skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently since April 2019 the EV3 Mindstorms have supported MicroPython: https://education.lego.com/en-us/support/mindstorms-ev3/pyth...
Those channels have millions of subscribers and even more views. Maybe it's insignificant in your view, and that's fine.
I didn't know until today Windows came with current W8/W10 logo full circle back to 1985 logo which would be perfectly suitable even 35 years later.
eBay workers stalked, threatened authors of critical newsletter
Some would say even today that it was NT4 that was the pinnacle. There are many things that can be said, but indeed Win2k was a hog compared to NT4 while being a fairly modest improvement (despite all the new features like Active Directory).
That seems harder to define, IMO. Casting a vote can be a harmful action, depending on who you vote for, for example.
Yes, exactly. Take IDE drives for example. To use two drives with a single cable, one is set to be the master, the other to be the slave. From that point onwards, the slave cannot write to the bus until the master gives permission.
They do actually still exist. And many are quite good.
Kragen/xcompose: for sharing .XCompose keybindings
Can anyone explain how this doesn’t lead to hyperinflation in the long run? The Fed is saying outright that they’ll continue to print more money whenever the stock market drops. At some stage that money will have to hit consumer prices, right?
As soon as there is a service outage, all the users go to the carrier website to try to complain or log in to check if they've paid their bill, etc.

A website designed for most users to visit once per year when their contract expires likely won't scale to everyone visiting in an hour...
Your logic system states that doing business with evil is good.

No, I don't think that works.
Grassmann.jl is the library that made me take Julia seriously. It's an awesome library, and the author really gets one of Julia's most special and well integrated features, multiple dispatch.

Because the code is written in solid, idiomatic Julia, it's interoperable with tons of other libraries. I actually had success using this library with CuArrays.jl without any modifications. So yeah, you can use it to run geometric algebra computations on a GPU for algebras of dimension < 2^5 (in my case, I tried it with CGA3D).
Oddly I have both tmobile and comcast and was chatting on the phone around the same time—maybe it’s region specific?
ultimately it comes down to because they have more guns and goons than you do.
Three hour delay on texts from Twilio to T-Mobile. No voice connect from Twilio to Verizon, delayed and too.
This is bordering on the absurd. Almost all police officers go through their career without being in objective danger of dying. If they do run in to danger, they call for backup and are trained to handle it. You can find examples of death in any profession. Like it or not, policing is not one of the most dangerous jobs out there, it's just filled with scared people.
So by no line you mean we should eliminate the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
> Maybe the reactions to this story are even more significant than the story itself.

That's the problem though - by focusing undue politicized attention onto an ultimately irrelevant piece of terminology opinion, we've detracted from the real problem at hand (regardless if think the real issue at hand is systemic racism oppressing minorities or "SJW"s destroying our institutions).

When you attach the emotional baggage of known hotbed political issues to trivial things asking for people's opinion,we know from the works of psychologists like Jon Haidt and stuff, that these opinions quickly enter into the realm of the sacred. This forces us to first have a visceral emotion reaction, then find all sorts of reasons to back-up our initial response without any regard for counterpoints.

In other words, invitations to bikeshed like this one can't lead to any meaningful or sensible debate because there was never at any substance to debate - just emotional baggage from a much more politicized topic that keeps everyone arguing

BTW, you can recognize this as a cognitive trap to bikeshed while missing the point by considering the hypothetical scenario if a developer one day decided to up and just publish some patch notes to the effect of "master records now renamed to release records to be more semantic", would anyone bat an eye?
> Don't just build Something™, build an industry leading product that customers want and love!

The point of writing software is to get paid. If the process leads to something actually useful, good on you. If not, you still got paid. It was just a drill, life continues.
> it seems the end game of this is to disappear the words slave and master from our vocabulary, so we can't express those ideas anymore and let slavery expand unhindered

No, you're engaging in inaccurate hyperbole.

The end game for these efforts will be to make "slave" a more precise and specific term, not to erase it entirely. Does the existence of the terms "pork" (pig meat) and "pig" (animal source of pork) strike you as Newspeak?
Ask HN: Anyone doing software development on the Apple XDR Display?
I'm firmly in the Apple ecosystem and am considering a display upgrade. Curious if anyone has been using the XDR for dev.

What configuration did you choose (type / stand)?

How did you justify the expense?

What hardware are you using to drive it? ie eGPU etc
Clever woman, she should have found a legal way to bet, or working for a trading firm, because she is good at it.
Since there is a unicode discussion the next thread over (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23524400), I thought I would promote this very excellent, life-saving, time-saving and alltogether wonderful way of typing various Unicode characters in X11.

No relation, just a happy user.
Show HN: SponsorBlock – Skip YouTube Sponsorships, Intros, Outros and More
I recently released an update adding skip categories, a long wanted feature. My blog post about these changes: https://blog.ajay.app/categories-sponsorblock

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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20778926
This is only tangentially related, but I rediscovered an old project of mine from years ago today and am rather excited about it:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/goatfish

It's basically a 200 line document database in Python that's backed by SQLite. I need to store a bunch of scraping data from a script but don't want a huge database or the hassle of making SQLite tables.

Goatfish is perfect because it stores free-form objects (JSON, basically), only it lets you index by arbitrary keys in them and get fast queries that way.

It's pretty simple, but a very nice compromise between the simplicity of in-memory dicts and the reliability of SQLite.
Three orders.
I don't know anything specific a out starlink, but I have hundreds of days of experience trying to hit iridium sattelites while hiking in the wild. You need direct line-of-sight to sky.
The specific incarnation of border controls as ICE isn't the only way to control the border.

I'm sure that some people are advocating for completely open borders without concern for consequences. But I think the larger call is saying that ICE as it currently is conceived as a paramilitary-style organization is not the way control the border and manage immigration.
You can get back that old-school Windows feeling on Linux with https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
The Zipper (Functional Pearls, Gérard Huet, 1993)
Another little tidbit which is not much known:

Furthermore, I didn't find out that Samba inter-operated at all with any version of DOS or Windows until nearly two years after I did that first release. The earliest versions of Samba were aimed at being compatible with clients for the Digital Equipment Corporation "Pathworks" product suite, which was an early implementation of the SMB protocol that was quite popular at the time, and that ran on Ultrix and VMS systems. My initial motivation was to implement the same protocol on SunOS, so that I could use my desktop system to access the departmental Unix server. -- Andrew Tridgell

(Weird - my hospital also has those IBM Type-1 token ring jacks.)
thanks "YourAnonNews" on twitter
I don't believe it is, your best bet right now is to change to another browser.
News articles just started popping up. But none of them have addressed the overlap between outages and protest sites, yet.

https://www.businessinsider.com/verizon-sprint-att-t-mobile-...

https://whdh.com/news/cellular-service-outages-affecting-car...

https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/15/t-mobile-calling-outage/
Because they all run off a backbone operated by Level 3 Communications...
There were early reports that Level 3 was having some routing issues earlier today, but it's been confirmed that they're not having any problems whatsoever (for anyone who may have been suspecting that)

https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/1272648878639255553...
It's a sound theory. Hopefully one of the carriers owns up to their site not having capacity and/or b-number routing flub.
Yeah, that ship has sailed already.

https://www.hattislaw.com/cases/investigations/western-digit...
2 of starboard's capabilities are to run kube-bench and kube-hunter, and yeah, aqua has been doing some great work for the community in this space.
> In the context that are being used, it describes the abstraction very well.

In some contexts, yes. But other times, other words would explain it better. I think that existing stuff probably need not changed, but in cases where a different word is more clearly describing it, I should think that the different word will do, especially in documentation. There are other reasons why the words used for commands should remain traditional (and American; even though I am Canadian and write the documentation in Canadian, I will use the American terms for the names of commands, etc; just as though, if I am writing music I will use neither Canadian nor American, but Italian), though. (Words also have multiple meanings, anyways.)

> Is slavery absolutely wrong? Of course! That doesn't mean we will have to ban the words.

I agree (with both parts).
> but if it offends black people we could go with a diferent term, why not?

How do we know black people are offended by the terminology of midi clocks ?
Even Linux did that back in the day. CD-ROM boot was far from universally supported, let alone USB mass storage. Boot floppies were the most reliable way of starting up an external OS.
It's literally the first criteria that to count as new legislation, the effect must be immediate:

> do parties unrelated to the lawsuit in question immediately, after the decision, have to behave substantially differently?

The court has not argued in their decision that Congress meant to provide these protections—they explicitly only argued that the law can be (re-)interpreted today as allowing it (using a broad interpretation). They fully admit that Congress at the time did not expect it to be interpreted this way.

That's the "legislating" part of "legislating from the bench": the actual legislators who voted on the original legislation did not intend to cause this behavioral change on ~200M Americans (at the time it was passed). 40 years later, the courts made the decision to legislate that behavior, from the bench.

Personally, I have to admire that kind of Chutzpah—no one will accuse today's court of lacking the will to power. That one of Trump's "conservative" justices wrote the decision is the icing on the cake. :)
Spherical mirrors and fisheye lenses do the trick.
Sacramento is down again. All livestreams suddenly cut out.
For cars with hydraulic brakes or a clutch, there is the master cylinder and the slave cylinder. the master cylinder is a pump that provides hydraulic pressure to the slave cylinder to do work.
You would be unsurprised how many working scientists I know who confess to doing their papers in Word or LO and setting the font to Computer Modern.

There's even a (humorous) economics paper on why this is an advantageous method: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/joes.12318
> So, if this graph is right, then over the last couple of years, somewhere between 50% and 80% of Amazon’s profit has been due to AWS.
Do we have confirmation that Verizon is actually having issues, or are people on Verizon trying to call T-Mobile customers, failing, and are blaming their own carrier, Verizon?
It's a strategy that gives up possession in exchange for denying offensive space to the opponent and relies on exploiting (through counter attacks) the defensive space the attacker opens. When executed well, it can win games but it's not amenable to the type of analysis presented in this write-up. That's what the bit is about.
To be clear, TimescaleDB does NOT throw away and indexing capabilities or ACID features. Its only limitation is that UNIQUE constraints need to include the time column. Also, its query optimizations are far from trivial to implement.
I know this isn't books, but let's look at 2 examples of games that came out through community funding, either through something like Patreon were people make donations or something like Kickstarter.

A) Dwarf Fortress. It's an incredibly niche game where the creator has spent literally decades of his life working full-time towards the game. He has a vision for the game and he doesn't compromise. The community funding allowed him to do this. It realistically would not have been possible in the current system.

B) Pillars of Eternity 1 (and 2) were both great games that simply weren't getting funding to be made in the business world. Yet it was successful and both were very good games.

I'm not going to claim they are revolutionary or even that great. But I am going to say that without the process, they wouldn't have been developed. I also think that demand would work the same regardless of the system.

If somebody creates a book like The Jungle, it would become a success anyway and more people would fund the author through consistent or one-time donations.

Really, we've hit the point with technology that we simply don't need the middle men anymore. The creators themselves can work directly with the consumers. I don't see a reason to continue the current system besides inertia.
"things that other people can't"

I would phrase it as "things other people can't or won't".

Jim Cramer wrote a book in which he described how someone told him he could have a job if he would just "go in that office over there and fire that guy". He did.
"I consider it a significant failing that we (in the US) don't have a public email system like the USPS.

It is such a fundamental and important form of communication."

Yeah, I can't wait for the government to read all my e-mails AND lose a few extra billions in the process.
Intellectual property protection can be a two-edged sword. It can help you protect your ideas but it can also lock you into a fight that drains your resources.

I remember reading that the wright brothers fought hard for years to protect some of their ideas without,ultimately, really getting a satisfactory result.

They didn't get the windfall they wanted and ultimately delayed innovation in the field. A lose-lose situation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers_patent_war
Interesting! A quick Google search shows the BLM did deny the lease stating their lack of intent to drill. I did not know they had the ability to do that. I am inclined to believe now that a big effort to tie up Federal minerals would make too much noise and fail.
Adobe failed exactly same way as tons of other proprietary software developers. Instead of embracing open source and leading the industry standard they wanted to keep tight control over everything: standard, runtime and toolset.

They was so over controlling so there was whole game development industry where literally every company used Flash for UI for decade, but with 3rd-party proprietary runtime simply because Adobe ignored that market completely.

If they only moved Flash into open source when it was on peak of it's popularity they would probably still sell their proprietary tools to so much larger audience.
I also found this when I switched from MySQL. After a while you discover the right tool for the job, and often some tolls that don’t exist for other databases (things like PostgREST come to mind). Sometime I wish it was a bit more idiomatic though.

We’re working on a lot of tooling at https://supabase.io. We’re open source too. If there is anything in particular you’re missing, let me know
I know this is the digital age but you could just try speaking to her directly. /s
The powers of the FDA aren't totally unchecked. There's an old law called the Administrative Procedures Act. If I understand it right, it basically says (among other things) that government agencies that make rules have to have good reasons for those rules, and that they should be consistent with the purpose of the agency as described in the laws Congress passes delegating authority to that agency. So, if the FDA creates a rule that whistling the national anthem while riding a unicycle on the deck of an aircraft carrier in active service is against the law, citizens adversely affected by that rule can sue the agency and (if successful) have the rule overturned by the courts because the FDA was not granted authority over those things.

I expect it might be possible to challenge the rule against grated cream cheese even if it's within the scope of the FDAs authority if the rule doesn't serve any legitimate purpose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_Procedure_Act_(...
> [I]f, for example, sexual orientation is an innate trait, then changing a man attracted to men into a woman attracted to men is changing more than just that person's sex: it's changing their sexual orientation as well.

I think you're confusing "innate" with some sort of epistemic primacy. If I am heterosexual because I innately consider myself a man and I innately prefer women as partners, it is also case that I am "innately heterosexual", regardless of which of those facts are encoded explicitly and which is inferred. It's a trick of the structure of our labels things that we can't change "just one" of those three things.
Reminds me of CS Algorithms and Data Structures 1, what a pain of a class, but helpful post
T-Mobile user here, had to restart my device (iPhone) in order to make calls. The data network seems stable as I was able to FaceTime another person via the T-Mobile data network.
The beam is directional. From https://home.cern/science/accelerators/cern-neutrinos-gran-s...

> To create the neutrino beam, a beam of protons from the Super Proton Synchrotron at CERN was directed onto a graphite target. The collisions created particles called pions and kaons, which were fed into a system of two magnetic lenses that focused the particles into a parallel beam in the direction of Gran Sasso. The pions and kaons then decayed into muons and muon neutrinos in a 1-kilometre tunnel. At the end of the tunnel, a block of graphite and metal 18 metres thick absorbed protons as well as pions and kaons that did not decay. Muons were stopped by the rock beyond, but the muon neutrinos remained to streak through the rock on their journey to Italy.
Doubtful, considering you need a license, equipment, knowledge, etc.

Chad and Karen don’t give two shits about it.
“Agile teams that truly iterate with the customer can often avoid these problems because the customer is there the whole way through and the team continuously pivots to close gaps discovered by the customer throughout the project, thereby building something the customer actually needs and wants.”

I‘m 2 years into my first role as a product owner (made the switch from design) and working at a fortune 100. The thing that’s struck me most since starting this role is that as while the company has invested more to our transition to agile teams (hiring external agile transformation companies, everyone goes through scrum training etc) we seem to have distanced ourselves even further from the customer.

I report to a product manager, who I think in turn has had zero hours interacting directly with our customers or our users. Our roadmap seems completely driven based on whatever features seem to be flavor of the month (or quarter since we do roadmap planning quarterly) and it’s been a struggle to even try and get buy in to having our customers represented in some way by proxy (e.g. through personas, or setting product metrics that attempt to measure customer value). Features that we do release have no expectations around what is considered successful usage (usage will be measured, but without context, so if 5% of customers use a feature there’s no interpretation if this is really low, or really high).

The puzzling thing is that when I talk to my manager (or managers manager) about this disconnect, they seem to agree in principle, and that we should be doing these things but no one ever does.

I’ve been told that someone in leadership described me as being too “black and white” in this area, but I consider myself both pragmatic and flexible to alternative ideas.

Because I’m still new to this role, I wonder if I’m being naive or idealistic around how we approach our feature development, or if this is just how most companies operate.
Android and postmarketos are both linux in the same way as whales and rabbits are both mammals. It's true, but not usually the useful way to compare them.
Well the leg is supposed to be the check on the executive. Esp because the president names the judges the checks can be removed through that sequence.
So, there have been a pile of open source Flash emulation efforts - gnash, Shumway ...

They all seem to get half way then flounder.

What's up with that?
U.S. Hit by Major DDoS Attack
I absolutely respect that, and honestly I'm not sure how much energy needs to be spent on these terms. I agree that it would be an overall negative if we allowed something that might be insignificant like these systemic terms to distract from things like legal reform.

Personally, I would settle on the side of updating the terms and not being too worried about it or expending further thought, because the use of these specific master/slave terms isn't something I'm attached to. It's a habit I don't mind updating.

I also think, tentatively, that it's not really for me to decide how big a deal this is. I just don't have the experience to understand how big an impact these terms might have. It seems plausible that distractors would get thrown around at a time like this to expend energy without attacking any real structures which would make life more uncomfortable, and I appreciate your bringing it up because I might not have thought about it in those terms.

For myself, I'm happy for these terms to get updated, and I intend to do what I can to focus on continuing to educate myself and try to learn how I can be more effective in deconstructing things that cause harm to people, and to trying to learn more about what it means to be anti-racist.

In terms of values, that's how I think I want to approach something like this, and I respect that other people have a different approach-- I don't mind, as long as the approach people take isn't rooted in things that will perpetuate violence and harm toward people.
The actual revolution came with Windows Game SDK (later known as DirectX) which allowed Windows to finally surpass MS-DOS as a gaming platform.
Chicago95 is nice, but I'd like to see a reimplementation of the old GTK2 themes, now that GTK3 seems to have gotten a stable theming interface. It could even be merged upstream, or at least be contributed to the major distro repositories.
> In practice it is about phrasing "expert said that, so it must be true" is a fallacy, reaching a consensus via a relevant authority is not.

Perhaps you could explain the difference?
Somehow reminds me of the "Typeset in the future" serie of movie analyses from the perspective of typography used.

Highly enjoyable (if you like typography and sci-fi movies):
https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/06/19/bladerunner/