skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The meritocracy is lost; do the "paid staff" have more of a say than the "unpaid volunteers"

Is it a meritocracy if only developers who can afford to work for free participates?
> Searched 15,541,670 tweets in 0.35s

Isn't there millions of tweets posted everyday? This must be a minuscule fraction of all tweets....

Anyway, great project, had a lot of funny tweets
I grew up with records and cassettes, but got rid of the few that I still owned about ten years ago. MP3's and streaming were much more convenient and everything was available in an instance. I kept the ~50 CD's as they don't take up much room.

Three years ago, I started buying records again, the first being Bitches Brew by Miles Davis. My main interest in music nowadays is in Fusion Jazz, R&B, Funk and Soul Music from the early 1970's. I also got a decent Dual turntable from the 1980's to go with the nostalgic vibe.

To me, playing a record is a totally different and more conscious experience than playing a song on Spotify. Even just the necessity to remove the previous record before playing the next one feels archaic in these days where everything is available immediately. Limited availability is similiarly humbling: not owning every record I would like to, but also not even being able to acquire every record I'd like, as some are simply not available or expensive collector's items.

Then of course there is the haptic sensation, plus all the information you can get from studying the album cover. My generation's music discovery was full of surprises, when you had a record played for you at the record store that you mainly picked for the weird cover graphics or artist's name.

But the most important reason for me to buy records is to one day allow my daughter to discover this strange music from more than half a century ago that was always playing in the house when she was still young. Good luck trying to convince a teenager to have a listen at your Spotify playlist ;)
[1,2,3].map {|n| n*n }.reject {|n| n%3==1 }

[1,2,3] |> Enum.map(&(&1*&1)) |> Enum.reject(&(rem(&1,3)==1))

Still somewhat familiar heh
Well the site is down so we can't know for sure right now. However, I think the keyword is "my". There's nothing in the title claiming a cure for depression in general. And that's an impossible feat anyway.
Yes, I gave up trying to package a small utility.
I had tons of headaches trying to get toml to do what's trivial in Json (nested arrays of objects of arrays of ... etc). 1/10 would not try again. For very simple, hear "flat" config it checks out. But then, so does yaml or even ini files. Anything requiring composite types was just a nightmare. I'd even prefer xlm before using toml again.
If you pay some of the volunteers does that not basically spit in the face of those not being paid? It would really annoy the hell out of me if I’d been making Debian better for 20 years for free while training up someone being paid to get involved.
BEHEMOTH – Big Electronic Human-Energized Machine, Only Too Heavy
Yes, that's a reasonable interpretation.

Though it seems like in practice sufficient motivation is enough to wring extra powers out of the given text. See eg copyright for movies or audio recordings.

Or the monopoly of USPS. (It's a different clause that motivates it, but that clause doesn't prescribe that a government department is called for, nor that it has to be given a monopoly.)
No wonder, they have the largest red tape on maintainer application process.

Until very recently they were expecting GPG keys signed by 2 Debian developers, and that could be only done by being developers face to face, or by attending a key signing party on DebConf. Tough luck if you're in a remote location. Not sure how it's being done after pandemic.
It's remarkable how all the woke stuff seemed to go to a different level very soon after Occupy Wall Street.
"If you don't have time to do it right, make sure you have time to do it again"

--My great-great grandfather
Yes, even having my CCTV cameras on PoE is such a pleasure. Just one cable to worry about.
Reads to me like the design of HTTP combined 5, 6, and 7 into one.
Mental health (and emotional, generally) terms are inevitably murky.

You're not describing a concrete thing. Knowing if what you feel corresponds to what others feel when they use the same words runs straight into the heart of the "other minds problem." It's a philosophical pickle.

Meanwhile, on the academic, clinical or neurological side usage of terms changes over time. They also run into the same problem. There are broad ranges of symptoms to these things, whether they are physical-ish (like mild flue) or mental-ish (like apathy).

So, I suggest embracing ambiguity. You just can't one word that describes emotional states or conditions. This is true for a lot of things. Consider "anger." Seems relatively concrete. OTOH, we use it to describe a state of adrenaline fueled rage like you would feel in a fistfight. We use it to describe a long term attitude towards someone. My friend betrayed me 5 years ago. I'm still angry. You're not necessarily feeling the same thing.

Add an "-ish" to the end of these concepts. It takes a whole conversation to understand someone's depression (or other states) with any kind of precision. One word only gets you a part of the way.
What would you do if you were not afraid?

From Dr. Spencer Johnson's book, “Who Moved My Cheese?”

Often what is holding us back from doing something is fear. The fear might be important, but asking yourself what you would do if fear was not involved has helped me a lot over the years.
This isn't the trial. The prosecution legal argument should be summarised, but the classic issues at an extradition hearing are: Is the charge political? Will the defendant receive a fair trial? Is there a chance the defendant will be executed? Those are all well established grounds for not extraditing. Any one of them should have stopped this extradition long ago.
It's pretty reliable in reality, C compilers are actually quite predictible. The only meaningful changes compilation flags do is add/remove basic blocks.

That's also mainly how malware reverse manages to "hunt" APT families, by finding meaningful little patterns in the instructions and look for code reuse in other binaries :D
Yes, concentration camps are basically informal prisons where people end up when they "disappear". The Nazi regime made sure the prisoners didn't get enough food and were worked to the bone which caused them to die them as a side effect but that is just one way to run a concentration camp. A concentration camp where no one dies is also awful.
Huawei Is Building a Search Engine
I couldn't read the blog post.

I was summarising my own experience (20 years and counting), that of people I have observed with diagnoses of depression, and my reading in the subject.
I know. but generally these are only temps and so give you no job security. Go look around at the administration and check, how they are doing it ;)
"I am not a visionary. I'm an engineer. I'm happy with the people who are wandering around looking at the stars but I am looking at the ground and I want to fix the pothole before I fall in."

- Linus Torvalds (TED Talk 2016)
Recurrent neural networks: building a custom LSTM cell
Yeah they would have named it something innocuous like AlwaysSafe.
Pay public defenders millions of dollars a year and hire enough to assign dozens to each case.

There’s solutions, just not realistic or affordable ones :(
Music is heavily dependent on controlled distribution channels which markets young people to young people. The lifestyle, gigging, being surrounded by drugs and alcohol, it’s a young persons game.

A serious painter could quietly produce work in a studio for decades until they are discovered, same is true for writers or just about art form but with music, and to a slightly lesser extent acting, if you haven’t made it by the time you are 23-25 you most definitely never will. You may become a song writer for hire but you’ll never be famous. The average consumer of music is profoundly disinterested in musicianship, song writing, virtuosity pretty much anything a musician could improve with time.

I’m utterly pessimistic about why most people listen to music. Pop music serves a function somewhere in between a utility kind of like air conditioning and a white noise to play in the nursery to keep the babies from getting anxious. It is also a vehicle to legitimize pop stars as more than just phone and makeup sales people.

I love music but I find myself bitter about it sometimes. It often feels like just something playing in the background while everyone is shopping. Or psychological filler to distract you from realizing how dull the movie you’re watching is.

Many of my closest friends are guys who play in hard rock bands and are not famous at all. We are all at the end of summer in our mid to late 30s. When they were younger there was a cockiness in them about being cool and playing music. Doing lots of acid and being wild. Now that our 30s have passed in a handful of heartbeats I don’t think any of them are keeping the dream alive of being famous as musicians. If anything, they are better than ever before as song writers, musicians, they are still very cool and quick but matured and better humans basically, still very attractive as men but their value as would-be celebrities is basically negative value now. They are still super cool to me and dear as anything in the world as my friends but to people 20 years younger than us, they are now perceived as culture vultures. Becoming old guys at the bar. They are definitely not there yet but it’s wild to see how many of the new ones hanging around acting like they own the world instantly perceive us as dated. Counting us out for no reason other than we are now old, at 36-38. The local scene operates this way, I imagine the music business is no different.

I truly believe most of the loved, classic albums which are almost all universally made by people in their early 20s were made by artists who became even more interesting as people when they turned 30, 40, or older. But they almost all lose that ghost in them which made them do something cool in the first place as they get older and become “too old” for the game. I think it’s heartbreaking to be so easily casted out and replaced. I think that kills the inspiration to make great music. Music is made for people, but if the people no longer want you because you’re old, are you really going to be excited to make music for them?
Might be confusing to debuggers if the address-space range of a single function is discontiguous. Does the cold portion get an independent symbol with derived name, like, e.g., "Blocks?"
Another GIS-er here. Your comment made me think about the modifiable areal unit problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modifiable_areal_unit_problem

The coastline paradox and MAU effectively seem to be of the same class, i.e., change the rules for your measurement and you get different results. This hadn't occurred to me before. I wonder if there's other similar?
Ask HN: What are the SecOps-related tasks that you wish to automate?
Hi!

We're working on early version of SecOps automation software (think Zapier for security) and we're looking for good use cases that many people struggle with and hopefully we can help with.

Also, feel free to ping me at michal@patternsdynamics.com! I'll be happy to have some casual chat with you about your work.

Thanks!
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"aut inveniam viam aut faciam"

"I will find a way or make one"

Reputedly said by Hannibal when proposing taking his army (and elephants) across the alps.
Why take the risk, given US bullying trade policies even trying to take down Huawei suppliers.
I use 2$ clones for playing at home, but I would never ever put a part into a product from untrustworthy source.
>skin in the game

Thank you so much! I have long felt outside help as lacking in understanding but this just flipped the switch in my brain. This opens many more opportunities to explore.
Someone gotta make this in Factorio
That was considered standard then in London. Royal Mail even had its own underground railways in London.
Solution is to get rid of the 90 day limit for ex-employees, which is also just the right thing to do in general.

Doesn't totally solve AMT, as there are other reasons to want to exercise other than "because your options are about to expire", but it does fix the worst common issue.
We must know.
And we will know.

- Hilbert
Regarding YQL, I found this github repo - https://github.com/yql/yql-tables that seem to describe some of the external tables that used to be available through YQL.
But here's the thing. In all my encounters with asyncio, its slower, even for things like HTTP calls

I suspect its because the event loop gets blocked doing trivial things like json/csv parsing, but it could just be python's slowness.

Asyncio seems super hard to profile too..
I may be jumping to conclusions here, but my first impression was you were suggesting that Debian is a public infrastructure, and that therefore in your opinion it would ideally be maintained by the state.

I have a rather strong emotional reaction to this because to me a major reason for FOSS is to break the problem of perverse incentives that arise in corporate -and- government work. Governments want to control their populace. The NSA, for example, has made algorithm suggestions that would give them an easier time listening in on the world. And the US has prominent figures arguing for encryption backdoors that supposedly only the "good guys" would have the keys to. Which is to say nothing of governments that outright ban encryption. So I would be very skeptical of FOSS officially maintained by a government (though I suppose its open source nature would still be a point in its favor for the transparency).
They missed the occasion to have built something global that would probably have carried European values. Probably because of a lack of communication outside french language. If I remember correctly all the parts where build in France. Later they could also have competed against YouTube, with one of the first video sharing websites, too bad they totally gave up against the US brands.
Err, yes. Yes it is.

Debian is an all-volunteer organisation. Those are the terms for participation and they apply equally to all. If you want to be paid for writing free software, then get a job with a company that does that. Debian is not a company.
The problem is that my blog already has some recognition. Surname dot net.
no https, doesn't render without js

seems like it's a gathering scheme...
The font is especially good (Clearface Regular), and green is an unusually restful choice.
You have a part about solidarity being expected as if it could be enforced. Completely ridiculous. Solidarity with whom?

So, I expect you are some high official of Wikipedia/Wikimedia?

Wikipedia was not political act to enforce behavior, it was an act to share information in good faith. And that goal is endangered by multiple interests I don't feel guarded against those with this set of rules. What about people investing money to adjust their own pages? It isn't even mentioned and perhaps one of the most immediate issues.

I was an amateur contributor 6 or 7 years ago but lost interest at some point. I don't know if you even can get bullied on Wikipedia, I am sure it is possible, but that is probably not an issue for most contributors.

No comment on the Nazi stuff, just be aware that some Jews would noticed your misplaced usage of "we" if you really want to make an argument in their name.
Hashnode as a Blogging Platform
Amor fati. Love your fate.
> If we made the wrong bet, some blame is with product, but it’s also on you, and the manager probably won’t look great.

Why would any manager in his/her right mind choose to take any major risks while working for a big company? Maybe I'm looking at it wrong, but "looking not great" because you failed makes sure that next time you'll have to make the choice you'll always going to pick the safe bet. And safe bets aren't good for any technological company long-term.
... also popular in the socialist version of scouting across the iron curtain. In russian it became "Всегда готов!"

Young Pioneers à la Norman Rockwell:
https://yablor.ru/blogs/valeriy-barikin-pionerskiy-pin-ap/61...

(if you prefer video format to surrounded-by-ads, they're all visible in the title roll for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpMndf0RPgQ&t=40

Line printed Vyssotsky samizdat hiding under Pravda @ 52:04. I see "Abba" and "Boney M" clearly on the camp counselor's tapes in the subsequent shot, but can't read the groups on the other tape.)

Bonus track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP_lVuPRIaY (Analogue Dance Music may not be the most precise genre, but it is, by definition, 100% DRM free.)
I held off from updating to Catalina last year and hope to go directly to Big Sur this year, so I can’t try this out yet but I just gave my email to your website, hoping I’d receive updates on the progress.

While we’re on this topic, do you have any plans to add custom integrations with 3rd party services like Todoist and Bear? That’s one reason I’ve switched to Spark and I’d be extremely happy to pay you for it.
I liked the bit where someone rented a car out in the middle of the desert and rolled it down a low grade hill for several miles to prove the truck demo was unpowered.
Germany's nationwide emergency warning day sees bumpy rollout
Less than 30 minutes. Pretty simple to follow too.
TiddlyWiki: A non-linear personal web notebook
OVPN Wins Court Battle After Pirate Bay Data Demands Rejected
I think you're talking about popular music. Popular music is pretty much defined by youth culture. And to create music that appeals to youth culture, you have to be young yourself.

Musically, I don't think you lose your abilities as you get older. In fact, I would say you become even better. The most visible example of this is among movie composers. Morricone was in his late 30s when he scored "The Good, The Bad, The Ugly". Hans Zimmer has done some of his best work in his 50s.
I recently rewrote my fork of cplay and got fed up with curses. Boy do I wish I had found this article earlier because it describes everything I painfully had to cobble together. This is great!

Just one nit: Doing stuff in a signal handler is usually a bad idea because it can interrupt your code at any time. The usual work around is a trick called "self-pipe". https://ldpreload.com/blog/signalfd-is-useless

For anyone interested, I created a library in the process: https://github.com/xi/boon (It takes some inspiration from react but bare with me, I think it actually makes sense.)
Great article about summarizing building a website.

I have recently switch from Wordpress to Hugo with Gitlab and I never complain about speed and performance anymore.

11ty is gaining more attention and it looks like a good choice for the one considering static site.
Never mind the clones, if your development needs any kind of self-designed board, it's cheaper to tack the ATMega (or other processor, you might be able to make it work with something simpler) onto your design.

Plus the reliability of boards plugging into other boards, reliability of clones, etc.
Catering to the power users makes sense if you care about your users. Power users aren't born, they're made - through repeated use, and space to grow. "Power user features" are that: space to grow better in using a tool.

This isn't happening on social media (except one notable place: interfaces for advertisers), because users there are to be turned into addicts and exploited. With such a design goal, it's reasonable you want to take away user's agency - you want them "engaged" in your "experience", and them having options detracts from that.

I'm serious, by the way, this is not just a "FB/IG/YouTube/TikTok are evil" rant. Their whole design is created around hooking users up. If you wanted to design an efficient, ergonomic app for sharing media content with friends or an audience, these social media platforms are almost the opposite of what you want.
“Focus on your high-order bit.”

-Kim Cameron
Yes you have to do that. That's how PGO works.
Thankyou, I'm watching it now.
And if you want to own a Minitel terminal, eBay France is loaded with them and they're beautiful and dirt cheap:

https://www.ebay.fr/sch/i.html?_nkw=minitel
I find that when you do find one of these people there is no depth to their thinking. They don't even know what GMO is, or why it's done, or why it's not so different from every other crop that was selectively bred for sometimes thousands of years.

And even when you do find someone who does they are making arguments like "the modified genes will break loose" ... which is absurd ... and that was a very smart individual, perhaps not where it comes to biology, but it's not like this requires much debt. (GMO is about transplanting genes, so any gene used has already "broken loose" before it is ever transplanted into any GMO crop).

"It's not natural". There is nothing behind that.
https://hackerspaces.org/
I’m pretty sure most artists don’t really think about the limitations of vinyl when creating the album. It’s not a constraint for them, after all digital version is going to be the most consumed one.
Minitel was great for it's time, but its huge success in France resulted in the country later being slower than other European countries to adopt the WWW.
> However, I find that your linked resources are not compelling

If you're going to ignore a major study published by The fucking Lancet there's nothing I could say that would persuade you, is there?
not who you're replying to -

so they share some similarities but are all the Paradox games are independent and have different foci. Here are my thoughts:

Stellaris is probably the easiest to get into, but I'm not a big fan; I see it as only a few steps above Civ complexity and tedium. It is broadly similar to Civ in concept and in how the game plays out. The sci-fi setting can be a plus, compared to the other games which are rooted in history. However this is also a con in that you lose all the dynamics and lore that make historical factions interesting. It's hard to manufacture good backstories from scratch, after all. I would recommend Crusader Kings or EU4 instead.

Crusader Kings is best described as a dynasty simulator. Yes, you can lead countries, raise armies and conquer your enemies, engage in diplomacy and intrigue, etc. But ultimately it's more of a game about people than nations. For instance, several main aspects of managing your realm are maintaining your relationships with your vassals, and planning for your succession and developing your heir. These are mechanics that would typically be abstracted away, and only really make sense from the game's _personal_ perspective. There are a lot more RPG elements as a result.

EU4's core concept is simpler than Crusader Kings - you are a nation, and your goals are viewed from those lens. It throws out the characterization of Crusader Kings in return for much more fleshed out mechanics around war, politics, and diplomacy. Consequently the gameplay is more strategic than Crusader Kings, at least in my view.
I mean, a good turntable and listening set up is going to set you back thousands at the minimum.

I go the "budget" audiophile route and opt for a $600 pair of Grado headphones and a nice external DAC/Amp.
What a missed opportunity. I remember when we got a free minitel from the post office when I was a kid.

It was so expensive to use it that I was barred from even touching it. The only time I used it was many many years later, to check the result of the ceremonious baccalaureat high school exam.

It was slow and had ugly graphics compared to the VGA of my 386 but it still felt magical.
I still use my 3630 for a lot of my stuff.
Reviving 20 year old web forum software (2019)
All I ask for in life is an unfair advantage!
Can this be deployed on an existing Huawei phone (say a P40)?
"The years don't come without the days."
Here is the Computer Chronicles coverage of minitel: https://youtu.be/DUx7dP2S7h4?t=186
EWW is a godsent, very cool. Nice replacement for emacs-w3, which was very slow to render.