skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would be shocked at the amount of shows that were sold to NBC but produced by ABC Studios or whatever. It still happens today but the trend is going back to the closed loops.
Compulsory licensing would be fantastic. It already exists for e.g. radio
NBC is one of the major studios that chose to license their content to broadcast networks around the country. I do not see how that is related, but in the event it is, you can replace NBC with HBO or any other non broadcasted channel.
This is a great example of the many flaws in globalism. If Canada were to put higher restrictions on foreign real estate purchases, Canadians wouldn't be in such a pickle. The flaw of generosity is that it leaves you vulnerable to being taken advantage of, which is what's happening in this case.
When you consider it was designed over 500 years ago, and there are very few font fonts that match it in terms of elegance vs readability, it is certainly one of the best old-style serifs there are. Unfortunately, font rendering still isn't up to scratch on the majority-share desktop OS, despite the amount of pixels now available. Add to that the prevelance of 1080p screens in use, Garamond just doesn't work well in those places because of it's elegance.
rsync too i believe
I wonder if a stable driver interface could also result in higher driver quality: if the same driver keeps working across many versions, even with relatively few users it could aggregate incremental improvements from various parties?
People post a lot of wild stories on forums and places like reddit. Oftentimes they exaggerate or make up crazy events. It's not enough to push me to go after them.
I don't know how large of a concern this is, but Amazons wide growth allows using revenue from their higher profit sectors (such as aws) to force out competitors in other lower margin sectors they are involved with such as grocery stores. This also may very well be a strategy other large conglomerates utilize.

Video on subject: https://youtu.be/EYPs-ya_GDA?t=128
What's the legal basis of this lawsuit? Are they violating some sort of law? Are they not violating any law, but just doing "bad"? The article isn't clear.

>"Shell is the biggest polluter in the Netherlands. The company emits nine times as much CO2 as the entire Netherlands combined.

Surely this is because shell is a multinational company and the netherlands is a small country?
HBO wasn't and you needed to pay to watch an HBO show. There's really not much difference between and premium channel cable offering and these services, at least, it's a lot more similar and closer in time than studio-owned movie theatres.
If you put this in your app directly, Apple can just find it and reject it at submission time. If JIT were an option, that wouldn't be enough, because the app could do it at runtime. Since it isn't, there is no way to "hide" something like this from the App Store static analyzer.
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How does that affect me as a customer?
Seems totally unsourced and unlikely
In short, fonts that have smaller x weights display smaller, and this leads to lots of ugly on low pixel density devices. I've been working on type for a new web app, and an easy way to find fonts with similar x weight would be helpful...
This is an open space not a walled garden, if i wanted walled gardens i'd be on apple.
Slashdot's moderation system was amazingly effective given the complete hands off policy to comments on the site and anonymous posting was allowed without signing up. It's features were:

* comment scores clamped between +5 and -1

* anonymous user comments started at 0

* comments at -1 were hidden by default (although you could set the threshold to whatever you wanted)

* required a reason for moderation (Insightful/Interesting/Funny or Flamebait/Troll IIRC)

* only gave out 5 "moderation points" at a time to users on a random basis

* mod points expired after a few days, and IIRC not using them lowered your chance of receiving them in future

* the pool of users who could receive mod points excluded the 10% most active posters on the site

* you couldn't moderate in an article you'd commented in

* if you commented in an article you'd moderated in, all those moderations were undone

* there was a meta-moderation system where you could rate anonymous moderations as "fair" or "unfair", which would influence the chance of the moderating user receiving future mod points

It was a complex system overall, but not really from the user's POV. The big difference was the idea of requiring moderation points in order to up- or down-vote comments, but I think clamping the lower-bound of comment scores would be an improvement even in systems where anyone can vote.

They originally showed your total karma but changed it to a descriptive term to address karma whoring, anything over 50 was just "Excellent".
The "comfortable" limit is set in Psalms to 70 years I think.
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its times like these when you ignore the rules
I’m curious how Sweden’s herd immunity strategy worked out for them?
Likely! The data that I relied on for my research last year covered the North American and European regions and that automatically skews in favor of modern displays.

Thankfully with Windows too, the lo-dpi market is shrinking. But I'm not sure for what percentage of folks this article would still hold its value until a few more years.
Bashkortostan is also part of Europe and very Muslim.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkortostan

Not to mention the Muslim Balkans.

I bet there are many other examples.
Keep in mind that the "prince" thing is not a gratuitous attack or some joke created because of Freenode, it's real:

> In October 2018, Yi Seok, a member of the House of Yi and one of the pretenders to the defunct imperial throne of Korea, declared Lee the crown prince of Korea at a ceremony in Los Angeles attended by city officials from Los Angeles and Jeonju, the family's seat. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lee_(entrepreneur)
From what I read, negative numbers took a while to be accepted for the same reason, so you are not alone ;)

IMO negative numbers, complex numbers for circles, etc can be thought of as practical overloads. If we agree that the symbol minus means a debt, we can use it like that. We could agree, on *5 as meaning something, and if enough find it useful in 200 years we will teach it in school as obvious.

I think the negative number is obviously useful (you can add up positive and negative numbers and get a balance, it has an easy way to be plotted, etc)

P.S. another example is the Orbifold notation, from Conway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbifold_notation
Except watching online is nowhere near as inconvenient as only watching movies from theaters in your area. It will most will likely consolidate to 4 major players so we're looking at 4 subscriptions to watch most new content.

There's nothing stopping production companies from producing content, if it's compelling enough they'll still be able to license it out to the big players.

When everything's online the primary drawcard to different video subscriptions is exclusive content, which the giants are funding the production of themselves. Can't see how you could impose a law banning them from producing their own content, if they did and all content is licensed to everyone, there will be nothing distinguishing the different services.
It is notable that the cerebellum, a very important part of our brain that controls voluntary movement as well as balance, coordination and posture is incredibly dense.

> The cerebellum makes up just 10% of the total volume of the brain, yet it contains an estimated 50% to 80% of the brain's neurons.

I wonder if "muscle memories" are just a side-phenomenon of involving more neurons in this densely populated area of the brain.
> And they cannot even face that.

Except for maybe the Germans, Americans have a credible claim to more "facing" of their sins than any other country on Earth. Have you consumed any U.S. news over the last 20 years? Wrestling with our past is practically the national pastime.
I think we're at or approaching a tipping point. For a long while I've not been able to justify the effort it takes to maintain automatic content downloads and a streaming server. But that maintenance cost isn't higher when I want content from an additional platform. If I'm gonna pirate an Amazon/MGM exclusive then I'm gonna cancel Netflix, Hulu, Paramount+ and Apple TV+ too.
I think the difference between software devs and other "profressionals" is that there is a much more stable career path for other industries, which generally includes pretty regular pay and position bumps each year well into your 50s.

I know lawyers that start really making money once they hit partner in their firms in their 40s. Or business / financial types who tend to increase salary just because the "pyramid" effects of their existing clients and number of underlings. Doctors have a very regular schedule of raises as do almost all public workers as they gain seniority - teachers, federal and state workers, etc.

Even the typical corporate middle manager will generally be promoted to higher levels with more responsibility.

But software engineers just don't seem to be given the same options, by default. If you're an individual contributor, there are only so many project managers they need, and companies absolutely will not push your salary up by 5% each year once you've hit a plateau in mid 30's (e.g. about $160K in my relatively high COL city).
How to organize and optimize space in the wardrobe and closets
3.2k commits as of now: https://github.com/search?p=6&q=libera&type=Commits
he isn't accused of rape, he's accused of sex tourism and general misogyny.
> This gets brought up pretty much every time immediate mode GUIs are discussed on HN. I think your comment is reasonable, and I don't disagree, but I also think it's important to not throw the baby out with the bathwater and dismiss immediate mode GUIs for accessibility reasons.

I can only talk about my own motivation for repeatedly bringing this up. If a developer is unaware that they're choosing an inaccessible GUI toolkit for their application, and that application is then required for a particular job, then that developer may end up unwittingly preventing some people from doing that job. And this isn't just hypothetical for me; I know of a blind person who lost his job (luckily only temporarily) because of an inaccessible application. So I think it's entirely reasonable for an application developer to dismiss a GUI toolkit because it's inaccessible. I wish more developers would research this on their own before choosing a toolkit for their applications. But since many don't, I feel obligated to draw attention to it. I'm glad I'm not the only one.

As for your suggestion that applications should implement the platform accessibility APIs themselves: First, it's impractical to expect application-level code to do this directly. The Windows accessibility APIs are notoriously hard to implement correctly. And my understanding is that the Mac, iOS, and Android accessibility APIs are only easy to implement if the application is written in the platform's native programming language. Now, these problems could be solved with an open-source wrapper library -- the SDL or GLFW of accessibility. And I'm planning to implement such a library myself sometime. But my plan is for that library to be used by toolkits, not applications. Because if every application has to directly implement accessibility in parallel with its GUI, then it's a safe bet that even fewer applications will be accessible. We want to get to a place where as many applications as possible can be accessible by default, with minimal effort on the part of the application developers.
Two streams over the same channel.
The Switch also has very little power compared to gaming consoles. It's the same price as an Xbox One S, but with far less processing power.
When I hear things like this, I replace "mask" with "pants" to see if it makes any sense. :-)
You are forgetting very important consequences of letting the pandemic as we know it being uncontrolled:

if "everyone" get infected with covid, the hospitals get incredibly overwhelmed, as well as many other services like ambulances, oxygen, funerals, ... this is recipe for chaos and much more deaths: much less treatment possible for other illnesses even not so dangerous ones at first, difficult disposal of bodies leading to other health problems, much less medical staff available over time (they die too!), ... many more people would actually die because of this.

But also who will choose who gets treatment and who doesn't? It's easy behind a screen to click on a button and say I'm ok with it, but it's different when there is a human in front of you, when there are relatives, ... and even if you are not the person who makes the choice, think about how statistics are tricky: 1 person dying out of 1'000'000 is not much on a spreadsheet, until that one is someone you know or love.

Finally, it would mean not so decent deaths for many who can't get a bed or oxygen: in corridors? in the streets? suffering from respiratory troubles? Would you accept that your parents or spouse die like this?

These are actually happening in some places right now, think about it, these people didn't choose the situation, it ain't pretty, we are lucky.
Kill what?
Kids these days, who should get off our lawns, do not like that user experience.

If I was starting a new chat channel for a project, I'd use Matrix, not IRC. Matrix is more decentralized than IRC due to federation, and Element offers a user experience that should be familiar and comfortable to users of Slack and Discord.
In this case I think countries need to implement reciprocating laws. If you as a Canadian have restrictions when buying land or real estate in China, then Chinese should have similar restrictions imposed to them in Canada. Obviously China should reciprocate if Canada is stricter as well.
Note: The oldest blocks are at the top and the newest at the bottom. Most of the red blocks are at the top. From a lazy informal counting of the last rows, I get 2% of red blocks, so this will eventually approved.
I do realize you're being sarcastic, but to answer honestly anyway: best way is to use Matrix and bridge to IRC. This allows you to use almost all Matrix functionality without anyone you talk to on IRC being affected by that really at all.

Matrix isn't anything like as resource heavy as Slack is I don't think (and to me more importantly it's an open, federated protocol), but to many IRCers it'll seem similar in both the good and the bad ways, depending on what they find comfortable.
FWIW, this Twitter thread addresses this issue: https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/1305925515472261122.

I certainly didn't _invent_ the term 'treeshaking', I merely (unwittingly) helped popularise it in the JS ecosystem. The relevant parts of the Twitter thread:

> the reality is that at the time i wrote that, when Rollup was in its early stages, minifiers empirically didn't eliminate as much code as Rollup did

> i think it's worth looking at this from the perspective of the respective terms' connotations, rather than the strictly technical definition (which i agree has been overstated; mea culpa for my part in that). DCE is something you do to programs; treeshaking is what you do to libraries. It may be the same thing, but the prevalence of the idea of treeshaking has put the onus on library authors to make their libraries DCE-able, in a way that has coincided with the adoption of ESM
The defining part of cable TV is that you had to deal with the company who owned the wire coming into your house, or the 2 satellite companies available in the US, assuming you could put satellite dishes on your residence. And you could not watch on any of your devices at any time and subscribe and cancel at your whim.

None of that applies anymore. Content was always going to be owned and sold by someone. What other situation should we have expected?
PNG defines 5 possible filter methods per row: 0 = None, 1 = Sub, 2 = Up, 3 = Average, 4 = Paeth. Brute-forcing the filter search is exponential time at Θ(5^imageHeight). https://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-PNG-20031110/#9Filters
It seems weird Buddhism is such a minor religion in Europe while it is so rational, based on individual experience (rather than belief) gained through reproducible applied self-regulation techniques, backed by neuroscience and explained with consistent philosophical logic.
>>If we are going to classify online discussion on platforms like Facebook as being protected free speech

But that is a massive "If" and I'm denying you the premise, until you convince me otherwise. I think you're starting from a certain point assuming everybody is there already.

Note, I agree with many of your detailed points later, such as "build your own website" missing the network effects of established platforms; but most fundamentally I think what you're taking for granted is the actual big important discussion to be had, e.g. "The government has an obligation to provide an acceptable platform for citizens to have online discussions" - I don't think Government has that obligation today, and if you / we think it should, then that's the discussion and lobbying to be had.

(Never mind how well I think a government-created platform with government-designed technical stack and UI, and with guaranteed free speech and no moderation whatsoever, will actually work in practice... to quote Frank Borman, what we have here is a failure of imagination :P )
In the same way, each individual think himself as atypical. Like if our own narrative, what we think ourself about ourself, was de facto a teratology.
Or some decaying that reduced lifespan and made marrying your close relatives not ok :)

But I don't think there's any point trying to reconcile the naratives.
it's never been easier and with media servers like emby you can become your and your friends own VOD provider!
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I personally really like the idea. I'd love to be able to casually play PC games on the road without having to drag a laptop around. Of course unless it has something particularly appealing, it will have to be priced around the switch/lite level.
They need to go and get a court order, and with that they request the personal data from the respective ISP. The whole process is pretty steamlined and partly automated though.

Source: have been through many copyright claims and currently have a supreme court lawsuit pending.
What IP does Valve own that could run on a portable device? Do they think people want to play Portal 2 on the go? As if indie developers want to put resources into porting their content on some niche handheld. Valve has really lost the plot.

They don't have any assurance in hardware. Steam, while successful, isn't the only contender on PC gaming. It's not 2007 anymore, there's Epic Games, Origin, and I'm sure a bunch of other platforms all hosting a small set of popular titles.

They're out of touch, which is sort of ironic given the company was founded by ex-Microsoft employees in the 90's. They went from a Game Development Studio into one of many Game distributors. They're better off sticking with that, or at the most, pushing their platform onto the Switch. Get with the times.
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You can try the Ruffle browser extension. It emulates Flash in WebAssembly (https://ruffle.rs). Although it seems the animation he means is the same as the gif below.
This was really cool. Thank you for taking the time to put that together.
Enough with these conspiracy theories
presumably this is an example of a rich person (used to deference) having to interact with a community that doesn't care at all that he has money

meanwhile the sycophants on his payroll are no doubt telling him he's doing a grand job
Broadcast NBC was only "free" in the strictest sense. Every hour of content requires the viewer to sit through 22 minutes of mind-numbing commercials.

At a labor value of $50/hour, watching ten hours of content a week imposes an economic cost on the viewer of $825/month. By comparison subscribing to all the major streaming platforms would cost about $100/month. Let's not even get into issues of higher quality content and huge on-demand libraries. It's pretty clear ad-free streaming subscription is a massive improvement for consumers over "free" broadcast TV.
I think you're missing the point. The bank doesn't want you to prove ownership of a particular asset; they want you to prove that you are "carrying on a business".

Owning a website (or a printer, or a truck, or lots of money) doesn't mean you have a business. It's about the nature and purpose of your activities with those assets (or skills).

I can add an identity token to my personal website, but that doesn't make it a business any more than putting a saddle on a zebra makes it a horse.

This ruling from the Australian Tax Office lays out pretty clearly the defining characteristics of a business [1]. It's probably a bit different in the USA, but I'm sure it's not too dissimilar.

[1] https://www.ato.gov.au/law/view/document?docid=TXR/TR20191/N...
I disagree, there is a lot the government could do. Amazon is nothing with out the US Government. Protection of all of it's property, maintaining infrastructure, both the internet and transportation system. Simply charging business for the wear and tear the place on the roads would be a start.
To this end I’ve always wanted a “bail out” button in threads.

Sometimes you’re super deep in a comment tree and realize you don’t want to be there. It would be great to collapse up to the first parent at that point.

It’s somewhat difficult to scroll up and find the first parent plus I do that pattern so much it would be great to have a button.
Moving away from IRC means a lot of more casual open source types will not follow. I not going to install some random chat app I'm never going to use again and go through signup bullshit just to see if there's someone who can give me a hand on something - to big of a barrier.
The best tracker is probably https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php
I'm bad at name dropping, but I atleast know of Adam Sandler and Shonda Rhimes signing exclusivity deals. I'm sure there are many more examples.
What gives me pause about this project is the author's apparent satisfaction with having a Linux-only development environment. With all the portability techniques discovered, portable Makefiles and a portable build system seems to have been ignored. NetBSD's toolchain and NetBSD itself can be built on a variety of OS. Yet this library can only be built on Linux. That does not sound right. Only supporting "NetBSD 9.1" when the code for older kernels is so easily available is also a bit odd.
Inevitably power won't always be shut down first, or strands of the cords will break. It feels like we're going to have to learn the lessons of UL approved power cords on appliances all over again.
To any EU citizen anywhere and anyone in the EU.
Torrent clients are readily available in the Android app store (not sure about Apple), and web browsers can still get to any websites. Since the resulting download is DRM free, it can be viewed with standard video players.