skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh boy. I have been listening to audiobooks since 2010.... hardly spent 5-20 days since when I didnt have an audiobook playing while going to sleep.

I spend a year finishing wallander series. Then another year for Lee child, then another or John grisham.
Other than those, read almost 40-80 books yearly. *wink 2x playback.

I have to say, books are now a part of my personality. There are times when I dig up a copy of any wallander series or Lee child because I want to hear dick hill.
Same for narrators like orlagh cassidy, Steve barthurst, Simon vance, and hundreds of others.

My most recent love has been Louise penny series. I thoroughly enjoyed that series.

Not to start with either department Q or Lars Kepler. Those two were brutal and enjoyed the rawness of it.
bit is my latest favorite git TUI. Check it out here: https://github.com/chriswalz/bit
> Do you have anything concrete to back that up?

No evidence is needed, as it's not a concrete claim. In modern US political parlance, the term "Russian asset" is a spooky-sounding but otherwise meaningless term. It's a cheap-but-effective rhetorical trick for discrediting someone.
The upstream for most other packages generally move much more slowly than the kernel. The fast ones (e.g. X11, systemd, QEMU) are typically rebased every other update or so (meaning, roughly once a year).

It also helps that Red Hat employs a lot of core developers for those fast moving packages. :)
Interesting. Were those 2 other agreements before or after the one suggested and pressured by the law enforcement asset? If those other agreements came later, there's an argument to be made that they were also an indirect result of the actions of the pressure by the law enforcement asset. I would guess there's no precedent for an indirect entrapment defense, but I'd consider it a mitigating circumstance for sentencing purposes.

In any case, I agree it seems fundamentally against the rule of law to punish people for crimes they haven't been convicted of.
I think the public at large cares little for “ancient” works from 1925, because that was such a different age. There is a great cultural disconnect. We typically don’t feel those works were ours in the first place. So we don’t see a great benefit in suddenly having free access to them.

This will change. I believe our current cultural continuity reaches all the way back to the end of the Second World War, and that this continuity is a stretching window not a sliding window.

When works from 1945+ start to enter the public domain I think the public at large will recognize these as part of their own cultural continuity and start to appreciate the value of the public domain.
This chain of thought would make sense if the press release were overly optimistic or otherwise misleading... But he didn't even sell at the peak?
Past Me always thinks he knows exactly what Present Me should be doing with my time. Past Me is a lazy asshole who doesn't want to make the effort at the moment, so he does something like buying a book and leaves it for Present Me to finish. Everything from the dishes to articles to books.

Sometimes that jerk doesn't even bother to make a long term memory, so I open my Kindle reader and there's books in there I barely recognize. The Complete History of Czarist Russia?? Who the hell does Past Me think I am? It's like he thinks between then and now, I've suddenly become a completely different person.

Of course, I try not to do this to Future Me. I might bookmark a few sites, added a few movies to my watch list and signed up for an class or whatever. But I'm sure he'll have the time and focus that I don't have now. I'm sure of it. He'll thank me, really, I'm sure.
Show HN: Add Stories-Like Widget to Any Website Based on RSS Feeds
Hey Hackers!

I'm about to release a new plugin for websites and wanted to ask your feedback.

This plugin is called "Automatic Stories" and it allows you to add a stories-like widget to any website based on existing RSS feeds, so you won't need to take care of creating stories manually. It will be updated based on the content of your website.

If you're using Wordpress, you may find a quick demo here:

https://www.commoninja.com/automatic-stories/wordpress

Simply type your website url, and the plugin will generate the stories automatically :)

If you're not using Wordpress, simply go directly to editor, add a category, and enter the feed URL to see the magic happen:

https://www.commoninja.com/automatic-stories/editor

Any feedback will be appreciated!
Except, of course, when the trope or title be sexual enough that the advertisers might complain, then the “content policy” kicks in — which is of course really all about how pornography has no plot and thus has nothing to talk about, not at all purely about advertisement revenue, as was originally freely admitted.

- The original statement: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/TheGoog...

- The later historical revision: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/TheCont...

Of course, describing tropes that deal with graphic maiming, slavery, mass murder and all that deliciously family friendly matter that Google AdSense doesn't complain about, as the full might of the collective Soccer Mum has never been unleashed against such things, can carry on without incident.
There are some murky details about how the Swedish authorities have handled the case of sexual assault Assange have been accused of. Here is an article with some details: https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikilea...
Good point. The admin and teaching parts of a tenure-track position would likely take way more than your normal working time, so you might end up with more time for doing research.
Accord:

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-case-for-a-pardon-of-ed...
> I installed SBCL, Slime for Emacs, and started working through the book Practical Common Lisp.

This is exactly the approach I took (~15 years ago) when I went all-in on Lisp for a few years. Don't know if it is still the best today, but it was a solid approach at the time.
NoSQL Is Dead, Long Live NoSQL
No, they've had the functional equivalent of Mac Gatekeeper up since late windows 8 days called SmartScreen. They redlist the code signer cert there and it will flag the install process to the user. They've probably just done an OCSP revoke of that public key.
Did you actually check if they have a maintained 8 release out there? AFAICT they have not released anything after 8.1 more than a year ago.
> GPL RHEL stuff without the licensing fee

Without the absurdly high licensing fee. A more reasonable amount (be it a saas-like low monthly charge or one-off 3-digit fee) would probably go down fine with enough institutional users to generate a decent amount of money.
And here are urls that work.

For Wordpress:
https://www.commoninja.com/automatic-stories/wordpress

For other site builders and website:
https://www.commoninja.com/automatic-stories/editor
See Bruce Perens's explanation: <https://perens.com/2017/06/28/warning-grsecurity-potential-c...>. The short story: adding a penalty to an action that the GPL allows is a restriction of that action, and the GPL does not allow setting additional restrictions. This has not been tested in court, as far as I know.
On Social Deviance
You seem to be diving directly to the low-level settings. I don't know why those would be locked, but the telemetry checkboxes in the UI work just fine, and aren't disabled. And once disabled, they'll stay disabled. Firefox is never going to prevent people from disabling telemetry.
Facebook Takes Out Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's Strengthening iOS Privacy
I'm sure that this Google outage was the combination of several independent issues. Perhaps there are the kind of safeguards you mentioned in place, but they returned an incorrect view of the world because of a bug exposed by a network partition? The point is that with huge distributed systems the things take them down (at least once they're mature) are typically the result of several failures that compound and interact in a way that wasn't foreseen. IMO it's more likely that the suggestions you made (blocks and/or automation) are already in place but failed in some more complex way.

Source: worked at a FAANG for a decade, saw many big incidents. Almost all were the confluence of several smaller issues that, had they happened alone, wouldn't have been newsworthy.
Why is securing critical infrastructure so difficult?
Alternatively: people have finally said enough to having their ability to use the internet gated on their willingness to accept abuse from other users.

Have you seen the response individuals get to calling out bullshit behavior? It takes guts to willingly put your name on any action to reduce the spread of abusive content. The people who do become victims of doxxing, swatting, unending abuse on all social media, including being sent porn, torture imagery, death threats, child pornography.

Then someone say that they're the snowflake? They're not the babies having a tantrum over not being able to call people intentionally abusive names.
You're right. HTTPS Anywhere takes me to https://landoflisp.com which is a placeholder webpage.
No love for MiniDisc data or Zip Drive :(

Me neither!
1) free healthcare is a basic right

2) everyone benefits from the economy having healthy citizens who aren't worried about medical bankruptcy. It's not true that only one person benefits from receiving a million dollar medical procedure . Also outside of US medical operations don't cost a million dollars.

Like, we're just not going to agree here.
Reminds me of "Tempest for Eliza" which uses the computer's monitor to generate AM signals: http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/
Tempest for Eliza: AM radio transmission using a computer monitor
It’s worth noting for comparison that many sports have a similar problem with their spectators - fans getting into fistfights and riots is far from unheard of.
I'm happy for you guys. God knows I derive no satisfaction from people being ill. You accuse me of being specious. Good lord, if only that was the nicest thing people accused me of I would be thrilled.

It might be interesting to get an antibody test to confirm that it actually was SARS-CoV-2?

Which organ system is primarily affected by your CFTR mutation? I quickly checked the lit and I gather Atypical CF can mainly affect respiratory, gastrointestinal, endocrine and metabolic, or genitourinary systems and is a little different in this way than classic CF, but you probably know more about it than I do.

Do you guys have a pretty rough history of respiratory infections, or do you see it manifest primarily elsewhere? Are you guys on prophylactic antibiotics for chronic pulmonary infection?

What were the beneficial side effects?

Curious to hear your hypothesis as to how CFTR mutations could lend an advantage to patients with COVID? I haven't got any ideas.

Were you guys much, much more cautious with isolation? Do you work in the community, or were you very cautious about isolation?

Super curious to learn more.

Edit: I looked at the paper and behavior was cited as a possible key factor. "...typical behavior in patients with CF, who might wear protective masks and avoid contact with sick people..." Another idea they floated was disruption of IL-6 signaling, which they didn't figure would totally mask (ba dum tss) the respiratory effects of the virus, but might knock it down a bit. Iono, small sample size too.

There doesn't seem to be much data as to whether or not CF folks have any actual biological protections or if they're not just being more cautious, but I found a couple of papers that hypothesize potential mechanisms:

Peckham, D., McDermott, M.F., Savic, S. et al. COVID-19 meets Cystic Fibrosis: for better or worse?. Genes Immun 21, 260–262 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41435-020-0103-y

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41435-020-0103-y

SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) and cystic fibrosis. Bruce A. Stanton, Thomas H. Hampton, and Alix Ashare. American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology 2020 319:3, L408-L415

https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajplung.002...

Hope you find them interesting.

Edit Edit: Based on your screen name, and our previous butting-heads over bullying vs. character building on another thread, I'm reminded of the classic Gary Larson/Far Side cartoon with Ed's Dingo Farm adjacent to Doreen's Nursery, and the caption 'Trouble Brewing.' An absolute classic. I'm perfectly willing to embrace the character archetype of Ed in this hypothetical cartoon situation, although I have yet to be graced with ownership of a dingo farm.
The Leftovers (which also has Lindelof on the writing board) did the Lost formula quite a bit better, IMO.
The murder-for-hire isn’t a strict requirement to reach a conviction for conspiracy to traffic narcotics, obviously. I don’t think anyone is claiming that.
In constrat, in the UK, we unbundled our ADSL monopoly, and forced them to sell access to the cables wholesale. And then let competitors put their own hardware in the local exchanges too.

It still needs more work as everyone seems to have to charge a fixed line fee. There are though plenty of providers with varying prices and qualities. Plus cable (fibre) too.

Competition and capitalism only function if a state heavily regulates the market to be an actual market.
The oven in all of it's forms? The light bulb? The washing machine? The refrigerator? The clock? The knife?
I have been running x86 containers inside a chromebook for years. Never had a an issue, it’s just a bit slow.
My parents had a '68 VW bus. Sorry, it was a death trap. I have no idea how we survived several trips across the US in it.

1. no seat belts in the back, no headrests

2. poor brakes (especially if you were seduced by the size of the cargo area and loaded a bunch of weight in it)

3. inadequate power (could barely to 65)

4. would tip over if turned too sharply

5. don't even think about hitting anything head on, just a bit of sheetmetal there

6. highly susceptible to cross-winds

On the plus side, it was inexpensive to maintain and ran for decades. I finally sold it for my dad, and he asked me if I was nostalgic for it. I said no, I was just happy we never had an accident in it. My dad gets the credit for that, he was an unusually careful driver. Never hit anything in 70 years of driving.

I know times have changed, and what was acceptable in the 60's wrt car safety has changed a lot, but still...
As someone who has been pointing out for a long time that there is more to security than E2E-encryption it feels great to see first that people have stopped recommending WhatsApp over the alternatives and now also this :-)
In that case BLM is a Russian asset too since Mueller report revealed us how they ran their biggest social media pages and used the cause as a tool pre election.
Astronomers detect possible radio emission from exoplanet
> even if he was in fact guilty of attempted murder-for-hire, what's a reasonable punishment for that?

He was not prosecuted and sentenced for that so life time in prison seems unjust.

But such sentence would be reasonable for a serious attempted murder (like for succesfull murder). I see no reason to significantly lower penalty just because someone was incompetent or stopped. 7 years seems clearly too low for that.
> Ditching Rust as a core component of the future of Firefox is also a demonstration that Mozilla isn't a tech focused corp anymore. Rust is going to yield a lot of result when it comes to security, memory saftely and maintainability and firing Rust devs was terribly short sighted.

Mozilla was tired of getting smoked by Chrome, which actually invested in browser development using what the tools they already had ("engineering"), as opposed to subsidizing PhDs on programming language theory.

Now it's too little too late. They've passed the point where they could catch up on technical grounds, so they make appeals to morality to market their software. Yes, I agree it was bad leadership.
The Sharan fits seven persons (possibly seven adults, but the two back seats could be a bit tight for some), and is wide enough in the middle row for three kids in kids' seats.

It still looks and handles like a normal car rather than a bus.
I don't know if you know this but, existing Quest users are grandfathered in (no fb account needed) for the next 3 years so you dont have to let your device collect dust.
Yes, the original idea was HitlersBunkerDB...
Related: https://aws.amazon.com/location/

Maybe won't be long until we see "Open Distro for Mapbox" like was done with Elasticsearch
I submitted this yesterday, and it somehow didn’t stick, but here’s a list of the stuff I managed to do with it so. Far:

https://taoofmac.com/space/links/2020/12/16/0904
To focus on positive potential: Augmented hearing, like tuning into parts of frequency spectrum and directional amplification. Augmented vision with integrated maps, 'scouting' around with street view. Visualizing music with colors. Remote socializing with even less friction. Surrounding yourself with contextual spatial information - food recipes next to stove and PDFs around working desk. Completely new forms of media content, like TV series that follows you around.

It's predictable that big players will want to control every aspect of AR because it gets them complete attention while device is on. Facebook has already pounced. I'm more interested in VR/AR that is in service of user and that means open source.
Ask HN: What enterprise product do you want a cheap version of?
What enterprise product would you love to use for your side-projects, but it is too expensive?

I will build a cheap version of the most requested product. The first version will only have one core feature of the enterprise product.
Something that does bother me is the concept of Isolates vs actual multithreading.

It makes me wonder if the message-passing system may have performance concerns.
Please do note down the questions and publish them later. Steve may or may not have the time since he has a full time job not related to the Rust project, but I’m sure the community would love to read about your experiences.
Great moment to buy SWI
There's so much great stuff here:

- The state machine that seems to handle all edge cases, both in things like the tutorial and also in the procedural singing

- The animation, both the rigging (maybe these are bones?) and the spring physics. They blink randomly. Their eyes follow the mouse. Matching the mouths to the vowels and consonants is really well done

- The overall look and feel, including shaders, shadows,
DOF, style, UI overlays

- The synthesizing of a human voice with vowels and consonants in a fairly convincing way. Choir synths for music production can run for thousands of dollars

- The real time harmonizing in a seamless way.

- And on top of all that, it works on all device sizes. It actually runs better on my phone than my laptop, probably due to large monitor size (the bane of any WebGL project).

Fantastic
Oh my god. I love it when I learn there is a term like this that perfectly explains what I’ve been trying to say about things like why I used to love It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. We get it, Dennis is probably a sociopath, Mac is gay and confused, Dee is desperate to mean something to someone, and Charlie is really dumb. But it was a lot more fun when all those traits were more nascent and only peaked out from behind their more normal personalities every now and then. Now I can predict how just about every interaction they have will unfold because they’ve found their formula and it’s all they do.
It very much implies that Google can read it, yes.

I've been quite vocal about it but have taken a lot of flak for it because WhatsApp is E2E-encrypted with the newest and best encryption scheme recommended by everyones favorite crytographer so it must be infallible (even if it backs up everything to a third party unencrypted, by default).
It's also mostly impossible for Germans (that's why there's a whole subreddit of people that are capable of parsing Sütterlin)!

You might be able to recognize some letters in the excerpt (u/n/w especially) from Sütterlin, but lots of others (especially the upper case ones) are more modern.
Sort of, if you do it for one at once. The UX guides you the other way.
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How can find the problem & solutions of mobile phones
Why would he care that he can’t take the 5th, if he has pardoned himself and anyone else that he cares about who would be incriminated by his testimony?
Is there a paper or blog post detailing the training process? I could not find any information about that.
Yes, they occurred after the contract with the federal agent.

However, the reason charges were dropped on those was because nobody was actually killed, the people he paid to have killed didn't actually exist, and the prosecutors determined that prosecuting him for crimes where no victims ever even existed would hurt their chances with a jury on the other charges.
Israeli spy firm suspected of accessing global telecoms via Channel Islands
To be fair, they do much more work than CentOS ever did (or Rocky would have to do).

In fact, Ubuntu does too much development for its own good. People jumped on it because it was “a usable Debian updated more often”, and they got all sorts of crazy UX experiments.
> Vercel is Open

I hate it when companies claim to be "open" when they just mean their services are interoperable with things outside of their own ecosystem. That used to be an expected norm on the internet back when open meant non-proprietary.
The Plenty of Fish story (for those unfamiliar):

https://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/and-the-money-comes-ro...

Circa 2009

"Today, according to the research firm Hitwise, his creation is the largest dating website in the U.S. and quite possibly the world. Its traffic is four times that of dating pioneer Match"

"Until 2007, Frind had a staff of exactly zero. Today, he employs just three customer service workers, who check for spam and delete nude images from the Plenty of Fish website while Frind handles everything else."

"Frind has set up his company so that doing everything else amounts to doing almost nothing at all. "I usually accomplish everything in the first hour," he says, before pausing for a moment to think this over. "Actually, in the first 10 or 15 minutes."

"Plenty of Fish is on track to book revenue of $10 million for 2008, with profit margins in excess of 50 percent."
AFAIK it does so by default, and it doesn't even help if I disable it as my chats will be uploaded by everyone else anyway.
I’d say the reason qemu is slow isn’t aot vs jit, but that qemu is very generic allowing translation between all sorts of different architectures. It uses an intermediate representation where you lose those possible 1-to-1 mappings between x86 und arm.

I was fiddling for a while on x86 emu for arm, it’s definitely possible to be faster than qemu, but it’s a very big project and unclear whether somebody will just do it in their free time.
Listening to audiobooks while riding a bicycle worked well for me. Driving, walking and any other physical activity that can be done in "zombie mode" works well with audiobooks, radio.

No longer use a bike since I moved.
>But Red Hat does provide sources, to everybody. They go above and beyond what the GPL actually requires.

If you had been around in the late 90s, their lip service was that they were far more than just "providing sources to everybody" (as if that's some feat), and far more about the spirit of GPL and the triumph of FOSS than what the GPL letter requires...

Of course that was lip service, like Google's "Don't be Evil", but don't go around pretending Red Hat is some benevolent "above and beyond GPL" entity...
Team America is great because it's still relevant to this day, (and probably for much longer) and it effectively deconstructs and makes fun of the most relevant tropes in contemporary cinema.
How to used it
The aliens would take a look at Twitter and the U.N and quarantine the system