skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The very best they can hope for is being able to come back to the table, hat in hand, asking to be readmitted."

As far as I know both the UK and the EU, this is not going to happen. Not just out of pride; the UK and the Franco-German axis of the EU were never a good political match and after this divorce, they will drift even more apart, because they do not need to hammer out compromises anymore.

IMHO the UK was smart to avoid entering the Eurozone. The monetary union without fiscal union is a wobbly construction, papered over by extremely low interest rates and sovereign debt buying programs such as PEPP.

One of the important features of earlier EEC was convergence of the periphery with the center; it still works to some degree in Central and Eastern Europe, but it stopped working in the Mediterranean.
The nature of "anyone finds out" is relative to departmental corruption, yes. But that doesn't change the actual rules. And it should be noted that most people's understanding of law enforcement procedure comes from tv fiction or the news. The unreliability of the former should be obvious, and the latter.. well the only things that make the news are things that are newsworthy and out of the ordinary. Which is probably not a good basis for making sweeping judgements about all LEOs and agencies everywhere.
https://pretalx.c3voc.de/rc3-2021/schedule/ is better.

Top right hand side has a well hidden pulldown to download .json, .ics etc
it means a lot of things that can mostly be summarized as "why"

appreciate wouldn't be the right word, I don't have an actual feeling towards it, but I'm open to joining some consensus' that I find convenient, so that relies on the author's choice or convention being articulated
I gave you an answer on your other comment on what my opinion is on asking for pcaps.
They're not scare quotes. I'm writing about word choice, so it's appropriate to use delimiters to make it clear exactly what word I'm writing about.

Most people think that "vaccine" has a specific meaning. It is dishonest to use that label for something that doesn't conform to that meaning when communicating with those people.
You get out of a college education what you put into it. I wouldn't recommend it just for a job, and the debt is an unfortunate modern heavy consideration to keep in mind. However, consider that it can be a force multiplier for your income for life, and give you the time/motivation to study things you may not otherwise come across, which can open you up to new opportunities and expand your network.

Also, people who come to college later in life tend to do better than average, because they want to be there, and have more maturity and discipline to do the work necessary.

I'm not saying college is the right choice for you, you do have important considerations that you're clearly weighing against each other. But, I am saying it may have more in the "pro" column than you credit it for, and there are also some non-loan subsidies that open up for students as well.

But yeah, student loans suck. A lot. For sure!
Zen buddhism. I started going to a local zendo about 7-8 years ago to do a weekly 1h30 hour meditation (in fact, 3 short bursts of 25min). This also became a (much shorter) daily habit, and over the year I attend various retreats (from 1 to 5 days). The zendo itself is 'managed' by a monastic.

I started because I wanted to have a crazy experience that would modify my epistemiological understanding of the world. Over the years, I discovered how past emotional events subcounsciously influenced my decision making, how much parental roles shaped my romantic views and how much of my personality was invested in my mind and not my body. I could go on and on.

I cannot prove this scientifically, but somehow I think that my effort toward zen practice made all of this possible, and the only thing I know is that the next change will be weirder than the last one.

I would also like to mention that, even if meditation is ''not christian'', I now feel that my understanding of it is better now than 8 years ago.
> There has a been a “savior” strain that a lot of us have been hoping for

The critical piece for a “savior” strain would be granting immunity to other less-benign strains. It’s still very early on, but so far it doesn’t look like Omicron has that feature as people are reportedly contracting both Omicron and Delta:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29698080#29699001

Without providing protection against other strains, it’s just another transmissible disease in addition to what we had before.
Honor faces the same issues as everyone in the home care industry: senior home health care is taxing work and there is very high turnover. It's also a very intimate and emotional industry. Some of our technology challenges are around Care Professional satisfaction and improving back-of-house operations.
I suspect though that a foreigner who does find the country exotic will choose subjects to photograph and photograph them in a way the "locals" would not. That can be both an interesting perspective for those native to the country as well as for the the rest of us.
Might as well rebrand as Whomst.
> You actually cannot without an HDCP decryptor, which tends not to be sold in a lot of countries since it's primarily used illegally.

They are trivially easy to buy online though
This is kind of disturbing to me. It seems like preying upon vulnerable people.

> Gloo declined to say how it identified who had mental-health or addiction struggles or where it got such data, citing confidential agreements with third-party data providers. Mr. Beck later said that Gloo had recently stopped using data related to those categories.

> Churches say data helps them find members more effectively. “They want to know who you are, they want to predict your capacity to give, your likelihood of dropping out of a program—it’s the same concepts that apply to a bank,” said Tal Frankfurt, founder and CEO of Cloud for Good, a consulting firm that works with faith-based groups and other nonprofits.

> People facing a crisis are among the most likely to be receptive to a church message, said Jason Ake, owner of Waypoint Creative, a digital marketing firm that has helped churches with their targeting efforts, including some that use Gloo. “Crisis is a broad term—maybe it’s a death in the family, maybe it’s depression or anxiety,” he said.
> Likewise, it doesn't matter where you get a game from, unless you break the DCMA and modify the binary, DRM enabled games will phone home to the "game service provider" to verify your license.

If you own the license, then downloading a pre-cracked derivative work of the installation media also isn't illegal (provided that the cracker has put the crack itself in the public domain!)

To resume the analogy: Microsoft might not like it that you're using a pre-cracked version of Windows that doesn't phone home; but if you're using that pre-cracked version of retail Windows with a valid retail Windows license, then there's nothing they can legally do about that, even if they somehow find out. (This situation has come up many times in the past; pre-cracked versions of software are sometimes used in industry because of other customizations done during the cracking process that make them more robust for embedded use-cases.)

Now, of course, the cracking itself may have been illegal under the DMCA, but there's a simple fix for that: the cracking just has to be accomplished by someone who's not a US citizen. The DMCA doesn't apply to things that foreign nationals get up to.

(But really, the thing you'd want here is legislation that requires that games that "phone home" to check for IP licensing status, do so to some disinterested third-party IP licensing registry — which could be a blockchain-like immutable ledger, or even just the sort of "IP clearinghouse"-like services that modern commercial music sampling is built on.)
Everything about it is fascinating. These people all have day jobs yet they provide a better experience than the multi-trillion dollar corporations that are releasing the product in the first place.
I remember the first time I learned about the Game Genie.

I was 12 when I walked into our local game store late one night and saw Super Mario Bros 3 being played on the big screen, except Mario had 99 lives, jumped higher than the screen, and looked like a beetle throwing hammers. WTF!

I asked the guy playing how he did it, and he replied with one word, "genie". I was so floored by what I was seeing, I didn't even think to ask any follow up questions.

I spent the next three months searching every corner of that game for the Genie, like he was a super secret character built-in. I only stopped after finding the Game Genie for sale at that same store :D
Some of the live streams allow you to select an English audio stream.
https://ziglearn.org/
In this way BIOS's are so much better these days.

You can even boot and update your BIOS without a working processor. Did this over Christmas when the mainboard/CPU combo I got for a family member wasn't compatible. Just put in a USB drive with the correct file name and press a button on the board and it updated and I was good to go.

A little of topic, but just wanted to state how much better these things are than the old days where it was easy to brick a board.
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I don’t agree with the uniforms point. If uniforms are replaced with a student's own clothes they will be bullied relentlessly for not sporting the latest fashion.

This happens today because shoes and bags aren’t part of the uniform. Other than the colour requirements. That was a source of bullying for myself and others.
I think it's a bit of a stretch to call Windows 10 an "absolute dog", but I have experienced a noticeable performance issue myself: low-end power consumption.

I have a new-ish ultrabook laptop with a mobile Intel processor that dual-boots Windows 10 and Linux with the Openbox desktop environment. On Linux, doing Lisp development with Emacs and SLIME hovers around 3-5% CPU usage. Windows 10, with no applications open, idles between 8% and 15%. As a result, I get significantly worse battery life in Windows than in Linux (despite the opposite situation usually being true due to better power-management (drivers) in Windows) - 7 hours vs 10.

(Windows 10 also uses more RAM doing nothing than Linux+Openbox does, but that's not as much of an issue for me - RAM does nothing if it's not being used, while a CPU not in use directly translates to longer battery life)
Or naming companies after physical units (e.g. Tesla).
I just feel bad for the one ‘good actor’ who is never going get a coffee at the Christmas market.
Okay, I know I might be breaking some kind of HN rule here, but I'm super genuinely curious as to why the downvotes here. Seriously. Is it "because people already know and I'm being condescending?" Is it "No, they shouldn't do this and instead allow the code to be censored?" Where are y'all going with this?
"48,840 is the current score required for Pioneer review."

Looks like a tall hill to climb if you are just starting. How is a new contestant supposed to compete with old contestants?
Cheaper than paper? IDK.

But I have A product that I just did the math on. I was making a “dumb version“ that removed BLE and added two buttons. The BLE version would end up being cheaper. Of course this assumes that the Bluetooth software firmware is already completed, which for me it is.
Yes and yes. Lenovo probably doesn’t give a shit, though. But you can ask!
Wonderful to see this finally get released. A lot of people (myself included) have been awaiting with bated breath for 2 full years for VCV Rack 2.

It impresses me to this day that Andrew Belt is the sole developer on the project. He's been able to do something tremendous in a relatively short amount of time for just one guy.
> So now it only serves to create incompatibility issues and bugs for paying users. Even though it has been irrelevant for more than a decade.

Hey that's me! Every time I open a website that has DRM to the max like Spotify or Netflix, my second monitor goes black for like 10 seconds. Fun times.
Build systems that break, the tests come naturally after that.
it might not be all bugs, but 70% of all found bugs is still a lot of bugs that were completely preventable with better language choice.
That is not something that happens. There are American mistakes. There are incompetent Americans. There are even malicious Americans. But U.S. drone strikes are not random and the U.S. vigorously prosecutes war crimes violations by its own soldiers.

If you want to criticize, say, President Trump for his actions in the Gallagher case, that would be entirely fair. But it doesn't change the fact that he was prosecuted in the first place. There is no ISIS analogy to the Gallagher prosecution. Indeed, no other nation does as good a job as the U.S. does. I say this as a Marine judge advocate who stood in the face of immense pressure by an Australian "leftenant colonel" who wanted to cover up an unintended CIVCAS by joint forces.
Yes. But also the programmer should be taking notes as they go. If they do, getting interrupted isn’t nearly as interrupting.
This, and any code base of significant size is unknowable and starts to produce bugs naturally. Requiring tests and verifying minimum coverage are a few things you can do to control the death spiral.

I have worked on large systems devoid of tests. Not recommended. I literally witnessed multi-million dollar losses that would have been prevented by requiring tests.
I used to have >$3000 worth of modular and think VCV rack is great. It gets you completely into the modular world. Dipping toes is like saying pigments or vital is dipping your toes into synthesis. It's just jumping right into the ocean honestly.

Hardware generally slows down my workflow to a crawl. There's no beating the convenience of bouncing digital instruments. Especially for sound design. If you want a new sound with modular hardware and want to reuse your modules, you're getting rid of your existing patch. There's nothing more limiting than feeling like you can't use your gear because the patch it's currently configured for is too good to change. That works for some people but not for me.
There are many unpatched vulnerabilities that could be exploited just by downloading a file, for example CVE-2004-0209 or CVE-2005-2122
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_in_English#Animals

I'm a non-native English speaker, but with the SJW thing in the US, nothing about genders really surprises me. As a rule of thumb, I'd say that putting some "she" here and there never hurts and always beats consistency. Not sure if that's what's at play here. Maybe they just want to "personify" the animals to make the story more touching.
According to the Britannica encyclopedia, it is thought to have been named in honor of Captain Richard Somers, hero of the Tripolitan-American (Barbary) War.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Somerville-Massachusetts
Wait, I can only add three photos to my Daylio entry? That's kind of lame. I just downloaded it and maybe I'm missing something, but it seems I am limited to just 3 photos on Android.
The only overhead memory used by a pool allocator is the rounding to the page size. The difference from a compacting GC is that a pool allocator can allocate from the freed memory immediately after the memory was freed. So the overhead does not depend on the allocation rate, it is just a tiny constant factor.

As for the energy efficiency, I seriously doubt that bringing all memory into cache once in a while, including memory that is not needed frequently by the application, only in order to find live vs dead memory is all that energy efficient. The allocation itself is indeed typically slightly faster but the marking and compaction is additional cost you don't have to pay in manual memory management.
I don't understand where that came from. It's really a replacement for C. The place where complexity comes from in zig is pretty much the comptime type system, which is emergent from the idea of replacing irregular consteval rules for C and replacing preprocessor macros

I would say that Zig is:

C - {make, autoconf, etc., preprocessor, UB[0]} + {*defer, !, ?, catch/try, "async"[1], alignment, comptime}

I don't think that rises to the level of "C++ replacement". Maybe it's that comptime lets you do generics a la C++ templates?

[0] by default, in zig you can have UB for performance

[1] in quotes because async is not actually async, it's a control flow statement that is usually and most usefully used to do async things.
All human cells are replaced every 7 years. Known fact. Or was.
For those wondering, like me, what the hell the BNT162b2 vaccine is, it's the research name for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine. It's stated several paragraphs down the paper.
Video with here:
https://imgur.com/1Svgp0G

(From the repo)
Once for this specific test. If you planned on buying a lot of tests and using them regularly, maybe you could find value in a BLE connection? IDK. That crosses into a different new normal line for me that I am uninterested in I think.

Otherwise, I agree, seems wasteful when you look at what had to happen to ship that product.
Can't recommend this book enough
DRM-free games generally do not have any license key (I’ve never seen one with it, but that’s anecdotal).

I’m not sure if an offline-only key check would be considered DRM; maybe is. Realistically such a check doesn’t do much, so what’s the point in including it. Back in the day it was often required to have one of the discs inserted to play—that is definitely DRM.
Playing a lot of computer games, reading internet, especially comments and chatting. It allows my spirit to get away from my mortal, aging shell into the virtual worlds of imagination, speech, ideas and relations.
Multicast would save exactly zero Hz of spectrum bandwidth, which a moment's thought would reveal to you. Allow me encourage a habit of that.

Multicast routing uses, exclusively, point-to-point links. So, a packet could go up to the satellite once, but would need to be copied down to every terminal individually.

But internet video is in any case not distributed by multicast UDP. Even if it were, you still would need caching for viewers not watching identically the same frames at the same time, because a multicast router does not do time-shifting: all copies of each packet are queued to send immediately.
Thank God, the current versions are just so thick, I can barely hold it. I really hope they can remove some more stuff and make it thinner.
> That is all. What we’re discussing isn’t, at its core, a “hot-button political topic.” You are making it that.

The phrase was invented as a political tool. Disagree? Provide cites.

I'll start - https://checkyourprivilege.co/ , https://www.amazon.com/Check-Your-Privilege-Live-into/dp/099... , and https://www.amazon.com/Check-Your-Privilege-Lean-discomfort/... .
I'm not convinced this statistic is saying more than that these bugs are easily identifiable. There is a lot of tooling for identifying memory errors, and virtually none that could identify something like log4shell.
Totally agree on fusion power.

The challenge with that assessment for renewables, is as California and Germany both are discovering, there are missing elements of the cost equation being used that aren’t being accounted for, but someone has to pay for it or bad things happen. Notably bad even for politicians, like people freezing to death or dying from heat in the summer.

Both are currently pretending (near as I can tell) to understand what it means, and report numbers that seem pretty rosy.

Cost of energy total, however, in both these places continues to skyrocket.

They may be able to continue to avoid it, if folks take the price signal to heart and find workarounds (like finally improve insulation in the stock of older housing and public spaces, or switching energy consumption pattern to flatten peaks). I can tell you that California so far seems to not get the hint.

In Germany it’s the winter heating load, and figuring out how to actually keep themselves from freezing during outlier (but not that infrequent) events.

In California, it’s the aging transmission infrastructure and shifting peak production vs peak demand without adequate storage leading to brownouts, blackouts, and high surge pricing during summer air conditioner loads.

In California they changed new construction energy codes, but it’s mostly BS. With the rate of new construction being tiny compared to existing (old) stock, it’s not going to make a significant difference for 50+ years. A decent portion of existing homes have either no insulation, or 50 year old insulation with poor or zero maintenance, and are grandfathered in.

Energy prices in both places continue to increase, that may do it. Both places are near world records highs already, and have been for some time.
You can fork and detach. Then it is no longer linked.
> They are often taken on 35 mm film, which means a natural shallow dept off field

Not to be too nitpicky but depth of field is a function of focal length and aperture size, the film itself is irrelevant. It's just as easy to achieve on digital, not as common on crop sensor sizes (because those introduce a focal length multiplier, thus you need a very light and wide open lens, like f/1.8) but a full frame sensor has the same depth of field as a 35mm film frame.
This is really important. GP's experience is beautiful. Yet, I recently read an article[] describing how there's very little help available to people who perhaps meditate too much and end up in spiritual crisis; meditation is sold as this panacea in our western world.

> hackingthelema

Love the user name. Would also love if you read my top-level comment on this thread.

[] https://www.vice.com/en/article/vbaedd/meditation-is-a-power...
Show HN: Tare, responsive font built with flexbox and borders
Mikrotik HAP AC2. Great value, great power, easy setup.

OpenWRT also great option.
I guess it's the Christian problem -- they seem to hate sex, or at least talking about it.
The device is hardware-hackable.

You can add additional rewritable onboard storage. And an LTE modem for mobile data.
> and so making getting at heap allocations harder by explicitly getting them through an allocator is a great thing.

Did not follow this logic.
he used a rolleiflex TLR medium format camera (the square images) and a leica IIIC 35mm.

> Bischof died in a road accident in the Andes on 16 May 1954, only nine days before Magnum founder Robert Capa lost his life in Indochina.
> Heck even the Linux kernel isn't tested.

Linux kernel self-tests:

https://kselftest.wiki.kernel.org/

Kselftest is run everyday on several Linux kernel trees on the 0-Day and Linaro Test Farm and other Linux kernel integration test rings.

Most recent update to the source code was yesterday 2021-12-26:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-kselftest/list/
Most mornings begin with exercise and cool down. Then scripture and prayer.

This morning, I read Hebrews chapter 12 from the New Testament in the Bible. Afterwards, I prayed about some of the things that stuck out to me. I prayed for my family, and the members of my dev team.

I find this tends to center me on the things that (I believe) are important... thinking more of others than myself. I pray for things I know about and things I don't know about. When relationships at work are stressed, I pray that I could see things from the perspective of others. I pray for humbleness. I pray that I'd be helpful to those around me. For those I'm mentoring, I pray that I'd teach them useful things that will foster growth.

So lotsa prayer I guess.