skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of a parallel expresssion in mycology:

> "Little brown mushrooms" (or LBMs) refers to a large number of small, dull-coloured agaric species, with few macromorphological uniquely distinguishing characteristics.

> As a result, LBMs typically range from difficult to impossible for mushroom hunters to identify.

> For mycologists, LBMs are the equivalent of LBJs ("little brown jobs") and DYCs ("damned yellow composites") that are the bane of ornithologists and botanists, respectively.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_hunting#Little_brown_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damned_yellow_composite
No, this does not involve gene drives. The mosquitos used here have to be released repeatedly to keep the natural populations down.
Twitch displays frequent popups claiming ad blockers may impact site performance
Reminds me of this article:

> How a hidden coding error fueled a seven-year dispute between two of condensed matter’s top theorists.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17819420
Ah, too bad that the sequencer mode is being delayed.

For about 20 years now, I'm still holding my breath for a MIDI sequencer that runs on Linux and has all the functionality and user-friendliness of Cakewalk 3 (http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/images/6/63/Player_-_Cakewalk_Prof...).

Sekaiju (https://openmidiproject.osdn.jp/index_en.html) is open source and is 95% there in terms of the user interface, but alas it's Windows only and I'm not aware of any effort to make a Linux port. (Don't suggest Wine, because trying to get MIDI to work with that is a nightmare. A nice thing about the current MuseScore is that MIDI playback works out of the box.)
For anyone interested in additional resources, MIT has some courses taught by Peter Shor and Isaac Chuang on quantum information science [1-6].

[1] https://www.edx.org/course/quantum-information-science-i-par...

[2] https://www.edx.org/course/quantum-information-science-i-par...

[3] https://www.edx.org/course/quantum-information-science-i-par...

[4] https://www.edx.org/course/quantum-information-science-ii-qu...

[5] https://www.edx.org/course/quantum-information-science-ii-ef...

[6] https://www.edx.org/course/quantum-information-science-ii-ad...
Tragically there have been so many instances over the years I've come to the conclusion it's part of the Human condition - even a good education doesn't eradicate it (although it helps).

Take the classic example, just look at how completely bonkers millions of intelligent Germans went during the 1930s.

The condition I'm afraid is incurable. What's even worse is that it seems that under the right circumstances anyone can catch it.
Also funny how an article is taken as gospel, where there are tons of counter-examples...
Have my upvote.

> My opinion: I think deep down these people feel they are rationally wrong for voting in a president that promised to, and now is actually attacking USA's democracy and freedom which used to be touted as America's strong point.

I think you underestimate peoples distrust of mainstream politicians.

Many find Trumps suggestions abhorrent, but still support investigations. Think if this happened to "your" candidate:

- There's no doubt that Twitter and Facebook has been uncritically spreading false rumors about Trump only to turn right around and supress the H.Biden leaks, even after it was clear at least some of the juicy mails was cryptographically verified. If Twitter had been posting a warning everytime someone pretended the "fine folks on both sides" hoax then they would have been in a better position now. Same if they had come up with the rule against hacked materials when Trumps tax papers supposedly leaked.

- Ballot collections

- Sweeping changes to election laws

etc etc.

I dislike Trump, but it is hard to not get some sympathy for someone who has managed to get a number of really fantastic peace deals, have finally started to improve lives of people in the midwest - without hurting the coasts - and yet is hounded by almost every mainstream media outlet.
Meme chains definitely are a progress compared to eponyms, but personally I hoped we would make a slightly bigger jump this time.
Lock picking is illegal in some places such as Hungary.
Have you audited the IPv4-codepaths?

Your comment contained no information above "I don't trust it".
Yes, I hope this will not be the case for musescore!
The vast majority of shareholders aren't Warren Buffet.
That post is from 2019-6.

I don't know how the v repo looked at that time but just in the last 7 days it had 19 Pull Requests authored by 11 different people merged. Along other strong activity indicators.

https://github.com/vlang/v/pulse

That's gotta be the most active vapoware project I've seen to date.
Maybe if it uses some GPL/A-GPL code in there it might need to be?
These could be part of the storage device firmware and require an unlock code from a trusted environment.
Limit the air exposure.

I imagine methane synthesis will beat some thinglike this out. Pipeline infrastructure exists, is convenient, etc.
As an irishman, I am deeply offended :)

The British class system is undoubtedly rooted in English history, and I'm sure there are plenty of deeper roots too. That class system was/is obviously deeply impactful here. That's why nationalism, republicanism are so intertwined with anti-classism in our modern politics.

But in some sense, roots are arbitrary . The cultural memes and tendencies it manifests aren't the important part. Cultures, power structures and everything else aren't uniquely english, I'm loathe to admit ;) Occupation, social circles & cultural memes are pretty central to class equivalent parts of modern culture.

FWIW, the early modern period isn't generally considered anglo-saxon, at least politically or linguistically. It does does have an ethnonym connotation in all post anglos saxon periods, including the present.
This particular protection mechanism is bypassed by all browsers when they access the content. Are browsers infringing too?

Clearly what is most important is the intent. In this case, it is very clearly RIAA's intent to make the aforementioned videos obtainable publicly via the use of HTTP agents. Browsers are HTTP agents. youtube-dl is an HTTP agent. Either they are all infringing or they are all not infringing.

On the other hand, it is clearly the intent of my door and lock to keep people out.
Finding meaning in other people liking things you've done/said/found seems extremely human to me.
If publishers valued user experience over ad income, they wouldn't show ads to begin with.
Not bad. Cyclical efficiency around 40 percent is at the low end of fuel cell efficiency.
To allow for humans to process requests.
In addition with the title (coming from the site), being a little bit excessive, i have the feeling that the author is too naive. (Willingly or not)

The student was deported for cheating an exam. On one way you can consider that he had too much stress, but another way to think is that this foreign student did not have good honesty values from the beginning. And was used to take shortcuts.

Looking at the messages from the student blaming the author for the code that he had 'received for free', that he made the code even worse, that he did not understood what the code was supposed to do and also looks like did not audit it prior to usage, that he has 'no time to do it from scratch', makes me think that the student itself is to blame and that, as cheating for the exam, was thinking he could just use/copy the work of someone else and complete is thesis with minimal effort and research work.
“I think the title is a bit misleading.”

It got you to read it, didn’t it? I’d say that’s pretty good.

As to the rest of it: Gahh. If you’re struggling, talk to staff. There’s no shame in it; you’ve already bared your soul to them by doing a degree in the first place, and they’ve seen it all before.
Will Artificial Intelligence Lead to Mass Unemployment in the Movie Industry?
only if the furs can be claimed from dead minks several days later
The really wealthy can:

1. ...use a margin loan collateralized by their stock to purchase the property for cash, paying a 0.8% (variable) interest rate on the outstanding balance (potentially avoiding 5% in real estate broker fees)

2. ...deduct 100% of the interest - regardless of the amount - as an investment expense.

3. ...then borrow the same amount, buy a nice, conservative 20+ year bond fund like TLT, and use the 1.6% dividend to pay off the interest on the margin loan for both the property and the bond fund :o

Margin is a wonderful thing, if you've got the collateral.

Happy I plan to close my re-fi on 11/20, though.
Google is an advertising company. It would make sure there is a way to get your site indexed, perhaps by providing an alternate machine-readable version just to them. As a bonus, that version would not be available to potential competitors.
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/how-many-gallons-of-fue...

This article suggests at top speed Panamax tankers carry 1.5-2mn gallons of fuel while burning 63,000 gallons per day (i.e. around 3-4% of capacity) at top speed.

That is considerably less than the 10% (200 tons to move 2,000 tons) that you suggest.

Also the article notes that reducing speed by 10% can reduce fuel use by a third. The tankers travel at 19mph, significantly less than their top speed of 23-28mph so fuel consumption is likely closer to 1%.
there is this package (unmaintained but still kind of working) https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode

I tried spacemacs, but its just too unfamiliar & seems slow.
Early Access to the Serverless SaaS Boilerplate
What locks ytdl is allegedly breaking?
Been doing this forever. From C it's the easiest way to output images, using popen and piping to netpbm or imagemagick. Without error handling it goes like this:

fp = popen ("pnmtojpeg > output.jpg", "w");
fprintf (fp, "P3 %d %d 255", width, height);
/* print pixels as R G B triples */
pclose (fp);
Got any gleenogs?
How to Establish Better Governance
How To Establish Better Governance And Avoid This Problem?
If we mandate it that each new service or every change made to production should be reviewed by the SRE team, we will certainly slow the development team and slow the pace of innovation. Also, the manual review does not guarantee the detection of all violations. Therefore, the solution is to establish a governance framework and automate its process as much as possible in order for us to have the opportunity to scale.

There are three key elements that should be defined in order to establish good governance around the issue we faced. These elements are “targets”, “policies”, and “triggers”, as we explained in “Kubernetes Governance 101”. The target in this case would be all workloads in our cluster. We should apply the policy to all types of workloads: ReplicaSets, StatefulSets, Jobs, DaemonSets, etc. The policy would be to enforce that each workload has an “owner” label with the email of the engineer responsible for it. For the trigger, we thought initially that it is enough to run this once a day to find out who was violating this policy.

To Read More:https://hubs.ly/H0zlk8d0
Escape Room in a Book
Anything is better than the current whack-a-mole game being played with evolving ransomware, where even hospitals are not spared and are suffering even during global pandemic as a result.

If I'm writing an email, and a background process starts modifying gigabytes of data on one of my disks or network locations, I would not be annoyed if a popup asked me to verify that this is something I approve of.
The director of the center of infectious diseases at SSI Kåre Mølbak was at the press conference, so it is clear I think that while they have not written and published their findings they gave shared them with the government.
Investigate JAMStack.
Go is one of the most stable languages maintaining backwards compatibility since it's creation. Calling it's users labrats because you disagree with some decisions is totally misleading.
There are some cms solutions up and coming that build on that kind of infrastructure, but I’ve seen nothing yet that can compete (for small teams) with Wordpress.
> Except that a a retained mode GUI can easily tell that no redraw is necessary and it will be a no-op.

How is that different from imgui exactly? Both dirty rect invalidation and the following redraw skipping is incredibly easy to do (and has been done, see microui)

> Rebuilding a scene graph that's based on CSS-style flexbox layout is REALLY fast. It's a linear time operation in the worst case and a lot of the work can be just skipped if the layout doesn't need updating.

I'm not sure what are the numbers there, but my fullscreen imgui application (You can see it here https://twitter.com/DoctorGester/status/1022147094558269446 and there are views with more complex layouts, rich text rendering, etc) hacked on top of DearIMGUI takes 0.2ms (200 microseconds) per frame, that is including all the logic and submission of commands to the GPU backend. That's before any optimization or multithreading independent views. Do you really get much faster than that?
Install and use Kali Linux on Android without root
I've used GIMP as a game level editor this way. Draw your level, save it as PPM, and parse it into tiles in your game. The file is dead easy to parse. For a "real game" you might want to use Tiled or another actual map editor, but for little fun things this is light and Unixy and reliable.
I also found it a funny comment because Microsoft employs about 500 lawyers as part of an in-house legal team that is larger than most independent firms. If standing up for what it thinks is ethically and morally right isn't something a multi billion $ company with 500 lawyers can do, who can?
OK thanks for the advice. I will do that from now on. I notice there is an exception for single letters and single digit numbers.
And it's not like OOP can describe everything either. It has the circle-ellipse "fatal flaw": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle%E2%80%93ellipse_problem
Show HN: Ambra – Task Management Reinvented
hey hackers ,

Me and the team are super excited to launch Ambra - https://ambra.app – a collaboration tool enabling teams to organize tasks in a natural way by using only tags and mentions, all in a single box.

Ambra removes the necessity of having multiple fields for creating a task – there is one single box to rule them all. We empower writing tasks naturally.

Defining a fully descriptive task in traditional tools is not a simple process. You’ve to start writing the task title, description, and additional form fields for task status, priority, assignee, etc. It means there are some ceremonies to be followed.

Working for many years with different remote and office teams, I saw that every team develops its own ubiquitous language. This is more emphasized especially when it comes to daily tasks description language. This level of understanding helps the project team to communicate quickly while eliminating inaccuracies and contradictions; and that’s an attribute of a – smart team.

Describing a task in a natural way using one single box, without the need for multiple form fields, makes the task data entry process trivial and helps the team focus on delivering – what’s most important for an agile team – values.

A flat team is responsible enough to focus on productivity and move the tasks to #done. However, they should have a proper tool to achieve that – that’s where Ambra comes.

An example: Hey @ troy we need #todo a #presentation of the website to the customer #urgent. You immediately know the status of the task, who's in charge for and when it's needed.

Ambra is offered as freemium, you can go now and create your first project, invite your teammates, or just start assigning tasks to yourself and feel the simplicity.

We love to hear your feedback.
Ask sir William about that
1: Correct, we had "assumed" who the ideal users would be. Because the market was already huge, and we "assumed" people who used our competitors would use our product too.
And when we were not able to sell, we thought It was because of lack of feature. The "one more feature" mentality was bad.

The surface area of products like Hubspot(our competition) is huge - and we tried to catch up with them in terms of feature and this was a mistake. We didn't try to identify a niche.

I think this is one of those things that is easy in theory and hard to practice.

2: Agree that both are hard. I'm still happy with the pace which we shipped at. Looking back at it I think we were not shipping the right features.
There are a few reason for this:
- We got a bit desperate at some point and started building features for single customers(which we thought would be useful to others, but was not). And this spiraled downwards and our product started doing things that we initially didn't intend to. (Like email automation, push notifcations, website builder, form builder, inapp messaging, blogging platform, social media management etc)
- At some point we blindly started copying features, without thinking why we need to build it. (I know this sounds really stupid now, hence the title)
- We were young and we thought we could brut force(or hustle) our way out of every problem.

I hope that helps. Happy to explain more if you have questions :)
That's also my feeling -- the CLI tooling with imagemagick or various image libraries in various programming languages are quite good. For instance, with ipython, numpy and OpenCV I can edit images in a REPL fashion without even thinking about image file formats.

Anyway, if you like PPM, you may also like https://tools.suckless.org/farbfeld/ . The guys from suckless picked up the unix philosophy for simple file formats and pipes, cf. the examples https://tools.suckless.org/farbfeld/examples/
I've heard that the Anglo-Saxons (British) actually made the current caste system in India. Anyone has more information about this ?
Yeah, in making the MuseScore review video, Tantacrul got in communication with the developers. He talked with them about the issues he had found, and they proceeded to fix some of them super quickly and shipped it in a new release iirc. I guess Tantacrul was really impressed and positive about the project, so he decided to continue working with them
I wish Twitch offered a reasonably priced plan to skip all ads like YouTube. Right now I see an ad every time I hop to a new channel regardless of when I last saw an ad.
I know, was just showing that LED wired on power is not enough.
thank you! This problem has been fixed!
Ditto with my in-laws and Linux Mint. Thing is, they don't really care about tinkering (just like most people) and so they don't care. Allowing them to tinker would benefit them very little, while it would definitely increase the risk of them screwing things up.
Fonts are not the gold standard. They have some advantages (mostly convenience of bundling) and some disadvantages (reliability/compatibility, and functionality). One of the disadvantages is that they’re much more likely to simply not load—fonts are supposed to be optional, and most browsers have a “don’t use the fonts the web page specifies, use my own set of fonts” setting. And the other huge disadvantage is that you’re mostly limited to monochrome icons (styleable multi-coloured text support in the one file is somewhere between non-existent and patchy, can’t remember exactly where). Overall, I’d consider one of the inline SVG variants to be the gold standard in terms of functionality and compatibility, though optimal developer ergonomics require some sort of build tool.
It is selective application of the law. It is easy to shut down a small company without army of lawyers and infinite resources. If you don't have broad shoulders, then you need to accept that you have to follow the law. Law does not apply to large companies.
That's a different problem, this is judging the legality of DRMs. Copyright holders unfortunately still have a right to add DRMs into their media but consumers also have a right to break them for their personal copy.

I personally think DRMs should be plain illegal since you have a right to copy for your personal use, that would make more sense, but here we are, that's some middle ground.
i think if there's a hit, the site owner would take it and just show you another zero
This shows that dead people are registered to vote. It does NOT show that the names of dead people are used to vote.

Detecting such fraud is not hard. We know who voted. Cross-check to see how many are dead. Over the last decade there have been many studies to find such irregularities. For example, quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_impersonation_(United_St...

> a 2012 study found no evidence that voter impersonation (in the form of people voting under the auspices of a dead voter) occurred in the 2006 Georgia general elections.[21]

and

> In 2012 NPR published figures related to the Pew study claiming that over 1.8 million dead people were registered to vote nationwide and over 3 million voters were registered in multiple states.[28] However, the PEW study to which the article referred had concluded that the "millions of out of date registration records due to people moving or dying" had "found no evidence that voter fraud resulted."[29]
How is GitHub a centralized source code repository? It vends copies of DVCS files
It would seem your issue is with the DMCA, if so then the way to fix it is to change the legislation; lobby the necessary politicians to get the law changed.

If you object to people following the law because you feel they don't hold the same views on the matter at hand, the point is moot, unless of course you feel they should break the law.

Which leads back to, if you don't like a law then lobby for it to be changed.
AI That Mistook Referee for a Ball and the Self Driving Car That Hit the Wall
Try the same thing for Windows 10.
The Linux kernel is very different in this regard. Changes can be reverted easily. A change to the Go language will propagate quickly in it's users projects and probably stick with you forever.
Meeting smart people was always great. We learned a lot of things. It was life changing - Still I feel like we didn't make the best out of it due to several reason. One of them was our self doubt when it came to communication - This was our first time outside our home country(India)and we had a lot of inhibitions socialising with people. We always kept thinking if we were doing something right or wrong in terms of western culture.

I think under pressure we made a lot of stupid decisions. We were inexperienced and we were doing that for the first time.

I don't think these are harder to practice - My second startup was recently acquired and I think I did a decent job there. The reason why YC emphasise about these mistakes are probably the same - they have seen a lot of first time founders make the same mistake.
It is common that large companies split into subsidiaries dedicated to handle one or a couple of tasks. I wouldn't be surprised if the FB hosting was handled by a separate company owned by FB. Regardless - if there is a request to take something offline, then it should be followed. It is unacceptable that we have two tier legal system. One, very strict for small players, and essentially no rules for the big boys.
It boils down to a certain competitive spirit that exists to varying degrees in different people, which is what drives them to push the limits of their field. If something wasn't good enough for Steve Jobs, he didn't accept it. Michael Jordan wouldn't accept someone being considered better than him. The champion / winning attitude is what has driven a lot of folks to invent, innovate and lift the standard of everyone around them through their own excellence. We all benefit from that kind of attitude.

Capitalism offers a reward for those who are willing to put in the work.

Microsoft has helped billions of people around the world find employment, build software, use a computer, save time, money, and achieve something or another across pretty much every field in existence. For that, the capitalist system lets them dominate the market and gain all kinds of advantages. They deserve it as far as I'm concerned.