skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I'd turn it around and ask those developers: Are there any projects you wouldn't do, no matter how much you needed the money, because you found them ethically unacceptable? If the answer is yes, then they actually agree with me, and we're maybe just discussing where the evilness threshold line should be drawn. I don't know many actual people who would say "No, I would willingly work on absolutely any project, no matter how harmful or depraved it is, as long as I get paid," but then again maybe I don't know enough truly desperate people.
The loudness war has ruined a lot of music on streaming services for me. Remasters where you lose the ability to distinguish instruments. No way to listen to the original version.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

So it's back to digging out and ripping my old cds.
Considering distros serious about booting are effectively shipping grub forks with tens (debian) to over a hundred (ubuntu) to hundreds (fedora) of patches on top, it might be time to invest a bit more into Open Source early-stage booting. I'm doubtful that efistub + UKIs will solve all the problems, but I'm cautiously optimistic. Wait and see!
disclaimer: i'm the founder of https://inlang.com/

monetizing your solution will likely be a dead end.

the value prop of your solution doesn't match the app you built, and what buyers pay for. for example, machine translating translation files is easier for you to build and developers to use with a cli [0] instead of a web app. there is no value in rendering json in the web app. vscode does a better job at rendering json's.

you could monetize via a web app if you allow non-devs to edit translations. but that's a beast called CAT editor [1], where you need to support all sorts of different file formats. aka, the value of a CAT editor is the file support and ecosystem around it, not the editor itself.

[0] https://inlang.com/m/2qj2w8pu/app-inlang-cli#machine-transla...

[1] https://inlang.com/m/tdozzpar/app-inlang-finkLocalizationEdi...
The article seems to conflate sex and gender while the study is paywalled so I can't tell how they defined male and female. The study does seem specific to sex and doesn't mention gender at all in the abstract.

Without those definitions it's basically saying "things we grouped a certain way ended up grouped that way" which isn't really a useful result.
I've been trying to convince people of this for years. The problem is from my view, that people have the idea of IP being some sort of the American Dream ingrained in their heads that they can't even reason about anything else.
Probably just left their tab open, then walked away.
What makes you think these folks - ultimately protesting poverty - can afford to visit other places?
I think having to get a robot to keep me company would make me feel worse than being alone.
Yes that is my favorite part of the apple tv as well, that it adjusts output to the source frames and resolution. As long as you have a good looking panel with nice color you'll never need to get rid of it. 1080 can really look gorgeous even with everything today being 4k
LOL downvotes, delusional capital apologists.
Youtube has multi-stream capability and I've seen one streamer use it years ago to let you pick which multiplayer user to spectate. I assume they used separate streams inside in the .m3u8 file used for HLS, much like how you'd do different resolutions. Haven't seen it done in years.

.mkv files natively support adding an arbitrary number of video tracks, though player support is kind of rare. (it's _ by default to cycle video tracks in mpv)
Because lighting your candle from mine doesn't diminish my candle's brightness.

We grant limited monopolies on created works to incentivize the creation of the works, but that's it. There's no deeper moral grounding. Words you put out into the world don't belong to you anymore; they created impressions in the minds of other people and those impressions belong to those other people, by natural right.

You're right that it's just as sound a property right as every other, but it's one that cuts remarkably against the grain of the underlying natural rights (for a specific perceived societal benefit), and it should always be evaluated as such.

Every generation should be asking "Does the current copyright regime create more good than harm?" And every generation should correct if the answer is 'no.'
I'm sorry. What backend? I'm trying to slice a video on my local machine. Something that was a 30 second job for something like this in the previous Windows Movie Maker that they yanked from the Microsoft Store and replaced with "the new and improved" ClipChamp, which is horribly slow, and I just found out why.

How is sharepoint involved in any of this? Why is it not transcoding locally? What if i throw it a 4k video?
You can see the page from the source code:

<article id="content" class="inside">
<h1>
Congratulations
</h1>

<h2>
Only you can see this website.
</h2>

<p id="suckers"></p><br/>

<img class="trophy glow" src="https://cdn.glitch.global/1543e9b8-e528-46e7-9375-25300add0f54/trophy.gif?v=1646925832589" alt="clip art animated gleaming first place trophy"/>

<br/>

<p>
Don't leave or you'll lose your spot.
</p><br/>

<a id="tweet" href="#" target="_blank">
<img class="icon twitter" src="img/twitter.svg" alt="Twitter icon" />
</a>

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https://annas-archive.gs/torrents

https://annas-archive.gs/donate
My broader point is that the majority of kexec issues are associated with the difficulty in quiescing the hardware, and there's simply no need to load the majority of drivers before offering this option which constrains the problem significantly.
Easy if you're government (every random cop on a traffic stop must be able to do that after all) but really REALLY hard for private entities.

The exception is anything that is accepted by airports for international travel aka, for you Americans, only a passport - ICAO 9303 is very detailed on how you can access the data stored on them. The specs and a basic understanding on how to communicate with smartcards are decent enough to get you to a readout in maybe a weekend worth of work. The authentication is either via a code derived from the MRZ or a dedicated access code printed on the document.
I've always configured my terminal to copy on select. I never press ctrl-c. I mean, why would I want to select text if not to copy it?
Funny, I'd've expected the opposite in the Java ecosystem. As someone entirely outside of it: why would one then use Gradle? Haven't seen a single positive post here yet.
Are you talking about terminals, or about shells?

I suppose the latter. Have you checked Oilshell, Elvish, or PowerShell (yes, on Windows)?
>It's wild to think that Intel was looking at 4GB and saying, "This probably isn't going to be enough."

Not really. While consumers at home had 8MB, Intel was already looking to compete with PowerPC, DEC Alpha, MIPS systems where 4GB wasn't really out of the ordinary, so they knew where things were going.
This argument is akin to saying we shouldn’t have hammers because tradespeople will move on to use nail guns once they have experience.

There is a place for both. You don’t need to spend much time on here, reddit, or many other forums to find people complaining about the lack of decent middle ground tooling to get started with front end dev.
Huh, today I learned. I'll consider myself lucky I didn't come across one of these machines yet.
Is anyone really wanting to get back into the business of building their own kernels? I started using Linux heavily in '92, and I've built a lot of kernels, and am quite happy to not be building them anymore.
This is true on "IBM compatible" x86 PCs and will continue to be for the foreseeable future, but it's not the case on all platforms. Some of them require graphics drivers to show anything at all, even simple text.
>I guess that you missed this from some weeks ago? https://www.yahoo.com/tech/google-maps-may-not-offer-1124362...

Problems with the veracity of those statements aside, at best the it confirms that google cares about being "inclusive", but the same source also specifically says that current routes are "objective", which disproves op's claim that "routes were being chosen to make the app more "inclusive""
I have a friend who's still convinced that GameStop's going to the moon. Any day now...
Okay, but how many business flights are actually last-minute like that? Whenever I've flown for work reasons the tickets were bought at least a week in advance, and usually 3+ weeks in advance.

Likewise, there are plenty of non-business flights booked last-minute like that, too - like, as a personal example, needing to book a same-night flight to help a family member drive cross-country with her kids and personal belongings so she could get out of a dangerous personal situation.

All this being to say: if price differentiation between in-advance v. last-minute bookings is actually intended to make business travel cost more than leisure travel, I'm thoroughly skeptical of that intent being fulfilled in practice. Seems more likely that it's simply a matter of things costing more when they're more scarce (as seats on an airplane would become as it gets closer and closer to the departure time), and that just so happens to impact business travelers more than leisure travelers.
I was working on my Dad's Dell laptop this weekend, and no matter how quickly I spammed the correct key (F12 in this case) it would miss it and continue to a full boot about 3/4 times. I never figured out if it is just picky about timing, or if it had different types of reboots where some of them entering BIOS wasn't even an option.
I've also been using Linux and the terminal ~15 years, and these things i keep forgetting and relearning every now and then. About Ctrl+A in particular, it never sticks in my memory, since i find typing the Home key to be more intuitive. Maybe the author has this same "problem".

It's funny how other programs don't seem to have this issue, and their users are able to learn new things without having to resort to an external manual. Makes one wonder about the design of everyday things!
I'm not debating the merits of renewables, I'm just stating that the population growth in Alberta is not linear. And the population IS growing by hundreds of thousands annually. To quote directly from Alberta population statistics:

"Alberta’s population growth continues to accelerate. In the 12 months preceding April 1, 2024, the province’s population expanded by 204,677 people, or 4.41%." [1]

"This represents a significant increase from the previous year (3.67% between 2022-23) and the highest April 1 year-over-year growth rate since 1981. Alberta’s population expanded by 49,138 residents over the first quarter of 2024, or 1.02%." [1]

The vast majority (over 160,000) of those new residents of Alberta were immigrants to Canada, driven by the federal government's massive immigration ramp-up. The immigration levels plan targets a continued increase in immigration through 2026 [2] and with Alberta having a comparatively low cost of living and very high quality of life, it's hard to believe that trend in population growth will not continue.

[1] https://www.alberta.ca/population-statistics

[2] https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/co...
Does anyone knows how Ticketmaster works, really?

I have been to Ticketmaster events that use reasonably priced, printable tickets, you could even buy a printed ticket with cash. In fact, even though there are so many Ticketmaster events, they are not all working the same way. And Ticketmaster doesn't have the monopoly on shitty practices, the article gives a good example in the beginning.

What I suspect is that Ticketmaster is nothing more than a service provider. The venue/event organizer/... looks at the Ticketmaster catalogue and pick the product they want. There are "evil" products in that catalogue, and they are probably the ones with the best returns, but I am sure people have a choice.

I'd even go as far as calling Ticketmaster "Evil as a Service". So people can say "fuck Ticketmaster" instead of saying "fuck Taylor Swift". I would be very surprised if artists (and their agents) at the level of Taylor Swift didn't have a say regarding ticket sale practices, even with Ticketmaster.

Of course, the monopolistic practices of Ticketmaster are a problem, people are most likely paying more than they should because of it, but all the crap with apps, resale platforms, etc... I am pretty sure the event organizers, maybe the artists themselves are as much to blame.
I've got an implementation of a stock exchange that uses the LMAX disruptor pattern in C++
https://github.com/sneilan/stock-exchange

And a basic implementation of the LMAX disruptor as a couple C++ files
https://github.com/sneilan/lmax-disruptor-tutorial

I've been looking to rebuild this in rust however. I reached the point where I implemented my own websocket protocol, authentication system, SSL etc. Then I realized that memory management and dependencies are a lot easier in rust. Especially for a one man software project.
A sibling comment linked to a source where a Google spokesperson denied it. https://www.yahoo.com/tech/google-maps-may-not-offer-1124362...
I miss this workflow sometimes. I started out as a c++ dev with a light weight vim + make workflow. I didn't really want an ide. I didn't have to configure much and I knew the libraries well enough that auto-completions didn't really interest me.

After getting a few full stack web projects made me jump to vscode. There's too many libraries and languages to juggle. Going without a smarter editor starts feeling like leaving time (aka money) on the table.
I used to live in Rome in the late 90s. As many as tourists as there were, and there were many, the volume must have doubled in twenty years.

Last time I visited, I felt an overwhelming anxiety that Rome didn't exist anymore. Instead I was walking through an amusement park shaped like it.

Friends I spoke to, who live in the Alban Hills, told me they'd stopped going to Rome 10 years earlier. Which is insane because she can trace her family in Rome proper to the 16th century.
To be clear, it's not the terminal emulator (xterm, mintty, iTerm2, etc.) that does this. It's the tty layer. You can use the stty command to change the settings.
Twenty Five Years of Warehouse-Scale Computing
It would have to be - the size of many of the parts need to be matched, so any change means a lot of changes (either that or the system is less efficient than what we have today). Also refrigerants keep changing as we discover less harmful ones, and often they are incompatible with the old so tear out the old pipes which otherwise should last a lifetime just because they are contaminated (or the wrong size)
Wait, "between Finland and Sverige"?!

Why not "between Suomi and Sverige"?

Or "between Finland and Sweden"?

Is it because Åland is mostly Swedish speaking that "Finland" gets written in English and "Sverig" gets written in Swedish?
Mp3Caprice
If I'm understanding correctly, it might help to point out that in spite of the title they are proposing a bootloader, which can still let you modify the cmdline, boot to other OSs, etc. It's just that the bootloader is itself using the Linux kernel so it can do things like read all Linux filesystems for "free" without having to rewrite filesystem drivers.
I went from 188 to 140 when I alt-tabbed, so 48, not 60.
In all seriousness, I think you're lucky then.

(I can only speak for my experience and those of my peers in my field, at the end of the day)
Android is not manageable by corporate IT. (in EU).
> and not as at risk of getting tied to a post and lit on fire because the bishop believes we commune with unclean spirits

We're on our way to get there, though, with that "can't solve social problems with technology" infectious meme, and the other one that makes the public blame programmers for socially-problematic tech, while ignoring or praising the business people who imagined, commissioned, and decided to deploy those technologies.
This is my experience too. After buying Affinity licenses, I don't want to pay Adobe their monthly rake too, but I do.
I know some people who bought the last time they had a 50% off sale recently.

$100 or so for the full suite. Great for the few times a year you need to use a tool. Even though I'm more on the tech side, I spent enough time in photoshop/etc around web development at one point that it's handy to have.

This would cost more in a month or two on a subscription.

I don't anticipate the current version licensing being revoked.

Future versions might add a subscription, but my feeling is if the TAM for them is all of Adobe's subscription clients, there's probably a lot more customers they can absorb.
Not what one would a representative data sample from which to draw broad, sweeping conclusions about the entire industry. As opposed to the particular news outlets you were speaking with, for which it would have more validity.

It's kind of like saying: "Lawyers? I've dealt with them twice -- and let me tell you, they're all a bunch of lying scumbags who ..."

But interesting data points, nonetheless.
Are you kidding? It's a Bethesda game, of course it won't fix any bugs. It's 2024 and the exact same sort of issues exist in Skyrim and Fallout 4 (even after the remasters/anniversary editions)!

I've run into issues recently (in June) with Fallout 4 where if your saved game data starts approaching 2GB on Xbox One x, saving the game will fail in weird ways (may hang the game, may crash the game). Once the game gets in this state, I'm not even able to launch the game without it hanging. Have to delete local game data, resync your saves from Live and pray you didn't lose more than a few minutes of gameplay.
The AI Gold Rush: Why We're on the Brink of a Consumer App Revolution
Really, I understand the human rights aspect of calling people whatever they feel they are and I am all for it. I think we should call people by their pronouns and whatever. Sex is one thing and gender is another.

But definitely, pretending that innate differences between sexes are influenced by the social construct of gender is going to far into a rabbit hole.

Let's just accept that we can still have medical research based on sex, and understand that it doesn't invalidade the idea of gender. It is just a different matter.
You have to be a little bit careful with those kinds of numbers. Once you get down to a few %, actual signal starts to be swamped by troll answers, misclicks, and other sources of error. You'll basically never see a number below a few percent in any poll with a decent sample size.

(As an aside, this is one of the things that makes the data on the effectiveness of transition care more remarkable than it even looks. Given the very high probability that a random person is cisgender, even moderate false-positive rates would swamp true-positives. The fact that they don't suggests false-positives are very rare indeed.)
... why would it? there's no magical limit, not even to debt-to-GDP ratio. as long as the state can collect taxes it can service debt.

during WW2 it was also this high. the US economy is still growing. and inflation is around 3%. not the usual target 2, but it's crazy good considering the recent pandemic and land-war-in-europe "situation".

eventually spending has to decrease ... or taxation to increase (US tax to GDP ratio is around 27% while OECD average is around 34%) ... and the US demographic stats are looking much better than a lot of countries'.

the feeling of impending doom is definitely not great, but it's a (social) media phenomenon.
This sounds wishy washy to me. So the difference between persistent and obstinate is up to the individual? Or consensus? In other words, what would be an example of someone who was persistent and not obstinate but didn’t succeed?
What's a popular Maven wrapper?
Windows 95 bootlegging was extremely prevalent. Piracy in Russia is nothing new.

From the AP Archive -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR3wtulOJWU
> The people making these decisions genuinely don't see ad-free as a feature, just a nice-to-have convenience that some weirdos will pay a premium for.

That would be fine if they respected us enough to say "ad-free is too niche of a feature to be worth it to us, we're pulling it".
Earache Records released several remasters of classic metal albums with increased dynamic range:

https://bandcamp.com/search?q=full+dynamic+range&item_type=a...

(also finds some other high dynamic range albums)
Yeah update your zfs file system to gain new features and bam, you can't boot no more.
The best way is to install it and try using it side by side for your use case.

For general stuff, it's very serviceable and comparable to Adobe.

If there's something very specific it might require confirming if the equivalent features exist in both, and if the procedure is different, what that is. New muscle memory like learning vim, but I know several people who are very happy with it and stick with it. They can always hop on Adobe if they need it here or there.
There should be more choices rather than "find another company". The problem is that it is an economically valid argument to say "if I don't, someone else will".

I believe that professions should have codes of ethics, and people should be expected to adhere to those codes of ethics. Right now there is no licensing or apprenticeship or registration associated with the profession of "software developer". There are some organizations that issue professional certifications in adjacent areas (MCSE, CISSP, etc.) that have codes of ethics associated with them, but I rarely see disciplinary action associated with them, and in any case employability is not linked to these certifications.

Conversely, lawyers have bar associations that evaluate complaints and can withdraw permission to practice.

Doctors have the Hippocratic Oath, but I'm not sure that it's enforced for medical licensure. However doctors do have medical licensing boards and licenses can be revoked.

Pilots have revocable licenses but I'm not sure they have a code of ethics.

Civil engineers have codes of ethics and licensure, but licensure revocation appears associated with legal malpractice, not ethical malpractice.

In any case, there are societal mechanisms that could be used to associate codes of ethics with software developers, if we as a profession and a society chose to, which I'm not optimistic will happen.
There are a lot of journal articles about this, but here's a recent NPR story [0] and a Vox article from 2019 [1].

[0] https://www.npr.org/transcripts/154299904

[1] https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/7/22/20703858/live-nation...
Newer Dell laptops have a BIOS option to artificially delay the boot process by a configurable number of seconds to give you more time to enter the menu. Which should be proof enough that the default time window is an issue.
Yeah, I was definitely kidding when I was referring to Word.

I do feel sad that we're still restricted to tools like grep and awk that treat everything as dumb text, and I think it holds us back hugely. I much prefer the powershell model of everything is an object. You can easily extend it with C#.

I appreciate that the unix philosophy has gotten us to incredible places, but I do wish we could rip off some of the training wheels and take advantage of the computing power that we have available to us that was just unthinkable. My mobile phone is more powerful than could possibly have been imagined when we make restricted itself to tab as a delimiter, and I'm currently using it as a coaster to save my table from water marks.
In that case I'm sure the "NHTSA-regulated entity" part only applies to Waymo, not Google or Alphabet. Your statement therefore makes little sense.
> - it allows to edit the cmdline of the kernel to recover a system that does not boot, e.g. start in single user mode. That can really save your day if you don't have on hand an USB stick and another PC to flash it

You can use the UEFI shell for this. It's kind of a replacement for the old MS-DOG command line.