skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We apologize, the Instant Online File Conversion Service is unavailable until further notice"

FileMerlin looks like a good recommendation, but I'm too cheap for that!

I tried following the corporate rabbit trail, from the most generically named "Software Publishing Corporation" to Allegro New Media, then Vizacom, then it either stayed with them or the IP moved to Serif.
"when she printed a classified report and left the building with it tucked into her pantyhose"

She got off too easy.
> still have a nice office to come into when I feel social

Who else would be at the office then to socialize with you? Paid actors?
Yeah but how do you get out of those once you jump in?
>Park said she used to engage professors and fellow students in debates and arguments but learned quickly "how to just shut up" so she could maintain her grades and GPA.

There is a solution to this but it's ever apparent that the Bill of Rights is the bill of "Well you can argue you have those rights in court but we're not gonna guarantee any protections" nowadays. Not when my employer can freely fire me because of a lynch mob decrying me on a whim. Same with school, where these monopolistic institutions can essentially force you think in a certain way without recourse for the sake of getting your degree (thank you public education).

We need codified and as easily enforceble rights where someone can claim they have the right to not be fired for said privilege's, and an employer is too afraid to say otherwise because they will guaranteed lose in arbitration or whatever. We need employment protections that you cannot lose your job pending criminal lawsuit and all salaries will be wholly compensated if found innocent so as not to make the employer think "just toss them aside now." We need greater oversight on educational institutions to stop acting like religious cultural epicenters that allow for claims to merit punishment. In the court of law that's hearsay but why can public institutions treat hearsay as fact? Public colleges should be the last place that consider hearsay as evidence, yet in places like NYU, it's almost as if science only means something when a minority of some kind does it and the white man didn't.

Either way, there is going to be a corporate culture change in the future and it's not going to be good. All the smart people who survived will treat it as a learning curve. There was an article on HN not long ago about a woman who realized that while she was not being actively discriminated against, she also wasn't being asked out for drinks with coworkers because she was female. And most likely because the men did not want to be worried they'd get "me too'd" in the process. If you push people in one direction, they certainly do not stop until all the cattle have gone over the cliff.
Fun story: My wife's grandfather was a salesman for WordPerfect back in the 1980s. He passed away roughly 15 years ago, but her grandmother still had a bunch of his stuff above her garage. When we were cleaning it out a couple years ago we found boxed/sealed sample copies of WordPerfect for every platform (Tandy/Apple II/DOS/etc.) all the way from the days when it was still published by SSI Software (version 1.x) up though 6.0 or so. There were also some dead-ended WordPerfect products (MathPerfect?), a bunch of branded WordPerfect conference swag (WordPerfect pocket calculators/mousepads/folios/etc.) and I think a couple quarterly sales reports and recruiting pamphlets. I tried to see if various computing museums wanted it, but nobody would take it. As far as I know it's still all sitting in a shed at my in-laws, can anybody think of something to do with it? It's ultimately destined for the dumpster, a younger me would have been appalled but at this point in my life I don't have the energy to worry about the detritus of a bygone corporation.
Brought to you by the annoying bugmen in the street you wish you could run over as your SUV squishes their $3K Trek.
I first used Word Perfect on a Data General MV/8000. Before the company changed its name to WP Corp. they were known as Satellite Software of Orem UT. WP became preferred in law offices due to features peculiar to legal documents,such as "Table of Authorities".
They also go through open windows. Saw an interior get totaled all because some m&m's were left on the dash.
Theories of Inference for Data Interactions
Field Testing React Native Apps with Offline Storage
As a theoretical or as a practical matter, is there ever actually any possible way to prove that you don't know something like a password?

I imagine that the way this would have to work in practice is that the prosecution would seek to prove that the accused did in fact know the password, and seek conviction on those grounds, rather than forcing the accused to refute unfounded accusations. But how it actually ends up working would depend on how the Irish legal system works.

Wouldn't the presumption of innocence protect the accused from the impossibility of proving their ignorance? Wouldn't the prosecution need to produce clear evidence that the accused did in fact know a particular password (for instance, by demonstrating that they recently used the password to log into a particular system)? How badly could this actually be abused, in practice, in Ireland specifically?
It looks a lot more like a remodeled Lync (eventually rebranded Skype for Business) than a remodeled Skype, basically Lync but written in Sharepoint, hence the up to 1 hour account creation and license syncing delays.
A Successful Failure: The TI-99/4A Turns 40
I think many fans are oblivious to the scale of tampering, they just remember the few instances that get called out (which are usually particularly sloppy cases weaponized by the opposing team).

There are multiple people in the league that corroborate the fact that most pitchers are doing this. Some clubs are allegedly paying chemists to improve their doctoring. It's come too far from putting a little spit on the ball. Time to drag it into the light.
You could use this to turn just about any command line program into a GUI app since it's already pretty easy to make a python wrapper around another command line program. Nice.
> this package tries to make immutable objects to make it easier avoid accidental modifications in your code.

Seems like it's insurance, which doesn't seem bad
5-minute job for someone with a hot air rework station and experience soldering SOICs. Assuming no conformal coating or anything weird.
Federal agents admit to falsely accusing Chinese professor of being a spy
Fixed income assets are just about the only thing they're allowed to invest in. If they leave it in cash they won't be profitable.
>Ubiquitous computing, what will it bring us?

Ads.

Oh, and spying/tracking.

The future sucks.
The authors intent seems to be "don't use rights i have explicitly granted you and which you explicitly have from pypi"

Which is something of a bait and switch for a MIT licenced library
You'd also be subject to inventory tax on your stored stuff no?

The government wants to make sure things are moving in the government, not sitting around
By the end of the century, AI will probably be able to write software better than humans.
Tomato tomato. It’s all vectors and Boolean logic at the end of the day. Or if you want to get fancy, then add weights and step ups.
Show HN: Let AI Finish Your Sentences
Dibuja
"Simple to use paint program like Paintbrush for Mac or classic MS Paint, but for Linux"
https://launchpad.net/dibuja
You might get that at a church but nowhere else is entertainment that cheap.
This is a pretty bad headline. I don't know that i would characterize this as revived.

The same 9th circuit who held last year that LinkedIn could not block hiQ from scraping public data, just got asked to reconsider the same case, except now there is additional precedent that SCOTUS says if you had permission to access the computer then it's not a violation of the CFAA (even if you are a shady corrupt cop).

Hard to see this turning out any other way than the 9th circuit reaffirming their decision (or even strengthening it) and then it's up to LinkedIn to try SCOTUS again
Why Aspirations in Computing Matters
True, though the headline at least avoids contradicting that. From another source found via Wikipedia, it looks like she's in a halfway house in Texas rather than actually at home:

https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/nsa-leaker-reality-win...

Another important part of the submitted article which is not in the headline: her official release date is November 23 of this year. It's not clear to me from the article whether that date will be the end of her sentence
(no further supervision by the judiciary) or a transition to probation or supervised release for some unknown longer period.
Not going to Google for this.
It's just ordinary newspaper-style writing in a shock jock style. (Insert stock joke about Milgram experiment.) I think it goes back to Bolshevism and especially the "talk hard" ethos of Pump Up the Volume. Hip-hop and rap are other influences.

https://archive.org/details/pump_up_the_volume_1990

Also, from an art point of view, I just like the idea of recontextualizing the computer as a device in a psychology experiment. The games you can play with this idea are pretty weird. For example: would you conduct a psychological experiment that attempts to get people better at rationalizing, and risks turning the subjects into monsters capable of rationalizing the decision to perform progressively more grotesque modifications of their body, apparently enhancing their abilities, in the style of Iron Man?
> That's speculative on his part (noone has opened any issues with him, neither coming from nixos nor from any other repackaging).

Which is the whole point of acting on it before it happens...

It's crazy the amount of entitlement I see toward open-source developers. You don't like his stance, then fork it and support it yourself. You are already lucky to have a good base to work on, you shouldn't even be entitled to that!
Housing isn't cheap right now, is it?
I think the separate QA before release step I bet was mostly killed by modern methods of software distribution. It's true that automated testing is great, but let's be real: automated tests have existed for many decades, and certainly overlapped with orgs having manual QA steps as part of release engineering.

If you're duplicating floppies, minting CDs, DVDs and so forth it's very expensive to make corrections. If you're pushing remote updates and digital downloads, or just running the software as a service and making it available over the network (e.g. a website) there's not the same expense associated with correction.

These methods of distribution also let careful organizations release to a small things out to a fraction of users first, which can minimize the costs and risks associated with a bad software push as well.
I would guess they would sell pretty fast on eBay, and likely to someone that would appreciate them.
>an entire pot of coffee and ended it with up to an entire bottle of wine. Uppers in the morning and downers at night is a common medical approach to managing severe allergies

Pardon? Can anyone elaborate on this idea?
Does anything like Fire exist for JS?
Austin, because Florida
We have started shopping at Walmart again for groceries. I just won't take the time to walk in and fight through the crowds. If I can pick it up heck yes.
Just so I understand your position: you are saying delivery drivers should be paid the same as software engineers?
RESTler is a REST API fuzzer for testing cloud services through their REST APIs
> It's important to remember that this political urgency is a reflection of real social problems--for some people, the consequences are literally life and death.

That’s true for very few people. At the same time, injecting life-and-death urgency into politics deprives the vast majority of a sane and orderly society, which is extremely important as well.

Look, you’re not the first one to think that “politics is so serious we need to treat it extremely seriously.” I come from a part of the world where politics is “serious.” The Islamists are convinced that society must be dissolved and reformed as the Ummah. Others have dreams of creating a socialist secular utopia out of that same deeply Muslim community. For everyone it’s life or death business. (Especially in a third world country where poverty means that few people have much margin.) Elections are followed by rioting and mass protests. But this doesn’t actually lead to justice. Instead, it’s just animosity, unrest, and bitterness.

One of the things I loved about America, as an immigrant, was that elections were boring. I hate that my kids may never know that America and will have to grow up in this new one.
The real test for a city is how many hypodermic needles and smashed bottles can you ride over before being stranded by a puncture in a not-so-nice area of town at night...
Demand might go up with individuals moving out of shared housing. Many areas suffer from housing shortages, and no one wants to build affordable housing.
How about a browser extension that scrapes only the the profile you are visiting and adds that information to an ATS. Just to prevent a lot of copy paste.
Avoid News, Part 2: What the Stock Market Taught Me about News
Even more context: they no longer have staff that understands the IRCd that they're currently running (because they quit and started Libera) and they no longer are in the good graces of any of the other folks who could help them: https://twitter.com/ariadneconill/status/1404383392154726405

So I'd bet that they don't have the technical skill to migrate the registrations, whether or not they wanted to.
The process is irrelevant and it is stupid to complain about it.

Most chips are not general purpose CPUs and don't need and would not benefit from 5nm transistors.

Larger components are actually preferable when talking signal noise, ESD susceptibility, etc.
Indeed they do. I find it amazing the amount of denial about this.
whitepaper: https://github.com/google/fully-homomorphic-encryption/blob/...
How so?

Seems like he does give back his knowledge and time to the open source community. Much more than me I can tell you, and probably more than many of people in thread.

What he don't like is people expecting support from him in ways that differ his initial distribution methods, which makes sense when time is a limited ressource and he clearly has expectations on how he want to spend it.
I say “good” in the sense of good policy, not the moral sense. Good policy should obviously be moral but needs to be tractable and not extreme.

So yes, I would say extreme policy is bad policy, because it leads to all sorts of unintended consequences. First, it’s extreme because of impacts to others. A policy wouldn’t be considered extreme if the vast majority of people agreed with it and it aligned with common sense. People often don’t agree with it because it impacts them in a negative way.

You can’t pass “extreme” policy that is extreme in the eyes of the voters without blowback of some kind and a massive swing the other way. So I’d make the argument that incremental progress would get more done in the long run. We don’t need massive change that will be unwound when one side loses control in a few years.

And the abolition of slavery, woman’s suffrage, and desegregation were not “extreme” things. They were ensuring the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for United States Citizens. They were progressive, but not extreme in their time.

And do you have reading on the relative velocity of legislative change? I’d like to see how it changed as tech evolved.
Typo quibble: the data will still be scraped - if it was scrapped it wouldn't be an issue!
I might be interested. Definitely consider posting some of this on eBay and I'd be happy to give it a look. :)
Hi GreaseMonkeyOG - Did you check the jquery library? [for options that cant be done in js] ~LAdyK
Note that LinkedIn could make this whole issue moot by putting their data behind a login tomorrow. The 9th circuit decision pretty clearly stated that.

The only reason the data is public is for marketing purposes, to sign up more users.
Over a year ago, I suggested this very process for vaccine development here, in HackerNews. This was strongly dismissed by people who told me I knew nothing about vaccine development (true) and that it couldn't be done (false).
False dichotomy. Strawman.

Just because someone is centrist doesn't mean they don't know what to think. It usually means they have a nuanced position on an issue that doesn't conveniently fit into a box that is red or blue.
Being in the exact same boat as you, wondering whether to order STM32 MCUs from who knows who in China, we punted the questions you ask directly to our customers. Do they want to risk the quality issues or wait a year for their product?
Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency [pdf]
???

Didn't she fly the Predator? And drone strikes went up like 100x because she had a youth fixation on Arab culture and knew everything? That's funny. You're some special ops team complaining about the lack of air support. All of a sudden, there's 40 drone strikes a day. And you want to see who, and it's her. She should be Exhibit A in the case of "leave people alone". You think you're going to conquer the world, and something comes out of the shadow that knows more about your own world than you do. It's like waking up the Grendel.

Letting her out might not be a good thing. ex-Soviets and terrorists, two sides of the same coin. Probably wasn't leaking info for "the public trust." More like going after enemies, and now with the border wide open, draw them in. I suggest viewing this like a small but bright red spider in a huge web deep in a dark hot tropical cave. Not like intelligence agencies create fictitious people.
Secretary of State / corporate information is often sold in bulk without any need for scraping without authorization.

> Daily Filing Update – a file that includes all of the database updates for a specific day. Customers frequently begin by purchasing a Master Unload in order to create a database, and then subscribe to the Daily Filing Update so that they can download and update their databases on a daily basis to keep their data current with that maintained on the SOS BEST database.[0]

[0] https://direct.sos.state.tx.us/help/help-corp.asp?pg=bulk
I was in the US Navy and transferred from Chicago to San Diego for school. While I was waiting for my class to start, they put me in a clerk’s office to help with some seasonal stuff. That was my introduction to WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS.

I’d never used WP before, but I had written a lot of programs. I figured out its nice macro language and scripted up my job. Our goal was to process 20 forms per person per day. My little experiment would let me do about 15 per hour. My coworkers loved it. Our boss found out and told us to keep our mouths shut, lest the powers that be load more work onto us.

I learned an awful lot about both word processing and corporate politics that month.
I think you're focusing on the wrong things (for instance, no one called anyone a leech). The fact is, we don't live in a post-scarcity society yet. Until we do work can't be about meaning, it has to be about need. Look around your house and life. Count the number of things you own and services you use that are not fun to make or maintain. Until that number hits 0, the majority of society will need to be forced to do jobs they don't want to in order to survive.

Things can definitely be more equitable than they are now, and should be if we truly want a meritocracy, but let's not get caught up in the delusion that society can exist without people doing shit jobs they don't like.
> One extra MPH means a lot when you’re doing a multiple hour ride at an average of 10-15MPH.

Why spend your effort on optimizing your bike performance by 8% if you can instead simply shorten the distance by 8%?
The calculators sold pretty well, but the boxed software is pretty heavy and only appeals to a very specific audience. I think I found a few examples of auctions that ended without a single bid and figured it wasn't worth the trouble. I would be surprised if got many bids, but I guess I could give it a shot.
I got the 3% number from https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

As you noticed, https://netmarketshare.com/ is not a great site for browser share data. For one thing, as you point out, they stopped providing new data points in Oct 2020.

But also, for some reason, NMS automatically filters the view by "desktop/laptop."

If you click the yellow "Delete" button on the right-hand side, it'll show you all browsing data as of Oct 2020. https://netmarketshare.com/?options=%7B%22filter%22%3A%7B%7D...

As of Oct 2020, NMS says that Firefox's overall percentage was 3.32%, and that Edge overtook it over the course of the previous year.

GlobalStats StatsCounter says that as of May 2021, Firefox has 3.36% share, down from 4.38% the prior year. Focusing on desktop browsing, Firefox had 8.91% share last year, and has 7.36% share today.

If Firefox loses another 1.5 points of desktop market share this year (and I see no reason why they wouldn't), they'll dip below 5% desktop share; and well below 3% share when you add in mobile.
I don't think we are underestimating.

When you hit scale like that with specialization, it's conceivable a relatively small amount of jobs can provide a society with the base necessities.
Yeah it’s clear that whatever I had going on may have interfered with zerotier being drop dead simple. I’ll revisit it just because I like to play around with all these ideas.
https://github.com/mterron/swuniq

Like uniq but works on unsorted input to be used as a pipe filter with constant memory usage.

Feels like this should exist before I made it but all the options that I could find had unbounded memory requirements. I use it in long running pipelines all the time.
This happened right after Freenode banned IRCCloud users following IRCCloud staff statements suggesting users to migrate off Freenode and the launch of competing bouncer services.[0] Regardless of your opinion of IRCCloud, banning all IRCCloud users right after launching a competing service and hearing criticism is not a good look.

Now that most channels are dead and direct users to other networks despite staff's best efforts to quell any criticism (channel migrations+topic-renaming, banning users, etc), I guess they decided to wipe everything and start over to more easily remove any references to Libera/OFTC. In fact, it removes any every reference to anything at all.

If you had a bot that directed users to the actual location of your community, you should check to make sure that it survives this migration (this was probably part of the intent).

If you use Matrix and have left Freenode channels, the IRC-Matrix appservice bridge might still be keeping you connected. To leave Freenode, send a "!quit" message to the Freenode bridge appservice user, @appservice-irc:matrix.org.[1][2]

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210612224853/https://nitter.ni...

[1]: https://matrix-org.github.io/matrix-appservice-irc/latest/ad...

[2]: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/wiki/Bri...
This is a great story. There's little more painful than putting your life into building something and coming out feeling unappreciated.
Career insecurity needs attention now
I'd rather entrepreneurs build on top of LinkedIn.

There's so much untapped potential to build upon aggregated markets (of professionals, of jobs, of housing, of singles, of restaurants, etc) rather than building yet another aggregator. The existing aggregator cements its dominant position, can charge rent to connected apps, and attracts rather than repels killer apps.

The main problem I see is fears that connected apps will siphon away the aggregator's data, and/or combine that data with external data; both are attempts to supplant the aggregator. Maybe this fear can be assuaged by technical or legal means.