skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But perhaps even locals don't visit these areas much so they might not know what they're really like? It does certainly look like a place that would make most people turn around.

I think that's mostly the case. Ferentari is not really dangerous, just depressing and maybe dangerous-looking. I've felt significantly more unsafe in the banlieues of Paris.
Maybe you are still young? When you have seen 30 years of such revolutionary tech in pharma every other week with 0.001 % actual outcomes on the market, yes, you get tired of it.
OBS isn't "rapidly reaching mainstream acceptance" like Blender is. It has been the industry standard for 10 years already.
so mandatory CSAM scanners is too big government but the absolutely not evidence based fire code is great?
I agree with your comment but I would add that whatever the Russians and Chinese have done is not "communism" in any meaningful sense.
Noted. Will see if I can put some time to build a web version too.
X11 is becoming a legend in both good and bad sense.
Same. I plan to sleep in today (haven't even gone to bed yet, still up from the 24th). I finished up watching Doctor Who: Flux a little while ago, about to head to bed, and when I get up later today after sleeping for a while I'm just going to go fish for a bit, come back home, cook, and spend the rest of the day vegging out and watching Netflix, Prime, whatever, maybe do some reading, yadda yadda. My family all live a few hours away and I don't feel like a road-trip, so this is just a little mini vacation (stay-cation) for me and some time to veg out, relax, and do whatever-the-fuck-I-want-with-no-obligations for a little while.

So yes, I'll be spending most of my time alone, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Anyway, have a "Merry Christmas", or "Happy Holidays" or "Happy Festivus" or whatever holiday greeting you desire from me. And a virtual hug as well.
How would it work on a microcontroller without a filesystem?
Nice, but what kind of sand do we speak about?
Let's hope for a successful launch and deploy.

But as a comment: I really don't like this kind of "all or nothing" projects. Its extremely risky and if it fails, 20 years would be lost and billions of dollars would be lost. I hope once Starship is ready, some billionaire buys a thousand telescopes, throws them into a Starship and flies them all over the solar system. Seriously, its almost 2022. Why do we still only have 1 telescope up there? Why aren't there 100 telescopes on the dark side of the moon? Why aren't there 1000 space probes on their way to leave the solar system?
Exploring Emotions with VR
Re: dialing rates: the point was that for the cost of a local call (and often free), AOL enabled family members to send email or (text) chat in realtime. That compared against either postal mail (a week or more overseas) or phone calls (expensive, possibly a dollar or more a minute). The service provider (I'm pretty sure it was AOL, might have been others) itself had dedicated backplanes, probably bulk leased lines. Throughput wouldn't have been great, possibly as low as 9600 baud, though I believe 56k leased lines were fairly common (we had a few of these connecting uni campuses in the late 1980s). Where all comms was text, this was sufficient.

AOL wasn't providing military comms services, AFAIU, but personal communications, either between deployed servicemembers and spouses or partners back home, or entire deployed families and their own extended relatives and relations in the US. You're right that official military comms had their own channels. This personal/family element is precisely one of the factors shaping the cohort of AOL users which emerged being one of the major points of the article.

I'm not entirely sure of the timing, but 1991 -- 1999 would have been roughly the right timeline. Keep in mind that broadband was only starting to become generally available in the US by the late 1990s / early 2000s, and AOL continued as a major dialup provider through the mid-aughts.

I'm pretty sure this was DOS or Macintosh. I do recall helping neighbours with Mac-based AOL configurations on a Mac Quadra in the 1993--1995 timeframe.

I'm fairly certain this was AOL specifically. MCI might have been another possibility.
An agricultural economy where a third of exports go to China. Selling passports won't offset that when geopolitics intervenes. But using those investments to help build out a vibrant tech sector would go further. It may also bring back some of the tech workers the country's been losing.
> Fun project -- probably could have gone somewhere.

Seeing how big WordPress has become, I think it would.
Recently I have been getting a lot more annoyed about China. Sure they can ban things, it's their right. But I just don't understand why we are not doing the same.
The real prize from the space race was the ICBM.
NVME might be the greatest advancement ever in terms of noticable speed improvement. SSD was alright, but I wasn't blown away by it.
Broadcom support site does this.

> BY OPENING THE SOFTWARE PACKAGE, CLICKING ON THE "ACCEPT" BUTTON [skip]

> Please scroll through the text to read this agreement.

Also this sometimes were played in the install kits for a various software, both with scrolling and even a humourous "WOW! Did you really read our EULA in 1.59 seconds?!"
If you have ever been to London you will know the vicinity of the incident and appreciate how much the city has changed.

It was at the end of Oxford Street where it meets Tottenham Court Road. Considerable investment in the Thameslink underground station has gone on there recently. There is also the Centrepoint Tower. The streetscape is a world away from having breweries with product left to mature for a year in vast vats. Also having slums. If you had one of those original slum houses in that spot today, you could sell it and never work again.

In this story there is good and bad in terms of how our inner cities have changed. Actual industry in the city centre is quaint but I imagine the air quality - that area is nowadays some of the worst in the UK - was no better.
Sorry, I have no idea what you are trying to tell me.
Can confirm that VKontakte, Russia's largest social network, also does use ffmpeg for video transcoding.
It is amusing. They could have gone on filling the oceans with plastic and using banned CFCs and gamifying life on Earth through Social Credit all while enjoying near total deference from the prevailing virtuegeist of the West. But instead they chose to mess with LGBTQ and all of the sudden they're evil incarnate.
OBS, Blender, Krita and Godot make for quite a powerhouse of a creative suite.
When deciding data center locations, companies certainly have in mind the quality of the electrical infrastructure in that country or region...

Maybe it could affect people buying services as well.
Is this entrapment? He isn't coercing people to commit a crime, but he is encouraging it
> 0.0001 failure probability for each SPOF

Why did you choose this value for the assumption? Is that standard or a publicized detail?
How? The staircases are usually located at opposite sides of the building. The entire first floor would need to have been on fire.
Thank you for doing this! It’s so important to reach out to be seen to be connected.

If anyone is alone and wants to shoot the shit to get through this holiday email me terminal dot recluse at gmail dot com
So people are expected to liquidate their life holdings and give up their interests and businesses in order to hold a political office like President for a few years? Doesn’t that penalize potential candidates and limit the pool of people?

Seriously, what type of person is willing to run for office under these expectations? I don’t see a long line of Mother Theresa’s seeking office. People willing to accept the conditions of running for office are most likely so desperate for power that they are willing to do anything like upend their financial lives and submit to invasive and potentially embarrassing scrutiny. Are these the type of people we want to lead a country?
This too, shall pass.

Going through tough times sucks, but it's extremely helpful to keep in mind that it will eventually pass.

Stay strong.
Not sure if this is satire or you need help
From Roosevelt’s personal log: “Had that torpedo hit the Iowa in the right spot with her passenger list of distinguished statesmen, military, naval, and aerial strategists and planners, it could have had untold effect on the outcome of the war and the destiny of the country.”
How did you come to that conclusion? The GP only states that the public health agency used already-available information, I don't see where they express any opinion on whether the availability of that data is a good thing or not.
Dang! That’s tough! How are you coping? You good?
Nobody might care, but nody also had any way of imposing a breakup.
Agreed, but I think that many people would consider Unicode normalization to be part of what they want from the std lib when they mean that UTF8 should be baked in... so that they can manipulate UTF8 as they want, including in various normal forms according to platform. It's hard to imagine people being satisfied without having access to Unicode normalization.

For example, consider JS' introduction of String.normalize(). This is a slippery slope. It had a huge impact on Node's build process and binary sizes because now all the tables had to be shipped. But it's still broken in JS, because no matter the Unicode normalization support provided, it will never match the exact tables used e.g. in Apple's HFS.

I feel that by the time it gets to String.normalize(), it's too far gone.
Thanks. You too. I lost my partner of 3.5 years recently and this will be my first Christmas since it happened. I'm with family but it doesn't come anywhere close to filling the hole they left.

Merry christmas.
That may not be the best idea. Certainly, if the earthquake is strong enough to put you in danger on the ground floor, objects can and likely will fall down from those four stories while you’re exiting the building.
Is it the selling of these historical artifacts that offends you, or just the fact that they have become public documents? I don't think we can categorically call it vulgar to make public the private correspondence of long dead historical figures. They can certainly help us understand those people better.

So is it the fact that someone is making a profit from the transaction that you find disturbing? That doesn't bother me. It just transfers the letters from someone who values the money more to someone who values the documents more. I don't find it tasteless or indecent for the previous or new owner to make that judgement.
And VLC is a tiny fraction of FFMPEG?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Osaka_building_fire

Good point. But to be fair, you should consider the injuries and deaths caused by elderly falling off stairs - 1M injuries, 12,000 deaths in the US alone. [0]

Compared that with 3,700 deaths and 16,600 injuries for ALL fires, not just fires in buildings [1].

My view would be that stairs KILL, and that new buildings should avoid stairs (at least, within a single unit) at all costs. We should also rethink how we design stairs and stair safety, and adjust building codes accordingly. Of course, this will most likely never happen.

[0]: https://www.attorneywdkickham.com/stairway-staircase-acciden....

[1]: https://www.usfa.fema.gov/data/statistics/
You're attributing gatekeeping to the wrong place here. The customer is the gate and the customer's unavailability is keeping the gate shut.

The PO reduces that inadvertent gatekeeping by being always available with customer insights so the devs don't twiddle their thumbs or worse, build thr wrong thing, because they were guessing what the customer wanted in the absence of actually talking to them.

The PO reduces gatekeeping because they are an always available customer.
Most of the nations have global TLS transparency solution in place. And CA's sign those intercept certificates by law.
You don't understand why your own nation isn't following the tantrums of a totalitarian regime? That would make your own nation into China, why the heck would you want that?!
Amelia Earhart's Plane Possibly Found in Nikumaroro Lagoon
Seth Everman has a Christmas stream for exactly this this year. If you're into gaming or music, he's your guy. Super funny dude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UmnWZRiLVs

I'll be there too :)
Boilers on notice!
Seems I cant get a stable stream in AU from this link. (youtube stream)
Twitch works though https://www.twitch.tv/nasa
Xkcd: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language
Giving the gift of XKCD to those who have not discovered it! Enjoy.
> What about Russia, is that also your personal experience?

>> As for Russia, I don't know enough to judge them. That, I apologize.

> Do you think american and european startups play fair?

>> I also like to point out, I don't think the West is any better either.

> So in that case american and european tech-millionaires should be allowed to invest in NZ and get a visa?

>> I also want to clarify this point. NZ is not usually on the list for rich Chinese people. They go to Singapore. But it is for rich Americans like Larry Page, Peter Thiel, and a few Silicon Valley execs.

You clearly seemed triggered and have a bone to pick as you didn't read the entirety of my previous comment. It seems like you want to steer this thread into an argument between the East and West, which wasn't the point of my original argument and I have clarified that already. You might want to see a psychiatrist because there is definitely something more going on with you trying to project onto me. Today is Christmas, I wish you a Merry Xmas.
If other countries start banning everything, isn’t that just as bad as what China is doing here?
The massive parking requirements for inner cities for businesses and residential areas effectively turn city centres into suburbs of concrete.

The increased density that comes from getting rid of parking means that driving is no longer essential.
I'm not a Java developer so forgive my ignorance, but is Eclipse as good as IntelliJ?
Where Is Webb?
There was a Category 5 Typhoon in in the Philippines where I am last week. The power was out and there was no electricity, refrigeration, or internet for a week. One of the transformers in my neibourhood blew out and got destroyed, and at 6pm on Christmas Eve they replaced it and we finally had power! I'm a software developer with a wife and two kids and we have a lot to be thankful for. We survided COVID-19 and a Category 5 hurricane.
XMass is just an artificially distinctive day designed to sell more stuff to people. Why do guys even care about being or not being alone?
I wonder what the Eye of God will look like through this telescope. It's much farther out than Hubble.
Jesuit political influence was probably at its height with liberation theology in Latin America 1960-1989. This was effectively ended with the assassination of leading Jesuit intellectuals by a US-trained army battalion in 1989 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_murders_of_Jesuits_in_El_...).
While it's true that the theory talks about a spectrum, would you agree that's not how people (like the original comment) use it, given that everything is reduced to 4 letters, with no nuance?

Whatever 4 letter combination becomes a "class", like "debater", and somehow it becomes appropriate to draw conclusions about a person based on that.

The big 5 has also been criticized quite a bit. The wikipedia article has a good section on that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits#Cr...
Use a PIN or passcode instead of Face ID.
I feel you and hug back. To me, celebrations and gatherings were always more stressful and awkward rather than fun and something to look forward to, but at least I got to see what friends and family I had. After moving cities, the only people who I talk to eye to eye are coworkers and service personnel, state holidays became extra weekends.
How is XEvil not mentioned? That game was always severely underrated. I kept waiting for someone to come up with a modern remake.
Because we are not them? There must be a fine distinction which results in freedom of speech
> is actually criminal

So is arson. Newsflash: sometimes people do criminal things.

But we try to design to cope with it rather than just saying ‘but they aren’t allowed to start that fire so no need to guard against it.’

And it turned out it was the norm, hence the huge panic to fix it in so many buildings.
I'll be lying if I tell that I'm good.

In 2022 I'll study to become a programmer.

Focus on algorithms, data structures, and try to learn math (I'm very math illiterate, I don't know anything beyond basic arithmetic).

So at least by this time next year I'll have more knowledge.
Those are not requirements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_requirements
The problem isn't arbitrarily keeping the customer away from the devs and replacing them with a PO. The problem is the customer is fucking busy doing business and supporting two other software initiatives. They don't have time. The devs can never get their hands on the customers time in enough quantity to be truly effective.

The PO is an always available customer.

And here's the wonderful thing about agile - if you happen to have an always available customer, you don't need a product owner
I would be perfectly fine with that solution.
These things correlate though. Sure, sometimes we get misses like child car seats, but more often than not outrage-induced regulation manages to make things better.
happy dec 25th coffee in the morning feeling!
I think if you're posting this to HN, you want to talk to someone about all of this.

I happen to like hearing about your life, so please feel free to DM me any time. https://twitter.com/theshawwn

Happy to just listen. No advice.
This cladding was common. They’re still trying to remove it from buildings now.
Dubliners are welcome to join our get together tonight, shoot me an email!
To put it bluntly: Because we're better than them.
It’s a hyperbole to claim that the price of gold is purely belief based. Gold has demand from jewelry (50%) and for industrial uses (7.5%).

https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0311/what-drives...
European and American economies will be destroyed by China soon. But their stockholm syndrome prevents them from doing anything against it.
I lived for 6 months in what was easily the most violent neighborhood, in the most violent city, in the most violent country in the world at the time. After a while I came to an interesting insight: as a outsider, you don't really have to fear for your life. You might get robbed, potentially with a threat of violence, which can be a scary experience, but you won't get randomly stabbed or shot. This is simply because random violence is incredibly rare...almost all violence has a motive, and as an outsider, you're too disconnected from the world you're visiting for anybody to have a real beef with you. You're simply not anybody else's drama.

There are some places which are definitely unsafe as a tourist. In particular, post-colonial countries where your appearance might connect you to a long-held grudge, or places where the prevalent politics are threatening to people of your nationality, or active warzones where you might get caught in the crossfire. And admittedly, I experienced this as a male, and might feel completely differently as a female. But for the vast majority of places with violent reputations among the locals, you can visit for short periods of time without incident.
All alone here too.

Truth be told, it would take some effort to trust someone enough to spend it with them now. I can thank my own family (back when I considered them family) for that.

Now I just make my own dinner, play some video games, and chill out. Took a fair few years to get there though.
Because it's an unfair competition.
Brewing beer. Computers can make it easier (automatic temperature controls, etc.), but are not necessary. Would be cool to try some old recipes from medival times or even further, think ancient Egypt and stuff. And as a bonus, I would have an excuse to dig into history for researching the recipes.
My take on this is that the stigma of being alone is based on false premises. All it takes is to prioritize other things a little bit like your work, your side projects, your own beliefs, or even self-respect, over social efforts.

Another aspect I will put out there is that often these days the people we have the most in common with are just on the internet and not physically nearby. I think it's quite wrong to think that online interactions aren't meaningful.
Christmas is ancient. As long as there has been winter, people have had a festival during its deepest depths, to remind them that the spring will come.
Some of your points are very true, but you should perhaps give a second try to VsCode because most of the features you describe are now available in VsCode or available in very common and popular VsCode extensions.

You need to install these extensions but that's the way it is designed, and a small JSON file is enough to have the extensions recommended in a given project.
Netflix had some recent stuff zi recommend: The Witcher (new season), Don't Look Up, and Arcane.
It’s a misconception that gold is purely speculative. Half of gold is used for jewelry and 7.5% is used in industrial application.

Even if all the financial demand would go to zero, the price of gold would not go to zero.

https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0311/what-drives...
With respect to Saddam's mass murder the uncommon experience for Iraqis is is having been personally affected. That doesn't mean it wasn't an atrocity, or rather a series. And no, most people are not likely to have had someone affected, as most of them were focused on certain groups and areas. If you belonged to those groups you'd be disproportionately affected. If you did not, you might have gone most of your life without being affected without being any part of the.inner circle.

This need to see suffering as universal to be valid is problematic, because very few atrocities affect a large portion of a population. That most don't does not jvalidate them.
I have a great answer to this, I think.

The best book is the one you haven't read yet (yes, there's still a few days left in 2021). Meaning: read more. Reading more is most likely going to have a very positive impact on your life. Play less videogames, read one more book. Watch less TV series on Netflix, read one more book. Etc.

By the way, I'm writing this as advice for you, but it's really advice for me (I don't play videogames, but I watch some Netflix).
> How can we trust anything at all?

Self host your software at home, and use a VPN like Wireguard to access it which helps with your MITM problem.
Sorry, not buying it. If you were genuinely surprised solely by the geographical diversity, you would have also mentioned Texas or Arizona or Colorado. But you didn't.
But that's not an innovation caused by the pandemic. Weren't those labels introduced in response to the spoutings of the previous POTUS, even before Covid-19 was a thing? They may have been used to combat misinformation during the 2016 election campaign, I don't recall exactly. But the mechanism definitely existed before this virus appeared.
If your projects are running without any milestones defined, I have very bad news for you and the managers you hire.
The Democratic Strategy for Electing Republicans
That’s just the jetbrains releasing an old runtime (11) with an even older GC and relatively low max heap size. Just simply bumping the heap size up helps, but changing it to G1GC with a lower target pause time and adequate heap size will make it so much smoother. But if you can then change to a newer runtime and use ZGC which has basically no pause whatsoever.
https://www.discountretailconsulting.com/post/germany-schwar...