skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - It has bugs, yes, every software has bugs. We even hit multiple of them, and some of them was fairly unpleasant and hard to find, but it can be known after a bit of digging, because development is on GitHub. Also I'm fairly sure your shell scripts don't have any bugs in them...

Most init systems are small enough in scope that they have very few if any major issues. Systemd has them all the time. I had never had an issue with an init system other than systemd.

> - Shared knowledge. I never heard this argument, but you can jump to any other system and understand what's going on immediately if everyone uses the same init system. This is a huge advantage. Fragmenting the landscape with programs which inherently do the same thing just a bit differently is just a bad idea. I also hate split of talent and split of energy. Also, why on earth would you change to another init system ever? Or why would you ever change to an init system you don't know?

If you have an init system that is reasonable in scope, it doesn't affect your ability to change to other systems, regardless of which one they use. Most people don't need to touch their init system on a regular basis. Unless they use systemd.

> - Boot time is way better with systemd. With sysvinit, there is no parallelization. You have runlevels and that's it. I never used more than three, but I use multiple targets (own custom target also) with systemd, because it's easy and you can finally name them and debug them and see the dependency chain for every target.

This is complete nonsense. First, runit supports parallel startup, Second it isn't clear how much this matters because startup is heavily disk bound.

> - Systemd DOES NOT break backward compatibility. It can use existing sysvinit scripts. Actually it even default to those if there is both a .service file and init script.

> - "One of the critical reasons against systemd concerns the lack of portability to other Unices, and the associated risk to see Linux-based systems detach from the UNIX world."

> Anyone seeing the irony here? :D

No. This point makes no sense at all. Causing linux to drift away from other unices has nothing whatsover to do with whether or not systemd can run normal init scripts.

> I never understood systemd hate, but I guess it comes from ignorance and lack of willingness to learn about modern system design. The people who made the fork are just a bunch of hissy kids or stuck in stone age who are lazy to learn a new system IMO.

It's somewhat ironic that you are attributing bad faith to people who disagree with you when all of your points are so feeble. Also ironic is that comments like this probably contribute to how much people dislike systemd. If you have a problem with a core operating system component, that is frustrating. If you then go on to an internet forum and read about how some ignorant fool thinks that you frustration is really your fault it really pisses you off.
Still:

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/only-dark-matter-and-n...

"Modified gravity cannot successfully predict the large-scale structure of the Universe the way that a Universe full of dark matter can. Period. And until it can, it’s not worth paying any mind to as a serious competitor. You cannot ignore physical cosmology in your attempts to decipher the cosmos, and the predictions of large-scale structure, the microwave background, the light elements, and the bending of starlight are some of the most basic and important predictions that come out of physical cosmology. "
Urgh this is the worst point HN keep making vis-a-vis surveillance. Dirt on politicians is evidence of actual crimes and wrongdoings - not supposition and heresay.

Surveillance doesn't magically generate blackmail material on politicians if they haven't done anything wrong, and politicians have a vastly reduced right to privacy compared to the rest of us.

"Politicians could be blackmailed!" is a weak as hell argument because if they can be blackmailed then they are corrupt and should be exposed.

The problem is what happens to all the rest of us - private citizens who do not wield power and influence, do not write the laws, and as is noted in the OP here, who suffer very real consequences to our lives from being categorized by intelligence systems.
You can retrofit it into an existing spray bottle with some flexible tubing and something to weight down the end, like some stainless-steel nuts. That way, the end of the tube follows gravity along with the liquid and ensure it remains submerged.
No it isn't. There is still plenty of debate about the philosophical implications of Bells' inequality.

See for example this 2014 PNAS article "Quantum nonlocality does not exist": http://www.pnas.org/content/111/31/11281

You can find plenty more if you google. I personally agree with the ideas of that paper in a broad sense if not in detail, as do many people.

Second, if you are trying to argue that locality is no longer a guiding principle, note how the standard model is quantum-mechanical so obeys bell's inequality, yet we still call it "local". Locality was a key guiding principle of the standard model.
You need a developer account - US$99 per annum for an individual.
Stacking the Bricks: Why Blacksmiths Are Better at Startups Than You
There's evidence of Stone Age trepanation in Europe on cows, which could plausibly be the earliest evidence of people practicing surgery on animals.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/19/health/stone-age-cow-cranial-...
No, not at all. I believe in democracy and its potential for transformation above all, just as a fundamental right in the workplace/economy, in addition to government.
Exactly. Google Maps is already painful to use with modern workflows. I can see how the similar API can be helpful for those who just want to switch to Apple Maps.
One thing is that since people from not so reputable university get to have very few interactions with those from elite universities, we assume elite university students are lot better at programming.

Today, you can directly take a look at their craft on github, this has given much confidence to those from lower rungs of the society like, hey! I can create better than this person even tho i am not from such an ellite university. This along with the meritocracy in tech levels the playing field where the ones from better universities should found startups by using their connections instead of working for companies
> oh, you can’t make it yourself? Maybe that’s why it’s not free.

That's not a complete argument. Anyone can mop the streets, but we still pay for their services.
Depends on region. In my city Google maps are terrible. Apple maps are even worse, though. But I can imagine that they might be better somewhere.
Table stakes for a mapping provider. Good to see Apple moving this to the web as well. Hopefully future updates will provide discerning features.
Should Online Purchases Be Taxed?
For anyone looking to start using this, I would highly recommend waiting until https://leafletjs.com adds support so you aren't writing MapKit specific code.
It's not a false dichotomy. The American system does not allow third parties to prosper.

It is a very real dichotomy: if you want things to change, then you need to vote for the largest group which is vaguely aligned towards your interests, and then wait for them to split into two new, largest groups.

First past the post is a terrible system, and spoiler candidates are very real in it. If you want this to be a false dichotomy, get rid of FTTP and implement preferential voting (and mandatory voting, which is how you get it to work).
"It is just absurd at that point to believe consciousness could reside there."

At the risk of losing my junior philosopher's secret decoder ring, I feel the need to point out that most philosophical writing is an elaborate logical ediface erected in support of the writer's previously existing, unreasoned prejudices.
Bikes/e-bikes work great for any type of commute...

Only when they aren't. Winter means snow, ice, and below zero temperatures and my hands simply can't handle the extra cold from the wind. I'm not handicapped and do walk during the winter, but tend to take the bus on the very rainy and very cold days despite dressing for the weather. let alone the fact that I'm no where near skilled enough with a bicycle to feel safe riding on 2inches of ice - regardless of studded tires. Summers have really strong sun, making folks deceptively warm and sweaty. I dont' know about your job, but most of mine want me to be clean and not smell of sweat when I arrive. I always have the chance of cargo: I walk to the grocery store most times. (I am not legal to drive in my present country).

When I lived in Indiana, there were not only problems with actual weather, but then I ran into route problems. The easiest route for commutes was major roads, but unfortunately most of those roads aren't built for people to ride bikes or walk. In some places, doing either activity on those roads meant you got stopped by the cops and told to find another path to take. You were putting cars and yourself at risk using that road. Luckily, there are more paths for such things here.

Not only that, but e-bikes have a limited range in most circumstances. Higher-end ones go far enough, but some of the cheaper models risk losing power at the higher ends. By the time most e-bikes has power to spare on those commutes, here they might be legally a scooter.

I do agree with having a robust public transportation system, however. That actually soves the issues with the bikes, but bikes alone seem won't work.
Have you trie Bing maps sdk? We wound up ditching it and using leaflet to render the imagery from Bing instead. It was the worst.
That is completely wrong.
The last thing anyone wants is for Windows to be "moving".
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This is a reason for using [L]GPL: explicit patent protection.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.en.html

https://fsfe.org/campaigns/gplv3/patents-and-gplv3.en.html#E...
I don't follow. You can imagine that you have two offers: one job pays $80K/year and one pays $100K/year.

Then by taking the first job, there is an opportunity cost of $20K/year, because you can only have one job at a time, and you had a "better" offer.

But there could be a different latent risk in the 2 jobs. So using that model leads you to evaluate the two opportunities differently. You need another concept to explain the choice; opportunity cost alone doesn't do it.
Anyone know what the licensing terms are for data returned by these Apple services - in particular, are there any restrictions on what you can do with latitude/longitude data returned by their geocoding API (or place names and addresses from their reverse geocoder)?
It's very common for employment contracts to include that. Some states disallow such clauses but not all.
Yes, but this is a symptom, not a cause, of a non-competitive market. You get stuck with only one option in markets where most of the other players have left the market because they can't figure out a way to make money in that market anymore. With competitive markets, switching costs are typically optimized away by the players that are interested in poaching one another's customers.
Thanks very much for your recommendation.

If you look at the Wikipedia entries for ESP, telepathy, etc, the field is called out harshly for being "pseudo-science", because of bad methodology. Surely methodology would have been better if "money" had shown an interest. I need good methodology and that surely has costs.
The way I was looking at it, this is something we want to form a real team around and build in 4-6 months time.

While we could try to leverage our own idea, without having this site known and heavily trafficked, the subscriptions will be minuscule and probably not enough to achieve our goals - look at early Kickstarter. An influx of cash would help get the word out.

Plus, we're hoping to work with SaaS companies who sign up and see which products/ideas want to launch with us.

I do see your point though. Maybe this is something where it needs to start small, using the idea itself as proof.
by avoiding Openstreetmap entirely, Apple makes a statement of Ivory Tower. No idea how map data is ingested internally, but I see no indications of OSM data
This is beta.

250,000 map initializations
25,000 service requests

Per day. Correct me (it is quite late here) if I'm wrong but isn't this x10 the Google maps free tier?

No pricing information beyond this so far, they just suggest you contact them if you want more. They're probably still deciding.

Edit: I think Apple are specifically releasing it now because this week was the week the new Google Maps Platform (https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/) pay as you go pricing kicks in, the deadline has been pushed back by a month.

Under the new pricing you get $200 worth of credits as a monthly free tier which approximately maps (har har) to what this Apple beta gives you a day.
Have you looked at any of the early Christian philosophers? The "Western", "body-first" approach was a response to them.
They actually modelled it on the Swift/Objective-C MapKit interface. (They mentioned this in the WWDC session)
N.Y. Set to Criminalize Much “Verbal” “Abuse” of Under-18-Year-Olds Online
We (USA) and are a first to patent country now.

https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/16/first-to-file-a-primer/
> We can’t have stolen this wealth as not the smallest fraction of it existed in all the world before the industrial revolution.

Ummmm evidence? Is there an article or study or book which backs this idea up?

This sounds like one interesting idea (the wealth production enabled by ideas, knowledge, systems, etc) coupled with a big dose of denial of reality, namely, the exploitation (of natural resources in Africa, India, and the americas, and of human labor and lives via slavery) which allowed the industrial revolution to come into being.

Plus, the article mentions how other regions in China such as Shenzhen _do_ have better labor practices. It’s not a binary choice between zero opportunity and abusive sweatshops.
That establishes prior art for X, but X+2 would still potentially infringe on X+1 and they'd have no leverage for negotiating a license. Except they're still one of the biggest patent spammers, so they probably do have leverage in the portfolio somewhere.
In Germany, even among elderly that could drive buses are very popular (even though they have to pay). Driving a bus is a lot more social than sitting alone in your car. They meet old friends or they make new ones.
"You cannot go against nature
Because when you do
Go against Nature
It's part of nature too."
-- Love and Rockets, "No New Tale to Tell"

In the scientific sense, everything is natural.
Truly "unnatural" things are like supernatural things -- stuff that exists only in fairy tales or horror stories or some metaphysical religions.

Saying that something is unnatural is typically a value judgement meaning that it is unhelpful, damaging, or against a goal considered inherent in some area of life, and so on.

Otherwise, a more valid if unfortunate use of the word "unnatural" is as the common short-hand for "human-made" or "artificial", similar to the way that "animal" is used as a short-hand for "animal that isn't human". Of course propulsion labs, parliaments, and property laws are absolutely as natural as mushrooms, mollusks, and manatees, but in addition to being natural the former are also human-made. In this truest and widest sense, everything that is artificial is also natural.

Other uses of the words "natural", "unnatural", and "nature" should be informed by this broadest and truest one, especially when making judgements about laws or norms or behavior. This might sound pedantic, didactic or even obvious at first, but with some consideration it may reveal itself as a surprisingly useful and clarifying point to keep in mind.

Rather than proclaiming copyright laws unnatural -- a value judgment masquerading as an objective fact (perhaps unintentionally) -- it would be more fruitful to ask questions such as, "How does copyright differ from other property laws?", "How are property rights justified?", "What are the differences and similarities between physical things and ideas?", and so on.

Yes, it's nearly free to copy digital works, which therefore lack the same level of scarcity that we experience in the rest of our lives.

Yet the creators and consumers of intellectual and digital works have little choice but to create and consume those works in the broader context of the world of physical scarcity in which society is embedded. It's sad, but you can't stop burning calories and taking up space just because you are consuming digital media.
Are you saying that the "phony concept" of copyrights shouldn't exist? Authors and artists (and software developers) would have little incentive to produce in such an environment.
Are cities affecting evolution?
Having a patent doesn’t guarantee someone else will not patent the work as part of some other patent. Patent examiners miss things sometimes.

Publicly disclosing the idea in a way that can be verified after the fact establishes prior art just like filing a patent does.

I’m not a lawyer, but I do know there are services that inexpensively publish inventions and vouch for the publication date after the fact.

Also note that the vast majority of patent litigation never makes it to trial, so whether a patent is “valid” or not is a gray area in practice.
Software patents for sure. Not sure about algorithmn ones. Say you invent this exact compression algorithmn and want to patent it but you can't and Google steals it when you wanted to license it so you can fund a company that builds better compression algorithmns or whatever. Google is going to rip out of your profits.
Wait a fee is imposed? I get why I think but if your posting of prior art proves to be true then you should have your fee refunded.
> Cooling channels are built into it.

How would you build cooling channels into something like this?
Which doesn’t make any sense - this is for the web - not a native app
> You can replace NT with Linux (or Linux with NT) as well.

No, not quite, not without enormous effort. Look at Cygwin or WSL or Wine:
tons of work poured into and still not there yet.

On the other hand, typical Android application only ever touches Android's
API and doesn't even leave its JVM. Replacing whole kernel (with obvious
single point of work in Java interpreter) would be practically invisible.
Do they have a request limit?
Is using it setting some crazy tracking cookies that make it more difficult to achieve GDPR compliance?
I like the support for pinch to zoom etc. Google Maps on the web not supporting it ruined so many website visits for me.
I don't see people dropping sqlite en masse.
There's a big element of selection bias: many companies that care deeply about hiring Stanford grads will pass on those who don't mention the school in their resumes. The companies that were willing to give you an interview obviously didn't immediately filter you out. In case there's any doubt, if you don't mention your educational background in your resume people will assume you don't have any college-level degree.
Fired from my startup – Co-founder dispute
Relying on the good will of others does not work, period. The fact that it works sometimes is not something that one can use as the reason to quit their job and start an "endeavor" (you can't really call it a business).

Can we please dispense with this notion and start realizing one simple fact: people will typically only pay for something if you make them pay.
People who aggressively support segregation should always be fought, no matter how relatively small their numbers.

If the cultural appropriation people win, they end up promoting an expanded racial and ethnic segregation as a consequence. The mixing, remixing, touching, learning from by experience and adoption of culture is a critical element that works against physical segregation.
> profit at any expense

Redundant definition of profit?
Wouldn’t advocating for human rights then also be part of this progression you describe?

Sell child -> Work in sweatshop -> Gain basic labor right of 8-hour -> etc ...
Unless they wrote their claims differently.
You probably mean “‘is’ vs ‘==’ in Python” – nobody should use id() for identity comparisons in Python. For instance, two Python objects may, if they have non-overlapping lifetimes, have the same id() value.
if (rand() > .99)
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If you book at least 2 weeks out and travel off-peak you can get the Amtrak trip for about $50. Otherwise it’s $70-100.

Ignoring the costs, I find the quality of life on the train to be far superior. No traffic, you can walk around, there are power outlets and the seats are pretty big.

For me, being able to work for 4.5 hours vs feeling carsick on a bus for similar or more time (I get nausea very easily when other people drive me), it was always worth it.

The other thing I would do is drive the car to an MTA stop and garage it for a couple of days while I took the commuter rail into town. Which option I took depended on ticket prices and the length of time I was staying.
I feel like im in the authors worst case scenario, as a PHP dev coming up on three years experience, im having a hard time even getting interviews at java/.net shops.

I've lost track of the times ive heard "you have a math degree? Not CS?"
What’s the difference between an invention and an idea?
Sure it does. Likely the same developers would be implementing it on the web so makes sense to keep the api the same.
Yep, we'll have to make sure that the only place internets posting can take place is in person at the Department of Right Thinking until you have a high enough social score to be trusted.

Because that's what all this is really about.
"Rich people fund research universities after getting rich" seems like a far less efficient way to fund research universities than not letting them get so rich in the first place.

I'd prefer the direct route of funding them from the public coffers than waiting on the largess of rich people to fund them decades after their fortunes have been made.
Senate bills would make quantum computing a priority
Yes.

That can be how a distant technology looks, if the stakes for failure are that people die.

You can get early adopters from one tail of the bell curve, hype, working prototypes, and people dying because prototypes fail. There may be a churn of companies... "We know that AlphaDrive and BetaDrive both killed people but we here at GammaDrive want to reassure you that we're totally committed to your safety!" "But that's what BetaDrive said." "Yeah but we REALLY MEAN it this time." "Wait, what to you mean, 'we'?" "Um, nothing..." "You hired BetaDrive's employees when they went out of business, didn't you?" "Uh... Oh would you look at the time!"

With that said I don't know Cruise and maybe they're doing better than Tesla.
The fundamental problem is that I know I'm conscious because I feel conscious, but I have, by definition, no way of being sure you are conscious.
They do not avoid OpenStreetMap entirely. They use OSM (and about 300 other sources). On a map, click on the "legal" link, then click through the "more" link to see the list.

Generally speaking, though, they use TomTom wherever possible.