skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twin Galaxies attacks Billy Mitchell as a fraud in new legal claims
The project appears to be based on XeTeX, which is covered by the MIT license.

I don't know the full history of XeTeX, but if it was indeed a re-write of TeX/LaTeX from the ground up (and not based on the TeX source code), then the original TeX/LaTeX license wouldn't necessarily apply. But if it borrowed actual source code, templates, etc., from other projects under different licenses, then it probably gets more complicated.
Spot on. Managing subscriptions is a shit show generally. Doing it in one place is the right thing for the end user.
It's interesting that 400 years later, especially in this day and age of freedoms and lesser stigmatization, we still have this dissonance. People are unwilling to listen to their inner instincts that maybe not everything we believe in must be a published paper in a reputable journal.
By commit, I think the intended meaning is "put on a path that will ultimately affect production".

For my current project, merging bad code typically means breaking a bunch of regression test suites for any coworkers that cut their branches at the wrong time. In more nefarious outcomes, it means a delayed software version release and, potentially, damaged UAV hardware at our test site.

For my previous project, merging bad code could have resulted in someone losing control of a fully drive by wire car in a closed parking lot or test track. That's what big red buttons are for!

For my project before that, some of my code was involved in handling literally every single sensor and actuator on a rocket and the space capsule on top of it. A subtle bug that slipped through to production could have been rather serious indeed.
Depends on what business you're in. If you're in the content creation business, you're good to go [1].

I am definitely going to differ on that. My last job (until this summer) was in Hollywood for a content creation company (live broadcast + streaming) and I worked very heavily with the content creation guys and the digital production team (as a result of working on them for R&D tax credit documentation purposes. That means I not only saw every expense, I also documented the reasons for all of those expenses based on discussions with the teams). We switched off Apple software 4 years ago. They began the transition off Apple hardware 2 years ago. Apple was great for content creation a long time ago, but these days content creators use *nix based systems if they need performance and Windows-based systems if they care about costs. If you suggest using Apple to the content creation guys these days, they'll laugh your ass out of the room and tell you to go back to film school.
Previous discussion:

1 year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21172964

3.5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14450448

The project seems pretty active, though, so some of that may now be irrelevant.
I know WebAssembly language (WASM), as the thing Dfinity (https://sdk.dfinity.org/docs/index.html) uses. They have a nice language called Motoko (https://sdk.dfinity.org/docs/language-guide/motoko.html) I was playing with. But I like the idea of this kind of Lispy Forth.
It is established industry practice at this point. It is necessary to identify malicious downloads, which are hidden due to https. This surveillance grade is certainly creepy and should be strongly regulated in my opinion.
Cause reasons for fear are not something people would tell you. I was in similar state twice and neither time I would be eager explain that to someone external.

I was "afraid" to commit in a team where code review evolved into huge micro-management with inconsistent requirements on what good code looks like. The reviewer iteratively forced you to change it again and again each time with "this is bad code cant go in" comments. But you could not learn what he considers good code, cause it was different every time. I left after.

Second time I was "afraid" to commit to part of code when our main architect had completely disproportionate blow up over previous bug. I made easy to fix bug which was my mistake. But it turned into massive public blow up over work being shitty, us intentionally ignoring his needs, there being tons of bug unusable version (there was literally one bug). Then he wanted massive refactoring to avoid possibility of same bug ... and I made bug in refactoring which led to same blow out, again claiming it was done without care etc.

After that, I really did not wanted to do any changes in that code. I cant guarantee complete lack of bugs in my code. Other people do bugs too for that matter, I dont think I make so much more of them. But, he was under pressure and stress that had nothing to do with me and I became rod for that.
Food is cheap and available in America -- the cheapest in the world as a fraction of income -- because of government intervention. For example, the continuous re-authorization of the Farm Bill means that corn is sold at below the cost to produce.

Food is highly government-subsidized in America. In fact, subsidies accounted for 25% of all farm income in America in 2016 [2].

[1] https://www.ibtimes.com/us-spends-less-food-any-other-countr...

[2] https://modernfarmer.com/2019/01/congress-finally-passed-a-n...
> RTMP is very old as a protocol.

Would you consider that this is, by itself, a reason not to use it?
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> I am currently seeing mostly lots of flagged to death or grayed out comments,

A lot of those grayed out comments are against your posts.

> likely because it's basically gossip and mud slinging

I'm surprised you came to that conclusion. Especially for someone who keeps bringing up the leaderboard statistics, every chance you get[1] and who thinks they know about all the matters that are there to be known (even the "truth" about Albert Einstein's wife!), I would have expected you to know better that downvotes against a comment has nothing to do with the quality of the article being discussed.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24965785
indeed!

My take on self-hosted services (not infrasructure, though) is layperson-friendlyness. See https://mro.name/ShaarliGo#install--update or the 5min talk I did a while ago: https://txt.mro.name/34c3 (that page isn't layperson-friendly, but you'll make it)

anyone?
If you're writing a linear algebra library, then the bulk of executing code should be floating point vector operations in tight loops with known bounds. A NULL pointer check in the prolog where you set up the loop is going to be negligible.

This is very different from kernel code, which by its nature isn't very computational but doing resource management all day long and pretty much all it does is stuff that looks like walking linked lists.
Why does doing it upfront require so many people, and doing it afterwards doesn't? You could just have a standard formula for upfront insurance?
Not sure why you’ve been downvoted.

I agree it’s about triggering emotions... and for that having the ability to empathise helps.
Looks great. Any plans for a Figma version?
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upvote if true
I don't think they're updated by Mozilla, at least not the ones related to Rust.
Are you Chris Johnson? If yes, thanks for everything!! ;-)
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Zalando boss to quit 'to prioritise wife's career'
> Sure, CA is blue on a national map in national elections but it’s a very reddish purple for any smaller statewide analysis.

No, it's not.

It's true that it has very large Republican land areas, but like the country at large these areas are mostly the sparsely populated ones.

Since the national Republican Party began radicalizing during the Clinton Administration, the California Republican Party has been increasingly uncompetitive.
when you use somebody as a resource in casual conversation based on your knowledge of their domain expertise and they provide information that you had not considered. That's about it
Because efficiency is the name of the game. If you miss your slot time in a busy port you might spend some days or a week waiting on the next and now you have cascading logistics issues, both for the ship in question and the cargo getting sorted and sent forward.

The real issue is stowage, sailing for example north Atlantic in the winter you need to expect bad weather but there seems to be a missmatch between the regular lashings and large stacks right up to the stack limit by weight wee see today.

There's also designs like this [0] but that's more expensive to build and they lose 1-2 rows of containers.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G4-class_freighter
And this is supposed to be the company we look up to for guidance on building a culture?
Thanks. I've made a remarkable recovery with a lot of help. I'm sharing this because the subject came up with Tony Hsieh and I know he and I weren't the only ones abusing nitrous. My email is in my profile if anyone out there thinks they have a problem with it and would like to talk about it. I'm raising awareness of the dangers here. It's seductive when you read that philosopher William James had epiphanies with it and want to have them yourself (I'm pretty sure he abused it to.) It took ahold of me pretty quickly. This has been difficult for me today because I'm triggered by thinking about it. I can taste it and feel it. But maybe I warned somebody off from it.
Thanks @qruiz! There are definitely a number of industries, outside of say, the biotech or deep science users that we think would find us valuable!
In the opensource space, https://github.com/mvp/uhubctl/. Commercially($++), Acroname or Cambrionix hubs have a lot of features.
Ha. I'm not sure that I understand exactly what you think I'm right about or why that requires you to gently explain it as a good thing. But thank you?

I don't think that there's anything fundamentally objectionable about generating music algorithmically. It just tends to be disappointing and not as engaging as more traditional forms of composition at this moment in time. I'm sure it'll be really exciting once it matures.

I like Brian Eno's idea of records someday being programs that you purchase instead of recordings that are frozen in time. Something that you can play and hear a different version every time that it generates. In theory that sounds really lovely.

Sometimes I do think of music as something mechanical, or procedural. A lot of artists do stuff like this with pleasing results. Steve Reich's 'Come Out', 'It's Gonna Rain', or 'Clapping Music' are prominent examples for me. Granted, those three pieces probably resonate more with the academically and musically nerdy types, but they're powerful if you keep an open mind going in and submit to it.

But right now I think the most compelling generated stuff still has an element of human input to steer it's development and isn't quite ready to run on it's own.

I think some of the most interesting stuff today is music that's composed by hand but borrows the affect of procedural music. Stuff like minimal techno that evolves very slowly. I'm particularly fond of the work of Ricardo Villalobos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZWdWzMdndc
That was a very specific linear algebra, we toyed around with huge but sparse matrices. Not anything graphics-related, rather number theory-related. But there was a lot of integer comparisons in there.

This was around 2001-2002 anyway. Things might have changed.
I'm surprised this project is still seeing big updates! I loved open-source games back in the day. I liked Sauerbraten's capture the flag mode in particular. I played more of the Sauerbraten fork Red Eclipse, which saw a 2.0 release in 2019! The dedication of these project leaders is incredible.
That's not what the "skin effect" refers to, and penetration of tissue / heating is completely dependent on frequency.
I'm part of an organization called CommonEasy that does this with sickness insurance. The group is a couple of hundred people that basically self-insure for up to two years of income loss. Ten bucks a month is for the organization, the rest is put in a savings fund. Should you leave, you take your savings with you.
> But with cars it's different as the individuals are responsible for their action. Not some shipping company. Why should I pay for reckless/drunk drivers?

As with all real insurance plans, you are insured against the actions of others as much as you are against your own actions. This is obviously true in the 12 states + Puerto Rico with no-fault policies.

You may well be distracted at some point and crash into someone else, which is why both of you have insurance. It's crazy to think you can't possibly ever make a single mistake - ever. You can and you will, which is why you're legally required to carry insurance.
This is very interesting. I setup a hacky nginx-rtmp thing to mimic some aspects of restream.io, as well as running a 24x7 live stream on a side project. It does work, but the hand-editing of configs means it does not drive easily.

This space is starting to heat up, and I would like to take the best open-source projects as well as the paid versions out there (dacast, wowza, etc) and do a full-on comparison.

I'm in the market for this software (and I'm not shy of paying).
The & isn't needed if you're returning a pointer and no longer need a pointer to pointer to return the list as an argument. Also, if you get rid of the struct containing a single pointer and just use pointers, you can have the following instead…

` p=p->next

As for the API, returning the pointer allows a function to be an argument for another function, which I find more flexible.
` p= remove(p,find(p,value))//

I also like the option to be able to do stuff like:

` p=remove(remove(p,t),t); //remove two

or:

` if (!remove(p,t)) {//that was my last node }

But that may be an artifact of my preference for functional programming.
For most of these types of trees, soft needles usually goes with soft/weak branches. Not sure how universal that is, but seemed to hold for most marketed types.

I remember one type that solved that "problem" and others, but the trade off was it absolutely stunk. But only to some people.

There always seemed to be a major compromise in traits.
What's the point in drinking any alcohol at all unless you want to achieve some level of impairment?
I was also just about to post about how there's still a ton of stigma around alternative theories of history. In particular, the ones about how the pyramids were built by ancient civilizations. The end result is that it's tough to find the real work being done because most credible people are driven underground. We're left with the conspiracy theorists.
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If you have a million containers you’ll be transporting every year insuring all of them is pointless you may as well just be your own insurer and take the hit when things go wrong. It largely will work out cheaper as there is no middle man and you have loads of money from your successful business to dip into should you lose a few.
I first thought this "only abnormal people left to communicate" comment referred to online communities. But it could also refer to people who ignore the shut-downs and hang out in smaller groups regardless limits on gathering etc.

In my country there is no clear distinction of what type of people make up the crowd which is "still" socializing. While you get some pockets of conspiracy theorists, covid-deniers, mixed with conservative or right-wing elements, the left, or even politically abstinent are also there. It doesn't make them all abnormal people. There are some who I have perfectly communicated before the pandemic. But the pandemic has made many people mentally struggle (without a need to lump them all together into "abnormal").

My guess is those who have already been (mentally) vulnerable are now even more so because the world around them is becoming even more depressive/depressed. It's not that there are only abnormal people left who to socialize with. It's because many just die because they were anyway hanging on to a bare minimum before. It doesn't require the presence of "abnormal" people to kill them. It's enough when a support structure that they previously had (a friend, a source of fund/support, etc) simply breaks away. it's not an addition that hurts them but something that is taken away. (so it's actually less complicated/complex/conspirational and more ugly/sad as to why this happens)
Apple is already $2 trillion? If we think it as a bad company, is it too late, is it already too big to stop?
I agree but I don't want that place to be tightly tied with the maker of my phone. I want to be able to change phone and not loose anything. Phones are commodities to me. Who makes them is as important as the brand of gas I put in my car. Browser, mail client, WhatsApp, camera, maps, banking apps are about all I need. The subscription management service should be a third party.
> I guess something to think about is where do you know the "little weird" is treading towards excessive danger.

This is way beyond that. People don't huff nitrous oxide 12 times a day, every day, unless something is very wrong.
I wonder

Does this still depend, even indirectly, at the WEB files written by Knuth?

It has the strange license that says "Copying of this file is authorized only if (1) you are D. E. Knuth, or if
% (2) you make absolutely no changes to your copy."

http://mirror.las.iastate.edu/tex-archive/systems/knuth/dist...
Podcasts are excellent for language learning. One tool that would be very useful is a "grading" tool. Something to evaluate the level/complexity of the language used, the clarity of speech, the speed of elocution.
I’m looking forward to compile time perf which looks really good, and it’s really nice to have an article that doesn’t just look at the “amazing” video performance.

I’m kind of sick of video encode/decode perf comparisons though as it is invariably just software vs hardware, and unsurprisingly hardware is vastly faster.
This worked for centuries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveller%27s_cheque
Who's going to figure out how much to charge? :)
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The safest way to redact PDFs is to convert them to images, draw black boxes on the sensitive content and create a new PDF from these images.

This way the redacted PDF won't have any metadata from the original (e.g. bookmarks) nor risk any weired PDF redaction bugs.

The downside is that your redacted PDF is (probably) larger than the original and isn't accessible. You can mitigate this by using OCR but it still isn't perfect and has a high chance of messing up tables or any special text placement.

Some fancy combination of encodings (e.g. using JBIG2 except for images) can probably help with the filesize.

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The best way to handle sensitive information is probably to use codenames (for people, places, etc) so you can share the original documents without worrying so much.
I'd be happy to email you a track or two. I'd want to share recent work, but it's also unreleased so I'd like to not have it be made public until it's complete.
The article’s position comes down to “no fundamentally new way to program would make sense for today’s programmers to switch to it”, and gives examples like the platforms of the no-code movement.

From previous generational leaps, we’ve learned that the users post-leap don’t look like the pre-leap users at all. The iPod’s introduction brought about a generation of new digital music users that didn’t look like the Limewire generation, and the iPhone’s average user didn’t look like the average user of the BlackBerry before it.

Modern programming is at the core of HN, and of most of SV, sure. That said, we should still be the first to realize that a successful, fundamentally new way to program would target a new generation and idea of software maker, one that won’t look like the modern developer at all.
It's written in C because C is popular, has platform support and the code was originally written in C, not because the kernel should be a security nightmare.
I don't know how insurances work outside of Germany but processing insurance claims is the only thing where insurances can lose money so they will reward you for good driving/maintenance practices with lower fees. If you run a insurance company your goal is basically to become redundant. The best case scenario is to collect a monthly fee but never pay out any insurance claims. Fraudulent claims are pure losses so there is already a strong business incentive to avoid those.
I love how the assumption is always that confirmed covid death that were actually unrelated to covid are more frequent then covid death that were not confirmed.

But, chances are that latter are more frequent. Covid tests are not done on all deaths precisely in places where situation is worst.
For future reference, and for anyone interested, not only do (ICANN accredited) have to provide a transfer authcode within 5 days of being requested, it's also possible to transfer a domain after it has expired, as long as it's still within the renewal grace period.
Are you arguing that we should leave known crash bugs in the code?
d'oh.

I only pretend to know how to read.
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> I didn't actually think it was possible to see such majorities in an large, healthy, wealthy democracy, but obviously I've reassessed that now.

It's probably not, at least , California’s electoral democracy isn't healthy; California's major parties (and this particularly impacts the Republicans) aren't completely free to align themselves as they would independently for competitive purposes because they are affiliated with national parties that have the kind of financial relationships with them and their campaigns that would be illegal for foreign parties if California was independent.

> California is going to be a pretty fair representation of what would happen if the Democrats gained a 60% across board majority in US federal politics.

It's really not, because California and the Federal government aren't structured similarly. The feds do t have as much detail of government tied up in the Constitution that the legislature can't amend on its own. The feds don't have citizens reserving the powers of recall, referendum, and initiative. The feds don't have a higher Constitutional bar for tax increases than passing a budget.

And the kind of electoral lopsidedness that occurs in CA wouldn't be nearly as stable on a federal level; those no outside party to kowtow to that constrains major parties fromm competitive realignment.
There are pros and cons to the different business models, but in this case, if you think of it as a matching/sorting type of problem, it's inefficient and wasteful, in a logistical/Nash equilibrium sort of way.

Which doesn't always mean it's the wrong way, from a business perspective. But if you're charging by height, it's leaving money on the table.
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Have you tried tone.js? It's pretty easy to setup and play with, and lets one use a few samples to imitate any instrument.

Edit: tune -> tone.
Yes, "oxidation" as in "rusting" as in "converting to rust". It's a bit of fun wordplay. :)
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For me "percentage liked" would be like / views. Different from like:dislike ratio.
You still need insurance for liability.