skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree, this is not a great link.

It's not new, it's two years old and has been covered here before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16864050
I’m astonished by the amount of people who choose to leak code on 4chan.
That's cool but accessible to about 0.1% of the population.
It a bit cheeky, not sure if youtubers can freely use those sounds and music freely in their content
> Git comes with a graphical history viewer for your actual repositories, gitk

Well, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't, e.g. on macos it doesn't.

> gitk, which should really be people's default go-to

That's a matter of preference. For instance, I've been recommending Magit to all new starters (quickly installing spacemacs as a shell for that) and it's been working out great so far.
>> take a look at an OpenVPN config file
> OpenVPN config files can be pretty small

That particular jab was pretty strange.

The very first example in the OpenVPN documentation is of a server config:

dev tun
ifconfig 10.8.0.1 10.8.0.2
secret static.key

That's three lines. The client needs a "remote" entry as well. How much more terse can it get?

There are many applications with complex configuration formats, but OpenVPN is not it. It has both a simple format and good defaults. It should be an example to others!
> > a language that is minimalistic, stable and slow to evolve by design.

The upper case languages. C, AWK, SQL, COBOL, FORTRAN (yes yes I know the latter two like to be written in mixed case these days).

Also Ada ... hmm, perhaps not so minimalistic.

And Scheme.
Porting half a million code of Python 2 to Python 3 is quite an achievement!
I do this for any tool I can - it's without a doubt my preferred way of distributing software.
Call me old school or crazy, but I absolutely hate:
- Auto updaters (just STFU, stop nagging, I never want programs going online unless I explicitly ask it)
- Installers or package managers - stop polluting my harddrive with garbage everywhere
- Non-local config directories/registry/etc - when I `del` or `rm` a dir I want ALL traces of that program gone.

The way I "sync" my dev environment between machines: Copy a single compressed directory by whatever means - usb stick, some server, whatever - to a new machine, extract it, and I'm done.

I also rarely update my dev tools, my arm gcc cross compiler is apparently from 2017 - and it works just as well today as it did then, no reason to update.
As a kid in the 90s, whenever I played a game (particularly demo versions of a lot of games, which in that era were distributed on CDs sold with videogame magazines), I'd eventually look into its folder and search for assets. For years, I kept a collection of interesting .wav files I found in these games, because I wanted to make a video game of my own. I'd also exchange these .wavs with a friend at school, who kept his own collection for the same reason.

I vaguely remember using few sound effects from Star Trek: Generations and Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith in a school play around 5th or 6th grade :). The sound of the base hangar door from Mysteries of the Sith is still etched deeply in my mind (along with surrounding dialogue).

(None one of us knew the concept of intellectual property back then.)
Mobileread is THE forum for ebook and users there are amazing in general. And they reply fast. I once asked a question there and get 3 to 4 useful, relevant answers in 5 minutes.

Edit: as for Kovid, he's just the type of person who speaks direct to the point without any extra words. Some people are not used to that. He's very helpful and responsive for feedback/bug report and really hard-working.
For iOS, try KyBook 3
I think most people do. But then what? Just let it be for a week and never follow up? Having a daily reminder and time to discuss it is nice.
Try finding a post mentioning Gavin McInnes.

You can't even mention McInnes' new website censored.tv on Instagram, even in private messages.
In theory yes, but if the majority of the teams are doing standups the wrong way, then perhaps there is something inherently wrong with standups.
I don't really see why this would be better than the traditional format with lectures that go through the theory with some examples, and then homework tasks you solve yourself. As long as those tasks are appropriate, it's an excellent method that closely mirrors the realities of being a developer. I learned iOS development from the Stanford course and I can't imagine a better way.
JRiver Media Centre?
$5/month/cow sounds insanely expensive.

5c/month/cow sounds more reasonable. Which in turn means your hardware needs to cost only a couple of dollars and last many many years.
Hollywood movies used to be infamous in certain circles for having the same stock cricket chirp sound effects, recorded locally, whereever in the world a movie scene was actually supposed to be. It's nothing to do with insect populations.
This is the tool I always show my juniors when I teaching them Git the first time, and recently one of my earlier juniors showed this one of theirs. :) It's that good of a teaching tool!
Yes, tech is meritocratic- as long as you are a white middle-class dude in your twenties. That is, in order to make it in tech you have to be a white middle-class dude in your twenties, but once you have that bit down pat, everything else is a matter of skill and intelligence.

Edit: I'm speaking from my experience working as a developer in the UK. About 99% of the people I've worked with were white, middle-class dudes in their twenties or at most mid-thirties. There were the odd female developer. I had two coleagues who were Indian, one of whom was female and every other Indian person I've worked with was a consultant. I had one technical coleague who was of Chinese descent. And I've never had a colleague who was black (although I knew a black man who was a soft. eng.).

So, you want to make it big in the software industry in the UK? Better be white, male, middle-class and be in your twenties. Oh- and be good with code, of course. But first be white, male and middle-class.
As in biological evolution, the parts with the most "breaking changes" tend to remain quite stable.
Unfortunately this is true also in my opinion.

Two engineers. Engineer A working on the new shiny prototype stuff that is riddled with bugs and errors and never goes to production but gets to demo it to the upper management.

Engineer B grinding away on the old "legacy"system fixing bugs adding some new small features generally keeping things going.

Who do you expect will be getting the bigger RSU package? Unfortunately it seems that often the key factor is indeed visibility.
Microsoft made a big security pivot during XP. Gates put his foot down and forced the company to reprioritize secure engineering over everything else during the SP(2?) timeframe.
Heroin is still very illegal in the Netherlands, with 12 to 16 years in jail for trading it. Heroin usage is also illegal.
In the XP days Linux was not seen as a serious things.
It used to be a mess rendering a site to pdf, it's much better but still isn't great if you look over the issues on various HTML -> PDF projects. The issue with HTML5 is it threw everything away for pragmatism but in doing so we have HTML and javascript, a lot of javascript. I also really didn't mind xlst
This is correct. We want to do more than just Puppeteer, so it made sense.
The creator also included a bunch of wild conspiracy theory stuff in the torrent as well about Bill Gates and vaccinations etc which blows the torrent size out by a fair chunk.
React.js is best for component management
So you're telling me that macOS is more performant than Windows 10? Have you used both? Do you not feel the delay in every mouse click you do in macOS that is so maddening after coming from Windows?

Both the UI lag and general performance in macOS is just a sad story.

My windows machine runs 24/7 for months without needing a restart. I am forced to restart macOS weekly, usually because of system issues.
Huh? Nearly every PHP job is Laravel or Symfony nowadays, at least in Europe.
Speaking of which, perhaps you'd enjoy https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195703.Meadowland
I am not sure if it is what you are looking for, but the calculator is now open source under the MIT license
https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator

As a recall, making notepad is like a homework assignment for a visual basic class. You just drag the text editor window and add the menus, there isn't a whole lot there!

Paint would probably be a bit more work, but there are a few clones out there already
Archive 40 GB
Source code leaks 5 GB

Conspiracy videos about Bill Gates 35 GB

Just to put it in perspective... something the Gizmodo reporter miserably failed to do
I wish I knew how to fit all these features of an advanced terminal to my use cases.
> Another option that we're exploring is some lvm magic to create a snapshot, upgrade the snapshot, sign it, and then on the next reboot use it as the real root.

This sounds very nice and similar to Android's A/B partitions!

> Since the PCRs can be predicated as well

This may be a stupid question but… what are PCRs? Google yields "polymerase chain reaction" – a method used, among others, for detecting the coronavirus but I'm sure that's not it. :)
> Behavior is hard to fix.

Scott Alexander over at SSC has a lovely phrasing for this rule applied at scale: society is fixed, biology is mutable.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/10/society-is-fixed-biolo...

The money quote from the middle of the post:

"See, my terrible lecture on ADHD suggested several reasons for the increasing prevalence of the disease. Of these I remember two: the spiritual desert of modern adolescence, and insufficient iron in the diet. And I remember thinking “Man, I hope it’s the iron one, because that seems a lot easier to fix.”"
I would not use any PolyForm Shield licensed software, since there is no guarantee that the provider will never expand their scope of business to compete with me.

The Perimeter variant might be usable, but only if competing with versions of the product I don't use is allowed (it's not clear to me if that's the case)
Ethernet failure on Swiss business jet prompted emergency descent
Good advice but there is more than one way to succeed. I'll link to the Zoo analogy which explains this further https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=469940
And that's why modern compilers won't have that. It was exactly so the same source, even compiled a second later, it will generate different binary file.

I hate it. It was so easy in DOS era - same source, same binary file, easy peasy.
Listen blogging isn’t easy so you, the reader, are going to have to pay one way or another.
> How exactly are consumers impacted by Apple's App Store?

The fact that a huge platform, prevents competing app stores, is a huge impact, due to the fact that the market is so large.

That is anti-competitive, and this is bad because the platform is so large.

And the impact is the anti-competitive nature of it, on a large market.
I think a lot of people have sort of backed their chair away from the table like you.

I remember reading Matt Ridley's The Rational Optimist and it talked about trade. Basically it said with trust, trade is unlimited.

But what's been happening with computers and software is that trust been going downhill so quickly that many people don't install anything ever anymore. Privacy, dark patterns, monetization, form over function, qa by customer, and just a general lack of empathy, respect and common sense.

It's a shame.
Shazamified cookies?
Innovation doesn't matter. Making money matters. Innovation is a means to an end, not the end itself. If you can shortcut it, it's irrelevant.
People run businesses doing this, generally after someone dies.

It's a very poor use of resources to just throw everything into landfill.
It’s stunning how much discussion is being made by people who haven’t read TFA.
> In software and hardware design, the things that we should be the most wary about breaking, are the interfaces that people rely on.

And yet the big boys just can't help themselves. I've been doing a bit of work with Google Sheets the last few months, and even in that time the user interface has changed a few times. Only in small ways, will be the offered excuse.

People are not just playing with this software, they're trying to use it. Usually as a minor component of some workflow where other things occupy working memory and attention.
It is actually quite amazing how well drug logistics work. Even in countries with prohibition, you often have no problem getting some weed, I suspect other drugs being similarly well distributed. If have seen weed and other stuff packaged in high tech cases so even dogs couldn't sniff it out.

Especially with the amount of drug use, the logistical challenge isn't trivial.
You'd be surprised how many KIOSK's out there are running XP under the hood. Especially ATM's.
Yet, NT4 -> W2K -> XP.... strange how the consumer degraded but the business was a real progression. I was using NT4 at my first job in 98, through till 2000 became more wide spread. Win2000 was a step up, but the driver support (IIRC) could be a bit spotty. But overall it was great. Then XP came a long and added Crayola UI and Zip folder access. It took me a lot longer to move to XP, and when I did I would always go to Control Panel and turn off the dreadful UI and make it go back to using the classic desktop style. But XP stayed relevant right up till 2013 when I changed jobs and no longer needed to use VMs as much... even then there was still one VM I needed to use that was supplied by head office. So XP for me was still in use when they EOL'd it, though only to run a legacy simulation in a VM.
I don't think it's cynical. there is no way schools reasonably and realistically thought they could control COVID in a university environment. If they did they were negligent. It's 100% about cashing the checks before the withdrawal period. Who wants to pay $40,000 for online classes.

Young kids is completely different we aren't doing enough and there aren't a ton of other options but to open schools. But in person college for adults? not a necessity
Autobiography of a yogi is a surprisingly good read. Also a fave of steve jobs..
@boltefnovor just commented about a related experiment [0]

> “Causal understanding of water displacement by a crow”

> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZerUbHmuY04

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24587342
also please ping me if you want a promo code. thanks again for the kind words! :)
You do realize that technically, while you are torrenting, you also distribute, right? Because that's how torrent protocol works.
Having not looked at any of the files yet, I wonder if it's just the changes that were made to WinXP for Xbox-use. IIRC throughout its' history the Xbox OS has just been a modified version of whatever version of Windows Microsoft is pushing at the time, with the OG Xbox being based around WinXP.

I'm very curious to see more come out as the code is picked apart piece by piece, and whether or not it'll confirm my suspicions. I'm also very interested in that Xbox folder, with any luck it'll be time to dust off my old OG Xbox and do some hacking!
Nice, thanks for sharing the demos. Was sharing it at work and its hard to convince people to install something to try it out.

I was wondering about the commercial side, because I noticed that the code responsible for turning it into a "hosted" notebook was kept outside of the main repo, which seems common in SaaS approached.

Anyhow, using it for teaching is definitely a good purpose! In fact, it's the use case which sparked my interest. At work we give trainings and the training materials [1] are already in Markdown, so making them interactive by merely annotating them seems easy enough.

I'm happy to see these DevOps courses take off, two years ago when I was finishing my bachelors in CS DevOps wasn't even part of the curriculum. Being able to implement algorithms and architect code. Now these courses are everywhere and well up to date with the industries best practices.

[1] https://github.com/eficode-academy
You can have it shipped from the US using iherb.com. There is no issue with customs for up to 5mg tablets.
It made me move into XFCE, GNOME focus in GJS and extensions everywhere is just too much.

KDE would have been the alternative.

I really don't get the hate against Unity.
Sidewalk for my own devices? Great!
Sidewalk for my neighbors devices? Nope.
Wait, it’s all or nothing?
Seems like a privacy issue.
> patches

People did this for the last version of opera that still used its own engine.
Finland, Denmark and Norway had less excess deaths the whole year and much less COVID19. It's amazing how people keep trying to make Sweden out to be a success by comparing it favorably to the worst cases. Detailed source:

https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
Which point is that? That git is very simple or that expecting an equivalent of "hg id" is unreasonable?
Oh.

That seems to have the same problem as Tor though, right. If someone controls most of the chain - as is easy with 7 online remailers, he sees what came from who.

edit: and anyway, that page doesn't seem to show actual IPs of the remailers, google doesn't help that much
In former GDR (Eastern Germany) there was a computer show on the radio where programs were broadcasted this way. Listeners could record the programs with tapes an then run them on their computers.
Appropriate to link to the classic “Falsehoods programmers believe about time” here: https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-program...
The BBC is perpetually limited to "not compete" with "real" companies. That is why you still cannot watch anything you want on the iPlayer despite the service having been working for long enough that they had could've really staked at out a claim for themselves. Even if you pay the licence fee they are still overly limited in what they can let you watch - in doing so the regulators have probably killed off the BBC's long term prospects amongst the younger generation (no one my age watches TV by default anymore)

The aforementioned might be why they've gone with the licence that they did.

If you wonder why the answer is successive Tory government don't like the BBC at an ideological and personal level (hence why the BBC ends up having to pay the once free licence fees of old people)
I’m sorry OpenShift, I’ve taken you for granted (the evidence)
I understand there's a whole lot of FUD behind rebase, but I still don't like it. To me, a project's branch structure provides a history of how it all went down, and when I'm trying to hunt down a mysterious change in the code, it's all information I can use to figure out exactly why a certain decision was made, and whether it was made on purpose or by accident.

I think rebase and squash go together in terms of what you want to get out of the VCS. If you want a clean history, where every commit represents a complete feature, with the knowledge that you can check any commit out and expect it to work, then squash and rebase are your friends. If like me, you want to understand the history of the code, warts and all, then merge is the way to go.

Also, I find I can achieve most of the benefits of a rebase workflow by just defaulting to git log --first-parent.
Get it, try to build it, see if you can make your own installer ISO and test it in a virtual machine. Ain't rocket science, just time and if you have it (which I don't) knock yourself out.
> I just don’t want more freedom and choice on my device

Then don't turn on root mode? Is that really such a large infringement on you? The fact that there might be an option in your phone, to turn on root mode, and the mere fact that this switch exists somehow mind controls you and makes you turn it on?

If an easy switch in the phone exists that says "Allow competing app stores to be installed", why can't you simply not switch that on?
Literally any major router brand?
This one seems to sample Terry Riley's "A Rainbow in Curved Air" which came out in 1969

Martian computer - 1972 (7K, reprocessed)
http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/assets/07074134.wav

Terry
https://youtu.be/hy3W-3HPMWg?t=117
The 4000+ extra COVID19 deaths they've had are years of life lost even if in the end the same number of people die. And their economic downturn was no better either.
Remember Blockchain? It Still Matters CMS Partner Writes
Zalando seems really nice. I have no connections at all, but they really won me as a loyal customer because I really prefer the experience over all alternatives (especially including Amazon and local stores for everything except really pricy clothing).

More importantly though, I am really impressed and surprised by some of the research coming out of Zalando. Flair[1] has some great ideas (especially at the time of release, when there weren't pretrained huggingface models for everything to build upon) and a really well-written paper. Colleagues also have had a good experience using the software and achieved very results with adapted NED tasks.

[1] https://research.zalando.com/welcome/mission/research-projec...
Depends on the size of the company I guess.
My observation in big corporations is that the layoff communications are delayed until the last possible moment so that they can keep the work going while the restructuring is being executed on a higher level. This makes sense from company's perspective but is hardly right towards the employees.
For a startup, I guess it's up to the founders to decide how they want to handle the situation. They can be right open and let the employees know bad times are coming and eventually rely on the employees to get out of the crisis or they can keep the bad news until the last possible moment.
Generally, the signs are: delayed salaries (for startups), less and less requirements towards your tasks and performance, detached management, lack of communication for future objectives and plans, reduction of "unimportant meetings", no plans for upcoming company celebrations (like Christmas), etc.
Fear of job losses to automation in ancient Rome
I mean subjects. Everybody - speaker and listener alike - gets tired and cranky from standing so long that only the actually important subjects are discussed.