skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HLS can be rather readily supported with a JavaScript library that works just fine on Chrome.

Imagine if Google would just "forget" to keep supporting H.264 on YouTube and only served VP9 unsupported in Safari and iOS.
As for protection of society, I don't think Ross Ulbricht would be a threat to society if he were released now. He is in prison mainly to serve as an example to others. There are probably a lot of other people like him in prison.

As for rehabilitation, I would think that in most cases it could be better accomplished via a community based program. For example, drug rehab works better in drug treatment facilities than in prison.
"not unusual" is a little facetious, don't you think? Vinther was studying a drastic loss of polar ice in reaction to a historical (unexplained?) sudden rise in temperature, and raising an alarm in light of our current warming.
This looks really cool. Kudos for going fully open source and congrats on launching!
> They did not have superior products, they had unique products (silk, tea, porcelain)

Those products were superior in their respective categories of textiles, beverages and tableware in the sense that wealthy Europeans preferred them over locally made goods.

> they realized there was something they should have bought. Technology.

Already the Ming dynasty had bought Portuguese cannons and were using them very effectively at first against the invading Jurchens. Of course then the Jurchens got their own cannons, conquered all of China and renamed themselves Manchu, establishing the Qing dynasty. They kept buying Western weapons, ships etc. over the following centuries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_the_Qing_dynasty#T...

However, it seems they didn't improve much on the bought technology, or didn't build up high enough production capacity. The British had started experimenting with adding steam engines to their sailboats in time for the First Opium War, which contributed to their defeat of the Chinese fleet (which included bought Western ships). If the Qing had put their energy into building an even larger fleet of steamboats, they might have been able to avoid a repeat of that defeat, but of course I have the benefit of hindsight.
Can you cite these millions paid to execs at Mozilla?
Spiritual Bypassing
I do intend to release it and also open-source the code at some point. It's not entirely in that state yet, but I'll probably throw it up on a Show HN when the time comes.
Absolutely, the release of Quantum too changed my view on FX completely.
How many companies have paid you?
It's prosumer. A few customers are businesses, many are freelancers and most are employees.
We’re vaccinating our chickens. That seems better - we get to eat raw eggs. We also seem to be doing animal welfare better [1]. It seems that the US has essentially no animal welfare regulation for poultry [2].

[1] https://api.worldanimalprotection.org/

[2] https://www.britishpoultry.org.uk/identity-cms/wp-content/up...

> In the USA, there are currently no federal regulations to control or safeguard the welfare of animals used in agriculture. An Animal Welfare Act is in place but it applies only to animals kept for non-farming purposes. State laws govern animal welfare in some parts of the country but currently no such legislation applies to poultry in any of the three major poultry-producing states considered here (Georgia, Alabama and Arkansas).
Octopus was popular in enterprise circles, but was far from the only way to deploy for .NET. TBH, the author makes himself look a bit silly by making this claim - the whole post comes across as "sour grapes" to me.
This is not true. There are recommendation algorithms and there are recommendation algorithms. Spotify's VP of Engineering in the US contacted me in July 2011 due to my work with EchoNest and wanted to know what my experience was. His story was that Spotify was interested in longtail music discovery and recommendation algorithms. I still have my correspondence with him and I'm happy to share if you need more proof.
Maryland introduces legislation that bans disclosing bugs ransomware exploits
Mental Health Pixel - Manage Anxiety
Bulk Translation with Google Sheets [video]
Launch HN: Convert Sketch Design into UI Code for Mobile Developers- Monday Hero
Anyone with a computer can get Android Studio for free in 5 minutes. You can't download a free iPhone.
Technically it was part of Tk. It got grafted into mainline Tcl 20 years ago.
I have a first gen pro with the pencil 1 and find it better than an Intuos 3. I wasn't aware the later Intuos got much better, but I have not gone back to Photoshop/Wacom after getting the pencil. The comfort, form factor, and ease of use are just too good to let go.
Can't you just do that manually?
kudos for giving options; too bad the candidates didn't appreciate that. once they spend some more time in the wild, they might!
I've tried that. All things aside, in business if there's even one important person you deal with (your investor?) you will have to install at least one of the messengers they use. It's a question of the balance of power. And you'd likely end up having more than one VIP in your contact list anyway, unless you live a totally isolated life.
Does anyone have any thoughts on the security (or other) implications of all your email for services in which you sign up using Apple SignIn now being relayed through Apple's mail servers?

It seems like a great way for Apple to hoover up a heap information they probably don't need.

I also wonder how they are going to combat bounces and send back a usable error message. While they can perhaps do useful things with say a mailbox full bounce they are probably going to have to hide or at least obfuscate some other kinds of bounces.
This reminds me time (2013) where I had to choice new Nexus 7 or Ipad Mini 2. They were close in the price, in my country and they were both new. In few years , Nexus stopped getting updated and support but that Ipad mini got even ios 12 and still works well. For me Apple hardware is consistent and reliable that it can work well even more than 5 years.
What happens when the customer contacts you for support and is using the shielded email service. You don't know the "real" email for the account, and the customer can't email you from the "shield" email. So you have limited means of verifying they are who they say they are. So how do you for disclose account information to them if you can't be sure they are the account owner?
Family sometimes send me packages unannounced, not all shippers (especially international) give real-time tracking numbers, not everyone in our household keeps perfect track of their inbound shipments, and sometimes delivery agents just make a mistake - one time I came home from work to a big screen TV on my porch. It was supposed to go to neighbor, but that's something I wouldn't want on my porch for a week - even if I don't care if it's stolen, it's like a big "No one is home here!" sign.
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Does this mean I need to shift my donation?

I've been giving specifically to support Thunderbird development, not other Mozilla work [0] for the past few years because I think it's vitally important that email remains an open protocol, supported by mainstream desktop clients. Without Thunderbird, I fear email will be lost to the Gmail & Apple walled garden.

[0] https://give.thunderbird.net/en-US/
I really recommend watching Persepolis.
Could be, but I think it's mainly an argument against US eggs to be imported, not the meat, which is the discussion here. I've never heard of someone getting salmonella from chicken meat because it's not normally eaten raw.

Although personally I think the US should have mandatory salmonella immunization (currently about half of egg laying chickens are immunized).
Part of the "certain level of expertise to talk yourself into something extremely dumb" is because we've all heard the stories of genius ideas that were dismissed as crazy. And if someone considers themselves "smart", then they think they can identify those opportunities before the general population.

This leads to both/either FOMO ("I don't want to be considered dumb because I didn't invest in X") or self-optimism/egotistical ("I'm smart because I found the Next Big Thing"). These two factors explain a lot of the cases where supposedly smart people talk themselves into stupid decisions.

Or as another commenter posted, these people are not really "smart" or are smart but not "wise", because a wise person would recognize such situations and be on the other side of the stupidity mountain into enlightenment land.
Slightly more worried than about SARS. It's less deadly but a lot more likely to spread. The death rate isn't as bad as community acquired pneumonia, however it's concerning that the incubation period is so long and it is so virulent.
This one sent me quite down the memory lane. Back in 2009, I realized a fake-iphone app pitch where the goal was to sync your music so that you can ride the green wave as a pedestrian. The music will slow down or accelerate so that by walking to the beat it guarantees you that you will go with the flow.

As it was just for a pitch, I realized a video (with the help of a friend checking for my safety) to showcase the usage : Two long-sequence shots of walking between two places in Paris and being sure to have only green lights, like 15 green lights total to be nailed when they are clearly not synchronized for you and there is people and traffic around.

It was an experience in the spiritual line of Claude Lelouch "C'était un rendez-vous".
It's the litmus test: How much of taught abstractions do you really understand (can you adhere to the underlying coding practice without spelling it out in (costly) code? Do you really understand a runtime environment and can you make your basic tool, the compiler, optimize for your use-case?

Back then, when I was young and stupid, I agreed to develop a Command & Conquer like game in j2me with a deliverable size of max 120k. I did, but that required lot of all-nighters and a severely bruised and corrected ego..

And, as the senior dev, I got to listen to very smart recently graduated devs who did not know shit (as I did when I started). Best management lesson ever...
You’re ignoring that a small minority of people can effectively repress the majority. The majority of Persians have been resisting as best they can for decades. You’re right that it’s not just the government (every repressive regime has some level of public support) but it’s not true that everyone else is providing tacit approval.
Are you saying BL3 not working on Linux is Epic's fault? Or just that they shouldn't be selling stuff that doesn't work?

If the latter, I agree but no storefront actually meets that standard right now. Valve happily sells stuff on Steam that barely works on Windows and before the new refund policies they'd perma-ban your account if you tried to refund a broken game.
> Just because I can extract a password from you with the legendary xkcd $5 wrench [0] doesn't mean finding a way to hack any password from a computer for $5 is something to scoff at.

I'm trying to imagine what the reaction would be if when Spectre/Meltdown exploits were published someone would reply "I can get admin privilege with a $2 knife".
What are the security implications of this?
I once heard a Belgian say: "There are two kinds of foods: Those that go with chocolate and those that go with cheese"

Hershey's chocolate breaks that rule and contains butryic acid. Here's a link explaining why and how that affects the taste: https://www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/butyric-acid/1017662...

EDIT: To be fair I think the butryric acid thing can be overlooked as an acquired taste. Same way that IRN BRU tastes like bubblegum to Americans, even though UK'ers claim it isn't. I still think Hershey's regular milk chocolate works better with peanut butter than any other chocolate I've had. The bigger issues I have with Hershey are the cloying amounts of sugar they keep adding as they knock down the cocoa butter and cacao solids in each of their products to save money. I used to run boxes of UK KitKats down from Canada's duty free stores so that other Americans could see what they were missing out on.
> I can almost accept this in commerce, where we burn hundreds of billions of dollars per year on this arms race via advertising, PR, etc.

I dunno, given that marketing is almost certainly overhyping marketing the amount of human effort wasted on this is kind of depressing too
The “normal” Windows gamer just doesn’t has a choice, unless they want to switch to PlayStation / Xbox, one of the choices developed by Microsoft, again.

The question is, how high or low is the demand for a equally performing alternative “pc gaming” platform? I personally would banish everything windows-related forever.
I would rather have a delightful user experience than multi platform support. Worst service to ever come out of Apple is Apple Music because it is multi platform. Their desktop app is just a shell around their BETA web version. Sluggish UI, memory usage goes up to 4GB easily...They didn't even try...all in the name of making it easier to support multiple platforms.
It seems that salary should be based upon more than just numbers. If an engineer is producing a value greater than a few times $450k they should be adequately compensated.
Yes but the cache problem also exists with asynchronous programming.
Sometimes it seems that some people think it's "progressive" to criticize Chomsky...
Facebook launches “Off-Facebook Activity” tools to see data from 3rd party sites
Wonderful thread with many interesting ideas. Along the same lines, does anyone know a shared solution to this? Ideally FOSS. I have huge numbers of PDFs that it'd be nice to be able to share and annotate in a small group.
Chlorine treatment can make bacteria undetectable by inducing a dormant state [1] so some earlier studies on effectiveness of chemical treatments may not be valid.

Also the US and EU have different approaches to meat production. In the EU, the principle is to prevent meat contamination in the first place throughout the food production chain whereas in the US emphasis is placed on decontamination at the end of the chain.

Finally, some recent bacterial food poisoning outbreaks in Europe were due to vegetables so comparing numbers of infections without taking the source into consideration can be misleading.

1- https://mbio.asm.org/content/9/2/e00540-18.full
Hey Kai, I remember you mentioning that bulk scripting the first time we talked. I actually wrote up the docs on how to do that just recently (the last section is probably what you're looking for): https://deviceplane.com/docs/operating/command-scripting/

Glad to hear you're enjoying using Deviceplane!
Hi there. I'm one of the article co-authors, and I was definitely one of the Photoshop-anchored designers agitating for Adobe to add UI-centric design features. I think you're right that it was enormous mistake to leave this market open. Unpacking how this comment relates to the claim in the article:

That section's claim is that these mediums are often common goods, so it's hard to build moats around one's investments. Extending your comment to more explicitly attack the central claim, I think you're suggesting that if Adobe _had_ paid attention to this market, they'd be able to defend their position, and Sketch/Figma never would have been relevant. Maybe they would have been able to more quickly create a "spinoff" app because they could adapt existing code, or maybe they could take advantage of their existing network effects (e.g. through educational channels). And, more broadly, that the general claim is weaker than it appears: media inventors can often find ways to defend their turf through mechanisms like this.

That might be true! It's hard to adjudicate counterfactuals like this. I'd be curious if you have any lenses that might help us think about that. Given that we're on Hacker News, I'll offer: one reason why startups often outcompete incumbents is that line extensions like this are counterintuitively often _harder_ for the well-resourced incumbents because of inertia, culture, etc.
I think you would probably agree that those technological shifts require significant policy shifts, like a carbon tax, right? Does your pessimism about social engineering extend to getting public support for those kinds of policy shifts? (I agree that individual choices to eg fly less will not be a major component of any solution we reach.)
No clue. I was making an educated guess. I was stuck with DX9 for a while because I wanted some stuff to run under wine. I switched to opengl nearly... 6 years ago now? Didn't realize it had been that long.
Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

HN is a community and we want it to remain one. For that, users need some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

You needn't use your real name, of course.
Vitess is awesome if you're using MySQL.
Never tried. I like chicken that can taste good baked with just a bit of salt on top.

Usually it's a checiken not produced like this: https://youtu.be/RV-rO2-Rwz4?t=63 that taste like nothing without seasoning or marinade.
(Author here)

The funniest part is that this ugly hack kept working across platforms for many years; whereas when somebody else implemented a "proper" integration with the clang / llvm API, their solution proved to be extremely fragile. The API wasn't stable between compiler versions, and because it wasn't really used much, it had all kinds of bugs, including being outright unusable at times.

Also, most distros packaged clang in a way that made it impossible to compile the plugin, because of missing or mismatched headers, missing companions tools, etc. So you had to download and rebuild the whole compiler, which took hours (and that's if you didn't get stuck in a dependency hell).

So yeah, this was very much a lesson in "worse is better".
Shame was how I learned to behave when I was a child, it was my parents' go-to method, and I expect that's true for most parents. The fact that I was shamed into brushing my teeth, washing my hands, not lying, and generally acting like a responsible human being doesn't mean that "I didn't change my mind". Nor does it mean that my parents perpetrated violence against me and squelched my individuality.

When you feel shame it's because you accept external judgements. If you didn't accept those judgements then you wouldn't feel shame, you'd just be angry. Accepting external judgements is healthy and necessary because our self-worth is derived from our perception of how other people view us.

Like any tool, shame can be misused. But, as the article lays out, it's a necessary tool. It's also highly preferable to violence.

> In Not-Violent Communication Marshall Rosenberg considers shame (and guilt) to be one of the violent ways to change people's behavior.

Calling shame "violent" is dismissing actual violence.
I don't want to build a db. The whole point is not to do sharding manually.
it is the market leader and monopolist, this is what you get.
My solution was to, as one of the setup steps when initializing my phone, go into setup and disable every alert that the phone would let me disable (which, thankfully, was all of them other than the 'presidential alerts').

The problem is that those in these agencies who gain an easy 'alert channel' fail to remember and learn from the fable of "The boy who cried wolf". Too many alerts, or too many low value alerts, and no one wants to hear any of them, diminishing the usefulness of the alerts system.
interesting observation! makes sense. i wonder if it's because engineers are generally salaried instead of billed hourly. given all the 'crunch' and unpaid overtime, we'd be a lot more expensive hourly - folks might realize their real value. instead we give free overtime and then extend that into free interview time
It does, with text message forwarding too. I know it had been an issue a while back. The only thing I've heard of currently (which I haven't tested either way) is possibly with the Apple TV app.
But my oh my, what a dark pattern CNN's tracking opt out screen is.

About a hundred 3rd party vendors each with their own checkbox.

Of course, they have an accept all button. But not a reject all.

The fox5 thingy is more honest, at least they refuse to be accessible from Europe.
Yeah, I'm blown away by the fact that "chauffeur" is part of the brand name but no one seems to have spell checked it first to make sure they weren't accidentally talking about a portable stove.
In a 'if you really hated it why haven't you overthrown it/left?' way? Authoritarian regimes live and die by their ability to coerce/fabricate consent and quash discontent. Until something significantly weakens the government's ability to quash rebellion auth regimes usually stand.

The looseness of the restrictions could kind of help because it gives people an outlet so it's not so bad they're ready to take up arms but the regime still has a ready cudgel to charge people with.
I've never dealt with non-situational depression or anxiety, but it might be useful to share a little of my experience with LSD.

On or around my birthdays for the past five years, I've been taking a moderate to very large dose of LSD. The lowest dose was around 100 micros, the largest was 10x that.

Me being me, with extensive planning, preparation, and a lot of help from my wife, my first dose in 2015 was the largest one.

The experience was moderately life changing. Things were already going pretty well, but after the trip, I was able to do even more 'personal brain cleanup'.

Specifically, it allowed me to release a big chunk of the personal arrogance I still carried. This has been a nearly life-long process, but the trip grealy accelerated it.

It also helped me further improve my (already pretty good) work/life balance. It's not that I loved my family more, it's just that the things that I already knew (time at work is a means to an end, time with my family is truly the most important thing) became more easily actionable.

Lastly, (for this reply...there more aspects than I have time to type up right now) it allowed me to read, understand and empathize with other people's actions more effectively.
Not very creative: I use my older phone to read books in the hot tub. This way, if I drop it, I don't loose my fancy new expensive phone.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22160891
You don’t need a subscription to test iOS code, FWIW.
There are definitely cases where the community wins out because it delivers better quality - Newtonsoft.JSON eventually was recommended by MSDN documentation instead of the built-in .NET JSON APIs and the new in-development API is being written by the author of Newtonsoft.
state-of-the-art is commercial :D
I'm with you on this one.

I will say though that the issue I find is that sometimes this can lead to convoluted code

Picture this scenario:

Start using MS package and all is good

One day a new requirement comes in that the package just can't handle so you code around it.

Turns out that an open source package did what you wanted all along in a much neater way.

This has happened to me a few times that I'm aware of, no doubt countless others where I'm not aware of it.
Not all states do, atleast in my region, there is no requirement to clean water with chlorine once it comes from the water table other than if a farmer screws up their schedules.
Here's kurzgesagt's rendition of "The Egg": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI
You can get all of that going to the page for the file.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ASchut...
Shame is underused in western society. For example, I'd love to see HOV lane enforcement that just involved cameras capturing the faces of HOV violators and posting them online.