skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not easy for clients to pick a supplier this way.
Both are true. If there is such a path, then it can be found and is returned, otherwise a verifiable certificate that there is no such path is returned.
> Aren't most registrations private now?

It's similar to how you can buy a house via a corporation, or trust. There is still a public record of the owner, but finding the person behind that takes more effort.

The GDPR takes that much further. Are we going to have totally anonymous ownership of land next?
The ODK ecosystem (build, aggregate, collect) has been in use for our Western Australian flatback turtle conservation program since 2016, now being used by Dept Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions staff, community programs and Volunteers across the Kimberley and Pilbara regions. We've captured about 12k turtle tracks/nests in ca 2k hours of logged survey work. Data is ingested into a custom data warehouse, comes out via a RESTful API, is analysed in RMarkdown workbooks with common steps documented in a custom R package.

Widgets for notoriously error-prone data like location and date/time as well as replacing free text with dropdown options where possible made the difference for us.

ODK works really well for us, and the fantastic developer community has been greatly supportive addressing feature requests and bugs (quickest fix: Clint Tseng fixed an ODK Build bug reported mid-workshop within 2h). I'd like to see the industry heavyweights like ESRI being that responsive :-)

Cheers to the ODK community!
What if Google reacts by showing ads, as the first 20 search results, instead of normal search hits? (in Europe.)

If "normal" search results, become expensive to Google.
What could tech do to make solving this problem easier? I stumbled on iNaturalist [1], a crowd-sourced platform for doing species identifications that is also (at least partly) open source [2]. What other tools could we either utilize more efficiently of create if they don't yet exist?

[1] https://www.inaturalist.org/
[2] https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist
From April 2018:

Companies involved in keeping COBOL-based systems working say that 95 percent of ATM transactions pass through COBOL programs, 80 percent of in-person transactions rely on them, and over 40 percent of banks still use COBOL as the foundation of their systems. “Our COBOL business is bigger than it has ever been,” said Chris Livesey, senior vice president and general manager at Micro Focus, a company that offers modern COBOL coding and development frameworks.

Source: https://increment.com/programming-languages/cobol-all-the-wa...
Because... those were the terms the lender agreed to?
> There comes a point when the compliance costs exceed the economic surplus available to cover them.

If something is not worth doing right maybe it shouldn't be done at all?

You are making the same point, opponents of minimum wage. "But I'll go out of business!!!" If your business is that bad, than maybe you should!
And because he realized how things were going, and refinanced at the right time, in a smart way.
> Better or not, either result can be used in the right context.

This is most of the point I'm making -- there is no context where the brittle, overspecified version is useful but the more general version isn't. But there are lots of contexts where the overspecified version is useless.

And again, it's not a different rule. Brittle "disjunction elimination" is a special case of the rule I state. Similarly, the Pythagorean Theorem is a special case of the Law of Cosines, not a different rule.

It gets worse, though, because where the Pythagorean Theorem is simpler to state than the Law of Cosines, brittle disjunction elimination is more complex to state than the more general result is.

Think about exportation. We say:

(a implies (b implies p)) iff ((a and b) implies p)

We don't say:

((a implies (b implies p)) and (a and b)) implies p

That second version, which is the equivalent of brittle disjunction elimination for and instead of or, is harder to state, is less informative, and doesn't generalize.
alias mj=‘make -j $(nproc)’ works like a charm on all my CMake projects. Keeps the cores warm!
I'm thinking land records would relate to the Public Interest/Official authority collection of data

And I don't see why ICANN wouldn't fit within this definition (publishing the records might be a different issue though)
They didn't loan him $1,000,000 all at once. The person used as an example initially borrowed $601,506. That seems high since he was told to expect the program to cost $400,000 to $450,000, but the original WSJ article explained that unlike normal medical residences, dental residencies typically charge tuition, which is another 3 years of loans on top of the original 4 year program. After the residence, he took a year of forbearance to get established. Of course, for all 8 years, the interested kept accruing.

From the $601,506 starting point, the $1,000,000 comes from him paying less per month than interest rate thanks to a government program he is in. He pays $1,590 while the debt grows something like $3,900 a month, so he isn't even trying to pay off his loans currently. After 25 years, the program he is in has the federal government paying off the loan, which at that time is estimated to be about $2,000,000.
The 'apropos' command is very handy on machine or OS you aren't familiar with.

If you want to find out what tools are available on the CLI that operate on jpegs, you'd try 'apropos jpeg' and get a list of things that mention jpeg in their man page.
If you need that material to be in space, for use in space, remember competing materials (from Earth) need to pay a large get-it-out-of-the-gravity-well tax. I think something currently in the order of $1k per kg.
>> I'm in favor of funding NASA with taxes (my taxes included), etc.

NASA was buying things from Russia and overspending with the ULA contractors until SpaceX came around. Unfortunately, in entrenched industries, it sometimes takes someone like Elon with all of his flaws to actually get shit done. The private sector needs to push the public one from time to time.

>> I think flint wasn't the best example for this specifically.

But it very much was. Most problems we have as a society and the greatest injustices are not ones where short-term - or even long-term - economic bandages will solve the problem. The enemy is mostly us and how we choose to politically navigate these situations.

>> It's great that we can recycle urine on the ISS, but can we help people in less fortunate places who have no water?

You've chosen another Flint. Do you think globally, the problem of water distribution is one where private money could solve issues? This would only be true if you were okay with private money hiring private military contractors to overthrow dictators who are oppressing their citizens on purpose to control them with water shortages, and quelling political wars/problems with privately-funded forces to increase water distribution efficiency.

If that's unacceptable - and I think you will find that it is - then private money doesn't do a lot there. Water shortages exist globally primarily because leaders of countries want them to exist, or don't give a shit that they exist. Not because there isn't enough money being thrown at the problem.

>> I'm not saying we should spend all of that money on not going to space, just that we should consider what we're really achieving vs. what we know we can effectively achieve in terms of bettering humans as a society.

You keep bringing up money as the proxy, however.

I want you to describe to me how billions of dollars could fix political instability globally that won't make American private companies seen as imperialist assholes.
I see so much custom hardware. Can somebody tell me why running the drivers of interest in a virtualbox/qemu image, and logging interaction on the host OS, doesn't do a better job than custom hardware?
I'm not sure I agree with this because if it were thus, I think 'most organizations' would be out of business quickly.

I think the answer is more plain: shared offices cut cost, and and the resulting immediate an ongoing increase in profit is 'the most important of all benchmarks' for most companies, in fact it's not even a 'benchmark' ... it's 'the point'.

So - essentially, 'private offices' are an 'investment' and an investment has to be clearly and obviously justified, otherwise the default is to go to open office plans.

The vast majority of work simply is not deep work - and yes, even things like 'Marketing' - although most operational marketing people have a 'creative bone' - and brilliant marketers are as useful and brilliant as equivalent Engineer, the actual creative/deep thinking Marketing stuff is usually done in agencies, which are like architecture firms. Similarly I don't doubt creative financial structuring or deal making,
'deep time' is just not as consistent for them as it is for most Engineers.

There is actually rather scarce 'deep work' to be done, and so, as so few companies willingly require people to be 'learning very important new skills' ... offices become less common due to the simple economics of it all.
All birds lay eggs, but not all animals that lay eggs are birds.

All shady sites use WHOIS privacy, but not everyone who uses WHOIS privacy is shady.
D3 Graph Theory: Learn Graph Theory Interactively
This is great. I've been searching for one place for all my Product Management needs, and this seems to fit. Great job guys!
I agree, and some of the HyperCard stacks today , have me dropping my screen resolution to the old 640x480 or so in order to better view the stacks. There is one on art and history that is very well written: https://archive.org/details/CultureMacintosh

(and you can run this completely in your modern browser - amazing!)
For people with reduced mobility who can walk, slopes are often worse than steps. It is common for old people to lose sensation. This includes the ability to be confident of the angle of the ankle, the ability to sense pressure under the foot, and the ability to quickly sense motion via the inner ear. The slope can make these people tip right over, falling and then breaking bones. It can be fatal.
It's a little sad that people's first thoughts about tech like this is "It can bring me goods faster than FedEx!" That's such a trivial thing to use it for.

Emergency deliveries in rural areas are where this will be most useful. Getting medicine and mechanical parts to remote places during crisises is hard.
Makita has made a sturdy coffee machine aimed at construction workers
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This is an interesting take, I've talked previously about using SVN as the underlying backing store for a versioned object store (using the auto versioning feature to allow plain webdav writes), and of course plain webdav is the 'unversioned' companion service for that.
Here's a classic 2002 story about a Portland district attorney changing his tune on the privacy of garbage after a reporter reporting on the contents of the DA's garbage:

http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-1616-rubbish.html-2
I believe this is equivalent to adding the `nonlazybind` attribute to an extern declaration - see http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#function-attributes

> This attribute suppresses lazy symbol binding for the function. This may make calls to the function faster, at the cost of extra program startup time if the function is not called during program startup.

I didn't find the zig issue for this feature so I created it: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1024

If we did the "Static control flow analysis" idea then zig would bench the same as the luajit/modified c test.
It is very frightening that as a society, we are mostly unable to plan against the tragedy of the commons, especially for global scale problems.
A more extreme example: At stations like Amersham there's no separate gateline for National Rail versus tube, and the tickets are interoperable towards London.

Many of Amersham's morning commuters board the (faster) National Rail service, even though (unusually for the tube) the Metropolitan line has express and semi-stopping services at peak times to catch up some of the difference.
America has never been short of this hypocrisy, most notably with Japan in the 90s. However one must reflect that the national corporatism in China is not free market as we understand it. The west's trade model is built around companies as individual actors separate from their countries but that is not true in China.
Jurisdiction hacking: choose where you want your transaction executed
The website needs a bit of work in terms of design, but the content is great. Good job on building such an active community.
I was curious about Common Lisp's CFFI also, so I tried it out. [1]

On my machine, the C version prints between 6855 and 6910.

Using SBCL (cffi-bench:run 2000000000) prints between 9185 and 9205.

Clisp is significantly slower, and (cffi-bench:run 200000000) is already at 55500, compared to ~100 in SBCL.

CCL crashes with a segmentation fault, and I'm still debugging.

Tomorrow I'll see about creating a build script and opening a pull request to the main repo.

[1] https://github.com/jl2/ffi-overhead/tree/master/common-lisp/...

EDIT: I recompiled the .so and C program with -O3, and it now prints between 4740-4780. SBCL using the -O3 library prints 7935 and 8935.
I do not really understand what they may need except for login and password in order to sell me a domain name.

Would be really cool if I could buy a domain without providing all my real life details. That is really disturbing.
I find this line of thinking ridiculous or at least very elitist.. if we can’t figure out how to live on this one we’ll just go destroy another planet.
I agree that actual safety statistics probably do not exist.

But why would you assume they are especially unfavorable? People crew all kinds of boats, big and small. Many do it for fun, on their own boats, in places where law enforcement is barely present.

"People sometimes get hurt on boats", sure. This fact doesn't stir much outrage.
I think the simple economics of it would completely rule out this being used for 'fresh groceries' ... or rather only to people who want to pay 10x for their groceries.

My bet: the military/security/coast guard, for far off service posts (like when they put hydro wires way out in the middle of nowhere), offshore Oil, and for very specific things (i.e. medical equipment) for remote communities.
Sure, but that says nothing about university-leve education.
Research: Sleep duration and mortality – Does weekend sleep matter?
This is why EUParliament exists: to keep national elites, embodied in the Council and Commission, in check. This is one of those instances where MEPs can shine by holding the line against idiotic regulation. Call your MEPs and let them know this is a chance for them to get visibility by doing The Right Thing, voting down this crap. And if they reply with boilerplate, make sure you vote a different party next time - the proportional nature of EU elections makes it easy for smaller parties to benefit from small swings in numbers.
Is UW-P private? It would be very odd for a CS faculty to agree to that. More likely they have one or many very senior professors who are still very much into COBOL.
Zero-Overhead Tree Processing with the Visitor Pattern
It hasn't won yet.

https://bazel.build/
Companies usually have internal portals that allow them to view the health of the business, customer accounts, activity logs, etc. These might be built internally as they are very tailored to each business and its internals.
Ironically, this episode didn't have him in it.
Ask HN: Can Handmade Hero teach me how to Develop a 3D game Engine?
Do you think it's worth watching Handmade Hero if i'm interested in learning how to develop a 3D Game Engine by which a FPS game can be created?
ZFS is such a delight to work with. I learned something new in this article. Thanks for linking it.
You could also heat it in place. Propane is not really a pesticide, but it works nicely. An electric arc should also work nicely, even burning out the root.
If you want to go deeper, there's the Grammatical Framework Resource Grammar Library: https://www.grammaticalframework.org/lib/doc/rgl-publication...
Curb extensions are awful for bicycles.
That's not so bad, really.

That 10% is what middle-income people would typically use to save for things like a 401k, a house deposit or a car. If people can't afford those they'll be much poorer in retirement, stuck renting for much longer which will keep them poor, and for many it'll mean they choose not to have children because they're financially unstable. On an individual level these things are unfortunate; on a societal level they're catastrophic. An aging population can ruin an economy. Tax receipts don't cover basic services. It's happening in many places already (Japan, UK, etc).
My ingenious solution: don't buy so much education, if the loans are too much.

You know you shouldn't buy a house, a car, or a business asset which you know you can not afford or leverage to pay for itself, why do you take on debts (and make other decisions around payments) that you know you can not repay? I have to hope that people aren't counting on bailouts, but given the political rhetoric that gets tossed around, it's hard to imagine that doesn't factor in to people's poor decisions.
> Autodidact people are nearly always terrible programmers because they haven’t learned how to think.

Going off of the StackOverflow 2018 survey, only ~48% of professional developers have a CS, computer engineering or software engineering degree. If you’re willing to write off over half of potential applicants because your interviewing process clearly didn’t work well enough to verify the applicant can code, then sure, help inflate the degree bloat, but just understand, that even in countries where education is “free”, it comes at a cost that has to be picked up somewhere.
I'm willing to bet that the AMA caps are keeping more smart people out of medicine than the costs are.
> if you're a GPU manufacturer, make sure the 3V3 supply is tolerant to being externally driven and doesn't backpower anything in the GPU

That's exactly what a "diode on the device side" does.
Read the article. The founder was an operations guy at Tesla and specifically did the numbers to justify the company based on the need of Tesla parts supply.

There is room for this in the supply chain of many firms. There’s a lot of industries where waiting for something can be very expensive.
It doesn’t need to be this way!

Billionaire level wealth aside, amassing a few million over the course of a lifetime isn’t as difficult as people think, it just requires discipline.

Live well within your means and invest your saved money in assets consistently, compounding and time will do the rest.

Most rich people get there slowly, and don’t appear to live a rich person’s lifestyle. Conversely, a lot of people who appear rich have little accumulated wealth.

If you’d like to know more, Have a read of “The millionaire next door” and “I will teach you to be rich”. They changed my outlook on what being wealthy meant, and I’m now putting thousands onto my net worth every month in a automated way.
It should be decibels. We get a 13 dB pesticide reduction.
JCL isn't scary. Think environment variables plus shell scripting.

In the mainframe environment where I started my career, OS JCL was sort of viewed as a black art by most of the programmers (plus an annoyance, as production JCL had to be initially submitted on cards).

I came from the system side, so I was happy to take over all the JCL issues for my group. I'd set it up how I wanted in a flat file on TSO, spool it to the JES2-connected card punch, and bingo! That also let me comment the non-intuitive elements for the computing center folks, minimizing 3AM call-ins when feeding-system issues made us improvise input checks. Literally nobody had thought of doing production JCL that way before I did.
There are legal requirements around documenting the ownership of houses, which is always a "get out" clause in the GDPR requirements.
Infinity War, the latest Star Trek, and the Hateful Eight had intermissions when I went to see them.
Ok you are right about the pirate bay guys. But you could argue that the laws are heavily influenced by the US.

But extraordinary retention is just the fancy word for CIA abduction. So no treaties are in place here.
This sounds like it's really expensive, and hard to prove the benefits of to most purchasers. I doubt we'll get the sort of industry change this would require without since strong formalization of the discipline.
Fifty Years of Basic, the Language That Made Computers Personal (2014)
Show HN: Improved Seam Carving Using Forward Energy
Don't think most people know about the improved seam carving algorithm (since only the original is taught in most CS curriculums) and thought you might think this is cool!
Sadly ICANN isn't the only one that this is a problem with. Try registering on an gov small business sites, all that information is scrapped non stop. Because it's for contracting reasons you can't put in fluff either. It's a really messed up system.
I rely on WHOIS data to contact sysops of delinquent sites, it is completely reasonable that somebody be available to at least attempt to contact.

If you don't like the spam, use Google apps/Gmail for your technical/administrative contacts.

It is fair and reasonable, if you are operating a domain, to be available for legitimate contact. I accept the small amount of money and time I spend receiving spam phone calls roughly once or twice a month, in exchange for the important notices and communications I receive (and can make) every couple.
While we are at it let’s stop artificially limiting the number of medical professionals.
The tech industry is not rational. The tech industry right now is a gold rush and you are the shovel.

The only thing people high up in the org-chart know is that if they dig hard enough they might find gold.

Then, they don't even have to find the enough gold, they only need to make it seem that they will find gold and use that hype to raise money, be acquired or go public.

And even if in the end 0 gold is found, a bunch of people will walk out with money and zero liability.
It’s not about all or nothing – WHOIS data should make public an email that can be reached, and, if the requester identifies themselves, they should also be able to get more information to either directly contact or sue the owner.

But a random bot looking for victims it can spam shouldn’t be able to read all the WHOIS data.
Also look at kobo toolbox and kobo collect. They're based off the odk and forhub codebases I think.

Kobotoolbox provides a useful interface for previewing your data and building forms. Also an api for pulling collected data into other platforms
I would have love, love, LOVED to see Tcl in that space.

100% agree, a Tcl based build system would be a dream come true. I wonder why they thought it would not enjoy widespread adoption. Plenty of Tcl-based systems did, after all, and it's only because of fashion now that people aren't still using it.
First of all it's apes we are closely related to not monkeys. That's a different branch.

Secondly, we are not said to have evolved "from" apes. We share a common ancestor with modern apes. That ancestor may superficially look more like othet modern apes than a modern human but only the DNA tells the true story of which is more like which and the import of that is even debatable. Even taking that resemblance for granted, there is no reason it had to be such. After speciation divided us from our last obviously ape ancestor, it was altogether likely one of us would diverge faster. It happened to be us.
> But a random bot looking for victims it can spam shouldn’t be able to read all the WHOIS data.

It is public information, and it is impossible to watermark. There is absolutely nothing you can do about the scraping of WHOIS data if it maintains any of its current usefulness.