skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's literally the oldest most out of date Linux distro available (even this update), so probably. CentOS recently added Python 2.7 instead of Python 2.6...
You could. But if you're going to model the eclipse's track on a flat earth, it wouldn't match the eclipse's track on a round earth.
The Darth Vader quote rings true with me. I was working at a logistics firm in its in-house dev team. There was a constant push to increase employee tracking. Toilets were fitted with swipe card readers, we were encouraged to "give time" to the company for free, and we came under huge pressure to install various apps on our phones so that we were always "connected in" to company operations. Some people accepted this, some refused. When there was too much push-back management just implemented it anyways.

For example, I wrote the performance monitoring web application. Each employees manager would rate them 1 (good) to 4 (bad) on 10 criteria (e.g. punctuality, quality of work etc). The scores would be averaged and you'd end up with a 1 to 4 rating. I was asked to change it so that an average score greater than 2.2 would automatically become a 4 and also a manager could arbitrarily lower the overall score if they wished. So someone getting a 1 average could be moved to a 4 if their manager felt like it. This formula was baked in to everyone's employment contract, so legally the company would have had to notify all staff and get their approval to make the change. I raised ethical concerns but was told to implement it and not tell anyone, or risk getting fired. I told people anyway, I knew I wasn't going to be working there much longer.
> What isn't a content editor application?

Well, anything that isn't a text/content editor (or a file system manager, which I had forgotten to mention), so basically the vast majority of computer usage. Settings in applications, navigation state of applications, state of the OS/window manager itself (I'm not aware of a desktop environment where moving or closing a window or application supports an undo feature), etc. Web browsers and most file managers do support back and forward navigation, if you want to count that as "undo."

The comment I was initially replying to talked about being afraid to press buttons in modern UIs because of the lack of undo. My claim is that, except for buttons that change formatting in text/content editors or buttons that make changes in some file system managers, undo functionality has really never existed to my knowledge.
California falls back on Spanish civil law. The most obvious example of this is the fact spouses cannot hold property individually in California, except for a few (constitutionally protected) items.

In general, each sovereign jurisdiction will fall back on the legal system that was in place at the time the jurisdiction gained its sovereignty. For California, the ancestor state was Mexico, and thus Spain.

https://www.law.berkeley.edu/library/robbins/pdf/ca-legalher...

But to answer the larger question. Everything that is not specifically legislated against is legal. Some ancient laws may still hold, but most are probably going to be found unconstitutional. Although, there may be some exceptions that you could convince a court to enforce.
I’m writing my own custom gif encoder in C and found this incredibly helpful along with a couple other references. But this one in particular is very helpful in understanding how I would structure my C code. One of the few pieces of the puzzle left for me to figure out is how to write to a variable bit stream as byte is the lowest you can easily read/write in C.
One way to see it.

Another may consider population, the western world massively exporting trash, having decades of head start on polluting the oceans with plastic (micro plastic needs time) and totally fails to develop exportable clean consumer products or to build or sell the machines needed to produce them.

I don't like plastic in sea food, but it's probably to late with or without China. Pointing now at countries copy pasting our lifestyle is just ridiculous, they didn't invent plastic bags.
I've only heard of Mastodon. Is Pleroma a Mastodon server, or its own thing? (Searching for Pleroma does nothing but result in Greek Mythology hits).
Open letter supporting Google employees urging Google to not weaponize its tech
Somethings are a bit different, but it's "almost the same"
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp... (as an example)
Most of the time I look for RH Stuff or fedora and do a mental downgrade of some of the tools.
Actually the article states that 20% of the men are having 50%-60% of the sex. That's a minority of men having a majority of sex. Different numbers, but not wrong.
Awesome, thanks for sharing and thank you for the feedback!

Whomever implements Whats New into their website/app can pass in any data they'd like as the identifier (hash, email, id, nickname, etc) as long as it's unique. Great suggestion to hash it with regards to GDPR and unnecessary data collection. I should definitely work on encouraging people to shy from using email addresses.
Can someone with a US phone see if this try-before-you-buy page works?

https://www.locationsmart.com/try/

It would be fucking unbelievable if you were able to track any US phone number like that, no ID, no court order.
The thing that blows me away is homo sapiens have been around 300K years (latest evidence). Imagine living with a current brain psysiology 300K years ago. What the hell did we do for all that time?

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/world-s-oldest-homo-s...
I wonder if the real reason advertising companies are worried about millenials is that they just avoid advertising whenever they can. There is a growing awareness about the effects of advertising, and the popular trends are towards reuse and recycling, even if those trends are mostly bullshit.

In Australia we have a popular TV show called Gruen Transfer which does nothing but breakdown ads and explains how they do what they do.

Finally, a biased anecdote from a millenial: Myself and many of my friends avoid ads by using ad-blockers and subscription services and not leaving the TV on when there is nothing to watch. Whereas my parents (about 60) watched far more television and didn't use ad-blockers... although recently they have been turning the TV off and using their ipads instead.
You may be getting downvoted for snark and hyperbole, and that wouldn't be unfair, but it might be Germany's exemplary use of renewable energy that makes the host country relevant.
I'm not sure if that's universal. My mom was a phone+TV person until all of her friends migrated to Whatsapp and Facebook. Nowadays she's on her smartphone a lot more than the landline. I guess the TV is still always on.

My dad was a TV+book+newspaper person but now he's always online. He'll watch news clips online and read online. It's not that big of a change for him though, when he watched TV he used to watch these channels that would show text of the news along with news clips, very much line the news websites he checks out now.
It says "Turbowash: 59 minutes" on that link?

I guess if you're setting it running in the morning and then heading out for the day, 4-5 hours isn't a problem. But often I end up doing all the laundry on one day: clothes as well as towels, bed sheets, etc, in multiple loads, and don't want to be waiting around too long for each load to finish...
It's dieselgate for washing machines.

Slow wash cycles are more efficient. Loosening the dirt by soaking means that less agitation is required. Manufacturers cheat the mandatory efficiency tests by making the default cycle very slow, but offering faster cycle settings. My washing machine takes nearly four hours for a standard cotton cycle, but has a "speed perfect" button that reduces the wash time to under an hour. I always use the fast setting.
Comcast recently pulled fiber down a main road (about half a mile?), then about 150 feet along poles down a residential road, then trenched about 15 feet beside my driveway. It took a couple of months to get permitting to run it along the main road, but maybe half a day to actually run it. It took half a day to run it on poles along the residential road, and 6-7 hours (four guys) to trench 15 feet beside my driveway. Plus another half a day (one guy) to terminate the fiber in my basement, and another half day (one guy) to install the CPE.
Water is finite. Meanwhile you can generally always pay for more electricity.

Cape Town will likely be out of water by July 15.

High efficiency dryers and washers have their place; just maybe not where water is prevalent.
Disappointing, but unfortunately not surprising. They have been winding down their film production for a while now. First it was Astia and some of the oddball LF sizes, then it was FP100C in 4x5, then the 3x4, then FP3000B, and it just keeps rolling on.

I've been expecting this for a while and have a good stash of film tucked away that will carry me for quite a while. I have about 150 rolls of various slide films in 120 and maybe 200 rolls of B+W in 120 and 35mm. I'll probably still try to tuck away another 100 rolls or so in the deep freezer if I can. Unlike FP-100C, slide+negative films can be stored for a long time (practically indefinitely) if kept cool/frozen.

At this point I am getting worried about how long E-6 processing will be around though. There are DIY kits but they are not archival-grade stable.

Fuji is also terrible at communicating these discontinuations to their customers. Several times now it's simply been "oops, we're out, this will be the last shipment", and only to their Asia distribution chain at that.
But the technical best frames are still made in Austria, Silhouette. Light and frameless titan, unbreakable.

The Italians or Fielmann haven't figured out that yet.
The only intuitive user interface is the nipple, everything else is learned.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/12/17337602/plastic-tote-bag...
If you're ever forgotten to dry the laundry for just a day or two, you can easily notice what your "clean" laundry starts to emanate. I think that's a simple enough experiment that confirms that "clean" laundry does have LOTS of bacteria, especially before it gets killed by removing the leftover water.

Speaking of bacteria, another interesting at-home experiment is the one with tea. Not everyone knows, but tea is highly anti-bacterial. If you leave an old tea-bag from milk-free green tea lying around with just enough water to keep it moist for a few days or even a week, the chances of spoilage or mold are extremely low — the water will evaporate faster. (I sometimes didn't throw old tea cups from my desk for weeks, and none of them ever developed anything bad, unless they had something other than the tea, e.g., milk tea will develop mold pretty fast.)
Previously discussed 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17046632

Despite the dupe factor, I support continuing to raise awareness about this. The fact that it happened at all and continues to be permitted is super messed up.

Shocking abuse of information on part of the carriers, data re-sellers, and ultimately bottom feeding scumbags who let the law run wild and unchecked.
A more accurate analogy would be

One restaurant that serves only one dish a day and there's always a 30 minute line. You have to purchase a monthly pass to eat there.

The other has no wait and a menu that rotates slowly over the year. You have to purchase a monthly pass to eat there.

Each is comparable in quality of food.
I once emailed Woz about some trivial question about the old Apple machines. He emailed me right back with an apology about how he was too busy to answer all these kinds of emails and then in the next sentence, answered my question anyway.
>allowing the consensus layer to be captured by regulators

The opposite. You can't hide mining at the required scale. Miners must have a registered companies to get access to cheap electricity, employ workers etc. Any mining business that doesn't register is going to be outcompeted by those that do.

PoS can work over Tor/I2p with anonymous validators.
I feel like the decline of traditional television is behind a lot of the push to destroy net neutrality.

The strategy being to first introduce some artificial scarcity on internet bandwidth through data caps, and then offer exceptions. Either the cost to the business to be on the exception list will be high, or the cost to the user will be high to override the data caps, with the cost of service increasing as oligopoly in a region allows.

They can use this to steer people to the services that they back, like Hulu, or at least to make their own cable-box video on demand services seem more reasonable.

If one were truly pessimistic, the categorization of content wouldn't stop at simply high bandwidth services like video. A separate limit could be applied to things like html, with websites indexed as to their type and views counted. Which could result in an online equivalent of Sinclair media's control of local television news as certain channels of information are more accessible because they don't count towards a cap. And anything untrackable like VPN use goes into a more expensive version of the existing bandwidth-based quotas.

I believe it will not come to that last part, but less because I don't believe the telcos would attempt it than that I think it would incite people to legislative action. If it's introduced in slow increments, though, we might get closer to this worst-case scenario than many believe.
Sure, it's possible. But I don't think it's easier. You get into all kinds of path/rpath fun and the worst thing is that things may work but you end up using the wrong environment by accident. Chroot could help, but docker has it all nicely wrapped up with the tooling.
Kodakoin!

Edit: Wait, you weren't joking!

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

omg. This is such a disgraceful way for that company to die.
Stick to it. In your latter years you'll never wish you had watched more TV, but you might fondly remember that moment you walked on a beach at sunset instead and had an amazing encounter.

Same applies to your phone too though :)
Surely you can power the control electronics from the flywheel, right? That should always work except when the thing is stopped, which is a safe state.
Your entire comment was nothing but a link to Mastodon. Doing that, and not adding any other context or commentary, is spam.
The flip side of not bundling, is nickle-and-diming. Other bundling services, like Spotify, or Netflix, are way more cost effective than having to make micropayments to a bunch of separate services.

Consider Newspaper subscriptions. Would you rather separately pay $X/month to New York Times, WashingtonPost, The Atlantic, The Economist, etc just to read a few articles, or would you rather pay $X/mo to Texture or a Spotify-for-News, and then have access to every newspaper, friction and worry free?

I'm an Amazon Prime customer and I love it. Not just for the delivery, but also for the video, Amazon Fresh, and pretty much everything else.

When the price of the bundle exceeds greatly the price of everything else, I might start to be concerned.

But in general, I find unbundled stuff more expensive.
It's confusing because the people making these decisions surely have families and are not made of metal. Surely.
How does forcing kids to care for dying parents have any impact on the sustainability/environmental impact of having kids.

> If you expect that somebodies else children should support you then I question your sanity. Why should they choose to do so?

Why are you so sure your own kids would choose to do so? Aren't you making a hundred-thousand-dollar-plus child-rearing bet that they'll feel guilty enough to care for you? Why not just spend that money on a paid caretaker?

> If you will have no children but 10 others will have 10 children (each) then which genes will prevail? Sustainable or not sustainable?

Just because other people are making a bad decision doesn't mean you have to make it, too.
I just tried it, and It worked to within about 60m of where I'm sitting. I am not pleased.
Enlightenment now by Steven pinker covers this in great detail (and is a fun read), if you’re interested in this sort of thing
TLDR; Faster chargers are useful now and more of them would be great!

The cells charge in parallel (there are on the order of 15,000 cells in car batteries), so at least right now the charger power is the constraint and not the battery chemistry.

The most power you'd ever really need to deliver is maybe 3-400 miles of range in 5 minutes. So at a point, that we are pretty close to, you don't really need to charge any faster.

Using Tesla as an example of our current charging constraints:

The Level 1 chargers that plugin into a normal outlet are at 2 kW.

In-home charging (Level 2) maxes out at about 17 kW, (close to the most the average house circuit can handle). An average gas station or retail parking lot is probably close to this. More likely it is down at 11 kW.

At Super chargers, the Model 3 can currently accept a max of 120 kW, and the chargers can put out a max of 200 kW.

Tesla has teased doing more, including a Megacharger for their semi's, that seems like it would work at more than 1000 kW. See https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-semi-megacharger-charging-po.... And also "Super charger V3" at something more than 350 kW.

Very roughly, kW is proportional to how much range you get for the amount of charge time. So 120 kW charging is about 10 times faster than 11 kW Level 2 charging.

Also very roughly, a Tesla Model 3 could charge it's 300 mile (75kWh) battery in about 5 minutes at a 1000 kW charging rate.

It is worth noting is that this particular need, dumping 75kWh of power in 5 minutes, will exist even as battery technology improves. Fast charging is not gating on electric cars because home and work charging works quite well. But there will be demand for fast charging as a convenience to electric car owners.

Good links and details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Supercharger
That must be why they're so incredibly slow.
Western countries generate more capita garbage and yet have figured out how to properly dispose it off. Not withstanding the tinfoil type environmentalists on HN, USA has damn good conventional waste management systems. Most waste goes to landfills which are very securely locked from all sides and once full they build resorts and amusement parks on top of it. Most landfills in USA will take centuries to actually run out of space.

Even in a filthy city like New York you can still swim in Hudson and come out alive and well. You can't do that in most rivers in India and China and in some cases even tap water.
Yes, it does work. The page reports its accuracy within 2.26 miles. Measuring on Google Earth, it was off by 0.42 miles, so well within its stated accuracy on the result.

It did require me to respond "YES" to an SMS before the website provided the detail. SMS text was:

LocationSmart: Reply YES or YES LS to confirm consent for cloud location & messaging demo. Reply HELP for help, Reply STOP to cancel. Msg&Data Rates may apply.
I mean the article is referring to traditional tv, which doesn't need to be signed up for, just need an antenna. But, I imagine you also have no interest in the type of programming that comes with that.
According to doctors/nurses I've talked to, smooshing a mucous membrane or open sore onto material which came into contact with infected blood can be enough for transmission. Which is why competent BDSM dungeons clean their apparatus with cavicide before/after use, and why they recommend a barrier between a person and the apparatus.
Ask HN: Organizing events connecting VCs with university. What to charge?
I'm considering organizing a series of events to connect VCs and successful entrepreneurs with researchers and grad students at a major research university that has traditionally not received much love from the VC community. This university is well recognized in a very "in" field (think AI / ML / blockchain / bio). VCs want access to researchers and students, researchers want relationships with investors, and students want jobs at startups or investors in their startups. The administration wants to cultivate more of a startup culture, and the tech transfer office wants to spin out more tech to VC backed startups.

I've discussed this with all parties involved and they're on board. However, I'm not an event planner and this would be a massive time commitment (booking venues, coordinating dozens of schedules, staying on top of dozens of busy people). If I could charge for this I would feel much better about spending time on it vs my real job.

Does anyone with experience with these kinds of things have thoughts on how to structure compensation for organizing these events? I'd rather charge the university than VCs bc part of the value I get is building relationships with the VCs, but I think VCs get enough value from this to pay a fee

The events would be:

VC panel discussion followed by a day of one on one meetings with researchers selected by the VCs, then a reception in the evening. Would expect ~200 students and professors to attend panel

"Jobs at startups" panel: CEOs of funded companies ($50M+ raised) would talk about their companies and the kinds of talent they are looking for, then a day of meetings with student groups and researchers and networking reception. ~200 in panel audience, many of whom have in demand technical backgrounds and could be potential hires

Young entrepreneur panel: panel of young funded founders discussing their journey plus networking meetings for meeting potential hires
Note that even this may not work perfectly.

For example, Clorox recommends using 1/2 cup of Clorox regular bleach in laundry. That's 8 tablespoons worth. That's on the low end of what the CDC recommends per gallon of water for disinfecting something that's contaminated with Norovirus (a viral stomach bug especially common in the winter).

Norovirus is also pretty heat stable, though the sanitize setting should get hot enough, though it's not clear if its hot enough for long enough.
Record-Breaking Wave Reaches Height of 78.1 Feet
Another cool use is in railway stations to store the energy of a train as it slows into the station, then return it when it accelerates away.
From just reading the discussion so far, I'd like to see how a naive implementation in Julia would do (Julia does type inference, and some quick duck-duck-ing indicates that unsigned 128 bit int is the biggest regular number type - before having to go to bigint).

[ed: ok, from a skim, I see this is actually about 256bit multiplication - which makes me curious how just using bigints and * (mul operator) would work in Julia.

Also, I don't get this:

> u256_mul multiplies two 256-bit numbers to get a 256-bit result (in Rust, we just create a 512-bit result and then throw away the top half but in assembly we have a seperate implementation)

How do they know the result will fit in 256 bits? Sounds like they know more about the arguments than both having to be 256 bits long?

Or do they want multiply and shift?]
>There’s no bots
>Virtually no spam

I signed up for Ello way back in 2014, and forgot about it. I literally didn't sign into it again after signing up, but in early 2017 I started getting user following emails. I just glanced through the dozen or so emails I have and most of them feature a nude photo for the profile.

While I'm at work I can't look into this more closely, but I have a feeling these are very similar to the bots that are rampant on Tumblr which have very similar user profile pictures.
I would be extremely suspicious of any method that found it free of bacteria. Tap water is not sterile (neither is bottled water).

Free of pathogens, maybe. Free of bacteria? Not even a little bit. Especially once it's traveled through household plumbing.
For typical system scripts, ansible is much better than bash. It has all the commands that are missing from Unix and it's not subject to the bash problems mentioned here.

I agree that python is a pain. It's too low level for any task.