skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
socat + "everything as a file" lets you network up stuff only designed to be used over a serial link too, which I've found super useful. Wireless calibration of a drone using software that only supports USB serial? Hook it up to a raspberry pi in AP mode, stick some socats with udp on one side and /dev/ttyUSB0 on the other, boom, now you can talk to the flight controller untethered with 10 minutes reading the man page for socat and some trial and error.
A friend and me have been working on this for the last few weeks during lockdown. Since Panic stoped Status Board we were using a prototype of this. Feel free to give it a try. We are happy to answer your questions.
QNAP starts placing ads in its NAS UI
Here is the website where they publish digitalized stuff.
https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/

I'm quite impressed that it's easier to get digitalized record of birth from a place in the desert in the USA than from my own country (France).
Why would FB have paid top dollar for Whatsapp if not to use its data? Come on ppl
From personal experience, I can tell you that the consequence of this will be that ministries will be using unencrypted and unauthenticated email and SMS.
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/
Same. Have to have a clerk unlock the machine 3 times on bad days. It feels like the shop doesn't want me to shop there.
It's amazing to consider this killer feature for _normal_ people is one of the kill-worthy features in my will never touch it category.
Or a Privacy guy in UK. Could be both nowadays.
So you're trying to tell us that Russian APT teams could not have hacked into DNC servers because there might have been an internal leak instead?

Why not both? Why would Dutch intelligence care about supporting a random political faction in the United States?
How to Run TestCafe CLI on BrowserStack in Docker Container
I thought I made it pretty clear they propose a whole bunch of possibilities in the gaps of our current understanding. The problem is the proponents make out these possibilities are much more probable than any evidence suggests. The reason it is woo, is because they start reasoning about things based on no evidence and present it as "knowledge". Like most woo, if you accept the axioms without evidence, then you can create a world of knowledge that seems logically coherent based on those axioms. That's sort of the nature of woo. It's not attacking the proponents, it's just my observations of the situation.
New.css – A classless CSS framework to write modern websites using only HTML
Google routinely bans reddit clients for ability to access NSFW pictures
Hehe - I wasn't sure which person to reply to... then I realized, it's YOU!

First of all - I want to say thank you. I really really did enjoy the book and smiled at the picture with your dog (as well as all the programming stuff ;)). Honestly, I've recommended it to others enthusiastically and got a lot out of it. Thanks!

I totally agree with what you and others said. I get it - and the only way I've been able to get away with not knowing the names of some of these patterns is precisely because I've only worked in very small teams and had a lot of autonomy. Also, for async/internet discussions I often have enough time to look it up if someone uses the jargon, and because I've encountered the names/concepts before (like in your book) it doesn't take long to catch up to the conversation.

That said - I'd like to explore one more avenue... is it possible that not seeing things as patterns allows for a more intuitive grasp? e.g. if I want to do things based on some current state, yeah I could reach for "statecharts" or "finite state machines"... but thinking of things as enums with switching based on the enum value might lead to a more intimate grasp of what's going on, and clearer insight into the different ways to hack around the problem? That might not be the best example (I've basically described a state machine and then said "how about not using a state machine") - feel free to substitute a better one if the question makes sense.

I guess I'm wondering if maybe there's an advantage to solving these things over and over but not seeing them as patterns? Not saying I'd recommend it.. just, if there's a silver lining to a bit of ignorance?
Timing is suspicious, Google is finally beginning the final phase of Play Music shutdown, which means Google Podcasts will be the new way to access podcasts.

Because it makes a ton of sense to move music to YouTube music, but the podcasts to something entirely different.

They're blindly stumbling around making sure the public will think they're pretty deserving of any and all antitrust hammers than swing their way in the near future.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tantrum
Thanks kekub for your support and help over the last weeks!
@all feel free to ask some questions about the project.
I have code posted that I'll use for CV that the README says 'will not work in Firefox'. Even though I'm using FireFox to post this comment, I don't care if Fx won't fix their 4yo RegEx bug. My project is meant to live in Cloudflare Workers, NodeJS & related things.
At least around here, nobody delivers by car, it's all on cheap motorcycles. In other cities I've lived in, bicycles were also common.
Not much different that what you're doing right now ...
Except this time it's a company. I've always wondered why people in the 70s were worried about 'technocracy' and I dismissed it as a bit of a conspiracy thing. I'm not so sure now.
> there would be nothing stopping them writing their own glowing references.

Verification wouldn't be trivial, but a Trusted Human, could check that both their CS and their import match, at a glance - or the public profile could be extracted to partially automate the process.
Personally, I don’t. Terrorism has killed fewer people in the UK than Covid19, despite having. 50+ year head start.
I work at the Rubin Observatory and we're big into open source. We're thankfully highly encouraged to submit upstream, and we use lots of open source projects and try to fix them where we can.

I don't know how to turn it into a fulltime career other than getting some kind of grant or working with a company to do it. Sponsorship sounds great, but probably requires some fame / traction, which is probably the hardest part, since you need the money to get the traction. Some open source projects also have foundations with employees or people doing contracts, like astropy (also driven with donations).
Paying employees is a blip on the OPEX that company deals with. If they don’t crank out cars they will need to raise even more money.

Until the upper middle class and up start losing jobs, Tesla will still have plenty of demand. Their core customer wasn’t line cooks.
Notice that I didn't say anything about that being impossible. I just said it's harder to meet most of these requirements with a web app, because you have to solve problems that you simply wouldn't have otherwise while gaining practically no advantage whatsoever, which is why most people decide to keep building native applications. Some people happily shooting themselves into the foot does not invalidate this assertion.

Also especially ATMs are notorious for hanging inexplicably for seconds, not reacting swiftly to user input, and generally providing a rather poor UI experience. The performance and quality standards for POS systems, at least our standards, are quite a bit higher.
> Wow, obviously an oversight.

this is google's mantra these days. do they do anything well anymore?
Marcus Hutchins simply didn’t understand the business side of things.
I still have an active CS account (Taiwan-registered) and can cross-check the references for any imported profiles. If there's a huge rush then no doubt my account could get blocked for bot-like activity, but I'm willing to do the verification for the first few thousand.
Mewcam – display your camera with background dropped in front of your desktop
There is a similar story described by Robert Cialdini in his classic book, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion [1]:

"In 1985 Ethiopia could justly lay claim to the greatest suffering and privation in the world. Its economy was in ruin. Its food supply had been ravaged by years of drought and internal war. Its inhabitants were dying by the thousands from disease and starvation. Under these circumstances, I would not have been surprised to learn of a five-thousand-dollar relief donation from Mexico to that wrenchingly needy country. I remember my chin hitting my chest, though, when a brief newspaper item I was reading insisted that the aid had gone in the opposite direction. Native officials of the Ethiopian Red Cross had decided to send the money to help the victims of that year’s earthquakes in Mexico City...Despite the enormous needs prevailing in Ethiopia, the money was being sent because Mexico had sent aid to Ethiopia in 1935, when it was invaded by Italy."

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28815.Influence
Yeah this feature is pretty stupid. It makes you think the video is in a different language than it really is and makes search much more complicated.

I like that you can set language and region on top of the browser settings though and it's cookie based. This way I have a firefox container for Spanish another one for English, etc. Same Youtube account different languages.
I've been building an open-source assistant for the home for 6 years, it's called "Gladys Assistant".

I have a paid plan with additional features which allows me to sustain my cost, and pay myself :)

Being open-source doesn't mean that you can't monetize your work. People are happy to pay when you develop something great :)

Our website: https://gladysassistant.com
Our GitHub: https://github.com/GladysAssistant/Gladys/
Anecdotes I think is the word you were looking for
Firefox lets you access Pornhub.

Why is that not banned?
Ann Mitchell, Bletchley Park codebreaker, researcher and author
> Yes, computers have gotten faster and memory and disks much larger. That doesn't mean we should be wasting it to do the same or even less functionality we had with the machines of 10 or 20 years ago.

If we save developer-cycles, it's not wasted, just saved somewhere else. In the first place we should not go by numbers, because there always will be someone who can complain for a faster solution.

> For example, IM, video/audio calls, and working with email shouldn't take hundreds of MB of RAM, a GHz-level many-core processor, and GBs of disk space. All of that was comfortably possible --- simultaneously --- with 256MB of RAM and a single-core 400MHz Pentium II.

Yes, no. The level of ability and comfort at that time was significant lower. Sure, the base-functionalitify was the same, but the experience was quite different. Today there are a gazillion more little details which make life more comfortable, which you just don't realize there are there. Some of them working in the background, some being so naturally that you can't imagine them not being there since the beginning of everything.
Yep, this is the real world Sliceline.
Because their action seems consistent with their stated intention of banning all non-official speech on Covid-19?

It could still be reversed if they feel public opinion swings the other way. That wouldn't mean it's automation gone wrong.
I can't help but reading this marvellous comment with the voice of Octavio Coleman from dispatches from elsewhere AMC series...
Just think about how extremely dystopian it is, to punish someone for relaying information that is not approved by the government.

The slope is getting slippier every day.
"According to the Mueller Report, WikiLeaks had received an email containing an encrypted file named "wk dnc link I .txt.gpg" from the Guccifer 2.0 GRU persona on July 14, which was four days after Seth Rich died.[80][81][82] In April 2018, Twitter direct messages revealed that even as Assange was suggesting publicly that WikiLeaks had obtained emails from Seth Rich, Assange was trying to obtain more emails from Guccifer 2.0, who was at the time already suspected of being linked to Russian intelligence.[83] BuzzFeed described the messages as "the starkest proof yet that Assange knew a likely Russian government hacker had the Democrat leaks he wanted. And they reveal the deliberate bad faith with which Assange fed the groundless claims that Rich was his source, even as he knew the documents' origin."[83]"

So, there's no evidence, other than people with at best a vested interest against the Clintons or obviously compromised by Russian intelligence - if you work with them once, they've got you.
They can't "err on the side of not assuming copyright". They have to block things first, ask questions later according to various laws and agreements around the world, or they will open themselves up to massive lawsuits, principally from big music labels.
Yep, +1 from me.

They put a PR reviews scoreboard on the TV that displayed a random metrics dashboard and we immediately started teasing each other about it and did more PR reviews as a consequence.

We liked it because it wasn't seen by anyone else apart from engineers taking a coffee break. Many people ignored it and noone thought less of them. If they told me a part of my bonus would be tied to my PR high score, I would be seriously demotivated.

But all in all - I think that just proves gamification works. What you're using it for is what matters in the end.
Markdown has no reasonable support for RTL.
@dang: the URL of the article is https://reclaimthenet.org/google-play-suspends-podcast-addic... - not apple.news which is mere redirect.
I think it'll have to be more precise, to make a point. E-Mail is also a form of text message and it has been free basically forever.
Covid-19 impact on the IoT Middleware Market
I find many prolific GH OSS authors to be single, but do code instead of gaming like you said. Or their job lets them OSS some of the code they use at work while on the clock.
You're not wrong, but you're somewhat off.

Argentina did have an air to air refuelling capability, and its availability or not was crucial in a number of instances. Likewise, the Gurkhas went out at battalion strength near the end of the war. The exocets weren't so much sabotaged as much as all the French simply returning home leaving the kit unfitted and unconfigured. The stuff that had been set up already was used to great effect.

You're right though that they did not set themselves up for success when they did not make the most of their first mover advantage and build up the island with supplies, equipment, and well trained soldiers rather than conscripts.

At the time, they hoped that domestic events meant that the UK simply wouldn't care is all. They didn't come for a fight.
Not at all, but judging from the amount of effort put into starting a war with Russia around the same time I find it more likely that the whole thing was made up.

US intelligence, Dutch intelligence, UK intelligence, German intelligence, who cares? They're all in the same boat, and it's sinking fast.
The problem is that corporations become as powerful as the state, so either people need to be protected from corporations or the power of the corporations need to be destroyed, as they have no democratic legitimacy.
> Let's assume for a moment that people are not helpless imbeciles who need us to tell them what to do and that they choose the best option available to them, within the constraints of their life.

That's a big assumption to make, especially on the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum; desperation often leads to suboptimal decisions:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/poverty-makes-financial...

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/underba...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16461773
Do you mean Dragon Speech or how it was called?

Anyway, old speech recognition software was quite horrible. Most did not even worked without prior training. And Google does have now offline-speech recognition too. But true, the ability to trigger with any desired phrase is something still missing.
Wouldn't surprise me, but the Windows fanatics jump on anyone who questions Windows embracing Linux/open source or who bring up Microsoft's business practices back in the day (especially in relation to how much people love Bill Gates today, plenty of people would do the same as Bill with that amount of money, though unsurprisingly not that many who are willing to engage in the type of behaviour required to amass that amount of wealth in the first place).
To be clear, I wasn't attributing anything to you: I wasn't saying that either you or Briggs mentioned other languages; I was just describing the fact that the Navya-Nyāya language was designed to reduce the ambiguities that natural Sanskrit has, like all natural languages — sorry if that wasn't clear.

As for the other part, consider what this NN language was designed for: to give precise definitions and statements, for use in debate, dialectic, etc. While it is plausible that some of these properties could make it suitable for similar purposes on a computer too, it also had other constraints (designed for humans, had to be grammatical Sanskrit, etc). How likely do you think it is that it can be much better than anything that could be designed for computers, without those constraints? Besides, if it were so optimized for computers it would be slightly worse for its actual purpose of human communication in debates. Have you considered the fact that Briggs does not claim so in his paper either?
Every system is subject to gaming of course, but I think taxing assets would make it a little harder for companies and individuals with lots of assets to avoid taxation and would encourage putting money to work.

Values for assets are market values, which are arbitrary and every-changing yes, just like income and profit is arbitrary and every-changing but at least values for assets are generally set by third parties, as opposed to the value of profits - the situation could not be much worse than the one at present where large companies choose how much tax to pay by manipulating their books to adjust profit.

I don't think companies should be taxed on customers personally, but if they choose to value their brand name at $10m owned by a subsidiary as a tax dodge (as at present), sure they should be taxed on that.
Many of my in-laws are medical professionals: GPs, surgeons, physicians, anaesthetists, nurses, the list goes on.

Not a single one of them has done it for financial gain or prestige, and for the most part the driving force really does seem to be a genuine desire to help people. (I’m based in the UK, going into medicine for money or prestige would be a fool’s errand.)

Please don’t make assumptions about things with which you are clearly unfamiliar, and if you must do so please do not assert them as facts.
You will get downvoted to hell for this but this is a sad reality.

Most people dont realize that open source is unsustainable. Only the big and strong (the megacorps) will be able to outcompete everyone by providing complex stuff for free.
> Except that this is a feature of every messaging app. It's not really a response to

It wasn't 11 years ago.
At least in Germany companies and government are required to configure mandatory TLS for SMTP and IMAP so the biggest attack vector is gone. No end-to-end encryption though.
I think there is enough collective whining on the internet that this little impromptu choir is going to get drowned out...
> The snapshot will include every repo with any commits between the announcement at GitHub Universe on November 13th and 02/02/2020, every repo with at least 1 star and any commits from the year before the snapshot (02/03/2019 - 02/02/2020), and every repo with at least 250 stars.

Looks like a good practice to have your own public projects archived forever in the arctic is to star them yourself.
I suggest doing some proper research on Mueller and his report.
Nice try, but no. Criticizing someone is not throwing tantrum, really.
Sssch. We're not allowed to talk about that, remember. Unless your thoughts align with the government, better keep it to yourself, or you will have to be re-educated.
We [1] have received one-off donations from about 1-2% of our users. We get recurring donations from about 0.2% of our users.

There are some caveats here that probably mean we get more donations than most: the software is end-user facing, people who use the software generally use it every day and really like it, the audience skews heavily towards developers and we invite donations prominently without it being annoying (I think - no-one has complained so far).

As for deciding where funds go, most projects only have a handful of core contributors and it's very obvious which these are from how much they contribute. We just talk about it.

[1]: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl
Are you aware of the model of the mind system from The Mind Illuminated (a book that teaches meditation)?

First, I have to clarify concepts. There is a consciousness created by the mind. It's the place where sensory input is experienced. It's also the place where thoughts are experienced. It's basically the screen that allows the different parts of the mind system to communicate.

Then, there's the consciousness talked about in this article. It's a more primordial quality.

Now, that model of the mind system says that attention and awareness are the two modes of the mind. Consciousness as the screen of experience is created by the mind. Perception is created by the mind as well.
Connectivity is what your phone has. It has nothing to do with Whatsapp. Whatsapp does not add anything to your connectivity.

Perhaps you mean "server availability/reliability"?

The only thing Whatsapp could do, without reaching deeply into the system, is to retry sending messages over and over, until they are sent. If other messengers give up early, then perhaps that could create a false impression of improved connectivity.
A virtual particle is only a virtual particle because we as humans implicitly have the particle view as fundamental. There's nothing special about a fluctuation in a quantum field being not long lived enough or not stable enough for us to recognize it as "a real particle".

So your quotation is right, but you need to go one level deeper.
Some people just don’t like kids, you know.
Id be interested to know if any program relies on freeing memory in one thread, then (with some lock for synchronization) deliberately accessing it from another thread causing a segfault.

Sure, it's possible, but if no programs do it, it might be worth breaking the behaviour for the performance increase.
Podcast Addict is my favorite podcast app. I have been using it with great satisfaction for years. I hope that gets sorted out quickly.

Another aspect that I don't quite understand: The story claims that Google asks for the app to be published as a new download. And indeed the provided screenshot includes this request (in pretty small print). This makes no sense to me. Why wouldn't Google be satisfied by just changing the existing app? Any ideas what the reason might be?
For anyone interested in this kind of ponderings I strongly recommend Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett.

It may be the best book I've ever read.
That is exactly the case! I heard the term for the first time in this SSC article, clicked the Wikipedia link to fulfill my curiosity and was kind of awe struck by the whole process, so I thought I'd share it here...
Closely related, especially given the context of consciousness, one of my favorite stories: "The Egg" (http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html, or if you prefer read by Kurzgesagt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI).
The problem with vertically integrated technology is that if a huge advancement appears at the lowest level of the stack that would require a whole re-implementation of the whole stack, a new startup building things from scratch can overthrown a large competitor that would need to "throw" their stack away, or evolve it without breaking backward compatibility, etc.

Once you have put a lot of money into a product, it is very hard to start a new one from scratch and let the old one die.
I don't use duck duck go but this is awesome too!