skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glutamate is also developed during low-and-slow cooking that causes the breakdown of connective tissues in meat. I had a roommate that swore up and down that he had an MSG allergy, but also ate the shit out of the smoked BBQ our other roommate and I made all the time. He was also kind of a pothead, so there were lots of Doritos in the house, too.
Want to see what happens falls too much in love with DRY? He invents an "automatic refactoring system" that automatically DRY-ifies a whole program: http://strlen.com/restructor/ (not that great an idea in hind-sight, as the page explains).

Interesting to see all the comments here that make it seem obvious that "fanatic DRY" is bad. Historically, there was a wave of OO love where a lot of people went crazy with wrapping every program element in deep layered class hierarchies. DRY (and OAOO, YAGNI etc) was maybe a backlash to that, and some go too far with it. Now we all seem in love with "leave the redundancy in the code", which is another backlash. What's the next backlash? Maybe we'll finally focus on how to balance these factors rather than seeing some extreme as the silver bullet?
Usury laws in religion have different forms. Limiting doesn't mean no finance, it just prevents some of the crazy abuse we see now.
> Elop could have been the best leader, making the best strategic decisions in the world

But he wasn't and he didn't. Everything else is 'could be'.
Email security filter spawns new words (2002)
Less than a decade ago NSO Group assisted the then president of Panama, Ricardo Martinelli, in spying his political adversaries. Around the same time Martinelli requested similar assistance from the US, but they refused his request (according to Wikileaks).
The article asserts the racism extends far beyond just the original letter, though. Regardless of who authored it, half a century of "MSG bad, but only when in Chinese food; a nice big block of Parmigiano-Reggiano is fine" seems problematic.
So I had recorded my son playing keyboard for a recital. The audio was recorded via MIDI into GarageBand into QuickTime Player. The video was off my iPhone via EpocCam over USB also into QuickTime Player. I was able to get the audio routing setup via a Multi-Output Device I configured in Audio MIDI Setup.

The video had a slight delay which I didn’t quite notice till after I’d recorded it.

I basically wrote a quick script to generate variations of the recorded movies with delays from 50ms to 500ms in 50ms increments and then just watched each of them to see which appeared most correct for his hands playing the keys and the sound of the notes. It was slightly over 200ms and less than 250ms. 210ms seemed the best.

I have now learned the importance of a clapperboard.

(Originally I was going to record the audio in GarageBand and the video on my phone and join them later, but I was learning as I went and I wanted to see if I could record the two streams together.)
While what you say about bad actors is true, I just don't buy your argument. SV prides itself in solving "hard problems" (whether that's actually true is another issue entirely), so are you honestly saying that the issue with high chargeback rates or illegal content is too difficult to solve? I mean, SV can create advanced electric cars, launch rockets into space, serve millions of queries a second, but porn spam is too difficult?

I think the moralistic argument makes much more sense. Most of the VC types who want to "make it big" in SV do it not just for the money, but also for the approval of their peers and the praise of their Ivy-league brethren ("Wow, look how smart he is, he was one of the earliest investors in Facebook!") Making it big in porn just wouldn't have the same cachet, and would be a potential minefield of social opprobrium.
Shortcut

It's named “shotcut”, without the “r”.
This American Life did a great podcast on the origins of this myth; I strongly recommend listening to it.

Here's the transcript: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/668/transcript

TLDR: it started as a bet/prank and became an accepted truth thanks to racism and people being simple.

EDIT: this article is literally based on the podcast. Just listen go it, it's a good one :)
If they want to impress me, a better display would do it. I have an endless desire for more pixels and more resolution.
At the moment, all my computing hardware was bought refurbed (Thinkpad T420, iPhone SE, iPad Pro 1). You have to make sure you find a serious reseller, but if you do, you pay a quarter of the price for high-quality hardware.

I‘m particularly pleased with my Thinkpad: built in 2011, I bought it in early 2017. Plopped in an SSD and 8 GB extra RAM, total cost ~300€. Runs beautifully.
As many here did back then, loved Lode Runner.

So much so that the first 6502 arcade game I wrote was a Lode Runner derivative called “The Heist”.

Levels consisted of floors and stair steps, and there were different types of art on the walls you could steal, including an easy one and a hard one (based on the location puzzle) of low and high value.

You could cut through floors and use ropes to rappel up or down. Some walkways were blocked by storage boxes you could push, including push into a hole in the floor which jammed and filled the hole.

Guards patrolled on beats. If close enough to you, they could shoot you. You could pick up a bucket of water from janitors, and slosh it on the floor to make the guard slide one way or another, or fall into a hole you’d cut.

You could “turn out the lights” at a light switch. The effect would be you could only see within a certain radius. Gaurds couldn’t see you any more, but also, you couldn’t see them unless close enough.

Most logic was AppleSoft Basic, while the drawing routines were 6502 so falling and sliding and throwing the water would be smooth.

Lode Runner got me into coaxing machines to do what I imagined, instead of just using what others did.
Correct, as to my intent (I probably should not have capitalized the P). The taboo nature of facial tattoos is simply the evolution of a revulsion towards tattoos in general among "polite" American society. Until very recently, visible tattoos (and before that, tattoos of any kind) could be disqualifying for public-facing positions.
They are sounds as well as groups of letters, but the OP didn't specify, hence my clarification.

Some examples:

* "He has an MBA" because "M" sounds like it starts with a vowel (here: "em").

* "a university" ("you-ni...")
Have you looked at the cost if living in the Bay Area since 1990? $100k is not exactly buying you a high-end lifestyle involving private schools in a city where under something like $120k qualifies a family as low-income. Both parents in high-income jobs gets closer but then you’re talking about additional expenses like housecleaning, nannies, dining out, and probably multiple cars.

SF is an extreme but most of the high paying tech jobs cluster in areas which are closer to that cost of living - doing well, sure, but far from rich and definitely not able to count on being set for life since one illness, untimely layoff, etc. can easily derail a career.

That’s not to say that there aren’t ways to economize but there’s a long history of lazy editorializing about how kids these days are spending too much on avocado toast while studiously ignoring the data showing that the big problems are healthcare, housing, student loans, etc.
ffmpeg is a true swiss army knife. I used it last week to add subtitles to interviews I recorded (via SRT files generated from Amazon Transcription JSON). I also upscaled, so-mo‘d and blurred a video background with some X-Massy theme for some video calls. All literally within minutes and a bit of Google. A true lifesaver!
Has anyone else noticed that when conversations about “we need x word for y concept” arise, the German language nearly always seems to be the one that has something similar or already present?
Techno-club.net was built for this purpose. It's artists who normally residence in clubs and instead play their sets live on the site on the weekends. It's growing rapidly. Check them out if you are a techno fan. Edit: this was meant as a reply to a comment below. Apologies.
This is a dupe but seems to go into more technical detail. There’s no mention of iMessage in The Guardian’s coverage.
UK-France border closes 23:00 GMT tonight
And you’re trying to hijack moral outrage against these people by calling it a pimp business, are you not?
I have no choice. Only Comcast is available in the area where I've been living. It's so such shame!
I'm betting whoever decided to go for FireEye and ended up exposing the operation is kicking themselves.
I've gotta second kde. I went through a bunch of different DE's and window managers and stuff. KDE was the one I eventually settled on and haven't looked back. It's easy to customize and setup everything just the way you want it and after that it stays out of your way. The default qt apps like you say are all great pieces od software. Going back to windows explorer after using dolphin is like jumping back in time 20 years. Kate's been my favourite text editor for years. It's got just the right balance of being light, but full of useful things.

I wanna throw in KDE connect too, honestly, the best and easiest way to work with an android device from a PC hands down.
Bless you people. I am amazed at how many pay-walled articles are posted on HN. Are most people here really well off enough that they can afford the dozens of subscriptions that are often linked to here?
Hey HN friends, op here! I just want to highlight some benefits from testimonial.to:

1. No monthly commitment! You buy video credits as you need. New user can get 5 video testimonial credits.
2. It can collect text testimonials too. No credit needed for text ones, and you can collect unlimited text ones.
3. It have a special launch deal ongoing. $199 for unlimited video testimonials, only 100 seats :)
There's this theory, often cited in this context:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebbian_theory
Was it widely known? That seems weird. Got a link?
Another one I used to merge subtitles into their respective mkv video files:

find . -name "*.mkv" -exec ffmpeg -i "{}" -i "{}.srt" -map 0 -map 1 -c copy "{}_merged.mkv" \;
Are you sure it's not you who is in a bubble? Maybe in your circles it's just about the safety of the sex workers from abuse and trafficking, otherwise it's "yay, you go girl! $muscle_emoji" and "yay you go guy, for watching porn and satisfying your need for intimacy through onlyfans" (erm... wait...)

But there's lot of sneering like this https://9gag.com/gag/arVYxm5 spreading on social media, which is essentially that girls on onlyfans are going for the easy money instead of more "decent" work and career path. I know it's just a meme, I'm not defending a silly image as truth, just as the illustration of the viewpoint. The idea that there is a who-deserves-what aspect.

And perhaps you think the anti-porn Christians simply tell boys not to jerk it because of an irreducible argument that "Jesus doesn't like that", but to me it's pretty clear that there is a deeper Christian pattern underlying it, namely suffering/effort giving rise to reward, and that it's immoral to sidestep that, Garden of Eden, Christ paying for sins by suffering on the cross etc. The protestant ideal of hard work etc. Do these ideas seem foreign to you?
sure but the actors aren’t making the most money, the men running the companies are
You are a dunce if you think anonymous comments on a page is social media in the same way Facebook or Twitter are.
The best Raspberry Pi available right now is a bit faster than a modern entry-level PC. It has 4 ARM cores running at 1.5 GHz and 8 gigs of RAM.
I believe AI will start as a basic principle or idea that can be applied to any sufficiently big state machine that controls e.g. an RC airplane or traffic lights. That idea will be obvious in a hindsight. I'd even make a guess that it will be like a "stateful" state machine that accumulates state in a particular manner and uses that to control the underlying state machine. We still will be nowhere near understanding intelligence, but that clever trick will be enough in most cases.
One approach I've been thinking about is optimizing each neuron using only the global loss and information about the neighboring neurons.

Basically if the network made the correct prediction tell each neuron to do a little bit more of what it just did. If it sent a high output, change the weights so it sends an even higher output. Weaken connections that were inhibitory and strengthen connections that were excitatory. And for a neuron with a low output, make it even lower by doing the opposite.

If on the other hand prediction was wrong, then try to make the neuron do less of what it did.

Do you know if something like this has been tried?
> The rise of dangerous choking accidents during sex is a direct result of the popularization of that act through pornography.

How much of this is an actual problem, as opposed to the handful of cases that end up getting much more coverage than any other kind of death?
I think requiring to advertise full price is even more market friendly than sneaking in more fees. This just incentivizes dishonest behavior. It’s hard to advocate against such a rule. The US health system is also in dire need of such a rule.
Technically the joint venture between Novalpina Capital and two of the original founders have a majority stake on the company.

Is ARM a Japanese company because it's (currently) owned by SoftBank? Will it be American when Nvidia takes over? Or are they a British company because they are based in the UK?
Threat Assessment Brief – Rapid increase of a SARS-CoV-2 variant observed in UK [pdf]
MSG is healthy because it causes no harm and makes food taste better. All else being equal, food tasting better will make you enjoy life more. Enjoying life is correlated with good health outcomes.
Floppies were magic for me as a kid. Somehow way cooler than an Atari 2600 cart. My uncle had some variant of the Apple II in his basement. One night while the adults were visiting, I was down there excitedly playing the various games (The Dark Crystal, Loderunner, and Olympic Decathlon are the ones that come immediately to mind). I'd take one game out of the driver, drop it on the desk, and insert the next game. By the end of the night there was a sloppy pile of floppies that had previously been individual sheathed in a nice 'rolodex'. My parents called down and when I tried to spend the time to clean up my mess they made it pretty clear I needed to be up there 'right now'. So I foolishly left the pile rather than face my parents' wrath. I'm sure my uncle was furious when he found the pile; those things were fragile and I had treated them like they were Duplo. The next time I was at my uncle's house I wasn't allowed to play. :(

For floppy swapping madness, Wasteland is the game that comes to mind for me. The game was split across two floppy disks, each covering roughly half of the map. When you'd enter a section that was on the other disk, the game would ask you to swap disks. The game state was saved on the disk on which the action occurred, so you could enter an unaltered world just by putting in a fresh copy of the game disk. This was useful for continuing to play after you'd beaten the game, as well as leveling up your characters to extreme levels and collecting multiple copies of rare or hard-to-get items.
People already have lightning cables and stuff, and this product immediately works with that stuff.

I realize that this might not be a compelling reason for you, but sometimes people use different criteria to yours when evaluating a product. Some of those people would think you silly for not considering them just because they have a connector you don’t like on both sides of the cable it comes with.
Not mine, but maybe that was after I switched. AltaVista was fast when I used it, but highly influenced by meta tags.
Not every server is useful for gathering intelligence on a nation either it seems.

Thinking about it, if you want secret information by definition only a tiny fraction of the networks out there are going to have it— anything most of them have wouldn’t be a secret anymore. So any attackers are going to focus the majority of their energy on exfiltrating data from the most likely/productive extreme minority of their infiltrated networks.
> But they are not an "Israeli Company". They are owned by a European Private Equity group, with HQ in London, despite what the Guardian's "reporter" "Jassar Al-Tahat" says.

Yes, Novalpina Capital purchased a majority stake in NSO Group in February 2019. NSO Group was and still is an Israeli company, with headquesters in Herzliya, Israel. The company will cease to be an Israeli company, when it stops being under the jurisdiction of Israel.

Again, I don't understand how any of this made my question a slander. And why are you mocking the author of the article?

> Should we assume that comments and logs for Hacker News are all shared with the UK Intelligence Community because Paul Graham was born in Weymouth, UK?

HN and Paul Graham are not in the weapons trade business, but yes, you should assume that all of this is monitored, though not because of Paul Graham's place of birth.
What do you mean, hidden? It's just a link.
I have had several cases recently where the added fees almost doubled up the final price making the search feature almost useless.
> There are no plans for a D3.

I say this in all seriousness: this is probably a mistake, and the Dlang crew should make plans to exploit the opportunity to do a D3/3D release to the greatest extent possible—if only for marketing purposes and while holding onto the secret that there are no breaking changes involved.
There are some services that allow you to subscribe to a single service for ~$10 per month and you get access to a wide range of national papers like the WSJ.
As a software developer since my early days, I wholeheartedly agree with you. It's honestly ridiculous to see how people invent "revolutionary new ways" of doing the exact same thing that could be done in a dozen ways already. And they invent those by piling more and more unnecessary complexity on top of existing technology stacks.

Electron is a revolutionary new way of making desktop apps. Except they look like they're something else and take up all the RAM you have and ask for more. But nah, you don't understand, it's the future, native desktop apps are dead.

Kotlin is a revolutionary new JVM language that will solve all the problems you had with Java... Except I haven't had any. Java is simple and predictable. Kotlin is not. To me, Kotlin feels like an abstraction layer that gets in the way. But people will be defending it relentlessly because that's what Google says is The Future™ for Android development.

Web development... That's just nasty. "Revolutions" happen every day, so now your news article takes 5 seconds to load on a 100-megabit connection just because someone absolutely had to make it a react app instead of a server-rendered page with just text and maybe some pictures.

This overall trend of abstracting the platform (the operating system, the web browser) away is abysmal. It does no good. And lowering the barrier to entry to programming? Honestly, I'd rather prefer it to remain high. Programming is meant to be an engineering job, not the kind where you throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks and just assume that browsers and operating systems are made of unicorn jizz.
Feel free to post a link to one concrete case of mass migration due to human climate change from temperatures or rising sea levels. Not ambiguous cases like the hurricane in your link but actual relatively demonstrable cases of direct temperature rises or sea level rises from climate change caused by humans. So far, a lot of frantic hand waving and heady speculation aside, I know of none.
> You are trying to convince me my experiences are wrong.

No, I am not, I agree that there are many situations where women are not taken seriously due to their gender and assigning project credit is one of them. I 100% believe that has happened to you, that is wrong and we should try to do something about it. If you want that then you support meritocracy instead of biasocracy. However I'm trying to convince you that this statement is wrong:

> strive for equality of outcome for all is what we need to do

Men and women are different on average, maybe because of socialization etc but fact is that today they are different. My path relied on anonymous interactions online, so is by far the most friendly for marginalized groups. However marginalized groups like women are basically non existent on that path. That proves to me there are more differences than just discrimination. If you want to hire someone like me you wont find a woman, as there are hundreds of men for every woman with that background. Now you might not want to hire a person with those skills, but those who do will not find women to hire. And not because of discrimination, they don't even try to work for it in the first place.
I'd note that its not like these are recent events in canada. Trudeau (the current Prime minister's dad) introduced the bill that semi-legalized abortion (under restricted circumstances) and introduced some gun control, 52 years ago. (Among other things like legalizing homosexuality and contraceptives). Then 20 years later the remaining restrictions on abortion were ruled unconstitutional.

All these senior citizen lawmakers in the usa were pretty young when all this went down, so i dont think age is an explaining factor for the differences.
The TAL podcast makes it clear it didn't start that way
Book Burning
I can confirm that verschlimmbessern is a perfect fit to describe the situation.

Englisch took Angst and Zeitgeist. Take that one too?
That drama is even more enjoyable the second time around with commentary from three of the Acorn team portrayed :

https://youtu.be/yaonVYOTSsk
Disable Windows 10 Update automatic restart
Who tf be spending 1600 Euros on a laptop? Bruh... And who substitutes that with a 2006 version laptop? face-palm

Like another comment down below mentions, companies toss away perfectly good laptops after a year or two, which can be bought in the ballpark of 150-300 quid/euros/USD. They'll last 2-3 years on average, and even longer if you aren't into intensive activities. Just go to some IT guy in a multinational - I remember my old firm had stacks of ThinkPads piled all the way up. Some companies even have old MBPs at hand.
It's fine. I bought some from Amazon and put it on veggie bowls and mix it with other food to enhance flavor.

There's another store brand called "Accent" that's good, too.
I wish people stopped invoking racism everywhere, when plain "being misinformed" explains things just fine. Millions of Koreans swear up and down that MSG is bad for health. Are we also being racist? (Against whom?)
More challenging projects every programmer should try
> Seems there’s not much point putting effort in to do something “properly”.

Software Development in 2020, everyone.

This perfectly describes what our industry has become :)
Your question reminded me of this[1] horrifying story, which deals with that exact issue

[1]: https://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/
I have had that problem with windows settings, internal programs and external programs. Wtf is wrong with windows' search?
Your meta comment is also boring and unoriginal. GPT-3 itself could’ve generated it
It's indeed the differential nature of markets. People have a finite memory capacity.. once they forgot that trousers used to have cuffs.. you can reintroduce it as novelty.

-- Marcus Aurelius
Economy and ethics is not a partnership made in heaven.
The best hardware targets are "what your users are using" + "extrapolated upgrades over the lifecycle of your product."

E.g. why Steam regularly does this https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

I think it's fair to say that dropping the 3.5mm was way in advance of the user population.

As was dropping function and special keys.