skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's particularly interesting, because the rise of GNU is because it was an overall better set of tools than what Unix vendors shipped (HP-UX, IBM AIX, Sun OS, SGi Irix...).

The age of web changed all of that. Instead of being stuck on your computer with whatever tools you could obtain for it, you could now access centrally-maintained, quality webservices.

The FSF realized the freedom risk that centrally-maintained services posed, and created stuff like the AGPL to address it, but there just isn't as much leverage for that to take off like the GPL did.
> The reason we abandoned this [war driving] idea: A combination of our inhouse lawyer's opinion

Can't stop thinking how every company doing mapping, like google, today includes wifi wardriving like it's nothing serious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardriving
I think you may be overestimating how much people will care about the time difference. Simply put, it's extra additional context that will almost assuredly have to be put forward as a defense by you, after they have already formed their impression of you.

I suspect such claims will come off as very hollow to most people who have become upset with you. You would probably be questioned about why you had not proactively removed and apologized for your old writings on your own, as soon as you "changed your mind" about the topic. This of course ignores that changes are often slow, and rather unlikely to prompt you to recall every single trace you may have left of your previous thoughts. But that's all squishy context that the internet has thoroughly shown it does not care for, nor even recognize most of the time.
DND filters work wonders here, and help reinforce a positive culture.

During onboarding I make sure my devs set them up.

You're right though, this is a cultural thing that needs leadership from the top.

Just like "unlimited vacation" it can be abused on both sides pretty easily if you don't keep an eye on it.
Yeah, I was only using Cyberpunk as an example of how a console player might play a game on Stadia that was released on their console if it performed better. (Or even equivalently, since Stadia has other advantages like easy travel.) But I think the much bigger draw will be for games that are PC exclusives or PC/XBOX, for Playstation folks.

I suppose it remains to be seen how successful Stadia will be at pull these titles to its platform. I think you're right to worry about fragmentation. If developers view Stadia as "just another platform" that they can just choose not to support when creating exclusives, it'll fail. If Stadia can get them to view it as a kind of drop-in that lets a much larger number of people (with, say, underpowered hardware) play their game, they'll be more likely to view it as a win.

One other plausible market: people for whom the upfront cost of a platform is still too high. It's a lot easier for most parents to justify buying Cyberpunk for Stadia for their kid for Christmas than it is a brand new $500 console, or God forbid the several thousand dollar PC you'd need to play it.
Yeah, these are basically ATV trails near my property which are probably mostly not supposed to be there. Certainly on private land although conservation land as well. I've been appreciative for them during current times and I've even been appreciative that the ATVers tend to come in and clear fallen trees and the like. But that doesn't mean I feel comfortable plotting tracks on OSM--especially those parts of the tracks on private land and especially those parts where ATVs have ripped up the terrain in said private land.
The worlds top selling tractor already exists, and is available in the US.

Mahindra.
"Failure is often a better teacher than success, you can succeed all your life by dumb luck and never learn a thing or misattribute the success to the wrong elements." - It certainly sounds reasonable in at least some situations (e.g. failing at losing weight does not teach much), but is it true?
Luck is necessary to succeed, since most complex situations or actions have probabilistic outcomes, but I have not seen many people being taught much by failure, and for good reasons. In theory, failure can be a good teacher: one has to analyze the causal relationship between the events that led to failure and with a cool and serene mind make a better plan for tomorrow. No judgement, no regrets, no mortification of mind and flesh. They wake up feeling energized thinking about what they have learned by the previous day's failure and they are even more ready for success than yesterday.
But this is not realistic; it is easy and common to feel depressed, useless, and small after failure, energy goes down, not up (of course there are exceptions everywhere) and causal relationships are challenging to unravel (when at all possible) and also may change over time and space. Success, on the hand, means that something worked (at least once!).
An Inside Joke for the Super-Rich
Should have put Heptapod in a docker container instead: https://heptapod.net

A hosted version is also available: https://foss.heptapod.net/public

Works like gitlab, but on top of Mercurial. Use it myself and it works perfectly.
Nice I'll check that out.

12 Mbps MPEG-4 should be quite good, for the stations that support it.
"if it's dumb and it works, it's not dumb"
I prefer to think of this as a trillion dollar capital allocation problem being solved.

There's $1T+ of cryptocurrency held doing mostly nothing, and investors rightly want to put it to work. That is what spawned NFTs, crypto art, DeFi, and basically revitalized the crypto economy.

NFTs specifically are interesting: it's a new class of asset that allows digital work be allocated significant crypto capital essentially out of thin air, where it otherwise would have none.

As an artist, entrepreneur, or entertainer, you have a new way to make money that is not paid for by users or advertisers, which is the way it usually goes. Instead it is paid for by crypto investors and newly minted millionaires who have capital to allocate and will allocate it to your work.

Combine this with social signaling, FOMO, and a general lack of regulation and the result is innovation.

Seeing NFTs through the lens of DRM is completely missing the point.
...excuse me? There’s no call for that. Why come to a discussion forum if you don’t actually want to talk?

Furthermore, the answer is not “no” —- I acknowledged that your usage may be acceptable, not that mine isn’t. I explicitly stated that while you may not call those people that, I would.
someone was kind enough to upload their recent (oct 2020) build of OSM vector tiles to the internet archive: https://archive.org/details/osm-vector-mbtiles
Then google needs to add the ability to detect and remove that background content.
US cops seem pretty actively malicious frankly. Must suck for citizens
As long as it's green power, who cares how much gets used?

If we could put miniature 1 GW power plants in every home that were 100% renewable and didn't pollute, we would.
>How does one person have enough interesting interactions with the police to build a channel about that?

By having a different background and life experience from yours. Stretch a little.
Yelp removes any post legitimate or not if you have zero “friends” on Yelp and if you have no profile picture iirc.

That's definitely wrong, as my Yelp profile has zero friends and no profile picture, and all of my reviews are still up, when viewing the businesses logged out, across multiple devices using different IP addresses.

I have managed restaurants and talked to several Yelp reps.

I have spoken to restaurants on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce investigating this issue, and found no evidence that these claims are true.
> Pin/Promise unsoundness

Note that there was only a brief window between the bug there being reported and the fix landing. These days the only way to exploit any unsoundness there is via using unstable features, and as long as there's a soundness exploit those features certainly won't be stabilized.
Yes, all kinds of heritable wealth are problematic. But when it comes with heritable political power, doubly so.
Do I also understand correctly that a certificate was issued recently based on proving ownership of a domain ten years ago?

That also sounds like a serious issue.
The entire industry does. I work for a component supplier in the industry and the US companies are just awful.

Their two priorities are:

1) Proprietary Fit - how do they prevent their customers from buying replacement components from third parties and keep them coming back to them for maintenance

2) Look and feel - I've seen major contracts decided on which design had fake diamond plate to project "toughness", despite higher price and worse performance.

Price and performance are somewhat farther down the list and barely enter into the decisions.

The European and Japanese companies in contrast actually care about and drive performance requirements.
What is the point of this comment if you don't back it with receipts? The videos are available, you could make the effort to find out but chose to post this instead.
Grafana Tempo for the traces looks interesting too! Especially now that it doesn't require Elastic anymore
> My heart still sinks when I hear the Slack notification sound on evenings or weekends

Just turn off Slack notifications. I did this years ago (as a founder), and my life improved considerably. Three people at the company had my personal cell number. If it really was an emergency, they'd call. It only happened twice. Both times were legitimate emergencies that I would've wanted to know about ASAP.

After a few months of turning off Slack notifications I started telling all my employees to do the same. Most did. Everyone was happier.

> I firmly believe that good management can overcome these issues, but it must come from the top.

It starts at the top but is really implemented by middle management. As a leader, you have to get middle management on board with it, or some teams will end up with the short end of the stick. I had one team lead that would Slack their employees all weekend long and explicitly wanted a reply. Once I got word of this, I started calling that manager every single Sunday until they "got it".
This is good to hear. Any idea if it's accurate with coastal data? I'm asking for a scientific project that seeks to map the locations of various seaweed strains.
This argument is totally valid, but I think the problem is that it's universal. It seems like it's equally valid as an argument against any feature. So to really apply it in practice, we need to go further, and come up with some way to quantify the value a new feature brings, so that we can compare that value to the downside of more bloat.
I have two thoughts on this: One is that tools like scalafix no-doubt rely heavily on static analysis to ensure correctness of their program transformations. I'm not sure a hypothetical "pythonfix" tool will be quite as feasible for untyped code bases.

And also, the issue isn't really with library maintainers when it comes to Python syntax changes. It's with all the user code written in Python. I tried converting my programs from Scala 2.12 from 2.13, and I failed so hard. I couldn't justify the time commitment, even with tools like scalafix to automate stuff. It's just not that smart.

All this is to say, let's not pretend that breaking changes to a programming language are ok. If you have to do break stuff once or twice in the lifetime of your language, fine. But accepting breaking changes as the status-quo is a failure of a language, by definition, IMO.
Intent matters. In some situations, yes, playing music is illegal.
Having not written Python in a long time until recently, I discovered fstrings. Are they the best choice for (nearly all) string formatting at least in new code? They seem to work pretty similarly to eg Ruby’s string interpolation.
I'm 80% sure that the OP's problem with panicking isn't to do with the unwind/abort choice. If I had to guess, their actual complaint is about the fact that the index operator panics on out-of-bounds accesses. I say this with confidence because, other than that, the bottom type is extremely useful, partial functions are often extremely useful (sometimes you do just want to shut up the type system), unwinding needs to exist in order to properly support being a guest in a host process, and unwinding-as-default is the correct default for encouraging people to think about unwinding inside of unsafe code blocks.
> Why would Puritanism need to be a 'thing' anymore for the previous post to make sense?

It would need to be a currently existing, non-belief, unifying feature of American Protestantism for it to be a rebuttal of the argument that saying that another thing was like American Protestantism except for the content of beliefs is meaningless because American Protestantism is a diverse community united only by a set of shared beliefs.
Economically, it might. It is commonly asserted that the British monarchy brings in far more money than it drains in the form of tourism. I would be interested to know how well this claim stands up to scrutiny.

On the one hand, most of the physical tourist attractions could be maintained without monarchy actually owning or inhabiting them - indeed, the tourism value of Buckingham Palace would perhaps be improved if you could actually go inside.

On the other hand, perhaps that would ruin the mystique - and the mystique is certainly worth something too, as the wedding of William and Kate is estimated to have generated several billion pounds in tourist revenue all by itself, which is enough to pay for several decades of monarchy.
What? We can castrate the royals, then keep them ceremonially.
I do not know what Nx is doing, but BEAM has "dirty NIF"s: long-running native functions that are scheduled differently so that they do not impact regular BEAM processes. They're transparent from the user space.
>> I think it's pretty clearly not true, because no recent generation of “young men” has been more effectively manufactured into an army of racist than has ever occurred by any other means.

This is an astonishing claim, the likes of which I have not heard before. Could you elaborate on this please?
I found it interesting also to look at kwh per transaction. Several places claim that in early 2020 bitcoin used ~700kwh per transaction (https://www.statista.com/statistics/881541/bitcoin-energy-co...), and this equates to about 2700 miles of driving a Tesla Model 3 at the rated consumption of 257wh/mi which is plain a ton (and also is about 1 month of solar production from my house's rooftop solar). With Tesla now accepting bitcoin, this means you can add ~2.7k miles of emissions to the car without even driving it, and probably even more since they have to move the money afterwards.
Edit: Don't forget about ewaste also. Some quick math and assuming a 2 year lifetime says that each miner can contribute 10-20 transactions. This is why I think proof of stake is a better way to go.
I like to believe that experience will eventually drive people towards using scientific parsimony when creating solutions to engineering problems.

I don't think over-engineering is the only problem: shiny-new. Shiny-new syndrome wherein the typically junior programmer cannot help but jump from one new thing to the next, advocating that some new system must use the new tech that they recently discovered. While the enthusiasm is ok, working with people like this can be a drag.

Another problem: we are facebook too! In the sense that small companies heartily believe that they actually have problems at the scale of a company like facebook (or will ever get to that level). Again, hearing someone say, "We should do xyz because Netflix does it!" makes me want to give up on this profession.
A literal trigger is a lever that fires a gun. A figurative trigger is some event that sets in motion a cascade of events that occur in rapid succession. The root cause of firing a gun would probably be analogous to loading the chamber with a live round. Which may have occurred hours, days, months, etc before the trigger was pulled.

I think the distinction is that the "trigger" relates to a particular instance of failure, whereas the "root cause" relates to a class of failures.
Excel formulas are now Turing-complete
The problem with Atheism is no one will agree on the basic ground rules for a conversation. For example if I say I'm not an Atheist because I don't care to subscribe to a specific definition of god upon which to focus my lack of belief, I get accused of propping up a Straw Man.

It's clear that religion exists, it's impossible to find a human culture that lacks it. But the minute you try to put the discussion on a more rigorous footing the process seems to fall apart, hence the term pseudophilosophy. Carl Sagan was described as not wanting to be called an Atheist because that already requires knowledge that has not been introduced into the conversation. I guess that makes him an epistemological agnostic but even that choice of terminology can be challenged.

So where is one expected to go with this apparent dilemma?
It might be interesting to some that there is some possibility that QE2 isn't the rightful monarch anyhow.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Abney-Hastings,_14th...
>Microsoft is a completely different company than it was even just 5 or 10 years ago.

Counterpoint: No they aren't. Counting Git repos is totally nonsensical, and open sourcing their terminal is a meaningless gesture, but I guess that's enough to fool some people.

Microsoft has a very, very long history of being a shitty company. Fucking over DR DOS, fucking over Stac, war profiteering, patent trolling, up to the privacy dumpster fire that is Windows 10. That's just off the top of my head. And I've been around for all of it, so excuse me if I just don't fawn over Microsoft suddenly claiming to be the good guys now. Trust is hard to earn and easy to lose.
I'm super excited about returning people to the Moon. But Lunar Gateway is a bad mission architecture that really reduces the cost-effectiveness of returning to the Moon. It costs way more delta-v to reach the Gateway and then proceed to the lunar surface than just to go straight to the surface.

A brief rundown of authoritative criticisms:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Gateway#Reactions

I really hope the new administration takes the opportunity to revise the mission architecture.
I'm from a non-motornon-colonized part of the world.

What is wrong with racism in the first place and why is it wrong for someone to be racist today? It seems the word has no meaning than as used in an insult. Kind of like "bastard" or "motherfucker".
Thank you for your translation. That helps to clear up the meaning, and was much clearer than the sentence in question. That said, I don't believe it invalidates my criticism, as it's not the technical language that I'm opposed to. Given your comment about it being tedious writing, I think we may actually be in agreement, and that I expressed myself poorly.

The point I was attempting to make was that even if you replace the variables with anything that results in an intelligible sentence, it's still going to be difficult to read. Regardless of whether you understand the terminology. The structure of the sentence itself is contributing to the difficulty in interpretation. Could time have been saved by writing it in this style? Sure, but it takes the readers' attention away from the actual argument and forces them to spend extra effort on interpreting the sentence structure.

I see this as a problem with academic (and even popular) writing in general. It's far from being exclusive to either Judith Butler or philosophy.
I have no stake in this at all, but as far as I can tell William is extremely likeable.
Because currently we have a ruling party, and the queen can interfere before that ruling party tables a bill to parliament.

Also, the Monarchy is effectively a mechanism for it's powers to be controlled by ministers, this means parliament can and has been effectively shut down temporarily to avoid debate at the whim of Government Ministers against the will of parliament itself.
God help us if Harold Faltermeyer doesn't sue for copyright.
It’s obviously up to rights holders to decide what they would like to do. ASCAP is probably largely not interested in policing mundane and mostly personal uses of music in public places; especially a one-off event like a company luncheon, where relevant legal exemptions (at least for broadcast radio) exist. Seems like a case of not much to gain with a bit to lose.

However, it might possibly become a different story in this case. Here is a pretty objectionable use of copyrighted music on a small scale. It makes copyright holders look bad because the system they lobbied for could now possibly be used to help corrupt or abusive police officers escape accountability and censor opposition. Ordinarily, a copyright holder taking action against a small scale case like this would seem like a David and Goliath situation, but in this case the “little guy” is not the person playing the music.

Acting in bad faith is, of course, one thing, when you are an individual and you are acting against a large conglomerate. It doesn’t justify the action, but the optics of enforcement are not great. Just remember issues like Mike Rowe Soft for example. (P.S.: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not...)

This case is more complicated because the perceived wrong is not exactly the use of copyrighted music but how copyright systems are being used against a citizen exercising their rights.

It remains to be seen what happens, but if this sort of behavior continues I can at least bet on musicians not being very happy to hear when their music is used for this purpose.
I didn't say that Yelp didn't remove negative reviews; I said they don't do it in exchange for pay as implied, and comments from actual business owners on this thread, and my first-person experience interviewing almost a hundred businesses as part of an investigation for the local Chamber of Commerce confirm that.
It should be possible to remove the music while retaining the rest of the audio. It will be a little bit more complicated than just subtracting a known waveform because of imperfect speakers and mics, but I suspect it's still possible.
Lawyer on Zoom has to tell judge he isn't a cat because he can't turn filter off
What we need is forests, not just trees.

They have a perpetual self-sustaining cycle of growing new trees and turning the old ones into soil and burying them under more soil.
Totally ignoring the real issue, but...

I mean, if I were a business open to the public, playing music without paying the fees, I'd get in trouble. Here we have police business, open to the public, playing music, pressumably without paying the fees. Especially, if the officer is doing it when they know a recording is being made, that's an intentional act of public performance, or facilitating copying or somesuch prohibited conduct with copyrighted materials.

Also, depending on the volume, could be violating a noise ordinance.
I see where the SDL author is coming from, but is it really that hard to get local GitLab instance running? Or even just using GitLab? I saw other replies about how GitHub has a network of open source developers, but that didn't bother the SDL author before, and I don't see why it is bothering him now.
I think you have serious misconceptions of the capabilities a fuzzer has.
They could use the free version or self-host it.
Author here, I've been working on updating documentation for my open source libraries to use embedded snippets from tests. That way I know that the documentation is up to date if tests pass. I made this to improve on an existing service (gist-it) so that no dependency on an external service and there was no need for hacks to get custom styling.
Moving to a big centralised website that can

* pull the project on a whim

* Is Anti merit

* Anti free speech

* Is anti white

What could go wrong