skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Libreoffice provides a commodity for free. That's the whole value proposition. It's implied by the Libre part of the name. So, convincing businesses to donate money out of charity for "support" is not a business plan and never has been. The call for businesses to please pay up seems to indicate that the shift to introducing a community edition had little to no effect on the bank balances of the companies peddling vague support contracts and LTS versions of LibreOffice. IMHO that was a doomed and rather desperate move at the time and this rather desperate call for "please give us some money" just doesn't resonate with me at all. Why do I need to pay? For what exactly?

I'm well aware that the consequence of nobody paying for this might mean feature development will vastly reduce and probably support will drop to a handful of people occasionally patching up and recompiling the same old software that has been more than good enough for the last decade. That's actually fine with me as I can't actually name a single thing they've added in the last 15 years that actually matters to me; at all.

To be clear, I'm so indifferent about office suites in general at this point that I haven't actually had a copy of LibreOffice on any of my computers in years. The need just never came up lately. And that would have been almost exclusively people emailing me stuff created with MS Office before that. Just not a thing any more. I also don't use any MS Office products. I seem to have been in companies that use Google Docs the last few years and I get by with the limited feature set provided by that. Their collaborative features are awesome though and a good reason to put up with their otherwise limited features. Office tools just no longer are the must have tool to have for people. And in so far they are, they are a worthless commodity.
Again, it really has nothing to do with morality or just deserts. Risk management is just a valuable thing that banks produce. They take risky deals, and manage those deals to try and make sure that nobody has to materially feel the risk. Sometimes they fail, and they're rightly criticized for that, but more often they succeed.

The student loan crisis is a good example of where people's misunderstandings of finance lead them astray. There's a pervasive idea that the crisis is related to banks making it irresponsibly easy to get a loan. But since 2010, the vast majority of new student loans have come directly from the Department of Education, generally with lower prices than private lenders offer.
I have a giant coffee table version of this, and its awesome. I should find more like it. Talk about a conversation starter.
Yes, "gun rights" has unfortunately become as extremist as politics.

Gun owners are not allowed to even entertain tougher gun laws whether they be red flag laws, requiring you own a safe, restrictions on magazine size, etc.

In fact the push from gun rights advocates is to move in the opposite direction: to allow reciprocal concealed carry in every state, reversing the National Firearms Act that restricts ownership of fully automatic weapons, legalizing silencers, etc.

Poor Dick Metcalf, editor of Guns and Ammo — was shown the door when an editorial of his after Newtown suggested that maybe gun laws were too lax.

> He has stated that "way too many gun owners still seem to believe that any regulation of the right to keep and bear arms is an infringement" and that "all constitutional rights are regulated, always have been, and need to be". In terms of specific policies, he supports the requirement of adults getting a concealed carry license to take gun safety and handling classes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Metcalf
Your sentence is a bit of a mindf**, I appreciate it. It reduces the quoted text to near-gibberish.
On the other hand, I really hate code names for software versions... I can never remember which name is which version. I wish everyone would just say “16.04” and “18.04”, that makes it really obvious which version cam before the other one.
Economic Update: Why Women Have Better Sex in Socialism
Yeah but the country will need to collect from you and your descendants to keep paying that debt. If it wasn't for that debt the country could leave more money in your pocket. The debt is basically yours as the money to pay it comes from your pocket.

Employees can leave without any liability. You can't at least not without paying a huge cost both financial and personal.
Most harm from GDPR to small business actually happened thanks to armies of "GDPR consultants" who smelled money in the market and, in my experience, often heavily skewed perception in order to increase their own profits.

Majority of small business never have to deal with GDPR unless they gather personal information - and for most of them the limited cases that a small business might gather information were already covered by previous laws, and for most cases can be done on simple process of human action.

Data privacy laws applied whether you used computers or not, and GDPR doesn't change that.

Ultimately, the simplest way of not having to deal with GDPR is to not store private data, or storing the minimal possible set. The archetypical smallest possible business already outsources a lot of such operations to aggregate eShop vendors, which are a good place to place controls. Those who run B2C sales directly in ways that require private information can spend a bit of time on getting compliant, generally with a set of cookie-cutter processes.
Relevant blog post: https://www.go350.com/posts/they-want-us-to-be-compliant-not...
Probably. The NRA's power has always been voters not money. They have a large number of voters who listen. When they spend $.50 on a stamp that money is more likely to result in a vote than anyone else spending $10,000 for a TV commercial. When the NRA speaks their members listen.
Sure, big companies or ones with boomer culture work like this. In practice, at startups I've BYOD easily, I've used company hardware for things not company related, etc. Etc. They're not dicks about it.
The film was OK until Lily James' character, Peggy Piggott goes off on a tangent with Edith Pretty's cousin.

Using love interest in order to pull the patrons in may be a time honoured method to improve a films bottom line, but it wears thinner and thinner with each passing year. And increasingly just evokes irritation and a sudden lunge for the remote!
IIRC petard means bomb
Strong agree, why aren't we using NSA funds to literally secure networks? Send specialists to important companies that we don't want to get hacked. Instead they pay mathematicians big money to make systems less secure? Bullshit.
Referring to milk changing meaning, not the fact that approximately 30 gallons of nut milk can be readily purchased in stores. Just because it happened once doesn't mean a ship has sailed for a general principle.
Maybe they downvoted you because they thought it wasn't a very convincing refutation.
Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine provides minimal protection against SA virus variant
How is it compared the lz or whatever the fast one was? Or is lz?
Author here. Most of the negative performance impact comes running the injected JavaScript code, so it will be the same on all websites.

I tested different sites in 2018, but it's harder to see the performance impact of an extension, because variability between tests is larger for more complex pages. https://www.debugbear.com/blog/measuring-the-performance-imp...

Generally the site you're on doesn't matter. Ad blockers are different, since they have a positive impact on sites with ads. Some extensions are site-specific, e.g. Wikiwand. I'm also mentioning Avira as a special case. If I tested each extension on the top 1000 sites I could identify more examples, but don't think it's worth the effort/cost.

> The assumption one might make is that these extensions stack up but I could imagine there could be non-linear effects combining extensions (unless there’s prior research indicating it is linear in all or almost all cases?).

Yeah, if you different extensions add more JavaScript bundles the performance impact just adds up. I've not looked at this in depth, but the 2018 post takes a quick look at combining multiple extensions. https://www.debugbear.com/public/blog/chrome-extension-perfo...
Opinion: Don’t Stop at Big Tech–We Need to Bust Big Agriculture, Too
Not really. Texas is about to become a 2A sanctuary, Utah, Iowa, Texas, Tennessee, Florida are close to passing constitutional carry. Kansas wants to expand concealed carry to 18-20 year olds. Gun sales are at record highs, etc etc.
> Your code doesn't seem like a very good idea

Why not?

I usually use an 'anaphoric if' macro that binds - to the given value. It seems more clearly 'special' than a name like 'it'—which seems like the canonical name—closer to the perl/raku $_.
Because they trust you to do it right. At a certain stage of organization, if you put a lot of barriers in people's way your company will fail.
The wikipedia entry is worth reading. Unusually well written.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Reichelt

> A journalist in Le Gaulois suggested that only half the term "mad genius" applied to Reichelt
How much is he selling the repaired devices for?
This conversation was interesting bc in America socialism is portrayed as the devil. This clip details just one example, women's right, how socialism actually benefited society.
> Restricting access to guns is popular in this country.

I think this is a problem with or feature of our democracy. If eighty percent of the voters want gun control but only half of them show up (forty percent) and vote for one of four different candidates but twenty percent of the population makes it their single issue and votes reliably for the same candidate, the candidate wins in first past the post.
Definitely not an expert on this but the creators say that one thing that is helpful is that hard drive space is already massively over-provisioned which is helpful — individuals as well as institutions with space will be able to make use of existing space without needing to make a run on hard drives.
> I'll go with seemingly unpopular opinion that there are only pets, never cattle.

This is emphatically not true beyond a certain point, perhaps around 500 boxes or so. My last job involved working on a fleet of about 15,000 hosts; I can promise that extremely few of the servers were precious pets. They really were cattle, and we would blow away and reimage them into different functions (with hostnames matching the function) moderately frequently.
> Johnson & Johnson is bigger than any bank in the world, why aren’t the rich and powerful in the pocket of Big Band-Aid?

But they are. Look at the many scandals around Johnson & Johnson on corruption cases...
Consumers love glossy displays. Colors look better, the screen looks brighter, and they are easier to clean.

I used to do volume specs of laptops for a big enterprise as a side duty. The glossy displays became a thing ~2005. If you had a spec that incorporated brightness, glossy would always win.

Grousing about Apple is always fun, but I’m sure they would happily charge you $500 for an enhanced matte panel if anyone cared about it... nobody does.
FTA:

The revamped Model S and Model X still have big central touchscreens (now in a landscape orientation, rather than the previous portrait-oriented screen), but Tesla went even further by eliminating the turn-signal and gear-selector stalks. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the car will simply "guess" which way the driver wants to go based on sensor data and navigation maps. Tesla is expected to include backup controls as well, leaving drivers to use the touchscreen for selecting drive, and steering-wheel controls for turn signals.

Just does not sound like a good idea at all.
Any idea where I could read more about Fauci messing up the response to AIDS? I’d always assumed he handled so well that he was the obvious guy to turn to for COVID-19.
Some time ago I got into the habit of naming my home network after Pokemon that I happen to thought fit well. My Windows desktop is Charizard and it's Ubuntu dual boot is DarkCharizard. My fileserver/Docker box is Metagross. My wireless SSID is Raichu, my laptop is Pikachu, and my phone is Pichu. And so on.
Recently intel compared their flagship mobile chip against AMD saying that they got the best single thread performance ever, using SPEC2017. They even had a SPEC graph showing all the AMD competitions, obviously M1 was not on there. And now SPEC is nowhere to be seen when compared to M1.

Source: https://newsroom.intel.com/news/11th-gen-h35-processors-fast...
Added more information to the article from both Signal and the researchers.
Cross-region metrics collection for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus
I haven't seen red delicious apples in some time. It's all galas, honeycrisps, and fujis where I shop.
I run calibre server on a raspberry pi which allows you to upload files and convert them via the web interface via my phone/tablet. You can even then download the new mobi/azw3 via the kindle browser (although the non JS version on my older paperwhite).
Hah, Robert Jordan taught me to watch for the phrase "[n]th (and final)". No, I won't start on that book, but I'll definitely pick up a copy of the first :)
Ask HN: Fully index multiple Git repos
I have a largish collection (100+) of git repos, worked over the last years. I was looking for a tool that would be able to index, commit messages, commit diffs, files, branch names etc, across all the repos. Mainly for being able to quickly find commit messages that contain certain keywords, in order to find how I solved something similar in the past (without remembering which project that was).

Only tool I found that does something similar to that is SourceGraph, but alas, they limit searches against the commit messages to 50 repos only, claiming that the search is too "wide" otherwise.

Are there no tools that can do something similar like this? I have failed to find such a tool...
Elon Musk
Tweeted dawn to dusk
But history chronicles
Low cost reusable launch vehicles
my issue is that none of these things represent new capacities that humans didn't have before. a spreadsheet will help you to identify and track child abuse content. you could do that using paper if you committed enough resources

My hope for machine learning was that it would allow people to see patterns that could not be seen before. While this does happen, most practical problems are driven by a few very obvious indicators. ML can identify them with a high consistency and low cost. This is a useful tool (like a hammer) much more than a super power (like iron man's suit)
"This isnt so bad, because war exists" is one of the thinnest arguments in favor of something I've ever seen. In this hypothetical future where cryptocurrencies replace national ones, couldnt wars still be fought over the mining infrastructure or the resources needed to run it?
VoltPillager: Compromise Intel SGX with Hardware-Based Undervolting Attack
So you acknowledge that some people would hoard masks regardless, and therefore, your original suggestion "just ask people not to hoard" was overtly idealistic and would not prevent hoarding of masks?
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ -- "Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963"
Mouth-Watering Foods You Can’t Miss in South Korea
A guide to the top Korean dishes from someone who’s eaten their way around the country
In Russian, the "default" form is male. Usually. For adjectives and adverbs specifically, the infinitive is male and singular. Verbs only have gender in the past tense, so there's no default I guess?
The rights-ratchet model – spotting the next Elastic before it happens
In high school we used to sell large bags of Washington apples as a band fundraiser. We sold so many we got a full truckload delivered direct. They were so fresh and flavorful. The fresh bag of Red Delicious I ordered were the best apples I've ever had. It's not the point of this story, but fruit you get in the grocery store, often flash frozen and thawed, has a fraction of the flavor it has pulled off the plant. I can't even eat store-bought blueberries after picking them fresh in North Carolina.
YouTube playlist of DynamoDB session videos from re:Invent 2020 (+ 2 keynotes)
It was a weird re:Invent this time. All virtual. Different "waves" of content. This list has all the DynamoDB sessions.
Anyone know of any OSS projects that are using ADRs?

I'd love to see some examples of them being used in the wild.
Not sure if it really qualifies as a trick, but the game changer for me was <ctrl-o>. Being able to pop into and out of MC from the shell, even while in the middle of typing a command is great. It's easy to ignore if the command line suffices, and instantly available when helpful.
I think the point is that those power structures do more than just maintain the authority of a ruling class. They also keep the lights on and the wolf from the door.

Is there a better system? Probably! But we know what happens when you break our existing system and it’s extremely ugly.
Maybe, but why wouldn't they find it convincing? Any one of the major banks literally controls at least an order of magnitude more money in the economy than Johnson and Johnson does. Market cap and valuation has nothing to do with capital that is controlled. The author doesn't do a good job of rebutting the idea that finance is incredibly powerful in society by focusing on what financial firms are technically worth if you discount their client liabilities.
We can learn a lot by observing what we learned from games. With starcraft in particular, we learned that RL agents can achieve godlike micro play but they are weaker at macro. Dota Five showed that it is possible to coordinate multiple agents at the same time with little information shared between them.

This suggests that human theory crafting and ML accuracy should be able to achieve great things. One step at a time.
Exactly this. Software development and security are basically the same thing. If you’re not writing secure software, and you don’t understand enough about network layers to secure them, then you have a lot to learn just to get your knowledge up to par with a lot of devs/arch’s/“security people”
> Their stated purpose in filing bankruptcy is to dissolve the New York corporation and reincorporate in Texas to escape an ideologically hostile regulatory environment. It sounds insane to use bankruptcy in this way.

By "hostile regulatory environment" it is meant that they allegedly committed fraud against their donors and the (Democratic) attorney general is going after them for the breaking law:

* https://www.npr.org/2020/08/06/899712823/new-york-attorney-g...

Some donors also think this:

* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/16/nra-donor-ba...

And the NRA has admitted that such things happened in certain circumstances:

* https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/...

With NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre paying back $300K:

* https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/nra-chie...

See also the IRS investing LaPierre for possible criminal tax fraud related to his personal finances:

* https://www.wsj.com/articles/irs-investigating-nras-wayne-la...
Wouldn’t this be the logical result of the demonisation of guns by the left? I understand they can’t pretend to be bipartisan when one of the parties want to strip them of their rights.
Pubnix History Project
> We do as a collective culture

By what process? The list may not be ironclad, but presumably someone has to actually make a list.

Or are you saying we don’t need a list?
They used Google to search for an arsonist. The arsonist's motivations and politics are neither known nor of any relevance.
> Open secrets is an obviously biased source that believes there should be more gun control.

Do you have a source for this claim? They're listed as a nonpartisan organization online[1], and it seems as though their founders were a pair of Democratic and Republican senators. Their current lead project appears to be tracing the Biden administration's money, which doesn't feel like towing the line to me.

Edit: I found this conservative source[2], which refers to them as performing "left-wing" campaign finance advocacy. I think they're referring to the Citizens United decision, which has been a rallying point for every government watchdog that I know of. It occurs to me that (1) you could label just about anything as "left-wing" in this manner, and (2) campaign finance reform isn't something that most self-identified leftists would consider "left-wing" (being firmly in the "make government more transparent" category of political activity).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Responsive_Politics

[2]: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/center-for-respons...
It’s just used to bleach the wood, like some people do to lighten their hair. The sunlight accelerates the oxidation process. So the hydrogen peroxide does break down but that’s the intention. It removes the pigment from the wood fiber, the epoxy fills in gaps to allow the translucency.
We had a fire about 10 floors above me in a 60 story building. Never even got an alarm for it.

Modern building practices mean that it's not that easy for a fire to spread, and evacuating the entire building is a last resort.

Every apartment has fire rated doors with a spring forcing them closed (so even if you leave in a panic the door will close behind you)

The interior doors also seem pretty heavy to me, they don't have a fire rating placard but I wouldn't be surprised if they were picked with fire resistance in mind.

I'm lowest worry is fire, highest is easily elevators.

One day at my last building I hears a very loud crashing sound, look in the hallway and FDNY was cutting a hole in a wall to access a stuck elevator on a separate elevator bank...

On one hand, the fact the failed elevator stopped is good, on the other whoever was inside probably had a truly awful time. M
> This article is mostly discussing the second category, but I'm not sure how familiar American readers will be with this style of club [...] closer in concept to American raves, except at dedicated club venues.

You're not wrong, especially since electronic music has always been more underground/niche in the US, relative to Europe.

But despite that, this type of club was not uncommon in US cities, especially from the late '90s to mid '00s. For underground dance music (house, techno, dnb, etc) there was a nice mix of dedicated dance music venues, weekly/monthly nights at other venues, and a bunch of unlicensed/warehouse spaces as well.

This wasn't just in the largest cities either. Growing up in the mid Atlantic, in addition to the venues in all the larger cities (NYC, Philly, DC, Baltimore) there were also dedicated electronic dance music venues in much smaller cities -- Allentown PA, Atlantic City NJ, and Ithaca NY are a few examples. Often these venues were either all-ages or 18+.

These clubs all started to disappear around 2003-2005. The media had portrayed the rave scene exclusively as a teen sex/drug thing, which then brought in a lot of kids who weren't there for the music at all, and that led to government intervention both at the local and Federal level.

Over the past decade, there's been a small resurgence of dedicated electronic dance music venues, at least here in NYC -- mostly Brooklyn, always 21+, more serious crowd. It's certainly waxed and waned over the years. The closure of Output a couple years back was a major blow, but other venues like Elsewhere helped filled the gap. The club owners and promoters always had to strike a delicate balance of trying to be popular enough to stay afloat, but not so popular that the crowd sucked. I don't know if any of these places will survive the pandemic, sadly.
Tianwen1 probe sends back its first picture of Mars
ok - what year and squadron were you? (10/23
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Butina#National_Rifle_... : truth enough for wikipedia.
'A door has opened': Pope Francis appoints first woman to senior synod post