skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is truly awful on the mobile app, too. (Though the actual streaming games work pretty well). MS makes frameworks but a lot of their UI ideas are really bad: "Metro", the Office ribbon, new control panels in Windows, setup "wizards", etc.
How does one roast a two millennia dead politician?
Dumb implies you don’t have the ability to learn.

It takes a lot of cognitive dissonance to both be a person of faith who believes in something that’s not at all scientific and be a scientist.

I bet even most religious people who read texts from other religions dismiss them as fairy tales much as everyone alive today dismisses the Ancient Greek/Roman gods.
>You're right, I guess all of the heavy travelers I know are just stumbling around in the dark and don't know what's going on.

If they're corporate travelers spending somebody else's money this is usually the case.

>I've used a bunch of them for corporate travel, and at no point has it been a breeze. Knowing what fares are available on specific flights, seat assignments, etc. lets me get exactly the experience I want, without 'hoping they got me the seats I like' or anything.

It sounds like you've just worked with the big shops that offer a terrible service.

>For hotel bookings I don't see what advantage they have over either the basic hotel websites or calling my status hotline for assistance in tricky situations.

Because of programs like FSPP, STARS and MO fan club you're essentially always going to get better value by booking through a travel agency the hotel has a relationship with.

>In all cases the travel agency removes my agency to work directly with the airlines or the hotel to fix issues.

In all cases the travel agency is in a far stronger negotiating position to fix any issues. If the hotel screws up something I'd much rather have my travel agent yell at them and arrange compensation for me than spend time dealing with it myself, the outcome will always be better this way because his business is worth much more to the hotel than mine.
OB–4 – Portable high fidelity loudspeaker
Sodomy is illegal in Iran. This has statute citations, but I don't know where Iranian laws are posted. https://pridelegal.com/iran-lgbt-laws/

Point being there is no such thing as a universally 'tolerant' moral system -- no matter what stance you profess to take on a given issue of this type, it will be discriminatory against very large groups of people (billions of them).
GitHub Actions Demystified – What are GitHub actions and how they work?
Also, I think the issue isn't contrast, but line weight
Like that famous song,

"Don't say he's hypocritical, say rather that he's apolitical. 'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down, that's not my department', says Wernher von Braun."
Bow for the chosen one!
> I (and many others) are of the opinion that you can’t truly be apolitical; claiming to be so is its own form of politics

This seems like a fallacy. X may be undesirable, but it's impossible to completely rid ourselves of X. Therefore it's pointless to even worry about reducing X. Thermodynamics tells us that we can't ever reach absolute zero. Therefore I don't have to put the groceries away in the refrigerator.

No person or organization can be completely apolitical, but they can aim to be minimally political. And that difference is substantial. Only a maximal postmodernist would dispute that the NRA is orders of magnitude more political than the IETF.

Similarly we strive for our courts to be free of bias. However jurists are flesh and blood. They'll get hungry or sleep and that will affect their mood. Yet we'd all be horrified if a judge openly declared "Ya know what? I hate Dutch-Americans and plan to rule against them in every case regardless of the facts"
An API design for data that changes over time (No, not streams)
> Again, just web search them. No one remembers all of the instructions by heart, there's just no point.

Another good tip: download the official architecture manuals, they're freely available for the most relevant major architectures (and for x86, both Intel and AMD have their own version). They're monstrous doorstoppers (several volumes with many thousand pages), but include in excruciating detail the description of every single instruction, with the advantage that they'll work even if your Internet connection is offline.
I understand the points of praise, but let me offer a counter argument. Companies have an obligation to defend the system that provided the environment in which they were formed and flourished.

This election is a bit different than normal. I've never seen a sitting president that would not commit to the peaceful transfer of power. You really think that coinbase would be where it is if we had that for the last 50 year? You think silicon valley would be silicon valley?

I don't.
Most common bash/zsh syntax works in shell. For most day to day shell usage, I'd say:

* get comfortable with stdin/stdout/stderr syntax (and redirection)

* get piping down pat. It's so useful.

* practice using &&, ||, and ; to sequence commands

* know how to use ENV=value to override env vars, and understand how env vars work

* yak shave a bit and make some aliases/functions in your shell based on your usage patterns

From here, it gets esoteric pretty fast, no matter what shell you're in. But you have enough concepts to figure out you need from there.
> Something like ngrok could help there, with good network sandboxing on the user's local device.

ngrok only works because there's a company willing to proxy someone's traffic for free. In that sense "using ngrok" doesn't solve the issue, it only pushes the problem to someone else.
These are awesome. This makes me want to try hiding information as a very-low-frequency signal superimposed across a whole stream of images...
A counterexample is mysql: its licensing scheme combines both proprietary and copyleft ideas.
Imagine being a slave and hearing this guy say it's all within you to live a happy life:

>For to those who have not the means within themselves of a virtuous and happy life every age is burdensome
I like your semaphore idea a lot! Might be a good primitive to put in fish.
My 2c:

* Companies, like the rest of the world, are now hyperconnected. We have slack and email and so on. This makes it a lot easier for similar interests to connect across a massive organization, which is a boon for special interest groups, like anime, or magic the gathering. Or politics.

* Companies muscle in on workers' identity. Workers respond to work over email/slack during their off hours. Workers pop open the laptop at home, even pre-covid. Companies try to justify this with a sense of pride, you should be PROUD to work for the great conglomerate XYZ. And guess what? If I'm proud to work for XYZ, as a worker I'm going to expect a consistent worldview that XYZ is aligned with my values. But my values are also tied up in my politics, so now I'm expecting my workplace's values to be consistent with my politics.

* The simple fact is that many companies are overwhelmingly a monoculture in terms of politics. It's easier to make your workplace political when 90% or 85% of employees are liberal anyways, as opposed to say 60%. This is largely a demographic thing, at many companies the target demographic for hiring is a strong overlap with certain political ideology (You are looking to hire a young, 25 year old computer scientist living in a big blue city who graduated from PresigiousUniversity. What politics do you think this person likely subscribes to?).
Yes! The excellent TIG forums

https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php

The dev logs are particularly illuminating. Lucas Pope spent years self-chronicling the evolution of "Obra Dinn" on these pages and its fascinating to see how the "dithering" effect came together from raw experimentation ;)

https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.0
It's work which is enabling freedom, something that people are unfortunately giving up far too much of these days...
Unlikely, intrinsics are CPU, and sometimes CPU model, specific. Compiler builtins will instead use the intrinsic if it's available/suitable or generate equivalent code if it's not.
I've used Firestore in the past, and would not use it unless you absolutely require the scale out.

You trade these things to get scale out:

- SQL joins and queries regardless of your schema.

- Enforcing public interfaces for reads/writes.

- Zero latency for admin operations.

- Global transactions.

- Auth logic written directly in your language, running where your data is.

The trade is not worth it if you do not use the scale out feature of Firestore.

I would just go with HTTP/websockets, typed language, SQLite and a single VM until you prove you need to scale out.
Yes, maybe. I would say maybe 4h per day on week days, and some more hours on weekend. And then the last couple of weeks I spent even more than that, maybe upwards 10 hours, or more. But then I was at an immersive course, where we where only allowed to speak french.
When I travelled France I also lived a couple of days with an old retired wine consultant. He only spoke french, and when I got back from day trips in Provence, I would sit with him and just talk and drink wine. That also helped a lot.
"For a long time, this volcanic island was one of Europe’s poorest countries, as only a small portion of the land is suitable for agricultural use and Iceland possesses virtually no natural resources. Thus, Iceland never developed into an industrial nation – the prosperity it achieved toward the end of the 20th century was due to the country’s booming services sector."
https://www.erih.net/how-it-started/industrial-history-of-eu...

Do you know the thinnest books in the world?

Swiss Humor

Italian heroes

German lovers

English cuisine

Icelandic industry
I don't know what political issues affect bakeries today, but infamously, being any sort of consumer business in the US (particularly in the South) in the 1950s and 1960s was extremely political.
But that's not exactly the same. If I'm working part time at Starbucks, but no one comes into the store, I'm still paid my hourly wage for being there. If I'm logged in to Uber and Lyft and waiting for a ride on both, and no one calls one, do I just not get paid? I'm still providing value to both companies by being online (users of the app see a quicker pickup time since I'm available). Right now, rideshares are only paying you for doing the actual tasks, while most jobs pay you for the task AND time spent being a warm body who will jump to do the next task.
I mean, it's undefined behaviour. The current transformation is correct, but so is the one proposed in OP's link. In fact, any transformation would be correct, as would nasal demons.

An actually interesting question might be: which of the correct transformations is the more useful?
I said this in a sibling comment, but I think the confusion is:

> I think what's confusing is there's two different wages being thrown around here: Are drivers guaranteed at least $16.39/hr, in addition to $0.56/minute and $1.33/mile driven while transporting?

> The questions I think are mostly about the former, not the latter.
Also note if you're an English speaker and pronounce 'mozzarella' using these rules I will secretly hate you.
Very interesting. It is great that one can export it to Anki too. Does it handle incremental exports properly? For example, I export the vocabulary today with 10 words and import it to Anki. Then I add 5 more words and export the whole set again. If I import it into Anki, will Anki remember my history with the old words?
1.0 Released - MicroBlocks Empowers Teachers and Kids Who Love to Make and Learn
This is the best tool for physical computing. Kids and adults alike will love it. The 1.0 beta has been released today. Time to give it a try! And only if you've actually tried it, what do you think??
So many of these major companies are extremely vocal about LGBT+ rights but it's all just lip service, the second it comes down to money the whole thing goes out the window.

Look at Apple they were very proud to tell us about their pride themed watch face and emoji, yet some developer within Apple had to write the if statement to disable these graphics if the device is in Russia [1]. By choosing to take a stance on these issues but not willing to take the monetary loss you're causing someone in your organisation to write that if statement which could even be interpreted as an active act of oppression to LGBT+ people.

If your company truly holds these values then there shouldn't be even a question about giving up that revenue for the greater good. Until that moment then its just performative, taking advantage of those communities for the sake of advertising and headlines.

If money is more important which we know it is because you wrote the if statement, well maybe leave politics at the door then.

[1] : https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/31/17803638/apple-watch-prid...
Cicero is one of the Roman gems that people tend to miss out on. He lived more than 2000 years ago, and written many works on Greek philosophy (including the works of Plato, Stoics, Epicureans, et al); and some of his own. He often claims that he doesn't take sides, but aims for what is most "probable". Although, in some cases he leans heavily towards Stoic ethics (despite his love for Plato's Academy).

Besides the "On Old Age", some recommended English translations of his works:

• On Duties — this volume is divided into three 'books'; the first 'book' covers Stoic ethics in highly compressed form. Recommended English translation: "Cicero On Duties (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)"; it also has very useful footnotes.

• Tusculan Disputations — horrendous name (more correctly called: "Discussions at my villa in Tusculum"), but excellent content. It covers five themes ("disputations"); two of them written when Cicero was grieving from the sudden death of his daughter. I suggest these two translations, which cover the five themes: (a) "On Life and Death" (Oxford World's Classics); translation by John Davie; – this covers the themes 1, 2, 5, and other essays; and (b) "Cicero Emotions", by Margaret Graver – this brilliant volume covers the 4th and 5th disputations, with unparalleled commentary by Graver.

Bonus: "On the Good Life" (Penguin Classics) also reads well. It has two parts from "On Duties", and a few essays by Cicero, including one on friendship.
This is a very low effort comment. Can you go through the effort of describing the viewpoints you find fiercely debated and why you think that, please?
This is an interactive demo that lets you explore how to remove certain wavelength-related (frequency) content from an image. By wavelength, I mean intensities that vary by some rate-of-change of pixels either across horizontally or up-and-down vertically in the image. The low-cut slider sets up a threshold below which content is removed, and the high-cut slider sets up an equivalent threshold above which content is removed.

I think it is interesting because it reveals a couple things. First, that most of the content we find essential to the image is in the low-frequencies (the high-cut slider can be moved very far left before the image appears altered). Second, it demonstrates that a sharp cutoff of frequencies results in ringing (oscillations) in the image (the opposite is also true -- a sharp edge in the image will produce oscillating wavelength magnitudes in the frequency plot).

This method of removing wavelength-related content (called Fourier Filtering) is very precise in terms of cutting out specific frequencies, but the effect can be undesirable in terms of producing images that appear smooth and artifact-free (no blemishes). If you want to produce a smoother image which has certain periodic content removed, you would have to filter it out gradually in the Fourier representation (called filter "roll-off") instead of a sharp cut-off.
Now we're getting into the good stuff :)

You are not being pedantic at all, friend. I must concede to you your point that it is true that one of those words does not belong and it is of course the third. Samizdat of course includes so much material which displays writer-diplomat skills that I mentioned, and so often for higher stakes as it often is with intellectual or literal guerillas. I sometimes forget how much my Americanized way of looking at the world colors my perspective -- thank you for giving me another one.

So perhaps it is the thing that needs to be dissented against, which polarizes existence itself into assent-dissent, by which I am harangued. And so I find myself, like that singer, musing upon how some Godhead must have forsaken us, the alternative avenue to our present fate being at once far more plausible and yet horrific.
Ask HN: Best static site hosting that's not Netlify?
TL;DR — I'm looking for static site hosting that's not Netlify or one of the big tech companies (ie. no Google, Amazon, etc.) where I can upload files and login without using OAuth and associating another account (ie. Email and password).

I'm looking for a new place to host a few static sites as Netlify's free tier has been a bit too flaky for me (I use a monitoring service to check that my sites are up every few minutes throughout the day and at least from where I am Netlify appears pretty spotty), so I'm looking for alternatives.

My only real requirements are the ability to upload files. Git support (note, "Git", not "GitHub" like Netlify has) would be a plus, or maybe rsync or SFTP, but this isn't a hard requirement. I'm okay paying a bit too, but I'm not looking for an inexpensive VPS that I have to manage myself. Finally, it would be nice to be able to get an IP from them that's only assigned to me. I've had trouble with my sites being blacklisted in the past, presumably because something else using the same IP on Netlify or other shared hosts I've used was serving spam.

Finally: nothing owned by one of the big tech companies. I'm looking for something smaller and independent that I can support and not use Google/Amazon/Microsoft/etc.

EDIT: another requirement is the ability to log in without associating an external account (ie. good ol' email and password, not just OAuth or what not).
I’ll try to find them. They where about a small boy in Provence. I believe they are quiet famous in France.

For the audiobooks I tried to do books that I had already read myself previously. I found that to be better. So for example Bilbo (the french audio version is excellent) and Little Prince, for example.
>> Flying 100+ times a year

Anyone flying that much does so in a very different world. Even without flashing cards or identifying yourself, airline employees and computer systems know you are valued customer, resulting in a very different user experience. This can be as extreme as you rarely ever being bumped off of flights, or as subtle as help lines pushing your cell number to the top of a wait queue. Like it or not, if you fly 100+ times a year you will get special treatment.
"the real harm here will not be to Uber," Uber said. "It is the drivers who cannot work..."

The city's researchers found that drivers made an average of about $9.73 per hour.

For reference, Seattle minimum wage is $16.39/hr. This appeal to employment is disconcerting, as ride sharing apps are doing their workers no favors by paying them so poorly (including the lack of benefits).

When talking about jobs, especially in the US where so many benefits are tied to employment, a job with pay so low and no benefits should not be considered a good thing.
Old slashdot then. AFAIK and IIRC it was user moderated (and there was a fascinating system around metamoderation.)
Or it's just acknowledging that it can be disruptive and divisive at a place where your goal is to focus and communicate effectively.
I've heard of that term before. But when looking at

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Format_war

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_obsolete_technology

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fad

and so on, I fail to see a reason for some of those failures. Seems arbitrary/random to me.
I have met a flat earther. Before that I thought it was just a joke.
I just used blacklight with my own site and found a perfect score.

My site costs me essentially nothing* to host (netlify and aws serverless technologies that are mostly under the free tier).

*My highest cost so far was when I was debugging serverless websockets and had a bug in my code that caused constant messages between the browser clients I was testing (which I left open for a day when I started work). That cost me $7 dollars.

I have my own service-hosted playground using little more than git and a few cli tools.

We need to rebuild the ad-free web.
> Taxis existed before Uber and others.

To be fair, taxi service in seattle was quite awful during the pre-uber times. It was usually best to pretend they didn't exist unless you were at a location they congregated frequently (the airport, for example).

Hopefully, the prompt and transparent service that came with Uber is here to stay even if the company itself isn't.
Are you mark wiens?
I’m using Pop!Os (preinstalled) with a sys76 laptop. Works great (can even game) battery life is terrible (though it looks fantastic and can drive a 32 inch high dpi external)

I can switch to built in Intel video for better battery but it requires a reboot. I see this as a stopgap. My home machine has an amd video.
When they pulled out of Austin it didn't take long before a bunch of replacements pop up. This isn't a tough problem to solve anymore.
I love it! Superb tool. Simple and elegant. Not complex and frustrating.
There is a compiler bug in GCC 10 that causes VLC to crash with some files but not others:

https://bugs.debian.org/971027#10
This all makes Coinbase more attractive to me. I probably won’t be deplatformed no matter my ideology which is a desireable trait.
> We had internal meetings more or less instructing employees how to vote.

Is that legal?
I'm 50 now, and this is going to be hard for me because I've got little practice in dealing with disability. Even now, I'm about to run a celebratory 50k rather than my usual yearly 42k marathon. I will never again break my best time, but it's my annual proof that I can still do this thing.

And yet it's coming. Bifocals are in my near future. I have very preliminary symptoms of prostate trouble. I'm not used to needing any kind of help for anything or having to take a pill every single day, but I need to get ready for that, because it's going to happen. Not today, not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of my life.

It could have happened at any point. I'm incredibly fortunate to be so healthy. I ate well-ish and exercised, but lots of people do more and become disabled through accident or less fortunate genetics. I think Cicero would agree that I've lived more or less nobly; I've done my best, or at least my pretty-good.

I'm not afraid of it being over, but I'm trying to figure out how to deal with "the same ills would befall him and all other old men". I don't expect acquired wisdom to suffice: I honestly don't think I've gotten any spectacular insights "reason and good judgement". As for the "old men [without whom] no state would have existed at all", I really don't think posterity is going to look kindly on us.

Posterity isn't really what I'm worried about. I just want to live a decent life, where "decent" has always been defined as being able to continue to do what I've always done. Doors will gradually close. There's a tee-shirt that they sell at marathons to the tune of "Some day I will not be able to do this. Today is not that day." At 50 I'm able to see the point at which today is that day. I've got a while to adjust to it, but the adjustment itself is uncomfortable, and Cicero's not really making me feel better.
Their line of synths is great, but a radio which doesn't support DAB? How am I going to listen to 6music?
One of the guys that article cites clearly has some less savory beliefs about race (that I disagree with, people are mostly the same the world over) but man did he do a good job predicting the ideological battles lines of 2020 for someone writing in 2012.
I remember they said that already 2 years ago. :(