skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally companies/funds sleep on IP, I am rather surprised that there is not more companies that acquire IP that has strong fandom and start pumping new stuff across media landscape.
Why I need to use readline on a system without libc, e.g. a heavily optimized container?
Extremely linkbaity title : the word secret does not appear in the article text.

That is because there are no secrets at all. Not only is it linkbaity, it also paints the industry as evil. Those evil corporations with their dirty secrets.
He might have a point. Maybe it’s rose tinted glasses but I see the 80s and 90s as the peak of Hollywood’s creativity … which so happens to be the time home video in the form of VHS took off. Coincidence?
I found the writing and dialogues mostly terrific.

Glad it’s not superhero movie style, where every character has to explain out loud what he is going to do and why.
I wasn't saying outfits should be gender-neutral.

My point was that GP was implying that sexualization was a gender-neutral problem (eg they were referring to "attractive people", not "attractive women").

It's very much not. Women get sexualized way, way, way more than men in video games, and yes, that's a problem that deserves fixing.
I love how we are pushing the agenda that laws are irrelevant and the government should be allowed to break them as they wish. Very Liberal
No, they declared "Republic of Ireland" to be an official _description_, not the official name. The name is specified near the beginning of the constitution as Éire, or in the English language, Ireland [1], in article 4, and would require an amendment to change. And while we do them way more often than the US does, we haven't done one for this topic.

1: https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/d5bd8c-constitution-of-ire...
Hm, ok I understand more but how do you perform the "binary search", just loop over the URL ids?

Funny I also selected "hello" and "world" above! Xo

My system is also written in Java btw!

Here are example results of my word search:

http://root.rupy.se/node/data/word/four

http://root.rupy.se/node/data/word/only

etc.
If Americans can ban their own opposition from their internet (Parler, Gab, and countless people blocked on mainstream platforms), then it's very hard to argue that the authoritarian Russian government shouldn't ban their opposition from the internet.

Perhaps some on-chain solutions will help circumvent the American and Russian restrictions in a few years. Solana sounds like a good candidate for this sort of platform.
J&J and AZ aren't really traditional either. They're Adenovirus based vaccines. Research has been out for a while, but I think there have been many production use Adenovirus based vaccines.

AZ is conceptually similar to the mRNA vaccines actually. They all target the Spike protein.

The Chinese vaccine is an inactivated virus kind of vaccine. That's what you would call traditional. Low protection from infection, but supposedly high protection from dangerous disease onset.
I loved Mando while having the exact same opinion on the movies as you…
> In this case there's not many reasons for it to be a native app instead of a Progressive Web App. This would simplify distribution.

The opposite of this is true. Blocking a web application is very easy for Russian authorities, there are well-established legal and technical protocols for that, it's a routine, it happens every day. The opposition uses apps precisely because they are more difficult to censor.
Apple is most certainly in a position to influence government. They have a device in the hands of more than a billion people who spend hours per day staring at it.

They absolutely have a responsibility to fight for human rights and freedom. By your logic, no one would ever engage in any kind of civil obedience and no one would be able to effect change: the government, after all, is also more powerful than any individual protestor and many of them are risking their livelihoods or even their lives by protesting.
And the short story is not end, there is a very good cross cross platform implementation for Objective-C that runs at Linux,Windows,OSX,Haiku-OS and so on...
And is very active in development. :D

https://objfw.nil.im
Subdomain Takeover of Fr1.vpn.zomans.com
Amazon itself relies on the honest and trustworthiness of internet reviews. If they become synonymous with poor quality products and fake advertisement, they will become the new poundland.
The clone wars started really bad, but it got better and better with every season. I mean there are always a couple of meh episodes per season, but overall they're getting better, and the last season is getting better than episode III.

That's pretty good for an animated kid's cartoon.
The self-service lanes at many grocery stores have lines even when human cashiers are available. People don't want others handling their groceries, because even fully able employees do a very poor job on average. Online shopping has exploded for similar reasons - convenience and choice for the customer trumps social good.
This ensures Putin's government won't have enough time to subvert the recommended candidates in some way.
Buy the rumor, sell the news? Isn't it ironic that investors dump Bitcoin exactly when people want to use it the most?
> An intentional lab leak makes no sense to me at all. Its like starting a fire in your house to spite your neighbour.

Just playing the devil's advocate here, but, I'd argue that it makes quite a lot of sense from a biological warfare perspective in terms of intelligence gathering on how different societies and countries behave against such a threat.

In particular, the pandemic has brought to the surface the how large schism between the two parties in the US, the constant politicization of science and nearly every other topic, the vast differences in perspective of different groups of the population, and provided information on the outcomes of different measures in different cultural landscapes, the level of preparation of different countries, the time it takes to figure out the correct response, and the responses of the people in guideline changes.

It has also shown that a well prepared, authoritarian country, with mRNA vaccines in the works can incur very minimal losses in terms of population due to swift vaccine rollout, hard lock-downs and strict measures.

China's losses compared to say UK, US, India, Russia and others have been very small if the data they have actually provided are to be believed.

But all of this is pure speculation from a random netizen so take it with huge grains of salt.
That's tricky. I've got an old Xiaomi Yi action-cam that punches way above its weight, though I wouldn't want to drop it on a floor or anything. I also use Teensy processors in things, but I'm aware of some of the 'no name' processor boards that are waaaaay cheaper and still functional.

Anything like integrated circuits, cameras etc, there is definitely the possibility of somebody coming up with a high quality knock-off that's functionally competitive with the known version. You just won't be able to tell if it's a good knock-off or a broken knock-off.

Some things you won't get. There won't be an equivalent of my API microphone preamplifiers: not nearly a large enough market, and too tricky to make properly. But something like a Logitech webcam or a budget Focusrite pre, you are already getting compromised design to hit a price point, and that opens up avenues for a knock-off to try to do the same thing without paying for brand building or discovery in the normal sense. And that's when you find out how much it cost to make the actual object (sometimes, also knocking off the design process and outright pirating it).
Yup!

Just like how you can identify a specific point in a book using ISBN, chapter/section, and page; you identify a specific point in a serial publication using ISSN, the volume/number of the issue, and page.

The ISBN and ISSN serve the purpose of representing the author, title, and publisher. (And in books, also represents the specific edition.)
> How would you find a list of different types of auto repairs?

IMO, it's a badly formulated question because the type of repair affordable by a service depends on at least (a) the service's diagnostic ability, (b) a mechanic qualification and (c) the service's repair policy (would they be willing to dig deep into the issue to find a failed cheap component easy to replace or they'll just say "engine issues? lets replace the engine as a whole"). All this things combined brings in a situation where all the same breaking takes $$$$ to fix in a one service using process A ("type of auto repair" in your terminology), and it takes $$ to fix in another service using process B.

What should you do then? I'd say you should elaborate first what's the purpose of your interest. What are you going to do with the info? May it's possible to solve in some way with enumerating a possible breakdown points. But generally, if you remember, that repair is a service, not a product, you'll understand why it's hard to compare autoservice A to autoservice B, as well as their prices. Too many hidden vars inside.
After that day candidates can not withdraw from the elections (that's the law), so the government can't threaten the recommended candidates.
"Isn't the problem" implies that there exists precisely one.

If n similar companies close and let all employees go, IMO that generally shows that a problem exists. One company shutting down is something happens, two similar ones at the same time is a coincidence, many... generally shows a problem.

Unless, of course, they were closed on purpose (prohibiting alcohol is no good for breweries) or because some resource ran out (mines close when the ore is mined).

In this case, I find it a little difficult to believe that a largely export-oriented R&D-intense industry closed because of transmission and regulation problems in the home country. Possible, needs supporting argument.
The government will have plenty of time to do that after the election.
Who said they haven't?
For me it’s the size. From their own site js joda states it’s “small” at 43 kB minified and compressed

I’ve routinely worked with date-fns and found it is usually 20KB or less
You are correct that there is this theory, yet I haven't seen any evidence of that.

Deleting Navalny's bot seems like a response to a threat from Apple and Google. To fight this, it would be great to abandon Apple and distribute all apps via Android APKs, circumventing the app stores. (Not gonna happen, I know)

First they came for the American opposition, then they came for the Russian opposition, then there was no opposition at all.
Completely agree, there are a few business cases that completely exemplify this. Don’t let the shallow information internet comments tell you otherwise. Anyways, Costco model is simple … but large quantities of high quality products and work as a trusted distributor for business traders. They don’t always get it right, but they loose money doing so. If a product doesn’t sell and gets devalued, they will hold thousands across the world.
> Provided their clients don't figure out what's going on

As far as I can tell, very few people ask similar questions. Those who do, come to interesting conclusions: https://jan.rychter.com/enblog/cloud-server-cpu-performance-...
Global economic crysis (finally) starting, but from China
I don't think it's about innovativeness - because I would say the reverse about shoes, the best are (resp. were) made in Northampton (England), and quality suffers if moved to China.

But if you want plastic trainers, no doubt they make the best. I think it's just a simple case of doing a lot of it, specialising, getting good at it, as it would be anywhere. China now has more PCB fab know-how, equipment, people, etc. than anywhere.
Great to see they finally updated it. Hard to understand why so many MIT courses still don't have an OCW edition despite every single lecture and file being recorded and online for the entire 2020 term.
Really? What amazing things did Tim Cook do to single-handedly make the company 10x more valuable that another CEO wouldn't have?
TSMC has a dirty little secret! TSMC also sign largest ever power purchase agreement to buy all power from (if built right now) would be the second largest offshore windfarm in the world, for the next 20yrs… poor headline…
There's a hole bunch of criticisms in the link I shared from all kinds of people, feel free to read it if it interests you.
But that won't prevent the person from being elected. Doing it after comes with many drawbacks.
Have you ever thought that Covid was not Pharma’s way of saying.. we own you !
I think they do, just not at a large enough expenses or additional to their BOM.

>she'd work for a non-profit that deals with that.

She would have made a far bigger impact if she was working in Apple.

My guess is that she is like many of us who realise the PR and marketing message Apple has been sending is completely different to the work she is doing. Had Apple not been painting themselves so righteous they would not have this problem today. Steve Jobs think of environmental friendly product as tick boxes, nice to have but not something to market the hell out of it.

So when people then realise, especially in the age of doing the "right" thing. Apple is not what they think it is.

I think Apple sort of realise this, and they have since toned it down in this years Keynote. For anyone interested you should go and check Apple's keynote in the past 4 years and see the drastic difference.

If I had to sum it up, Tim Cook changed the PR and marketing direction in 2014. ( Also the year Katie Cotton stepped down ) And seriously he is not very good at it.
Difference is that in the US it was not a government. Private enterprise reacted to public pressure. People made them do it.

In Russia it is the government.
Are you talking about the Notion site? I don’t think this is under his control. In case you’re not Tried it Notion is a note taking app (it’s pretty good).
Yes, but this ends up being misleading because it fails to account for advances in manufacturing technology. It's far cheaper to make shoes today than it was in 1976 because manufacturing is far more automated and vastly more outsourced. You should see a price well below the inflation rate because the costs of manufacturing are decreasing over time.
Squaring Numbers That Begin or End with 5
Me too, I use TortoiseGit almost exclusively. I have its log view open almost all the time and do all my git actions from there. I can get along in the command line but I'd rather not, my short term memory is awful.

I just like seeing the visual feedback of the actions I've just done.
The interesting thing about conspiracy theories are that those few which have merit quickly get talked about in the open by credible researchers rather than trivially debunked by the average person after about 5 minutes of internet research.
I meant to say same day for some products, I assume it's just whatever happens to already be in a London 'fulfillment centre'. Plus groceries.
As the creator of this, it excited me to see this post in my inbox today.

I created rssby.email purely for myself, because I used to read articles from interesting blogs (via Hacker News) whilst commuting to work and wanted to subscribe to them, but I didn't have signal on the tube, so I would email the link to myself, then have to log into Feedly or whatever RSS reader I was using at the time and add it when I had signal, but then I would be at work so had other things to do :)

I'm glad to see a few people find it useful.

Side note: It would be interesting to know how people discover rssby.email as it doesn't seem to show up on Google.
Are you still battling with Apples NetworkExtension framework or are most pain points fixed nowadays?

https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2020-December/00...
If we’re going evil conspiracy: it could have been an attempt at bringing down the status quo. China very much wants to be top dog, and Mao once replied to the question what he would do if he lost his 100 million soldiers: I’ve got 900 million more.
The US could start by not funding gain of function research in China..
Hi Steinar (long time, no see)! You are right that there are very big differences in scope with large features vs small bugfixes.

I was one of the GIMP "Print" plugin maintainers for several years. It ended up being split off as a separate project, turned into a shared library, renamed to Gutenprint, and became the highest quality set of printer drivers on Linux, particularly for photographic printing, due to the use of speciality dithering algorithms (Raph Levien's EvenTone), custom dithering matrices and hand-tuned support for mixing light and dark inks with variable drop sizes, CUPS support, and eventually became the default MacOS X printer drivers in the early years of MacOS X. It went from a tiny plugin as part of a niche application, to being the default means of printing on all Linux and MacOS X systems. I would argue it is many times more successful than the GIMP application, despite being less recognisable to end users, it is nevertheless there under the hood quietly turning rasterised page input into individual ink droplets on pages (or toner on lasers). It far surpassed the quality of most/all commercial RIPs and vendor drivers at the time, and maybe still does.

This occurred because the lead developer of this sub-project was willing to delegate responsibilities and collaborate with others. For example, as a young-but-keen amateur, I single-handedly converted it to build as a shared library, moved the build to use Autoconf/Automake/Libtool (this was 2001, today I'd have used CMake), and this enabled it to be used directly within the GIMP as the Print plugin, or as a CUPS driver, or as an IJS (InkJet Server) driver. That willingness to consider and accept contributions from others made this project an outstanding success. I wasn't the only one either, the project benefitted from the expert contributions from many people with a diverse range of interests and skills, with a good project manager to oversee it all (Robert Krawitz).

In my humble opinion, that is what separates the projects. In order to grow both the developer base and the user base, you need effective project management. And managers need to be able to step back and delegate.

The GIMP developers have never really been able to do this. They have to write every line themselves. This is why its development has basically been stagnant for over 15 years, because they had to do GEGL themselves, even though there's only one part timer on it. Having it all written in C doesn't help. Graphics does lend itself to higher level abstractions which they can't use. I'd consider GEGL a wasted effort myself; it was obsoleted by GPU compute before it was even part way complete.
People? What people? Was there a vote held?
Would any kind souls attempt to explain the implications of this? It seems there's a few things to consider here. 1) Is the wide breadth of utility that such a simple function can offer. 2) Due to it's persuasive use within software of all kinds, it may not be understood what the associate implications are by the majority of implementations.

A more obvious scenario is something like encryption not being as encrypted as one would think. There is an interesting element of randomness and determinism that I can't get my head around yet.

Perhaps I'll try some experiments to fully flesh out the slippery thoughts I'm having. I understand what a XOR gate does, and I've setup NAND gates to fully functional virtual cpu's. Yet I don't know what creative use cases exist - this is both inspiring and concerning.

I'll try to think of a few more implications, but if anyone can thread the needle for more simple folk I'd appreciate it at least.

I will experiment with at least something similar to:
Given I used 3 sets of alphabets of the same length and then xor them in the various intervals suggested.

Given I did the above but removed one of the sets as a 'secret' what does that imply with the interval and associativity?

It reminds me of the rotate implementation in Forth via microcodes and registers that a lot of primitives are built upon.

I wish I had a big brain.
Parler isn't banned from the internet, it's banned from AWS and mobile app stores. These bans weren't ordered by the government either.
Possibly https://wordpress.org/plugins/doi-creator/, but you’ll need to give the code a review before using it, just to be safe.
I've first studied in Germany, then later UK and US. The prices of textbooks in the latter two shocked me.

In Germany, as a general rule, you didn't need to buy any textbooks. The professor would lecture, the exercises were handed out printed and were fully self-contained (not "Exercise 12.3 on page 114"), and there were any number of relevant books available in the library. If the professor sold his own book, people in class would get a "Hörerschein" and get it at a further discount from the already low price (say $20 instead of $30). Student clubs would sell "scripts" containing the lecture material, summaries, and formulae.

A 2006 article [1] suggests US students need to spend around $1000 per annum for text books. (The article compares the text book market to the prescription drug market.) In Germany, $1000 covers tuition including the "Semesterticket" (pass for the entire public transit system, state wide), and probably all the books you need.

I mean, if even The Economist complains about textbook prices [2], then you know there's a problem.

[1] https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED497025.pdf

[2] https://www.economist.com/united-states/2014/08/16/why-textb...
I'm waiting for the greenest paint. How are they measuring the whitest ?
The current elections are shameful even by Russian standards. These are the recordings of some falsifications that happened in this cycle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1knqpiDrtUs (until YouTube bans this video too).
The GMO argument is settled ? This surprise me. AFAIK, it is settled in Europe, but not in America where it is still authorized. Maybe I am wrong, I am not american.
lol bit rich calling Parler and Gab banned. They can easily buy their own servers and host it themselves. Or are you suggesting the government force AWS/Godaddy/Microsoft to host them?
A dingy bedsit with a shower in one corner, a sink in one corner, a bed in one corner and a door in one corner, with a shared toilet down the hall. That cost me £520 a month in 2003 (similar places are £800 today)

A Japanese micro apartment for less than half that price [0] would have been far better.

Same with hotels. I still go to London fairly frequently, in fact I had 3 nights there this week. I turn up to the hotel, sleep in a bed, have a shower, then leave, maybe with breakfast. For that I'm charged £90 plus.

[0] https://www.nippon.com/en/news/fnn20200211001/tokyo%E2%80%99...
What is the purpose of "society with refined members" when majority of these members need to do thinking-free, menial jobs? It only builds up discontent. Result is that the government needs more violence applied against people to keep them in check, or the society blows up in endless, unfixable conflict where people just ask for the impossible and won't settle on less than that. Especially in a democratic society where applying violence may be impossible or hard to push through (catch-22 of people having to vote for it), it can simply end the country - any country.

This is how Soviet Union ended. "Workers and peasants" were 100% OK with Communism. It's the educated masses who were too educated and did jobs that did not justify their qualification, and lived in deep poverty, ended it.