skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The deal differs from other sound libraries in that educational purposes are covered by a quite different licence to commercial purposes. This is reflective of the mandate of the Royal Charter that incorporates the BBC, that it "support learning". The various restrictions on endorsement and representation and suchlike in the RemArc licence reflect the Royal Charter's imposition that the BBC itself be non-commercial.

You can compare the commercial licence with that of others for yourself. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24587496 for starters. Notice the sorts of terms that commercial sound libraries impose.

Notice also that the commercial licence is not sold by the BBC. It is sold by a U.S. company named Pro Sound Effects. The Royal Charter prohibits for-profit activities by the BBC itself. So the profits from commercial licences are probably not going back to the BBC.
"Warning Signs Of Corporate Doom"

https://wiki.c2.com/?WarningSignsOfCorporateDoom

There are many interesting warning signs on that list.

> Toilet paper quality suddenly drops This is not a joke. Most of the time, the company buys supplies, rather than the hired cleaning firm. If they are skimping on TP, it is a bad sign, since it is a very minor expense. I once worked at a place that was constantly running out of TP. Massive layoff a few months after this started happening. Our company has just stopped the paper hand towels in the toilets (we still have air dryers)!(Cash flow)

I've seen this happen at a startup I worked at. About a month after they started skimping on the TP (and drinks, random supplies, etc) everyone discovered one morning that the building was locked and management/owners couldn't be reached.
Missing hour, ha! The Norwegians have apparently named their Antarctic station Troll for a reason: the TZ Antarctica/Troll uses UTC/UTC+2 - great way to test/break things that need to work with dates.
it only seems like this because Craig Murray is reporting on it.
Seems like they sold to Sonos. It redirects there.
W2k was the first possibly-not-utter-crap version. In the consumer space W3.1 was just DOS with Windows, and didn't even have full multitasking.

W95 was 60% bugs and 40% OS. There was even a really obvious bug in the calculator app. There were all kinds of very very weird - i.e. bad - design decisions both in the code and in the UI. Trying to find fixes and workarounds literally wasted days of almost everyone's time.

The initial release of XP was workable, but by SP1 it was fairly stable and you could actually use it as a working OS without having to deal with driver issues and constant crashes.

Vista was another dog. W7 was very possibly the best Windows. 8 was another WTAF release. 10 is 8 with some improvements, but some added evil in the form of forced telemetry for most users, and such.
No doubt OP is referring to the antics of the EFF (not that one) a leftwing socialist party of mainly rabble rousers which only attracted about 11% afaik of voters.

How this somehow mirrors the feelings of the majority of South Africans towards whites are a rather puzzling conclusion to draw.
I’d like to do that, could you give some pointers?
Is the current multi stage build process not sufficient for you?

https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/multistage-bu...
How researchers were able to take over the Instagram App using a malicious image
I really doubt that it's ever necessary to understand the intricate history of each and every developer working on a codebase to be able to track regressions. You're not Poirot.

History is an artifact of development and if it's worth keeping then it's worth maintaining. Rebasing serves to clean up the history ready for archiving (ie. merging to master), giving you a long linear line of commits that is possible to bisect to quickly find the source of regressions.
Basically, one contended issue was if there was a proof that something important happened: if a razor blade was found by Assange. Prosecution initially claimed it hasn't. Then the direct evidence of the event was shown by the defense, written by a reporting officer. Then the prosecution claimed something like "but there was no punishment of Assange by the Prison Governor".

Then:

"Baraitser, [the judge] who was aware that this was a major car crash, grasped at the same straw Lewis was clinging to in desperation, and said that if the charge had been dismissed, then there was no proof the razor blade existed. Fitzgerald pointed out this was absurd. The charge may have been dismissed for numerous reasons. The existence of the blade was not in doubt. Julian Assange had attested to it and two prison warders had attested to it. Baraitser said that she could only base her view on the decision of the Prison Governor."

"On Thursday Edward Fitzgerald [defense] handed the record of the prison hearing where the charge was discussed to Baraitser. It was a long document. The Governor’s decision was at paragraph 19. Baraitser told Fitzgerald she could not accept the document as it was new evidence. Fitzgerald told her she had herself asked for the outcome of the charge. He said the document contained very interesting information. Baraitser said that the Governor’s decision was at paragraph 19, that was all she had asked for, and she would refuse to take the rest of the document into consideration."

Basically, the document seems to contain the statement that the razor blade was found (edit: or, as some point out, something else that would be very inconvenient for the prosecution). The judge refuses to accept the document even after saying that "she could only base her view on the decision of the Prison Governor" appearing to cherry picking only one paragraph of the existing document which doesn't contain the claim.

If true, that's definitely a new low that I couldn't have imagined could happen.

Everybody should read the whole report to see for themselves even more details about what was happening there.
There's an intriguing way that railways handle the transition around here (central Europe): one way, trains stop in stations for an hour, the other, they all get an +1 hr delay at next station.
Can't you use multi-stage builds to achieve this?
Thats very interesting, you seem to know a lot about how the BBC is structured. Do you mind if I ask how the for-profit prohibition of their charter aligns with the ad-supported international BBC News websites and broadcasts on BBC Worldwide?
Advert masquerading as an article,
I think the biggest change that killed 8 was the lack of the start menu. Having to go to the start screen - pulling you away from your entire desktop just to launch an app - was awful. I know Win 8.1 got it back, but for the time between 8 and 8.1 Classic Shell was almost necessary to use Windows 8. All that for no discernible benefit over using 7.
No, lots of people are reporting on it, just not the corporate media. See here for links to people who are: https://shadowproof.com/2020/09/21/guide-to-journalists-assa...

Craig Murray is providing the most thorough write-ups of each day in my opinion, but you can easily follow the others listed in that link above if you want to see how others report it. Doubt you'll get a very different picture.
I was using the two terms synonymously.
Looking at the license[1], I think not:

> [...] You can't [...] put ads next to or over it (the content)

1: https://github.com/bbcarchdev/Remarc/blob/master/doc/2016.09...
For we know how many SQLite database there are either?
Doesn't prove anything, the whole article is useless. If they did this over at least a few weeks, then maybe.
Ok, I get your point now. Even though the individual is to blame, there's no point in doing it as they won't change. The only solution is to "force" change by regulation. Did I get the gist of what you were trying to convey?

> And, as I said, I'm not necessarily arguing for regulation. But I would be curious if you think there is any solution here, or if you think there should be any solution here.

That's a great point. Off the top of my head I am inclined to say there should not be any solution, besides making sure companies act within the law. But that's above my paygrade. I'm only stress testing my opinion.
We have a similar situation and use ccache and distcc is setup on each dev's workstation.
It also helps to use forward declarations instead of including header files whenever possible.
You can easily disable upload in every usual torrent client
If you track the user ID along a route of IoT IDs (which they're totally not doing), factoring in the path taken and time between stops, you could probably find out which stores the user had been (window) shopping at.

For a massive e-commerce platform, it would be great info to digitally retarget the physically-abandoned shopping carts.
i really really don't get how this guy ends up on the first page of HN. he clearly has issues:

> As a blogger, he tried to dispute Russia’s involvement in the Salisbury poisonings and has written about Salmond’s acquittal on sexual offences charges.

> Murray has claimed “corrupt” institutions conspired against the former First Minister and insists the former First Minister's female accusers lied.

> He also wrote about having “definite good source information” about MI5’s involvement in the Salmond allegations - a claim that led to him being mocked.

tldr: Cults and conspiracy theories offer the easy answer to hard reality

or as one of his friends put it:
> He is profiting from fuelling the conspiracy theories that have no concrete basis.
I'd like to see research on the frequency of universal income payments, and the effects it has in the welfare of the recipient.

For example, is it best to pay $10/day, $70/week, $300/month or $3600/year?

For recipients who don't do financial planning and saving, $10/day might cause more spending on food etc., While $3600/year might lead to more 'investments' like buying a laptop or registering for a training course.
The US is using the Guardian to justify jailing Assange for life
Sounds like you're miserable and don't even want to be in that relationship. Why bother?

You sound like a huge pushover.
Fair point, I agree with everything you've said here.

I do think there is a need for a TSL-like license though, and I think the solution is a new type of widely accepted and understood license, rather than individual companies inventing their own TSL-like licenses.

I have no idea how that could actually come to be though.
I believe the alleged crime is espionage. Espionage seems typically to have had a political motive historically. Does that mean that all such espionage charges should lead to denied extradition requests?
How can talented people give their 110% every day to basically implement clones of successful US companies?

I was recently approached by a small VC that's hiring talent in France for a company with 2M€ in funding (pre-product). The premise was: no need to prove the business model, another company has proven it in the US and we're getting to market before they do in Europe. We're positive it's going to be a cash cow.
I think the misunderstanding comes from you saying "A does not imply B" and the other poster misunderstanding that as "A implies not B". This is a rather common mistake in arguments I find ):
Why do your young children have phones / iPads? I’ve seen what these do to kids and their behavior and it’s awful. The real problem here is turning to an adult connectivity device to substitute for other forms of creativity or parenting. Give your kids some books and toys and keep them away from anything with apps.
The Guardian reported on the case yesterday [1] and last week [2] and on the 10th [3] and on the 8th [4] and on the 7th [5].

Perhaps it's less than we'd like, but it's hardly silent.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/sep/24/us-never-asked...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/sep/18/trump-offered-...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/sep/10/julian-assange...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/sep/08/julian-assange...

[5] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/sep/07/julian-assange...

(Edit: newlines beteween references.)
It can be convenient to have a set time each day. Because it means non-urgent issues can be taken care of without disrupting people while they're in the middle of something.
US probe to touch down on asteroid Bennu on October 20
That is true, but then the MSN is for entertainment and it doesn't function as a fourth estate anymore. That has been the criticism for some time and I think it is pretty on spot. Journalists asking questions is often tantamount how much you can miss the mark that it becomes embarrassing just to listen to it.

That they don't report on every day is understandable, but they also made themselves guilty by accusing people to conspire with Russia. That wasn't entertainment, that was a malicious form of propaganda, not some content tailored to a broad audience.
Because it is 1000 words of content with the ability for you to comment on the content, click one of many numerous react options, retweet it, bookmark it, see how long it will take you to read, view other posts with the same tags, for the developer to know who visited, where they visited from, what time they visited, and where else on the site they went and be all presumably configurable as it is not a website the developer made, but built with a blogging platform.

It is a full fledged web app because it is a web app for managing thousands of different blogs and doing dozens of little random features, each of which has their own little bit of JS.
That's only BBC One. BBC Two, BBC Four, and BBC News also exist. Of course, if one only looks at one channel things seem lopsided. Providing different services on different channels was partly the point.
A few things annoy me about the coverage of Facebook vs. EU.

I don't care about the revenue, tell me how much profit Facebook make in the EU instead.

Facebook can't leave, not because of potentially lose of profit, but because it would allow a new competitors to have exclusive rights to 500 million users. Facebook can't afford to let competitors bootstrap in Europe. They have been buying up everyone who could potentially be a threat, and now they'll leave 500 million potential users uncontested? I think not.

Yes, small business and soccer moms around Europe would take a hit if Facebook left, but something new would eventually replace Facebook.
I wouldn’t choose a position meeting for 40 hours every week, even if it came with a pay raise. I enjoy coding and solving abstract problems, and they build the skills I value having (and so does the market).

They do have the right to ask it because they’re paying me, but there comes a point where I’d say no.
yes, you will get a very different picture by following literally anyone else.
Since it hasn't been posted here, it looks like amazon have "productised" AppStream[0] and added a subscription based model a-la prime video.

Interesting that they positioned it as a new product and not a prime offering, as increasing prime subs was always one of amazon's main drives recently (keep spinning that flywheel).

They had a similar streaming integration with their games engine lumberyard[1] iirc, and used it for some of their first party titles[2] though as far as I remember, none of their first party games have taken off.

Interestingly, in googling I found there is a "prime gaming"[3] option that amazon has, so I'm surprised this offering wasn't folded into that. Maybe the low uptake of prime gaming means they need to position it as a separate service to get press for it, or maybe the increased cost to serve can't be justified without charging an additional subscription.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/appstream2/?blog-posts-cards.sort-by=...

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/

[2] https://www.amazongames.com/en-gb/games

[3] https://gaming.amazon.com/
Orania is actually full of very decent hard working people. A lot of the sentiment in this article is biased by left wing agenda. It's sad to read actually. Orania is quite small, and actually garners quite a lot of respect from all the different peoples. There are tons of black only villages, and that is also perfectly in order. The article points out it's a cultural town, not a racial one and that is definitely true.
the article is literally about people in tech, on top of that spotify, youtube, twitter google all having their issues with handling dissenting opinions.
API Authentication with GCP Identity-Aware Proxy
The internet archive can help you out here, I used this recently for an XP VM

https://archive.org/details/WinXPProSP3x86
Building a 24 Frames per Hour Movie Player with Raspberry Pi
> That was actually Windows 2000, based on the NT 4 code base. It was near perfect, given the era it was made in.

I also remember Windows 2000 fondly. It was really really stable. Even if it looked like it's frozen like a polar ice cap (they weren't melting that bad back then), a short coffee break would give it enough time to normalize itself and continue like nothing happened.

Should retry it in a VM sometime. :)
Very refreshing to see this kind of initiative in this era of containers and endless dependencies.

Too bad it can't easily be done in suche a simple way on *nix systems.
Completely disagree with you on that, he comes across as someone who is tired of always being asked the same questions, who does work to solve the problem and is frustrated that a lot of people are unappreciative of Kovid's work.
Given how much criticism and entitled requests opensource maintainers have to deal with, it's not a surprise to me that he'd be tired. But I do think that he is still well reasoned in the way he expresses himself.
I would say a key difference is the "completely independently". "agile" models tend to make the independent unit a small team (say 2-5 developers, along with designers, QA people and product people). And within that team it's generally considered best practice for everyone to eat least be keeping an eye on what the others are working on and be familiar enough with it that they could pick it up if need be.
yes, but that doesn't have Craig Murray's conspiracy theories.
Nasa press release, Sept 24:

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Begins its Countdown to TAG

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/osiris-rex-begins-...
I am on your side: I fix it by disabling javascript.
Shame the economist steels freely available articles and puts them behind paywalls - here the free link from the original author

https://www.carihargaterupdate.com/business/why-rocket-inter...
Can it let you customize the way it stores books already?

It would be awesome if I could configure it to store books in a flat directory (without creating a directory for every book), using book's first author surnames and short titles as-is (without transliterating to plain ASCII).
It might be a symptom of the poor state of media nowadays.

I'm not that old at all, but I remember seeing much more streams of constant information on ongoing events back when I was a kid (my father was a journalist so there was a lot of press bought daily at home).

The system is so dependent on cycles and hyperbole that they simply can afford to keep reporting on an ongoing event for a month, even if it's small tidbits, because they fear the audience will be "satiated". Instead, it's going to be an extreme news explosion at the end of the whole thing, when everything is said and done, so they can probably milk/manufacture outrage - but that information will be completely useless to the public by then.
since when have lefthandedness been a problem?

You are also confusing two different discussions.
Here in the UK people would call for the government to regulate that it must be labelled. Then if it wasn't then a lawsuit might be brought. But first port of call is just to get it changed.
Anything the BBC releases has to pass a market distortion test to make sure that it doesn't affect the competition - even commercial projects built by the commercial arm of the BBC (which doesn't receive any license fee funding)

BBC Jam for example was a project back in 2006 offering multi-media educational resources free across the UK. This was 2 years before Khan Academy.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4655292.stm

Commercial companies complained, and the project was shut down.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6449619.stm

In 2008, UK broadcasters (BBC, ITV and Channel 4), seeing how Netflix was going, and bearing this in mind, built a fully commercial video on demand platform. That too was shut down by the government because "it might become too powerful".

The BBC's self funded commercial arm recently expanded in Austrailia, attracting complaints from the Guardian who had done the same thing.

https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/guardian-boss-bbc-distorting-...

Back to license fee funding, earlier this year the BBC, no longer able to use its resources to create the types of broadcasts due to covid (no coverage of sport for example when there's no sport), used its resources to help UK parents who were suddenly tasked with home-schooling 9 million children overnight.

Everyone was happy you'd think, but oh no - "The BBC is under pressure to axe access to its home-learning lessons – used by millions of children during the coronavirus crisis – over fears they will squeeze commercial curriculum providers out of the market"

https://schoolsweek.co.uk/calls-to-end-bbcs-lockdown-lessons...
Then what happened to C?
> The unelected Labour opposition

???
DHS Flew Two Surveillance Aircraft over Breonna Taylor Protests
> These days, especially in EDM / Hip Hop, slight clipping in bass in somewhat stylistic.

No it's not, it's just widespread incompetence and has ruined lots of music I would have liked. Having better software tools that alert when clipping is happening would be a good thing (i.e. it needs to alert when crossing over from 0dB to a distorted wave form, not just hitting 0dB without distorting, which is fine).
Projects getting pulled and a focus on projects that bring in money or facilitate lay offs
One thing I read when dicking with how USB drivers work is that the Microsoft's first USB driver model was hopelessly broken, so they started over. And that also turned out badly enough that they redid it again. That's what ended up in XP and it mostly worked okay.

You can see why they didn't want to/couldn't backport USB drivers.
The dude was named Kovid before this became mainstream :-)
That's not a Man Cave!

A proper Man Cave requires; a battered armchair, crates of home-brew beer, a stash of porn mags, mountains of engine parts and various jars and boxes of rusty and unidentifiable 'things that might come in handy one day'

...also a workbench with the long-abandoned innards of the kitchen toaster arranged on it. Ready to be fiddled with thoughtfully, if you hear the wife coming.
Technically I'm looking to buy a serial so I can tell myself I didn't steal. Thank you for your link, once I have a serial I'll know where to get a safe copy from.
Acoustic communication is quite nice for this kind of ad-hoc provisioning, because it doesn't require any special hardware or prior pairing.

One security issue is that if you do this in public, an attacker could initiate malicious connections and remove your own transmission via signal cancellation. It's hard to notice that when using an inaudible frequency band. To defend against this, our research team has described a method to protect the integrity of acoustic communication on the physical layer, without requiring any prior key exchange: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3395351.3399420 PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.08572
The reproducible builds folks are working on fixing that:

https://reproducible-builds.org/
Isn't that most product blog content though? Like the hard drive failure rates that backblaze regularly post? There's still some sort of value there, if you just ignore the product being sold.