skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, though with one semantic nitpick:

The digital nature of a work doesn't matter. It says right there on the tin, intellectual property; a la any work ("property") that is a product of human intellect.
Dumb TVs are getting harder to find. It would be easier to login on your router and deny access to your smart TV.
Yeah there are so many walls like that which I hit.
I always go to their forum, find that it's been asked a lot and with no resolution. Which is fine, I get it that they are newer and don't have the resources.

But in the amount of time I've now wasted trying to do the thing, I just paid for my Adobe license for the month for the relevant app.
> It is very easy to find free live music without Ticketmaster or online portals.

Oh okay, nevermind then. Heck, I just found some under my couch. How does Ticketmaster even make any money?!
I don't want to speculate on the reasons.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/18xjjny/myroadsafe...
My first stop for building anything is YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=build+a+mini+je...
The Eastern European (not just Russian) book scanning scene seems to have started in the early 2000s, back before the anti-Western turn. Z-Lib is newer, from the 2010s(?), definitely predating the current meaning of Z.
Oatbar – the first relase of a Unix-way status bar
Hi,

I am finally ready to share this with the community. I was using a lot of excellent status bars in the past and usually extended them a lot with custom information. However I realised existing options missed something that was important to me, either in features or ways how extensibility is done. That’s why I started this project to see if I can develop the concept I had in mind. I basically wanted a simple Unix-way built around text+pipes the way it is done in i3bar+i3blocks, but with much richer control and selection widgets, beyond simple script to text. I wanted simple shell scripts controlling progress bars, selectors, even images. Configuration language flexible enough to build menus, even if they are not first class features.

The bar basically let's you connect your script to a variable which can be used to control all widget aspects dynamically, colors, fonts, edges, backgrounds, full Pango markup, visibility, etc. You can even draw your own images to files and display them on the bar.

More on oatbar.app and in the repo https://github.com/igor-petruk/oatbar

Testing welcome, I had only tested on a limited number of OS/WM. More importantly, please tell me what you think of the configuration language, if the idea is viable and what we can improve there. Throw in your ideas. This is the first release, so we can change many things and experiment on the concept.

Thanks.
Igor.
> You'd definitely hire programmers with the same sense of humor I suppose.

There are many ways to structure interviewers to hire clones of yourself.
Have you gotten your CV and cover letters reviewed and improved them based on the feedback? If you are not getting any calls, CV or what you apply to will have the largest effect.
That’s just reflection of your culture. I.e. I come from Eastern Europe where cheating is so engrained and “i made an oopsie” would never fly. Beurocracy is face to face and takes ages

Now living in NZ I get tons of slack for something like “verify youre local for free museum entry” or “get your passport by post”. Life is so much easier when societal trust is high.
> There is no redundant signal that can be checked for a discrepancy that could indicate a problem.

What’s the problem with having no redundancy? By the same logic, we should require numerals to be spelled out in words so the compiler can check if the programmer didn’t accidentally write a different number.

def fahrenheit_to_celsius(x): {
return (x - 32 [thirty two]) * 5 [five] / 9 [nine];
}
As an author of two technical books, it cost me $0 to distribute because that was the publisher's job.

I got paid a pittance for the amount of time put into the works. I wouldn't have seen any more or less if someone pirated the books.
I can only assume that this blog post is an extremely dry variety of sarcasm. Very, very well done, and an enjoyable tongue-in-cheeks read.
It's hard to use a computer comfortably from the couch
I'm really glad the shift seems to have begun.

Humans are terrible in proactive action, we always wait until net negative developments really mess things up and then we are reactive. The main difference in this case is that in my opinion it is only rarely that a development plagues children so much as smartphones have.

We can only hope that the obliteration of attention spans and the cultivation of addictive behaviours will not leave lasting effects.
Thank god the Cloudfare is protecting us. /s
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What's the reason it doesn't load those modules from the regular filesystem? That's what FreeBSD does, and seems to work well enough?
Realistically though, your $350 one time buy was the equivalent of 5.8 years of this version of Final Cut Pro at $4.99/month. So while you using it for 8 years busts through the total cost of ownership numbers, seems like $4.99 is very reasonable monthly.

Plus as a low monthly, it’s more likely people will try the app out and start creating videos with it, vs having to stomach and justify a $350 up front spend.

This all being said: I’ve never understood the issue with subscription software assuming the developers keep iterating on it. Seems like that is actually BETTER alignment of usage and commercial model than one time buy, because one time buys technically don’t incentivize the developers to keep iterating on software…
Taylor Swift's manager is a woman. And an artist like TS is going to know exactly how it works behind the scenes
E.g., to press Ctrl-(Shift)-V and replace the selection with something you copied (to the buffer / clipboard) earlier?
I do UKIs and direct boot them on Arch. Works great. Do have to recompile for every change, but it's very fast on a modern system, takes about 40 seconds on my laptop.
Useless in my country because there are no libraries. But I can lookup libraries "Near my country" and beyond.

I suppose some libraries will allow ebook loans through worldcat. They seem to be more about sharing within us law without directly charging people.

Thats why I said positive. Torrent sharing is better, but idk if that will be sustainable
Maybe for the US. For Europe, it’s basically no option. It has problems even with basic trips. At least in Italy, Austria, Hungary, and Belgium, where I tried in the past year.

The interface is really the best, but the route finding is the worst of any apps which I used. I had to go back and find a different route many times. And the speed limit was completely useless everywhere, random guess is better. Not that any option would be perfect, Waze and Google Maps have their own problems.
MP4 containers also support multiple video tracks.
https://archive.ph/UK0E7
How is this different from Firefox Relay?
Does the kernel actually support doing that? The pitch is that they already have all the pieces and don’t need to do any kernel work to enable this.
My wife has been using it for years. Hates it. She upgraded a while back in the hope that the latest version was better, but it sucked. First, it did a one way upgrade in the file format, and every doc she printed from 1.6 looked like trash on her printer (no other settings changed). After messing with various settings for hours she downgraded to 1.5.x, restored her old configuration and and files from backups. Old version prints as expected. It also does totally weird and broken stuff, like the other day she was creating an A4 sheet with 6 cards on it. 5 were copy/pastes of the first one, with minor changes. When she printed it, only 3 of them actually printed even though they're visible onscreen. She printed to a PDF... Same thing. She created a new doc and copy/pasted all 6 into it and printed... they all printed fine. Like WTF is even going on there?
I think so, but the tail risk impact is still worrisome. Guess it also depends where you live - I’m in a fair weather state, so powering my home is not a survival issue for the most part.

If I lived in eg Texas, I’d maybe have a BEV that could power my home and a separate vehicle for long range travel. Bit of a luxury.
One can trade run-time flexibility for size, speed, and small attack surface.

Taken to the limit, Oxide Computer boots using the [Pico Host Boot Loader](https://github.com/oxidecomputer/phbl) which is probably not suitable for your personal system where you would want to boot many OS images from many devices on many different mainboards using very similar or modular boot flash images.

Phbl transfers control to a partial Unix image, also in the boot flash, which brings in the rest of the OS from a well-known boot device. There is no UEFI, CoreBoot, PXE boot etc. The AMD PSP code does run, but that's the only early external blob in the boot path. This does mean that the OS has to understand its hardware, there is minimal "free" initialization.
Computer?
You had the bootloader because first you needed executable code in the first sector of the partition, and you can't fit much in those 512 bytes. But moving to UEFI means you never execute that code anymore. Instead, you load a BOOT.EFI file off of a FAT16/FAT32 partition. If there's a restriction on size for that, then you proceed to a bootloader instead of the real kernel.
Remember for iOS
Perhaps they were referring to a time when nomadic people started settling into "villages," before organize religion solidified?
You dropped a 0. Anna's Archive is currently 862.4 TB
> How is sharepoint involved in any of this?

We have no way of knowing. But as a guess, possibly because MS is trying to use sharepoint as the new "windows" -- the tool around which they cement their monopoly and keep the money train rolling in.

> Why is it not transcoding locally?

We also have no way to know. But as a guess: "because everything now must be 'cloud' as 'cloud' is the new hotness".

> What if i throw it a 4k video?

No idea. Try it and see.

Lastly, you might consider switching to something that does actually run locally, where you are in control. One suggestion is ffmpeg. https://ffmpeg.org/
I think it's just what 12 year olds call a computer. A comp-u-ter.
In our last game I had to dig pretty deep into Kritas scripting. I was making automated changes and exporting thousands of frames of animation.

It's a little janky but got the job done.

Keep an eye out for Wild Bastards on Steam. Every frame of the character animation was run through Krita.
>Words you put out into the world don't belong to you anymore

Literally everyone from the richest of commercial interests to the kumbaya-est of libre interests will disagree.
Entering the BIOS menu takes several seconds on my ThinkPad, and getting to the EFI boot menu from there takes a few more. That's after hitting the key during the correct time during the boot process, which sometimes takes guessing.

In principle, the EFI multiboot mechanism should be the way to handle basic multiboot options. It would of course be nicer and cleaner from a design perspective not to have redundant mechanisms on top of each other. In practice, though, using the EFI boot menu can be clumsy. The real solution would be for it to not be clumsy but it doesn't look like we're necessarily there.
This is interesting because it demonstrates that Racket can be used for an iOS app.
I have a system where you need to hold down power when turning on the PC to get out of "Quick Boot" mode, and get the ability to get to the bios screen. It's a Sandy-Bridge-era Intel motherboard.
The article I found it on: https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/mtv-news-articles-inte...

I think they had the pages from their normal archiving of web pages, and this brings it all into one accessible place. Their default search is powerful, but daunting.
blurring does average which compression does too
Yeah, especially films from that Andrei Tarkovsky guy. I mean, yawwwwwn, right?
Or if you buy a legit version, some of the money will actually go to the people responsible for producing the work. This will allow them to eat and produce more art.

Sending money to the pirates, though, will only produce more piracy.
Warring theocracies. Houthis are a cultish, nominally Shia minority in Sunni majority Yemen. They're trying to impose a Houthi theocracy and force the Sunni majority to become Shia (with Houthi cult aesthetics). Iran, which is majority Shia, gives them weapons and money.

Saudi Arabia is a Sunni theocracy and doesn't want them to do this, so they give weapons and money to their Sunni opponents.
On my last two uefi boards, if I press F12 or F8 too soon after power on it either stalls the boot, or it makes it restart. When the latter happens, I’m always too careful in pressing it causing me to miss the window of opportunity and booting right to the OS. Entering the bios or choosing the boot drive regularly takes me 3 tries. (Gigabyte with Intel and Asus with AMD.)
> Then it's a straight-up hazing question.

Hazing is an initiation rite. This is a barrier to entry.

They turned away anyone who wasn't deemed humble enough.

They were assholes but that's not hazing.
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Yeah because Adobe doesnt care since they know print industry has no other choice. Indesign has been basically only getting worse since CS6/the subscription. The only useful feature in last 15 years has been pdf comments/corrections.

Whats worst is that each version makes it more unstable and crashes with indesign can be costly.
I know several design studios that keep old macs to do work in CS6 because of that.

At the same time its more often than not their fault. 80% dont need scripting or advanced indesign features but they are lazy/old to learn anything new. Unfortunately this will drag Indesign probably forever since you need to collaborate.
Module loading is handled by udev, so udev merely needs to support enumerating a subset of the hardware to (eg) ensure input devices are available.
Let's say I have a dual-boot system with two totally independent OSes, Systems A and B. It is powered down. I want to boot into System B but the EFI is configured to boot into System A by default.

Am I correct in understanding that the offered solution here is to first boot into System A, find some well-hidden EFI configuration utility (which varies from OS to OS, if it even exists), and then tell EFI to boot into System B on the next reboot?

If so, that's a pretty terrible experience.
Yes! Because they are treating you as if you don't own your TV.
Sunset is 21.59 for me tonight and sunrise will be 04.41 tomorrow. Don’t even get me started on winter…
And if you want to build a Python/C extension, perhaps with a codegen step as well, then most of these modern tools throw their hands in the air.

I had to hack my setup.py because PEP 517's fascination for completely isolated environment mean even a single typo fix in a Python comment meant a full re-compile of all 500KLOC in my main Python/C extension.

Setuptools creates temporary directories for the .o files, and passes them to the build command. I had to override that to revert to the old behavior:

class build_subclass(build):
def finalize_options(self):
self.build_lib = self.build_temp = self.build_platlib = None
super().finalize_options()

You might like my minimal wheel builder at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38111355 . No dependencies, no framework.
Nice.

Oracle has a similar library based documents/collections API named SODA, been around for years:

https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/simple-oracle-doc...

There are separate drivers for Java, node.js, python, REST, etc.

In addition to that, it has Mongo API, which is fully Mongo compatible - you can use standard Mongo tools/drivers against it, without having to change Mongo application code.

Both are for Oracle Database only, and both are free.
> Why is it not transcoding locally?

Try transcoding on the bog standard anemic i"GPU" of corporate desktops and laptops. Not everyone has a 4090.

You have plenty of options out there that will fit your needs. ClipChamp works for many, other solutions work for many.
> As Google services are not available in China, only option left is Apple.

Why not use propaganda when you can.

They are "forced" to use Apple because Android won't work.
For me, the value of using aliases on my own domain isn't anonymity, it's provenance; I can tell where my email was obtained from based on the the prefix used. If I get an email sent to git@<domain>, I know that someone (or something) was looking at git logs to get it, if it's sent to resume@<domain>, I know someone got it from my resume, etc.
Grouping code … You can't really represent that in an AST.

<visual-group>…</visual-group>

Also, I wish that at least in current editors there would be a way to render \n\n as a half-height line. Full-height empty lines are too bold.

Automatic wrapping doesn't work because you want to break at specific points

You really want to have a set of buttons that switch between:

- a line of arguments
- a block of arguments
- a line/block of only non-default valued arguments
- arguments sorted by name
- …

And a hint on a default representation, with some default heuristics.

How does it know that x, y, width, and height are semantically grouped and best put on the same line? It doesn't. (from the other comment)

Look higher, parameters can be grouped at the declaration level. <params><related-params name=“coords”>…</>…</>. Now you can render a nice frame around these in block mode. Or not, depending on local renderer settings.

Everyone will hate it.

There’s always a way to make everyone hate something, especially if the solution is clueless about its problem. It doesn’t mean it should be done this way. Experiment and evolution could make it work, we just have to let people try instead of dismissing it so confidently.
If I am to guess:

- large academic population and high general education

- a tradition of collecting banned and bootlegged content, particularly Western (samizdat, magnitizdat)

- lack of resources to get things legally (e.g. university subscriptions)

- a culture of hacking and tinkering (the best known book scanning middleware, like ScanTailor and ScanKromsator and various djvu tools, comes from Russian hobbyist programmers).

Also applies to adjacent countries like Ukraine.
But that's actually part of the signal (useful information), isn't it, like for stereo or spatial recording setups? Presumably each performer or instrument's delay is a function of its distance to different microphones.

vs NTP-introduced errors, which are just noise and not part of the intentional recording?
The fact that a big computer monitor is like 32". Any bigger than that and it's going to be much wider than 16:9.
India's birthrate is 2.01
But the formatter will still line-break the code as if the tab width was 8, which will lead to lines with several lines of indentation being too short.
> I don't think I remember a single office I've visited over the last 10 years in a number of countries that didn't look like an Apple store

I guess it depends what type of companies you visit. I'm also from near Germany and zero companies i visited in the last 10 years looked like an Apple store. It was all Windows. If you only go to fancy Berlin/Münch startups I can imagine it's all Apple but that's more of a bubble even nation wide. Statistically Windows still has a majority in most companies.
As an author of books, I can tell you this just prevents me and other authors from creating new books.

I dare you to take the same position about not paying workers for any other career. Who pays you? Should they be able to take your work without paying you or your company?
I make it a point to safely ignore Stratechery, a veritable fountain of bad takes going back years.
I bought the Affinity suite during 2020 when I was exploring some hobbyist graphic design stuff. I still use it frequently.

I wonder what the goal is for making it free. Now that they're owned by Canva, are they slowly opening the door toward a freemium SaaS business model?
I must admit that on U-Boot platforms, I use U-Boot EFI to load grub-efi, so that I can have a non-terrible bootloader…
Per the law of enshittification, soon only monthly subscribers will gain the ability to disable motion smoothing.
Referring to women as "cis women" as if we are somehow a subset of our own sex class is also alienating and unwelcoming. It's awfully disrespectful and reveals a fundamentally misogynistic view of women.
Anyone know if you can combine this multi cam feature with an external camera source connected to the iPad? So let’s say you have a canon camera hooked up by usbc to Final Cut and that’s your iPad’s camera, and then you have an iPhone as your second camera? If so, this can really be quite the portable high end recording solution for podcasters and YouTubers…
Furthering the love, without the cursing, bent tweezers, and ruined retainer clips (getting the connectors out of the casings sometimes results in all of the above), you can purchase pre-crimped wires, then assemble as needed (https://www.pololu.com/category/299/ribbon-cable-with-pre-cr...).
That's what Chromecasts and its competitors are for.

You may say that that's the same as a Smart TV, and chromecasts come with their own crapware, but the big advantage is that they're separate devices. The Chromecast has no way to infect your monitor through HDMI.

If the Chromecast or whatever starts misbehaving, you throw it away and replace it with something else. You lost $50 instead of the $300+ that your Smart TV costs.
I've read and watched different attempts at explaining negative temperature, and the Wikipedia article is actually the one that has made the most sense to me.

The concept still seems "off" to me intuitively, like an abuse of notation or something, although I understand it logically.
Library Genesis has no limitations.
No he's saying that video is an inefficient and ineffective medium for conveying information that is not respectful of the recipient's time.
Then they're bad legal teams.

Github.com, free.fr, 42.fr probably a lot of others as those are 3 of the first 4 fqdn I thought about when asking myself 'which website does not need advertising or tracking)'.
Your concerns for what? They're not going to send people to your house to uninstall the software.
>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 ..."

If you deal with two lawyers and on both occasions they lie to you that is a perfectly rational and defensible position to take.

Kinda like being bitten by the same breed of dog twice or opening two bottles of beer from the same brewer on two different occasions and finding them both to be filled with water.

The thing about default positions is that they only represent a beginning.
Actually I agree with you, but I refer to the digital aspect because people don't seem to have any difficulties understanding why its problematic to steal physical books.
I make occasionally stupid ill considered comments as I am relatively unintelligent with an iq of around 70 to 85 depending on time of day. I made a dumb and insulting comment on my facebook account and they removed my comment as they should. I made one here and it got greyed out as it should have. I made one on tiktok and got permanently banned. Something tells me I would not enjoy living in china.
You're talking about something like ZFS, and I get that they can't just compile it in, but a distro can still ship the module, if I'm not mistaken.

...But to load it at boot time it absolutely must be done through an initramfs. Is that right?
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