skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until the repeal/replacement of Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1967 came through in 2013, the TV sellers were obliged by law to report any sale of TV equipment to anyone - and sooner or later the purchaser would get that impersonal note. [0]

Similar cooperation was since established with some streaming vendors (Now TV for sure, IIRC Sky as well...) as that change is pretty much what the 2013 changes were about.

Text of the notice would not be personalised, but it did use to come with _specific_ details from the purchase/account.

[0] https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/business...
> CLI is trending amongst dev's again

I don't know if that's as true as "GUIs are now unfashionable to devs". It is hard to blame them since GUIs have regressed so significantly ever since the iPhone.
Show HN: Checkly is now free for developers
Can marketing be ethical? – A Manifesto for Ethical Marketing
`chmod 440 ~/.config/htop/htoprc` did the trick for me. Still an unnecessary annoyance but I'll live.
I think their overall point is that it's possible to have sectors of the economy non-privately owned. Healthcare is a common one, but there's others - power generation, transit, education, etc.

If your definition of socialism is that absolutely all sectors of the economy are non-privately owned, then even places like Cuba don't qualify.

If your definition of capitalism is that absolutely all sectors of the economy ARE privately owned, the U.S. isn't a capitalist country.
Among other issues, I think that you would melt/fry the battery, unless you could charge it inside a freezer or something like that.
I'd say probably worse than blocking them. If Twitter gets blocked, people will find another way to get on Twitter. If it's not blocked, but is very slow, they will visit it less and less.
Human rights as a concept exist outside of the US Constitution. Just because something isn't illegal (in the US) doesn't mean it's not morally wrong or something you should not encourage.
There's more to life than JavaScript.

Obviously I'm being facetious, but it's interesting and potentially useful as many of the readership are American and may not be familiar with this element of their countries history.
i wasted 10 years...i'd take the 40k over 10y any time.
Lets call them what they are: a workaround to display graphical content in a terminal windows. We need them because SSH, because we linux UI is a mess, because UI is hard, in embedded, etc.

In an ideal world the concept of TUI would not exist.
The seller warrants the goods, it's in the Consumer Rights Act in UK, did I say differently?

You're right it is often misunderstood, in part because shops will say "oh, you have to contact the manufacturer" which is fraud AFAICT, but seems to be extremely common.

Under UK's CRA there's effectively no end to a warranty, if the product could reasonably be expected to still work. But I thought the EU Directive only specified 2 years minimum for countries to apply ... do you happen to know a reference for the 6 years, please?
My quick guess was landing for the simple reason that the plane would very quickly rotate through that particular attitude taking off, but would travel much further in that attitude on landing.
If you’re in the US, I believe most military services now allow LASIK and PRK
You're right of course. We're all susceptible. I still maintain that ignorance is the dry kindling to misinformation's fire, while a well-educated populace is more like damp log.
CLI has always been in vogue. It is TUI (text user interface – ncurses kind) has fallen out of fashion. Long time back, I used to use mutt, lynx, midnight commander etc on a daily basis. In mid/late 2000s, it fell off for me. Other than top, htop, dstat and a few others, there aren't that many that come to mind these days.
> times of the coup (which is a shame it failed),

Please take this as a honest suggestion, without any criticism meant: it's easier to persuade people if you limit the display of bias. By simply rewording that as "times of the attempted coup," you remain an objective observer and carry more authority from the reader's perspective.

This said, I know it's difficult and that things are tough when it comes to Turkey. Hopefully things will get better at some point, nobody lives forever.
> ... before ...

Note that “before” and “after” are arguably illusions, stemming from your sublight velocity. From the perspective of a photon, no time has passed “since” the Big Bang.
Indeed, why oh why is there no way to provide configuration preferences apart from doing so interactively? I would gladly wrap the command to provide it using flags, but no. I would equally gladly edit a configuration file (even if the syntax was wonky), but no. Instead I am left having to remember to set (and reset!) my defaults across users and machines.
Missing: One Black Hole with 10B Solar Masses
While that may be what some people use "Can't pay, we'll take it away" for, the programme is presented in quite a sympathetic way.

Often the enforcement agents have empathy with the people they are enforcing against, particularly when it's clear that the person has a struggle that's no fault of their own. They're far less sympathetic to wealthier people who are just ignoring their responsibilities and trying to get away with it.

At least that's how I remember the show, I haven't actually watched broadcast TV for at least 2 years now.
DNSpooq – Kaminsky attack is back
But they work flawlessly on remote shell sessions which is priceless for something like htop.
The memoir “German Boy” recounts similar circumstances in postwar Germany, when the author’s mother had to sell herself (first to the Russians, then the Americans) for him and his sister to eat.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-57806-274-4
My ideal would a combo package with a 100-mile battery range for my weekly commute plus a 200-mile hydrogen fuel cell to back it up. Most of my usual monthly travel would be on battery and the recharge time for something that small wouldn't be an inconvenience. The hydrogen would only get used a couple of times a month, but if I needed to travel much longer distances, I'd have the freedom to do so without any range anxiety.
Related disuccsion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25829794 The Russian firm is providing DDoS protection, it's not clear where, or by whom, the website is hosted.
> My girlfriend would gladly pay for being able to access BBC UK series, but that's apparently impossible.

There's the Britbox streaming service, but I have no idea whether it is international. Otherwise, there's limited amounts of BBC content on Netflix. But again, that may just be the UK version.
I'd say more like: power matters, words on paper not so much.
go to the dentist instantly or you'll have to pay even more in the future
"So your position that "dead people have no privacy" is really false" - no, I strongly assert that my position here is appropriate and that you are mistaken.

The relatives of the deceased can sue you for defamation damages to their reputation (e.g. the widow might assert that the claim about her deceased husband damages her own personal reputation, and if so, perhaps she would have standing but only as far as her own name was slandered). The relatives or the estate can not successfully sue you for defamation of the deceased him/herself.

This is a decent precedent - https://law.justia.com/cases/massachusetts/supreme-court/vol...

The situation in UK seems to be the same - https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2012/news/mps-rule-that-y...

This article lists many interesting famous situations from history - https://jonathanturley.org/2007/08/18/defaming-the-dead/

It's even possible that defamation that happened while the victim was alive gets ignored if they die before the case is settled - for example, Ohio code (http://oh.elaws.us/orc/2311.21) explicitly asserts that libel and slander cases (unlike pretty much everything else) should end in this case.

A famous case is Michael Jackson and the 2019 documentary "Leaving Neverland"; when he was alive, he successfully won a defamation case against Victor Gutierrez with a pretty much equivalent case, however, as this happened after his death, those managing his estate were not able to bring a defamation suit for this documentary because those defamation laws did not apply any more.

Law stackexhange has a quick summary at https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/28842/can-you-libel-...
Apple support has occasionally asked me to reset my phone due to some iCloud issue. How do I back up my data and restore it after that without buying a second iOS iPhone?
Total.js framework – a nice alternative to Express.js/Koa.js
Show HN: top result of Google search “buy quaaludes” is on ibm.com domain
looks like abuse of the FAQ system

Google USA result seems to show it as #1 but it is not displayed on the loaded page
I don't see why this is a big problem. There are lots of apartments in Norway without a garage, yet overnight charging has been implemented in every kind of parking arrangement by now.

In Oslo, where a lot of parking is handled by the municipality, they've put up charging poles and charge a small fee for the electricity. That's about the hardest case, it's a PITA to dig up the street in a dense city to install these things.

My friend lives in an apartment complex with outdoor parking, where the parking is managed by the HOA. Owners/renters can pay to have a small charging outlet installed at their parking spot. Funny thing is these parking spots already had outlets for engine heaters (it can be hard to start ICE cars in winter), but I'm pretty sure they had to lay new wire for charging since the current can be higher. Same deal with our home. It's a garage, but managed by the HOA. They decided to renovate the fuse box and electric wiring to facility installing chargers, since wiring was old and needed to be renovated anyway. Owners pay for the charging box and installation. There's a small load balancer that insures that the chargers don't overload the main power supply to the garage.

It's a challenge, sure. But faaar from impossible. I get that the US has a problem with doing shared infrastructure in general. But I think this will solve itself once there's enough money to be made. Similar to how internet/cable is rolled out. Companies will offer the owners of the apartment complex to install the chargers for free, in exchange for charging a fee on the electricity sold to people charging with them.
> The central philosophy of capitalism is that voluntary trade leads, ultimately, to greater and more efficient production.

But only those who have capital get to participate (and even then the system is antagonistic between traders. everyone is trying to extract maximum value). Everyone else is forced into slavery (in everything but name) or left to die on the streets. Your value, as a person, is literally defined by the amount of money you have. If you have none, you are none.

> capitalism requires voluntary action whereas socialism embraces compelled action

This is an illusion. Under capitalism, you can choose to starve, sure. But what choice is that? When your value as a human being is tied to a monetary competition, you are either rich and alive or poor and struggling to survive.

Maybe people should be compelled? Any and all forms of government are essentially that, a force that compels people to behave in certain ways (under democracy, it's people compelling each other). Usually to do no harm as a baseline for civil society. Is that not a desirable quality of human civilization - people compelling each other to do good, or at least do no harm?

> euphemisms for a politically powerful group to harness the productive output of the governed for its own purposes, without regard to if the perceived problems or the perceived solutions are real or not.

Funny, because that's how I see capitalism. The capital elite (who own most capital) force those who don't to work for them (because their value as people is tied to their wealth which they can't survive without) and then barrage them with endless advertisements for consumer products scientifically engineered to be as addicting and rapidly obsolete as possible while offering little actual utility.

> Socialism doesn't remove fundamental human desires for prestige and power, it only redirects the energy into the mechanisms of state

Neither does capitalism. There the energy is directed into profit maximization at all cost and with limited liability for the consequences. And when costs are considered, a money-less person has zero value and is completely ignored.

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It's an interesting discussion. Yes I'm caricaturizing. I'm not a communist, nor completely opposed to capitalism. There's merit in what you say. But just like with communism, we can't look at the idealized version. Capitalism has given us a lot. But it's also destroying the planet, which we didn't know about until fairly recently in civilized history.

Ideally we'd move competition up to a planetary level where we all work together to colonize space. There it probably causes the least harm.
I was pretty sure it was a EU requirement because it's been presented as such in my country, but I'm not surprised to learn that the EU has only been used as an excuse for implementing such a measure, of course.
Apparently, they actually had scanners, but never used them

https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/7113883 (swedish)
What about setting up caching proxies inside the country? I expect the practice would eventually be made illegal and cracked on, but with a bit of technical trickery one might be able to keep the cat-and-mouse game running for some significant time.

(I know, I know, I'm looking for technical solutions to a social problem...)
I'm in the UK (I think the US has more reserve slots than the RAF has active duty), and I think my eyes are probably beyond saving in that regard, unfortunately.
SpaceX submits requests to be a Starlink ISP in Argentina and Chile
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Turkey has around 80milion people as its population and an elected government. I think these people have the right to summon an ambassador from not just twitter but all big tech giants.
To be fair it might appear poorly translated to an English speaker mainly due to the fact that there isn't much of it, in Finnish or otherwise.

Some people in Finland regard this as a feature not a bug, although it's taken me a while to get used to.
No detection vans in Japan but the door knockers are persistent as hell and not beyond making people feel unsafe in their homes.
Let's hear it for the DEC VK100 (aka DEC GIGI) :)

You had your choice of booting into BASIC or booting into the sort-of VT102 mode. In BASIC mode, you uploaded and downloaded apps using ESCape sequences (what else).

To appreciate it, you have to look at the year (we're talking '82-'83).

Can you imagine if they had just included an async X.25 implementation (something like X.PC) and an FSK modem, then sold them at K-Mart at cost, preset to dial-in to a VAXcluster Merimack-mack-mack-mack?

(They just wanted me to shut up and dribble <sniffle>)
if there is mutex involved it will always be blocking in some way. the best way i think would be to package the client's request with response channel. loop through incoming requests and pass them to workers(goroutines) which will send the response to individual client and close said response channel. then it is merely a decision on whether to go with N workers that will process the request channel or if each request will result in its own worker via goroutine.
https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-science-books/blob/m...

Kenneth Kuttler's books doesn't seem to be there though.
Yum wasn’t in RedHat in 1999. Back then there were a ton of distributions. Most of those that were descendant from RedHat came with their own set of tools and yum was only one of many (like zypp and apt-rpm). And of course the reason there were so many is that the developer of rpm, RedHat, had nothing on offer. Debian had apt so their descendent distributions didn’t develop alternatives.

RedHat Enterprise/Fedora adopted yum around 2003, as far as I can tell and RedHat the original free distribution never did. Certainly not in 1999.
I think it says a lot about the state of the web and web development that this was the first conclusion people drew.
WILTY tickets are insanely difficult to get, and even if you get them, if you don't have a car, or aren't located very close to the studio, then you're not going to have much luck. We did get the offer for WILTY tickets, but the logistics were simply intractable (living in London at the time).

Most mainstream UK shows are taped within, or nearby, London - and that works reasonably well. Arguably the hardest show to get into is QI, and we were coaxed into being in audience for Pointless in order to bump up our 'score' on the QI queue as it were. It's a weird old arrangement over there.
The author was selling the outcome of the knowledge of many expert medical researchers, as summarised by the author's algorithm.

As opposed to the sales rep and the medical experts within the sales rep's company, neither the author nor his algorithm have any obvious direct incentive to recommend one medication over another.
That's interesting, thanks. :)
Century Type Family
Sometimes less is more. Having access to more features sometimes leads devs to bloat their applications and make them subjectively less usable.

A pathological example for me would be gvim. I tried using it for a while but I kept running into weird performance issues and general lagginess. Meanwhile from a terminal it Just Works. So I don't bother with it anymore, I always run Vim from a terminal and I never looked back.

In general I find that the terminal imposes two generally good constraints to application makers: everything must exist within a single window and mouse interaction is very limited (and not supported everywhere) so it's important that everything must be achievable with keyboard inputs.

These constraints disincentivize pathological mouse-driven "click click" pop up dialog fests which are the bane of my existence.
The governments of larger states like Britain, France, Spain and Germany are not without problems, but we're not casting envious glances at how Serbia and Bulgaria are run, never mind Belarus :)

Outside Europe you've got a group which includes central American states famed for frequent coups and revolutions, nations synonymous with conflict like Libya, Sierra Leone and Israel/Palestine, extremely authoritarian post USSR central Asian states, a rare communist holdout in Laos, the absolute monarchy of the UAE and Togo which might as well be having been ruled by the same family for its entire history.

Singapore isn't a 'hellish dystopia', its positively paradise compared with most of them, despite the obvious limits to its democracy. Costa Rica's last half century is positive too, I guess.
I suggest the server tells the client which bitrate/compression to send, but watermarks probably don’t need a full re-encode on the server, could easily be in metadata or only key frames which would be fine. Scary though, I’m sure this will happen in all media at some point. The best way to get around this of course is use someone else’s account to leak from...
Lobbying in decentralised environment is untraceable
Yes, that was my point: Even cables that are already in the realm of "too big/bulky to be handled" don't come anywhere close.
> period of about 10 ms before the burst

Does the human auditory system work in "batches" or do we "forget" the other signal once the burst comes in?
Self-Efficacy in Plain English
Very apt characterisation. It's sad that you got downvoted. I think Bitcoin has managed to stir such a division in people because it hits to the very core of human principles. This is wild speculation (pun intended) but I think that a higher percentage of people that grew in a high trust society find Bitcoin a scam/ponzi, while people that grew up in low trust societies think it's god's work. Different value systems leading do wildly different opinions.
> We worked at a startup that leveraged autonomous blockchains to transfer money from naïve investors to slightly less naïve twenty-somethings. There are worse gigs.

At least he's being honest about it.
Well, CBS wanted a story to be true. But I assume it would have been much easier for experts to determine if something was typed a number of decades ago vs. laser printed recently. (As opposed to finding typographic discrepancies in a relatively low fidelity copy.)
DNSpooq lets attackers poison DNS cache records
You're a genius! How do we get this started. Wouldn't there be so many bitcoin rigs already that could be used for this already?

I'd be very willing to spend time and money on this!

Could someone set up a chat room or something?
Isn't it a bit of an admission though? Global corps are effectively as powerful as most nation-states now, to the point you need "ambassadors". I expect the next step will be to agree on a Geneva-like convention on this sort of diplomatic mission, where the local representative is guaranteed immunity in exchange for accepting equal representation of a country in the corporation.
Sure, lots of places. Ask the Kurds how much say they used to have in Turkish elections. Or ask the Welsh what they think about Westminster.
Sanders here mentions similar policy in Germany, but forgot to mention differences between US and german corporate governance models (one board vs two boards). In Germany (and many other EU countries), companies have executive board and supervisory board, the later is mainly to provide monitoring role and that is the board where empolyees have seat on.
Spooky Action at a Distance
Periodical cicada Brood X will emerge in 15 states in 2021
Oooh this is like a dmoz.org list from yesteryear when the web was useful. Bookmarked, Cheers!
Thats what was said about Wall St after many a blunder. They are still raking it in. Do you know why?
Have you ever looked at alerts as time series?
All you need to know: Joe Bidens inauguration
Software engineering is empowering managers, working code is a side effect.
Don't know why anyone would post a medium blog post. Seriously.

https://archive.is/2h7Nf
Don't hope, shout it from the rooftops.
I think I see a wheel bogie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogie) that’s over 45 degrees from the horizontal.

Would that ever happen so soon after take off? I would think these stayed fairly horizontal until it’s known the plane won’t abort take off.
Recently, Apple sued a company over of its pear shaped logo : https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/08/legal-action-against-co...

And other organisations as well:

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/03/05/apple-norway-progress-p...

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/05/01/apple-opposes-german-cy...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._litigation#Trademar...
Another solid source of free math resources: https://realnotcomplex.com/
Purple is more red than blue is red. This doesn't make the word "red" lose its meaning. In my opinion, it gives the word more meaning by defining it as a spectrum of quality. Thus we can plot colors on a spectrum of red-ness, which can be useful for certain applications.

Similarily for capitalism-socialism. It is a spectrum. The United States represents one extreme, where something like, I don't know, North Korea maybe represents the other. And Finland is somewhere in-between.
The Economy’s Growth Obsession
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...

> How do I enable a backup? Can I use an iCloud backup?

>

> - Storing messages outside of your active Signal device is not supported.

> - Messages are only stored locally.

> - An iTunes or iCloud backup does not contain any of your Signal message history.
A Biotech firm is developing a Covid-19 vaccine in pill form
It can be turned off (granted, this seems intentionally hidden). Settings > Advanced > Advanced PIN settings