skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest gripe I have with modern (ie. the post-Sun era) Tcl is the steaming mess that are channels and their encodings. Good luck trying to do anything 8-bit clean with those.

For a simpler, cleaner alternative, you might want to take a look at antirez's jim tcl
Linus Torvalds hails historic Linux 5.10 for ditching defunct addressing
You can always send up more satellites though.

At some point, the orbit is full, but I assume that is very far off.
I don't think that's the case at all. Consumer should be by far the biggest market. They've focused a lot on reducing the price of the antenna, manufacturing in volume, and making setup super simple. None of that is very relevant for commercial or military use.
I'm a Swede with two siblings living in Oslo, Norway, and from our chats and their shared photos on our family chat I can tell that either way the Norwegians are clearly more nature inclined than Swedes even. For them, "gå på tur" ("going in a hike tour") is apparently something that can be done more or less any day of the week, while in Sweden you probably plan that for the weekends mostly.

Mentioning that as the article was in fact primarily using Norway as an example.

But then, also in Sweden I think we might have a somewhat higher inclination to be outside than in many other places. Like, even in the freezing winter, the number of bicyclists commuting to work in Stockholm is quite large.
Looks like it's not open source http://forum.featool.com/Queries-about-software-license-td20...

They mention using some open source solvers, so in that sense you could say that the open source COSMOL was already sitting around :)
Telemelt: Web-Based Multiplayer Multiemulator
Hey everyone,

I'm documenting my journey of learning the Rust programming language with blog posts that are easy to understand (hopefully), especially for people without a systems programming background (like me).

I'm accumulated a bunch of articles already an decided to create an every growing twitter thread where people can follow my journey and learn alongside with me.

Hopefully this is useful for some people out there.
I second this. Recursive descent is so good. I've used it for all my languages with no issues.
Eek, you are responding to my comment as if it was a freestanding response about archival copy and law enforcement work, when it was specifically in response to someone saying he was using it for neither. It's not surprising it makes you cringe, but please consider in context.

> the quality drop; recompressing, non-matching frame rates, non-matching resolution--all the same goes for audio.

Are you trying to preserve quality or prove something? My response was in context for "gathering evidence" but not police work, and not archival quality. Would such a copy cause your problem to prove libel, copyright infringement, illegitimate disclosure, etc?

> performance; must be done in real-time, cannot queue up multiple sources

Can most definitely queue up multiple sources. Just make a youtube playlist and record it. Yes, it takes "real time latency", you'll take 10 hours to download 10 hours of video in general -- that's not an issue for evidence or gathering in a non law-enforcement context.

> metadata, organizing, indexing; likely hand-typed separately, prone to error, prone to not knowing if you've done that video already.

Again - consider the context of my answer, NOT archival quality anything. The "cc" stream GP mentioned, which can be searchable etc - has also seen many revisions for many files when the Google STT algorithms are revised, and with corrections.

> Chain of custody; grabbing the original video allows you to prove two identical copies match (using file hashes or other comparisons) screen recording makes that difficult to impossible to confirm--maybe with fancy AI you'd have to run by the courts?

You have no chain of custody. You can prove two downloads are the same, but YouTube does not guarantee they keep the file the same (indeed, they've modified files several times, changing formats and even remastering old '80s videos). If a file is later pulled (which is what GP was talking about), what are you going to compare it to?

Chain of custody is law enforcement business. They'll get the files from YouTube directly, with affidavits and statements about it and any modifications, if they need it in court. You are going to civil court, and youtube-dl is not making your evidence more valid than a screen recording.
Yup, with MPV I can watch video on a Pentium M without any dropped frames, and this is on a computer where the web is largely unusable.
I'm the same, a lot of personal projects have notes on paper.

But I've been keeping a daily work-journal for the past few years, and that has been very handy. I have one org-mode file for each company I've worked in, and each day I insert a new block with headings that make sense "Meetings", "Stories/Tickets/Projects", "Problems", etc.

I make notes of commands, recipes, and tag things literally so get an integrated tag-cloud and this is exceptionally useful when I want to lookup how I did something a few months ago, or more!
I made a tutorial series on emacs and org mode: https://mickael.kerjean.me/2017/03/20/emacs-tutorial-series-...
Process Herpaderping – obscuring the intentions of a process
> None of the vaccines currently on the table are even remotely good enough for 'back to normalish.' The attack rate for this virus is so high that a vaccine good enough (i.e. multiple 9s effectiveness) to allow 'back to normal' almost certainly isn't possible.

Is it? Current studies, AFAIK, give very variable attack rates, from low zeros to around 30%. Only higher if due to close contacts for longer periods of time (carriers, fishing boats, meat packing plants). This preprint on trasmission dynamics and evidence from September[1] has lower figures.

> Everyone who's alive now will almost certainly need to socially distance (and should wear an N95/KN95 mask in public indoor spaces) for the rest of their lives.

I wonder how we're even supposed to build a society that can live without any or very reduced form of contact. I think it's socially unsustainable.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3692807
Yup. That book and Donald Norman’s Psychology of Everyday Things completely changed my trajectory.

Great video. I’d never heard Postman speak before. Thanks.
Personality in Open Source
Starlink will already be the largest satellite constellation by two orders of magnitude. To replace cable they'd probably need another couple of orders of magnitude beyond that. And satellites are not the only limited resource; spectrum may be harder to come by.
U2’s Songs of Innocence Has Haunted Me for 6 Years. Until Now
> Examples:

> https://www.cbsnews.com/news/uk-man-jailed-over-facebook-sta...

So a guy posted "grossly offensive" or "of an indecent, obscene or menacing character", and infuriated everyone around him to the point that he had to be arrested "for his own safety,"

> https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/arrests-offensive-face...

Legislation passed to prosecute racist hate speech.

> https://thesuffolkjournal.com/26253/opinion/detainment-of-br...

A woman was arrested due to her “willfully and maliciously engages in a knowing pattern of conduct or series of acts over a period of time directed at a specific person".

> https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/count-dankula-freedom-s...

An opinion piece that just shows someone's opinion.

You should pick your examples more carefully because all you did was try to pass off people actively engaged in systematic abuse and harassment and persecution of vulnerable people as victims.
That phase 3 study for the Oxford vaccine is already underway, and its initial findings are what the article is referring to. It was one of the first (possibly the first, I'm not entirely sure) to enter phase 3.
https://www.github.com/ctjhoa/rust-learning is a good compendium of resources.
Certificate Pathways to Cyber Security
> I consider your suggestion of encouraging clamping down on free speech too dangerous to discuss. By your logic should I be able to prevent you from expressing it?

On your own website or forum, absolutely. It's your property. GP has no right to use it that you do not expressly grant.
There's at least another paper detailing this phenomenon[1] so for sure it warrants further investigation.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-020-00808-x
The first versions were open source asking for funding by donations. Although I would have really liked for FEATool to be open source (and I think such as tool would be ideally suited as such), unfortunately not having any form of funding but my personal savings, it was needless to say financially unsustainable (not to say that actually its financially much easier now).
I Think Bluetooth Is Finally OK
Also nice to mention is Organice: https://github.com/200ok-ch/organice

It's a web SPA made for mobile devices.
I trap segfaults in my firmware, save off a stack trace, restart and then log it. Is very useful.
I think the article is talking about just eval day, but for sake of argument:

I learn better when im not hungry.

There is also some research that suggests chewing helps learning https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/acp.3467
You can keep it all in one file, along with the code and results of its execution.

That org capture template will feed new data into a table; below it, in the same .org file, you can keep your R code and your Python code and whatever other code you prototype (I often write Elisp code), and you can execute all that code inside the .org file.

This approach is not giving you any new features, it's just optimizing for convenience. Think of .org files as Jupyter notebooks on steroids :).
> I've seen folks like that everyday in pre-covid times, it becomes glaringly obvious once you know what to look for in their behavior

I’m curious, what are the telltale signs?
Why is New York Post big deal?
The temperature increase can happen during the night. Increased CO2 might benefit plant life making the planet greener.

Is it too late? It probably is.

Nth order effects will have the most impact. Methane leaking from Siberian ice is equivalent to 125 years of 2019 CO2 emissions. When that happens it’s over.

Species extinction and habitat destruction are currently driven by industrial and agricultural expansion and pollution.

We talk about oil spills or methane leaks but the agricultural waste flowing down the Mississippi destroys more life than oil spills every year.
About a year ago bit the bullet and learned emacs, mostly for org-mode because of all great reviews. I made it my primary editor for about 6 months, which forced me to become familiar with it.

Now I've dropped it and I'm back to vscode and Roam as my life management system. Maybe the time I gave it was too short, but I didn't feel like org-mode or emacs made me more productive - the opposite. I spent so much time fiddling with configuration options, trying to understand elisp, finding the right emacs/org-mode packages, and so on. Yeah, these things felt productive, but in the end they were are a waste of time that got in the way of getting work done. Also, let's not talk about the time where emacs just crashed and lost several hours of work. Apparently the default config (I used Doom) didn't think it was important to handle that case.

Perhaps things are different once you've use Emacs for 5+ years and are intimately with its ecosystem and packages. So, if you decide to go that route, it's a long-term investment. Don't expect any productivity gains soon.

And honestly, even after using org-mode for 6 months for pretty much everything in my life, I didn't think it was that great. Yeah, it's pretty good, but I don't think it quite lives up to the religious hype it gets from some users. People are going to downvote me for saying this, but IMO org-mode is a pretty neat but outdated piece of technology with most of its following coming from people who grew up with it and have used it for 10+ years. The power comes from their familiarity with it, not from org-mode itself. It's not that great.
90k people told to evacuate because of wildfires in Southern California
A wildfire that nearly quadrupled in size Monday, prompted tens of thousands of people to evacuate and caused two firefighters to suffer critical injuries may have been started by a power company's equipment.

Southern California Edison said a power line may have played a role in the ignition of the Silverado Fire -- which has burned 7,200 acres near Irvine -- a report filed with California Public Utilities Commission shows
I actually use JDownloader instead to download YouTube videos and playlists.

And I use youtube-dl to download content from other sites, like nrk.no, svt.se and bbc.co.uk.
Facebook itself is bullshit to begin with.
It seems fairly short sighted after the last decade to not assume there is also a military, state, or data collection side to a tech startup's business case.

There are definitely applications for this in all those sectors, the onus should be on Starlink to confirm that they don't or assume they are – particularly in light of Elon's recent announcement about SpaceX weapon drops.
Shared servers represent a built-in connection pool. They still use one process for each connection.

Oracle uses a thread model in Windows (one "orcle" process, each connection is a thread), but not on Unix/Linux.
And yet it does!

Case in point: my default reaction to see SaaS-style "pretty" page is to close the tab. I have my reasons to avoid SaaS as much as possible, so if my brain pattern-matches your site to a "generic SaaS" design, I almost immediately lose interest.

Am I a minority? Maybe. But then, I'm also org mode's target audience.
Microsoft purchased CitusDB a while back, so you can expect many many contributions to Postgres to be from Microsoft now.
Is payroll API the next big thing
May his nonexistent soul/spirit rest in peace.
Requiescat In Pace
> But Michigan's beauty cannot be matched by any other state except possibly California.

Nowhere in the midwest, including Michigan, is even remotely comparable to the mountain west (Colorado/Utah etc) in terms of natural beauty.
We use the logo in the wapm website [1].

Using a non-accessible logo that is hard to read provides a non-ideal experience for our visitors, so we can't really use it unless it becomes more polished.

This forced wapm to use a different WASI logo than the "official" one, which is also a non-ideal experience (it adds fragmentation). That's why we believe is just better to push all along a bit more polished logo.

Is such a simple thing to fix, that I'm surprised of the amount of flamewar that it generated.

[1] https://wapm.io/interface/wasi
I have the same use case as you describe and it's not unreasonable to conclude that right now Julia simply does not offer anything that R does not. It seems most Julia users are more in fields like numerical computing or scientific simulations and such, where it does offer clear advantages. But if you just want to run some of the statistical tests you learn in undergrad or want to explore some data R is just a better choice right now.
Same in London - it feels like almost every vehicle on the road is a private hire Uber in central London.
What makes orgmode great is currently emacs only:

- Babel, for literate programming, similar to notebooks, which is to me the most important feature
- agenda
- all the key bindings helpers to insert / set / move things around

Most of the basic features are available with any editor, markdown and pandoc.

- text files, so git-able
- lightweight markup
- export to anything

I have been using emacs for org mode only, for a decade or so. Org mode is a lot more than a note taking app.

I would recommend using doom as a starting point for vim users willing to try org, as it sets good defaults to get right into the good stuff.
Encrochat hack that brought down hundreds of criminals faces legal challenges
The study is tailored to the standards of vaccine approval, of course it is. They need to prove safety and efficacy, so they design a trial which will allow those factors to be measured.

Kind of difficult to prove efficacy if you don't know how many people in your trial were infected with the disease you're trying to vaccinate against though. But do bear in mind as mentioned in other comments this participant was not in the phase 3 trial, and phase 3 is where the immunity given by a vaccine is tested. Phase 1 and phase 2 are much more constrained studies intended to determine if it's safe to give the vaccine to enough people to evaluate immunity.
Your analogy makes no sense. RIAA is arguing YouTube-dl is a tool designed to download copywritten material from YouTube because YouTube-dl included test cases in their own code for downloading copywritten material from YouTube. The existence of other streaming sites or other functionality of youtube-dl is completely irrelevant. YouTube does not need to be a party to this, the RIAA is just connecting the dots to make their own case. Their claim is that YouTube-dl is a tool for downloading copywritten material from YouTube because the creators of YouTube-dl literally tested for that in the codebase.

It’s a pretty easy case to make. Any other use of the tool is again, completely and totally irrelevant.

To be even more clear I’m sure YouTube-dl is a useful tool and I think such things should exist. However, this is an important lesson when making and owning these tools. Don’t do the RIAAs work for them.
Your comment made me idly wonder if there's a way to make an ISA which lends itself both to fast (even for low-gate implementations) hardware, and to fast JIT-ing.
I'm from the UK and I'm used to hugging friends, male or female, as a greeting when I see them in the pub, and again as a goodbye if they came to my house and left.

I moved to Finland where physical contact is less typical, and less common. But it seems that most of the people I've met seem to enjoy the hugs I take for granted and usually offer.

Some people say "No hugging", or "Ahh yes, you're British we must hug now.." with a bit of a smile. But on the whole I've always been one to touch friends and people I'm close to. I've always regarded physical contact as an extremely important part of communication.
The Konica Minolta document center in the workshop is on a dedicated surge suppressor (ESP unit) as recommended by the Konica Minolta service tech, which I picked up from eBay (the surge suppressor, not the tech) for around $150 a couple of years back. The laser printer in the closet is on a APC UPS surge only port that was, AFAIK, rated to handle a laser printer, specifically a HP3600n. I suspect that most lower-end or consumer grade UPS devices, and certainly an $8 surge suppressor from Best Buy just ain't gonna be up to the job.
Do this level of advertisements really work? Ie, reflect into more sales?
You can never go wrong with Java.
Amiga 1000 Phoenix Project
Proxy support is a standard feature of all browsers. It's a necessity because in some network configurations you don't have direct access to internet, but only through a proxy.
Yeah, Wikipedia had a page about Wikipedia sockpuppets since 2004[1], 3 years before HN existed. Although I am quite partial to the MC Frontalot lyric about HN sockpuppets[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sockpup...

[2] https://youtu.be/Op1i0B8-dJA?t=57
Sure, others may keep a low profile, but one less on the street is a good thing. And I doubt that most of them can keep a low profile - only the elite of islamists can pretend not to be, the vast majority is obvious. The same applies to all extremists.

I don't like the concept either, but short of deporting them wholesale, there's little other possibilities if you wish to live in a society tomorrow.
There are undoubtedly military applications and it's not a secret conspiracy or anything. The US military has already tested Starlink and it's been publicly announced. SpaceX is already a military contractor in other areas, of course. But the consumer market is bigger. It's not an afterthought; it's the main event.

And AFAIK SpaceX's funding for Starlink is a combination of their own revenue from launch services, and private VC. So it's not correct to say that the military is "bankrolling" Starlink, except to the extent that they buy unrelated launch services from SpaceX.
I have the exact opposite experience WRT Tcl channels when compared to other languages.

Handling binary data is pretty trivial, e.g. to read a full binary file into a binary string, you do:

set h [open "filename.bin" r]
fconfigure $h -encoding binary -translation binary
set data [read $h]

Then you even have a fantastic way to operate on low-level binary data of any endianness using Tcl's binary scan /binary format instructions [1] (basically what Javascript later invented as DataView).

Tcl was one of the first languages I knew that properly and consistently supported multibyte text throughout the full language, including in Tk GUIs. I.e. writing a cross-platform GUI that could handle Japanese character input/output basically "just worked". You could even read ShiftJIS or ISO encodings of japanese text, which was at the time a prerequisite as Japanese Windows versions were non-unicode (everything done in ShiftJIS AFAIR).

[edit] here is a real-world example of a trivial script handling binary data [2]: reading binary RGBA 4 bytes/pixel image data and outputting RGB 3b/pixel into a pipe that finally outputs a .PNG image. It's difficult to find a programming language that can do that in less lines and with more clarity.

[1] https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/binary+scan

[2] https://stech.muecke.pw/opensvn/free/trunk/dkbin/nn-fbtopng
Oh. The pro-CCP pro-firewall pro-surveillance fanbase is here !
I know it's difficult to comprehend but: Antifa is not an organization while "Antifa Sacramento" might be an organization.
Maker Dao tokens valuation by a VC
Isn't there already DRM that works by encrypting the video stream and only decrypting / decoding the video stream on the TV? Or at least, in some sort of closed-off execution context?

I'm thinking of Widevine level 1 DRM, for example. If I remember correctly, it mandates that all of the decryption has to happen in a "Trusted Execution Environment", which seems to mean a hardware enclave. I think this effectively locks the user out of the whole decryption phase, which means that you don't get to record your screen.

I might be wrong about this, though. Might have to do a little research.

(Funnily enough, just looking for information right now turns up this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21307308 HN post, which does contain some interesting information)