skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a fair point about the eBay employees[1]. I think that the "gang stalking" theory becomes delusional when the supposed target is someone who isn't a threat to a multi-billion dollar company (or government), and when the supposed target claims that their harassers are using mind control and other pseudo-scientific means.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/15/21291666/ebay-employees-a...
Extending this to regions seems like it could be a useful next step here.

I’m from the U.K. and my partner is Australian. While almost all names I’ve encountered in Australia are known names in the U.K., some would be very out-there for a U.K. name. I’m sure the same is true the other way around.

Not to mention the fact that this seems to be using an American English set of names and there are some very different naming conventions in the U.S. My last name is a first name in the U.S., and popular first names there are again very out-there for the U.K. or Australia.

I’m sure the same must be true for Spanish or French speaking countries.
While more competition is good, I'm ultimately not very excited about content hosting, discovery, and distribution being owned by any one entity or handful of entities.

In the long run, humanity has to find some robust, egalitarian, decentralized models of communication or we're all going to be beholden to their owners who are going to have ever more control over what we say, think, and do.
Wasn't that more of a Twitch alternative than YT?
Mocks allow you test a certain method was called, with certain parameters, and in certain order.

That's extreme test implementation coupling.

Most don't use those features, but in my experience mocks indicate implementation coupling.
Astonishingly old Antarctic space rock could explain life's weird asymmetry
Next introduce some metrics that measure how "well" you are doing. Then make those your primary goal.
They did a deal with Facebook which is planning to launch a Twitch competitor.
Low dose
Hmm, what is "their own tracking services"? iAd is dead since long, the only ads they serve are Apple Search Ads right? Is there any evidence/suggestion that they are using usage data from outside the App Store to target ASA? The promo-page doesn't seem to indicate that at least [1].

I mean, still in iOS 14, Google can use your data from e.g Google Maps / Chrome to target ads in the Youtube app on the same device without requiring any accounts by using identifierForVendor [0]. AFAIK this wouldn't require them to show the scary pop-up either, since they are only sharing the info with themselves?

But yeah, even without "tracking" the users, the ASA is of course in a privileged position, both in its prominent position in the (only) App Store, and by the possibility to charge per e.g app install. Doing reliable app install tracking without IDFA is next to impossible. Taking it further by restarting iAd now would be highly problematic imho.

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uidevice/162...
[1]: https://searchads.apple.com/privacy/
For zip files in particular, you can just right click and 'Extract all' in modern versions of Windows. I believe you can also double-click to open them like folders in Explorer.

7-Zip covers the majority of other formats you're likely to encounter.
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Isn't the idea with unit testing forgotten here? The point is to validate the blocks you build and use to build the program. In order to make sure you've done each block right you test them, manually or automated... Automated testing just is generally soooo much easier. If you work like that, and do not add test after y,ou've written large chunks of code you should have constructed your program so that there's no overhead in the test. Advanced test which does lots of setup and advanced calculations generally ain't the test fault, but the code itself that requires that complexity to be tested.

Wanna underline here that system tests are slow, unit tests are fast.

This said, i agre that you should throw away tests in a similar fashion as you do code. When it does not make sense don't be afraid to throw it, but have enough left to define the function of the code, in a documenting way. Let the code /tests speak! :D
I'm really not sure about the English/French intersection. There's quite a few names that I've definitely never heard in French and would be super awkward to pronounce. Names like Gaylord, Montgomery, Barbara. It seems like the source for French names wasn't really that reputable.
> So what? Let them be destroyed.

I say the same thing about software jobs, as a software developer myself. Developers should be licensed professionals like any other professional industry. Developers not competent enough to meet a minimal baseline required by licensing should have their jobs destroyed.

I would rather some jobs be destroyed than gigantic software companies writing incompetent privacy violating software. I detest DRM, but at least DRM is honest about what it is.
Interestingly, violent crime rates in Appalachia have been increasing over the last 30 years while urban violent crime rates have been declining over the same period (minus the upward trend of the last 3-4 years).

But Appalachia bucks a lot of statistical trends, so make of that what you will.
Yeah, reading about events on cosmological scale (galaxy, blackhole formation, etc.) usually ends up in existential dread feeling for me.
The problem wasn't the Maginot Line, it was the assumption that the modern mobile forces that the French understood were coming, wouldn't be able to pass through the Ardennes. It's not that the French didn't foresee bypassing the line, it's that they mistakenly though it couldn't be bypassed. This wasn't unreasonable, either: The German forces slipped through along a single road unopposed. Even a token French force could have blocked them long enough to bottle them up and destroy them there. What the French were blind to was the gamble the Germans were willing to take.

Where German forces tried to pierce the Maginot Line, they were crushed. It worked exactly as designed. As usual, the lesson that History tends to recall is incorrect.
More like corporate approved alternatives list.
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This is an extremely linear way of looking at public corruption.

It's all well and good to say that politicians should act morally, but if you don't do what you're told, you won't get the money, and you won't keep the job. You'll be replaced by somebody who does what they're told. We're filtering for trash.

It's weird that you're even combining this with a defense of cash payments to politicians from special interests. You characterize bad governance strictly as a moral failure, but defend bribes as an mostly irrelevant rhetorical addition to the persuasive presentation of one's position.
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I always liked you guys, glad you're still doing well.
Strangely, nobody says Microsoft has an xBox monopoly either. Likewise, no complaints about the PS4/5 monopoly or Nintendo Monopoly.
Pickles. Everything was pickled because it didn't keep otherwise. The invention of the refrigerator significantly reduced the incidents of stomach cancer.
Rule 506(b) doesn't prevent it entirely, and keep in mind that the vast majority of companies aren't venture backed startups, and I believe would be covered under Rule 504.

You absolutely don't need to do disclosure like a public company if you have non-accredited investors.
Thanks for pointing that out. My apologies for missing Tomonaga. Was going on my anecdotal memory, should have researched.
It's likely much slower, but it should be able to run just fine single threaded as well.
> Life, which you look for, you will never find. For when the gods created man, they let death be his share, and life withheld in their own hands.

Epic of Gilgamesh, first human history
This policy will make SFHs in Portland an extremely good investment in the long term as you can now substantially increase the amount of rentable units on the same amount of land.

If you have the means buy a cheap SFH lot in Portland while you can.

If we really actually want to make housing not an investment then we need to empower our government to fund the development of publicly owned housing for everyone.
> the family thinks it’s Spanish.

They think it is Spanish, because it is Spanish.

Hector (/ˈhɛktər/) is an English, French, Scottish, and Spanish given name. The name is derived from the Greek name of Hektor.
So what do you make of jazz, hip hop or punk rock? Those are full of social criticism, and also seem to reinforce the idea of free expression under capitalism. And there are lots of visual artists and dancers and writers too. I'm looking at the VOA music stream [0] and it seems to be full of free speech of all kinds.

It might be fair to say that Jackson Pollock is too apolitical {for our times,to be taken seriously,for you}, but I personally don't see the conspiracy you're laying out here.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkGTvcz3OuuoOGWctHo5veA
because they don't get the margin they're currently getting :)
Can someone explain to me how it's a problem?

It's all just data today, isn't it? You can erase the from long time exposures than. Or does the brightness cause lens flares and stuff?

If it was about hobby astrophotography I'd see it right away :)
That's what gets me. It's nothing forever? It was nothing forever once but one day "I" woke up in the universe.

Leads me to another point. What are the odds of waking up? I think it's with 100% certainty that you become conscious.

Your memories are 100% physical though so that definitely evaporates. Perhaps if you find consciousness again it's as if you awoke from a dream you cannot remember, a new blank slate. You flash forward to the next time you find consciousness.
I see the Haskell community offensive on OCaml is still going strong.

Having worked with both, I really like using OCaml but avoid Haskell like the plague. Being lazy by default makes it very difficult to reason about Haskell performance really fast.

Admittedly another benefit of using OCaml is that you don't have to deal with the Haskell community and its obsession with looking smart. From experience, OCaml users tend to be a lot more oriented towards practical matters like, you know, building softwares rather than lenses library.
Just to reinforce the point: Those are all part of the INDO-European language group. Emphasis on the fact that European is only half that name, and you're enumerating languages in the other half.
I worked on a project with similar motivations; in my case, I had a list of criteria in mind, one of which was the number of syllables in a name. I couldn't find a good source for name syllabification, so built an n-gram language model trained on the CMUdict corpus.

https://github.com/cloudkj/ngram-syllables
This is cool, but needs to remember the prior selection inputs - it's a pain to set it back to how it was just to swap genders for example.
They are taught - they just don't pay attention or remember the "boring stuff we will never use" and then after going with the flow for decades with no forward thinking look for somebody to blame for their own failures.

Seriously, all of those who goofed off in home ec and math complaining years later that they don't know how to cook or balance a checkbook.

The immediate resources were often subpar I will admit but don't say you weren't taught.
This is pretty fun! I appreciate that accessibility was addressed as well (although I'm unqualified to assess how well it works in practice).
You seem to be lacking basics, just get yourself a proper book and follow it
Any founder who is looking to take funding from anyone should have a startup attorney to ask about this.
Ingress is still a bit of a mess, IMO. The reliance on annotations to ensure functionality with a specific ingress controller feels strange in the context of other k8s API objects. I understand why Ingress works this way, but it doesn't live up to the portability expectation. I know there is a "v2" coming for Services, and I'm hopeful that Ingress continues to get love. Networking in k8s is a big problem to solve :)
I hope one day we'll have post offices of the internet. Government-run, not for profit but at a balanced budget, with services provided at cost, and subject only to the communications laws of the countries in which they operate.
The "peasants" don't have to buy anything, dude. I know friends with all their money in bonds, metals, and Vanguard. No one's making you go by TSLA 4500 calls expiring this Friday.
We did that with transactions. Every test gets their own view of the database, and rolls its changes back after they're done. They take much longer than unit tests but it's worth it in the end as writing unit tests are easy, there is no need to create mocks, and you also test if your DB queries work too this way.
I'm sympathetic to this way of thinking but I'm not convinced this is a real instance of web bloat. I didn't measure files or anything, but I have a pretty terrible internet connection and didn't experience any discernible latency.

Don't give up the good fight but maybe spare this poor guy and point your righteous indignation at the truly deserving.
My LLC in Oregon is only 100/yr. It's kind of ridiculous how much some other states charge.
Could you not just transfer income to a LLC in your home country as company-to-company sales? And then retain the 0% tax in Estonia, while paying regular income tax in your home country.
> If it's data, it can be freely copied and processed. There's little anyone can do in order to stop it even if it's not supposed to be happening.

Property laws exist to stop the strong from just taking what they want from the weak. Effectively, someone can point to something and say "this is mine, you cannot have it", and either society backs them up on this or it does not. The only thing preventing someone from stealing your car, house, money, etc are laws.

The same is true of digital goods. Someone can point at them and say "this is mine" and the either society backs them up or it doesn't. You can argue that you're not depriving the creator of anything by taking a copy of a digital good, but you are; you're taking away from their ability to support themselves.
IRS puts cryptocurrency front and center of 2020 tax return
There's lots of things I can't check. I delegate.

I would assume the "working out the international politics" part includes "a multinational effort among nuclear-armed countries that spot-checks the kill vehicles can actually do the thing claimed to do."
The afterburners were only used for taxiing and going supersonic. The Olympus engines actually generated so much thrust at idle that only the outboard pair were used for taxiing, and still apparently it was tricky to control.

I have seen various proposals for having some form of external taxi for aircraft, but nothing close to being adopted which I have put down to jet fuel still being cheap and the capital & operational costs being quite high for a lot of tractors with qualified drivers.
React vs. Svelte: The War Between Virtual and Real DOM
Netflix cancels 'Altered Carbon' after just two seasons
Yeah we are basically swimming in “unrestrained capitalism is the only option forever” propaganda here.
Right, this is the sort of regulation that people are now complaining about in the securities market because a long time has passed since it was originally enacted.
> binary QR decoding for ZBar

I just saw a video the other day about storing video games in QR codes where the poster submitted a patch for ZBar. Was that you?
Yes, it's a tragedy that the iPhone SE and 6S became unsupported after squints 6 years and counting.
OxyContin was a massive street drug as it is and was literally sold on the street in massive quantities. The additional legal channel for the identical substance from the same manufacturer is both a legal and illegal at the same time. Which is why Bastiat‘s quote is so interesting in this context.
I prefer explicitly.

Facebook has a pretty good idea where I am by looking at the data associated with my connection. I know they have that, but if I don't want them to use that for advertising, they shouldn't.
You’re right: I don’t understand how people can have proper tests without TDD. I’ve yet to see a project with meaningful tests without TDD
Yes, if you give people infinite control over everything visible from their houses, they can build a radio telescope and control half the universe. On the other hand, your proposal is too radical, because I feel like I have a legitimate interest in not getting boxed in by several 100-foot walls spraypainted with obscenities and built one inch away from my property line, lit with daylight-strength spotlights at all hours of the night like that one Mormon temple. There has to be a reasonable middle ground between no control and infinite control.
Issue is with controllers is that you can't manually defrost anymore.

They rely on boards like you said, or thermistors that only close when cold to turn on the defrost coil.

Look up if your fridge has an actual manual defrost method(rather than your 'manual' defrost). Some of them are rather absurd. But if you're lucky enough to have one you can simply force extra defrosts when it's real hot/fridge being opened often instead of having to pull the shroud and manually do it.

First Test Method:

Turn the thermostat off for 15 seconds.
Turn the thermostat on for 5 seconds.
Turn the thermostat off for 15 seconds.
Turn the thermostat on for 5 seconds.
Turn the thermostat off for 15 seconds.
Turn the thermostat on for 5 seconds.
Turn the thermostat off.*
OP's running a C Corp. Organically grown startups should start as a sole proprietorship or an LLC.
Having worked on Enterprise software, the guys that are paying for X feature to be added usually have no UX sense themselves and, unless we are explicitly given the freedom to put it in as we see fit, we're left to the customer to tell us where it goes.

Customer: I want this new button right there.

Developer: This menu is already quite cluttered with other features we've put here. Could we not add it to a new menu?

Customer: No, I spend like 95% of my day in this menu, so I want it right here.

Developer: This might be confusing to some of our other customers, though.

Customer: Yeah well they're not paying for it. Do you want my money or not?
It is worth noting that these affordable cities in Japan are wildly sprawling to an extent that I think would be anathema to environmentalists in NA.
I Paint what I See (1933)
Unit tests, integration tests were never fully defined that well. They change based on who you talk to. Especially integration tests.

Better definition is the small, medium and large tests from Google's testing blog.
> Most of my early excitement for WASM circled around “Hey, I can finally use a decent language on the web”

This has been true for years, various languages can compile down to JavaScript. Kotlin and Dart, for instance.

Also, doesn't WASM lack a garbage collector? I imagine porting a language to WASM is still quite a task, and presumably a GC written in WASM is going to be far inferior to one provided by the browser, as with JavaScript. (Corrections welcome if I'm wrong about that.) That's not to dismiss the potential for performance gains in situations well suited to WASM.

(I see the_duke already mentioned the GC situation.)
Well, YouTube also competes with Twitch, but yes. Still doesn't bode well for a YouTube competitor though.
JSON Parser 100% from Scratch in Haskell
It is a continuing source of wonder how many scientists seem unable to apply scientific method/research to computing. However, yes, things like debugging, measurement, and hardware features should be taught and rarely are apart from courses on performance engineering which seem to pass most by.
Asia Is Where to Be Stuck Until Next Year?
the latter would only happen if dubious value propositions by poor/middle class people became too commonplace after they started complaining about losing their money and management in private securities offerings. the company will then double down on covering their ass by looking into who is making complaints.

if they start predictably acting like non-accredited investors after jumping through those hoops, then there will be more scrutiny.

right now not enough people that are actually poor jump through those hoops. there are a lot of people liquid with $25k-$100k or can get it, that don't make $200k/year or have $1mm in assets when not excluding their home. the wealth requirements also don't account for cost of living by area. Some of them jump through the hoops to get access to things they really should have access to. The rest don't and poorer people can't because the investment minimums so that nobody's time is wasted is too high.
> One key component that makes WireGuard different than other VPN protocols such as OpenVPN, IPSEC, L2TP, and PPTP is the layer at which it functions. The traditional VPN protocols that most people are familiar with operate at the user level using TLS. In comparison, WireGuard on Linux based VPN servers operates inside the kernel’s networking stack, and there are many benefits to that.

I bet Wireguard works in user-space on everything except native Linux distros. Also, comparing to PPTP, Wireguard sends encrypted IP packets in its own format over UDP over IP and PPTP sends PPP over GRE over IP. Wireguard is not superior to the others in terms of encapsulation.

It supports single set of crypto primitives and it's advertised as a pro. Other systems are designed with resilience in mind and capable to negotiate crypto protocols considered safe by both parties.

Wireguard is pretty good, but it's not superior comparing to IKEv2 (which, by the way, leverages IPsec which works in kernel on most systems).
The only real solution is to do away with third-party cookies being on by default. There are very narrow use cases that are beneficial to the end user, but the user-hostile ones far outweigh those.

DNT is based on a flawed assumption that ad tech has good faith. In the real world, though, you don't ask for privacy, you take it.
Shock an aw: US teenager wrote huge slice of Scots Wikipedia
JEEVES isn't the reason people pretend the BIND zone file format is a part of the DNS protocol.
If this was twitter, this would be where I reply with the gif of Donald Glover saying "good".

Business models come and go. This one isn't as bad as slavery or child labour, but but I'd happily tap-dance on its grave.
A non-problem. Linux will run on x86 hardware till the end of time.
You need to make it clear if you are being sarcastic or not here.
You can pay yourself a salary. This doesn't count as 'distributing income' and is taxed according to the laws of your residence location.

That being said, if your salary will be more than 80% of corporate expenses, that might attract unwanted attention from tax service.
Oh I would love to be able to buy a full-price PS5 to install whatever I want on, rather than the discounted-because-PS-store one we have now.
Do the satellites impact more than a single pixel at a time for a brief moment? Can't the normal image stacking and pixel masking resolve this?

Seems like a bigger threat to astronomy is clouds.
Here's the list: https://ig.ft.com/jailed-bankers/

Here's a good analysis of why more people didn't go to jail: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/how-wal...

Lack of successful prosecution doesn't mean that illegal activity didn't occur. Are you ticketed every time you drive over the speed limit? I'm not.
The top 50% are capable of actually doing TDD? I don’t see why that’s impossible, especially if they are the ones implementing it, not just pushing tickets along within it.

And I don’t really follow TDD practices myself, so this would say nothing about me.
Cool project, need support for Estonian :)
Really dude?! Your taking the "Futuristic Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk Graphical User Interface Framework" seriously?
Willscott/go-NFS: Golang NFSv3 server