skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I share your sentiment. People make GUIs for MPV but I'd rather just use a media player designed for GUI users out of the box. Got nothing against ffmpeg, wonderful tool, just some things I think need a proper GUI.
State courts' interpretations of their own constitutions aren't bound by the federal courts' interpretations of the federal constitution. "If they uphold the law" is the wrong way to phrase it because the Florida supreme court will decide what the law is for Florida.
Sorry not sure I understand you post, but if I follow:

- you're claiming that the Fields medal did not switch over in 1966 - I think many would disagree, that's generally cited as the year the change happened.

- you're claiming that a good explanation why Grothendieck didn't win in 1962 is because he was just fleshing things out? I think that is also incorrect - he introduced etale cohomology in 1960 - from 58-66 Grothendieck's output was pretty ridiculous.
I enjoy using stuff for things they were not created for. In my HN profile I claim to be a hacker in the old sense of the word, and this is a big part of old style hacking.

But I am not then surprised when it takes a lot more effort than using something that had been created for that would take. For example, in 1983 I wrote a fancy Logo implementation using TI99/4A Extended Basic. It was far more complicated than the implementation I wrote in C. But the Basic version actually ran while the C version was just on paper since I didn't have access to any computers with C at the time.

I think it is great that people end up doing in Scratch things that you would expect would need Python or something like that. But if some 5 line Python program becomes a monster in Scratch, that is to be expected. The opposite is also true: a 5 line Scratch program might take pages of Python to replicate.
It doesn't seem as cut and dry as you make it seem.

Archival institutions are allowed to make digitized copies of legitimately owned works, and to allow access to that copy on their own "premises".

In the case of an organization like the internet archive which does not have physical premises, would you accept the argument that their 'premises' is the internet?

The question that they want answered is: where exactly is the line between looking at a scanned/microfiched/non-original archival copy of copyrighted material at the library, and viewing that same material over a network connection.

They weren't just handing out unlimited copies of books. They were distributing owned copies of books for exclusive temporary use. The method of delivery is different, but the end result is the same as checking a book out and leaving the library.

Just because public libraries signed shitty deals to get access to lending ebook licenses doesn't mean that the right to lend archival material over the network doesn't exist.

I would love for the courts to establish a first-sale doctrine that applies to digitized books, or that allows shifting a books format (buying a physical copy of a book and converting it to digital)
(M)(A)(TH)

i guess it's a for-fun name?
Smart miners mine during the slumps in BTC prices when there is less competition. They get more BTC, even if it is currently worth less USD. They then hold the BTC for the next rally. Most large miners are also cash flush early BTC adopters who do it for hobby and ideology.
Yes, but if yours still did, it wouldn't bother me. See the difference?
Google Trends for “Race War” – By DMA (Metro Area)
The term 3x'd this year in popularity, I took a look at popularity by DMA by scraping daily data from Google Trends.
"Please don't fulminate."

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We were all a little crazy at the start of the pandemic.
Honestly trying to clarify... Are you aware that altering existing, stable ecosystems has potentially massive, unpredictable, long-term costs that other humans will have to pay, potentially far outweighing any of the economic benefits of the original human interference?

This is pretty basic history, with endless examples of human societies that took short-term gains by screwing with ecosystems for more complex than they could understand... Only to leave behind horrific costs for their descendants and neighbors? And that some of those costs proved so high that they wiped out the societies that came up short, when the bill came due?

Are you aware of the countless famines, wars, wildfires, floods, and other disasters that happened as a result? Do you know the body counts of these choices?

If you're honestly just ignorant of all this history, I'm gonna suggest that you start by reading Mark Reisner's masterwork:

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Desert

And then maybe follow it up with Jared Diamond:

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse:_How_Societies_Choo...

If you can at least digest those, whether you agree or disagree with their theses--then I think we'll be ready to have a useful discussion about the wisdom of human interference in existing stable ecosystems.
A guy DIY'ed a robotic hand that slaps the phone from driver's hand
Next, we'll have a generation of mobile devices that will be liquid cooled. Of course because of the miniturization, there will be no way to refill the liquid coolant without getting a new device. This will naturally happen before the batteries die creating an even shorter life cycle in devices. Sounds like a perfect pitch for an upcoming WWDC type of event.
Only if it has the sensors for it. There's a decent chance it just has a cheaper cadence sensor on the pedals, not a torque sensor or other way to tell if you are pushing hard.
It's frustrating because it seems like there is a simple heuristic to help detect fleeceware. That is `yearly_price/weekly_price`. I just saw a ringtone app with a weekly price just one-third of the yearly price ( $30/$10 ) and I barely looked.

I'd even go so far as to argue that the very existence of weekly pricing for an app is a red flag itself. I'm sure there are some examples where weekly pricing makes sense for an app but I've yet to hear any. I'm open to hear some though.
If everyone keeps operating under the "same BS" then things will never change.
I disabled hardware acceleration, it was on by default. I think seeking is faster with it off and I believe there was another advantage, which I don't remember now. I find that CPU usage is negligible, but YMMV.
There are no trees on the island at all, barely an ecosystem, they clear cut the island about 500 years ago and nothing has been able to reestablish in the harsh conditions. Most of the island is rock, some of it covered in lichen, some covered in a very hardy moss. It's important to be respectful of the ecosystem, but also, iceland is a barren rocky island and you need some sort of flora to bootstrap a productive ecosystem. The tree planting efforts have been necessary.

Iceland's tourism marketing department is super impressive; I see a barren rocky hellscape (I've been there twice, both times as emergency layovers due to XYZ airline problems) but people who buy into the ads consider it "beautiful and otherworldly", I think, because there are no trees there besides the ones planted in the cities. The bus trip from the new airport to the capital is about 30 minutes, other than Craters of the Moon national park in idaho I don't think i've seen a more barren stretch of land, especially so close to a major population center.
‘A uniquely dangerous tool’: How Google's data can help states track abortions
I wonder if there's a charity that will pay for / subsidize heat pumps in Europe this winter. The war in Ukraine is an actual existential crisis for many countries over there, and ending gas imports is the easiest way for them to defend against future Russian invasion.

I'd expect the politicians to be launching a WWII-style industrial mobilization to ramp up heat pump installations. Even if they can't switch away from coal / natural gas this year, typical heat pump coefficients of power are well above 4. Going from 100% gas furnaces to 100% heat pumps powered off of natural gas peaker plants would more than halve natural gas demand! (And, in coming years, the natural gas plants could be replaced with greener options.)
I appreciate how they lay out the challenges they have faced, which gives me more confidence in their projected timeline.

I am curious if somebody with a conventional implant would be able to reimplant with this new technology. It seems like all the required structures would still be intact.
Not every statement needs to be written to serve some noble goal. I was offering the previous poster some interesting extra context.
>A lot of wield these beliefs like weapons and go out of their way to cause pain.

Again, so what? People who aren't religious do the same thing.
I think the “life begins” argument is overly reductive, some would argue you’re killing something by cutting off the supply of life that would otherwise be expected to play out (like plucking a seedling), that’s why they have exceptions for “danger to mother’s life”.
Your entire argument is an attempt to spin something that is widely seen as necessary, that is, access to abortion, into a side discussion about your personal dislike for not paying for your kids. Aside from being a pretty awful parallel to make, giving people access to only having the kids they want lowers the chance of them financially abandoning them.
I don't know, I think an exception for rape is usually an element of discussion on both sides. I'd be fine with such an exception here as well, no issue with that as the man is an innocent party in the creation of the child.
Badly paraphrasing "Rapture of the Nerds" (co-written by TFA's author): [Immortal uploads] did not have to win the debate against the anti-upload faction - they only had to outlive them
Right. Even at 5x, that would be 20% of your pre-tax income to full-time employ someone which wouldn't be sustainable for most people. Even if you're paying out more per hour, it makes far more sense to have a lawn service come by every couple of weeks, get a cab or schedule a limo, etc. Of course, modern lifestyles and automation require much less of the Downton Abbey levels of staffing.
Not a good idea if you're frequently sending things that are already compressed, though. Which many formats today are.

(Also, I was using `scp` as a general abstraction; personally, I'm not often pushing things around between VMs directly, but rather between VMs and object storage; where part of the question is not just about the transport encoding, but rather whether it's worth it to have the data be compressed-at-rest in the object store. Usually depends on how many times you're going to be downloading it.)
I think you’re right.

No one, who is anyone, got to where they’re at because they followed the rules. At a certain point anyone who is successful took a risk in their past and it paid off.

When you take a risk for profit, you can hire the lawyers you need to cover for the sins you committed. Most of the time it’s cheaper for parties to settle out of court and this puts you at the negotiating table and integrates your success into the existing power structures. You live long enough to become the villain.

When you take a risk and innovate for the greater good, you don’t have the profit, you can’t hire the expensive attorneys to cover you, and you get eaten alive by the parties you offended. You die the hero, which is why very few do this.
I recall they'd announced the intention to set up a mirror in Canada, did that ever materialize? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/11/worried-about-us...
> modules which are files you import directly but if not in the same directory also still need an __init__.py which has tripped up probably 80% of the people I try to teach Python to.

Not necessary anymore since Python 3.3 (released in 2012).
That’s fine until it wont compile on someone else’s machine. Had that many times before with python.

SciPy is a bastard on macs for example.
I don't necessarily agree even there.

The Viet Cong was a well supplied and well organized army, with significant logistical support from North Vietnam, and would likely had failed miserably if North Vietnam hadn't waited to consolidate its power and accrue supplies (and international support) after the revolution and previous civil war.

In the USSR invasion of Afghanistan, the taliban received ample support from the USA, including training, arms and logistics; again, they would have very likely failed in the absence of this support. In the NATO invasion of Afghanistan, the taliban quickly lost the military war, but ultimately retained their cultural advantage; the regime that the USA tried to install was simply unpopular, and instantly folded the moment it stopped being propped up. Either way, the last few decades of war have not led to some flourishing of Afghanistan as the theory predicts: it remains poor and by all likelihood will remain poor for the forseeable future, as all other war zones do.

Also, in both cases, the advantage of fighting in their own territory was a significant part of what ultimately defeated their opponents.
Using your same logic, I will single-handedly decide that all software companies (and the developers working there) have received enough compensation for their efforts, and demand all their services and code be made available for free. As long as you got one paycheck from those months of work, now I want it for free.

/s
And ignores all the people saying that cleaning them is the problem.

I'm yet another person who worked at a place with a ballpit as a teen. I loathed it. One Karen lets her brat with diarrhea in, and it's closed for 2+ hours as someone making minimum wage loads every single ball, some with shit on them, into a net bag and runs it through the commercial dishwasher. Then hand wipes every tube.

Meanwhile, a line of other Karens are taking out their rage at not having the ballpit available to them Right. This. Instant! on a bunch of minimum wage coworkers.

At least three times a month during summer, btw.
Surely that is grounds for divorce?
Practically by accident. I didn't know the job was so nice before I got into it. I might have helped my luck by moving to a niche area which is dominated by nerds (Scala, with a Haskel-like functional bend). So, if a company is allowing the use of such, frankly crazy, technology, then it means that it is treating its tech people seriously, or is ran itself by crazy tech nerds.
Telephone, email, paper letter, door-knocking, carrier pigeon, paper airplane through a window, SMS, IP based messaging systems, linkedin, facebook messenger, verbally.

The same way you get in touch with any other institution composed of people.
were most the students parents from "professional" backgrounds?
With python you can also go pretty far without __init__.py IMO. Just put everything in a single directory.
To me it seems pretty reasonable. That content is available on public internet. And they even give perfect citations. That is timestamp and address, plus all the information on the page.

If people don't want their content in such place they can always place it behind login-wall.
> RSS readers act like email clients in how they render content via HTML. Unfortunately, email content isn't as rich as the JavaScript-powered web today

Can somebody expand on-behalf on this ludicrous idea and its unspecified details; it seems like somebody has found something better than hypertext¹ - but left the specs inexplicit. If anybody has an idea if that positively meant something...

(¹codable text? It reminds me of the self-modifying code we used in the 8-bit times. Surely not the way I want text - which has to be complete and assessable.)

By the way, RSS informs you that something exists; what it points to may even include rockets and theatrical performance in the end.

And all along the way, if I intend to receive hypertext I want it certain that code will run only in containers I decided.
> The steer is basically not higher than the frame. Very bad for back, shoulders and wrists. ... That position is not maintainable for a longer time, especially if you're a desk worker.

A slight forward lean is desirable. Sitting bolt upright on a bike makes it very hard to engage your biggest, most efficient muscles: your glutes and hamstrings. This is also why the "athletic position" is universal to just about every physical activity; the slight crouch is similar to the natural position on a bike. Those larger muscles help stabilize your pelvis, reducing the force on your shoulders, arms, and wrists. https://www.pedalpt.com/upright-bicycling/

(There are other benefits too—the bike's handling improves as weight is balanced between the front and rear wheels and the center of gravity is lowered—but I'll assume we're talking about purely recreational/daily needs riding where such concerns are secondary.)
goimports seems an endless source of absolutely bizarre bugs unless your packages' terminal path element exactly matches the package name (even sometimes if it does e.g. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29041).

These do get addressed over time but also seems to break in a new way at least a couple times a year.
Yep, I have no idea how they do not even understand the basics of python dependency management. pip freeze > requirements.txt will do it all for you. No wonder they found rust to hard.
I always felt that the official documentation is pretty excellent (Worth a re-read if you haven't in a while):

Code organization:
https://go.dev/doc/code

Pretty much everything else you should know:
https://go.dev/doc/effective_go

There's one thing I think that people getting started with this language should know and that's in the pursuit of getting the stuff you mentioned right, is making sure the reference material (blog post, book, whatever it is) you're reading is something written within the past two or three years. The official site really has enough that you need to know in order to have good knowledge coverage, but the module system beyond version 1.16 especially is something you need to get right and which a ton of old information is out of date on:

https://go.dev/doc/modules/developing
> I understand you're passionate about the issue and feel your spouse has been ripped off.

It's not just that we're personally harmed by the current system—we're in the "has a high-earning spouse" group so we don't need to both be adequately paid, though of course it'd be nice—but I've watched one good, experienced teacher after another bail on the profession over the years, because they do not get paid enough to put up with the shit they're subjected to, and at some point they see an opportunity outside education, realize just how badly they're under paid, and decide they're done with it. It seems to be getting worse, too, even before recent inflation started screwing with everything (I suspect the rest of this decade is going to be a slow-motion disaster for education hiring and retention, in excess of how bad it already was). I have kids, too, and they're in school, and I hate knowing that a bunch of the best teachers they might have will leave before they get them, because the work-conditions/comp ratio is so badly messed up that it's not only asking some sacrifice of teachers, but is practically abusive.

> There's a huge selection effect: when you choose the students A) who can earn a scholarship, or B) whose parents will sacrifice to pay tuition at a non-sectarian school, you're basically selecting for the families who value education.

Yeah, agree that the factors that make a "good school" versus a "bad school" are complex and that you can't just look at student outcomes to decide whether the quality of a school's instruction is actually above-average—especially with private schools, but also with public schools. Solutions to those problems that aren't actually related to school quality per se are hard to come by, without deliberately leaving some kids behind and/or increasing staffing levels dramatically (so, also significantly increasing district spending/budget). Lots of the problems, effective solutions start to look like "solve poverty", so... good luck. :-(

Didn't mean to be flippant with the good vs. bad school distinction—looking at various measures of student outcomes definitely doesn't give a full picture of how good a job a school, or a teacher, is doing, and selection bias is a major confounder in attempts to do that.
Or outright warez content... Yeah, I don't know why anyone would think that should pass...
What if the depedencies you pinned have non-pinned depedencies?

packageA==1.0.0 depends itself on packageB

Therefore, you can find yourself with a different set of deps. Had a bug like this once.
Window managers: awesome, i3.
The City itself is "entirely" (as in, City government). See the other post in this thread; someone found the story I was referring to.
Well what if it gets 99.9% automated but instead it means each programmer can now program like a team of 50 programmers, devops, pms, and qa people from today.
Not even close. Both an observations in slightly different contexts

“Most people agree abortion / infanticide should be limited at some point”

And

“Logically, I don’t see how you can determine when abortion / infanticide is okay … < here are the logical steps I took there >”
> mpv --no-video --vo=null --ytdl-format='bestaudio/best' 'lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to'

With --ytdl-format='bestaudio' there's no need to disable the video track or use the null vo.
I wish to love Firefox, but some things are dragging it down

1. Noticabely slower and less snappy than Chromium in both page load and interaction.

2. HTML5 rendering is horrendously slow.

3. Shortcuts mapped by chars, not keycodes; e.g. pressing ctrl+t on Cyrillic layout will do nothing instead of opening a new tab.
>when in reality I doubt any man could care less about what a woman hes not involved with is doing to their body

You are simply wrong on this point. There is a large portion of the population that thinks their opinions on "decency and morality", that largely come from religion, should be applied to everyone. They try to get around this by claiming "life starts at conception, and therefore any abortion is murder", but there's not really a legal foundation for "life begins at conception" and at best that seems to come from their religion so that should be thrown out pretty much right away.
It's for funsies. Haven't you ever done something for funsies?

Mostly I just wanted to make some nice open-license illustrations and the book is just kind of a bonus. I'm not trying to make a buck; everything you need is available on the website.

I've been teaching archivists for a long time and everybody has to start somewhere. I think this is a good starting place, especially for folks that need to know how to figure out what something even is, or the potential content or historical context/era. Especially for folks that don't work with video often, they can get easily freaked out/overwhelmed. I think it's going to be either required or recommended reading for at least three archives courses this fall that I know about.
Sorry just caught this

https://electric-scooter.guide/comparisons/compare-electric-...
Soviet agents secretly installed tiny sensing devices in about a dozen embassy typewriters. The devices picked up the contents of documents typed by embassy secretaries and transmitted them by antennas hidden in the embassy walls. The antennas, in turn, relayed the signals to a listening post outside the
embassy. “Depending on the location of the bugged typewriters, the Soviets were able to receive copies of everything from routine administrative memos to highly classified documents.
“One intelligence officer said the potential compromise of
sensitive information should be viewed with ‘considerable
seriousness.’ “Another intelligence expert said no one knows for sure how many or what secrets were compromised. A third official
called the entire affair a fiasco.

https://media.defense.gov/2021/Jul/13/2002761779/-1/-1/0/LEA...