skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We put the toddler to bed at 8PM, which leaves us with 3 to 4 hours of time at home, during which we have to avoid making much noise.

At the same time, I'm too exhausted to do anything productive (actively learning new stuff or coding for-fun projects), and I'm finding media and games much less satisfying than before.

As a result, I often spend my evenings reading (fiction, mostly). I'm probably now reading more than ever before.
Tech’s REAL Brienne of Tarth protector when it comes to small businesses?
My understanding is that the murder-for-hire scheme was suggested by someone acting at the direction of law enforcement at the time. Furthermore, my understanding is that this person repeatedly pressured Ross before Ross gave in and ordered the hit. It sounds like the classic definition of entrapment. Law enforcement shouldn't be allowed to create a would-be-murderer and then prosecute them for essentially being easily manipulated.

I haven't followed the case, and I probably have some details wrong, but it sounds like the prosecution intentionally split the murder charge into a separate trial to be run later because the entrapment defense would have cast doubt on the other charges. (To be clear, my limited understanding leads me to think that Ross was probably guilty of the 4 charges under which he was convicted.) They likely probably never intended to prosecute the murder-for-trial charges except as a backup if they lost the primary trial. The entrapment defense just looks way too easy.
Yes, in the EU employees are more protected and it is much more limited what an employer are legally allowed to do. In fact they have to prove that your intention was malicious.
Europe Wants Its Own Alternative to Musk’s Starlink Network
Let a jury decide that.
Unfortunately , I'm not too good at documenting my stuff and the most I've done in that regard is to take photos and show people what I've made on a rocket discord channel I'm a part of. Here's a photo of the PCB after it was put together!

https://i.postimg.cc/PqdsVszZ/IMG-20201105-172236.jpg

The top circuitry and chip are the Bluetooth circuitry. The PCB antenna is hidden away under the top CYGNUS solder mask. It's got three servo channels, two high current pyro channels that can be variables controlled to deliver a variable current using PWM, it's using a BMI088 as the IMU , a MS something or other chip (can't remember off the top of my head) as the altimeter. It's got 16Mb of flash which is that chip to the top left next to the microcontroller. It's got an SD card port for data storage, buzzer, neopixel LED and a buck converter for converting the LiPo 11V to 5V efficiently as well as a linear regulator for converting from 5V to 3.3V. lemme know if you've got any questions!
Helm Zoo Will Kill You
This will be just as successful as when the EU decided they needed their own Google and Facebook. Colossal waste of government money.
I have four kids, who are now teenagers. On average I think I've finished maybe ten or twenty books a year, by reading them on my work commute. I'm lucky to live somewhere this is possible and comfortable. Some books I've finished on vacation trips, but basically almost none at home, except in the two or three last years.
Has anyone put together a bingo card generator of Google products that we can mark whenever Google discontinues one? I feel like this would be a fun project to write.
I have a diagnosis of atypical Cystic Fibrosis as does my oldest son. I'm pretty confident we had covid-19 back in March and my respiratory problems got better, not worse.

It felt like having bad anemia. The impact it has on the blood was a big deal but it did not seem to hit my respiratory system hard. If anything, it appeared to have some beneficial side effects for some longstanding issues.

So I think your quick and dirty dismissal of an important biological difference is specious.
He will serve at least 2 years, assuming his health allows it so that Kamala can serve 2 additional terms.
Wsl2 is winning on some CPU-bound tests though. For example page 2 has lots of CPU-only benchmarks. The caching didn't matter there.
Buildkite’s Managed macOS CI
> "a guy who loves the project he works on"

Yes, he is Ron Pressler, project lead of Loom - https://twitter.com/pressron
Technology beats humans at growing strawberries
Man, he was in a bad mood that day.

"The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind
has always struck me as rather silly: I’d rather use them to mimic something better."
The government expressly disclaimed any such burden. See Ulbricht’s (unsuccessful) petition for certiorari [1] linked elsewhere in this thread:

> The sentence was based on judicial findings related to allegations of serious crimes that not only were never found by a jury but were not even among the charges leveled at trial. During closing argument, the U.S. attorney explicitly advised the jury: “[T]o be clear, the defendant has not been charged for these attempted murders here. You’re not required to make any findings about them. And the government does not contend that those murders actually occurred.”

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/17/17-950/34432/20180...
It doesn’t have to be an either or.
> the idea of the Chickenshit Club

It's actually true. There's a letter that was circulated to major companies to not fund legal cases for executives vs. the DOJ, and the SEC generally won't prosecute well-funded plaintiffs, or really any case they're not 100% sure about.

An example of the failure of the DOJ was against Countrywide. The owner had around $1 billion to fight the DOJ and wasn't convicted, with just a patsy getting the guilty plea. One of their regulatory capture techniques was to offer Representatives mortgages at lower rates than the public:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/oct/23/bank-of-ame...
I had an RX-7, first fuel injected model. It was pretty solid and rev'd to the moon.

(Of course I think the motor was geared and I think 6000 rpm on the tach was really 2000 rpm, but hey)

After about 60k miles it started getting little puffs of blue smoke when it started up (they went away in a moment).

I got a good deal on another car and traded it in, but I still think about it.

Newer models came along, and finally the RX-8. Now the RX-8 was nice but I believe the last generation RX-7 is one of the most beautiful cars ever.
The author of the book of the same name says he based her character loosely on Bobby Fischer. Vasily Borgiv is clearly inspired by Boris Spassky, a contemporary of Fischer’s who lost to him in the 1972 World Cup.

Spassky had a peak rating of 2690 and Fischer’s was 2785, which puts him about 19th in the world today: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_top_chess_play...
Facebook is absolute scum. Can’t believe they were the darling of SV just a few years ago. Quickly becoming clear after Moskovitz and the other cofounders left, Zuckerberg is an egotistical, power-hungry maniac.
That's an individualist and not a society perspective. I think 70 year lock up is a worse deal than 50 for the citizenry in general. So you can flip that. Maybe the artist wants to go to a place with a reduced length of time because it gives them a richer catalog from which to make derivative works (like practically every Disney movie ever made).

The often-used "incentivize innovation" argument can be flipped as well. The luxurious length of time may make our most creative people lazy and thus disincentivizes innovation in the same way that giving a worker, say, 10 million dollars will make them no longer show up for work.
> There's things like https://keybase.io that did try to solve this to a reasonable extent, PGP but more modern. It looked hopeful, but Zoom seems to only keep it on life support. Maybe someone will continue

It seems there's already Keybase like solution using OpenPGP only (no centralized infrastructure needed): https://keyoxide.org/
Bork as a Verb
Better to have justice for the wrong reasons than no justice at all.
When I was working with SQuIDs, I couldn't even have keys in my pocket or wear a belt buckle. That was low-key compared with the bio clean room whose denizens showered at entry, but devices are a simpler matter of protocol.
Seriously!

I've been following them since the intercooler days and they've been great (functionally) although maybe a little drowned out by all the SPA chatter. Still a great library IMO.
Snowden is tough. The China stuff he released wasn't very patriotic.
Doesn't the obvious, honest answer make the most sense? Someone in Google management doesn't want their products acting unethically - merely because it is unethical?
Ask HN: What's a good non-Apple tablet similar to iPad Pro?
Very cool. And while not quite as cool it reminds me of when people tried the same using the computers fan: https://www.wired.com/2016/06/clever-attack-uses-sound-compu...
> The problem with Firefox containers is that it requires micromanaging your web browsing. I'm sure it's nice for people who obsess about privacy, but it's not something that the general user population is going to adopt.

Yeah I completely agree. There are extensions that make managing containers easier but I’d be lying if I didn’t say I still run into regular problems.

That said, the Facebook and Google extensions don’t require micromanaging. They only cover those two respective clouds but it’s still a really strong starting point.

> I think the right approach, ultimately, would be compartmentalize all web sites, but that's not feasible right now

It is possible with the Temporary Containers extension in Firefox. In fact this is exactly how I’ve been browsing the web for around a year now.

It’s really liberating.
I was browsing YouTube the other day, and got recommended something similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0VYsiMtrNE

Very interesting indeed! The title of the video translates to "Electromagnetic festival music".
I've looked closely at the evidence and anyone who was familiar with it would conclude that he absolutely did intend to have people killed, and even believed he was doing it and had done it. And it wasn't just the federal agents entrapping him, there were 2 other agreements to kill 5 other people with another entity that was not a federal agent, but was scamming him out of money and the people did not exist.

But that's not what he was charged with and that's not what he was convicted of, so he shouldn't be serving time for it. If you want him on those charges charge him with those crimes.
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Not only was he not convicted for it, but the charge was dropped.
I found Team America World Police to be super hilarious because they pulled back the curtain and steamrolled right through it.

https://youtu.be/pFrMLRQIT_k
Here's basically the same story from Glenn Greenwald:

https://theintercept.com/2019/04/18/robert-mueller-did-not-m...

https://theintercept.com/2020/05/21/the-cias-murderous-pract...

I assume the GP is being downvoted for tone rather than lack of veracity.
I know it’s explicitly a 2D game engine, but I hope they add some support for 3D geometry. They’ve already got their own shader language, could 3D be that big of an additional effort?
In general, HN tries to be a place where only informative comments are prized, specifically excluding jokes. There are lots of funny jokes around here (and I don't usually downvote them myself), but the fear is that HN will turn into Reddit, where every post has dozens of joke comments attached.

That's fun! I love Reddit. But it's not what HN tries to be.
It would be amazing if someone would create a hosted blob opera midi player.
My gripe is about being able to work on a bash script that needs to work "everywhere". Bash 4 was release over a decade ago, so it's a reasonable expectation that it will be present on most servers with a shell.

Homebrew works around that, but their refusal over GPL taint for having the binary present still doesn't seem right.
If you have money, it is easier to lobby for something that will make you more money. If you have no money, it is more difficult to lobby to keep something free.
Let's say, all those where some individuals manage to adopt human speech, like various birds, some whales, chimps, etc, or manage to interact with human language symbols by means of sign language or similar. This is quite impressive. To my knowledge, we, while far better equipped, haven't intruded a single communication system of an other species in a way that we could meaningful interact or even use their intrinsic concepts. On a less complex scale, but still impressive are those, who manage to interpret some human practices, like pointing. (Mind that this requires some kind of mirroring to construct an assumed line of sight and some assumptions about what the other might have in mind and what might be an object of interest and engaging in some sort of dialog over this.)
That film series hardly felt as if he were a captain in command of a ship as much as if he were, barely, the alpha among a pack of secondary schooler friends.

Far too much Kirk Drift.
> It does seem that having C++ knowledge helps with 20.2% of respondents with at least some C++ experience noting lifetimes to be “very difficult” while 22.2% of those without C++ knowledge found the topic to be “very difficult”. Overall, systems programming knowledge (defined as at least some experience in C and C++), tends to make for more confident Rust users: those with systems programming experience rated themselves as 5.5 out of 10 on their Rust expertise, while those with experience in statically typed garbage collected languages like Java or C# rated themselves as 4.9 out of 10. Those with only experience in dynamically typed languages like Ruby or JavaScript rated themselves as 4.8 out of 10.

Was this just based on self-report? An alternative interpretation could be that C/C++ programmers are just more confident.
I find it interesting just how much cars are part of certain cultures. Living in Tokyo of my hundreds of acquaintances I think I know 3 that own a car. Family or no. I know that's not possible in many places though I kind of wish it was more common.
Show HN: Deep learning tool that repairs damaged/faded photos
OT: What is the origin of RockyText font in https://rockylinux.org/ ?
Great call-out thank you!
Ultimately it seems strangely exclusionary to draw lines in the sand like this. Everyone who learns how to program doesn't need to A.) be god's gift to the science of computing and B.) have the same level of understanding/fluency in what they're doing.

It's like saying the only way to teach any amount of a language is to require 6 months of total immersion. There is value in someone taking on year of a language and learning a few phrases, and moving on. Ultimately, people have practical and immediate concerns, like getting paid and putting food on the table. We aren't all programming for the same reasons, and sometimes getting the job done is all people have time or even the inclination to do. And we shouldn't judge them for that.

I'm not suggesting that he is entirely wrong, but reading things that sound like proselytizing just make me sad. There is so much room to educate and come to mutual understandings. Some people might think they've found a better route or a deeper understanding, but treating the rest like idiots is the best way to make sure they never get your message.
In the EU, bank transfers (in €) have to clear within one working day. Transfers between your own accounts at one bank are typically instant. There is no fundamental reason for bank transfers to be slow. And unlike bitcoin, banks can handle more than a few transactions per second worldwide without grinding to a halt.
In high school I had a TI83 graphical calculator. Shelled out some hard earned cash for a serial adapter to upload programs from the internet onto it.

One was a similar hack that played the xfiles theme and the star trek voyager theme over AM.

Like you say, nothing could come close to the coolness of sending audio to a radio set from your calculator.
The mental health of the planet could be instantly improved if Apple threw Facebook off iOS. FB’s argument is paper-thin, their copy is trite and the two companies couldn’t be further apart on ethics and business practice. I cannot, for the life of me, envisage the world view that Facebook espouses.
not only dropped, but dropped with prejudice.
Money.
Not many people are going to lobby for something to be free. And you have companies like Disney claiming they can create jobs, so it is good for the people.
> The Guardian is 4MB because the front page has a dozen+ hi-res images.

That's incorrect. If you analyse the structure of the site (link below), ~800KB of the 4.4MB uncompressed homepage is images. 1.3MB is JavaScript, another 1.2MB is HTML (how is that even possible?)

https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.theguardian.com/xSnIUn3X/

> And why is 512KB acceptable but 4MB a problem?

Um, because it's an 8th of the size and there are still many people in the world that don't have fast internet access.

> A few bytes of bad JavaScript can mess up your site's performance, while several well-optimized MBs can make it accessible and useful.

Agree with the JS, but not the images. Well omptimised imaged should hit multiple megabytes unless its some kind of gallery with many images. Using srcset to load resized images is a much better way of doing this.
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Someone needs to solve the technical puzzles, software engineers are people who can do that, being good at managing things is a plus but it isn't what defines the role. There are plenty of roles at companies for people who can manage everything else but not technical things, like product manager or people manager.
I guess you’ve just found the name for Rocky’s development branch!
I copied an assembly program off the net back in ~ 2000 that did AM audio on my TI83! So I'm positive it can be done..!
This is true but I think this is mostly irrelevant to the topic at hand. If VR was as popular as PS4 then we'd have said "VR took off". It doesn't need to be as popular as smartphones to be called successful but it's arguably not successful yet by many definitions. It certainly hasn't "taken off"
They sadly did the opposite with Alan Shore.

In early appearances, he would blackmail, hide evidence, embezzle, extort, threaten his own clients into admitting their wrongdoings, taunt his superiors, and everything other.

In later appearances, he's mostly a funny wisecracker with an inappropriate sense of humor.
Same, I hate having to do this. Such simple stuff...
This is so true! I never was as big a Trekkie as I was a Star Wars fan, so I didn't really see it with JJ's Star Trek. I actually liked his first movie.

And then came Star Wars. I kind of could accept his remake of Episode 4, but after that, man they made me like the prequels so much more. Not that the movies itself were bad, they just totally ignored the fact that 6 other movies already existed, not even speaking about all the legends stuff. He could have easily used ships, characters and locations from Legends, all the designs were there. Using them would have had the same effect on new viewers while eing great for oldtimers like myself. He didn't, everything had to be his, and bigger and faster and with more bang.

That it can be done differently was shown by Feloni.
OK. The Guardian's uncompressed homepage with images removed is 3.6 MB. That's still way too big.

https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.theguardian.com/xSnIUn3X/
I was curious so I checked it out.

I guess it expired in 2015, and a version that somewhat hamstrung the NSA replaced it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act#:~:text=After%20re....

And then section 215 expired this year, but it looks like it was more the House of Reps, than Trump.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/yes-section-215-expire...

There's just been so much going on this year that stuff gets buried.

I'm not willing to give Trump too much credit on this front, since he also normalized use of the military against peaceful domestic protestors for the purpose of cheap PR stunts.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-protests-apol...
How to check if the caps lock is on in JavaScript?
That's a high return. I studied my local area and gross return was 6-7%. I felt trackers gave a better return
Do you happen to have a link to it/recall the name? Sounds interesting!
Poland has quite obvious law that government documents are not protected by copyright.

Interestingly, in recent years it gets more and more broadly applied, for example to database listing schools and to aerial imagery taken on a government contracts.

What is quite nice if you want to use them for example as a source for OpenStreetMap edits.
AINAL, but pardons prior to convictions are a grey area. President Ford pardoned Nixon before convictions, but no court contested that, so it can't really be used as a legal precedent.

In general, presidents usually pardon someone who's already serving a sentence under a federal law. Snowden and Assange are not. Reality Winner is, and so was Chelsea Manning (pardoned by Obama).

Of course, it's Trump we're talking about, so I don't think any sort of prior legal precedents really matters.
Interesting comment!
If one doesn't use the history part of revision control, why bother with revision control at all? Serious question.
One could just do backups and skip the overhead of revision control.

To me the whole point of revision control is to examine who did what when and why.
512kb is still a lot of space to play with. My website - the one I live from - is about half of that, except on longer articles. That's despite large header images and quality-of-life JavaScript. It wasn't very hard to keep it that way.
I haven't used React and React hooks as long as I have used Java and Maven, but consider this:

If many successful people voluntarily use something you cannot understand there is always the possibility that you are the one who are missing out on something.

(FWIW: I've been there myself)
Thanks for pointing out the fallacy of trying to read 100s of books, seems to come next to trying to read infinite jest just to check a mark or brag about it.

The reality is that the majority of non fiction books are written by authors with perverse incentives - as a writer you can mostly make money by writing a complete book, whether or not you have a books worth of things to say about the topic. My approach has been to try and read 1 or two books a year but make sure they matter. The few books I do read, I remember most of their good parts and find them valuable and rewarding. Almost all of my friends and colleagues who are self proclaimed voracious readers never seem the wiser from it, not like they can recount any specific instance of a book affecting their life or decisions in any way at least.

All of this is about non fiction of course, fiction books are a whole another animal!
I don’t follow. No new taxes have been imposed on car owners in London.
On the topic of useless subjects (on a personal level) I nominate chemistry. Never had to use it or depend on chemical knowledge, never had to write a chemical reaction or compute masses except as a student. So many years spent on chemistry instead of learning some other subject.
It seems to me that, if a judge is able to choose a sentence among multiple possible sentences given a particular conviction, this by definition means that the information the judge uses to make that decision comes from things other than what the person was convicted of.
As a short analogy: ps vs. top