skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, but it was really surprising to see such an account of events. Just in case it's not obvious, and I realize that not everybody had a chance to be confronted by a giant corporation legal department in their lives, this was a rather traumatic experience and the original comment looked like revisionist history to me.

But yes, sure, I should have just let it pass instead of getting riled by someone being wrong on the Internet...
tl;dr

Step 1: Define “After Hours”

Step 2: Have Mental Clarity

Step 3: Communicate with Your Colleagues

Step 4: Get Work Done at Work

And I will add my own personal experience:

Step 5: Realize you (probably) work a B.S. job[1].

I realized I was dedicating my precious life to the pursuit of profit for people at the very top to the detriment of my own well being. If my job disappeared tomorrow, would society be negatively impacted in any meaningful way? No, in fact it might even improve. Realizing this, I just stopped caring about expectations to sacrifice any more time than necessary to my job.

[1] https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/06/bullshit-jobs-david-graeb...
What part of my response was cynical?
On one hand yes, on the other hand if you want your patch to be included it's your job to make it reviewable and to make it pass all the various checks.

After all, we all lived long enough without their software, we can live without it a bit longer.

Yes it's a gift, but it's also code that has to be maintained and updated along with the kernel, so it's not really 100% a gift. If you then consider that they might keep on selling a proprietary version of the code (which - don't get me wrong - is 100% legit and fair) they might also get basically free labour: they could rebase onto the latest public gpl version, they might get notes of various issues and bugs...

Quite literally, it's free labour.
Australia, too. I was surprised at how many cafes put up "no Amex" signs when I was there late last year.
The main question to ask her is why is YTS throwing their users under the bus? Were the operators of YTS threatened with lawsuits? Or is YTS being run as a honeytrap to lure unsuspecting users with the intention of eventually receiving copyright settlement money kickbacks?

Seems like the strategy here is to go after low hanging fruit (people who create user accounts and people who don't use a vpn) using scare tactics with no intention of actually prosecuting.
The big second-hand bookseller in my town has a huge collection and several locations in multiple metro areas. Yet they have no way to search for a specific title!

I was shocked. If you have no idea of your current inventory and sales history, how do you know how much to pay for people's books? Their books are about $0.50 a title -- I would gladly pay that price for a book I would otherwise get from the library if I knew it was available. They would be able to do a serious business selling required titles to local college students. And they could have a robust online presence through 3rd party sellers like Amazon and Ebay.

Yes, some beloved used bookstores are falling victim to "market forces". But if those same market forces inject some modernity into these businesses that badly need it, I'd be very grateful.
How to get feedback from early product adopters
Cachy: Out of tree Linux scheduler improving CPU cache usage
That depends on the country then - in my country, you need to install a secondary meter instead.
To be fair: MGA claims the design was done before Mucciolo styled herself that way:

https://mobile.twitter.com/MGAEnt/status/1270904973727952897...

And the designer of the doll swearing herself that:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbgLX6wXYAEonlk?format=jpg&name=...

I see the similarity, but I can also belief that it is coincidence. Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn made the twin rope hairstyle 2016 popular and also that colorful neon turquoise.
I guess that's not you that have to do the review.
I thought that cop was charged with murder? I must have got confused, thanks for updating me.
I mean, the above said valid, not legal. I've seen the word valid used more often to mean ethical than legal, so I think it's still accurate.
Extreme genetic outliers still need 5, maybe 4 hours of sleep to function.

Going all the way down to 2 hours of sleep is doable for short bursts, but it will catch up with even the genetic outliers before long.

Many of these people are just exaggerating for effect. If you have poor time management, poor accounting for where you spend your time, and an erratic sleep/wake schedule, it's easy to get confused about actual sleep durations. Some people also use stimulants excessively during the week and then crash on weekends, but they'll only tell you about the nights where they barely slept.

Some people learn to normalize sleep deprivation and coast on a diet of frequent naps. If you take 30-90 minute naps a couple times a day you can coast for a long time on 2-3 hours in bed at night, but you're still sleep deprived. Those weird polyphasic sleep schedules that claim to reduce your need for sleep are simply normalizing sleep deprivation and masking it with naps throughout the day.

Finally, there's a common phenomenon where people misperceive some of their sleep time as being awake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_state_misperception This is a common explanation when people claim they didn't sleep at all on a certain night. It's not uncommon for people to claim extreme insomnia, but then sleep 6+ hours as soon as their sleep is objectively monitored.

In short: You can't trust self-reported sleep times. Especially not when someone feels they have something to gain by claiming minimal sleep.
Adobe’s “End of Life” Killswitch for Flash Player
"US tax dollars paying to store petabytes of porn, news at eleven"
From the abstract:

>selective utilization of different light wavelengths
I've dislocated my shoulder four times this year. The last three I've asked them to stop knocking me out w/ketamine for the reasons you describe, and just put it back while I scream; which I find quite preferable.

As a youth I did all the drugs and hallucinogens there are and most of them are _nothing_ compared to an anesthetic dose of ketamine. It's the most disassociate experience I've ever had. It feels like you're grasping at your consciousness but can't quite get hold. The hallucinations are incomprehensible. I was told my screaming was heard in the waiting room.
JavaScript Generators, Meet XPath
You seem to be doing real contortions to try to make this fit your argument, but it doesn't.

Here's another easy disproof: YouTube Premium costs £11.99 on the YouTube website, and £15.99 IAP on the iOS app store right now.

The section you quote is entirely related to communication within the app. It is Apple saying that there is no option to either directly or indirectly push users towards your own payment methods with text or calls to action in your app.

Your argument seems to be that Apple would consider Spotify pricing at $12.99 within the app as somehow "indirectly" pushing users towards other payment options elsewhere when they have $9.99 on their website. Is that right?

Don't you think that offering no means to subscribe in-app -- which means all new users have to seek out the subscription option on Spotify's website -- is a more aggressive way of pushing users out of the app than offering a $12.99 subscription in-app and a $9.99 option on the website?

But in any case: Spotify for years did charge $12.99 in its app and $9.99 on the web. There are multiple[1] instances[2] of[3] users[4] being confused by this and complaining on Spotify's community support pages.

Spotify's anti-trust website[5] -- where they note anything and everything Apple has done to put what they feel to be unfair pressure on them regarding pricing and IAP options -- has this to say about the situation:

> So, we give IAP a try. That means we are now charged Apple's 30% tax and sadly have to increase our price for our fans

> Our users will finally be able to buy a Premium subscription directly through our iOS app. But it also means we have to raise our prices to €12.99 a month. And you guys were rightly not very happy about this

They go on to say:

> We opt out of Apple's payment system and the artificially uncompetitive price we had to charge for using it

> Because we turn off IAP, it means you can no longer upgrade to Premium through the App Store

So to be clear: there was no policy change in 2016 when Spotify disabled IAPs. They did it under their own steam.

YouTube and others persist with charging more for IAPs. Epic did it right up until they implemented their own IAP system and got booted off.

There are many, many good reasons to dislike Apple regarding the app store. You are doing gymnastics to invent a totally new one.

If you want to keep discussing this and don't want to look silly, my suggestion is that you offer direct corroboration of your claim. Try looking for a news article about a developer being told they cannot charge more on iOS than they do on their website, or an announcement of a policy change from Apple.

[1] https://community.spotify.com/t5/Accounts/12-99-iphone-charg...

[2] https://community.spotify.com/t5/Accounts/Charged-12-99-not-...

[3] https://community.spotify.com/t5/Accounts/Why-am-I-charged-1...

[4] https://community.spotify.com/t5/Accounts/Been-Paying-12-99-...

[5] https://www.timetoplayfair.com/timeline/
> Wait, it's all a DAG?

>> Always has been.
Just wait until you hear about every other country on earth...
Do you realize that I said "if apple gets hit with an antitrust ruling"? I'm not certain of the outcome; I see room for argument on both sides of this. You've apparently picked this 50% hill to die on. I wish that you were taking a curious approach to this conversation, because we might both learn something. Instead, I regret responding to you in the first place.

I recognize your username and I recall seeing good and thoughtful comments from you. I hope to meet you again in a more productive conversation.
I think this is intentional. The Pi Zero is mostly a marketing device. It's advertised at $5 but unless you happen to have a physical store selling them near you, it's not really $5 because the shipping is never free and you can only ever by one. So it's more like $15.

Still not a crazy price, of course, I just dislike the misleading advertising.
In Signal ALL conversations are private.

> I would probably not talk to you at all if you where taperecording all conversations

You hit the nail on the head with this one. To me deletion is a nice compromise and why the coffee shop analogy isn't a good comparator. Similarly we don't record video calls (and Moxie himself doesn't like this). So why should every text be recorded and parties do not have control over that data? I do feel that each person in the conversation has a right to control that data (if anything the sender more so) and when policy fails it should fail in the direction that has more privacy (which is the message not existing within Signal's log^). But currently people aren't given this choice and there is no consideration of failure modes.

^ Careful wording because if I don't make this added comment people think I'm unaware that screenshots exist.
I agree regarding templates, the ones I’ve used all were pretty low quality. Something like this may be more appropriate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24030581
Great question, we have done many many AB-tests, it's often the case that the control group are manually curated recommendations. In general, the more SKU:s, the better result our method yields, since they have to deal with sparse datasets & cold start problems if they use classic collaborative filtering based methods. And naturally, if you have more products it becomes a huge pain to do them all manually, especially if you have a reasonable product turnover.
I can't say that the law makes their business untenable because the law hasn't been tested yet.

If and when the law shows that these new taxi services can't operate as efficiently before for drivers and consumers then I'll put the blame on the government, not the businesses throwing a tantrum over being regulated.

I really don't have sympathy for these organizations that have made antagonism a core value.
Why not? I’d definitely be more ok with a soft core scene than some brutal violence. Sex is normal/good part of life. One should educate kids about sex (and when it is appropriate) rather than pretend it literally doesn’t exist.
You can‘t adjust the camera position quickly during a video call, can you?
> During normal operation it's fine for it to run backwards. That's what net metering quantifies.

Hm. Different countries, different regulations I guess. In my country you have to install a second meter instead.
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I've found that it's hard to find specific books you know you want, unless they were really popular, but it's easy to find something interesting you've never heard of before.
The Original Book Barn in Connecticut (I think they’ve since opened many “satellite” locations) is one of my favorite places in the world. Carefully curated for quality but just messy enough to make it fun to hunt around for treasure.
Goes back years. Simplest form is a squiggly pipe behind a pane of glass. Water runs slowly through the pipe and heats up.
The word has several meanings, and I took it to mean "frighteningly large" rather than any of the more negative ones. Perhaps not the best choice, but not overtly rude.
It's useless. Some countries has strict data cap. The first 1 GB may be cheap and bandwidth is good, but you can't keep using it with the advertised bandwidth even for 1 hour. The data cap can be reached less than 30 minutes and you are stuck with low bandwidth for a month.

I really don't like the business model of mobile network. They shall be banned to advertise a few hundred of Mbps. What's good at 100+ Mbps when transfer mere 9 GB within 3 days window results bandwidth restriction of 1 Mbps. It's a fraud.
The Largest Explosive Disaster Until Hiroshima Occurred on the East Coast
AFAIK you can only do this if you disable the local loopback check that prevents windows auth from passing credentials to local host webservers.
It's the memory. Fresh launch of the empty IDE takes 1G.
Mystery of Lost Colony of Roanoke 'over': Settlers went to live with local tribe
Think rooftop solar water heaters.
Was this with a newer versions of Lazarus? It has become far more stable now.
The Median S&P Stock Has Never Been More Expensive
Recovering a gmail account is pretty impossible, at least that story had a happy ending.
Solar panels are starting to die, leaving behind toxic trash
This has to be the most ignorant comment ever posted on HN. In a typical year how many aircraft crash into structures? Zero. There are more than fifteen thousand car crashes in the USA every day.
Should have spent that additional $500 then, eh? :P
If it makes you feel any better, we don't treat citizens very well on the whole either.

I haven't had particularly bad experiences reentering the country, but they've been worse than the experiences I had entering other countries.
There are myriad ways to increase the font size of a simple site like HN (browser settings, OS level, etc). Is this really a problem?

If one was required to achieve 100% consensus on default font size, nobody would ever get anything done.
I'm going to be a little hypocritical here since I hate when I ask for help on the internet and people tell me instead to not want to do that thing... but:

Surely a much easier thing to do would be to simply stop being offended by the human body? Just watch the movies anyway. Your kids won't explode if they see a boob.

This reminds me of when I went thru all different low calorie sweeteners to put in coffee until I realized this is a problem I created myself and coffee is actually better if I just get used to having it plain.
Flat Earth “Science” – Wrong, but Not Stupid [video]
Thank you so much for writing this! This will help me, I can tell.
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There’s https://bookshop.org for injecting modernity into supporting independent bookstores. It doesn’t help specifically for used book stores however.
It's always a pleasure to read one's clear and well written thoughts. Thank you!
Haha, that's awesome! So cool that you still remember us from the days of knocking on doors around Stockholm:)
Each state is its own sovereign, state officials in one state is not recognized as such in another state (it doesn't mean they can't work together, they can be deputized or whatever the state laws say about another state officials, it just means by default, they can't be involved in another state's affairs and if they do, they'd be breaking the laws themselves even with good intentions).

Only the federal government can be involved in the interstate affairs but the constitution itself does not allow the federal government to be involved in police matters, only the states.

In addition, if someone breaks the law and cross the state line, the federal agencies can only be involved if the crime was being committed at the federal level. If no federal law exists, then there's nothing they can do.

Status of limitations is different in each state, it's not federal level. So, in some state, it can be from when the crime was committed. You can get the details here: https://www.lawinfo.com/resources/criminal-defense/criminal-...
Show HN: Boook.link – Share a book with links to all stores
> other countries don't seem to have this problem

It would help to be more specific about which other countries and when. There are a lot of reasons why things happen in one place and not another.
But if you want to interact with local file-system (like open dialog) it start to get complicated.
Wow I didn't realize it was that little waste. I also knew it was small, but that is minuscule all things considered.
This shouldn’t be alarming. This is consistent with the behavior we’ve been seeing all year. This is status quo.
Ask HN: When did you decide to go full time on your business?
I've been running a business for a few months now and although I haven't made money from it, I do see a lot of potential. Definitely enough to pay the bills.

I can't spend much time on it because I already have a demanding job, so I'm thinking if it would be wise to just go all in, give myself 6 months (which I have rent money for), and see if I can make anything of it.

My family is telling me to wait until I make a decent amount of money from it first, but that'll never happen if I don't spend time on it -- classic deadlock situation.

The scary part is the insurance, what if I get hit with an emergency, what if I don't make any money from this at all, etc.

So, those of you who decided to go full time on your business, how did you decide what the right time was?
It's most efficient to put the panels in a centralized location with high amounts of sunlight on mounts that track the sun. You get significantly higher yield because of the tracking and the location, and maintenance is cheaper because it's centralized.

The fact that you see far more home installations than farms means farms aren't economically viable, neither is home PV without subsidies, but people buy into the "empowerment" fantasy.
The question you responded to was:

> Most of religions forbid people to be naked / see other people naked? Please, list some of them, as I'm having a hard time finding which ones do this.

You decided to respond with a point about pornography. Either you conflated nudity and pornography, or you responded with something unrelated to the question. I assumed the former as that seemed to me to be the more charitable explanation, but if the latter was the case instead, I apologise for the incorrect assumption. Instead, let me ask you: why did you feel it relevant to bring up pornography in response to that question?
This is very interesting!

A few related questions come to mind:

1) What happens when two or more semi-transparent solar panels are stacked one behind the other? Is output power then comparable to the highest efficiency solar panel, do you get more, do you get less, and if so, how much less?

2) Polarization of light and solar panels -- what happens if light is polarized by a filter before going to a solar panel? And then, what happens (in terms of overall energy production) when that polarization filter is turned to an angle? And then the same question, applied to both regular solar panels, and these semi-transparent solar panels.

3) While I'm on the topic, has any researcher out there found a way to get even so much as a single millivolt/milliwatt (microvolt/microwatt?) from solar power coupled with a fully transparent surface, like let's say, glass, or some other crystal? I seem to recall some researcher somewhere that showed that very small charge regions occur at boundaries when sunlight hits plain transparent water -- but I do not recall the details...
You are welcome! Please do give it a shot.

I am not associated with the Lazarus project at all but I did develop in Delphi over 22 years ago and I still do some development using Lazarus. I hope to do some tutorial videos on this to help those new to the environment.
Sim Argument Confidence
Is it possible that your NY social network at the time was part of a fairly insular clique?

That might explain why your sample is (potentially) not representative of the overall city or state.
The next generation tracker will have to be something like what doctors do with "assisted suicide" instead of "euthanasia":
Different independent entities, each performing an action that is legal, that in the end lets the user get the link.
I guess that fort is build with the threat of the Al Quaeda/ISIS groups in mind, which are mostly equipped with firearms and a few RPGs and such but nothing too advanced. It's not intended to take on a full siege by a regular army.
It failed because building an efficient solar panel is already hard enough without thousands of cars running over them. Just build a solar-roof instead.
And how would you prove intent? It might be easy to prove if it's an usb drive with only a zip bomb. But what if it's on a 8TB external hard drive, with a bunch of random stuff (research papers, movies, podcasts, etc), placed inside a folder called "DoS examples" with a bunch of other malformed files as well?
> If we put a (nearly) continuous strip in every highway median

Is there a shortage of land for solar?
> "Incel" was a term of self-identification chosen by a subculture of people and refers to a specific set of beliefs they subscribe to.

And [censored] was originally a unit of measurement, while a variant of [censored] is commonly used between members of the african-american community to self-identify/refer to each other.

Regardless, we are talking about the use of incel to refer to someone who does not identify as part of said community.

> One of those slurs is based on the color of one's skin. Another one is based on one's sexual orientation.

And the other is based on whether they are virgins or not.
Pretty sure this is called whataboutism.

Just because some other places are worse

A) Doesn't mean some are better in this regard.

B) Doesn't mean we shouldn't try to make it better here.
Pretty much everything was resellable in Europe at least. Used computer games especially were a fairly big thing.
Most new books are not that expensive compared to how much time people put into reading them and the value they derive, and libraries provide a free alternative. I think the middle is just getting squeezed.
I seem to remember a lot of Windows programs back in the day were webviews (backed by IE of course) and it was the most horrible unprofessional looking thing, especially when an Alert would pop up which revealed it was just an IE page.

Webviews are okay on mobile though.
It isn’t a fully reliable test though. There are both false positives and false negatives.
What about D2C?
Why Finland has the best education system in the world
I do worry somewhat about devastating desert ecosystems by paving over them with PV panels, but we're so far from that being a problem right now.