skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hell, every photo filter is a less-accurate representation of the original. And filters are wildly popular.
Haha I was going to mention Reich Remixed! I spent a lot of time programming to that music when I was a teen. Definitely fun!

My favorite track was probably Nobukazu Takemura’s remix of Proverb https://youtu.be/-ipSM8bwo4M
TikTok is the most successful China-owned app outside China.
Blocking TikTok places a dent to the aspirations of Chinese companies to expand outside China.

Same with WeChat.
If you use the computer in a well lit area, then yes. Dark themes work well for dim lighting. That said, IME a light theme in a well lit area is much easier on the eyes, especially over the course of a work day.
Throttling a spike using price forces everyone to pay the marginal rate, and to use price as a "good" throttle requires the logistics companies to have perfect knowledge of the demand/price curve.

Given that shipping can be a significant price component for multiple types of e-commerce, transparency on when they can issue their final "get it by Christmas" sales with their standard/deterministic pricing structure.
Chinese spy slept with 2 mayors and possibly Democratic Rep. in years-long op
Show HN: Japnify: Discover new Japanese artists and music through your Spotify
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25076987
I mean, that's de-facto what CentOS was; RHEL but non-paid and with different branding. But I mean... they were built from the (exact) same sources, so similar that you could convert between them by un/installing a few packages.
Can you back that number up?

In my corner of the world Ubuntu plays no role at all on servers. It's all CentOS/RHEL here.
Experimental flu vaccine could last for years, early results show
Correctness dictates algorithms. That's what TLA+ helps you with.
I mostly disagree. Acting in a way that is optimal for the project doesn't require you to be narcissistic, thin-skinned, revengful, etc.

Empathy can be a hurdle in making the right decisions, for example firing a low performing employee. You could argue that someone who takes pleasure in the pain of others could be a better leader. Possibly. But first, I would still find them repulsive and second, I think you can be both decent and a good leader who makes the right decisions. Personally if I were in a leadership position I would try to "hack" my emotions and convince myself that e.g. firing someone who doesn't do a good job is a good thing overall.
Completely reasonable request, easy to implement along the lines of:

public class Name {
private Name(String name, int flag){...}

public static Name asMissing(){new Name(null, -1);}
public static Name asNotApplicable(){new Name(null, -2);}
public static Name asNotAvailableYet(){new Name(null, -3);}
public static Name asForbidden(){new Name(null, -4);}
public static Name create(String name){new Name(name, 0)}

public boolean isMissing(){flag==-1}
public boolean isNotApplicable(){flag==-2}
public boolean isNotAvailableYet(){flag==-3}
public boolean isForbidden(){flag==-4}
public String get() {if (flag!=0) throw new Exception(flag) else name}
}
Here's what my dictionaries say. I agree that I'd tend to use it for "cutesy".

> twee, a. (and n. 3) colloq.

> 1. Originally: `sweet', dainty, chic. Now only in depreciatory use: affectedly dainty or quaint; over-nice, over-refined, precious, mawkish.

> 1905: Punch 8 Mar. 178/1, “`I call him perfectly twee!' persisted Phyllis.”

> 1917: M. T. Hainsselin Grand Fleet Days xv. 91 “Girl: Oh, here's another little gun; isn't it a darling! Isn't it just too twee for words!”

> 1947: E. Hyams William Medium viii. 164 “`Isn't he twee!' said Mary, and pinched his cheek.”

> 1956: G. Durrell Drunken Forest x. 193 “`What twee individuals?' `Those knowledgeable sentimentalists who are forever telling me that it's cruel to lock up the poor wild creatures in little wooden boxes.'”

> 1962: Observer 25 Mar. 25/3 “She has a small and, it must be said, pretty twee cottage.”

> 1967: E. Short Embroidery & Fabric Collage iv. 102 “The best of our designers who have abandoned the rather `twee' decorative type of embroidered picture.”

> 1973: G. Robyns Wimbledon xxix. 192 “There is..a twee Arcadian outdoor studio complete with white trellis and plastic flowers.”

> 1983: Listener 21 July 33/1 “Mike Nichols's thriller-fantasy about dolphins should be as nauseatingly twee as the worst Disney—but it isn't.”

Chambers 11th (because they give an origin)

> twee

> twee /twē/ ( informal)

> adjective

> 1. Small and sweet

> 2. Affectedly or sentimentally pretty or quaint

> ORIGIN: tweet for ‘sweet’, and later tiny and wee
Would love to see an RSS feed for the blog
Are there any other author's similar to Steve McConnel?

Someone who writes a book with pragmatic advice, based on real life research, focused on delivering projects quickly, on time, and with few defects?

Instead it feels like almost all the writing in software is evangelizing.
"Pretty much anywhere other than SF can have fresher food." Says nothing about being limited to the 7 states with more farms than California (to say nothing of the different crops that are grown on these farms: Iowa grows almost entirely corn and grains, so your fresh produce is going to be limited, or you'll be getting things from smaller boutique farms, which you'll find in all states and so produce depends mostly on climate).
I can read it just fine with javascript disabled, except that I get only text and no pictures.

Edited to add: I also cleared cookies etc.
It is also not community-based anymore anyway.

So now it is just "Operating System", maybe they should rename it IBMBetaOS or something like that.
I wonder if their uber-style delivery-network can also handle pickups... that removes the need to ship in advanced to their warehouse
Tighten Up Your Strategy: Evaluating the Leakiness of a Cloud App
There is definitely room to innovate more fundamentally in operating system design. POSIX is effectively a 50-year old API, and there are definitely places where the API it provides is far from optimal.

For something that interests me personally, the POSIX idea of ptrace and signals for debugging is a fundamentally broken and obtuse API that just don't work very well with how modern software is designed, and requires a decent amount of hacks to do anything rational with hardware traps. I did think a little bit about what kind of API I wanted if I were designing de novo, and happened to pop through Fuchsia's API at a glance to see what it decided... and it was exactly the kind of way I'd have thought about this space.
2017 article: https://open.nytimes.com/publishing-with-apache-kafka-at-the...
Apache 2.0 has similar patent language as GPLv3, and is the current bigcorp favourite open source license, so I'm not sure that's correct. Or am I missing something?
>Even in the more nefarious case of ad-tech, I'd personally prefer more relevant ads than generic non-relevant ones.

Personally, i'm the opposite. Every time I see an obviously targetted ad based on something i've done, watched, said in a text conversation, my emails, etc. It creeps me the hell out.
I'm not sure where you'd get the SQ and NC will presumably be better. If you compare the AirPod Pros and the Sony WF1000s, Sony comes out ahead in most estimations I've seen. Sony has been doing portable personal audio for an awfully long time, given that they basically invented the form factor, so they're not likely to be lagging behind too much.

Don't get me wrong, Apple is OK at consumer audio. The Homepod is nice, so are the APPs. Even Beats aren't too bad nowadays. But they haven't released consistently better audio products than Audeze, Sennheiser, Sony, M&D, or even Bose--their closest comparison, since both Apple and Bose lean hard on DSPs for their SQ.

I suspect the second version of these headphones will be pretty excellent. Apple does learn from its mistakes, whatever they'll end up being. Trick is Bose and Sony will have learned from their mistakes too. It'll be interesting to see if Apple ends up being able to compete on audio, not just style.
Disclosure: I worked at Mozilla with the core WebThings dev team and still collaborate with devs on this project. I don't do devel on the gateway, but I create "web things" (IoT devices) that connect to it.

I use the gateway to manage my smart home and I love it. Love the privacy. Love the rules. Love the add-ons.

Going forward, I'd like to see companies adopt it yes, but my main focus will be pushing the gateway and framework to be used for STEM education around IoT. I currently work with the https://MicroBlocks.fun team, an awesome FOSS STEM edu tool for programming microcontrollers. I drove a Mozilla Open Source Software (MOSS) support grant to fund the core MicroBlocks devs to build a "web thing" library, when at Mozilla. The combo of the two projects is awesome imho.

If you can't buy an IoT device to suit your needs, you can easily build one. :)

A talk I gave in Sept shows a "walk around the house" demo at about 13:00min. It gives you a small taste of what you can do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a0gXt8m9Yw
I did found Holloway, but I left the company a few months ago. I love reading, but no hidden agenda—I promise!
Apache is GPL3 compatible. Did you mean GPL2 incompatible?
I "got" reduce not long ago. It's occasionally handy, and it makes sense, but sure, it should not be overused. It is the most complicated between the three.

A good old loop in code bases that are not afraid of them are totally fine and probably clearer in many cases.
What's underwhelming about?:

sudo apt install unattended-upgrades
Where's the evidence that this is IBM driven?
on top of that, they created their own gold alloy for it. One that allowed them to use less gold at the same karat weight! For that, you paid a premium. Genius.
There is simply absolutely no need for on ear computation to make low quality drivers sound better.

Sure there is. If the cost of computation for a required sound quality is lower than the difference in driver cost, then computation will win, especially when it adds additional value unavailable to the non-computational approach. Positioning the computation at the device is advantageous since it allows for a simpler data interface. For example, adjustments to the soundstage based on head movement can be performed on-device instead of making a round trip to source for the adjustment.

In ear headphones aren't going to have enough battery to power a cellular modem.

Sure, and when the first iPod was released it lacked wireless networking and was storage constrained compared to comparably priced products. I can appreciate the pragmatism and be appreciate folks working towards an exciting future.

Pardon me for departing, my kid wants to watch the SN8 livestream together; hope you enjoy some high quality Soyuz laserdisks.

https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/Apple-releases-i...
Chinese astroturfers working overtime today I see
Contact-Tracing Apps Flop in the US
What is your distinction? Is mongodb a database? What about leveldb?

Whether we want it to be so or not the term database is much more encompassing thank it used to be. You can try to fight that change if you want to but it means you'll be speaking a different language that most of the rest of us as a result.
Love the idea, it's exactly what we need. I go on long walks and I'd like my partner to know where I am so she knows when I'll be home or to surprise me along the route.

So far we've always shared via Whatsapp which recently stopped working for some reason. But I also don't want to use Google maps or Whatsapp for privacy reasons. If you could find a way to make 100% sure Google won't "intercept" the location and store it anyway, that would be great.

I'd use it probably 3-4 times a week. I'd be happy to pay for it but please don't do the standard 10 bucks a month thing, I won't even bother then. How about a model based on usage? 10c/hour or something for the one sharing? (Being shared with could be free). If I had to commit to a subscription, I'd probably not sign up if it's more than 2 bucks a month.
The 2000s called and they’d like their meme back.
MCAS is not required. The plane flies just fine without it.

MCAS was added so the minor differences in how it flies could be adjusted away by computer to avoid needing to retrain pilots already certified for the 737-NG.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-boeing-737-ma...

> Boeing put MCAS on the plane not to make it stable in maneuvers approaching a stall but to make it handle and feel exactly the same as the earlier model 737NG.

> “If MCAS is deactivated, you can still fly the aircraft and it is not unstable,” said Fehrm. “The Max without MCAS is a perfectly flyable aircraft.”
> Is this a service you would use?

Yes! I already use a non-privacy centric service like this, and would very much like to swap it out.

> Would you pay for it?

Yes. I'd be willing to pay $30/year for quicker updates. Maybe have a freemium model of an update per 30 mins or 60 minutes, a middle tier of 5 minute accuracy (good enough for most users) and then a premium tier of ~30s accuracy. Maybe play around with the amount of people in a group too - it makes sense to charge more if you're sharing with a small family versus a single friend.

As always with subscriptions, please make them have clear pricing, an option to pay annually (even if there's no savings) and allow auto-renew to be opt-in instead of by default.

On the monetization front, you likely can leverage the same infrastructure for an Enterprise version of the app. What many companies want is a rough geofence app that can let them know when someone is abroad for work and give them location specific information - "Oh hey, you're near the Ohio office. The alarm code is XYZ, and your badge has been given temporary access for the next 3 days."

Especially if you can assure employees that they're only giving rough location information to their employer ("Mary is in Nevada" and not "Mary is at So-and-so brothel in Las Vegas") then it feels like an acceptable tradeoff of information and benefit.
Yeah, I mean also from a financial/business standpoint I totally get it.

The incentive is to target content efforts towards enterprise and large-scale orgs. Because who cares if the indie dev or small startup is running your stack, let's be real.
never had a problem picking up a new language. haskell? weird but ok. f#, fine, Rust, fine. lisp? I get it. prolog? no idea what was going on.
Until IBM / Red Hat acquires that fork just like they did CentOS
It seems they dropped ball on mobile devices (iOS/android). In last few years they where mostly focusing on embedded, automotive and desktop. I wish they provided more indie friendly alternative license for mobile market something similar like Unreal Engine had e.g. taking ~5% of your revenue.

I know they recently provide 'small company license' and ~500usd/year is justified as long it's just hobby project if only your as a dev. The moment you reach $250k as a startup and have to hire few devs and pay $5k/year per each developer is making this less affordable. On top of that if you focusing on mobile devices (android/ios) probably you would need to have Felgo license (to cover some Qt limitations) which is crazily even more expensive.

At this point in few years Flutter, ReactNative, Unity, Unreal Engine and Electron will be slowly stealing more of Qt market.
I don’t believe in free will. It has been a much different experience than shedding my belief in God. When I was young I used to “sense” someone always watching me, to the point of feeling shame in natural situations like bathing. One day the feeling just faded, and it was a palpable change in my perception of life.

With the absence of free will, that intuition has been extremely difficult for me to hold onto. It is fleeting, even after hundreds of pages of books reiterating the fact. To approximate the intuition, when I see someone in a morally questionable situation or experiencing sheer bad luck, I try to remember to tell myself “There, but for the grace of God, go I.”
Neat, but doesn't work in GitHub's Android app.
... as opposed to paid/proprietary software, that never breaks compatibility, hikes prices, or screws over their customers?
Propagation Networks:
A Flexible and Expressive Substrate for Computation

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/genesis/papers/radul%202009.pdf
I won't get into all the context, but I think we should consider whether a community without contributors is a community. GL JS never had major active contributors outside of the company, and there are no self-funded webgl experts with lots of time who are ready to maintain a fork.

OSS, we hoped, was about enabling people and unlocking people's ability to collaborate. It turns out that in 2020, it's mostly helping companies and getting nothing in return. That's not a dynamic you can build a sustainable business on.
My Jabra elites do both those things (multiple devices with instant switch on calls & auto pause with on-ear detection), and are much cheaper. The only thing they don't have is the adaptive EQ but the jury's still out on how much of that is just a marketing gimmick.
Hopefully the fork will be GPL, so Mapbox won't be able to steal all of the work the new developers do and release it in their new proprietary product.
I have 3 Pebble Time watches, 2 of them still in the box, to replace someday the one I wear for already 3 years. Paid $150.00 for each of them.

I wouldn't trade any of my Pebbles for a Apple Watch.

Edit: what I mean is that I consider the Pebble far superior to the AW: customizable and easier to program, with a longer lasting battery and display always on.
Murray S. Davis: "That's Interesting!: Towards a Phenomenology of Sociology and a Sociology of Phenomenology" https://proseminarcrossnationalstudies.files.wordpress.com/2...

An interesting (no pun intended) paper on what makes papers (or anything in general) interesting.
20 minutes.

This was all pencil and paper.
Yes, I clarified that.
With passthrough you could harness the power of the gpu for a plex vm/container on proxmox to help with transcoding.
My recent amazon orders have taken weeks to even ship.
FreeBSD has supported capability-based security model for a decade now: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?capsicum.
Why do you think people won't continue their shopping habits online? Hasn't e-commerce grown over the past decade? Coronavirus may have sped up the growth.
For what it's worth, connectivity for me with the Pros has gotten much better with Big Sur. I don't think the easy switching even worked prior to this release (despite being a touted feature when announced). It's still not perfect though.
GitHub raw endpoints do it. They will either serve the SVG without an image/svg+xml Content-Type, making it not render in the browser, or you have to append ?sanitize=true to the URL which will, as the name suggest, sanitize it.
Does anyone ever actually use EDIPARTYNAME? Or is it just legacy cruft in X.509 that we pay for through security vulnerabilities like this? It is in obscure, rarely or never used features that vulnerabilities tend to lurk, since bugs in the more commonly used features get discovered and fixed much faster.

If hardly anyone is using EDIPARTYNAME, maybe support for it should just be dropped? Reject as invalid every certificate containing it? Release a new streamlined version of X.509 with the legacy cruft removed or deprecated?
No, the top comment was talking specifically about the problems that Apple has addressed with their headphones through hardware and software. It's not analogous at all.

The point is that "their job" differs for some people and OP was pretty explicit on what "their job" meant to them.
Similar problem, on the peninsula, running ATT Fiber via Sonic.
There is a known issue with 2 part numbers of ONT that are incompatible with ATT main station, resulting in packet loss, accrued errors, etc.
An ATT service tech can come out to replace this in 3 minutes. Have had zero problems since replacement, after getting knocked off network many times per hour.
No, I meant ChromeOS.

There's no official, user-friendly way to install ChromiumOS yourself. A company called Neverware provides ISOs for x86 PC's but like you say the drivers are spotty and these releases lag behind ChromeOS. I'm not even sure what tablet devices are out there that you'd _want_ to install ChromiumOS on yourself? Maybe a Surface? These don't even have mainline Linux support (https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface exists though).

ChromeOS on a device like the Duet is a nice experience however, and still let's you get a Debian shell like I described.
Craig Federighi Shares Apple's Four Privacy Principles in Conference Keynote
The paper is from 2012, not 2016 (see https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2342821.2342823)
> I'm fine with the northern aboriginal people killing their 7 whales

I think you're grossly understating the extent of aboriginal whaling. Reading numbers off the table at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling#Whaling_catches_by_loc... and cross-checking with the "by country" writeups below: Canada kills a thousand whales per year, about 2:1 narwhals to belugas, with "subsistence" amounts of bowheads. Greenland contributes about equal numbers of belugas and narwhals, and half as many minkes. Alaska contributes almost as many beluga kills, but also about a hundred bowheads a year. Faroese pilot whale kills number another ~800 per year. Any two of these four outstrip the scale of all commercial whaling.

Let's dispense, too, with the delusion that these aboriginal peoples "don't take more than they need and they use the entire animal":

> Hunters in Hudson's Bay rarely eat beluga meat. They give a little to dogs, and leave the rest for wild animals.[15] Other areas may dry the meat for later consumption by humans. An average of one or two vertebrae and one or two teeth per beluga or narwhal are carved and sold.[15]

Aboriginal whaling is no less reprehensible than the commercial variety. Hell, at least commercial whaling is mostly constrained to operating at profit.
This is one of those things where you can’t make everyone happy. Similar to “disabled person” vs. “person with disability”

As a disabled POC, I personally don’t mind in either case, but also if at least one person feels more welcomed because of the change then it’s worth it in my book.
So sad seeing so much FUD about gplv3. I've spent years gpl-ing my daily desktop and server stacks, and comments about why $BEHEMOTH don't use it just reinforce to me its the right move.

I just wish more devs had the courage to just stop capitulating to fear of a few different types.

That said, Apache 2.0 is one of the licenses I usually consider as acceptable (as opposed to mit and bsd).
You can also DNAT all port 53 traffic to your resolver. Devices will think they are talking to 8.8.8.8 or whatever, but in reality they will ask your resolver and your filtering will apply.

Your filtering can still break these devices.
It's a little hard to obtain accurate data now about what people will potentially do in the future when faced with more information.
Your boss told you exactly what you need to do: take more ownership :)

You already mentioned you own one part of the codebase, why not expand on that and find another (hopefully critical) part of the codebase and become an expert/owner on that piece too?

Also, it's not all about writing code. Your boss wants to see you put the needs of the team above your own, so look for opportunities in which you can increase team productivity, reduce risk, and help grow your team in terms of headcount and knowledge.

Also, try not to compare yourself to others, although I know it's easier said than done. Figure out what your goals are and do everything you need to in order to achieve them. Who cares how quickly others progress? Focus on yourself and your own success.