skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That will tell the screen resolution, but not the resolution/bitrate of the video the Chromecast is decoding.
Can you please mention a site that sherlock supports where an username with space is allowed?
> I love that the post points out the importance of selling to executives instead of users. As much as users hate most of their tools, they have very little say on what gets bought. Executives make those decisions and no amount of grousing or changing from internal users will change that.

It's possible to "sell" directly to users, but you have to have a particular pricing structure: free to individuals.

This is what TravisCI, Dropbox and Slack did.

You actually have to have a really good product to pull this off, though.
I don't see a disagreement here? Yes, politically committed users flame and downvote each other, and the quality of the discourse when they do that is unimpressive.
While true, this thread was about paying for the "old internet" which implies monetary compensation.
The testing setup for the lib is much improved, with actual unit tests and a built in capability for building/testing against a specific shell.

Next time I’m working on it I’ll grab a release of oil and see how it fares!
What if those originally submitting the data could share in the profits?
I once tried to work with the Oakland Museum of California to digitize some paintings of theirs that were in the public domain. I figured they'd be happy to share since a museum is supposed to be about spreading art and culture, I was surprised when they were quite resistant to the idea.

They weren't allowing people to take high quality photos. I just wanted to put them up on Wikimedia Commons, but I got the impression the museum didn't want any competition from anyone.
In the same situation with CenturyLink. Sounds like I'm more rural but the DSLAM has been here for over ten years and AFAICT has never been upgraded.
You don't see how lying about when something was posted can lead to problems? Just making sure I'm answering the right question.

The spectrum begins at me being slightly annoyed because I can't tell posts that were posted just now from posts that were posted hours ago.

It probably ends at people arguing in court over such things as prior art in patent cases, or someone trying to submit an online comment as evidence. Imagine Facebook mucking with timestamps... Often when is pretty important.

There's a lot of things in between there which I'll leave to your imagination.

In any case, changing meta information silently can be as bad as silently changing the content of posts themselves and will hurt your credibility as a platform. The reddit CEO did it as a joke once, and that already caused a massive shitstorm[1].

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5frg1n/tifu_...
He only suggested him to have is blood checked. In what way is this ever harmful? From my point of view you are doing far more damage implying that he is fine and he doesn’t need a blood test.
Did you ever install Windows NT from the 27 floppies it came on?

Yep, I did.
If you really watch this and you really listen to it, and really think about it, it will change the way you treat people:

https://youtu.be/8CrOL-ydFMI
Combine 16 bit mode with pointer magic --> bird shot the OS.
Doesn't Netflix already stream 4K content using HEVC?
New Hampshire State Tax Collection Software Begins to Rolling Off COBOL
I visited Akihabara a year or so ago and (compared with Shenzhen) was quite disappointed - mostly it's Manga glitz, not a lot of electronics at all, you had to hunt to find it.

Huaqiangbei is changing, gentrifying a bit (especially SEG) starting to sell consumer drones rather than cables - partly it's because now that all the subway work in the street outside is done the on-street stores are all consumer electronics stuff which is creeping inwards. But a block over really nothing much has changed.
I'd also be curious the effect of EU funding - I know Estonia received hundreds of millions if not billions over the years on development and I'd guess it's much the same for Latvia/Lithuania as well
What struck me was how poor the CPU speed management was.

The long-term outcome should have been 1GHz, not 600MHz, in most of the plots. The Pi jumps back-and-forth between 1GHz and 1.5GHz until it overheats, and then throttles all the way down.

The vertical orientation made a small difference in temperature but a huge difference in how long the Pi took to throttle precisely because of poor clocking schedule.
> As we increase the energy of the overall system (by heating it), the range of weather behavior grows more extreme and more chaotic.

As I understand it, atmospheric water content is a huge factor. Greenhouse forcing from CO2/CH4 increases water content. And increased water content leads to increased greenhouse forcing.

Plus lots more heat energy available when some of that water condenses. Sort of like a steam engine.
Overlay OS might not be a great term.

Urbit is a program you can run on Linux or MacOS intended to provide a complete personal computing experience on its own. It runs as a virtual machine for now, although it could run as a unikernel on bare metal (good project for a contributor who's interested!).

This VM acts like an operating system, in the sense that it loads and runs other applications within itself, and in the sense that it presents an application switcher and overall system management tools to the user.

This VM is designed from scratch to be as simple as possible, based on the thesis that the reason everyone has thought of a personal server but nobody runs one is that it's too complicated to do your own sysadmin.

Why is it complicated to do your own sysadmin? Because Linux is 15 million lines of code, and then there are tons of layers on top of that. What percentage of programmers even know how the internet works? A fair number of programmers have a decent sense for some corner of the modern computing world, but even seasoned professionals don't usually know the full structure of the digital world. How does BGP interact with the IP protocol? How do you make sure fsync() actually did what you wanted it to do? How does Linux overcommit_memory work? etc.

Urbit is weird, but that's mostly because it's a parallel universe of computing, not because it's inherently crazier than the alternative. We all have Stockholm Syndrome about 'ls -alH', and don't tell me 'grep' is an intuitive name.

In fact, there are very few basic building blocks in Urbit: binary trees of integers, the idea of a persistent event-log-based computer, and cryptographic identities. Pretty much everything is constructed out of those components.

And it's designed for a modern world with billions of users who might not all be completely trustworthy, so whole categories of complexity go away -- such as NATs.

So there's no standard industry term for describing this system, because there are no direct analogs or competitors.
"In April 1965, meprobamate was removed from the list of tranquilizers when experts ruled that the drug was a sedative, instead. The U.S. Pharmacopoeia published the ruling. At the same time, the Medical Letter disclosed that meprobamate could be addictive at doses not much above recommended. In December 1967, meprobamate was placed under abuse control amendments to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Records on production and distribution were required to be kept. Limits were placed on prescription duration and refills." [1]

I feel like the linked article mostly involve a standard and rather disingenuous way of deflecting worry about psychiatric drugs such as this.

The first point is describing the worry about psychiatric drugs in terms of their marketing - that the use of these drugs comes from marketing rather than legitimate need. Then the article goes on to describe a drug that became successful without marketing, which might, maybe, seem to deflect this criticism.

I would say that the basic criticism of psychiatric drug isn't necessarily simply that their use is spread by marketing but that portion of their use happens in the fashion of illegal drugs - they're addictively mood enhancing. Of course, aggressive sales would leverage this situation. But if you muddy the waters in your initial discussion of the supposed problem, you avoid having to deal with this particular combination of problems.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meprobamate
Credit Card Receipt Privacy Violations – Check Your Receipts
I took your meaning to be buyers of enterprise software, rather than producers.
Objective-C and then Swift are surely the most serious goes at fast widely used RC languages. Neither requires mutating the reference count on every store, and neither seems at risk of growing a tracing GC.

ObjC had some elision tricks like objc_retainAutoreleasedReturnValue, but more importantly the optimizer was taught about RC manipulation. Swift then extended this with a new ABI that minimizes unnecessary mutations.

The big advantages of this scheme are efficient COW collections and a simpler FFI (very important with Swift). More generally RC integrates better. Imagine teaching the JS GC to walk the Java heap!
> you are doing far more damage implying that he is fine

I did not imply that.

> He only suggested him to have is blood checked.

He did not only do that.
Yes I’ve seen this site before and knew that the top performers are async. However thought there was a particular application where it helped most, eg websockets rather than simple crud. Most apps aren’t making super simple queries like this either. Whether any of it matters much I’m not sure.
Every musician talking shit in the thread is in denial. He’s a genius and ya’ll are jealous. Let’s be real here.
Yes, that's an important point. You'll have a service contract with the infrastructure node responsible for routing packets to you -- you'll pay them to route to you. There are two layers of infrastructure nodes to facilitate scaling and hopefully maintain a healthy competitive market for routing services.
Counter-example -- a dinosaur skeleton where a significant amount of creative reconstruction goes into arranging the thing and posing it. This is a mix of art and science because you're using paleontological clues about gait etc combined with visual sense.
For me the point of 4k isn't actually 4k, it's HDR.
Wild guess: Maybe large-scale wind speeds will decrease, but short-term wind speeds, associated with storm systems, will increase.

That might not be such a good thing for wind power.
I wish someone could teach me how to eject, with grace, from a conversation that's degrading into pettiness.

I don't care about winning or losing. But I don't know how to say, "whatever, moving on" in a way that itself doesn't get interpreted as further pettiness.
It does me no credit but I feel I must admit throughout the eighties and nineties many of my fellow sysadmins and I were not kind about Fido and like BBS, from our extremely privileged and funded dialup inter-uni UUCP and subsequently TCP/IP world view, it was already dead. These kinds of cultural snobbery do us no credit, and it's clear that nicer and wiser heads than mine ran cross connects and it became what John Quartermain called "the matrix" long before the movie.

I was an upstream of one or two BBS for a few years, gatewaying Usenet news and email. We treated them exactly like the UUCP and ACSnet feeds, and the military over x.25 and OSI x.400 mail, but we didn't always feel very charitable towards them.

I now respect this kind of self organised bootstrapping behaviour much more.
If you have a Mac then Monodraw is pretty good for editing ASCII diagrams in general:

https://monodraw.helftone.com/
With respect that wasn’t solely a design mentality. Resource limitations were a factor as well.
D&D isn't necessarily that complex, systematically, if you really lay it out. It's about shared imagination with your friends, mutually improvising a story, and a framework for actualising personal development.

I'm not helping, am I.
Fidonet still operates, along with many other FTN networks, on BBS's still run by sysops.

Check out the Telnet BBS Guide:

Https://www.telnetbbsguide.com
Hacking into My Snapchat
Does any one know how to do this I forgot my pass....?
I did intermittent fasting for a while and want to go back to it. I in essence just skipped breakfast and ate a little later. It was astonishing how easy it was and how well it worked. But also how many comments and even pushback I got about skipping breakfast. I constantly would hear from someone how breakfast is the most important meal. Anytime I didn't feel well, regardless of symptoms, friends and family brought up how this is likely because breakfast is so important and I keep skipping it. Skipping breakfast seemed upsetting to people. I also didn't take the comments well, because to me it sounded like unfounded folklore nutrition advise from my grandma en par with "an apple a day keeps the doctor away"
While the data might be handled responsibly, what you're suggesting assumes that inferring personality traits as a business model can be used for ethical purposes. I think there's a fair number of people on here that would say that trying to guess a person's personality based on their media consumption or otherwise is implicitly unethical no matter how you do it, since it's in support of the monetization of another person's emotions. The output of such a system is used to manipulate a person (making purchases, drive them towards a political position, make them a more productive employee, etc) or it's a sham and the data is bogus. In either case, there's a compelling argument to be made that this system's creator is not doing a good thing.
It's still useful for bypassing paywalls. I don't care if media orgs like nytimes use it, I care when the average joe blog or website uses it and it becomes annoying.
Friend of mine worked for a company that had a TCP/IP stack for VMS. He said they were asked how hard it would to port it to NT. The answer was trivial.

That said I think there is a difference between re-implementing APIs and stealing sources.
BBSmates – Dialing Up the Past
Things to Look for in Your Ideal PCB Design Software
Companies change all the time, that is why antitrust can only regulate what happens right now, instead of regulate what companies guess will be.

Even if they were to regulate beforehand, any company they would allow could evolve slowly into something that breaks the initial idea of what was allowed.
The flight dynamics document is actually quite a useful summary: http://marekcel.pl/docs/mscsim_doc.pdf
Today, Urbit has chat, blogging, a basic weather app, and a lot of programming facilities. Eventually it should be able to run a document editor, and you can do things similar to internet browsing even on today's Urbit.

Urbit is a long-term project starting from the foundations and working up the stack. It'll be stable soon, but it probably won't be ready to run something as heavy as a modern web browser for a while. That being said, it does work, and it's fun to play with as-is.
Wait, amp does that, I thought Reddit itself was the culprit!
The essence of calculus series by 3Blue1Brown https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDMsr9K-rj53...
Can Firefox and chromium give OpenNic a bump with DNS over https?

I am just learning about OpenNic, so apologies if what I said makes no sense.
Problem is Costco high price products came with 5 year warranties so it’s a nobrainer to just first try going to the store then ordering online. I suspect a lot of people did that prompting even more sales (I bought house stuff I didn’t even need, I was just mad they didn’t have my tv and I drove all the way out there)
All you need to know about marketing for your business
I find not eating to be a nice way to implement calorie control and also work on executive control. In my case, I've done it for the greater part of of the past three years. A typical fasting cycle would be 2 months of 20/4 intermittent fasting and 1 week of "normal" eating. I have an unfounded theory that re-sensitization helps sustain the benefits.

Initially, I did find great benefit in the cognitive benefits [1] of fasting but found it came at a price. This price was mostly strength at the gym later in the day and some added stress during the workday (_not eating is sort of a stress of its own_). It also led to me yo-yo'ing (5-7 lb fluctuations [2] ) a bit with weight because I would be so hungry that I would overeat. I should mention that I paired my fasting with ketosis as type II diabetes runs in my family. I saw a lot of improvement with how I deal with insulin (shakiness, irritability, skin issues, bonking[3]).

If anyone is thinking about fasting, here are my beginner recommendations:

- Contrary to what this link suggests, I think the key is to start slow. There's no need to even do a 24 hour fast, in the beginning. Your body is not going to change over night. Build up to daily 10 - 12 hour fasts and build confidence that you can accomplish the fast. There are a lot of benefits to prolonged fasts, but I would suggest building up to them and learning how your body reacts instead of getting to a place where you feel faint-ish and don't know what that means for your body.

- Fasting on keto feels like cheating, so I think it's a great tool for facilitating more frequent, longer fasts. For me, it seems that ghrelin is highly suppressed by being in a keto induced state. I don't feel well after 72 hours and noticed abnormal heart rhythms, most likely sodium or potassium imbalance.

- Practice saying 'no' or at least make note of social obligations where you have to eat or knock yourself out of your fast / ketosis. 1 day here and there doesn't make a big difference, but how your overall diet quarter to quarter and year to year is what really matters.

- Don't listen to the popular IF / keto sentiments of, "I don't have to track anything! It's magic," if you're below ~18% body fat. This is what I listened to and it led to overeating and reaching 10-12% body fat and quickly jumping back to 15-18%. No matter what your diet is, you should know your caloric intake and ( in general ) what keeps your body at maintenance.

- Not sleeping makes fasting so much harder[4]. If I sleep less than six hours it's definitely an uphill fight.

____

None of this is "fun" per say but it's a process of getting to know yourself and observing how time, age, and environment affect your body.

1 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3670843/

2 - I know salt and water retention play a big role here, but these changes were more than just looking / feeling bloated.

3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitting_the_wall

4 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3763921/
FWIW, Coffee Meets Bagel had the limited pool of users as a key feature of their app, and they eventually killed that.
This article is trash and most likely copied from another blog. Sentences are broken, random words are capitalized, and I’m sure I’ve seen it elsewhere before.
Couldn’t this still hit partition throughput limits though?
> if (previous != NULL) {
> previous->next = object;
> } else {
> vm.objects = object;

Ergh. That's much more painful than it needs to be. Maybe try:

static void sweep() {
Obj** ref = &vm.objects;
while (*ref != NULL) {
if ((*ref)->isMarked) {
(*ref)->isMarked = false;
ref = &(*ref)->next;
} else {
Obj* unreached = *ref;
*ref = unreached->next;
freeObject(unreached);
}
}
}
Hey bombita, /dev/null over here. :)
Ehh their tire selections suck for some cars though. If you’re buying dirt cheap with okay performance tires, sure they’re great. But discount tire wins the cheapest for oem tire shop (sorry y’all, I love my pirelli’s)

Kirkland Batteries are a win once again if they have your car size stocked
Why doesn't pgp/gpg not count? Because it's too difficult to set up? Do you really trust an encryption with automatically generated, non-exchangeable keys?

That said hardly anybody I know still uses e-mail for private communication.
Testing Microservices as the Average Joe
It's probably just not as fast as being able to hop diagonally instead of vertically
Huh? I run a private email server... Took a ton of work though. But it works fine?

Are those mails marked as spam? Or what happens?
I contracted for a telecom industry company (not a carrier, but a kind of service provider to carriers), and can confirm that pretty much the only reason they survived was regulatory capture. The company's core competency was responding to government RFPs and doing the necessary lobbying to get the contracts. It was quite eye-opening. They ended up with a big investment from a private equity firm which had a taste for cash cows.

On the plus side, everyone "worked" from home on Fridays.
But people might be deceived into publishing their information. For example, social networks motivate them to do it by saying things like "make it easier for your friends to find you" or "share photos with your friends" and not saying the truth that the information will be accessible to criminals, marketing companies, corrupt governments, and weird mentally ill people from anonymous Internet forums.
Because it's easier to fine US companies when they break/skirt the law. And EU citizens can make their own choices, you know. Maybe I want to use Google instead of 'EUgle' that would be censored by default under German law to prevent hate speech.
The more time I spend as a dev, the more I realize that writing clear, simple, straight forward code is actually the greater challenge. When I started progressing beyond learning the basics, the sort of projects I was building were quite simple, so writing the simple code for them came to feel boring. I would read complex codebases and see all the fascinating tricks they employed and wished I was writing code like that. It felt like, "Those are the smart programmers. I should emulate them."

As the complexity of the projects I work on has increased (especially in the time since I became a part of a professional dev team), I've come to realize that most of that tricky, complicated-looking code I had read years earlier was actually kind of the easy way out. When you are just trying to get stuff done, the complexity of your code mirrors the complexity of the project. There's no effort put in (and often no time to do so) to create a smoother interface to shelter the code from the complexity of the task at hand.

It's much more interesting to me now to be faced with a complex task and to figure out how to make the code simple and clear. Elegant, well-designed libraries/APIs belie the challenge in writing them. The code looks so simple that it feels immediately obvious as you're reading it. I've come to realize that reading a code base that seems dead simple -- so simple anyone could instantly understand it -- is actually often inversely related to the difficulty in creating it.

Yes, necessary complexity does exist, and sometimes there's no way around doing something fairly nasty in your code. But as an ideal to strive for, I find 'simple' to be fascinating.
Oef, such a long article and still no real explanation of wth Urbit really is.
I was curious and so went to the website, it looks interesting but still so freaking hard to find a tldr version of wth it is.

My best would be "a webapp acting as an OS with comms taking place inside it for improved privacy / data control"
Not just TCP, but the ability to throw (tax) money at problems.