skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Makes sense. I think the promise of ad targeting doesn’t add up to value for many customers of ads.

When I look at a lot of content sites, the targeted ads are pretty ridiculous and often off-brand. I live in a state capital and the ads that I see on my local newspaper are random bullshit based on my kid’s YouTube habits and a pop up auto play video for an online pharmacy.

In the print edition, the ads are much smarter and more lucrative. Policy advertising for the legislative session, etc.
> It doesn't have to be extremely popular to be in use. The truth of the matter is that there wasn't much "open source" or "source available" software.

That's outright nonsense. Just for comparison, Linux had already been around for the better part of a decade by that point, Red Hat had incorporated in 1993, and GNU/FSF might as well have been wrapping up the tour for their fifth album. To say that there wasn't much of the stuff in 1998 is either either ignorance, delusion, or both.

Open source software projects were a bajillion years old by that point, but nobody was calling them that, what with the term not yet having been invented and all. They were (begrudgingly!) "free software" until it was decided that mozilla.org would be a thing.
Dropbox and PagerDuty.
6 months ago I went through every single website in my safari keychain and changed their password, even if the password was already unique.

I also removed my credit card at some point after this from every single website - and changed the card in real life. So even if there is a card number somewhere in a db, it's not valid anymore.

I'm tech savvy and this still took around a day, and it was a pain in the ass but hopefully mitigates some of the fallout from this hack - but to be statistically safe while continuing to use online services, id have to wipe my passwords and cards every few months given the frequency of hacks. I couldn't expect my family to put this much effort into doing this frequently.

The system of holding a central database is completely bust. It's just too juicy a target to keep the hackers at bay.

I really wish there was more effort today spent on changing this centralised paradigm to a decentralised one - my personal data should live on my computer, and my computer only. It should never ever leave it. It should always be hashed.

If there was some way for web apps to be distributed and ran on my own personal computer, with zero knowledge proofs verifying transaction on the third party services side we would seriously reduce the attractiveness of hackers going off these enormous databases. It needs to be as easy to secure this data as possible, and it needs to never be sucked up to somewhere else, and security patches need to be instantly applied over the top of my running kernel - without any hiccup.

Impossibly difficult you will scoff. No one wants to run their own software. They absolutely would if the tech industry put any effort into it. Also the fines need increased massively to incentivise action in this direction. It should be business-ruining if you lose your customers data like this.
The brand is absent from most countries.
Just tried this and it's really impressive, I'd say it does a nicer job on vocals than Spleeter. Less of the "underwater" effect compared to what I remember of Spleeter.
Does this work, avoiding bank fees?
WalMart actually directly lists some items on Amazon, then ships through their normal fulfillment. Confusingly, I've found that they twice listed items on Amazon that are present in their stores but not on their own website. Probably just a temporary situation but still amusing.
> That’s defined as speeds of 25 megabits per second for download and 3 megabits per second for upload.

I really wish they just considered symmetrical speeds. These bizarre asymmetric speed limits are just a made-up limitation of the Comcast era.
It still seems rather vague to attempt to blame "progressive policies" as somehow being opposed to just logical mathematics.

IMO after reading the it, this current plan is pretty far away from Progressive, so I think PC was off base anyway.
If true this may have further tack on good effects like fewer click bait headlines and fewer errors in reporting with less pressure to get things out before details emerge.
> When I want to do anything unusual, I google my problem and almost always there's a question on Tex stack exchange (which is blessed with the participation of most of the experts in the subject) with answers giving several easy ways to do it, using packages I already have on my computer!

Yes, exactly! As I said:

> if you try to trick it into doing something that someone out there hasn't already written a package for.

There's an incredible package library out there, rivalling CPAN, and I love TeX and won't speak against it; but, if you try to step outside the package library (or even if you try to compose packages in sensible-seeming ways), as is very easy to do if you try to view TeX as a general-purpose typesetter, it rapidly becomes clear that there's a lot of magic going on that those packages hide away (more or less neatly, depending on their maturity), and that is hard to reproduce on your own, or add to.
I'm coming at this from the opposite side. Currently, it feels like most of my programming skills are really just Googling skills and remembering what a particular error message means. The market emphasizes this kind of programming by combining existing libraries and hoping things work, so it's really hard for me to break away from doing that and start to learn the way that stuff works internally. I think that this was the reason that they stopped teaching SICP in Scheme [0].

I can read source code (I do some security research for fun) and use a debugger, but I still feel like I'm programming by poking. What would you recommend to younger programmers to get out of this rut?

0: In this talk at the NYC Lisp meetup, Gerry Sussman was asked why MIT stopped teaching the legendary 6.001 course, which was based on Sussman and Abelson’s classic text The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP). Sussman’s answer was that: (1) he and Hal Abelson got tired of teaching it (having done it since the 1980s). So in 1997, they walked into the department head’s office and said: “We quit. Figure out what to do.” And more importantly, (2) that they felt that the SICP curriculum no longer prepared engineers for what engineering is like today. Sussman said that in the 80s and 90s, engineers built complex systems by combining simple and well-understood parts. The goal of SICP was to provide the abstraction language for reasoning about such systems.

Today, this is no longer the case. Sussman pointed out that engineers now routinely write code for complicated hardware that they don’t fully understand (and often can’t understand because of trade secrecy.) The same is true at the software level, since programming environments consist of gigantic libraries with enormous functionality. According to Sussman, his students spend most of their time reading manuals for these libraries to figure out how to stitch them together to get a job done. He said that programming today is “More like science. You grab this piece of library and you poke at it. You write programs that poke it and see what it does. And you say, ‘Can I tweak it to do the thing I want?'”. The “analysis-by-synthesis” view of SICP — where you build a larger system out of smaller, simple parts — became irrelevant. Nowadays, we do programming by poking.
Yes, I had something similar happening. Did your friend get anything paid out? It's still hurting me while it happened many years ago.
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Just checked and I don't have a Use Account link. Just call, text or chat.
They released the expansion pack which doubled the rdram and allowed for 480i
Dropbox ($DBX) and PagerDuty ($PD)
The pre-lithographic masks for chips are copyrighted (prior to algorithmic modifications for sub-wavelength interference features). The schematics for printed circuit boards are copyrighted. (But only to the extent that they were not produced by programs; robots can't author copyrightable work.)

The process for transforming a notional chip mask into one that can be used to actually produce chips on a fabrication device that uses a particular wavelength is going to be covered by multiple patents, unless the chip fab is more than 20 years old, so you can't copy the post-transformation masks, either.

The whole design of the hardware is only patentable, and only to the extent that the patent claims apply to it.

So if you take an entire electronics device, reduce it down to a block/circuit diagram, then use that to create a new schematic, and use the schematic to produce another electronic device with identical function, you have not violated copyright in doing so, nor are the schematics and masks derivative works.

In the case of the book that describes a process of manufacturing, the process part of it is like a recipe. It is only the supplemental prose that is copyrighted. So you would have to strip out the introduction, descriptions of specific applications, etc.

That is why map-makers used to put fake towns or streets on maps, beyond the borders of the area that is purportedly mapped. So on a map of Pennsylvania, they might place a town called "Fakesburg" in the greyed-out part of Delaware that adjoins Pennsylvania (a literal grey area), and put a "Trapsville" in the greyed-out New York, the Pennsylvania portion of the paper being presented as factual, and the margins as copyrightable creativity. But the courts called this out as bullshit, so the mapmakers stopped. Some elements of copyright still exist in mapping, but only to the extent that the map diverges from literal facts. For instance, if the widths of roads are exaggerated, and colors added, for the purposes of making an infographic for a traffic throughput data set, the creative combination of facts could possibly be copyrightable, but little prevents someone else from independently combining the same two sets of facts into an all-new (but similar-looking) infographic.

In the case of hardware, the lowest-level circuit diagram is the factual map of the device. But there are many ways to lay it out in physical reality, as to how many layers to use, where to route the traces, which subunits to place in the blocks, how to label the components with printed text, etc. So you couldn't make a photographically identical copy, but you could make a copy that does exactly the same thing with a redesigned PCB.
I have this, it’s pretty awesome. I can recommend Mikrotik hardware, it hits a sweet spot for me that they’re “enterprise but still accessible”. Their support team is great as well.
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I've built https://localizer.dev last week when I couldn't find a solution that fit my needs. You can play with it live here: https://localize.todorant.com.
Cool! I am glad you like it!
RTK gps is better and quite affordable now. Look it up, you can use two receivers costing maybe $15 each for it.
The NYT currently has a LOT of third party JS and cookies. Enough that I think it is noticeably impacting performance and user experience.

Which hopefully was another motivation to cut it back. I mean, "privacy" should be enough, but when it's making your user experience terrible that should be enough too! (Although could lead to trying to performance optimize it instead of getting rid of it; getting rid of it is the right call).
I would look for a “technical writer” or “content manager“.

I would look for that over an IT person who can write because I would want someone who is looking at this from the customer/user perspective. The key skill you want is “explainer”.

I don’t know how big your company is. If you’re big, you can hire this person. If small, you can find someone to do this on a contract-project basis. That’s how I would start, in order to find someone who is a good fit. (Something I have done in the past is hire two contractors for the same project, as a bake-off. It cost double, but helped me find the right partner.)
F-Droid is great, it has been years since I've had to use the app store.
Ligatures are pretty much the only subset of OpenType that is available in text editors, sadly.

(And ligatures aren't even a good thing to have in an editor :D)
Something traveling 1000kts at 60000ft can reach a target at 100ft. The legal guidance has ICBMs in mind.
Regarding DW being controlled by the government, could you clarify what you mean, and do you have sources?

Because the german government isn’t one single entity, and that’s what the Wikipedia article says

> While funded by the German government, the work of DW is regulated by the Deutsche Welle Act,[5] meaning that content is intended to be independent of government influence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Welle
Hello San Kumar! I looked at your source code, I was amazed that it was only one file, and only 100 lines of source code (less if we subtract whitespace). The less source code a program has while still maintaining functionality and being readable, the better. Which brings me to my next point, functionality.

You saw a problem, a big problem, which is that often even all of the features Unix has for help (man, apropos, etc.) are not sufficient to be able to quickly figure out how to complete a task, such that frequently people have to Google for answers, and why take the extra steps to go to a different window than the command line, search for answers, and return to the command line?

It's extra steps, but more importantly, it breaks "flow".

Also, this is one of the historic reasons that Unix lost the popularity battle with new/inexperienced users to Windows/Mac -- not enough user-friendly help, and this is especially true of Unix's historic command-line help systems.

So, I applaud the problem you chose to solve, and I applaud the elegant way in which you chose to solve it! You are a true Hacker (used in the positive definition, not the negative)!

So with respect to the problem you chose and the code that solves it, I say to you:

Well played Sir, Well played!

I vote that this code should become a standard part of all Unix distributions from now on.
Only if you're military or part of the government in the US, because civilian drones have a 100mph speed limit and a line of sight requirement.
When you are writing a tiny protoype 15 years ago, any language you know is fine. But over time -- both the life of the product, and the world overall, software grows far more complex and the ecosystem matters much more.
I don't think (American) GPS currently supports that for the civilian signals, though IIRC Galileo does and there are plans for the American version to support it in the future.

However, GPS signals are essentially just the location of the satellite with a time stamp. There's nothing to prevent the signed signal from being re-broadcast a short time later to mess with location data. The Russians have (allegedly) been doing this in the Black, Baltic, and Berants seas the past few years.
Read The Beginner's Creed, by Peter J. Denning

https://web.suffieldacademy.org/cs/intro/beginners.shtml
VSCode is a M$ initiative. Give it a couple years.
I don't think that's fair - it uses the same name and idea, both of which are pretty obvious if you were going to write one yourself but is implemented in a different language and as more of a hack.

The author should tip the hat if it was inspired by the other, but "rip off" is unnecessary.

Having said that, I'm pleased to know about the python original (?), I will give it a whirl.
I think you can still be held liable for whatever they couldn't charge to your debit card if you do that. Preventing them from charging you doesn't mean you don't owe them money.
This has been true since approximately the beginning of newspaper-time.

How much more would you be willing to pay to go entirely ad-free?

From the NYT annual report [1], it appears that they made ~$1B in subscription revenue and $0.5B in advertising revenue last year. If you're willing to pay >50% more (if you can afford more, you're probably more valuable as an advertising target), NYT is probably interested.

[1] https://s1.q4cdn.com/156149269/files/doc_financials/annual/2...
I don't understand this. I'm a paying subscriber -- I haven't seen any ads. Maybe I'm missing them:

https://imgur.com/8oqmgIG

Can you show me? Perhaps this is an EU vs US edition thing. I'm EU.
Check out cbtnuggets.com. Build your own home lab. Reddit has plenty of people that recommend the best routers and switches for you to play with. As you are a developer, there is no better way to learn than to do. Have fun! Also, worst case scenario your lab turns into a great white noise machine haha.
I guess we're all equally snowflakes here then.
I haven't read it, but also heard good things about "The Practice of System and Network Administration", by the same author: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Practice-System-Network-Administrat...
The Bay Area, for all of it’s “we’re e center of the world’s technology” hoorah, has exceptionally poor internet services except in pockets. The city governments here could care less ultimately about technology, and are more interested in social justice pet projects.
It's interesting to look at some circuits for guitar distortion stomp boxes like the ProCo Rat[1] or Boss DS-1[2] or others on that eletrosmash site. Also guitar cabinet frequency response drops significantly after 10kHz so that rounds high frequency sharp corners off a bit (try listening to the direct signal from a distorted guitar preamp vs. the same signal through various cabinet impulse responses sometime, or hook up an oscilloscope across the output of a guitar multieffects box on various distortion settings. Nary a square wave to be seen.

[1] https://www.electrosmash.com/proco-rat
[2] https://www.electrosmash.com/boss-ds1-analysis
Yep, I noticed the site loads much faster in Brave Browser which blocks all ads and trackers.
I don't generally like synchronous calls, but for you I might make an exception. Also feel free to drop me a line at mikel@evins.net.

I liked and admired Larry. I considered him a friend. Once I sat with Steve Jobs in my office at NeXT and argued about Larry's virtues. I took the pro-Larry position.

Your lunch was probably around the time I was working on that Lisp OS at Apple. That was Larry's idea, too.

If you don't hear from me, it's not because I don't want to talk with you; it's because I'm forgetful (one reason I like email better than synchronous calls. Inboxes remember things that I forget.)

Knowledge Graph Navigator sort of intersects with some of my running interests--particularly knowledge representation and frame stores.
You could always use it to create commercial games for free before it was open-sourced.
It's an interesting point, but I think when the user has a keylogger, they've already lost. I'd rather have websites disallow passwords shorter than ~10 chars which are trivially brute-force'able in case of a leak.

If special chars can be a signal for keyloggers, so are strings > 10 chars, and strings which are not all-lowercase/all-uppercase/first-capital. Basically to mislead the keylogger in this way, the user would have to use a short all-lowercase dictionary password :)
>> we need a new law barring all 3rd party tracking, data brokering, and all individually tailored advertising

> Why do we need to ban it? I care about my privacy. I would like clear disclosures and easy opt outs. But I don't need it banned for everyone else.

Opt-outs aren't practical for the consumer and therefore don't work [1]. All that tracking/data brokering needs to be banned unless clear disclosures have been made and the consumer explicitly opts-in.

[1] I know: years ago I literally spent several 8-hour days opting myself out of just one kind of data broker (scammy online people search websites). I still haven't gotten around to doing that for my wife, who is less likely to engage in quixotic quests, and sees opting out as a pointless waste of time.
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In addition to all of this, part of the reason that the cost of debt has been so low to begin with is because this implicit backstop compresses credit spreads (a measure of the riskiness of corporate debt). If it weren't for the assumption that the government would bail out shareholders, companies would have had less debt and more equity, and the bailouts might not have been necessary to begin with. (Buybacks are just the mechanism by which corporations increase their debt to equity ratio).

I wouldn't go so far as to liquidate the assets. (That's probably not what would happen in the absence of government intervention - creditors would likely recoup more through a restructuring than a liquidation). But the equity needs to be wiped. Full stop. If you own shares in US passenger airlines (as I do, through index funds), those shares should now be worthless.
Completely agree - the corporate tax rate should be way lower, ideally zero. The money is eventually taxed in dividends, employee pay, or when stock is sold. They also pay property tax, and consumption taxes.

Why don't companies have war chests of cash? Because they're taxed on it, better to give it to employees, reinvest in projects, etc.
Tesco and ASDA have both been delivering to anyone throughout, and Sainsbury’s has opened out to anyone in the last week or so.
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So Germany is protecting my online privacy and requiring more due process for the German government to spy on me than my own PATRIOT Act wielding government. Despite Germany owing me, an American, absolutely nothing.

Think about that for a second. The German government confers more privacy rights on foreigners with no connection to their country whatsoever than the American government is even willing to extend to citizens.
Awesome! I was just playing with pion(&ion)! Very cool tech. Curious what you use it for and if it has much scale in production?

I almost wish there was something between ion (very distributed) and pion (very low-level), this might be a good example to include in the pion examples. Light single node SFU, which I can imagine you can add a routing layer to shard scale pretty easily.

Thanks for all your work on the tool! Got up and running very quickly (still looking into some MediaInfo issues).
you're welcome to not pay taxes there, it's quite likely nobody will come after you.
The original feedback was largely requesting to not say "open source" and they've changed this. Much as I respect the position you always take on FOSS, the current position is a reasonable compromise between the original two standpoints, so I lower my weapon.
One of the few things I use my Apple Card for is online subscriptions. One click in the app and you change your card number immediately!
This is especially funny given ES6's allegedly superior concurrency story.

30 years in development do help avoid some pitfalls, though.
> You literally have to satisfy everybody

You literally don't have to. You can just ignore some of them.
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> Nim supporters advised me to run a profiler. I am not sure biologists would enjoy that.

We need better profilers! Ones that don't require anything more complicated to use than passing a --profile-me parameter to the interpreter/compiler, and whose output can just be dragged into a pretty, user-friendly and fast application (included with the language runtime), and where reported results are both trustworthy and correspond to actual locations in the source code.
If you want to make renewable storage seem ridiculous, you just model storage as if every electron generated is precious and can't be wasted and you get an answer like the above.

Overprovisioning is so simple and widely accepted a concept that anyone ignoring it is likely trying to intentionally mislead.
Their license, as currently stated, would probably violate both planks 1 and 6 of the OSD[1].

[1]: https://opensource.org/osd-annotated