skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can say, I have no problems building ardour and have many times before, but the last few updates I've decided to forgo that and just buy the prebuilt binaries. Ardour's given me a lot of value over the years when other options were out of reach and now that I can, having the option to pay a reasonable price or what I can or am willing or able to pay for it is an easy choice to make.

There's a lot of FOSS software i've used over the years that have helped me in times when I could never afford proprietary alternatives and as i've gotten older and made more money i've tried to go back and donate or buy prebuilt binaries of that software when I can.

Honestly, the existence of such software has helped me so many times in life when I would have either had to fork out unreasonable amounts of money or pirate things.

I wish open source maintainers and devs got more credit for the work they do. I bet it would be hard to figure out just how many lives have been enriched and bettered by their work.
> I recently got introduced to a bunch of YouTuber's with millions of followers that I'd never heard of

Would you mention few as example?
That's not how standards work. The standard just specifies something; you still have to implement it, unless the standard supplies a reference implementation which you can make work with your code. There's a reason why the quasi-standards for extensions to Scheme are called Scheme Requests for Implementation.

Neither R6RS nor any other RnRS standard contain a reference implementation, so whether it's in R6RS or not, the Racket developers have to implement it. RnRS standards do tend to have a description of Scheme's formal semantics, and SRFI documents, by convention, contain a reference implementation of the proposed API where possible.
> What else can they do if they are really innocent?

They can choose to ignore the NYT, since during the trump years it's been laid bare that they're a political publication.
Mostly to annoy me?

I seem to remember that they intended to simulate WAN links.
I think your argument for de-funding the BBC is heard loud and clear!

(sarcasm)
> Nintendo consoles have never had powerful hardware though.

Not quite. Their last three consoles (Wii, Wii U, and Switch) were about a generation behind their competition, but the first four (NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, and GameCube) were comparable to their rivals.
He’s asking specifically about Coinbase. Referencing how “most companies” do things isn’t relevant to his question.

And can you explain to me why one is absolutely required to publicly vocalize their stance on the George Floyd issue? How is not wanting to speak on the topic in the workplace equivalent to being racist?
Let’s not forget that Coinbase took that no-politics stance while NYT is a company thriving on politics drama. Also, legacy media companies have an axe to grind with the high tech industry which lately is their direct competitor for ad money.

Bottom line, New York Times is heavily biased and has zero credibility when it comes to their coverage of the high tech industry. This is a hit piece.
While I ultimately agree with you, a lot of things working better today is your skill and ability to buy nicer things.

Seeing my family try and throw bargain bin components at a computer is a painful experience. Worse, as now things are likely to be malware vectors.

And heaven help you if you are trying to get by with a cheap computer. At least a raspberry pi is just slow, similar ideas with windows leave me baffled at how bad it is.
I checked out your 1000+ GitHub projects I could explore. I clicked on the "Run" button. Immediately prompted to create an account. Immediately closed the tab.
For me it has been no need for a recovery day. The barrier to entry for doing a ride is much lower, even if I'm tired I can do a quick 1 hour ride on the eBike. It gets my heartrate up and my blood pumping. If I want I can push my self harder and get more or less of a workout, it is up to me.
Also, no matter how hot it gets I find I can still do rides on my eBike. So long as I have enough water and am dressed appropriately I can ride in the summer heat.
This guy clearly isn't mature enough to understand why a job is called a job rather than a hobby.
>The concept was prevalent in 1970s-90s movies because it's a core part of how people who grew up in those decades (like PG) perceive the world.

What movies for instance you have in mind that you think influnced core part?

>political partisans

Who for instance?
It seems like it logically couldn't, else why bother expanding Medicare in the first place?
Or for us old [feeling] folks: it’s “cheating” by getting a world map and playing through the puzzles and minibosses we would still encounter... not getting a Game Genie and sliding under Mother Brain.

Edit: Lol I know, downvote away, icgaf I haven’t played a game besides minesweeper in months.
Hmm Windows NT was a rock.
Agreed, I used Windows throughout the 90’s. I remember running one of the early web servers on my pc and was used to rebooting daily to avoid an unresponsive server.

But Windows NT was much more stable as a server.
Or even better, buy it on a separate retailer, like Amazon, and then sign up with a made-up name
This is almost certainly still true of most shrink wrap software. Have you looked at the shelves on a Walmart to see what is being offered?

It also sounds a lot like my experience with much of my Android setup that includes games I've let my kids install.
Cause it’s fun
The problem with this is that there is now an unaccelerated, moving (with relation to here/Alpha Centauri) system in which you appear in AC before you leave here, i.e. break causality.
And probably all the devs are in the UK, so "it works on their computer".
Also you can ride up on sidewalks or bike paths. If you come to a long red light but there is no traffic coming it is easy to just run the red light. When you get to the store you can ride right up to the entrance and lock up 10 feet away from the door, no driving in circles looking for a parking space.
libmagic focuses on identifying file type using magic numbers and other properties. The wiki has links to resources for programmatically extracting image size or color palette, for example.
Works here. Shallow recommendations. Ads for objects on Amazon are most certainly real, though I did not click on them.
I'm enjoying Part 1 of this post as much as Part 2:

https://blog.owulveryck.info/2020/11/13/ontology-graphs-and-...
AFAIK the fas taxes are mostly paying for infrastructure (mostly roads) and often they often don't cover the costs. This is the reason why some countties are introducing similar charges for EVs. Now you could argue it's a subsidy, but to mean it seems more like an oversight.
You took one example and ignored the rest. It’s not like NYT wrote this article simply because Russ left. What about the employees who were asked to be present for photo shoots to show workplace diversity but who felt ignored and talked down to during meetings? That sounds problematic. If it were a couple of employees it’s one thing but when most of your black employees leave because of what they feel is racism in the workplace that’s harder to ignore. It doesn’t necessarily prove there was racism, but it’s certainly a red flag.
Did you immigrate from China or India?
> Alternate data streams on windows can sort of do this (xattrs on nixen aren't really up to the task) but they are completely non-portable.

On Solaris, xattrs really are up to the task; they are basically Windows alternate data streams by another name. Unlike Linux xattrs, their maximum size is the same as that of the main stream of the file. (Likewise, on macOS the maximum xattr size is the same as that of a file's main stream.)

I think if Linux would lift its limit on maximum xattr size then you would have the same basic function across most major operating systems, just with some differences in API. Then if someone could devise a standard API (even as just a portability layer), your problem would be mostly solved. Just also making sure that tools like cp, scp, sftp, zip, tar, etc, know about the xattrs and transport them. (Which is actually already true for some of those tools on some platforms.)
I use it since 6 months to test a kubernetes micro service application. I love the model, when you write CODE for your tests. We code the tests in typescript.
iPhone dropped the Qi standard for rates above 7.5 watts:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/13/21514850/apple-iphone-12...
Why is this being posted now? Magsafe-style USB-C cables have been around for over a year and there are half a dozen manufacturers. Are (non-novel) direct Amazon links allowed on HN like this?
OpenNEM doesn’t show any use of distillate generation on the grid in Tasmania since 2016, so they probably did convert them to gas. Over the last year, gas made up 0.9% of their local generation.

And you’re wrong actually - in a gas turbine, diesel is cleaner than coal.
Bad habit to use the word 'we' where you mean I and even worse habit to assume you know what your 'loved ones' want.

Everyone who speaks this way sooner or later makes the discovery, almost always painfully, that their needs are but a small fraction in that massively wide spectrum of human needs.
Do you want to have that bigger conversation, or are you tired?

Is the assertion that you’re tired expected to lend weight to the version (that cancel culture is a bogus notion) for which you’re evoking (but not presenting) a defense?
The ls/st instructions take a large amount of encoding space for all the addrmodes. I don't think the rcpc instructions and other acq/rel instructions were given the same encoding space.
For a good lot of cases, sqlite can serve as a perfectly good file format. I actually find it hard to think of a case where it would be hard for sqlite .. perhaps nested markup requirements are the only thing that can necessitate additional structure in the data. If your application needs a file format, choose sqlite and move on.
Sure, the zip format hasn't changed much in 30 years, ok.

The Stuffit format was also never owned or even licensed by Apple, it was just a third-party vendor who's proprietary (non-standards-based) compression format became popular on pre-OSX Mac OS. But yeah, that vendor chose to make some changes to it to improve it, such that archives created by later versions could not be opened by previous versions, unlike Microsoft's practice I guess.

But as long as we're comparing... the target OS for this converter is Mac OS System 6, released in 1988, superseded by System 7 in 1991. In 1988, Windows 2.0 was released, windows 3.0 was released in 1990. Can zip files created by Windows Explorer be opened without problems in Windows 2.0? I mean, sure, if the format hasn't changed I guess so?

Googling though.. it looks like if you are creating a zip archive using WinZip, they recommend you choose a "legacy compression setting" if you want to be sure it'll be compatible with older versions. Otherwise it may not be. I'm guessing Windows 2.0 is about as older version as it gets. https://support.winzip.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011349147-Is...

I wonder who's still running Windows 2.0 to find out! I also wonder who's still running Mac OS System 6!
Facing another retirement home lockdown, 90-year-old chooses assisted suicide
Right again. The "also" is a reference to the parent comment.

> In surreal numbers [1], the midpoint between 0 and infinity would be the simplest number greater than 0, which is { 0 | } = 1
Apple Watch put a Unix computer with a 16-hour battery life, an LTE modem & multiple health sensors on my wrist. I’d count that as significant.
Is it? It’s an invented problem. No shortage of Rennet even if meat consumption goes down by half.
Ask HN: YouTube Migrated from Vitess to What?
Looks like youtube migrated out of Vitess in 2019 https://opensource.google/projects/Shard

Would you know what they migrated to eventually?
That was for 3 months, in 2016 because of the Basslink interconnector outage.

Your own link includes a link to https://www.hydro.com.au/clean-energy/secure-energy which had the current mix. There is 0% diesel, but a small amount (8%) gas.
Just as a quippy counterpoint (without engaging with GPs actual argument), I would say that as I've became more experienced as a developer, the more I've realized how much of a liability my own code is (and that using libraries allows me to write less code).
Looking at the same site, I see "People tested positive" is down by 25% in the last 7 days, and the number tested has been stable in the same time interval, so the ratio is also down by 25%.

I don't see any other figure called "current daily infections"; do you mean something other than "people tested positive"?

The reduction in the last 7 days is considerable and suggests lockdown is working surprisingly well (considering it is hardly noticeable in some places, even though other places are more severely closed).

Prior to that it was indeed higher than any time in September, and deaths still are, hopefully just due to time lag.

If it's just time lag and 25% reduction per 7 days is already in the pipeline, that is very promising.
It seems like the hard part is deciding when a change is suspicious enough to be investigated? Simple pass/fail tends not to work at scale because complicated systems tend to be noisy.
This is not how I remember computing in the 80s and 90s.
Where are they? I don’t see them
Interesting article! Shame it's behind a paywall :(
Low Tech Magazine wrote a piece on how to make turbines more sustainable and addresses blade material.

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/06/wooden-wind-turbines...
Hear Hear!

He was a two fisted drunken chain smoker, for sure.

But what rare good ideas he had were worth it all.

I'll cheer again his Letters to Young Contrarian as terrible sauced drivel.

But damned if I ever wrote more in the margins of that thin little tome arguing against his bastard ideas. To be clear, I disagree with nearly everything Hitch said. But his poppycock made me think deeper than any second-rate Augustine. To have everyone hate you is a rare thing. To have that for decades is unique.

If he ever wrote only that one pamphlet, he'd be forgotten. But that he wrote so much more and that cigarette of a book, well, makes the matchbox so much more reprehensible. It wasn't satire, rather, a hose of drool.

But it is truly honest.

Again, read it, argue with him, treasure it, and pass it along.

I can't recommend anything better on how to live that kind of life.
I do need a significant amount of cooling when doing GPU-heavy things.
No, it’s not. Pharmacists are tasked with refusing to fill prescriptions they believe are harmful, and routinely reject combinations of medicines if they are harmful. And the DEA is putting pressure on pharmacies to refuse prescriptions for suspected opioid abusers, so many large pharmacy companies have many limits in place regardless of what the doctor writes.

If you walk into a pharmacy with just an opioid prescription, and you’re not a regular or something seems off such as it’s hand written, chances are you’re going to get denied or at least won’t get your medication until they call the doctor and discuss why you need it.

All the states even have a PDMP - prescription drug monitoring program - that pharmacies have to check before dispensing opioids to confirm the person’s prescription history.
There is really a lot of good stuff here, and not just about death and dying. For example, I had not previously heard the term Boston marriage.

But if you get nothing else out of this, please contemplate the paragraph about her father letting her know that being suicidal because of her endless physical suffering wasn't "crazy" or unreasonable:

Subverting the dogma of his era, he responded that there is nothing sinful in wishing to end one’s extreme suffering, and gave her his fatherly permission to take her own life if the physical and psychological pain became too unbearable, asking her only to do it in a gentle way.

People who are suicidal are often people suffering deeply who get told their desire to stop suffering is somehow a mark of insanity or a personal defect. If you know someone who is suicidal, helping them cope with whatever serious problems they likely have is a much better thing than implying they don't have any real problems and it's "all in their head."

I spent most of my life suicidal. I mostly no longer hurt these days and I mostly no longer feel suicidal. So my opinion is informed by personal experience.
I’d bet there are a multitude of tools local government has here to make it prohibitively expensive to run gas stations, which largely ends up achieving the same goal
Yes, and that includes motivations to write and pass laws. Apologies for the shorthand there.
That’s gross and beyond unethical.

Humanity needs to mean something.
this guy is so funny. what skin do i have in your game?
Hence why I said fortune favors the prepared. If you’re not ready for the opportunity you’re going to miss it when it hits.
libmagic can also extract metadata for images.
This mirrors the sentiment of many people on HN are heavily against the idea of doing anything more than 9-5, and prefer to live the relaxed engineer life collecting paychecks and tending to their microbrews.

Maybe the hatred stems from that there exists a large pool of engineers that are passionate about their work and are okay not measuring their work as "hours per week". And that makes the pool of engineers that don't want to do that look not desirable.
I think both you and the parent post are correct. I heard similar advice playing soccer: when you drink water during a game, what you usually do is drink it fast (and in a hand wavy way where the bottle is in the air). So the speed allows for more water and air, and thus you feel cramps. If you were to drink it slowly, which will reduce the air most likely, then you have less risk, but as a kid playing soccer, the urge to go back to the field is is too great. :)
If is possible to be deeply obsessed yet maintain work-life balance, restricting that obsession to working hours.
No doubt you fit right in to Wall St.

Typically IB and consulting at the top 3 are both very prestigious.
libreoffice can be online. owncloud n nextcloud have it.

seriously why so much 3rd party hosted stuff? why lastpass not keepass? why medium not ghost or some static generator or even wordpress? why pandora not airsonic or funkwhale? why fastmail not miab or plain postfix/dovecot/roundcube?

i can't help but feel you're exchanging one leash for another.
Do you feel the same with food that is both sugar and fiber, such as fruits? My understanding is that the fiber slows down the metabolism, and thus the sugar is processed much slower.
Well, I respectfully disagree. The Apple Watch is a successful product, but it really didn't completely disrupt a large existing industry like the iPhone did. I think it's possible that the M1 will trigger the death of x86 personal computers. If that happens, it won't have been an iPhone-level disruption, but it will be a lot more significant than the watch.
We currently have data in S3, BigQuery and GCS. The reason we have data in both clouds is because BigQuery is widely used by our DS team. Yes, we use GitHub for storing Notebooks (.ipynb) files and one of the requirements is to provide security access to different buckets in either S3 or GCS, the same happens for BigQuery, some data scientist can only access some tables/data. In Google Cloud/AWS with IAM permissions that can be solved.
Leave it up. He deserves the opportunity to see what people here think.
You went to the ER for knee pain? Urgent clinic would have been easier and cheaper.
One of them is a pinned comment, but they also made others.
Describing a stance as “depressing” seems like a ridiculously low bar for something to count as a forcible shut down.
Fossil Word
Because it's impossible to prove you're not a racist.

I could claim that you have a sexual interest in children. Good luck proving you don't. Would you just 'apologise and do better next time'?
I truly don't understand why everybody keeps referencing the Mick West debunking video of this UFO footage. I actually corresponded on the guy about inconsistencies in his own debunking claims and he gave no satisfactory justification for his extremely superficial arguments, which essentially focus on his own perceptions of inconsistencies in the footage itself and simply disregard weeks of repeated sightings, radar tracking and up-close eye-witness encounters between trained, professional pilots and the objects themselves in the air. These are pilots who on at least a couple of these occasions observed the objects from fairly close range, in broad daylight and had their observations at least partially confirmed at the same time by also professional operators of sophisticated tracking systems (radar etc) onboard the Navy's ships. In the case of the Nimitz "tic-tac" UFO events from late 2014 this happened especially, during weeks leading up to the brief video that was finally captured.
Mick West simply disregards all of this and in an email I wrote to him even claims that the weeks of incidents previous to the video being captured were "separate" events from the video because they didn't concretely, confirmably show the same thing.... What? An absurd conclusion.

Debunking with a critical eye is good and necessary but sometimes one gets the feeling that certain internet debunkers feel a need to debunk at all costs because that's their label, even if their own "rational" interpretations make leaps of logic much worse than simply admitting that something inexplicable was observed.
@krapp said:

> Why it's almost as if Star Trek is fiction and the "canon" of a franchise spanning over fifty years of television, film and books has always been fluid and arbitrary.

Despite it being fiction, you cannot arbitrarily mess with the basic mythology and still keep what makes the thing magical.
> you could say "Soviet" instead of "Russian" to clearly demarcate between the nation and the nationality.

The demonym for the people who lived in the Soviet Union was “Soviet.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union
Punished for what? Illegally promoting an addictive opioid? Purdue is being prosecuted.

Or do you mean prosecuted for coming up with an idea that is in poor taste but was never actually implemented?
clone humans

Yeah, what could possibly go wrong...
> > Government usually pays well-below-market salaries

> That may be true for base salaries,

That's specifically what the phrase you quoted refers to.

> but if you take into account overtime and pension/health benefits that is not the case.

It's still below market, though not as much. As I said in the next phrase in the same sentence from the one you quoted.

> If what you say is true, gov't emplpyees would quit en masse

No, if what I said was true, government would (as I said, again, in the same sentence you pulled the quote from) disproportionately end up employing those with noncompensation reasons to choose the particular work, and those of below average competence. Which it does. Government employees would only quit en masse if the below-market pay was a sudden transition from at-market pay.
Are they overdosing from Oxycotin or street drugs laced with fentanyl?
Benzodiazepines, a type of (mostly) tranquilizers
FWIW, turning on reader mode shows the entire thing.
Better still, don’t do it.