skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, I did something vaguely similar for lulz a few months ago with a ThinkPad X61 tablet - the hard disks have accelerometers in them.

A few minutes dorkily waving the laptop around showed how the values changed, and I discovered the range differences were so straightforward I was able to compute the device orientation (which way is facing up) using a simple shell script!

Five (okay, maybe ten) minutes later, and X11 was happily rotating and inverting the display automatically as I flipped the thing around. (Seeing Chrome auto-flip exactly like an tablet does (albeit with nice animations) was neat.)

...with one caveat. Every single orientation change made the backlight kick off and back on again.

Tons of printk() debugging was insufficient to fully track down what was causing it. My "solution" was to neuter the bits of KMS that actually did the low-level DPMS calls - the result was some mildly scary display tearing in certain circumstances, but the backlight didn't flicker anymore.

Unfortunately, 'xset dpms force standby' (or 'suspend') no longer worked either - and nothing else that put the display to sleep via DPMS did either. Woops.

libdrm, KMS, DRM and X11 are a mess.

(As for what I was unable to get to the bottom of - something at the X11 level was deciding in certain circumstances that some rotates required "full GPU hard resets" and other rotates didn't. For example rotating left was fine, but rotating right was not. And inverting was fine but switching back to normal was not. But, get this, _if I had an external display attached_ (or had the VGA port forced-on), rotating left and right were both fine! Given that I was able to later reproduce this behavior on both an Intel and AMD system, this is why I glare at KMS/DRM and call them a mess.)
Pretty sure the actual economic damage ($250B) from 9/11 attacks was small compared to the self-inflicted economic damage that followed in the form of market reactions $1T and wars $2T.

In other words, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
>If computer keyboards used IPA instead of ASCII, I think we'd all be using it by now

Not at all! English has really strong historical roots for its spelling, but these could be eliminated even without IPA. Spelling could be standardized instead of staying historical. ("Speling kud bee stenderdized insted uv staying historikel".) Even within ASCII.

I was pointing out that the parent poster fails to realize that English itself has a "complicated old writing system" with "historical and cultural value". Just as having different characters allows for homophones to be recognized easily, English does the same thing with many words that sound the same (sea/see/C, or to/two/too, etc.) There is a lot of history or culture in English spelling, for example all the silent -e endings.
I've always been interested in this aspect of neuroscience but didn't realize 'computational' was a sub-field of its own. This is an amazing discovery for me. Can anyone else recommend any articles or (online) courses?
Hangul was possible because it explicitly targeted a single unified language (Korean was politically unified since circa 900 and the language was stuck).
Yes, Sailfish has SMS and e-mail support. For maps, you can install OSMAnd through the Android compatibility layer and get the same maps goodness as on any Android phone.
And computers that pretend to be humans. And computers that process, redirect and focus stuff from other humans.

Unless AIs have a higher ethical standard, free will for humans will become more and more an illusion.

Edit: I'm thinking of Ian Banks' Culture novels. In Excession, there's a ship mind that doesn't respect human autonomy. Other ship minds call it "meatfucker". As a slur.
Bitcoin as a store of value for the rich
Ask HN: LCD display sources?
I'm looking for a source for a capacitive touch display that is about 18" long and 6" wide (460mm X 155mm) Any ideas?
Has Uber stopped operating at a massive loss, subsidizing every ride with VC cash? Fares are already artificially and unsustainably depressed, and without Lvl 5 automation (clearly not incoming soon) the fares eventually have to rise. Those fares will rise even more as driver backlash against how little they’re paid increases with time.
Quick google search found me this[0] which seems like a decent replacement. I'm only guessing on the specific feature set you find useful, however.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/s3google-tran...
They are published (not leaked) on YouTube in video format. They're also written down and published as a book:

https://store.pariyatti.org/Art-of-Living-The-English-br-spa...

"Art of Living" can be off-putting thanks to its use elsewhere. It took me a long time to realize that "Art of Living" as Goenka uses it has nothing to do with (Sri Sri) Ravi Shankar's church or the business he's built on top of it. Ravi Shankar was actually a student of Goenka's who went on to sell meditation later in life with The Art of Living Foundation. There's no connection between the two organizations.
The authors explained quite carefully what they mean by thickness, as per the quote I provided. They are measuring the average distance between voxels in MRI scans. Since thickness is a measure of average distance in this case, it makes sense to provide it in millimeters like in the figure you mentioned. If you read the article, the authors make distinction between volume, surface area, and thickness under the "Discussion" part [0].

[0] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
Is Excel not a GUI? Photoshop? Unity? You can get pretty damn far with those tools (if not all the way).
Due to another post in HN, I've discovered a fact that really astonished me: the movie was released during the war! And Hitler was winning!!!

Nobody knew what would happen. The characters are fantastic, from the French who must obey to Vichs government, to Rick that perfectly represents America's position.

I've watched it with my 10 and 12 years old sons. Had to pause a lot to explain things, but we all loved it.
Let me let you in on a little secret of the quant world, it is easier than you assume at least in terms of idea generation. Every fund I've ever been with the vast majority of strategies are sourced from academic papers, you don't need to think up new and novel ideas.
Hmm. I can, and do okay by it. But I do enjoy using the command line and remain unimpressed with many of R's more "unique"* packages not found in recent Anaconda distributions or in Julia, so perhaps I'm not this blog's target audience.

* R packages with low use tend to have highly variable quality. YMMV
I am not a freelancer so I'm not speaking from experience. So... grain of salt eh?

Have you tried charging per week or per project instead of per hour?
Maybe clients will respond better to "My rate is 78hundred a week" than they do to "My rate is $150 per hour"?

Or anchoring the cost against the value of the project? "Once this project is complete, how much extra revenue do you expect it will bring to your company?". Keeping focus on the value, makes the cost look low in comparison. And if it's not going to bring them very much value, then maybe not a good fit for your skillset.

I also wonder if you have tried getting contracts where the client pre-pays for a certain amount of "maintenance/minor fixes" hours from you at the conclusion of a successful project. (Where the hours are use-it-or-lose-it during the time period. Bonus points for making that a rolling contract)

I presume you are already mining clients for referrals. One trick I heard on a podcast (years ago so I don't remember which one. Maybe Pat Flynn or Kalzumeus?) was to ask for the referral at the time the client agrees to the project. (Which kind of blew my mind but made sense in the context of the person being happy/excited that about the project so they are more willing). Maybe worth trying?
Podcasts, books, games, movies, repeat.
You overestimate what a vat or a sales tax would have to be to replace income tax.

Still sale taxes are generally regressive, even if they behave like VAT. The true step on federal taxes would be to simplify the system. Just a flat rate with no exemptions. The simple the system the less is spent trying to jimmy it, lobby it, etc.

This is unfortunately known for decades, and predicted accurately by Milton Friedman as a political problem, where both sides want different things, and both side actually get what they want politically.
Watch Blu-Ray/DVD Movies on QNAP NAS with Roku Channel
I'm super intrigued by this -- almost surely over my (non oil-changing) level by far, but would still be interested in more info on it.

Is it something that is advertised by the shop? In what location (or region) was this? What was the expectation in terms of timeframe, and how many hours were you typically putting into the project in any given week? If you're comfortable, shop info/specifics would be great but no worries if not.

Awesome outcome BTW, and is something you can be very proud of and continually enjoy -- love it!
And the problem too is that even paid products like my NYT subscriptions have ads. If the point is privacy, I don't have an option to buy it.
At what risk though? Returns should always be considered by the risk taken to achieve them.
Gulp was JavaScript as well, and much simpler to understand!
What are the Common causes of Hypokalemia?
Not really, with initial and intermediate funding now being covered by deep pocketed VC's, the public no longer has the chance to invest in earlier stages of the development cycle.

Regardless of whether this is good or bad, it is different.
Now I'm even more confused. Since when is Netflix considered one of the tech giants - they're a one-product streaming service...?

To me the "Big 5" are Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon. I didn't realize there were different lists. What's yours? :-)
So, not so much zero config as prefab config :)
Paragliding is even cheaper.
Does anyone know why "hand-built" is a desirable quality for an engine? Several automakers advertise this for their top-of-the-line vehicles.

I know it makes for very good marketing, but is that it?
When I first try FF 58, its my exp also. But after FF 59, I gave it another try, much better. Did u tried it with 58 or 59?
PayPal is one of the few centralized ways to receive money over the internet, and the web overflows with stories of people who have had large sums frozen for a very long time.
I wonder if it's possible for a watchdog organization to automate trap street accounts.
Herman Goring and other Nazis pillaged the Louvre once France surrendered. Many of the pieces were found in their personal homes after the war but many went unrecovered. Aye..
speaking as a former drive train and engine mechanic for a luxury dealership, this is a bad idea at best. Granted, the LS series engine is just a simple pushrod iron behemoth, you're still asking for trouble.

My last place of employment wanted to do something similar, but it was shot down by the owners once they determined that practically every shop insurance provider flat-out said no. That $5000 fee is likely just for OSHA and your insurance company to look the other way in a state where regulations arent so stringent. All of us as vehicle techs also said no.

The average luxury customer isnt qualified to do much more than sit in the waiting room and watch an episode or two of Ricky Lake. Luxury customers betray an absolutely criminal lack of self control sometimes. Ive had customers wander back into the shop to stand over my shoulder demanding to know everything im doing and why. Ive had an old persian customer who demanded to drive his car home that day and wouldnt leave the shop until I completed the week long work. Ive also had wealthy couples leave their kids in the car. Another customer demanded I never drive the car or sit in it. Point being: anyone stupid enough to waste $5000 on the chance to work on an engine they couldnt possibly understand on their own, isnt going to be someone you want in a shop. Dynastic wealth leaves you with a Reaganomic level of competency.

The z06 is only an $84,000 car, but If i were the mechanic who had to deal with $5000 tourists chasing piston return springs across the shop floor and pulling main bearings out of their kids mouths, I'd do everything I could to find a new job.
These sorts of comments are kind of rude. Nobody's saying it can't be developed without Windows; nothing's stopping you from building your own.
What did you think the ‘N’ in FAANG was exactly?
Having ridden in thousands of cabs, and hundreds of Ubers, calling Uber a “taxi company with an app” is like calling an airplane a car with a crossbeam.
Even if they did, this proposal is simply a much less efficient alternative to free market competition.
America once fought a war against poverty – now it wages a war on the poor
Decentralisation is oversold. I have a couple of arguments against it: a) the more users who compete in decentralisation, the more commodity like returns they will get for their time and resources; b) there is a real cost of making decisions, so decision fatigue is a real thing and you can’t expect all users to be completely engaged in decision making that’s expected for decentralisation projects; c) the history of how platforms like YouTube evolved shows us that there is tendency to move from individual users having meaningful contributions to groups dedicated to those platforms outcompeting users in their contributions.

I blogged about it last month https://invertedpassion.com/decentralization-continuum/
This issue seems to result in heavy bikeshedding.

Here's an existing marker for a nuclear burial site.[1] This is where the SL-1 reactor blew up in the 1960s. (SL-1 was an experimental reactor at the Idaho Reactor Test Station, in the middle of nowhere for good reasons.)

Realistically, sites like that require a major mining effort to get into, and any society capable of that probably will know about radioactivity, along with all the other risks of mining.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1#/media/File:SL-1Burial.jp...
I've been trying to find a link to this, but I've been told something like 1 in 5 dollars in the US economy is tied into the startup ecosystem. So... I would think so.
Actually, you can have both. Many languages in the ML family (Haskell, F#, etc.) can ensure complete type safety without having to define the shape up-front.

Your data comes out of the JSON structure wrapped in a functor, and you can only access it in ways that deal with missing data.

It’s hypothetically possible to recreate this approach in Python, but I don’t think it would be Pythonic.
In the article, "GUI" seems to be used as an opposite to "programming". Analogy would be SQL versus query wizard dialogue.
If we're going to talk about a hypothetical internet where Google and Facebook have no ability to siphon all our data, we might as well propose IPv6 for everyone and NAT for no one. Then we could have high quality peer to peer services for things like instant messaging and email and social networking. We'd have the best of both worlds.

Oh, and ISPs would be regulated as utilities so their services would be dumb pipes with high bandwidth, low latency, and no caps or throttling of any kind!
I think Excel is a bit of both. It is pretty amazing what people do with Excel. It's probably one of the most effective software tools ever created.

It straddles this incredible balance between completely free-form input and structured data enabling very powerful functionality.
There are also still plenty of ways to host content that is free to a reasonable point of usage.

See Firebase Hosting [a sister team of mine]: 1GB hosting and 10GB xfer monthly without even dropping a credit card.
So if people had more money they would buy useful things, since they don't have money they buy useless things?
The only google service I rely on is their map. I wish there were an alternative.
Isn't Tizen still alive?
I try to get a window seat and look out the window.

The opportunity for this perspective is worth more to me than anything else I might do.

It helps to have had some earth science and geology and to have some sense of geography -- to think about what I'm seeing.

Then, there is the magical feeling of soaring and that perspective -- also on the nature of modern flight.
I’ll assume they have a higher risk to generate those higher net returns.

After recently reading A Random Walk Down a Wall Street, my conclusions are: you are not going to time the market, the managed funds don’t do any better than index funds. 90% percent of the effort goes into squeezing out an additional 10%. So may as well spend 10% of the effort and settle with 90%. Of course fortunes are made on that 10%.

Joe Blow slinging garbage cans can retire a multimillionaire by steady, passive investing.
Almost everyone making this claim is pretending to speak from a highly priveleged position on behalf of people who aren’t priveleged.

They assume that just because they don’t have a problem paying $5/mo, rest of the world doesn’t either. Their naive solution (“charge me money!”) is all about providing them some privacy while leaving the overwhelming majority of the world either without the free services or without the same privacy the relatively-rich would get.
I thought the argument that a command line gives you reproducibility in a way that a GUI doesn't was good.

Most of the things someone does in Photoshop don't have to be redone repeatedly. For system administration or I'd guess data science, a lot of things need to be redone regularly. Using the command is good for both doing that and getting in the mindset of doing that.
I also have an EeePC, I created an OEM CD looking for OEMBIOS.bin and SLP activation.
Why not?

It's a straightforward format that's widely adopted with easy-to-use libraries, and the data's tagged (with keys) so you get a bit of extra information when you're debugging.

It's a decent choice when you're building either a prototype, or not building something that's supposed to be extremely performance-oriented, in which case, I totally agree, a binary protocol would be more appropriate.
Competing in forgotten markets
People are more likely to use Linux with Wine to run some Windows programs. Since it actually produces a working result.

But if ReactOS can be practically comparable - it can get some traction too.
Why symmetry gets really interesting when it is broken
Facebook is not bad because they leak your data, it is bad because it hypnotizes people.
OK, then call it "menu-driven" or whatever. There's nothing intrinsically GUI about menus.
Excel? Not in the traditional sense. It's more of a... spatial(?) programming language.
The Corvette isn’t a “luxury” car like a Mercedes S-Class, even though it’s in the same price range. It attracts a different group of people and those who pay for this program and go to Kentucky for a weekend are probably >80% going to actually try to at least learn from it and assemble it correctly. After all, it’s going into their own car.

I bet they do get some terrible customers but that’s what the $5,000 is for — to make it worth it for them.
This is how I feel about "agile" software development ;)
I've never seen that acronym before. It is hard for me to imagine any way in which Netflix would be more similar to the other four than Microsoft.

edit: perhaps this is a regional difference; are you in the Bay Area? I imagine that Microsoft has less of a presence there, and perhaps Netflix is a bigger deal down south than they appear to be here in Seattle.
So you are arguing that they should have just ignored those and created their own thing?
> I can't remember the proper accounting term for the practice, but businesses do not like to postpone/buffer payments like this. These legally count as on-the-books debts, and no business wants to track millions of dollars of tiny debts, each of which may one day need to be paid out.

Is the term "banking", by any chance? This is the entire business practice of banks.
https://urbigenous.net/library/WIPP/

This place is not a place of honor.

No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here.

Nothing valued is here.

This place is a message and part of a system of messages.

Pay attention to it!

Sending this message was important to us.

We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
Perhaps read about market neutral strategies, most quant funds have much higher sharpe ratios than index funds.
My router, the Asus RT-N66U can have multiple Wi-Fi guest networks with the default firmware.
How do you guys prefer to index unstructured text content into a search engine?
Basically, what process do you apply to structure the document before indexing it into a search systems like Elasticsearch or Solr?
Wine is in practice more useful. You can run demanding Windows games with it on Linux. So its wider usage is expected.
lol, didn't see that result. where was it from?
I had this discussion today, and that was my conclusion: repeatability is the great advantage of CLIs and text files over GUIs.
Yes but it's a step. At least the privacy oriented offer would improve. We can always iterate on that. You can't solve a complicated problem all at once, and a lot of things start by being sold for a lot of money to the riches first before their execution become cheap enough to be targeted to less privileged, and so one. See: beds, fridges, etc.

And we can a apply your other plan in parallel in you have one, to maximize efficiency. And if you don't, well, then you realize it's though.
And this is another straw man. I don't think many people particularly care if Monsanto wants to get setup shop in e.g. Zimbabwe. In fact, I don't even mind if they setup in the US. All I would like to see is appropriate labeling of products enabling people to make their own choice.

On the other issue though, you are now also lying or in complete denial of reality. I provided clearly sourced and strong evidence indicating that lack of food is not a problem, though distribution of food is. Your example of Zimbabwe was poorly chosen, but also a hornet's nest - which is why I chose not to get into it. But I'll go ahead and poke that nest now. They are arguably the poster boy for bad social decisions leading to hunger.

Back in ~2000 Zimbabwe decided to seize the land of white farmers and give it to black individuals in a purely racial attack. The problem is that it turns out that the locals have, even after years, been unable to develop the skills necessary to actually cultivate 'their' land, and the country has been in a food crisis ever since. You can find an enormous number of sources on this but here is one at random [1]. They actually tried to invite the former farmers back, but that ship has sailed.

Their drought is probably not even the straw that broke the camel's back. That back has been broken for years. Oh yes, and about the same time as Mugabe decided to seize all the lands of the white farmers, he also decided to return Zimbabwe to a socialist command system which has a rich history of starvation. There was a great article on that here [2]: "Last week we could not afford bread. This week we cannot get bread." The Atlantic also has a typically verbose writeup here [3], which I cannot say I have read - but the facts here are not exactly ambiguous.

We can even make some predictions here. Within a decade (and probably much sooner) you're also likely to see mass starvation in South Africa which is now following exactly in Zimbabwe's footsteps. And no, some seed is not going to suddenly solve these problems, especially if we want to get into exactly what is meant by 'increased yield' as it relates to engineered seed. It's not what you think, but again that's another topic!

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/zimbabwe-seized-...

[2] - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/16/zimbabwe.andre...

[3] - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/12/how-to-...