skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heard that Europe->Asia container ships transported plastic garbages because of there are less utilization compared to Asia->Europe. So sometimes higher utilization isn't good.
I had fun with Perl and Tcl back when I was 14 or something. I think they may have been the first "serious" programming languages I have used.
If you have a G.722 capable voip desk phone or softphone on your own asterisk system, where G.722 calls work between any two extensions on your system, and you are making calls into the regular PSTN... It is almost certainly ending up as G.711 anyways if you're calling another carrier.

Particularly if you are using a SIP trunking service to reach any international destinations outside of the US50 states and Canada, it's going to be regular G.711 alaw or ulaw.
If your cellar is filling up with water exponentially, the last half could fill up in the last timeperiod.

In a limited world, exponential changes are sometimes catastrophic.
I fail to see how contract to hire is beneficial to employees at all.
GCHQ have published two puzzle books in the UK and one of them definitely referred to the Zodiac Ciphers, so it wouldn't surprise me if it was a hobby project of a few of them. I do strongly believe if someone had previously solved it they'd have released it though -- there's nothing damaging in these texts.
Oh wow, I was biking in the Berkeley/Oakland hills recently and was surprised to hear what I thought was a clear eagle call, because I never see eagles around but I frequently see red-tailed hawks. It all makes sense now!
I appreciate your wariness of headlines. Device is used in this way often though.
I agree. Social distancing + vaccination is pretty much the only effective strategy so far. Lockdowns do enforce that, but they also create vast damage beyond what's needed.
The same thought came to my mind when I saw the headline and the intentions became clear once I read it.

Lots of indirect attacks on "free software" once RMS is back on the board. I honestly don't understand it - lot of people talking about "leadership" and free software "losing" against open source. The proponents of free software have absolutely no desire to win against anybody nor does it need any kind of leadership to make it attractive for corporates or any other group of people. We just believe that users of software should have certain freedoms and try and use software which respects these.

In HN particularly, I often see the argument that GPL restricts freedoms of certain kinds of users i.e. the developers. We honestly don't care - if you don't like free software, please use open source and celebrate that you have "won" against us.
Does the chinese navy have experience with maritime blockades? Besides, for chips, worst case scenario is load those chips onto ruslans and offboard them in guam or okinawa. A minor marginal expense. Will china shoot down taiwanese planes?
I didn't downvote, but if it's being downvoted, it's probably because the article does mention "lo", although only in the context of Asturian, not standard Spanish.

> Distinct but unofficial Romance languages like [...] Asturian (spoken in Asturias, a part of Spain) seem to have definite articles (equivalent to English the) for three genders, not two. Asturian has el for masculine nouns, la for feminine and lo for those nouns termed ‘neuter’. [...] The key question is whether these supposed neuter definite articles demonstrate the existence of a neuter gender. Again, sadly, the answer is no. These definite articles and the nouns they are used with (no matter what their origins) seem not to constitute a neuter gender, but rather to signify that the noun is something abstract or a physical mass – that is, an indivisible substance, like water or gold. [...] Why does this contradict the existence of a neuter gender? Because we find this “mass gender” (Harmon 2007) used with nouns that were not neuter in Latin, and because nouns in these languages can appear both with and without the feature, according to whether they have a mass meaning or not. This is therefore not a grammatical feature on the same level as the masculine and feminine genders; instead, the mass gender is a feature of nouns determined by semantics – to what sort of thing the noun refers.

If you wanted to talk about "lo" in standard Spanish, it would make more sense to start from the starting point of what's discussed in the article -- e.g., "The 'lo' construction actually exists in standard Spanish as well, although it's more restricted than in Asturian; rather than being used with any mass noun, it's used to mean..."
I've found that git filter-repo actually can modify file contents, using --replace-text and a file containing replacements.
Unfortunately a big part of having a truly working phone is the long tail of one-off apps. City-specific rideshares and bus apps, easy airline boarding, some new chat app that your friends started using.

I was a Lumia Windows Phone user, and I loved the OS, and I'm not at all some avid app user on the phone (I don't like mobile games, I don't install random apps that are just a packaged web site). Still, every time I got out of a well-worn bubble, the phone felt second-class. I couldn't order a cab, couldn't scan that coupon, I couldn't install that dating app, etc etc. I used that phone for 3 or 4 years until the battery gave out or whatever, but moving to iOS and Android felt so empowering.

I can only imagine the experience on Linux, without any corporate pushing to get your app on their phone, would be much worse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interference_lithography exists, but it only uses a single laser with beam splitters, and typically for creating large diffraction gratings and such.
> Today’s topic is political software.

Indeed. And the article is playing dirty politics, imho. The L in "FLOSS" means Libre to me too. The only way I have ever seen it used. Redefining its common meaning is disingenious. Call the alternative FLIBERO or something.. free, liberal, open. And build your story around that. If people like it, it may gain traction. And otherwise.. too bad. But don't hijack existing acronyms like this.

(OT: Hijacking terminology happens more often by big tech. The other day I came upon a great example, but forgot. But terms like "serverless" are example, meaning 'servers abstracted away by The Cloud')
On news.com.au (https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/catast...) they claim that the ship war previously driving in a pattern that looks like a giant...

"DICK"

"Yaa"

"take a look out at starboard"

"OH ma God, it looks like a huge..."

"PECKER, wait, that's not a wood pecker, it looks like someone's..."

"PRIVATES, we have reports of an Unidentified Flying Object, it is a long smooth shaft, complete with..."

"TWO BALLS, what is that? That looks just like an enormous..."

"WANG, pay attention"

"I was distracted by that enormous flying..."

"WILLIE, what's that?"

"Well it looks like a giant..."

"JOHNSON"

"Yes Sir"

"Get on the hold of the British intelligence and let them know about this"
emacs with lsp plugin for development. echo framework for server and standard library for other things.
The original "block chain"
Even with it there is no way to be sure of what they are or are not doing. Trust in an external endpoint is not improved by some theoretical source code dump on GitHub.
Bach (JS) was not a Bach contemporary. His music felt rather "old-school" at his time. In his life, he was considered the master of all masters only as an organ tuner.
the question in the OP was to have the avi file be zipped, and it would offer similar levels of compression.

But if you're streaming a zip file down the line, can you view the stream as it partially loads, which is possible with certain video formats (esp. if the player can handle missing key frames etc).

I was under the impression that a zip file cannot be partially read and reconstruct partially the contents.
Slovenian & a couple of other Slavic languages even still have the dual besides plural and singular :)
This is literally true in the US, for the following reasons:

1) small bands normally get no ticket revenue, or even pay to play. The usual number I hear is $500 if you're an opening act, although you could outbid the previously-booked act.

2) normally their earnings would be from their T-shirt stand at the concert. But venues are even clawing that back now, or allowing only 1 design to be sold by the band.
Sure. Don't believe some random dude from the internet. But if you're not going to go through the hassle of running the tests on your own, your "meaningless" claims are meaningless. Have you spent time in your career as a compressionist? Have you encoded hundred of hours in various codecs looking at the best tweaks to get the highest visual quality for the smallest file sizes?

The test files that I produced resulted in the h.264/crf23 with a bitrate of 970kbps while the h.264/crf28 result with a bitrate of 800kbps. The h.265 used less bitrate to achieve half the filesize. I have stacked the 2 videos and toggle between the two. There is no visible difference. I have done this experiment. It is up to you to do the same thing to see if you can replicate the results or not. That's science. But it is much easier to just post "no it doesn't" comments on the internet.
Source about android uploading to google?

Pretty sure AOSP does not do this.
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I played pokemon go seriously for a few years (both at the beginning and recently) and honestly spoofers are an issue only because imho Niantic is incompetent and doesn't care.[1]

not to say how it you are anywhere not in a medium size city you need either spoofers or endless grind to unlock significant parts of the game

[1] to be fair I left before the pandemic, so I cannot comment on how they handled that
There are a couple of different kinds of music that Bach composed. Of course he is well known for his chorales, but based on your comment those probably don't speak to you.

What might be a better place to start would be the cello suites. The first is so well known that it's hard to come to it with an open mind. But my favorite is the second in d minor. Here is a performance by Mischa Maisky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki9ySiWQNu8 Much more lyrical and passionate than we often associate with Baroque music.

Bach is, of course, very well known for his counterpoint, which probably is why a lot of technical people like his music so much. I personally like these pieces best on organ. The fugues in particular are always a great deal of fun as each line comes in and the piece gets richer and richer. Here is a performance of the Great Fugue in G major: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6clTa8_QYQE I think there's really no substitute for listening to these pieces live, though. With a good organ you just get enveloped in the sound. The next best thing to do is wear good headphones and really crank up the volume, but headphones just can't match the bass of 64 foot pipes.

I'd also be remiss if I didn't mention the Chaconne from his partita for violin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEbi-7tPaqo
bach brought polyphony to a completely new level.

Here is some slow, boring but not religious stuff, no hapsi and no singing:

js bach, the art of the fugue

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5BC3686A00C91558

it was a demo of the gist of his composition, his music making: he introduces a melody, the motif, and then overlays it with itself and variants of itself and I admit the details completely escape me.

yet the music captures me and allows me to think.
More Renaissance than Baroque, but some of John Dowland's lute pieces have the same emotional impact on me as Bach. Lachrimae Pavane, his most famous, is exceptional when played on lute. Although in all fairness the instrument itself is something I find quite magical.
This is what happens when you don’t dispose of your records correctly.
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There's also a political trade dispute with Australia for metallurgical coal leaving ships stranded waiting to unload.

In the meantime, iron ore prices are spiking.
Interesting how this seems to be the common belief, but AFAIK AOSP does not do this, while ironically Lineage uses Google for connectivity servers and fallback DNS.
I don't think that's quite fair, I've listened to quite a lot of his compositions, there's definitely something in there.
1. a thing made or adapted for a particular purpose, especially a piece of mechanical or electronic equipment.
"a measuring device"

2. a plan, method, or trick with a particular aim.

Words often have more than one meaning.
I think you're only looking at "smart people" as people who want to share how smart they are. You seem to be ignoring the social isolation that can come with it. Your interests might no be similar to those around you, if you're a child you might be able to meet others who are different in the same way, etc.

I very rarely discuss IQ since so many people are hostile to it. A high IQ makes you different. Sometimes it's subtle, like as an adult you'll typically have different interests compared to a lot of peers, and other times it's far less subtle, like when you're a school aged kid and you're always made to feel different (FYI most school aged kids don't want to feel different).
No. Colds are upper respiratory tract infections and only affect the nose and throat, as opposed to viral pneumonia. Different coronaviruses have different proteins and corresponding cell receptors (ACE2, DPP4, etc), which result in different organs being infected. Saying that all coronavirus diseases are colds is about as accurate as saying that all coronavirus diseases are SARS.
We’ve been moving some docs meant for other teams to mkdocs from Confluence at work and I’ve been happy with it - GitBook is also popular.
Opening up the APIs to developers is also in the pipeline. The following are the APIs
1. Similar topics
2. Related topics
3. Compare two topics
4. Categories based search - get results for multiple Wikipedia Categories with intersection option.

If you know any use cases where these will be useful, let me know
A lot of applications, perhaps a majority, use analytics and send data data to eg Google or Microsoft whenever you run them.
The American bald eagle population has quadrupled since 2009, report says
Elderly Asian woman who fought attacker donates nearly $1m from GoFundMe
I would have been more wowed by the $120 million if I didn’t know B2 bombers cost $2 billion each. I wonder how much more safe and secure we would be with lots of Twinscans 3400B’s and a few less B2’s?
This is a (modern, mistaken) conjoining of two similar phrases

- drawing the short stick (where you hold five sticks / matches, in your hand one of which is cut short but no one can tell cos they are held in someone's hand)

- Grabbing the shitty end of the stick. Which seems fairly obvious if a stick was used for any clearing out style work.

(there seems to be no obvious "short end" of a stick)
Thanks for the polite reply. I really did read the rules, I must have just missed the part about “external sources”.

Of course, since standard libraries are allowed, the logical way to win the challenge is for someone who has commit access to a standard library to include the text as part of an update to that library.
Isn't it a good thing that the reproductive rate is falling before there is too much contention for resources?

If infertility is a growing issue aren't fatility treatments compounding the problem, by treating the symptoms rather that the cause?

Population growth might be good for economic reasons, but it's not sustainable from a environmental perspective.
Gradually making Chrome the only OS that really matters.

The web is already almost as closed (for apps) as phones are - you can choose Chrome, Safari if you're on Mac, or Firefox. Everything else is just repackaged Chrome. Edit: forgot Opera Mini, for what it's worth.

Firefox is dying out, and Google is pushing for less and less user freedom in Chrome, while Apple is extremely reluctant to implement new features that make Safari a better app platform.
No, because gentrification involves conversion/upgrade of the properties. The properties themselves are largely unchanged; only the owner demographics have changed.
> Redux is the purest expression of a state machine possible

Are you sure "pure" is the right word? Last I checked redux very proudly incorporates a certain event-sourcing something idea in it. It's definitely not a "just state machine" library. More like in KFC when you order something, they always make sure that you get their sugar water as well.
I don't want to carry around two phones so the only phone I'm carrying around must do at least all of this:

WhatsApp (not the web app, it's limited)

Skype and Meet (the Linux desktop versions would probably work but I wonder what their UX would be on a small screen)

Banking apps

Maps with satellite and street view

Location tracking / following tracks (in using OsmAnd for that)

Email (Thunderbird on a small screen?)

My country 2FA / digital signature app

A keyboard that does swype well

Then it should be small, let's say 14 cm tall (which used to be huge, oops) less than 1 cm thick, nearly no bezel, 130 g of weight.

There is no Linux phone with those specifications AFAIK. So yes, I want a Linux phone but I don't think I'll buy one in the near future.
Lockdowns are the only solution for stopping the spread of an infectious virus or bacteria. How you implement the lockdown and how long for depends on the infection rates and treatment requirements.

If everyone masked/maintained hygiene/social distanced, then lockdowns can be lessened, but the best way to stop infections is to stop providing the environment were infections can occur.

Unless there are both effective and scalable treatment options, then some form of isolation is the only alternative.
I've read it all, and he really put the issues I somehow "felt" with free software to words. Maybe there could be a way forward, where developers and users profit.
Then I skim this comment section and I'm back to be really, really confused. I'm pretty new to developing software, but the Open Source subject, I don't get.
If you don't have an android, try the web app :
https://www.wikiyarn.com
That is because of Androids stupid permissions-system where you have to give all requested permissions to an app before being able to install it.

On iOS the app installs and works and THEN it might ask you for GPS permission and you can deny that and the app keeps working, just without the feature that needs GPS.

I just installed Mi Home, a chinese app which requested every permission there is. I just denied all of them, could still use the app and am 0 afraid that the app somehow accessed my data.
">" fyi means the the following paragraph is a quote, just in case you missed it.
Because these tools were made in a time where people were using libraries like jquery. People were building js apps by including libraries directly in the header. Before webpack, and even gulp, when having a build process was a novel thing in web dev.
When we traveled(2015-2018):
- laptop, no larger than 17 in screen, and the thinner and lighter the better.
- portable monitor like the Asus ZenScreen MB14AC
- VPN
- universal power adapters & a surge protector
- small mouse & small keyboard like the Logitech K380

Most of my Digital Nomading has been outside the USA in Europe & Asia. We stayed between several weeks to several months per location. Internet experiences, and requirements will vary country by country but as long as you stay in or near a large metropolitan area you can expect fast internet. The the only exception so far has been China, theirs was slow no matter where I went.

I always tried to make my personal hotspot(Google Fi) the last resort. I used a local hotspot, AirBNB/Cafe WiFi, and coworking spaces as must as possible. Also, for video conferencing, I'd lower streaming quality. No one needs to see my ugly mug in that high a resolution. VPN was not for video conferencing, or browsing reddit/HN. It was mostly for interacting with financial institutions, and transferring IP back and forth with work. It's up to you on how paranoid you wanna be.
Individual vs. collective discussions often leave out the size of the collective, which is often the most important part. See:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110822151104/http://irl.cs.ucl...
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This could be useful for finding new places to go that are look similar to your holiday snaps.
Also if I could do this with a picture of food I want to eat.. and it guess the probable location of a restaurant serving it, that would be great.
I was always under the assumption that they independently coined the word. At the very least, "avatar" wasn't well-known until Snow Crash came out, so it's possible Stephenson didn't know it was an existing word and came up with it for the same reasons as Farmer and Morningstar. It's also a near-certainty that the wider tech community only adopted the word "avatar" after reading it in Snow Crash due to the book's popularity, so even if he didn't independently co-coin the word, he's still the one who popularized it.

(if you're familiar at all with TVTropes, the latter is the difference between the concept of a Trope Maker and a Trope Codifier)
Not really. I remember when smart phones came out and I was excited at the possibilities, I've installed termux and everything, but it turns out touch screens are just garbage at typing on, and my phone is better served as a brainless newpipe device.
Splitting more tallies from one stick was done on certain occasions, especially if intentional fraud was a concern.
Yes, and the people using it were the original "block heads" :)
deadbeef is good. took a lot of setting up to get it the way I like it.

I always found things to nitpick about music players, at least with deadbeef you fight with the layout editor then you have noone to nitpick but yourself
The UK is definitely reliant on global trade for subsistence, as was found during WW2.
i argue it's not an issue. If the user decides to spoof to cheat in the game, there are other ways to detect it (such as speed limiting - which, as i understand, pokemon go already does).

If the app wants to force a user to not modify their phone just so they have a secure enclave for which they can implement DRM, then i can't agree to it. This includes things like spoofing, but also things like memory edits or hacking save files, or anything else client side. If the app needs secure storage that's unchangeable, they can save it on their servers.
I was thinking the exact same thing. Does everyone else remember The Great Coffee Shortage of 2016? Because I don't. This smells like a PR story funded by commodities traders that are long on coffee. Better stock up now!!!!!!!!!
> That would be like arguing that everything Led Zeppelin wrote was already implicit in 'Johnny B. Goode'.

I hadn't thought of that, but now that you mention it, there is definitely some truth there ;-)
Agreed, most of the listed benefits are also what would happen in a full time contract.

The one exception to this is training, which employers usually don’t invest in for contract staff in my experience, so I disagree with that point.
Yes, monolithic Go RESTful JSON API services - we currently depend on go-swagger, SQLBoiler (PostgreSQL) and echo.

Workflow: we use VSCode with devContainers (docker-compose local dev env), our tasks are simply defined in a Makefile. Our high-lvl dev workflow is documented here: https://github.com/allaboutapps/go-starter/wiki/FAQ#how-does...

Difficulties: Nothing special actually. We switched from Node.js to Go in the beginning of 2020 and it's been a pleasure for our new projects (software agency). I thought it was going to be hard to onboard our staff / new hires to Go and our stack, but this really turned out to be a non issue.