skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I really disagree with this opinion, although I see this as a "reasonable people can disagree" sort of thing.

The problem with the analogy is that restaurants aren't primarily functioning as educational institutions with a restaurant business on the side. Hospital nurses aren't providing nursing care as a side activity. Camera crews are not secondary to the mission of a movie studio. With universities, the sports teams are at least ostensibly in theory, student extracurricular activities secondary to the primary mission of the university.

Let's say a university had a student dining center, and agreed to let people work in the center in exchange for free tuition. Would that be a violation of antitrust? I think not.

I admit universities are currently full of practices where nonprofit endeavors are hijacked for for-profit engorgement in a tail-wagging-the-dog sort of phenomenon. Sports are another example of many. But I don't think antitrust is really the appropriate concept to introduce -- or if it is, it has far greater implications than people realize.

What's maybe slipping under the radar is that by this argument, any nonprofit organization that tries to establish rules pertaining to scope of professional activities is operating as an inappropriate monopoly. Where does the argument end? Isn't the American Medical Association an illegal monopoly under this argument, as it conspires to control how people practice professionally? I doubt the Supreme Court would follow its reasoning to its logical conclusion, which raises the question about what's different with college sports. Why single it out?
I don't even use CentOS or Rocky, but I am definitely dropping a donation to support this project.
As your talk is quite generic, here is what I perceive as a guy who lived in HK for 10+ years.

If you are referring to against mainland China people on anti-immigration issue. It is quite normal as the citizens don't agree the government's policy on allowing mainland non-professionals to be HK citizens easily (500+ mainland Chinese people becoming HK citizens per day), statistically speaking more than 70% of them doesn't have a degree and is using government funding to survive every month (which is actually from HKers' tax) as I recall.

If your Conspiracy Theories are about COVID vaccinations, which many HKers believe that they want to wait for 1-2 years to make sure the long term side effect is minimal. I do think that is understandable given that there are quite some correlation of certain side issues (not causation)
> Can you point out specific examples of Canada being a racist country?

I'm guessing you didn't grow up in Canada.
There's a whole Wikipedia article on the topic[0], some of which is covered during the common Canadian education. Other examples are commonplace knowledge. In particular, Aboriginal peoples have generally been treated quite poorly throughout Canada's history. This is further evidenced by the recent headlines, if you don't live under a rock.

I do have experiences in other countries to compare with, but I am not interested in comparisons, and I really don't know what that matters. I don't know any of that has to do with my statements.

> Nowhere is perfect, but allow me to say that Canada (and even the US for that matter) are vastly less racist compared to many places.

Sure, Canada (and the USA) might be "less racist" compared to other places but that doesn't really mean anything. I think very highly of Canada compared to my experiences in the rest of the world, and I'd like to add I did not feel this way until after experiencing other parts of the world. The more I experienced elsewhere, the more I appreciate how good Canadians have it.

But that doesn't mean it's a bastion of equality and its people without prejudices. We can always do better.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Canada
The tumor has not returned.
The 'big' seizures (I mostly had [these names have changed alot, I don't know the current naming scheme.] Psychomotor seizures) and I had 1 Gand Mal.
These have all stopped.

In the last 6'ish years the pre-seizure aura (these are now called considered seizures of their own) have returned. I get perhaps 1 every 4 months (if I had to guess). I have been in contact with my Doctor & specialists to make sure it's not a tumor growing back. The specialist has informed me that it's common. If it becomes more frequent or severe in intensity then we can look into it doing something about it.
i remember CALM class from my high school, and i remember it being a complete blow-off that was taught by the teacher that obviously got the short end of the stick, and none of the students took it seriously.

i learned a lot more in casual life advice from good teachers than i did from the teacher who was forced to teach a government defined "life advice" course. i wish there was a reliable way to impart that important advice to high-school students, but i don't think a government-enforced cirriculum is the way to do it.
You joke, but unfortunately this was the poor wording that GNUnet chose to use. https://docs.gnunet.org/handbook/gnunet.html#First-steps-_00...

I still facepalm whenever I think about this.
I've never worked with anyone who publicly said they disliked git. Those who didn't understand it always preferred to use a GUI, such as Source Tree, Github, or VS Code.

Personally, whenever git was unable to do something I needed it to, I have always been able to add a git alias to my `.gitconfig` that became a new part of my workflow, essentially extending the CLI. I've found it to be easy to work with, and the amount of great tooling I've found built on top of it is amazing.

I've never used a version control system other than git though. So I am heavily biased. Before I was introduced to git, I didn't use version control at all, and so maybe it's a case of the grass is always greener. But I came from a place without any grass at all.
"Patents are an artificial restriction on free trade"

So is copyright, without them both the concept of IP dissapears.

Patents at least have to be usefull, and documented publically for future use.

Copyright of code by comparison is an abomination, it does something to your smartphone and data, you have no right to inspect it or change it.
(Not the OP)

The issue is that the speed -characteristics- are so very different between HDDs and SSDs. Not just the raw speed. Decent performance of anything with IO on an HDD requires that the IO is specifically structured to minimize seeks and maximize sequential access. That takes time and skill. If very few modern machines don’t have an SSD then it is understandable to simply skip this difficulty. That time and effort is often better spent elsewhere, and this is a valid tradeoff to make.
I'm surprised it was that good. I get 8 MPG from my F250 when towing a travel trailer that doesn't have the brakes engaged.
"The carrier cut 30% of its support staff through voluntary separations, early retirements and layoffs of about 1,500 staff members.... American is actually planning more flights from DFW this summer than it did in 2019. It also has 219 destinations from the hub airport, more than it did two years ago."

Yeah that sounds like a "you" problem.
I hadn't heard of prophet before, thanks!
Probably OP is using a laptop.

There are differences, but I've read a lot of comments and a lot of people aren't specific. So it's difficult to judge.
that's very similar to my experience. i swapped managers about a year in and my second manager put me on a PIP. except that it wasn't really a PIP, it was just him saying "i'm putting you on a PIP." -- I didn't know the difference until I had left. A friend in HR told me (after I quit) that managers do this to try to get more performance out of people. If you're on a PIP, HR will be involved.

Also, the best C++ coder I know got dinged 'cause he was refactoring huge amounts of redundant code checked in by a different developer. I think he was eventually able to convince his management chain that DRY is a good thing and got back on the promotion track, but not before the other developer (who introduced a metric crap-ton of crap code) got promoted. After taking a metaphoric crap on our project, he then left for a different team. It took two years to fix the codebase.
> The little gnomes are watching me through the cracks in my ceiling. My psychologist told me my thinking is flawed, but I told them @ksd482 thinks their thinking is flawed cause they don't have proof otherwise.

Clever rhetoric aside, what are you suggesting?

Google has been using user's behavior to learn about them. This has been known for a long time. Even your emails aren't safe from it. So it stands to reason to "speculate" they might be doing something similar with your files as well. This may turn out not to be the case at all, but one can speculate given their track record.

Your original argument was "...and there is no proof that they are using your storage to spy on you", which effectively giving them a benefit of doubt.

But they don't have a good track record. So you still want to give them a benefit of doubt?

Apple is a company who I would give a benefit of the doubt in this space.

So my thinking is simply: a company that has a good track record with privacy --> give them a benefit of doubt. A company that doesn't --> don't give them a benefit of doubt.

When I look at your argument and fit it into the above model (probably overly simplistic), it is flawed thinking. That is what I meant.
What I meant was, since Buffalo already had access to a major waterway it’s rise wasn’t as entirely dependent on it.. ie it had other reasons for being relevant.

And are you kidding?? The Erie Canal ran right through the city (likewise Syracuse, Utica, etc) and crossed the Genesee river on an old aqueduct that is still there today and interestingly carried the short lived Rochester subway.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_Street_Bridge_(Rochest....
The Canal put those places on the map and the New York Central maintained them there heading into the 20th century.
Not quite a full ship shock trial but there are lots of videos for MIL 901 shock testing online. The barge test is my favorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swAWpmboN64
I am still kind of surprised Microsoft has not switched to the Linux kernel yet.
Not much else has surprised me.
I have been programming full time since the 80s.
Still using vi with a shell when I need to get stuff done quickly. My own use of visual tools as come and gone multiple times.
I would love to know what your credentials are that you can say this with such certainty
I have a little idea. I know Windows does a lot of useless disk access¹, but I never thought it was localized before I tried a VM. I always assumed it was random, but it looks like it's kinda random, but all over the same small area, and Windows can't optimize it for some reason.

Anyway, if you do that, you better keep those ~3GB free. If you don't have enough cache things break down really fast.

1 - It is for cortana, file indexing, telemetry, and etc. If you take the time to disable them, your computer will get much faster... for about a week, until it updates again.
> So, it could be equivalent to 10k lbs. I have no idea how to calculate that though

It wouldn't have a good equivalent mass, since it would be entirely through rolling resistance that you'd get that equivalency. A better comparison would be wind resistance.
The patents already include that, they are meant to be only given on things that are not standard practice or obvious to any competent proffesional. Just software patents fucked it up
Simulating the burn-up during atmospheric reentry of bulk items on a satellite
> They needed to communicate to (a) make sure they didn't affect my speech center

What if they suddenly realized that they affected your speech center?

Would it have been too late and you would have permanent damage?
Τσεχια – Αγγλια, προγνωστικα στοιχηματος Euro 2020
Η κατά κάπως έκπληξη του φετινού Euro 2020, η Τσεχία θα αντιμετωπίσει την Αγγλία και θα αγωνιστούν για να προκριθούν από τον τέταρτο όμιλο ως πρωτοπόροι στο Γουέμπλεί την Τρίτη το βράδυ. Και οι δύο ομάδες κέρδισαν ένα βαθμό από τις πιο πρόσφατες συναντήσεις τους, καθώς τα Λιοντάρια δεν μπόρεσαν να βρουν έναν τρόπο να ξεπεράσουν το εμπόδιο της Σκωτίας, ενώ η Τσεχία με την Κροατία έμεινε στην ισοπαλία 1-1. Ας δούμε τα σημερινά Τσεχια – Αγγλια προγνωστικα στοιχημα Euro 2020
> The saddest part of the idea of "trolling" as a "business" is that it has spread into other areas, outside IT.

I'd say the business idea was created by the govt. Finding new ways to profit via exploiting the laws will always happen sooner or later if they exist.

Hardware and software are perhaps unusual because the patent office has such a divergent idea of what is and novel and obvious to experts versus reality, presumably because computer technology moves so fast.
I'm totally ignorant of lots of things. And if I tried to do stuff in those domains, it would probably be a shame that I didn't know what had been done before (though I concede there's some chance that it might not be).
I visit the 'new' tab regularly. So regularly that I created a newsletter curating stories that I find in there (as well as from other sources).

If you're curious about the newsletter, or just wanna read some stories that didn't make the front page, please see https://bengtan.com/interesting-things. Or see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27492255 for more info.
The tech press could do a better job here IMO, I think this article is ok: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2021/05/23/the-epic-v...

Rules can be better defined and updated, so I don't think the Cicilline bill is "changing" the rules. It's just giving the FTC an explicit mandate instead of the hands-off position it has taken so far wrt Apple. The other platforms get some new/updated rules too.

I don't see the "special interest" distinction you're making at all, Apple is free to set the rules they want in their App Store. They just can't disallow alternate app stores like they have been doing.

Apple themselves argued "people buy devices" so why shouldn't we frame competition at the platform level? Why shouldn't people be able to do what they want on their phone instead of needing two phones?

The open markets page I linked to has a link to the Epic brief they filed: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e449c8c3ef68d752f3e7...
I grew up in the US and was taught very well about my country's history in public school, as far as I'm aware. Are you implying that non-democratic governments are somehow more transparent?
Frankly, because of GitHub

Late 2000s/Early 2010s there was greater variety in version control tooling. Distributed VCS was new. Mercurial promised to be the “easy” version. Subversion was still heavily used and maintained.

GitHub quickly established itself as THE place to share and collaborate code. To use it you had to learn git.

Most people, still, to this day have a fairly shallow understanding of git and find themselves encountering lots of foot guns, lack of opinions, and UI inconsistencies. I’m not sure without GitHub, git would be as dominant.
Analog video converter projects appear to be still picking up steam. It's really a retro renaissance if you have a serious budget and are okay with dumpster diving and cold calling.

15 kHz to VGA is still a bit of a trick since VGA's minimum horizontal frequency is 30 kHz. Line doublers are the standard way to get around this, but even the best deinterlacers are trading off fidelity and latency.
Use It or Lose It
Like Google Maps clipping off minor towns as you zoom out, there's a level of detail filter being applied. Within my town, I'll give my neighborhood. Within my state, I'll give my town. Outside that, it'll be "Boston". Farther afield, it might just be "the Northeast [US]".

I'd say Rochester is quite distinct from the Finger Lakes and "Western NY" is far easier to grasp. From this New Englander's perspective, I'm not sure everyone here could place the Finger Lakes on a map.
Manjaro is not a good choice. I don't have any arguments ready right now.

Choose something else:

New hardware? Fedora
Otherwise Pop!_OS or Debian Unstable
That’s an interesting analogy. Legally, copyright infringement is treated much the same as trespassing on property. And in societies that viewed wives as property they did make it a criminal offence.
Regarding screens in glasses: where is the hold up? I've been thinking of prototyping something for the past few weeks (only thinking, hence my question).
> media competency

What does this mean, exactly?
Talking a little bit out of my ass here making some assumptions, but I'd guess that in this context, 'power braking' refers to grabbing an low gear and letting out the clutch to assist the front brakes when you're trying to stop really fast and maintain the handling dynamics of the car. It's hard to explain, but if you've driven a manual sports car for a while it's easy to learn. And it isn't the same as simple engine braking, which is usually done in higher gears to add moderate resistance, not to actually try to slow the car significantly.

And you do have to be careful not to grab too low a gear and/or don't let the clutch out too fast, or you can mechanically overrev the engine.

IMO compression braking (jake brake) would be a better analog.
GoL is one very specific cellular automata. There was lots of work in the 80s and 90s on CA's investigating their properties, and some of them turn out to be much more interesting from an evolutionary-ish perspective than the GoL one. That could be useful if you were interested in evolving CAs.

Tierra was among the first documented examples of evolving code/evolving rules and led to many other ALife experiments with simple rules governing evolution yet complicated outcomes. The work done then didn't lead to any particular conclusions, but it could be inspirational when thinking about how to apply selection pressure, what degrees of freedom to allow, and the nature of the rules controlling the CA.

I wasn't name-dropping Tierra, I was giving it as one entry point (and an early one at that) into the prior work on this sort of thing. I could have left the name out, and then some other commenter (perhaps even you) would have said "oh yeah, why not actually give some examples?"
The bounce mail sent to postmaster contained instructions to reply, which was followed by an automated reply with a link IIRC.

But like I mentioned, what eventually resolved it was the ISP contacting them.
it's not the only thing they measure. but if you're at the front end of a project, you often don't have other metrics (issues closed, internal customers giving you props, etc.) so the classic (and mostly flawed) measures of performance are used.

It should also surprise no-one that design documents are not considered deliverables, only code. There's no motivation to fix a crap design. You generally have to do the absolute minimum documentation your management chain will accept, then push out some code, let it fail, then redesign it in your spare time and start pushing out incremental changes as part of your bug fixing work.

I never saw anyone intentionally build crap designs / code so they could then get props for fixing the bugs they introduced, but there were several times people didn't have time to think through the problem and built crap code that led to sev 1 / sev 2 problems. People weren't trying to build crap code, it's just a side effect of being judged on how well you implement code, not on how well you design systems.
The two apps I have used in the past have been O&O ShutUp10[1] and SharpApp[2].

1: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

2: https://github.com/builtbybel/sharpapp
Why not use the Rust implementation[1] of the PGP instead? I feel that writing something new and complex like this in non-statically typed language (Python in this case) is a recipe for disaster. Someone suggested using TUF, but it's also in Python and prone to shifting compile-time errors to runtime.

[1] https://sequoia-pgp.org/
Ask HN: At this point, are PUT and PATCH helpful?
EDIT: Thanks for the input fellow beings. I really appreciate it. I think I have a much better idea of what people feel/do and why... so I'm going on a walk now to think it around.

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I'm designing an API, and trying to place PUT and PATCH into my design ideology.

In my experience, most APIs stick to GET and POST almost exclusively. And AFAICT, PUT and PATCH don't really add much that POST doesn't have. In fact, I kind of prefer the idea of having the url tell me what's going on explicitly rather than trying to infer from the request type. For example:

- to create: `POST user`

- to update: `POST user/12354`

vs

- to create: `POST user/`

- to update: `PATCH user/`

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I'm working alone on this project, otherwise I'd ask a coworker, but what do you guys think? What feels intuitive and clear to you?
God damn, getting paid 250k a year to write about 500 LOC. Madness.
My friends Moto Z Play 2 screen was cracked and stopped working after a hard fall. Phone still powers on and accepts touch input but no display. 2 different hubs do not push video at all, so we’re probably looking at replacing the screen to recover her pics.
um. no. or rather, yes. any manager (or co-worker) can decide to ding you based on your KLoC metrics.
Kats looks like a useful library, but I’m a bit surprised to see they’re not enabling parallel execution for the numba kernels. Surely FB must have time-series data large-enough they’d see some performance benefits from parallelism in these functions?
Right? The AIA made it easier and cheaper (*) for big companies to invalidate the patents of small inventors who try to assert their patents against them. It reduced the amount of money that big companies will pay to license a patent because the threat of an infringement lawsuit became less valuable. It literally took value from small inventors and handed it to big business.

(*) Edit: An IPR may seem expensive (~$500k is average), but if successful it is much cheaper than winning a patent infringement lawsuit ($millions).
It's fine to care about sports. It's fine to devote most of your time to preparation for competition. It's unseemly for institutions dedicated to academics to divert vast funds to non-academic pursuits. Most of the spending on collegiate sport generates tiny performance gains, and since all college teams are spending this money there is something of a Red Queen situation so those tiny performance gains change cumulative results not at all.

Also, for nearly every sport except football and women's basketball, the real talent in the college age group isn't even playing college sports. Sports are meaningful with or without access to the latest most expensive amenities.
Because even memory-safe implementations of PGP are saddled with the complexity and legacy cruft the the protocol itself, and the thing Debian projects are actually looking to do is exactly what the signify/minisign family of signature schemes does, using exclusively modern cryptography, with the simplest possible interface.
During my college internship (2010) I was told that my CS degree would be totally worthless and I should focus on electrical engineering (though that would've been fine too tbh)...oh, and that I should put all the money I could into gold and guns...the dude was a nut is what I'm saying.
Giving people the opportunity can only improve the situation. On social media platforms that permit longer comments, people often leave longer comments. And if nobody wanted to leave longer comments, then the twitter limitation would serve no purpose at all.
Ah, sorry, not a native. I know it was rerouted slowly over time but I guess my mental map had the canal much farther to the south than it is (aka, eating ice cream on the tow path in Pittsford).
Which is the point of the article, that it's not based on a simple increase in demand.
https://globalnews.ca/news/2531266/one-chart-shows-how-unpre...