skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just use a Github wiki for my blog. I metablogged about it:

https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/GitHub%27s-wiki-mak...

I think the one tweak I need to make is keeping a copy of the blog index in the README.md for the main project. That way watching the project will effectively provide notification of new content.
If you dont own intellectual property included in an object you bought, you don't own it. Ownership is unhindered use of the object.
This almost certainly has some negative environmental effects.
That's great but consider this: I'm a US citizen traveling in Costa-Rica right now and I want to buy a Dell computer that I'm gonna pay in US dollars to be delivered at my home in the US when I get back, now I can't because I'm redirected to the .cr website that has different ways.

The issue here is making assumptions on the human and her intention based on the computer and its network supposed location.
Apple did say they were opening it up; then they didn't. How's that bullshit? Even if they did have a legal excuse, that doesn't make it any less true. It could happen again.
...Which, under the DMCA, is a felony punishable by (according to the article) up to 5 years in prison and a $500,000 fine.
Scale is hiring Back end and ML Engineers to build an API for human intelligence
Ask HN: Your favourite human-sounding read aloud system?
I found this one [1] that I find quite well done coming close to a human-sounding voice.

Which is your favourite to read aloud articles you find on the web?

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/read-aloud-a-text-to-spee/hdhinadidafjejdhmfkjgnolgimiaplp
Title change, please? Boing Boing and especially Doctorow have a serious hyperbole problem, but even their original title didn't put Doctorow's words in John Deere's mouth. The quote marks are completely false.
Their voices are also being silenced by conditions imposed for unemployment/etc.
I'd be infuriated if I bought that kind of machinery ($$$) and it was software killable. It's absurb people are defending this behaviour. The article mention's it's an end run around laws, so they can put whatever nonsense is allowed in a software license.

If what I hear about the US south and their propensity for guns is true, they must be pissing off a lot of people I personally wouldn't mess with.

Just waiting for a farmer to lose his rag when he can't fix a simple thing on a million dollar chunk of hardware.
Testing over really bad links should be done for a lot of sites out there.
I would hate this to become a thing. The last thing we need is a flood of automated submissions on the New page :(
Surface Noise
Yes it is? See Chromebook for example.
Uranium has a much higher energy density, so you need fewer mines. The raw materials for renewable energy tech don't materialize from the ether either.
claimparse.com
There's a problem, of course. The economy has centuries of history of filtering out all competition and leading to monopolies/monopolistic competition. There are significant pressures in the 'free' economy toward centralization of power. Those pressures include over half of the US political landscape. Small business can't save itself let alone the rest of us.
claimparse.com at least shows recent patents that have issued.
My wife is a lawyer. She sometimes has to deal with people who think they know the law as well as she does (or better), simply because they've read the written laws or they've read the contract. That is almost always a huge mistake.

What is written is only one leg of the tripod. Another leg of the tripod is knowing the legal precedents, and you won't get those just by reading the laws or the contracts -- and even if you pass the bar exam, you probably won't learn those outside of going to law school. The third leg of the tripod is knowing which judge(s) you are dealing with, and how they are likely to rule, based on what is before them -- and even law school can't really help prepare you for this problem.

And all of that assumes everyone is operating in the same legal regime, in the same jurisdiction. The legal systems can be radically different in other places, such that the lawyers in that area don't even think the same way. For example, in French law, there is no Federal system. So, any contract that is written with language referring to federal law may be null and void in France -- just ask Chubb and their multimillion dollar case that went all the way up to the French Supreme Court.

So, as a programmer, sure -- you can read the contract, and you may even be able to do a better job of it than most. But do you know all the legal precedents in your jurisdiction? Do you know all the respective judges who might see your case and how they would rule?

If it's a standard contract with a big company, you may just have to bite the bullet -- or decide you don't want to work under those rules.

Either way, a big company probably isn't going to make any changes for you, because this is their standard contract that they give everyone, and they never make any changes for anyone.

So, how badly do you want this job? How much of a stink are you willing to raise to try to get changes made to the contract, before you decide it's not worth it?

Even if you are a lawyer, if you are a client in a case, you don't want to represent yourself. You can't really be properly impartial when it comes to what you want, and so you would be the moron who would be retaining a fool as his representation.
Nix changes the game.
You realize that most houses are not in the middle of the woods? If I look around here in Berlin, almost all houses would qualify for rooftop solar. There is of course still the storage problem.
It's not only languages. I used to check my weather at weather.com, but they decided to give me weather by default based on my IP address. They remember what locations I checked before, but they don't care and give me the geolocation result first.

Guess what, they're getting the country right, but they're a couple hundred kilometers off, which makes the weather information useless.

And back to the article topic, I'm in the camp that absolutely hates localized software. Translations are a lot more verbose than English and/or simply sound ridiculous. Please keep your site in English when you present it to me.
It's a straight forward sentence, I don't think you can just redefine it's content detached from the words in it.

However, the sentence is not even close to describe the interview and creates a weird focus by making this side topic present in the headline.
I flagged the article for this reason.
Thanks - this is way more informative than the article.

Google certainly should be doing more to combat this issue, but the crux of this issue seems to be that there are a lot of intermediaries and consumers (teachers and schools) in the ed-tech industry with a very clear obligation to do more about this but aren't.
For an older device, the repair cost of a cracked screen matches the price of similar used unit, so it gets scrapped - despite all the other components being usable.
"Stop guessing languages based on IP address" misses the target by going a bit too far. IMHO it should be "Stop guessing languages", because that's the root cause of this issue.

It stems from making assumptions on the human and her intentions based on the computer settings or network location. We know better than that.

Problem is design is made based on metrics and tracking, and things are tailored to the largest user base and the rest is an afterthought.

The main roadblock is the current lack of a way to ask the visitor for her language of choice in a way that does not involve words nor country flags. Tackling this in an almost universal way is not that easy and obvious, but even a partial success is better than having an automated way force a broken choice upon the human visiting the website.
And yes, on any contract I sign, my wife takes a look at it first. And so far, there has only been one employment contract I recall that she was able to get any modifications made to.

It was a minor mod, the employer was very small, and the fact that we wanted this mod did make my negotiations with that employer considerably more difficult. But in the end, we did get it.

Your mileage may vary.
Websites people say have changed their lives
It's good to see it's made a difference. Back in the day, open source felt like a bit of an edgy proposition with a lot of ney-sayers. Microsoft very front and center there. Now we can get free IDE's versus the money they were trying to charge for Visual Studio or MSDN. And they wonder why developers dislike them.
I totally agree with your point about how they make the country seem smaller, it's my main gripe about them.
I also feel like mountains were were about the last place we hadn't domesticated apart from the odd telecoms mast but now we've found a use for them. There is nowhere wild left.
Fear of a White Lighter
On an infinite time scale, you are certainly right. We're all going to die pretty soon, and so will our programming languages.

In the meantime, though, Julia seems rather healthy, and this particular Python fanboy is nevertheless interested where Julia will take us!

Julia is not an aggressor. It's not even a competitor. Rather, it is another stab at improving scientific computation. Let's focus on trying to learn from Julia instead of spreading FUD.
you're thinking of copy left, which is a type of free software, but not the only type. Atleast according to the FSF definitions.
Now you can enjoy Hide.me VPN free version
Oops, not consider. I keep doing that!

But that said, I've not explored what else is out there.
Why do dams increase evaporation? Having the water all in one place as opposed to distributed over the length of a river should reduce surface area.
Thanks for the follow up and good luck next time!
Sure, but this Free Software of yours is less free than say, FreeBSD, which also gives Cisco the freedom to extract money from 2nd hand sales of their equipment ;)
The kinds of things that are in current journals are on the cutting edge. We should expect a fair few lines of inquiry to turn out to be negative or wrongly done.

The sort of knowledge I'm talking about is the kind of stuff that's been known for decades, acknowledged by everyone who's studied it.
The other kinds of free software have even fewer strings, so I didn't mention them.
there is a famous romanian legend called Mioritza where sheeps can even talk to the their master. Quite astonishing creatures
'This is called "sales" when it's done on a 1:1 basis and "marketing" when it's done en masse. It can be very difficult when there are powerful entities competing to cast the psychological context in their favor.'

Uh, marketing hasn't attempted to provide any arguments that attack conclusions, for a long time. It's been primarily about creating subconscious associations that are completely separate from arguments.
I'm not sure exactly how this relates to the above comment.

But you are making the point that the OP made. You need to pair your metric with an opposing one.

Nobody honest person is going to say "we'll increase time on site by decreasing load time". But on my current project, I've had to take into account that the improved load speed and UX has kept time on site the same. This is actually an improvement as uses are able to interact with the app quicker and therefore their relative active time on site is higher.
Ask HN: Anyone able to setup local DBpedia instance?
Was anyone able to install local instance of DBpedia with SPARQL working, including geo-queries? It seem official DBpedia install guide is incomplete.
Facebook and the murderer
I get that this is a troll comment, and I shouldn't feed it... but seriously, what tools does macos have that linux doesn't? (I type this on a macbook pro) I have to add a ton of things to OS X in order to get it to behave in a sane manner... utilities to manage windows, utilities to re-enable the volume keys when I connect to an external display, utilities to enable alt-tab-like behavior, a utility to take screenshots that have sortable timestamps -- so the latest screenshot is always at the top, homebrew, which lets me install software, GCC... the list goes on... that's not even development-specific utilities.

All of the development-specific tools are cross-platform. I have yet to use a tool that isn't available on Linux, and our entire development staff are running OSX full-time.
Thanks! (I wrote the article and just found it here)
Ah - yes method impl on the cases is certainly a difference. I'd probably choose compatibility with F# sum types if this lands on the CLR though, but I can see how equality and some other things might be useful. Otherwise you are forced to pattern match for all logic which might end up like an inside out object.
Irritating and frankly it is worse experience than not guessing at all. I'm yet to understand why someone puts resources into it.

On the other hand I found the best indicator for me is my keyboard settings, I usually want to consume content in the language I'm currently writing, but still far from perfect.
Most of that list are American or European.
What's most annoying is that local companies make exactly the same mistakes. Digitec, Migros or Galaxus they all default to German. And I use Accept-Language as well. I understand this is a special case and the heuristic works in most cases, but when you're a Swiss company operating in Switzerland the odds are slightly different. Only 63.5% are native German speakers.

But google is by far the worst, since I'm always logged in but switches languages based on IP.
As a former moderator of a default subreddit, I don't think you know what you're talking about here. AutoMod is a useful tool but can only implement basic rules—it's more a supplement to human moderators. And people of course care about things that aren't their jobs.
+1 for petl, I'm using it right now on a project that deals with a lot of tabular data and it's been a huge time saver.
Just open an ask hn for it;-) I will vote it up!
> Stop guessing languages

Thank you. That is it. As the world goes global, who speaks what gets impossible to guess. I had a friend from Barcelona (Spain), that lives in Sweden, temporarily relocated to Shangai. To guess his preferred language is impossible. Sometimes he can prefer to read something in English to send it to colleagues. Other times he is more comfortable reading Spanish, or maybe Catalan. But can also want to read in Chinese, as sometimes it is better to read the original language - even with a very low understanding of it - than to read a really bad translation.

> The main roadblock is the current lack of a way to ask the visitor for her language of choice in a way that does not involve words nor country flags.

To show every user of your website a long list of languages each time you get a visit is overkilling. I understand that a website will show by default a reasonably guessed language, it is going to work for 90% of your users, but changing to any other language should be fast and easy. The worse I have seen is websites that don't allow you to change the language, so you are trapped for whatever guess they did.
I, too, suspect it is done for legal liability issues, since there is a lot of money riding on just killing Tesla outright and plunging car manufacturing back into the dark ages.

Tesla and Elon Musk has no interest in preventing people from driving their cars. They have an interest in making sure those cars are safe to drive, something Toyota, VW, GM, Ford, and Chrysler have historically had issues with (Hyundai/Kia, Nissan, and Honda really haven't had issues here, in the interest of fairness).

Toyota licensing Tesla tech is a bit of an outlier, which I had assumed at the time was Toyota trying to improve vehicle reliability and safety, but the technology seems to have not gone further than that one series of RAV4s.
Amazon is using peer pressure to keep German workers from calling in sick
What? Are you trying to say that the consensus view is that climate change isn't a thing?
I'm onboard with the: ask large companies what they are making. The cycle analytics feature comes to mind as something that they mention.
> turn some Samsung TVs into surveillance tools with an implant for recording audio from a TV’s built-in microphone.

Who other than the CIA can also exploit this?

Is there a place where Dumb TVs still exist?
What's so magical about CBs? With physical access, you can reflash the boot firmware and put unsigned OS images on them without any ugly devmode warning screens.

The only alternative is complete lockout and walled garden, thankfully Google didn't go that route in this case.
> Windmills really do look bad, objectively.

And yet if you were to make the same argument about a coal or even nuclear plant, you'd be considered a loon. Coal plants don't just look awful, they also stink up the surrounding areas. And while I've heard plenty of people say they like the look of windmills (I'm one myself), I've never heard anyone say they like the smell of coal plants.
There will be inevitable comparisons to bankers and such affairs as the LIBOR fixing business.
Ah, Apple News. Americans might want to know that it is still not widely available in the rest of the world – probably another failed Apple project.

I had some hope that Apple News could help RSS but that was apparently never Apple's intention.
The stupidity of crowds
OBD2 widgets for Android
A very simplistic app that connects to an OBD2 Bluetooth device connected to your car and shows speed/rpm gauges on top of any other app.
Especially useful while driving to display those info on top of any navi app you might use. Keep an eye on the road & directions & speed in the same time.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pi.obd
The ability to mark cubes as "maybe mines" (I think double-right-click in the original) would also be excellent.
I'm currently using docker-compose for work on a SaaS product written in Java, it's quite a joy to work with.

I am struggling with slow image builds, but that's more of a problem of "not having a build server", "not having a Docker registry set up" and "using a lot of 3rd party online build dependencies".
We did look at both of these before designing these features. Burndown charts are common, service desk functionality less so. We look forward to replacing our use of Zendesk with this.
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> The problem with "you void the warranty" is that one person voids the warranty, then sells the equipment to someone else, and that second person gets upset with John Deere when it doesn't work.

No, that's an imaginary problem invented to rationalize this bullshit.

I don't think there actually exist people so ignorant to not realize that buying used hardware comes with caveats and that you usually get what you paid for.
What is IC?
Look for "Commercial Displays" on NewEgg for example. Those are as dumb as they come.
HM, I use Vagrant daily to switch among Linux distros and run tests. Nix has a steep learning curve and although the community seems to be great, it is small and getting help might be problematic.

Enforcing NixOS to a team in my view will lead to a severe productivity downturn in the short-medium run.

Nix is much older than people think, I am not it will be around in 5-10 years though. I believe that Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc are way simpler and more valuable market-wise if you are not into Haskell already...
I'm realizing you're right. If we want to change humanity, Linux is quite a good way to start.

Not all OSS is created equal, though. It's not by switching any end-user commercial product to GPL that we'll make an impact. It's more important for application servers, routers, OS, drivers, DBs, and in general libs that can be reused by someone else. If Snapchat were under APL Affero, would we care? What's in it for me if I switch my app to OSS?

I'm giving 1% revenue to OSS. But I have a huge feeling that it's far from enough – Any commercial infra (DB+OS+AppServer) would have cost me 60% of my income. The masterpiece of OSS that really advanced humanity is principally Linux – It seems it's the main one that's worth funding, isn't it?
Big Data and Risk Management in Financial Markets (Part II)
While this is technically true, the fourth one is basically on life support. I wouldn't expect to find software or even many websites using it.
I posted about how punishment is almost always gratuitous a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13286085

(The summary looks interesting - I'm commenting here to remind myself to read this tomorrow...)
> The main roadblock is the current lack of a way to ask the visitor for her language of choice in a way that does not involve words nor country flags

The whole point of the blog was that the browser already has asked the user that question in the sense that it defaults to the system language setting, i.e. the first things you do on a computer when you open it for the first time.

> but even a partial success is better than having an automated way force a broken choice upon the human visiting the website.

I don't understand. What you're proposing as a solution (asking visitors their language on first entry) is essentially the fallback scenario for guessing incorrectly.

I try to think of the number of different websites I visit and thinking of every single one asking me for a language preference makes me feel not good about using the web. Right now, the worst case scenario is when chrome automatically detects that the website doesn't match my language and gives me a popup asking me if I want to translate.
I don't understand how you are drawing these conclusions. I don't see any similarity at all to U.S. race relations.

If country A has a lot of money but a labour shortage, and country B is poor but has a labour excess, then it is of mutual benefit for country A to hire people from country B to perform needed labour. Country B's workers are not being paid less because of their race, but because they come from a relatively poorer country.

The workers come to do a job in which they will be paid more (much more) than comparable work at home, they do it, they get paid, the work gets done, everyone is happy, they go home. How is this racist, or even generally bad?

This basic economic principle is also, of course, the reason why companies locate manufacturing in countries with large available labour pools and lower comparative wages. So is Apple racist for manufacturing in China?
You're being downvoted, but flagging (and/or emailing hn@ycombinator.com) is the moderator-sanctioned method of drawing their attention to a post.
He stole from the poor and gave to the rich, he shall live on in song and legend as Hood Robin. Mr. Hood Robin, CEO of Capital DeInvestment Ltd, should demand equal treatment to all modern robbers, and demand a bailout!
Minikube is working great for us. Makes it easy to run something that's pretty close to a production stack on a dev machine.

Typically with locally-built (dev) images rather than those from the registry that CI writes to, but other than that the k8s manifests are the same.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20Dark%20Secret%20at%20the...
64-bit nanosecond values are actually pretty common on Darwin already. See e.g. clock_gettime_nsec_np(3).
Yours displays in a subwindow that's too small for it and has scrollbars. You can click and drag to rotate the cube, but for some reason it doesn't start rotating until after you release the button, which makes rotation very difficult to judge. I spotted a mine, clicked on a "1" next to the mine, and it exploded. If you're not using standard Minesweeper controls, that needs to be clearer. Also, Kongregate made me watch a 30-second ad first.