A smart person realises that everyone around them thinks
they're smarter than everyone else around them, and that everyone can't be
right at the same time, which must mean that most are wrong. Which in turn
means that, to be the one person who is right to think they're smarter than
everyone else around them, is really, really rare. And so very unlikely. So
the smart person will want to see very strong evidence of their own smarts,
before they accept that they are, indeed, smart- and the smarter the person
is, the stronger the evidence they will want to see, because the assumption of
average smarts will make the high smarts of the smart person appear average to
their own eyes.

Bottom line; if you think you're smarter than most kids then you're probably
not smarter than most kids. If you actually go out and say it, then chances
are you're even dumber than that.

Edit: Also, every kid is bored of the crap they teach us at school. Every.
Single. Kid. Some just know how to sit nicely and do as they're told to get
ahead in life. Who's the smart kid, again?
You want privacy. That's privacy.

Historians' heroes will be those with publicly facing personas. No one will remember anyone except the guy with a public Twitter profile.
Good choice. You should probably not have kids anyway.
Most parents learn this, and some dog owners.

If you want to talk to your spouse about the possibility of taking the kids to get ice cream or whether the dog has had a treat today you have to speak in code that the short mammals can't understand, otherwise you've all but promised it to them and have to deal with the consequences.

The problem is that for salespeople and business devs, the consequences of putting a bad idea in front of impressionable ears are too abstract and so they never learn. So they put an idea in front of a customer or the board about how they can make a shitload of money and the imaginary check has been cashed even before they've stopped for air.

Without some tough love these problems will be with us forever. Oh, you're going to have to walk back something you said? You'll be embarrased? Too fucking bad. Maybe next time you'll think before you promise someone $500k of work for $250k minus your bonus. Twist in the wind like you deserve.

So someone has sold an idea of making millions and once the engineers or just plain human beings get ahold of it that looks like $200k and a giant pain in everyone's ass. And everyone jumps straight from denial to bargaining with a little detour to anger to yell at the messengers for breaking your shiny dream... that you are not and were never entitled to.
Change the 3 doors to 10^6 doors and it becomes obvious.
Judging from the thread posted above, it looks like the people doing the real work actually do give a shit. It's their CFO that's the problem. Unfortunately, he and the investors seem to be calling the shots.
Unless you want a mess, usually you still separate by both. Just because you "cut" a square vertically or horizontally, doesn't mean each strip doesn't have, say, more separating lines that you didn't cut. These concerns should still be separated, even if they aren't separated at the highest levels of your application.

At the top level, we slice our projects vertically (by feature) at work. But it doesn't mean we have 1 giant god framework that handles all layers for a given feature. We still segment by layer. And we still have layer focused libraries.
Does it handle regular SMS and MMS on Android?
I'm saying that I don't see how you're going to implement these "pending loading state" patterns in Svelte but I'd sure like to be proven wrong.

It doesn't make sense to try to summarize that page. I've been writing it for two days and it's the shortest that I could compress the essence. I'd be happy to respond to questions you'll have after reading :-)
> [...] The US Government had a big thing for ZIP drives for a while. Saw those in wide use when I entered the defense contracting world in the late 2000s.

I love this statement. Because to me Zip drives died around the year 2000-ish from a regular consumer usage perspective.
In the Windows 95 era start menu [1], the steps would be click "start", move the mouse over "programs", move the mouse over "accessories" then click "notepad". The start button itself was the only 3D-ish outlined button on boot, "programs" was the first entry in the list, as was "accessories", so the navigation path was super clear.

In Windows 10, the start menu button doesn't have any affordances, there's no border, just a white on black icon. On a desktop, the start menu has a uniform dark grey background, the user has to work out that there is a strip down the middle that can be scrolled. The only clue is that the bottom entry may be clipped and on mouse move a 2px wide scroll bar thumb is shown near the top. After working out that this is a scrollable pane, they need to know to scroll down near the bottom of the alphabetically grouped list of entries to "W". Rather than just moving the mouse over the entry in the 95-style start menu, the user needs to work out that "windows accessories" is clickable to show more entries, indicated only by the small grey arrow to the right of the button. Finally notepad is one of the entries once the list is expanded.

So yes, I'd say it has moved. It used to be accessed through the top entries in the start menu, now it is accessed through one near the bottom that is inside a scrollable panel with no clear indication that it can be scrolled.

[1] https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/windows-95-start...
Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break into Mar-a-Lago. We Tested It
Yeah, that's kind of the point -- cultures change one kid's unsavory attitudes altered at a time.