skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, Ross Ulbricht didn't claim to take over the site from others, he claimed to be the original creator, the original DPR, and then later handed it off to other people who got away.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9akg85/irs-found-accused-...
And its valuable every time. I learned of this today and already recommended to my colleague who is trying to learn git. Of course there is an xkcd about this[1]

[1] https://xkcd.com/1053/
Plus it's not like someone's gonna run XP SP1 on their main machine. It's been 18 years.
Second time in the week I am doing this here, but I recommend you “Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?” By Frans de Waal. Maybe it can nudge you in the right direction.
I made an app that tells how long you have to register to vote in your state
I thought it was pretty crazy that these deadlines were different in every state! Anyway, I hope this is helpful for someone. :)
To be honest it doesn't bother me being less productive. If my employer pays me to do useless meetings, that's on him. The best I can do is to notify him about the state of things. Being productive or not doesn't matter much to me.
Well there better be some good Dr. Who in there somewhere.

Exterminate! We are sentient beings!
On Java: it had been a common sightseeing in the IANA tz mailing list that some complained about TZUpdater [1] not working. It's amusing if not annoying, and the root cause traces back to the intricacy of time zones themselves.

Apparently some countries at some points had (and sometimes, like Ireland [2], have) a "winter time" as opposed to a "summer time". In the other words their standard time takes place in summer and the "winter time" has a negative offset to the standard time. Technically this is not different from a "summer time" in other countries, but C `struct tm` has a `tm_isdst` flag that ideally should be true in winter for those countries.

tzdata made transition to support negative DST offsets in early 2018, but this caused unwanted software problems so the choise was made to support the "rearguard" format that doesn't have negative DST offsets. This was an one-off incident for most cases, but TZUpdater didn't support the more recent (and more correct) "vanguard" format. And yet users tend to feed the vanguard format to TZUpdater and thought tzdata was at fault. This annoyance continued until TZUpdater finally supported the rearguard format in late 2019 (I think).

[1] https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/tzupdater-re...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_the_Republic_of_Irelan...
I have to point out that what you say applies only on the "Fortunes" benchmark. On the others benchmarks, Java always comes before PHP. I'll also add that most people don't use the top performing frameworks (most people use Laravel and Symfony for PHP, which are near the bottom), but that applies to everything here.

[edit]: clarification
https://freesound.org/search/?g=1&q=meow&f=%20license:%22Cre...

Wikipedia also has a list of list of pointers to different sites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Free_sound_resources

These days, I wouldn't even consider any site that doesn't easily show the license of the available files.
Needing to hunt for copyright information is a smell.
The question is how many dealers there really are. If you look at the volumes of some of the arrested dealers, it seems like few people dominate these platforms. Arresting them is enough to disrupt the market for a bit. Sure, new ones will come but in the end, it could very well be that most sellers on these platforms will get arrested.

People are stupid and many won't be deterred by this. But I'm not sure if it's profitable in the long run to be a seller on these platforms.

For the buyer, on the other hand, it's much better. They don't face the risks they do when buying on the street and police doesn't really care unless they buy enough to be distributors themselves.
You can't install it separately, but you can use just the viewer part of calibre, without the library management.

Try "ebook-viewer ~/example.epub".
Histomap: Visualizing the 4k Year History of Global Power (2017)
Yes, don’t worry too much for me, I have a psychologist and we got several things rolling recently, so I’ll be fine for a couple of months already. Thank you for your concern ;)
Music library apps and calibre manage a "library" because many of the features center on metadata.

A music management app can navigate a large quantity of files via more effectively than clicking through artist -> album -> track hierarchies. You can ask it to find music by a particular genre, time frame, rating, tag, etc etc.

You can ask it to show things you commonly listen to or things you haven't listened to or haven't listened to recently.

Beyond this it can offer you the ability to perform a variety of operations on your selection whether its the antiquated notion of burning it to a disk, streaming it over the network, converting it to a different format finding more music by the artist etc.

Similarly calibre offers a way to dig through a substantial collection of ebooks in a lot of different way and perform operations on same.

Example. Find all the ebooks that don't have an epub or pdf format available and convert whatever existing format they do have to epub.

Find all the books that match a particular query that aren't on the currently connected device example foo bar baz and ondevice:false

Then send wirelessly to device.

Given a bunch of books for which some pieces of metadata is lacking guess what metadata probably matches and let me review your guesses.
Very true, it goes a long way to explaining the current state of news and politics.
It can't be projection when it's so easy to find quotes or decisions that demonstrate it's the truth.

Hillary Clinton: "women are the primary victims of war" ... "the more we support women, the more we support democracy"

Joe Biden: next justice must be a black woman

Obama: "Men have been getting on my nerves lately. Now women, I just want you to know; you are not perfect, but what I can say pretty indisputably is that you're better than us. I’m absolutely confident that for two years, if every nation on earth was run by women, you would see significant improvement across the board on just about everything … living standards and outcomes."

The American left is typified by absolutely overt and open sexism against men. They don't try to hide it, they revel in it. Literally the last Democrat President has said women are better than men, full stop. To claim that this belief is projection shows a deep level of denial about the truth - the American Left hates men, wants them gone from any kind of position of prosperity or power and talks about it all the time.

To me that's worse than opportunism. You can disagree, but you can't say it's not a coherent choice.
I suspect the main issue is latency
Wow. Did that person give an explanation why?
I follow "blockchain world" fairly closely and I really fail to see much value to UNI. But I have seen people speak quiet exuberantly about it. I am wondering what their thesis is.
"Yes" would have been shorter.
Multiple departures among mid and upper level management. Usually the departures are puzzling
I use 'rclone' and 'motion' to push video and images to my google drive account. If I wanted to, I could easily encrypt it first. I think it's superior to most cloud video providers. I don't think most LE agencies would think to check something like Google Drive for active video feeds.

I also delete anything over 3 days(thanks rclone) and use a script which detects the presence of either my wife's or my phone on our LAN so the cameras auto-start when we're not home.
I'm not sure if selling and shipping drugs to end customers was ever a good job to get into. Wholesale drug shipments maybe, but selling to end customers always had way too much risk for the money you could make there.

We shouldn't assume that people go into the business because it's rational to do so. They see the short term gains, not the long term risks.

I might be wrong but I think any criminal who really cared about long term risk adjusted gains stayed away from selling a few pills here and there.
It does! Love it. Anyone who grew up in UK schools will know a prefab classroom hut. So from that description I immediately know what type of reverb the sound will have.

Crucially, how different it will be from eg. a high ceiling room in a brick building.

I'd say that's a great description.
Other comments in this sub-topic:

An example - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/41467#issuecomment-69804...

A fix - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/41467#issuecomment-69689...

A clarification - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/41467#issuecomment-69692...
In the toaster case I was more referring to the heating elements inside.
Question: if you started an agency offering SEO and marketing to darknet sites, would you get in trouble for that?
We generally don't have 6-month old branches. We don't shy away from assigning big projects to devs, though. They iteratively collaborate with our Product team to carve out a v1, and then get to work. We throw out reliability on delivery dates of any one feature, believing that we achieve higher throughput with less coordination (we avoid dependencies between features as much as possible).

The assigned dev absolutely breaks the big feature into reasonably atomic pull requests, ideally no more than a few hundred lines but sometimes a few thousand. The critical difference, I think, is that none of that breaking up is super planned out, and it's certainly not formalized prior to development. The changes often trickle out over several releases. Collaborators may help advise on where to break things up, but ultimately it's up to the dev to use good judgement.

I agree that 6 months of unmerged development is absolutely a horrible situation that's best to avoid.
The stock is undervalued by 50% IMO. What the Samwers are doing is fleecing the public. I have sold my shares right after the announcement, not going to become a holdout. Surely it will take years until they will put a decent offer on the table for remaining shareholders.
One can get a list of files included without ever downloading any content (e.g. from the command line) and based on that, it looks like a troll trying to ride on the current interest. Happens all the time.

It seems that the list of files doesn't include anything that appears new (there were reports about the older sources leaked before and the list matches these), but includes the high troll insanity material about prominent "control" via "vaccinating the world".
Within a local network segment I there are less involved solutions to the discovery problem, such as link-local multicast.
> No longer in Berlin, I ended up moving to Estonia

I've been in Berlin for a number of years and have always liked the idea of Estonia, how did you go about finding a job working for the government? is speaking English OK?
A New American Manifesto: From time to time when things get bad
Many years ago I read a post-mortem about the Carmageddon game. They had their management, finance, HR etc in London and all their devs in Sydney. This worked extremely well the post-mortem said, because everyone was at work at the same time...
Facebook Threatens to Shoot Itself in the Foot
The POSIX timezones having - and + reversed once cost me a day of pulling hairs: http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/linux_timezones/
The headline used here is misleading, too. The BBC has released this library, years ago, and the sound effects are available on terms quite similar to those of other sound effects library companies, which are not "libre", and which are augmented by some non-commercial non-endorsement requirements legally imposed upon the BBC by its Royal Charter.

Hacker News guidelines would have the title be that of the page, which is simply "BBC Sound Effects - Research & Education Space". It's HappyMag making the "clickbait" claims, not actually the BBC page.
It's a big shame that whenever anything related to Calibre is posted, top comments will often be how arrogant is author is. I used to think the same. But when I read his comments history in GitHub, he doesn't seem a dick to me at all. So I googled his name, and end up in a forum. It completely changed my mind.

Contrary to what people believe, Dovid Goyal is the most friendly programmer to his users. He spent lots of time answering questions in the forum https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=166. His answers include where is a menu located, how to convert a book from one format to another, helping the user to debug the exact the problem with Calibre. He has been doing this daily and is very responsive. You can expect an answer to your question in the same day. (The forum used to allow you to read user's comments history anonymously, but now you need a account to do so)
> I still think 7 > 10

Me too, for a simple reason: Windows 7 can be made to look and behave almost identically as Windows 95 did in terms of UI - which is, to this day, widely praised: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21878006

Windows 8 and 10? Not at all. It's a wild, wild mixture of the good old UI and... an abomination of stuff clearly "designed" for touch screens. Not to mention all the privacy and advertising issues.
Didn't that happen a couple of years ago?

From another site I see the date March 27, 2019

https://momofilmfest.com/bbc-opens-sound-fx-library-for-free...
> Don’t expect balance from very talented people. People who are exceptionally good at one thing tend to be exceptionally bad at another, due to overconfidence and mental bandwidth taken up by the exceptional skill.

Also because of cross-compensation. Sometimes talent can compensate for the lack of another skill, thus allowing the person to be worse at that other skill and still succeed.
Remote vulnerabilities don't really matter for air-gapped machines.
Oooh I really like salmiak candy, so that actually sounds pretty good to me. It's really interesting that love for salty licorice & salmiak is concentrated in only a handfull of countries.
It would be nice to have a Github repo where you can browse the history like for Unix at https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo . Not going to happen, of course.
In audio a delay of about 5 milliseconds is the most you can comfortably accept without it seeming really annoying.

Well-designed, expensive hearing aids have extremely low latency, but there are theoretical limit. The more frequency domain processing you want to do, the more samples you need to do it, and the more delay you're going to have even in the best-case engineering.

Smartphones are unfortunately typically not able to meet these kind of specifications. Much longer delays are acceptable in voice communication because you don't hear your own voice and the delayed voice at the same time.

Point being, it really has to be a specialized device designed from the ground up to keep the latency close to the theoretical low limit.
Yep. The article casually mentions that you sacrifice more of your personal life for your career, then just carries on like it's no big deal.

Most of us won't build stuff that matters, and even for those who do, it probably won't matter matter enough to sacrifice your personal life.

You are not your job.
> with an advertising revenue of £0.10 is considered commercial and a payment?

Yes. Ignorance not excuse. There are quite a few cases where people go on GIS and find some random image, and then stock image crawling bots encounter it and extract payment with penalties.
If I remember correctly, the trend of anti-consumer features was already well underway with windows XP. Integrated DRM was there. The limited activation count was there. Creating themes without signing was not possible, and the 'fisherprice' theme was rolled out even if a lot of users hated it.

Things were still overridable, but XP started the trend where the end user was not an allmighty sysadmin responsible for its own deeds good or wrong, but a consumer that should follow the vision of Microsoft and not touch the holy internals.

I can partially defend microsoft here. Everybody and their dog was messing around in the registry, was installing all kinds of system-breaking software, etc... But it also signifies a point where Microsoft realised it got powerfull enough to ignore the wishes of its own clients.
Once again it shows what a kangaroo court is Assange hearing.
Does anybody else think work in bigger companies is just snacking and only snacking? With the faint hope that all 20.000 employees' snacking somehow is more then the sum of all parts and assembles to a high impact 10 story Powerranger/Gundam?

People sit on their niche, defend it to the death and let it take up all their time. That's how it was in every big organisation I've seen. Understandably so, people didn't want to be seen as lazy or expendable, they wanted to defend their self-worth. That's how you get to Parkinson's law and the cult of busyness (and stress, lots of stress, even though there was no reason for it, it's just work, maybe explaining the increase in depression/burnout).
Making Tresspass a criminal offense in UK to “combat” Roma communities
In North America those are more commonly called a GFCI (ground fault circuit interrupter).

They wouldn't trip in this case just by plugging a poorly wired appliance in. They detect an imbalance in current flow between the hot and neutral wires. If they detect more current going out than coming back in, they recognize that the current has found another path (which is bad) and trip.

Unless you have a grounded lamp (which is certainly not common here; I've never seen one) there'd be no alternate path until you provided one by being shocked, so there'd be no immediate trip. It would, however, increase safety by tripping once you were being shocked instead of simply allowing you to continue being shocked.
It seems to me, herein lies the rub. No whether they can call it open source or not. I am sympathetic to Timescale's situation. (I also love their work)
But the big problem IMO is this incredibly hard to judge language about "value-added products or services"

It doesn't really matter what is opined outside of the agreement, and from this conversation, it doesn't seem crystal clear one way or another whether Gitlab's use would be considered value-added or not.

So, do you want to be a developer, project-manager, CTO, or CEO who has to determine if your use of TimescaleDB is considered value-added or not?

Also keep in mind, that to really make this determination requires a court case around the specifics of your usage and situation.

And what if they get a SCO Unix style CEO someday?

I hope we can find a better way as developers and technologists to express whether you can use software like this without vague promises that you won't be litigated, or your use case is probably not in violation of the license.
Wiki says it increased usage for 2 centuries after it became prohibited.

"Opium prohibition in China began in 1729, yet was followed by nearly two centuries of increasing opium use."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium

Don't know if we can trust numbers from that time though, you probably want to look at production.
> STANDUPS ARE NOT STATUS UPDATES. They’re for resolving blockers in person without letting shit linger too long.

Which make standups useless. If I have blockers I communicate them right away. I don't wait until the next standup to do so.
I think it’s interesting because the feature of the sprint you appear to like is that it completely removes small a agility.

If you have constant and regular changes in priorities that appears to be an issue with whoever is doing the prioritizing/planning for your team and not a consequence of a specific process.
It's been oft repeated that acetaminophen would not be OTC if it were discovered today. The difference between a therapeutic and a toxic dose are waaaaay too small.

It's setting the bar _really_ low to compare to acetaminophen. There's a good chance if it weren't basically the only safe painkiller for pregnant and breastfeeding women it would simply not exist anymore.
How are you locked out of business by not using Google? Enough companies run solely on Microsoft products without any issues. Others use separate providers for Email and conferencing (e.g. Zoom). I don't see how not using Google is a problem when dealing with other companies.

Quite the opposite, it's still much harder to not use Excel if you exchange data with a lot of business partners.
This is interesting, particularly in light of skissane comments about melatonin being prescription only.

Here in Australia, you can buy Asthma Inhalers "over the counter" (no prespcription) from pharmacies (Salbutamol). They sometimes do ask if you're seeing a doctor for your asthma, but that's about it. (I take a regular treatment for it)
I was looking for this comment.
There's always Ken Thompson's hack of the compiler to insert a backdoor into the login program on Unix. See Reflections on Trusting Trust: https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html .
Maybe people can take this code, fix a bunch of vulnerabilities, and keep developing a fork ofvit where MS left off
Unlikely, but would be cool :)
> The maximum bandwidth a device can use is capped at 500MB

Per day? Per month? Per year? For the device's lifetime?
Show HN: A serverless chess engine running in 4 providers and in your cluster
A chess engine, written in go implemented as a serverless cloud application, using OpenWhisk. This project may be deployed, as is, to multiple serverless clouds. It is provided as an example of a truly portable multicloud serverless application.
calibre calls this standalone binary ebook-device I've never used it.
Honestly, I've never heard anyone complain apart from tech people. Long reboots are annoying but overall, Windows 10 is pretty well accepted by every non-technical person I know.
I hear letting the air out of your tires can help increase surface area
Isn't a reliable person supposed to tell when an obstacle is met but carry on otherwise? Raise an event when something happened and only when it happened, not polling him/her constantly about it? ; )
Seems like a waste activity when raising issues is limited to a particular time period during the day and supposed to be happening on its own anyway.
It is not good for meaningful discussions, it is not enough and not the place for socializing, constraining or repeating something to/at a specific time that should occur otherwise.
I think this applies only to US. In EU there is no way you can even enforce those EULA screens at install or prosecute someone for downloading warez (distribution is a different topic).
I was referring to the opposite, having multiple physical machines to develop. Using Code Server means I don't have to sync between machines.
additional context for this thread:

Government consults on new police powers to criminalise unauthorised encampments (Nov 2019) https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-consults-on-ne...

Government set to pass new ‘hostile’ anti-Traveller laws this autumn (Jul 2020) https://www.travellerstimes.org.uk/news/2020/07/government-s...
> You don’t discuss problems at a standup, you make your team aware (if you haven’t already)

Exactly my point. We make the team aware of problems of blockers via Slack (team channel), so there is no point in making the team aware again of such blockers in the standup.
And that’s why metaphors suck.

Unlike in a run, where I know the exact moment and location I have reached my halfway point, in a real software project I don’t even know what the actual distance to be covered will be.

What sprints force you to do is basically make sure you’re running full tilt for every 400m distance, which is fine if the eventual distance ends up being 800m for example, but if it ends up being 26 miles instead, you’re just gonna burn out well before.
There is a lot of deep material on SwiftUI, for example https:// swiftwithmajid.com and https://swiftui-lab.com. The latest edition of the excellent Stanford course also uses SwiftUI, and the tutorials by Apple are great.