skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who occasionally downloads unlicensed content, I find that most movies (and occasionally high profile TV shows or those with a focus on visuals--like BBC's nature docs) are available in multiple qualities.

There are the basic 300-700mb copies for people who just want to watch something and don't have the time or bandwidth to bother with amazing quality (these look like your typical compressed cable or "tube" stream).

Then there are the 720/1080 versions which are still pretty compressed but at least encoded with decent settings and at a resolution that doesn't look bad on an average TV. Often these are "webrips" where someone capped the stream from Amazon or whatever online streaming rental service had the movie.

And last are the massive bluray rips that can go over 50GB in size and include 10bit HDR video, Dolby Atmos, etc. I never bother with these because honestly, if I'm pirating a movie/show it's because I'm not sure I'll enjoy it or it's just not available for me to watch yet. The movies I would want in maximum quality are the ones I would be buying anyway.

I'm sure plenty of people can't or won't buy the official blurays so these are the alternative, but for me, "bootleg" copies are the equivalent of "I'd watch it if it was on TV" but not a replacement for stuff I'm really invested in seeing at max quality because I love it.
This is what we hear from our customers all the time.

Our product has been so successful, I think, because people on the floor of the factories like using it. Our developers visit the sites, talk to users, and we take everything into account in the design of our UX.

I talk with a lot of our users and their biggest frustration is SAP. It's only available on particular work stations, you have to manually enter your forms from the paper ones (data entry in 2020 is still a job), and the interface is arcane and painful. When it doesn't work nobody knows how to fix it and it can lock down the release of millions of dollars worth of product. You can't get any reporting out of it without IT approval and it can take years and millions of dollars to get anything done with it.

Our stuff is mobile-first, easy to use, and we deployed it in months instead of years. We met resistance from our customers' IT departments who were irate that the factories weren't waiting for their SAP solution to roll out (it had been several years by the time we came into the picture). So, there's a big win there in UX alone.

We do more than UX but it's still such an important part of software.
That had been my excuse for ignoring my own problems for years so I’d add:

If you think you’re insane but also thinking it could be self-mis-diagnosis, no, you are not sane.

There is no such inherent contradiction in an ability for a logical system to detect its own anomaly were you one.

If it had been a false positive, the fact that a false positive is occurring itself is an anomaly, and an issue.
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Regarding the pronunciation questions at the top: the organization seriously needs to stop the cutesy “PostgreSQL” spelling.

It’s been SQL for 20 years and everybody knows it. Great job on switching to a query language that everybody (in the database world) knows. Now switch to a spelling that everyone can pronounce.

I’ve even had friends say “Postgre”, under the mistaken but not unreasonable assumption that this is the root (non-cutesy) name.
If there are, there must be at least equally many who are offended at "devil".
I've had consultants submit projects and go on these long talks where they genuinely felt they had produced something awesome and awe inspiring - when in reality the output was poor. While some of this is bluster, one person's lifetime achievement is another's hungover mad dash attempt to finish a project.
Was the same for Amazon as well since I was able to change my passwords and Kindle devices still worked. (Might still be the same, but haven't checked recently).
I can't see how this would work. Does the blinding factor change every time you log in? How does the server validate that your password is correct - what does it store?

Server -> User : blinding factor

User -> Server: H(password || blinding factor)

Server: stores/checks what?
"All the books on Amazon are about other people, I want to read a book about me."

That is not at all how you phrased it but in spirit of self-awareness and improvement I reworded it as crass as possible to make the following point- maybe books focused on people dealing with narcissistic people is a great place to start.

*I have zero qualifications in mental health/psychology.
Overcoming narcissism doesn't mean never talking about oneself. Thinking it does may be a sign of black and white thinking.
But you have to remember to use them in all the right places. Yes, they help, but it's not just about how good they are, it's about people actually using them too. If you're working on a team, you need to worry about whether or not everyone else is correctly using the annotations.
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Not as bad as flu which kills thousands in America

Swine flu in 2009, I live in Europe by the way, but I barely heard about it in the news and there was no consideration of travel ban, most likely because the recession was the main headline

U.S. media doing their thing
Emotional intelligence and empathy are still part of the mind.
I am already old and wrinkled youngster. Most skills that are required these days are just the latest new fad and will be forgotten about in a couple of years anyway.
It's the only one I own from Behringer. It's also ugly as hell :)
I was the external contractor brought onto the project as the project's macOS kernel extension expert; my contract expired in November after the port was put on ice. As far as I'm aware it's no longer being pursued, with sparse checkouts being the new hotness.

I don't want to and can't speak for Microsoft, and I did not make the final decision, but:

* The user space alternatives (NSFileProvider, EndpointSecurity) are not up to the job for various reasons.

* Porting everything to the much more involved VFS KPI would have been a large amount of work, and with a near-100% risk of having the rug pulled out under it yet again.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22173776
Look at how a president’s hair turns over their term, it’s striking. Can’t think of a more stressful job.
I struggle w this too. No good links to share but IME it's primarily emotional not logical. It helps if you can find some spark of enthusiasm for a specific tiny single step, because having started makes it possible to get into flowstate and/or discover other potential hooks or (re)entry points for the next time.

If genuinely "stuck", try stepping away from it, going for a walk, and considering the simplest thing that could possibly work; ok to start there and refactor later.

Making plans? Think big. Making progress? Think small.

Also, standard self-care stuff (sleep, exercise, meditation) is critical.
This was long suspected. I've seen countless examples of this in real life. But it was never "proven" like this.

This was really interesting to me:

"But surprisingly, when we removed the adrenal gland from the mice so that they couldn't produce cortisol-like hormones, their hair still turned gray under stress."

It's also permanent.
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What are you trying to get at with these numbers? By themselves, they mean absolutely nothing! It all depends on the impact you're having. If you're optimizing code running on a server that's mostly idle, then you'll not see a big reduction in energy use. If the result of your optimization is that you can shut down 10 servers because of overall load reductions, the time invested suddenly has a very real benefit.
So it's related to norepinephrine. Wonder if SNRIs can give grey hair then.
Broken heart
Broken leg
Blindness
Losing a child
Having a low (or too high) IQ
Having severe mental disorder(s)
The Power of Now book by Eckhart Tolle was a real mindset shift for me that I will always be thankful for. The essence being that we live with ourselves, our egoic mind. When you practice the discipline of not letting your egoic mind take control, it gives space for seeing yourself and others with a different mind.
Re 2: I love the idea of automating, but it rarely seems to pay off, because you really need a large number of users for it to be worth the effort to finish it/polish it properly - ease of use, ease of deployment, docs, helpful error messages, samples etc. All the things Fred Brooks talks about for a "programming product". https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

That's why we have products (including open source tools).
This pitch drop experiment really scratches my itch for pitch.
Keep a journal, create a feedback loop that works for you (meditation, running, whatever - try a few and keep what produces good output) and keep aiming to conquer your ego.

"Ego is the enemy"
100% agree about seeing a therapist. I also resisted for years because I thought it was a waste of time and money. Now that I see one once a week I've come to realize how useful it can be to have a person you can go to who is paid to be laser focused on your mental well being for an hour at a time. One thing mine has encouraged me to do is journal. It helps air out the negative thought patterns that infect my behavior and also serves as a good way to synthesize ideas. I set aside 10-15 minutes at lunch to write in a moleskine notebook.

My problems are more related to anxiety and depression, but the same concepts apply. I also think that you get out of therapy what you put in. It sounds like you are in a good frame of mind because you want to improve yourself. That's probably the best attitude you could take going into therapy.
Read "7 Habits of Highly Effective People"
Is there any particular reason for this? Like some feature that was removed in later versions?
How easy is this to navigate if you have no exp in HC?
That is a great initiative! I just installed the app and contributed some tweaks in my area.

Also, I couldn't find any info on this matter: some quests ask you what number a house is. Wouldn't people find it strange that a random person is standing in front of your house and looking at the number and then types on their smartphone?

AFAIK house numbers are not private info, but still...
it would be news if relaxation caused hair darkening
IMHO, I feel it would make perfect sense if they hire Americans to do the Government Cloud work, other areas , it should NOT be the case
VFSForGit is/was not a true file system, it just intercepts file I/O events to dummy files to lazily fill them with content and to log writes so that 'git status' does not have to scan the whole repo for changes.

The macOS port uses the KAUTH listener API, which was indeed deprecated with 10.15.
Does it start with FCKGW...? ;)
The developers of Little Snitch have explicitly said they favor this move:

>Using the Network Extension framework instead of an NKE very likely allows us to build a version of Little Snitch which requires no Kernel Extension at all. That is a good thing.

Of course, you reposting the same inaccurate rant multiple times throughout these comments (including reposting as the top comment grew) signals you're aiming to perpetuate your anti-Apple fervor, but here's to dissipating said FUD for those of us who use/love Little Snitch.
> This hasn't happened, as far as we know - largely indicated by the fact no one's been detonating nuclear weapons they have.

It almost happened, multiple times, due to mistakes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls
Chinese crematoriums burning ‘100 bodies a day'in Wuhan
Yes, writing tests work when you already identified the potential bug if future code changes break things. My first thought was you can't automate bad logic bug discovery.
> This improved the efficiency of thermal electrical generation by 130 percent compared to untreated tungsten.

I wish they would include comparison to tungsten painted black.
Hi all,

I have been using GitHub for about 8 years and wanted to share my experiences using it professionally and for open-source projects. The article gives you a brief comparison of GitHub to its alternatives, including locally hosted ones. It also explains to you my personal Git and GitHub setup and how I use it. Finally, the video (part 2) demonstrates my full software development workflow on my open-source "Android Docker" project, which is hosted on GitHub.

Article: (as posted above)

Video (Part #1 - GitHub Advantages, Alternatives, and Setup): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX8no5eRck0

Video (Part #2 - My Full Development Workflow Using GitHub): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRAIY-RLSvo

Outline of the article:

* Why GitHub
* Alternatives
* My GitHub Setup
* My Physical Work Environment
* My Full Software Development Workflow Using GitHub
* Project Organization
* Git Usage
* Task #1: Replace Docker Base Image
* Applied Programming Principles
* Task #2: Fix Directory Naming Conventions
* GitHub Pull Request Flow
* Task #3: Deploy Image to Docker Hub
* Manual Testing
* Task #4: Project Publicity
* Conclusion
>> For some of the other US gov stuff, Secret or Top Secret clearance is required. This does require citizenship and a lengthy clearance process.

exactly...
30s is not old, if anything 30s is a perfect time to be in software development because you've gained some experience in the industry by now and yet you are not too old to adapt and learn new stuff. On learning new stuff, I would just propose keeping an open mind and keeping your learning muscle strong. Today you have all these exciting techs, tomorrow it is going to be an entirely different set of tech you'll have to learn. Sure there is a lot out there, but here is the important bit - Know your tools. When there is a new tech, may be read a little about it, what are its advantages and disadvantage. What class of problems can you apply this technology to? Make some notes and keep them handy. Next time when you are faced with a problem you have no idea how to solve, go back to your notes and skim through. If you find something that sounds potentially applicable to the problem at hand, go read more, deeper. Watch youtube tutorials and freecodecamp etc.

Knowing inside out about all the tools is useless if you can't figure out how to apply them to the problem at hand. So I would suggest rather than running behind technologies, seek interesting problems to solve or interesting/better ways to solve already solved problems. Once you have catalog on what tech applies to which problems, you'll be much more valuable resource to a company and to yourself.

You can't fix a clogged drain using a hammer or that really fancy drill machine with twin battery pack. You can only solve it using a Plunger. If you know that, you can then go figure how to use one and after add it your resume not just saying 'you know how to use a Plunger' rather 'you solved a clogged drain using a Plunger', sounds better to potential recruiters.
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This is not a conspiracy I can believe it. I just think that Apple doesn't want third party code running within the kernel, with such high privileges, creating either vulnerabilities and/or instability, and they're creating user land alternatives.

I presume Apple looks at Dropbox creating a kernel extension and isn't too impressed, so they give them a safer and more secure method to achieve the same thing.
Languages with eval() kind of give you a pass on this challenge.

A more impressive alternative would be writing nested interpreters in multiple languages... Or writing code which runs in one "language" and then self modifies to another language which runs and subsequently self modifies, and so on.
Some 80% or so of worlds’ problems are human interfacing problems than mathematical-engineering challenges, and its best to exploit native ability to handle it that we all received when born.
The Manager Tools podcast is a good guide to learn management skills.
Everything is "marginal" at a certain point. The more you make, the less a ~50% salary bump matters in terms of quality of life.

A 50% salary increase alone definitely wouldn't interest me at this point. What I'm working on and who I'm working with matter a lot more to me.
Does GCP still have a cost advantage compared to AWS and Azure?
Why even bring that up for a Clojure project that compiles down to a single native binary? This is not Node.
That looks saner than ours;

The chosen password must:

- Be at least 10 (ten) characters long (and must not be longer than 127 characters)
- Contain at least 8 (eight) different characters, each of which is used only ONCE
- Contain at least 2 letters (case sensitive)
- Contain at least 2 numbers
- Contain at least 2 of the symbols !”#$%&’()*+,-/:;<=>?@[\]^_`{}~¦

The chosen password must not:

- Contain a £ (Pound) character
- Have 3 of any repeating character next to each other
- Spell a word of 4 letters or more listed in a common dictionary (Most 4 letter combinations)
- Be an abbreviation associated with the company
- Be based on your user name

Unsurprisingly, almost everyone just memorises the initial random password given out, since it's provided on a nice piece of paper when you start. Thankfully there isn't also an expiry policy. The max length is large but that's basically meaningless when you actually need to remember it and it takes a while to come up with even a random password that fulfills these requirements.
"Familiarity breeds contempt."

Maybe if you are aware of it, you can control it?

"Nobody is a prophet in their own land", is another thing that comes to mind.

Why did we evolve this way? I can't think of obvious reasons. I understand the phenomenon and I've seen it in close families (people that are capable of respecting others, are not respectful to their own blood family members).
Developing on a phone or tablet.
This Explaination should be at the top for the most complete version of events... however it is missing one critical detail that will connect the dots as to why new and renewal applications from my are denied: Cuomo just signed a law granting undocumented persons access to a drivers license. Add the complication that it will also not communicate with Ice.. I’m not commenting on this as right / wrong... just trying to bring clarity to why there is a dispute between ny and dhs.

Also fwiw, real Id info sharing does not end with the “drivers license info” it requires states to share a ton of info that has nothing to do at all with your driving record.
Hey my team mate Dr. Christian Schäfer and me just published a blog article about our library "Headliner" where we discuss why we decided to create it and also how we use it internally at Axel Springer. The coolest part is that we integrated BertSum, a SOTA summarizer based on finetuning pre-trained BERT language models, into our library. We also speak a little bit about TensorFlow 2.x and why we used it. Check it out if you're interested. We would love people trying out our library for their text summarization problems.
And scientists still couldn't find a simple way to find man baldness :>
Oh sure, my doubletake was at them going this route rather than the "obvious" one of having the Rust implementation expose a Rust API and then having a separate C-API wrapper around that.
Just like your webshit is not to be taken seriously if you don't show a lot of ads and track the living shit out of your users, nothing spells doom on your societal status more than not being subject to tracking. Not being tracked means to be a total outcast and, yes, a social pariah. There are good reasons that people cannot live without Google and Facebook any more.
I wonder how they feel now about no taking that Google money. VScode is crippling Jetbrains at a fast pace.
Hammer swingers don't legislate.
If you are relying on the ability to develop and load specific types of kext in macOS in future, I recommend getting in touch with Apple DTS. (Note that communications with DTS are unfortunately typically under NDA.)
4. Don't take off-by-one errors too seriously.
glad i flashed latest dd-wrt beta on my archer-c7 v5 :D. though my wan-facing device runs OPNSense.

i actually prefer to run Tomato, but archer c7 is not broadcom :(

can anyone offer advice about dd-wrt vs openwrt (considering trying openwrt).
Homeland isn’t scary enough? /s
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I thought it was something an application had to implement, but apparently it is a Windows function that applications have to enable. Definitely wish it was an OS-wide shortcut.

https://www.howtogeek.com/186723/ask-htg-how-can-i-paste-tex...
Agreed. When I consider the complexity of a piece of software, I always take into account the conceptual weight of all the stack behind it, down to ubiquitous basic constructs like primitive types, conditional operators, etc (but simple binary size can be an easier indicator).

Otherwise it's like saying that an application is simpler because its launch command name is shorter.
When more security subverts security
Yeah I guess the first.

I suppose they could insist on an online login before they allow an offline login, then save the hash locally. A bad person would need to generate a hash collision to login then.
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That full-stack phone app probably puts an item on a queue for a COBOL mainframe :)
It is valuable in science to test the things we think we already know, because there is a history of them sometimes being proved false. Plus, even if we were right, it is valuable to learn why the things we know are true.

(That said, it is possible to get overexcited about the cases where science disproves the things we think we know, because those are the things we hear about and it generates cognitively-available surprise and attention. But most of our implicit knowledge about the world is actually mostly accurate. Both "mosts" I used are required; a lot of our implicit knowledge is heuristic, and almost always has edge cases and domains where it will turn out false. But for the most part, it works or, you know, we'd die.)
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Notepad2 does all of this.
Empathy. Definitely practice empathy. Hacking brains is a lot more difficult compared to hacking code.
They still haven't fixed it. My partner works for the federal government. She was bumped up to a new pay scale and suddenly stopped being paid for 2 months. When she did start getting paid it was at the old level and she hasn't received the missing 2 months salary yet. She had to open three separate cases to 1) receive the missing pay, 2) have her pay scale updated in the system, and 3) receive the difference between her old salary and new salary for however long they continue to pay her at the old rate.

One of her coworkers hasn't been paid in almost 6 months.
Interesting comments a few months ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19703488
$17k MRR app cost $2 per month
T^4 right?
I recently got a visa to Canada. The J2EE applications for the visa applications didn't work for a full weekend. I've opened some tickets, and found cookie-clearing as a fix for some issues.

Finally went there for a sofware event and people in Canada are sweet, calm, happy and non-stressed.
The word indirectly in "who can be identified, directly or indirectly" seems like it opens everything up. A session ID isn't directly PII, but it can be linked a user account and from there someone's name, address, etc.