skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Streaming services have kind of ruined movies for me a bit.

When using Netflix you get the impression that what they really want customers to do is to kind of "hang around in the lobby", scroll and experience the frustration of re-rejecting all the content you have already rejected a hundred times by scrolling past them.

And Amazon...I can never quite figure out why they show me so much content that I can't access as part of my subscription or that requires some form of extra payment to watch. I guess it fits in with the overall Amazon theme of showing me merchandize that doesn't actually ship to where I live on their main site. Or that awful iPhone app that keeps asking me which amazon store I want to use, because after many years, Amazon still haven't figured out how to fix this.

It is becoming ever more rare that me and the wife find something to watch. We scroll around for 10 minutes without finding anything, get bored, watch the news, turn off the TV and go do something else.

The thing is: there is no UX innovation on streaming sites. They don't actually do anything intelligent about the knowledge they have about you. They keep showing you stuff you are not interested in and you have no way of telling them "look, I'm not into superhero movies" or "please don't show me anything Nick Cage is in".

It would help if you could rapidly mark content as "I'm not interested", and remove it from sight so you don't have to scroll through screens of stuff you aren't going to watch again and again.

Apple's movie thing is slightly better. You can actually navigate through a slightly better catalogue of movies, but the UX isn't great. And it makes no use of any knowledge about you to find content.

Why has innovation on streaming service user experience stopped? Why are they so terrible?
While we are at it: Why not orgmode? It‘s much more versatile.

But I still go back to markdown because everyone (and almost every tool I use) will accept it.
Yes, that is correct. The precondition for the function states that the pointer should not be null.

The specification for the listcopy is listed slightly lower down on the article as follows:

// r :-> x ** linked_list(x,S)
void listcopy(void **r)
// r :-> y ** linked_list(y,S) ** linked_list(x,S)

As the precondition explicitly states that r points to a value x, it can not be NULL, so no NULL checks are needed.

I'm not sure what the sibling post is trying to imply with recursive calls though.
Interesting. I spent the first half of my career trading for hedge funds, and this is the first I've heard of the PRA. Every other registration/certification/interaction I ever had was with the FCA.
If you have children you need to stop more often period. Even most woman that I have traveled with actually want to stop far more often. Sure, with a bunch of guys driving to Italy we might go 3-4 hours non stop but that is as I pointed the exception.

I have traveled threw Europe all my life and the idea that 15-20min stops every few hours are a major deal-breaker is just nonsense. You want to pie, you want to eat, you want to go to the shop and get some drinks.

Simply stopping, plugging in, going to pie, get a drink in the shop and stretching your legs for 5min already adds enough to drive another couple hours.

And even if you are a case, where you really are driving like that, 1-2 times a year where you do journey like that the extra 30min you spend on the journey are really not the end of the world. I honestly can not describe it any other way then a small detail that wouldn't matter to the waste majority of people.

And even if that is still a problem, a few years from now batteries will be better, charging will be even faster and density will be higher. Hydrogen would not be the right answer.
Rationally that's what matters, but the response of the courts and regulators could make autopilot uneconomic.
The usual ones are sulfur based.
Was medium ever good?
There is some evidence that they had live bats in the laboratory. This would make sense, bats are quite different from other mammals, and it seems very likely that some bat viruses can not be cultivated in standard cell cultures.
I have been asked for a copy of my transcripts before - but only as part of a background check.
Twitter is put on par with newspapers, because they do gatekeeping and have accepted bias.

Twitter can not have the cake and eat it too.

There is nothing sinister just the laws kicking in.

You wouldn't want google manipulating search results and then claim to be neutral.
I liked the OS, too, but Microsoft didn't do themselves many favours by resetting the dev platform several times and not having upgrade paths between major versions. What momentum they had cratered every few years.
The Witcher 3 Soundtrack is also really nice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-cC3wSKAGk
Of course there is no guarantee: AES256 could be broken tomorrow, or maybe it has already been. What we know is that, extrapolating compute speed from the past decades and even assuming quantum computers become useable in practice, the best algorithms we currently have cannot be brute-forced within the next 50 years.
Looks like they removed auto-updates or at least automatic checking for updates. I think that's pretty neat. As the in other comments, this is an advantage of open source. Things can be removed. I only wish this was more common amongst other projects. Imagine Firefox forks with all the telemetry and other annoyances removed. With closed source software, good luck getting anything removed.
What is the consequence?
I didn’t go to college, and I don’t include an education section on my resume. In 23 years in the industry, I’ve never been asked.
Show HN: Docker based media library organizer
Few cases are listed here: https://wiki.fsfe.org/Migrated/GPL%20Enforcement%20Cases .
Twitter India Will Now Be Held Responsible for Objectionable Content
Looking at Wikipedia, I don't think that's right. Even civilian ATC had no right to strike. Reagan highlighted their oath not to strike, threatened to fire anyone who continued to strike, and then did so, dismissing over 11,000 controllers and banning them from future ATC work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Contr...
"We have shrunk the reactor to the size of a suitcase"
(from their faq https://electricfusionsystems.com/#FAQ-home )

I am wondering, is this crackpot or real ?
Yep I agree. I tend to rebase my feature branches into a sensible history and then merge that in as I find that leaves the cleanest history that is still easily navigable.

I wish this workflow was better supported but since it isn't most people just default to squash and merge or rebase and merge.
All of the projects you mentioned except Nextcloud are owned and developed by non-profits.
Oh, hey, Pingcap are the people behind TiDB: https://en.pingcap.com/products/tidb

While this is kind of off topic (the tech is related), i really enjoy the idea behind their product - a database that is compatible with existing protocols (MySQL 5.7 connections in this case) but allows for horizontal scaling out of the box.

While a single instance of MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL can go pretty far, being able to mostly delegate scaling to the actual software to get a distributed system going, without having to do lots of manual work is a great idea! Of course, there are also many pitfalls in regards to compatibility, but that's probably to be expected: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/mysql-compatibility

That said, this won't work for all circumstances, but i think that exploring such approaches is definitely worthy of the time!
No you’re smug because you want to own my changes that I made to facilitate my needs. Even worse if you feel my changes aren’t acceptable I’ll have to fork your project and maintain a divergence anyway. So yes GPL is bad and is a poison.
Wouldn't copy-pasting be a better option considering that when you type a password it could be key-logged?
It's like in China where you have limited ownership of the company. But still, any % of whatever the big country is willing to give you, you take it because it raises the valuation of your company, so and so.
“When HIV/AIDS emerged in the 1980s, it was alleged, with a little Soviet help, that the virus had been developed in an American lab. Between Washington’s inaction on the epidemic and its sordid past of shady experiments, proponents said the theory couldn’t be dismissed out of hand.

After many early cases of tick-borne Lyme disease were first identified around Long Island Sound, it was deemed too much of a coincidence that the U.S. military’s Plum Island animal research lab sat on an island in the sound itself.

When SARS emerged in 2003, so did fears of the severe acute respiratory syndrome’s unnatural origin. “It’s a very unusual outbreak,” bioweapons expert Ken Alibek told the New York Times at the time. “It’s hard to say whether it’s deliberate or natural.” One Russian scientist posited that “the propagation of the atypical pneumonia may well be caused by a leak of a combat virus grown in Asian bacteriological weapons labs.”

And in recent years, efforts to eradicate Ebola have been hobbled by attacks on health care workers motivated, at least in part, by a belief that the virus is man-made.”

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/06/15/lab-leak-theory-doesnt-...

This literally happens every goddamn time. Natural explanation is simpler.
It's not just that the Tesla driver ignored the turn signal, but it also ignored traffic conditions. Left lane traffic had slowed down enough that the Tesla is seen passing 2 cars on their right before hitting the truck. California law puts responsibility on all drivers to be drive at a "reasonable or prudent" speed given the conditions. Maintaining a speed where you're quickly passing cars on the left and right — and not slowing down at all despite a vehicle signaling for 3 seconds and then fully being in your lane for about 1 second — is arguably not "reasonable or prudent".

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
Elder.js, the New Kid on the Block
In 10 years China will be the foremost global superpower.

I would urge everyone to be very carefully in their criticism of China or support of Taiwan.

Remember that what you say on the Internet can live forever. People are being cancelled for far less.

And China will not cancel in the way the West cancels. Instead of being fired, be prepared for your whole life to be destroyed, and maybe you being even imprisoned if you step in Asia (see Hong Kong security law).

So think before voicing support for lab leak theory, especially if you are science adjacent.
Thinking Outside the Box with CSS Grid
"Ever since the SARS outbreak of 2002-03, after all, paper after paper and countless popular pieces have warned that, sooner or later, nature would produce the next big SARS."

In 1995 Laurie Garrett warned about how the world could be brought to its knees by another airborne flu-like illness in "The Coming Plague".[1]

The first SARS and avian flu and swine flu, and CJD and mad cow disease were just more warnings that humans were continuing to play russian roulette with the way they were living with an using animals. Virologists knew this and warned about this, but the rest of the world chose to ignore them.

As things return to "normal" for the parts of the world lucky enough to get vaccinated it's likely that we're going to return to sticking our heads in the sand and pretending that this could never happen again, especially if we believe SARS 2 was created by humans instead of being just another natural disease... with probably a bunch more waiting in the wings.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Plague-Emerging-Diseases-Balan...
FB and Google are already overflowing with enough Modi worshiping Brahmins.

Anyway who wants the job? Other than the ignorant or crazy no one will apply.
> It is complicated, not easy to understand for other people and can require intense maintenance

I think this code sample illustrates the exact opposite. Look how concise it is - you really don't need much code at all to implement a simple interpreter.
The surprising difficulty of resizing images on spritesheets
> It sucks when you need to buy / move furniture though.

But isn't that an extremely rare event?

Maybe you move more than anyone I've ever known but I don't see how something so minor could meaningfully affect quality of life.
The problem nowadays, is with everything connected to everything else, some bugs need fixing fast.

Imagine if there is a buffer overflow in Audacity, meaning someone can take over your machine with a malformed sound file. I'd want to know about that ASAP -- not after a month.

On average, I believe most users benefit from an automated check for updates. It should be possible to disable it, but we should first worry about keeping users safe.
everything you described has been historic reasons to start a war, utilize extra male population(that has a great potential for revolt), give your people patriotic reasons to support your power, affirm control over population, force older generations to work more regardless of their health. And if a war campaign is successful geopolitically it can lead to expansion that will provide your nation with external sources of manpower and economic growth.

For example if China will successfully take over Taiwan, it can use that experience as a leverage in it's colonization of African and Asian countries that it's already actively attempts.
China was a provider of important bricks in the world economy growth in the past decades, if CCP manages to put themselves on top of someone elses economic growth the same way, they can manage to afford the very expensive management of demographic collapse and economy transformation.
China can't imprison people outside of its own borders.
I have stopped watching German dubs long ago, but I watched a lot of the German dub of Scrubs during its original run, and much later came across the original English version. It's incredibly striking how the dubbing changed the character of Dr Cox: In the German dub, he's portrayed in a high-pitched voice, rendering him a maniacal goofball, whereas McGinley's original performance uses a deeper flatter voice that made him appear much more psychopathic (though admittedly I only saw one episode in English, so that may be cherry-picking).
If I understand it correctly, it is even worse, because malloc could return not NULL and still throw an exception when you try to write to the 'allocated' memory. See for example https://linuxembedded.fr/2020/01/overcommit-memory-in-linux
This is an ongoing tussle with the very legality of these rules being questioned. It's too soon to say what "lost liability protection" actually means. Twitter's responses (or lack thereof) have been a pain to deal with for the government.

What's not clear to me is who will be held responsible on the part of Twitter for any complaints. Earlier, Twitter had provided a local contact, which was that of a lawyer, as the contact for complaints and grievance redressal. That wasn't sufficient since the lawyer was not an employee of Twitter (as required by the new rules). He also left that position soon after. Twitter India has a managing director (MD), Manish Maheshwari, who claimed recently that he was only managing the marketing side and is not responsible for content moderation or anything else that happens on the platform. He was also granted a stay by the Karnataka High Court (which is where Bengaluru/Bangalore is) from arrest in a case filed in another state in the north (UP, i.e., Uttar Pradesh). [1]

I personally don't think Twitter India will find people taking up the positions of Resident Grievance Officer, Nodal Officer and Chief Compliance Officer. These are currently open positions on the Twitter careers page. [2] Whoever takes these up could end up in jail, which could really be bad with a draconian law like UAPA (Unlawful Activities Prevention Act) that allows people to be (arbitrarily) detained without recourse for very long durations. [3]

The new IT rules have also been challenged in court on a few different fronts. "Two of the government’s own legal advisers warned it that the new Information Technology (IT) Rules were beyond the scope of the law and required parliamentary approval." [4]

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/world/india/twitter-india-chief-wins...

[2]: https://careers.twitter.com/en/roles.html#location=careers-t...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_Activities_(Preventio...

[4]: https://outline.com/hCC7yg
It's not hard to notice that the two Borat movies are very different in style

Who is ridiculed in the subsequent moviefilm? Orange man, anti-abortion activists, libertarians, holocaust deniers - they are all safe to laught at. Just compare with who was the laughing stock at the original one - feminists, blacks, gays, jews. That wouldn't fly today
Ah here I was - a total amateur eager to learn more - hoping to add a TPU unit on a rpi cluster to run it.

(thanks for sharing!)
Indonesian biotech firms launch saliva-based Covid-19 kits
If you read between the lines, this is the very reason why Id released the source code as GPL instead of BSD: They didn't want their competitors to take their engine, make proprietary improvements, and deprive Id of revenue using their own work.
1) If I and said did not collaborate, then it will not help me, or anyone else.

2) If said corp refuse to collaborate with me and will use my code for free instead, then it will not help me, or anyone else, except said corp.

Why I should care about (2)?
Before culling a few, I was subscribed to 5 streaming services. Typically, it would take me about 3 weeks to find something worth watching, and then a week or two to binge it. That’s TV. I can barely ever find a movie I can sit through. Netflix was always like that as long as I can remember, and the others work the same way. A few gems sitting on a haystack of blah.
Okay, so if we just assume everything you state is factual, what's your point in stating it? Politics is an emergent property of social bonds at scale, sure. Families are the smallest social group, sure. Strength of social bonds within a grouping tends to be inversely proportional to the size of the grouping, sure. Blood ties are the strongest, sure. So what?

Except you're not even right about biological relationships being all that special. You think you don't have to provide evidence for this because it is "common knowledge" but it's based on ideas like the nuclear family, which are fairly recent inventions. Families used to span multiple generations and include unrelated household members (think maids, farm hands, etc) and prior to that tribes encompassed what we might as well refer to as villages, where biological relation is more incidental than the basis for social bonds.

Even as a naturalistic argument appealing to other animals it fails: in many species packs will allow stragglers to join the group and treat them no different than blood relatives.

There's some truth to parent-child bonds being special but you're attempting to extrapolate from that to entire social groups and to argue for some kind of historical progression based on it which is nothing more than a just-so narrative.
That does nothing to derisk those further downstream of infringing content.
A person isn’t a radiator though; I think the same rules apply as before. You have companies that treat people as discardable and those that do or try not to be like that.
Why don't you blame both parties and their union?
Again you just keep adding more and more stuff to defend your concept and it applies to fewer and fewer people.

The waste majority, 99.9something people will never drive with a caravan and most don't go threw the mountains.

You simply need to accept that you are representing an expedition, this has been studded. Most cars only very, very rarely do long travel at all. And when they do they don't do it very often. And when they do they stop reasonably often anyway.

You can simply accept that an EV is not for you for the moment because you are apparently a special case. Most people don't stop wanting to pie so they can beat rush hour to a campsite. That is simply not the case for 99.9999% of miles driven.
Resonates with me too. I'm studying Chinese full-time and the classroom format is extremely drill-heavy. Here's a sentence, now say it this other way, using this new grammar device that we just learned. Here's another, and another, and another. After that we _mostly_ rote memorize characters (mostly, because they do have fragments of meaning that you can reason about sometimes). We drill on reading and writing characters daily. There is little to no "creative" homework or classroom activities like writing a dialog and acting it out in front of the class, as we did in Spanish class when I was in high school in the States.

At first I was afraid that this learning style would be ineffective. Foreigners here often malign the Taiwanese education system as full of rote memorization, drills, and testing. Yet, the average Taiwanese can put together functional English sentences. A great many of them can speak fluently, even if they've never gone to an English speaking country. That's a lot more than you can say for the Spanish-speaking abilities of non-Hispanic Americans.

Drilling like this let's me build confidence, memory muscle, and trains you to quickly pattern match and respond without giving the logical part of your brain time to get in the way and start translating slowly. It actually works outside the classroom too, I'm repeatedly surprised how natural words or grammar I drilled in class feel when it comes up in daily life. I cannot imagine the American style of incorporating a bunch of other activities into the exercise would help at all.
Well you are an inspiration for others. Can you share some useful knowledge so others can benefit from your experiences?
You might have a point if China was the only country that was able to keep their case numbers low, but dozens of countries did even better than China. Perhaps South Korea or New Zealand is to blame instead.
Volume levels are relatively easy address so hopefully they have that under control. Quality is hard because you take your guests as they are and people often don't realize the how echoey their room is or how poor the microphone they have is.

I use Izotope de-reverb on my own podcast to improve the quality somewhat, but there is only so much you can do.
No TL;DW for a 40 minute video?
What makes it a field that can't be self-taught? What defines the same for any field?

To take the best reading I can of what your point is: you're saying a pupil will not self-study this course and go into CS academia. I agree with you there.

To me, that seems a poor reason to criticize this course, the content, or people who want to pursue it. There are many reasons to learn undergraduate CS material besides pursuing academia (again, self as an easy example: CS -> SWE). I don't feel there was anything in my degree which could not have been self-studied with enough tenacity.

If it's about joining academia, I get your point. Otherwise, really unsure why you're fixated on the title. Anyone can absolutely self study physics the same as computer science, and use that knowledge to advance their understanding in other fields, or hobbies, or just pursue knowledge for the satisfaction. Those all seem worthwhile to me :)
> it acquires understanding of code

This is somewhat debatable.

Would you consider a Markov chain to have an understanding of the input data? It too sometimes reproduces training data verbatim, but mostly produce remixes of many short snippets instead.

On the spectrum from Markov chain to Human comprehension, I'd submit that GPT is much closer to the former than the latter.
Misrepresentations from UC sleep researcher, publicized by Ted and NPR
It doesn't simply mean that. It means some fairly specific things [0], one of which is that there can be no "discrimination against fields of endeavor", which restriction on commercial use is.

[0] - https://opensource.org/osd-annotated