skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, they talk them down, berate them more often, mostly involuntary cues of rejection. Most people would not talk back for the sake of being passed over for promotion/raises. I understand most Westerners wouldn't balk from the idea of talking back at them, but cultural norms in Asia effectively discourage back-talk against superiors, hence why it has been prevalent in SV for this long.
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Magpies and Currawongs hold "court" and shun members who don't conform to local rules. And, administer punishment in exemplary fashion in front of the community.

https://www.booktopia.com.au/australian-magpie-2nd-edition-g...
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To become healthy and slim , try to have one of ebooks , their is also for older people.
And, you could also get a free license through university (MSDN AA). That's how I got to run mine.
That Disney robot animated documentary was spot on
This feels like sarcasm but I honestly can't tell with fans of PRC's authoritarianism aka ""socialism" with Chinese characteristics" popping into various discussions about Chinese violations of human rights.
That makes sense actually, I was comparing to the Fire Sticks which are cheaper than the tablets but I guess the sticks can dedicate a lot more of the hardware budget to those internals.
I feel terrible for the guy. He has to be subjected to the full weight of the corrupt global system.

The elites are fucking crooks for allowing this. All billionaires crooks. They're crooks for participating and they're crooks for quietly tolerating it.
I love crows, their simply amazing. I have always befriended the local crows every time I move. Feeding them primarily. But the most amazing experience I have had with crows is. About 6 years ago I was walking behind the Albertsons next to my apartment. I quickly notice two younger crows watching me and flying ahead to where I was eventually going to be walking. So I'm walking along when I see 2 heads peek over the edge of the roof about 50 feet a head of me. I kept walking when all of a sudden this thing falls directly in front of me. It literally barely missed the pill of my hat. When I look down to see what it was I was shocked. It was a nail an old rusty nail. I've been seeing there this nail has been on this roof probably since the roof was put on. it had rust stuck and sticking off of the sides of it. I looked up and saw what could really only be described as a couple of a teenagers pulling a prank on somebody walking by. Here's where it gets crazy. Directly ahead of me at the end of the alley that was behind the Albertsons comes this older Crow. It flew straight at these two younger ones making a loud racket as if it was an adult young at a couple of kids because they just saw them pull this prank. I gave a little chuckle to myself as it kept walking. By the time I got around to the front of the store the crew that basically yelled at the younger ones flies twords me. Now I'm walking down the middle part of the driveway in front of the store so I've got parking to my left business to my right and customers going in and out of the business because it's right around 11:00 in the morning. The crow then flies just about arms reach away from me. It then what's up this light gentle little sound followed by my only guess is an apology. I smiled at the crow how did my head said it's all right. That's what I realized that about eight maybe nine people that were around us going in and out of the store are just standing there staring at me and this Crow as I walk alon. Crowbthen flies away and I get about another 10 ft before three different people go *what was that???" I didn't know what to say so I said sorry but that was a private conversation and kept on walking. Crow are so much smarter than we give them credit for. Remember crows are the only animals in the world that are watching us studying us and anticipating our actions. There's simply amazing birds. Thanks
I made a Twitter bot when this first came out that tweets random sounds from this every few hours: https://twitter.com/oh_sfx. A lot of different engine noises...
Unfortunately no, it can be a problem even for past dates. The new java.time and old java.util.TimeZone APIs use different offsets for dates < 1990, which resulted in a difference of 6 minutes and 32 seconds for my dates.

I filed a bug (JDK-8214243) but basically it's a known issue and there's no fix.
The settlement in L’Anse aux Meadows dates from the year 1000 and was excavated in 1968--basically a thousand years later. From the article:

> ...they asked the locals about possible Viking remains. One man showed them some grassy mounds on a beach [...] The structures turned out to be the collapsed remains of eight sod buildings originally held up by wooden frames.

What are the odds of grassy mounds surviving for one thousand years on a beach?!

This conflicts with my mental model of how mutable the world is. I would have imagined that the site would have been turned over many hundreds of times by storms, winds, or surges.

I understand ancient sites that last for thousands of years in the desert, or a cave...In ancient sites in the jungle, a thousand years worth of trees will grow over pyramids, breaking them down but leaving the stone materials more-or-less in place (though terribly weathered) and that seems like a much less hostile environment than a beach.
I think Kovid is awesome. He produces extremely high quality OSS for free and he's been doing it for years, while providing almost instant support to anyone that has a question. It makes me sad that people like to shit on someone doing so much good for so many people for free. By the way, kitty is amazing, it's the only terminal that properly renders wide unicode characters - even Alacritty has many bugs in this area still. And it's blazing fast, has a built in terminal multiplexer, and native wayland support.
I have a small script that essentially does:

FILENAME=/tmp/economist-$(date +"%Y-%m-%d").mobi
/usr/bin/ebook-convert "The Economist.recipe" $FILENAME --output-profile=kindle_voyage --username=[your_user] --password=[your_password] --keep-ligatures --smarten-punctuation --change-justification left --mobi-file-type new --mobi-keep-original-images

and then E-mails $FILENAME to my kindle address.

As a side note: I wish The Economist provided this service, but they don't. Instead, they started "enhancing" their mobile apps to include incredibly distracting, animated ads. I am very unhappy with how they are treating their readers. Also, what could these banners ads possibly be worth? $10/user/year? $25/user/year? Just let me pay more for my subscription and treat me respectfully.
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I think it's more likely that no amount of good practices and process will work if people don't understand them. The process still improves things compared to doing things ad hoc.
Ugh I agree I wish companies were into making cool stuff like this that I actually owned and only dumped data on to my servers, skipping the whole “you and your data are the product” bullshit the entire tech industry seems to be mired in.
I'm not American, hence can't speak for them, but I think it has a lot to do with America's religious roots in orthodox Protestantism and largely Catholic immigration.
I blame Libya on Europe, but the point still stands.
Even without having programmed in C/C++ for years, it doesn't sound very surprising that "concatenative builds" are faster - I assume it has something to do with the preprocessor having exponentially less work the fewer files you have?
It’s illegal so it can’t happen?
How founder-friendly are KISS vs. SAFE vs. Gust vs. NVCA documents?
If you’re actually working with dates (e.g. calendaring), storing dates as UTC is a potentially critical loss of information.

Basically, UTC is mostly fine for recording past events (e.g. event logs though even then pre-1970 events can be problematic), but for any future event it’s very risky, because time zones « move around » sometimes with very little heads up (down to weeks if not days for DST) but a user working in a specific time one expects their stuff to be fixed in their time zones’ frame of reference.

But of course this indices the problem of ambiguity around DST switch & other backwards TZ movements.
Imagine what could happen if you scaled up the space efficient crow brain to human size.
Then epic games, netflix, spotify and several other apps will have a tutorial on how to remove the lock, so that they can install the app or alternative appstores. And if apple makes it incredibly difficult to remove the lock, then company like Epic will sue again for making it so difficult to install 3rd party app stores (eg: Google play store)
Totally agree.
I'm not sure I would use ebooks if Calibre wasn't there.
Sure, some things could be improved like any app, but it does the job really well.
Maintaining such a big app is no small feat.
Sounds like something Alexa might listen for.
That is usually enough when recording events that happened at a specific point in time. Even then you sometimes want to record the offset in the user's timezone, so you know the relevant local time (e.g. when taking a photo).

But it's not enough for things agreed to happen in a specific time zone (meetings, contracts, subscription billing, etc.) In those cases you have to record the local time and timezone name (plus disambiguation for DST switching) and figure out how to handle changes of the timezone definition (e.g. by updating denormalized UTC representations or offsets).
Nice try salesman, nice try. Remember kis: Oracle has no customers, only hostages.
You're interpreting this in the way Apple would, not in the way eBay actually does.

>>In any communications with another eBay member, refer to or promote external websites that facilitate sales outside of eBay

>I would count sending a "letter" along with your product to be a form of communication.

This means one can't use eBay's messaging for promotion, but one can use one's own product. The way you're interpreting this would mean that no one selling in eBay could send letters (or even advertise) anywhere outside eBay because it might reach an eBay member.

>>Use contact information obtained through an eBay transaction to offer to buy or sell an item outside of eBay

>This would prevent you from adding the insert to the package.

This means one can't use the paypal address for direct mail for these purposes. However, you don't even have to know who the customer is to add an insert or to package your product such that it refers to your website.

>>Offer catalogs or other items that are used to order items directly outside of eBay

>An insert is effectively a mini catalog.

It's basically Google's rule on not promoting other App Stores in their Play Store.

Fact: Plenty of people do this in practice and eBay is not cracking down. Maybe it's not interpreted the way you think it is?
How many ebooks do you have? I have about 1400 currently, mostly math books, computer science books, papers. It's nice to organise that a little bit more detailed than the file system does. It is my MAIN library, I have just 20 or 30 physical books that I bought because I couldn't get them in digital form. Calibre is not optimal, but I am glad it exists.
Here, have some Vegemite.
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I've never heard of video continuation networks before and I would love to learn about it. Can you provide a link?
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Windows 2000 was the first rock solid OS from Microsoft, targetting both desktops and servers,but the desktop version was targeted at business users, not consumers. The consumer version at the time was the horrible Windows ME.
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Problem is many workplaces stuff your schedule full of meetings but still expect work to be done, usually by doing the actual work in the evenings or weekends.
> This is clearly a hugely important case.

It really isn't. It's a simple extradition case. They're going through the procedure to make sure the extradition is lawful, but that's simply checking that rules have been followed. There's no element here of "did he do it or not?"
Maybe a good starting point to contributing would be helping to migrate to python 3?
Europe is far from blameless in any of this. Frontex and their deal with Turkey and everything surrounding the management of the crisis is absolutely infuriating. "We" are as bad as the US for not making a stand and even enabling them.
Well, there are many other ways to invest, the stock market probably being one of the easiest as you say...
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I generally store those as midnight of the next day, but figuring out when to display those as 23:59 of the previous day and when to display them as 00:00 of the next day can be tricky.
Do you need the outside app to have access to bluetooth, location, storage etc? And if apple restricts the storage, then a company will sue apple again for the restrictions saying that the iOS photos app have unrestricted access to photos, whereas an outside app doesn't.
Instead of state, it should have tutorial and example to build command line and a game etc.
Not the main point of Calibre at all, most of my books are not nicely readable on a Kindle anyway.
Because it's not a book-reader, but a suit of tools for ebooks. Which includes managing them, receiving data from certain source, reading them, converting beetween different formats, automating certain managment-tasks, offering a web-interface as also desktop-interface, and finally also managing synchronisation with many many ebook-readers (for which the mounting is neccessary). And it BTW has a very elaborated plugin-system which allows to add even more that what it can do out of the box.

It's more justified to call it an IDE for Ebooks.
also, the implementation we're talking about is not a complete implementation of the PHP language.

It's easy being faster when you're doing less.
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as far as I understand, PHP web applications don't benefit from a JIT that much. Each request is like running the entire application from scratch, which is why the opcache can help so much.
Great metaphor

"Here’s where the metaphor really breaks down but stay with me: imagine if you wanted to break into a house but you didn’t know how. If you knew they had to open their windows when they baked, that would help you sneak in."
Google says Kovid is an Indian origin name but I have never heard it in India.
Also, the Norse had a somewhat different idea of what wine is; if the Norse did indeed talk about berries they could make wine from, then they probably meant currant or something similar.
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When migrating from .net's TimeZoneInfo (based on windows timezones) to NodaTime (based on tzdb) we ran into differences in the mid nineties for the German timezone.
I like both sides of the argument. I would want the Steam store in Xbox or PS. But making that probably will increase the cost of console as they cannot subsidise it.
I wonder why Facebook built HipHop and HHVM and PHP 8 is getting a JIT then.
> "Remember, all of the talk about 'distributed' and 'trustless' for just about any blockchain is a lie. Just take a look at the mining pool statistics to see how many organisations are really in control... e.g. for Handshake, the largest two mining pools control about 60% of the hashrate, meaning that only two groups (possibly both run by the same person) control the whole chain. So much for decentralized!"

But that was what some 3-letter-agencys did to the Tor-network _about_ 'decentralisation'

Quoting from another topic not far away: Are governments, oligopolies or even monopolies ? A rival it never saw coming, a rival it didn’t take seriously when threatened and even refused to

- 'given the chance'

?? Whe did it go ?? ...where had it gone ?
Truffle is an integration layer for interpreted languages in GraalVM. The canonical Truffle language included in the Graal distribution is GraalJS, a replacement for the now deprecated Nashorn JavaScript engine for the JVM. Similarly, TruffleRuby is an alternative to JRuby and GraalPython is an alternative to Jython. Neither of these Truffle implementations has gained traction and they will not until they fully implement the main frameworks for each ecosystem (Ruby on Rails and Django/NumPy respectively).

The same will hold true for a Truffle implementation of PHP. It will need to support the C interface components like PDO database drivers and the Laravel web framework.

The linked project was created as part of a graduate thesis and demonstrates the feasibility of GraalVM/Truffle as a performant polyglot platform. I'm not convinced that Ruby/Python/PHP integration with Java Bytecode is an important use case moving forward. It could have been when Rails/Django/Laravel were on top of the web framework game but the demand for this use case is diminishing.
Mine just wants me to breathe into this tube so he can measure my lung capacity. Do it every now and then to make sure dosage is ok.

Regular xrays... does he own stock in the xray business?
The minorty report is already here. For better or worse.
The BBC do definitely make and take profits from their productions.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/11/top-gear-bbc-j...

The key is, I think, that a UK resident should not have to pay anything (other than the license fee) or be subject to advertising to enjoy BBC content.

So something produced for a UK audience can be sold outside the UK and the profits used by the BBC to make more content.
The money was in limbo due to a bug in a contract. There are contracts (monsters) that scan for such bugs and situations to profit from them. The guy tried to save the money from the monsters and failed.

The situation was worse since it happened already in the mempool where the pending transactions reside.

I am dabbling a bit in the Tezos currency and environment and find this 2 language projects interesting aimed to increase safety: https://github.com/metastatedev/juvix (alpha) and https://archetype-lang.org/
Not saying it might have helped in the concrete case.
I recommend a thorough read of ISO standards and accompanying documents.

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/projects
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There are companies already trying to apply this technology, even for payments. Although I don't really see this latest use case, there are other creative applications.

https://lisnr.com
To me there is a step difference between things like DRM it activation count limit vs disowning the user from his PC. One is creating a channel for bona fide purchases of licenses (you don’t need to buy music with DRM, it’s fair enough if vendors want to limit distribution of a product to the original buyer). The other builds spyware into everything you do with your computer and takes away control of it from you.

The analogy would hold if, dunno, buying some DRM Music also made you relinquish the ownership of your speakers to the vendor. It’s not quite as bad.
I'm pleased to see that this compiler is designed to bootstrap itself.

Until now I wasn't aware of any open-source C compilers that support 16-bit DOS real mode and can also run in 16-bit DOS real mode. (OpenWatcom is far too large and DJGPP is strictly 32-bit protected mode only.)
No, though depending on what you do, win32.hlp is still valid (you'll need to replace the Win10 winhelp stub with a real version from an earlier version of Windows though since Microsoft hasn't released a Win10 version of winhelp).

However your best best is to find some MSDN CD/DVD image that still uses CHM and use that. Also note that the Win32 documentation apparently went through a ton of conversions and in the process some entries were lost (in that the API docs are there but the docs are missing parts).

The official docs site has PDFs for download but those are automatically generated from the section you are reading and they have cutoff points that feel arbitrary (so you can't go to the highest section for Windows and download all docs). You can find a PDF for the Win32 API reference for handling windows[0] but it contains only the reference and you need to go to another place for the guide (in comparison the win32.hlp and MSDN documentation had both).

These PDFs are also awful, they look like printed websites, they have zero grouping (the sidebar bookmarks are per header file) and the bookmarks are even broken (clicking on one will move you +/- 1 page off).

The "source code" for the docs is apparently on GitHub[1] but it looks like a conversion to markdown and not the real source. Though theoretically it could be possible to parse it and create a proper CHM (or whatever) file out of it since the docs are there [2]. Sadly it only includes the reference and not the guides (but they might be somewhere else on that GitHub account, there are 2300+ repositories, so good luck finding it :-P).

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/_winmsg/

[1] https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/sdk-api/

[2] https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/sdk-api/blob/docs/sdk-api-s...
Show HN: Video Transcoder on the browser using WASM
Hello HN

Modfy is a purely browser-based privacy-first video tool capable of performing tasks like converting, compression, etc without uploading your files.

I thought it would be cool to process video in the browser using Web Assembly and FFmpeg

The project is also open source and based on https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm

Let me know what you think!
I have commented this here earlier this week : the EU is a trade-bloc, the rest is posturing.
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Ah yes google bankrolled the entire development for no reason. Get real. Go was specifically created for novice programmers at Google to write more safe code then C without them actually having to learn anything new.
To really troll software developers they should repeat one hour three times, instead of repeating two hours twice.
Your life would probably look very different if you'd thrown those pebbles at the crows like you originally intended. Crows can carry grudges for a very long time.
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In theory yes, in practice, which electric car charger has a built in 3kw inverter for backfeeding? Have you seen how large a 3kw inverter is? They are also not cheap. Secondly, most homes aren't metered in both directions. What is the ROI of one car plugged into the grid in this system? How much does it depend on how long the vehicle is actually plugged in and whether it is plugged in at useful times.

Taking the number above for installed capacity of pumped hydro. You are looking at nearly half a million cars and homes to match the capacity (assuming 50kwh per vehicle), before considering the plugged in factor.

At say a nice round £1000 to upgrade each home you are already looking at a cool half a billion. Already around the cost of the Dinorwig pumped hydro station before you figure out how to compensate electric car owners for the extra wear on their batteries or the fact that when they leave for work their car is flat because it has been powering your neighbors electric showers.
Isn't it more likely that deaths from other kinds of respiratory diseases are being re-classified as COVID?
I've seen some demos and it kind of impress watching two mobile devices communicating while being in airplane mode :P
As opposed to where? It is one of the few platforms that would allow a post like this other than security info forums, but if you aren't looking for credits on one of those 4chan is about all that is left.