skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. When I plug my camera's SD card into the front of my Linux server it automatically copies off any new photos and sorts them into a YYYY/DD/MM folder structure.

2. I wrote a cryptocurrency trading bot because I'm too lazy/uninterested to actually learn anything about the market. It seemed to do pretty well when the market was flat or going up. Hard to tell if it's doing badly now or if it's just reflecting the state of the market. I almost forgot to include it in this list because it's so thoroughly automated that I rarely bother to check it.

3. I assisted the owner of pvoutput.org with adding support for the automated data upload format from my PV inverter. Then I wrote a script that automatically polls my electricity meter using a RAVEn USB device to upload the net import/export of power.

4. Maybe other things that I've forgotten about because they're automated...
I just tried it on a bank statement and the only text I see is the PDF commands (stuff like "/MediaBox [0 0 612 792]", "/F1 125 Tf", and whatnot). There's no actual PDF content text that I can find, whether it's my name, the bank name, or anything else.
I’m becoming more of the opinion that all intellectual property law is immoral on the grounds that it creates artificial barriers to prosperity for individuals who don’t receive the benefits of the patents. I work hard on personal projects (robots) that I think would be useful to others and I share them all CC0 or BSD licensed. I think it would be useful for economists to consider the way patents exacerbate inequality.

That said, my employer has filed a patent for some work I did for them, and it’s a tough issue for me. In this case, I don’t think the innovation is so world changing that I need to fight for it to be open, nor do I think they would honor my desire to leave it unpatented as I’m not really in a position to ask for that.

But it’s an issue I feel uncomfortable with, and I kind of dream of moving to a different place where my employer doesn’t try to patent my work.

It is tough when they offer you a few thousand for these ideas you come up with. That money could help me build a family, but in closing off these ideas I’m making it harder for everyone else to prosper.

FWIW, if anyone says “patents encourage innovation” I would ask you for citations. I understand this is the story we’re told, but it’s typically presented with simple anecdotal evidence and hunches. I’ve never seen a thorough study of the issue.
> If we can have self-driving vehicles that are twice as safe as the average human, then they should be allowed on the streets.

Coal power plants kill about 100,000 people a year so a reasonable target for nuclear power is 50,000 a year.

Cigarettes kill 50% of long-term users so a good target for vaping devices is killing 25% of users.
I think this is the only thing I'm still using RSS for. Plex has become important enough for me and the people I share with that I moved it into colocation space.
I didn't say anything about the design of it, which is by the way, very cool. I don't understand the point of the triangle. The same mechanism could be used to change the geometry of the wheel only at the bottom.
While the translated code is harder to read, it's much easier to refactor into compiler-checked safe code than the original C. I think doing the translation as part of a larger migration from C to safe Rust is essentially the only defensible reason to do it, as it doesn't seem like other reasons can justify the risk of (as one of the sibling comments points out) bugs in the translator and the code being unreadable, aka, in an "unnatural" representation of trying to express C idioms in Rust.

That is to say, I don't think humans should be reading or maintaining this code for more than it takes to refactor to be safe(r). (Whether this is how this sort of tool is used in practice is a different question, and one that definitely needs to be considered.)
The momentum around static site builders is around the react based builders like Gatsby.

Since you are going to spend a huge amount of time writing js code for the front-end anyways, it makes sense for the whole stack to be js.

We moved from Hugo to Gatsby for primarily this reason. I can now handover the site to js folk ...instead of having them learn golang based templates.
>One of them describes using forward-facing cameras to analyze your expressions and detect whether you’re bored or surprised by what you see on your feed.

They patented a feature of their own platform?
Ah, it's a classic. And wow, Brendan Gregg looks so young. And video uploaded by Bryan Cantrill himself. Damn it SUN had so many superstars yet it's Oracle that survived.
> Otherwise, you're implyjng that the developer of that technology would either release the technology as completely driverless or not release it at all.

In some ways that statement is true. Ford and a number of other companies refuse to implement level 3 automation -- because of the switch-over costs and human-vehicle communication impedances which would almost certainly lead to more accidents.
The NY Times did not apologize in general for their election coverage, nor admit that it was biased, nor are you able to show in any way that it was biased.
Does Zuckerberg defend their supposed right to prevent others from doing the things in their patent for commercial purposes?
So did a lot of Nazis who enabled the Holocaust. Isn’t that the point?

That’s maybe too flippant. “This is fake” is a way someone can rationalize doing something that they know is wrong. It’s important that they came up with that idea themselves, in response to a seemly inappropriate demand from an authority.

Notice:

The most common explanation was that they believed the person they’d given the electric shocks to (the “learner”) hadn’t really been harmed. Seventy-two per cent of obedient participants made this kind of claim at least once, such as “If it was that serious you woulda stopped me” and “I just figured that somebody had let him out“.

It doesn’t seem that there was anything evident in the room to make participants believe that it was anything besides what it appeared to be. They’re not saying “the screams were obviously acted.” Not “I could see that the box wasn’t connected to anything.” Definitely not “the experimenter told me it was staged.”

What led them to that belief was the social and cultural context. They believed the experiment was fake primarily because they believed that the authority figure would not make or let them actually harm someone. They transferred responsibility for their own actions to the authority figure; “I knew it was fake” is merely the mechanism.

At least, that’s a coherent theory we could put together based on the evidence. If Milgram had sneakily passed participants a note under the table, it would be a foregone conclusion that participants would believe it was fake, the evidence collected would therefore be meaningless, and the experiment generally worthless. That’s why this allegation is so damning to Zimbardo’s project.
Well, Nintendo is not an American tech company. Nintendo is a traditional Japanese company (with its own twists, obviously) and is run as such, which in some ways it's the opposite of our tech industry.

Nintendo is fairly secretive about their inner workings and facilities, so I doubt we'd get much info about what goes on inside.
OK, we've changed the title to yours, shortened a bit to fit the year in. What year was this written, by the way? It's a bit hard to tell.

(Submitted title was "Why Dont HTTP Clients Use DNS SRV Records?")
Well, US states and other nations are distinguishable, no?
"I'm an environmental studies major and anytime I present evidence that plants are aware of suffering, it is ignored and dismissed."

As it should be. When you say "pain" and "suffering" you mean in in no similar way to your own pain and suffering whereas vegans do. You're co-opting the language of ethics to try and point out hypocrisy. Also, let's apply some logic here and acknowledge that far more plants are "harmed" to make animal food products than plant food products, thus it's still consistent for ethical people to eat a plant based diet.

"I have zero reason to believe this individual's cruelty towards me was some wild aberration in the veg- community."

Vegans are defined by caring for the well being of others. That gives us every reason to think that a vegan would care more than anyone else about the well being of others. Your anecdote about a vegan who was mean to you once is something you shouldn't use to draw conclusions about an entire group of people.
Yeah it's a little weird but I just don't feel good about taking it outside yet... maybe that will change.

As for the second part of your comment, it's simple. Playing handheld video games in public is not typical or socially normal in the US... unless it's on your phone.
Full-disclosure: I’m a Consulting Architect at Red Hat focused on OpenShift.

I like to say Kubernetes & OpenShift focus on availability of the cluster and applications as their primary concern. Many other concerns my customers want to impose are actually detrimental to the goal(s) they’re trying to achieve.
I would be interested in knowing more about how the z-curve based indexing performs compared to R-trees, for example as used in PostGIS.

Intuitively, if you look at the z-curve map below, some parts of antarctica which are adjacent, are not close on the z-curve.

http://www.geomesa.org/documentation/_images/Zcurve-HiRes.pn...
Just a gamer here, but there's something to be said about the success and failure of the 3DS and PS Vita.

The 3DS, based on hardware/system alone, should have failed. It was tremendously underpowered, and it forced a terrible 3D technology on all its users, which never really took off or became anything other than a novelty while raising the cost of manufacturing.

The Vita was a truly next-generation portable gaming device, with a beautiful screen, incredible graphics, properly analog sticks, an extremely modern interface, and great connectivity and human-interface (camera, capacitative touch) features. Even incorporating the cost of a proprietary Sony memory card, for the amount of power you got, I think it was very reasonably priced. Comparing the 3DS and Vita was like night and day in terms of a modern gaming device. Even today, I think it can stand head-to-head with the Switch in terms of portable gaming.

But Nintendo continued to pour resources into developing top-tier games for the 3DS, slashing its price to bolster adoption, and sticking to its still unorthodox 3D screen/touch screen combo. Whereas for the Vita, Sony quickly got spooked that the Vita didn't perform as well as the PSP, pulled first-party support and general marketing support, and major 3rd party developers (particularly outside Japan) fled the device.

The 3DS is now seen as a major success for Nintendo, while the Vita died (or is still dying) a slow and unceremonious death.

Sometimes sticking to your crazy guns works.
> With Ultimate, Nintendo seems to have finally started thinking of Smash as primarily a competitive game.

It definitely does seem that Nintendo are showing more and more interest in the competitive aspects of their games. Some other recent examples include the Arms (which could almost be considered exclusively competitive) and Splatoon tournaments which they often run at conventions they are attending etc.
Why would I spend a huge amount of time writing JS for the front-end?
I've started experimenting with 3D printed ceramics (on the Form2). It seems like a useful material for a number of applications (less thermal expansion than the resins, and less than aluminium).

Firing is a pain, and you need to compensate for shrinkage. But it could be interesting.
I don't believe anyone has a soul yet I still make moral judgments about our actions. I don't think that having a soul is what gives us morality.
A patent on fast Fourier transform would essentially do nothing, as no one appears to be selling the algorithm outright.
Also broken for regular desktop web browsers. But removing the ?m=1 from the URL fixes it.
Do you have any links to what you buy? I'd like to try some.
I would guess that it has to do with the tread tension. A rounded top with a flat bottom may leave the tread too loose. The triangle keeps it taught.
> If anything, this whole debacle has revealed to me how pathetic the whole "science" of psychology is in its current state.

What? How an academic being defensive of his study, conducted in 1971, an invalidation of "current" psychology? That's 40 years ago.

> I mean, has the field of psychology given us anything of value? I'm asking genuinely.

What an extreme leap, and an odd generalization for me to have to argue against. How about Milgram, Asch, Cognitive Dissonance? Studies of memory, vision, neurons can inform the development of AI. Things like IQ tests have helped detect and prove that leaded gasoline was damaging the intellect of a generation. Psychology is THE field to give clarity to question such as what gender dysphoria is about (research shows it is usually correlated with a brain that is more structurally similar to the gender one identifies as [1]).

So I'm not sure where a wholesale indictment of a field could really come from.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_transsexuality
Agreed! Am currently reading Charles McCann's '1491' and '1493' which are about the "discovery" and colonisation of the Americas.

A major point he makes is that the Spanish Inquisition and the European religion wars were underway at the same time, and that both American and European societies were horrifically violent, in comparison to modern day.
Visit thefunded.com, which is like yelp for VC's. You'll see which ones are bad and which ones are really bad.

Even if your idea is brilliant and your team and plan are also brilliant, many VC's won't be interested in investing. Too early, too late, already have their money in a competing firm in the same space, not their specialty, Mercury is in retrograde..

if you don't want to submit to them, don't submit to them, and feel good about it.
Isn’t the simulated space debris actual space debris?
Does torrent or any other protocol out there try to prioritize peers that are within the same ASN or something similar? Many protocols ignore the physical network, but here it seems like it would help to be smarter.
Does that extend to, say, crypto software? Should the authors of Signal, IPFS et al be held accountable when their works are used for evil?
Introducing Letterpad – A CMS for blogs (Beta)
For quite sometime we have been working on a CMS for blogs using Graphql, Apollo and React. Today I would like to share this project with you. We have named it Letterpad. It is not a static site generator but uses sqlite3 or postgresql or mysql.

Letterpad is rediculously fast. It is not bloaded with features but it has everything in-built that you would want in a blogging website.

Features:
Server side rendering
Multi author support
Comments (Disqus integration)
Google Analytics
Theme support
Multi-level navigation
Image optimizer GraphQL for json API
Roles — Admin, Reviewer, Author, Reader
Markdown and RichText editor
Search Engine Optimised
Multi-language support (currently en, fr and pl)

This is an open source project. You can read more about this on:

Medium - https://medium.com/@ajaxtown/introducing-letterpad-a-cms-for-blogs-42dfb87fddb8

Most importantly, we are looking for contributors to join us move ahead.

Github Link: https://github.com/letterpad/letterpad

Demo Link: https://letterpad.app/demo/

Admin Link - https://letterpad.app/demo/admin

Credentials: demo@demo.com / demo

Slack Channel: https://tinyurl.com/letterpad
All programs are proofs and their results are theorems[1]. If "math is naturally inherent and merely discovered by humans" then so are all programs; programmers are just discoverers and not inventors. Given the proof of Curry-Howard Isomorphism rests on existing maths we can have another discussion about whether mathematical patents should be issued if we don't believe that maths are inherent and are actually invented, but as long as we hold that we can't patent maths then it must also hold that we can't patent programs due to their equivalence.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspon...
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"Prove to us that raccoons have no capacity for moral judgment."

Is that something I really need to prove? My argument is that we SHOULD make moral judgement about human behavior regardless of what raccoons do. I agree that there is not much difference between humans and others animals if we choose to examine it.
If anybody is interested in some fiction around this topic, there's a pretty good Japanese Manga/Anime series called Planetes that revolves around a group of "space janitors" who have to clean up space junk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes
I think this page needs more explanation of the motivation behind this request. Why should browser vendors give a shit?

Yeah, it's a standard, and at least three people want to use it, but what else?
No, she wasn't "mean to me once." She was consistently cruel over quite a long period of time at a time when my life was very much in the toilet.

Downplaying what was done to me when you were not there in no way fits with your claim of superior kindness and caring. It quite contradicts it.
Yes I was referring the fifo in the state machine that runs throughout the canine unit.

But I do agree that the feeding mechanism should definitely be designed as a lifo
>When it was Furukawa’s turn to speak, he noted that Nintendo makes “playthings, not necessities” and that if consumers stop finding its products compelling, the company could be swiftly forgotten.

Never. Never. A thousand times never.

Some experiences are just fond memories. Others are formative. For me, getting 120 stars, defeating Ganondorf, unlocking Mewtwo, throwing green polka-dotted eggs-- those moments rank among the most defining times of my youth. More than Disney, Youtube, TV or any other entertainment company, Nintendo was there for me, and there for my friends.

Happy or sad, when I was alone, I'd adventure in the rolling slopes of the Mushroom Kingdom. When I was with friends, we'd obliviate one another in a final destination. And when we were nowhere near our consoles, we'd argue about our escapades and the “strats”.

Starcraft, Half Life, Age of Empires, and the like are all great, amazing games, and I love them so. But Nintendo has my childhood. Through-and-through.

It would be unfortunate if they go down the path of Sega and and ruin their franchises.

But I will cherish the memories they gave me. And I will never forget them.
> ...bend to them too much and those games stop being fun for everyone else.

There is definitely room for multiple configurations though. Splatoon for example has Turf War which is exclusively non-competitive and Rainmaker etc. which are exclusively competitive (ranked). That allows them to fine tune the modes which are intended to be fun for the everyday player. The more competitive modes can be balanced separately for those with a competitive goal.

If Nintendo are serious about Smash's competitive side, they should probably consider an online competitive mode which removes some of that Smash randomness.
I try to keep the Frequently Given Answers up to date, occasionally revising them as I learn new stuff and people tell me stuff. I'm going to trust my own footer information (-: and not check with the Wayback Machine. So first published in 2004 but revised over the years since.
With an algorithm implementation, you require integration with a runtime, quick storage, data, a data format. You also maybe need some tests and an SLA. There must be other components I missed.
Our state government is not great. But the local GR government has been generally decent. Utilities work and are maintained. Grand Rapids also owns and maintains its own water plant and direct connection to lake Michigan. The local government has also been responsive to our local housing bubble. Though it remains to be seen if they will be effective.

That said, our roads are still shit. Like the rest of Michigan.
I assume if they get the tech to the level farmers would be buying it, it would not be twice the prices.
On the MySQL side, https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/innodb-compression-b....

It reads like row level compression + index compression? They claim indexes make up a fair chunk of the disk usage, so there may be advantages.
Wouldn't Facebook try to create 'AI's that mimic their users so that they can then predict what the 'highest value' advertisement is to show to the user at Facebook's next possible opportunity?
Your first point is of course true, but most statements about the behaviour of code needs to have "assuming no bugs" appended to it, so I'm not sure that it's a particularly interesting point. A more precise interpretation might be that the translator is likely to have more bugs than other components in the pipeline (the compilers and linkers etc.), since it is unlikely to be used nearly as much as them; I wonder if one could do things like compile with rustc and clang and somehow compare the LLVM IR for equivalence (but... I suspect that the code generation patterns for each aren't similar enough).

As for unspecified behaviour... that's true! Again I wonder if clang is a useful component here: I suspect if C code behaves correctly with clang, then the translation to Rust compiled with rustc probably works too, both because the translator uses clang, and because both compilers use LLVM.

The point (in contrast to the usual complaint of Animats) I was trying to convey, but was nitpicked was: a correct translation from fully-specified C to unsafe Rust doesn't add any unsafety. Whether this applies in practice is slightly different, but there's questions about whether pretty much any statement about C code applies in practice: since undefined behaviour is so rife and easy to trigger, many/most programs are outside the specification (fuzzing C programs often results in segfaults---undefined behaviour---and so the program is outside the bounds of C).

Wrapping up, I'll emphasise that the value in this sort of translation is as a stepping stone towards safe Rust, not as a final `unsafe` product.
I did answer it. I will try to illustrate it even further. Public-ally traded companies, regardless whether they're high growth tech or not, tend to have big jumps or declines in stock price on earning calls date.

Take for example Shopify. Their stock is very fast growing, however, you'll always notice a decent bump during earnings calls. I buy 30-60 days before this earnings call, because I anticipate it'll grow in the next 30-60 days (for the earnings call), given the previous growth. I sell on the day of earnings call
I was more referring to the big sudden surges part in that there is in fact a lottery acting to regulate the flow of migrants. I'd even go so far as to say that under many circumstances, a green card gets you many of the important rights and benefits as any US citizen (other than voting of course).
I don't expect you to look at 100% of the comments, but its a bit like citing someone for jaywalking but letting the murder escape. Sure cite the jaywalker, but after you've found the murder.

>Re your comments, personal swipes like "you seem very confused", "you are unable to understand", "rather than wild accusations and hysteria, I'd recommend calm collected analytical thinking" are certainly uncivil and violate the site guidelines.

There are several flaws in your interpretation, but I don't wish to convince you otherwise.
Brendan and Bryan in particular seem to be doing really well.

Brendan is senior performance architect at Netflix
http://www.brendangregg.com/bio.html

Bryan is the CTO at Joyent, a cloud computing pioneer recently acquired by Samsung.
https://www.joyent.com/about/management/bryan-cantrill