skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tom Davis is very good at the game. I also recommend checking out his "straight line mission" videos. He tries crossing Wales (and more recently Norway) in a single straight line. Deviating by only a few feet across the trips. He manages to make it quite interesting to "just" watch a man walking in fields.
Strongly disagree.

Who maintains day.js? It‘s (i did not look, i guess) not the same people that develop the JavaScript standard library. At some point, day.js is abandoned or breaks something and nobody is going to fix it because it is abandoned, or even worse, soneone creates a fork and fixes it there and now we have 2 day.js.

If it is in the standard library, you have a guarantee that it works today, works tomorrow and with a quite high certainty still works the day after. There are not that many languages that successfully break backwards compatibility often.

And don‘t get me started with the legal aspect. There are many projects where one cannot simply pull another dependency just to calculate a date diff.
Ah, that would explain it.
> some words that are common and were originally written in kanji are now written with hiragana (such as the word "here", ここ instead of 此処).

Not really. Japanese as a spoken language predates writing systems, and words like "koko" are yamatokotoba (original Japanese), not loans from other languages. It was first written in kanji (Chinese characters) because that was the only script they had initially, hiragana and katakana came later.

To confuse things even more, 此処 is valid Chinese as well, but the pronunciation is unrelated, they just mapped the meaning on top. This is also fairly common, to the point that there's a technical term for it (jukujikun).
Surely it's "35C" only when powered on? Which is still a weird figure which is probably wrong because how are those products going to work close to a human body which has a default temperature of 36C (when not excercising, when not in the sun, etc.etc.)?
Let us recall the good ol' days, when hotel towels were tastefully branded and of course got swiped (marketing marketing marketing!). The modern counterpart is a passive-aggressive notice on the wall that says that if you care to swipe a towel they will gleefully add it to your credit card bill. No fun, no cheer, no margin, no marketing.
Storybook is neat, and very useful for automated smoke tests, but I wouldn't want to write extensive unit tests that rely on firing up an entire browser - far too flaky to my liking.
Show HN: Commission-free fractional trading API
Traffic wars: who will win the battle for city streets?
We have to make two distinctions here.

The first distinction is between streaming from the start of a file, without needing any storage space, versus streaming from a random point in the middle of the file. With a zip you can do the former, but you cannot do the latter.

The second distinction is between streaming the zip itself, versus streaming from the zip without needing any storage space. If you stream the zip itself, and don't allow even a single extra read to get the directory, it will be trickier to extract the video on the fly but still probably possible. If you are streaming from the zip then you can read the end then jump to the start and begin streaming, and it will work fine.

If that's a confusing mess, then I guess be more specific. What data does the video player see, and from what protocol?
From the article:

> Protecting myself from bad actors is not my job. It is the government’s job.

Following recent events, the EFF, and the dealings of 3-letter agencies in the US, it seems the bad actor we all want to pretect ourselves from is the government.

Stallman is right, and was right so many times. Also, FLOSS is so ubiquitous that you dont even know yr using it. The internet runs on it. Android OS and Apple's OSes all use a lot of it. MS is even caving in.

FLOSS won.
First world countries have just figured out that brown paper envelopes are gauche. Instead, you arrange a no-show job as a board member or consultant for a member of the politician's immediate family. All nice and squeaky clean!
Prior to WWI, European economies were pretty deeply entangled and people even did not have to have passports to cross borders. Only Russia and Turkey required passports from travellers.

Austria-Hungary even produced steel and guns for their future enemy, the Royal Navy...
The law is not a formal system, it's a tool for humans to decide how to act. If those humans decide they want a tyranny, no amount of words on paper could ever stop them.
Spoiler: the ultrasound is less invasive than implanting electrodes in the brain, but still requires removing a piece of the skull.
No need to "go" anywhere - thanks to RMS, you have got the freedoms promised available to you like any other user. If you don't like him, your freedom allows you to do what you want with the software (as long as you respect the terms of the license).
I used Renesas with GHS debugger. It required _constant_ access to license server. If I used VPN to access another virtual machine the IDE would throw dialog on top of other windows with a countdown. Using GDB CLI after that felt like living in the future!
That‘s not the point. Nobody expects that Node/Js does exactly the same as Java or C#. If so, one could simply use Java or C#.

A language should provide a set of functionality that makes the developers life easier and consists of a set that he can achieve basic (daily) things without the need of 3rd-party dependencies. And if that usually starts with „npm -i“ I‘m going to question that...
This reminds me of reports in the early 2000's of collecting data from ethernet port leds if they were badly designed.
If containers become more expensive only high profit margin products will be able to afford it.

I have the impression that the highest profit margins typically fall on non essentials
It's a different hentai: 変体 "variant form", not 変態 "abnormal, perverse".

Bukkake soba (cold noodles with a splash of sauce) also continues to exist despite English adopting a rather different meaning for the word.
For me it was called “being in grad school”. See you at the Hungarian Pastry Shop.
Uhm but wouldn’t that be a halting problem?
That's because you scale the y axis along with it. If you were to define the y axis as added value from 0(no added value) to 10(very high added value), then this is only going to start getting interesting around x=0. Before that the change is still exponential but the value not significant according to our (arbitrarily) defined value scale.
That's the end of my support for the EFF. What a strange and surprising overstep.
Sure, but if you don't have any bonds with your coworkers you're either having zero social contact for 8 hours/day, or trying to work while socialising with non-coworkers. There are definitely days where I keep my head down and don't talk to anyone, but I wouldn't want every day to be like that.
> ”According to Apple's propaganda and blogospere, the M1 is much more efficient not "needing" the extra RAM.”

The M1 Macs come with very fast SSDs. I think what’s really going on here is that, with write speeds exceeding 2GB/s, macOS can use NVM almost as if it is RAM with little performance penalty.

It works. With 8GB, my MacBook Air feels as if it has a lot more RAM than it does.

The downside is increased wear on the SSD. My 512GB SSD has accumulated 7 TB of writes in the few weeks I’ve owned it.
There were blockages in 2016 and 2018.

This bad? Who knows at this point.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-24/suez-bloc...
Spoiler: the article consistently mentions that we don’t know what the loophole is, so the article is incomplete.
How much time on average do you spend on reviewing the source code of a given browser extension before you install it? Also, how do you make sure that the published source code is 1:1 with what you are actually installing?
I recommend that you try with a swimming test first. Strip, bind and throw him in the water and if he stays afloat he is guilty, if he sinks to the bottom, you can still try the fire test next.
Doesn't seem like the accusation stuck.

Are you unclear on the definition of "convicted"?
Well let's just let everyone get sick. Mass death is known to be great for economies also, right?

I feel like your statement is essentially "no disease and no lockdown is preferable to disease and lockdown"
I did finish 1984 on 31-Dec-83. Maybe I need to read it again, don't remember too many details...

For Fahrenheit 451 I have seen the movie twice and I remember it quite well. No idea how much it is different from the book, have not read it.

Of course not all aspects of those fiction works apply, especially outside of China, Russia and the like. But Orwell would be not have foreseen how Google/Apple/Facebook can use positioning info or face detection of their users or how Russian internet trolls can influence US presidential elections or German vaccination opponents.
When I read the title I thought it would be a playground for the Ajax Push Engine and thought "what is this? 2005?"

Archived inactive repositories and website for sake of completeness:

[1] https://github.com/APE-Project

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20090402211157/http://www.ape-pro...
> the famous 'Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL' blog post

for anyone else wondering, this appears to be Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL: A Guide to Building a High Functioning Data Science Department, by Jeff Magnusson in 2016 https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2016/03/16/engineer....
This is the prototypical "wow the nerd tried to solve law and lawyering". Yes, the constitution can be ammended to be less democratic. It can also be entirely ignored by everyone, and things can also happen in ways that go against its text, with judges looking the other way!

People are not magically bound by words on a piece of paper, so if you end up being able to go through the (extremely arduous! Moreso than many countries) ammendment process successfully you probably have enough popular support to do whatever you would want in any universe, even with a stricter requirement.

It's embarassing that this anecdote is given almost any weight. It's absolutely the most navel-gazing useless analysis. It does help to serve as an excellent counter-argument to "philosopher kings", though....
I suspect such loopholes exist in other constitutions, constitutions like source codes have influenced other constitutions.

Most recent small example in this area : Government of India used article 370 to ammend article 367 which again affected article 370 to change status of Jammu and Kashmir.
Most excellent. After systematically scraping the nyt homepage and exploring some (undocumented) apis, the author quantifies “how much of the homepage is straight news vs puff/opinion/other?”

Answer: ~48%

Logically, the next step was to create a “news-only” version of the nyt homepage: https://nyt.tjcx.me/?tone=NEWS
This is one of those difficult cases where you have to decide which terminology you want to use. The best approach is probably to just accept that there are two different ways to define ‘gender’, as described by e.g. Aikhenvald (2000):

> The number of surface realizations of genders (target genders) can be different from types of agreement (controller genders). In Rumanian nouns divide into three gender classes. There are two surface markers of genders in singular and two in the plural, but three combinations of these … Thus, there are two target genders and three controller genders (or agreement classes).

It’s worth noting that such systems are not at all unusual, unlike what the article implies: Telugu, Somali, Khinalug and Burmeso all provide examples of such systems. I certainly don’t agree with the article that the Romanian neuter isn’t a ‘proper’ gender: it’s just that it’s a controller gender rather than a target gender.
No, lockdown create damage way more than the virus itself.
If that's the case, why is the author trying to redefine the term FLOSS for their own ideology?

I understand the argument that FLOSS (Libre) was always a movement that was not just about software, but just because it is not only about software does not imply that shoving any random ideology into it (as the author is doing) is welcome.

I reiterate: if credit doesn't matter to the author, why is he trying to steal credit for FLOSS?

Hypocritical, intellectually dishonest, and borderline fraudulent to make the claims he is making.
How is it the halting problem?
FOSS will always have a total system optimization benefit. It's totally idiotic to rewrite over and over again 90% of the code in the world just because somebody else owns the code. FOSS fixes that, and by doing so increases global wealth more than anything else in the software sector.

A world without FOSS would be like if everyone who needed a bridge had to invent one from scratch every time.
Another way around is to water down the parts that displease your interests, or choke them up with insane process without formally violating the constitutional letter.

The Italian constitution is among the most robust and failsafe legal ground truths you can have, yet it’s been made sausages of since day-two
We are in agreement. I was mainly commenting on the feel of the music.

I remember as a teenager listening to Mozart and thinking "this is slow and boring", while Metallica is "super fast and cool", when in actuality the Mozart piece has a faster tempo and many, many more notes produced per minute.

Not a dig on Metallica, I still enjoy their music, just that my horizons have broadened.
He had more spelling mistakes, cerous instead of curious, etc.

It's possible he did it intentionally but I don't think this cipher is proof he was highly educated.
Godel's loophole is technicality of minor importance if its entirely
confined to the constitution.
The real loophole likely relates to presidential powers in relation
to constitution itself: the expansion of executive in 20th century
and executive orders that have not been found contradicting the law,
might allow a precedent to create an "emergency powers" system to bypass constitution itself and rule by decree('executive orders').
Can’t the hash be computed through some browser API? The browser can then visually show when plaintext passwords are being sent.
Both of these are relevant to his removal back then, but how are they relevant now?

> assure the best outcome for the FSF, which IMO didn't include having a leader who made such statements.

Ok, he's no longer leading the FSF and the recent development does not aim to change that. Why is this (reasonable-at-the-time, imo) opinion relevant now?

> I've reached the conclusion that it's not that he's unable to understand, he's just unwilling to change his mind.

Did he change his mind now? Has he repented? Atoned? The 2019 pieces are not going to take this into account.
Is this something in your phone, or its an ad on the website?
Can you give some examples of workflows that need that much ram? I stay away from docker and VMs, and I really struggle to think of everyday situations where more than 16gb of ram is going to be worth it for me.
> The sea Aruna is animate, but a grindstone is inanimate!

Is this supposed to be weird? A grindstone won't do anything unless you put considerable effort into making it move. But you can go look at the sea and watch it constantly crashing into the shore, to say nothing of rising and falling with the tides.
My sense is there’s a lot of it out there, but it’s buried pages down in the search results. It takes sensitivity and knowledge of a subject to pick the gems out of the haystack.

I really wonder if there are search parameters that could help sort for what you’re describing.
> Gödel responded "Oh, yes, I can prove it," but the judge declined to pursue the matter.

Such a mundane judge.
It's as if someone says to a physicist "I have the General Unified Theory" and they decide to not listen to it.
> What about people that love free software, but are appalled that RMS was reappointed to the board. Where should we go?

Why do you have to go anywhere? If all the evidence you have against someone is "they expressed an opinion I didn't like" I suggest, then, the problem isn't them.
According to this, the percentage-wise deviation from normal range the last year has been worst for 25-44 year olds. Absolute number of deaths is, of course, higher for the elderly. But the relative change is biggest in that age group.

That's a rather different narrative than I've heard. I wonder what could explain it? Secondary issues related to but not covid?
As someone that has the utmost respect for his accountant i have serious issues with almost every point in this post. The logic is juvenile ultimately because the management team is responsible for the organisation and the accountant will balance the books and with the help of the CFO use and manage capital effectively.

The justification to purchase the cars was idiotic. The capex spent on leases is corporate tax deductible, not so much when you buy them and they become depreciating assets (yes the paltry depreciation is tax deductible but the capex used to buy the cars isn’t). Organisations also use leases so they don’t have to manage the wear and tear maintenance on vehicles. Even when an organisation has a fleet manager logistically picking up broken down cars and taking them to garages is very expensive. For you techies this is similar to tech debt, imagine you cut corners on a project you did and left the organisation the person picking up after you will have to redo quite a bit of the work to finish it.

I would argue an organisation should never be held ransom to a pay rise. You simply acknowledge they are valued and promise to address at the next review. It sets a bad precedent to manage these processes adhoc.
Please explain to me how android is not linux, because android is open source.

I'm guessing it's the exact same problem that happened with microsoft: drivers are restricted and not open source, which prevents users to really have control over the mainstream devices they bought. It's the same loophole all over again: we don't own the thing we bought.

So in the end, the problem comes with hardware vendors, but most consumers really don't understand and don't care.

So why not just make an open phone, but with the same android OS everybody knows? Without the google play store? Why make a new OS, with worse hardware support?
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I use "self-employed portfolio manager" in my CV.

There was a lot of luck involved that allowed me to do it for so long, and a frugal lifestyle also played an important role. I have no car and I live in a ~16sqm "tiny home", so there is not much space to have stuff and the rent is low.

I create the financial models with Google sheets.
2 different permissions: Possible faked GPS data, and Not faked GPS data. An app would really need to explain why it can't accept possibly faked GPS data.

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/sensors/gnss on android now apps can access the raw gps data, which is much harder to fake
at some hazily defined point work anywhere, anytime becomes work everywhere, all the time.
This is why there are checks and balances. The laws and constitutions are not rules in a game that can be exploited arbitrarily. There is an intention behind them and law is and should be interpreted in that way.

If this loophole exists it probably goes against the intention of the lawmakers and would be struck down by supreme court.
"Is this real or parody?"

I feel like in 2021 it doesn't even matter anymore.
No tempaccount99, that would be a regular amendment.
Not a fascist dictatorship-ish "loophole"
For vast majority of people, covid is non issue. Most people will either have no symptoms or only have mild symptoms. So no, not everyone will get sick from covid.

Of course, like any other disease there will be some death, particularly for old people and people with underlying condition but nothing that could cause problem as greater than mass lockdown.

My statement is essentially, some disease is preferable than mass lockdown.

Wanting to eradicate disease is good and I support it but not with something that caused massive problem that is worse than the disease.
> you have to pay interest and principal every interval

So this is another red flag. An individual has to repay principle -- e.g. repay a loan. But a sector of the economy does not repay a loan. A sector of the economy, in aggregate just rolls over loans as new home buyers take out new loans while home sellers retire old loans, for households as a whole, it does not make sense to talk of the total debt level as being "repaid".

It would be a silly anthropomorphism to ask "When will the household sector finally pay down its mortgage debt?" The only way that would happen is if households stopped buying houses. So let's not apply anthropomorphisms to an analysis of sectoral debt to GDP ratios. If you have statistic that a percentage of actual households have too high debt service costs versus historical data, let's hear that argument instead of Z.1 ratios.

When we are talking about sectors of the economy, all that matters is whether the interest costs are too burdensome. An increase in the interest rate might make interest payments more uncomfortable and cause the sector to reduce its debt to a more appropriate level. That is rational, right? Then so is increasing the debt level when rates fall.
How is the tagging system in DeaDBeef? My music library has grown exponentially in the past year or so, due to boredom during covid, and I've come to the conclusion that playlists (as in, static lists of music files that you need to update manually) are functionally useless for large libraries.

What I've been looking for, but so far haven't been able to find, is a system that creates playlists from queries to my music database, based on tags I assign to individual songs. Even better if I can use a logic programming / query language like Datalog to help simplify tagging! For instance, if I have songs with the following tags:

(Song 1) japan 1971 japanese jazz funk fusion female
(Song 2) japan 2004 instrumental math-rock
(Song 3) japan 1983 japanese enka female
(Song 4) korea 1983 japanese rock male
(Song 5) brazil 1973 spanish jazz instrumental
(Song 6) mali 1979 blues rock folk tuareg
(Song 7) algeria 1974 french folk

I should be able to define logic rules that make tagging easier. Ideally, the tagging system should automatically write any deduced tags as metadata for the original files (for compatibility with other music players), with some way to keep track of which tags were added automatically vs manually, in case the deduction rules change.

asia(x) :- japan(x) OR korea(x) or ...
africa(x) :- algeria(x) OR egypt(X) OR ...
latin(x) :- mexico(x) OR brazil(x) or ...
rock(x) :- math-rock(x)
etc

I should be able to create playlists from the following queries that automatically update themselves when I add new music:

(playlist 1) ?- language(x,"french") AND region(x, "africa") AND (1960 < year < 1970)
(playlist 2) ?- region(x,"asia") AND genre(x,"rock")

Apologies for the inconsistent syntax, but hopefully you get the rough idea. Does anything like this exist? The built-in Rhythmbox music player for linux has decent support for saving playlists based on tags, but there's no built-in system for logic programming based on tags.
I don't know, right now the item that has been most affected in the UK is garden furniture. That hardly falls in the essential category.
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Netflix do use HEVC, mostly because there isn't any other solution for high quality 4K streaming in Apple ecosystem. They use it out of absolute necessity. They have been vocal supporter of AV1. And their ex-Head of Video Encoding which now works in Facebook has a distaste for MPEG video, although that is admittedly HEVC and VVC. Everyone seems to be (mildly ) happy with AVC.
And when scarcity hits, they don't spend from their stockpile, rather increase their stock fearing more scarcity ahead.
I really much appreciate this aspect of the pandemic. The "home office revolution" has long been possible, but still would not have happened for a long time without COVID.