skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The copy-protection MAFIAA (a joke acronym, Movie and Film Industry Association of America, a hypothetical super-beast merger of the vicious & loathed RIAA and the MPAA) spent a while going after BitTorrent itself too, in a similar manner, as a potential tool for piracy.

Thankfully plenty of people were also using BitTorrent for things like distributing Linux distributions & creative commons material.

That, again, may perhaps save the day.
Buying a generator is as poor replacement for grid power as starting a WordPress blog. If you want to live an off grid life in the woods you might as well blog like it’s 2004.
No, this isn't over the top. This is a root causal issue. The blackmail system's tendrils reach deep into the political and business establishment, and until that is addressed, policy initiatives will continue to be abated by this type of control. It doesn't matter what your policy wants are, or what side of the isle you choose to align with (if any), if the blackmail system can usurp it by being a more immediate threat.

Epstein wasn't a one off. There are many more Epstein's you haven't heard about yet, still doing their thing. They don't do it alone either, you have intelligence agencies of all kinds involved, because of the power differential it offers them. This is the machiavellian realpolitik of power. Lets have the courage to talk about it and not shirk the responsibility to do so.
Most murders are among people who know each other.
More time required = more bouncing users.
I even skip a 5 sponsored ad on youtube. I have no patience for this stuff. The first thing I do is scroll to the comments to see the list of thing the video says (for example top 5 things to eat, or whatever), as I have no patience for these videos being longer just so they get ranked higher, because that's the metric youtube is currently using.

I read HN headlines + top comments, because I have no patience to read a 20 page article that is badly written, or is written in such a way to get more pageviews.

You want engagement? Give me high quality content. Short, long, doesn't matter. High quality, dense content.

The internet is full of fluff. It's like everybody is using this xantham gum these days.
Using OAuth and OIDC with Golang
Why Getting Paid for Your Data Is a Bad Deal
I work with julia every day and really don't spend much time waiting for things like compilation or precompilation.

> It’s unbelievable that the Julia core devs still haven’t addressed it. It is not fun by any means. Not even tolerable.

While I never really thought this was a big deal, the Julia devs certainly do, and I'm a little upset on their behalf that you'd say this. An amazing amount of developer time and effort has been going into reducing loading times and compiler latency lately. The currently release, 1.5.2 is leagues faster at package loading than the previous version and the upcoming 1.6 release candidate is even faster.

They recently implemented multi-threaded precomilation and have been going on a method invalidation crusade doing largely thankless work to deal with exactly this sort of whining.
Greate work! Does the WebWorker execution comes with any performance issues ?
It Might Become the Scariest Part of Your Commute: The Elevator
Thinking of a good name for your startup/project is hard
People put some hate on Australia for mandatory voting: it's actually only really mandatory turning up: you can ruin your ballot paper.

That said, compulsory voting isn't a panacea but it does reduce the impact of apathy.
Wouldn’t you want to compare the s20 to the 12 pro max?
>When people say "violating section 230," rather than correcting them it's more instructive to understand what they're trying to communicate.

I think the first priority is to ensure that the poster's misinformation (i.e., telling people that 230 says/does something it is explicitly designed not to do) does not propagate through this medium. It's a public forum, not a conversation with just the poster.

Then, if possible, you can engage with their disfunction. But given the weaponized role of misinformation today that's the first item in the checklist to be addressed.
> Because this is about distribution, not a home copy. You could copy and paste the test code into a terminal window and download the video. That’s not the same as a home recording.

...yes, it is? What difference are you imagining?
What can we learn from that bubble to help us tell whether this one is close to bursting?
DJI Mavic Mini 2 unboxing, with new features revealed
Downloading a video is not distribution. Uploading a video to others is.

Downloading a video is same as recording it to a VHS and serves the same purpose.
It's approximately halved in Julia v1.6 BTW. It's not perfect but continually getting better.
That's not true though. It's everytime I want to do anything with Julia, I need to wait upto a minute or two. Gadfly takes ages to pre-compile.

Closed your terminal session? You're outta luck. Wait 2 mins please. Launch a notebook and want to start working on something? Wait 40 seconds. Wanna check something quick in Julia REPL session? Wait 7 seconds. Let me run this Julia script, wait 55 seconds.

I feel like the entire community should stop doing what they're doing and fix this issue. I am afraid, it is difficult to fix otherwise it would have been fixed by now.
Since infrared neuromodulation has been shown to be able to directly modulate neurons without genetic modifications, what is the advantage of optogenetics?

The question sounds adversarial, but it's really just due to my lack of knowledge in this area haha
I appreciate what Slava has written here. But I noticed something odd about his recommendation.

He noticed that doctors can get through the bullshit because they have contact with patients. It's anecdotal of course, but it seems common in caring professions. Why else would anyone be an underpaid grade school teacher?

But Slava doesn't come up with an exact parallel for programmers. He suggests studying the history of technology, and reacquainting oneself with the sheer fun of building things. These are maybe good, but he doesn't seem to be telling a story of how he recovered from disillusionment. At best he's speculating that these are things that might work. I suspect they won't, because they miss something important.

Nobody is sincerely thanking us for doing these things.

Unlike doctors and grade school teachers, if programmers had more contact with end users, they'd probably get burned out faster. The things we build rarely make anyone happier.

There are ways you can justify the work - creative destruction ideology, or maybe you can delude yourself into thinking that mashing together APIs is somehow getting the world closer to some better future. And maybe they are even right.

But are people really meant to work this abstractly? This detached from outcomes? There's nothing to propel you through the bullshit.
I write crazy algorithms all the time, but I guess I have a more research oriented role. Ultimately someone has to write the crazy stuff you want to glue together, and the more productive those people are the sooner you can have those libraries available. As a user of this code I think there is a be benefit to you being able to read the source behind the algorithms without wading through esoteric FORTRAN, C, and/or CUDA.
It's not Github/Microsoft's responsibility to make legal determinations about whether a particular DMCA takedown notice is valid.

I completely agree, on the other hand, that a takedown notice issued knowingly without proper grounds should be penalised severely.
The current release candidate for 1.6 does exactly that. In parallel.
If you wanted to see what you posted two weeks ago, is it possible with new interface? Let's say it was to a Facebook Group?

I've been struggling with this and also with finding that cool post I saw on my Home page just a second ago and now I can't find it.

Overall, my currently unavoidable experience with FB is one incident like this after another...

It's like me saying, I want to know if--

and then Facebook ignoring and interrupting me to say, forget that shit, bro, look at this instead!
The constant "Out of Sync" errors in Syncthing make me think it's not so great at it's first job.
In Britain, the farming community and the gypsy community know each other. About 20 years ago, there was a high-profile shooting in Britain, this article from the Guardian gives an overview: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/19/audreygillan

It's a bit too bleeding-heart for my taste, even the Guardian admits to policing difficulties, there's little surprise that someone might take the law in their own hands if the government is absent. You'd guess similar dynamics are at play in South Africa.
The first person who pulls the trigger has a big advantage. Guns are quick and fairly incapacitating, so a determined attacker has a big advantage. This isn't MAD.

Even the Hollywood-style "a good guy stopped a shooter" scenarios often only stop further, not initial, shootings.
IME there needs to be a purpose to be worthwhile. Is it for entertainment or professional development? There are lists of books that people make, e.g. Bill gates, the singer Noname, Obama's. This way the effort of selecting a book can be outsourced or the group can democratize it. Pick a theme, nominate books, then vote. Call it what you want, happy hour or book club, but meet online and be ready to have a discussion of your and others' ideas.

Also, the discussion should not be a battle. If the group cannot appreciate considering opinions or thoughts on a piece of literature then it might not be a good group to be a part of. Do you judge people for holding non-consensus opinions? inb4 moral relativism, so it's a function of company culture.

Sounds like you have either experienced a bad book club, or have contributed to a bad book club. Touchy-feely things might feel awkward in the workplace so its probably beneficial to avoid books of that nature and stick to subjects where everyone has a valid opinion.
I live in Chicago. The state has its problems and the city has its problems for sure. However, things are crime rates are definitely exaggerated by people who don’t live here. The amenities of the city in my opinion are through the roof, albeit very much limited right now due to COVID.

The one thing Chicago has that many other cities don’t is space. Chicago is surrounded by land so there’s no lack of supply. My opinion is that’s what keeps prices down.
Picks up the mouse and speaks into it: "Computer?"

Classic scene: https://youtu.be/xaVgRj2e5_s?t=171

Star Trek isn't my favorite sci-fi show/movie, but they really nailed some futurism and in this case, lack therof.
I have no opinion on the Facebook designs but I'm so tickled to see this post. What a blast from the past! I thought "the new Facebook design sucks" posts died out ten years ago :-D
I don't think it's fair to say that it has not been addressed.

See this recent blog post for instance: https://julialang.org/blog/2020/08/invalidations/
This article, dated 6th November 2013 was clearly posted here to have a particular discussion, and to push a particular political agenda. It was posted by somebody who posts only right, conservative, and white-supremacist talking points to HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=rbecker).
An oft-covered topic in science fiction! My favourite take on it is Permutation City by Greg Egan... it's from 1994, but reads like it was written yesterday!
Choosing the Management Track
"Everyone" meaning a few people who care more about the social network's design than communicating with the people who use it? I find it very hard to believe that there's going to be some kind of mass de-platforming event that leaves Facebook a ghost town. Maybe because of changes to political content policies, but definitely not because of UI changes.

Snapchat has gone through a number of major, controversial redesigns. It's definitely not going anywhere (at least among its target demographic). Facebook is far more entrenched than Snapchat; its target audience is less quick to switch platforms as well.
> regularly predicting recessions is a sensible approach,

No, its not, because recessions do not occur on a regular pattern. And even if they did, its still possible to predict them much more frequently than they do occur.

> and saying ZeroHedge overpredicts is wrong.

Just doing a quick search, ZeroHedge seems to have predicted a recession, counting only predictions with a one year or shorter forward window, literally every year since the end of the of the Great Recession. In many of those years, they made at least one prediction where the window was effectively negative, as they claimed that the US was already in a recession that just wasn't yet recognized.

So, yes, ZeroHedge significantly overpredicts recessions, as they have predicted not less than 11 of the last 1 recessions.

> The normal financial press are reckless in assuming that recessions are not imminent.

That's a non-sequitur, in any case.

> Looking 5+ years into the future to assess the present state is prudent.

Sure, but if ZeroHedge was consistently predicting a recession within 5 years, they'd still be overpredicting by quite a lot (not if this was 1950-1990, but it isn't), but they are much, much worse than that.
The Chinese software startup I worked for used self-hosted gitlab.
Ah, sorry, I misread. That makes this less-apocalyptic.
Von Restorff Effect (The Isolation Effect)
This amounts to explaining that a $20 hammer is better than a $10 hammer when you frame your own deck. It really is, but that tells you nothing about the equipment a contractor needs to operate a construction business.

The majority of programming tasks don't need anything better than Java, and don't need anyone more expensive than the typical Java coder.

Low-latency trading is not one of those tasks. In low-latency trading, as in poker or any other zero-sum game, you either rip the other guy's heart out and stamp on it, or get your own heart ripped out and stamped on. Using any but the best tooling and programmers means you will be that second guy.

So, anybody serious is using C++17, coded by people who understand cache interactions, branch prediction, TLB shootdowns, and core isolation, and who avoid lockless queues because of the cache-line pingponging. If you don't know what all that means, you are not the right person to code low latency trading.

They are not the hardest core: the sharpest players farm the simplest, most time-sensitive operations to FPGAs. But FPGAs take tradeoffs that make them not right for everything, and FPGA coders are not just programmers.
My main use on youtube-dl is downloading videos to watch them in places with slow / unreliable DSL.

Watching a youtube video on a slow (1k) DSL has become entirely impossible because a few years back youtube (seemingly) stopped buffering the entire video, so you can't start the video, pause, go do something else and watch it once it's loaded. Not only that, but it really does not handle either temporary disconnections or high latency spikes well.
Well, that's a staggering amount of misleading, unproven or incorrect claims for a site that claims to be a fact checker.

> Africa Check is a non-profit fact checking organisation set up in 2012 to promote accuracy in public debate and the media in Africa. The organisation's goal is to raise the quality of information available to society across the continent.
Flym has no ads, no account and is free.
Agreed.

> If you are a US citizen, anything less than a vote for Biden is a vote against democracy

If no candidate appeals to you, exercising your right to vote but spoiling your ballot sends a message far better than not voting or being bullied in to voting for somebody.

The fact he doesn't even mention spoiling your ballot as a valid option speaks volumes about how much critical thinking he put in to that brain-fart.

Do these people think they are exempt from being fascists?
Valid point, I refer to card not present tranx, but are you sure the 0.41% is when via the mc/visa network though (even if we accept an interchange of 0.2x), many of these cards in europe have an alternative national pay network for local cards - you will actually see the choice on some POS screens too. And asia too - TPN dual branded with err can't remember that name of the Chinese pay network that has failed to infect se Asia now, ah unionpay
Facebook rolls out UI changes in less valuable markets to gather data to verify their changes don't decrease engagement.
Posting about how the new Facebook design sucks on a blog which I can't read because the blogging platform sucks.
Chaos Engineering is fault injection being incorporated as a core aspect of a production system. So whereas in the 1970s fault injection might have been more used in the development and test phases, Chaos Engineering also includes a bunch of persistent services knocking out key aspects of your production system.
Thanks for the tip :)

Halved the page load time with code splitting.

It's still a relatively fat client that needs to get loaded at page load (handling end-to-end encryption + client-side SQL with sql.js), so there isn't too much I can do. But I think the site loads at a much more reasonable speed now.

I also noticed the site isn't working in webview and is exceptionally slow there, looking into that.
"If you don't believe me, then that's OK, that's up to you."

I didn't say, suggest or imply that I didn't believe you. I stated my alternative experience and asked for more information about yours.

"the media even covers the near constant revolts of activist employees"

From what I see, those are arguments between people who believe in Thing A very strongly and want to act on it and people who also believe in Thing A but would rather not make a huge fuss about it. But the number of people who don't believe Thing A, in the extremely diverse and heavily populated areas I have lived in, are very tiny. For example, I almost never encounter people who think we should censor sex more, or ban abortion, or not fight racism or oppose police oppression, or that we should in any way oppose LGBTQ rights, or enforce religious ideology on the public sphere, etc.
Your #2, summarizing, isn't what I usually see in these "here's what people are saying on Twitter" stories. The valuable version that you're talking about would have to include things like polls or something, saying "20% of people agree with this idea, 5% agree with this other idea, etc." Instead, these stories just say here's some tweets that are really edgy/funny/gotchas/something I agree with."
Instant. No OS. Whatever address word you put into the 6502 reset vector ($FFFC/$FFFD) it will happily jump to on power up or reset and start chugging right along. The PPU (aka GPU) takes roughly 2 frames (33ms) to "warm up" and receive information, so, you want to wait for that by polling PPU_STATUS ($2002) with BIT and waiting for BVS twice when NMI fires. It is a good idea to disable decimal mode, disable audio IRQs, set the stack pointer, and zero the memory in a loop. Any booting and loading speed is entirely code dependent.
https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Init_code
Yeah sure the new design makes poor use of screen real estate, but the deal breaker for me is the memory consumption and extreme lag when using it. I find it extremely surprising that Facebook’s flagship product fails to leverage React’s optimizations.
QuiteRSS has filters.
This does not have anything to do with knowledge. C/C++ build systems are archaic if not broken.

I literally wrote a compiler but still spend 15/20% of my development time trying to find the right not user-friendly CMake syntax, understanding while my Conan dependency broke overnight, or writing header files that could be automatically generated by the compiler (à la GHC).
I left a comment about my own non-infringing use cases of the tool earlier — and I think it’s important that the non-infringing use cases get mentioned.

Having said that, can we please stop pretending like any of us weren’t using this to infringe copyright? Most of us weren’t distributing anything, but I think most of us were aware this was at the very least a grey area, if not outright infringement.

I’m a huge fan and user of youtube-dl and think this action from the RIAA is ridiculous (though not surprising — I’m a little surprised it took this long) and that the law over this stuff is absolutely bonkers — but the commentary and false pretenses about not just how we use the tool but the purpose for why the tool was built is incredibly disingenuous.

It was built and designed to download content that the creators or sites that host the content either didn’t want people to download or outright didn’t allow. The program has support for username/passwords for TV Everywhere SSO’s for premium services. There are ways to tunnel in via a proxy to avoid region block downloads. Again, I’m a huge fan, and I’m someone who absolutely used these features, but let’s not pretend the purpose wasn’t exactly what it is.

That doesn’t make the RIAA’s actions any better or anything — but I really dislike pretending like we weren’t all using the program for the exact purposes the complaint laid out, or that they use case wasn’t the primary reason this tool existed.
People have complained about Facebook design changes for over a decade.
A condo? Houses are still insane
Good luck getting an answer, though.

"The job posting actually covers a number of internal positions with different salary ranges" is usually what I hear when I try asking.
Upcycling waste plastic into valuable molecules
https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer is a good resource. I went there because I was surprised how good the project worked. I found some really great docs and learned quite a bit from the code.
Some really thought they were. And some said they were, even if they didn't really believe it.
Facebook Continues Its Bullshit with Oculus Accounts
There's perhaps some regional confusion here. In the U.S, with conventional 30-year fixed mortgages, amortization and term are the same (30 years). There are also adjustable-rate mortgages which have a different term, eg. a 7/1 ARM has a fixed rate for 7 years, adjust annually thereafter, and is paid off in 30 years. Although ARMs are occasionally pushed by banks, most finance sites recommend against them and savvy buyers usually steer clear, because lots of buyers got in a lot of trouble from 07-09 because of them.

I gather, from this thread, that this is not the case in Canada and some other locales. But in the U.S, if you have a fixed-rate mortgage, your interest rate is fixed for the full length of the loan. It sounds like the OP is from Europe, where I guess things work similarly.
I don't think the second digital divide will happen. At least not around no-code programming. We do a lot of no-code in enterprise (see my profile), and I can say for sure that non-technical Gen Xers and millennials are absolutely comfortable with no-code tools.
They are technically different questions, but think for a moment about what the speaker is trying to achieve.

This is not talking with a friend, making pleasantries. This is at work, getting paid, by a company, to learn how low an offer they can make for it to be accepted.

Pretending that the conversation is anything except that, is serving the interests of companies who try to do exactly that.

Telling someone that what they perceive is not what it is, that what others can perceive is not what it is, is like flickering the lights on and off, and saying nothing is wrong, and asking why someone is so upset.
I applaud Julia developers for their work. They just haven't focused on the UX of using Julia on a daily basis. I have been forced to use Julia as a maintainer (not author) and I feel totally exhausted, defeated and uninspired after working on Julia code.

Just being honest and voicing my opinions. If it hurts the people that worked on it for years, I am sorry.