skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone remember Compuserve, Genie (GE's online network) and that old dos version Prodigy that did all the 256 color vector graphic rendering?
Hiring awesome devs is hard, my experience is that you are better off keeping the terrible devs out.

Some people will not add, they'll subtract, those should be kicked out quickly.

I'm not talking about experience level, an intern can help if properly guided, but if the dev is not engaged or has poor work ethic that can actually make others less productive.
there are a few alternate web user interfaces that work with the Mastodon client API (which Pleroma also implements); halcyon and pinafore being two of them. To be more specific, Halcyon's UI is Twitter-clone.
You can have the power button put the computer to sleep. So, close the lid --> lock the screen; press the power button --> go to sleep. So you don't have to open the lid, log in, put to sleep, close the lid, put in bag- just open lid, push button, put in bag.
To be clear, I'm not saying home recycling is completely pointless. I think it does a lot to raise awareness that "all this has to go someplace, so at least think about it". But that's PR, not a solution.

I'd prefer some sort of solution that directly impacted your wallet if you didn't give a shit about what waste you produce. I'm not sure what that is, but a similar example would be "save water during a drought" or just "save water" PR campaigns. Don't waste everyone's time with a bunch of easily-ignored signs and commercials. Charge 5 bucks a gallon for water. When your sprinkler watering the sidewalk all night costs you 1500 dollars, you'll be sure not to do that twice.

And you save money on TV commercials and waste less trees making posters. :-)
Yup. Stanford ditched the five, yes, five (5) bins and opted to “sort off-site.” This is probably the best way to go. Also, mining garbage for resources may become profitable with enough automation.
yes, but facebook "cares about user's privacy" and people here on HN will stick their head firmly into the sand and swear up and down that this is somehow excusable.

violating privacy is their business model. there are no (zero) limits to the lengths they will go to fulfill the end of violating your privacy whether or not you are a user of their service. i highly doubt any user would knowingly consent to this.
Is WebAssembly Going to Kill JavaScript?
Yes. We have some guard code in place for when this happens and it's getting really good at catching it before or right after it happens and doing all the rollbacks automatically, but they can't catch every possible situation.

It's now down to one minor outage every couple years. We are aiming at five nines on the next major release.
People in my dorm used them for art. One guy made a sculpture. Others microwaved them for a few seconds to get that spider pattern. Even with all the art, we still had buckets of them. What a waste.
Sorry, I think this is a jackass comment, ironically even though I agree with the conclusion.

I hate to be rude, but people are dedicating potentially years of their lives to these ideas.

I don’t doubt at all you have valid arguments or wisdom to offer here. I just wish your comment could be a couple sentences longer so some of it could be more effectively extracted.
AAA: Apple CarPlay, Android Auto Less Driver-Distracting Than OEM Infotainment
The solution is charging people directly for trash pickup which creates more of an individual incentive to focus on product packaging. Also, you could offer incentives for collecting and (cleanly) burning plastic for energy (given its mostly petroleum based). Recycling programs today are a joke and often can’t breakeven
The solution is charging people directly for trash pickup which creates more of an individual incentive to focus on consumer packaging. Also, you could offer incentives for collecting and (cleanly) burning plastic for energy (given its mostly petroleum based)
Build a notification mechanism to manage Amazon RDS manual snapshots
Deferred statements (in go) are really useful for delaying the runtime of blocks of code to the end of a context, but leaving them in the logical context where you're setting up a resource.

I'm actually not sure offhand how multiple deferred statements are handled. I could envision that the specification might make no explicit guarantee about the runtime order or it might create and pop off of a stack (at least in behavior).
Care to spare other people some time?
I saw this a couple months ago and got pretty excited. I have two "Wheel Mouse Optical 1.1a USB and PS/2 compatible" they are simple and reliable.

However, this one is only compatible with Windows. C'mon Microsoft.
You're right we have no evidence of them working on iOS-based computers. But obviously anything future-looking is speculation. The only two Macs they have upgraded in years were upgraded to include iOS processors that already inherited some macOS responsibilities. Everything else is very stagnant for so long the blogger sought a successor, despite Apple having great options from Intel and AMD and infinite resources.
The orbits perhaps but not the rotation (which can be improved in flight) nor surface conditions or surrounding "atmosphere", all being critical for landing. This is why chasing an asteroid or a comet is much easier than actually landing.
Cool! Thanks for pointing out.
Or just go to Europe.
I would suggest something like NextCloud [1] (self hosted platform) as it will encrypt each file at rest and you can decide who has access to what files. As it is just for your family members, the AGPL license is probably mostly safe. Certainly read up on that first. :)

[1] - https://nextcloud.com/
I love the way you solicit applicants for the various jobs! I think I'm going to borrow that for my own company. No silly questions, just a couple of focused paragraphs about yourself that relates to the work you'll be doing.
I'm surprised no-one has pointed out that many UK academic addresses effectively remain from the days of SRCNET/SERCNET -- I forget when it changed -- in the early '80s, and possibly late '70s. It's just that they've changed from the NRS big-endian scheme (as IP addresses) to DNS little-endian, i.e. liv.ac.uk now, instead of uk.ac.liv where I started. (There was a long and short form of most names, so uk.ac.liv and uk.ac.liverpool were equivalent.) Much confusion between, e.g., cs as computer science and Czechoslovakia in the period when both endians were allowed...
your impression and your rank are the same thing stated two different ways.
Local micro JIT mass-production and local recycling. In fact, make containers and packaging more reusable akin to the old glass seltzer water bottles that don’t have to be melted down and remade for every use.
I might try this. Currently using a Logitech M-BJ58.
You don't. You collect wages for the time you'd otherwise spend with your hobby but had to spend telling the bank they were dumb in small claims court. You just need to structure it suitably to not go over the limit for small claims court. I think the bank(s) would learn and communicate a flag among them to be particularly wary about ID proof when they think you are opening an account.

You might need to also make sure to have something sufficiently easy to prove where you "lost" money each time they opened an account in your name.

Alternatively, move somewhere where at least that is not a problem.
$500k per is a rounding error for Google. Why didn't they do this earlier?
https://mistertea.github.io/EternalTerminal/
Exercise Implementation “Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor, S. Datta (2005)”
There have been evil, totalitarian nations with economic growth and political stability. While those are nice to have, some of the more important measures of a country's well-being (in more philosophical terms) are justice, freedom, truth, and moral uprightness (as opposed to corruption). By those measures, we all have a very long way to go :)
I didn't say that! I even said where I think they are useful. I only said that just because a type system might have no facility of expressing that null is not possible (for better or worse) it does not mean you should write a terrible program!

Having structure in your programs is of utmost importance. I just don't think type systems can capture all of the programs' finer points. And if they could, why would we write any program code at all?

Why are relational data schemas a good idea? Because they are simple. They bring clear benefits and rarely any problems for implementation. (I mean, if we constrict ourselves to simply record definitions: They are basically a physical description of your data, so can hardly be a constraint).
I used to be an Empire Builder regular. Now a regular on two other Amtrak long-distance routes.

There are some spectacular views, but remember that a good portion of it happens in the dark and you end up looking at a lot of nothing.

It really is an experience, as long as you go first class (sleeping berth).

Some routes have events for the first class passengers that are themes with the route. Wine and cheese tastings, for example. Or miniature margarita and nachos fiestas.

What I find interesting is that the level of service varies from run to run. I suspect due to staffing issues. Not everyone wants to spend a week or more away from home at a time to be a waiter.
Ah yeah, the one-liner would get killed by my work's code formatting rules too. (clang-format)

Total tangent, but I'm very much looking forward to more and better alignment rules becoming pervasive. I love it when similar things line up, it's easier to read, easier to modify, easier to see mistakes, better supports column selection and multi selection. I'll take alignment over almost any other code formatting issue that programmers debate endlessly. ;)

Having a code formatter is a greater good though, so yeah sometimes multiple ifs is just a necessity. At least the original version is clear and easy to follow.
Exactly.

Effectively, there is only a single usable Internet protocol, called TCP. There is only two usable ports, 80 and 443. There is only a single usable transport-layer protocol, called SSL/TLS. And nothing more.

Luckily, Tor relay operators have recognized this problem from the beginning - Tor uses standard TLS for the transport-layer encryption, most of the relays are running at port 443. It enables everyone to bootstrap them to the complete version of Internet. And recently definitely IETF is well-aware of this, hence DNS-over-HTTPS.
did i misunderstand the fact that it needs the microphone on listening for the signal to turn the microphone on to record another signal?
I was thinking the same thing. Surprisingly, it's all on github: https://github.com/bluetides-project/MP-Gadget
MoviePass -opt out of social media ad targeting from MoviePass
This is sad; as a Boy Scout I actually rode this train from Chicago to Raton for a trip to Philmont Scout Ranch. I know my troop and many others utilize this transportation option as flying can be expensive and inconvenient for large groups, especially when you are bringing large backpacking gear with TSA prohibited or check-only items like camping stove fuel, pocket knives, etc.
Labeling object locations in all frames of a large number of video clips is significantly more expensive than labeling a comparably large number of images.
It seems like an horribly expensive shenanigan to me.
F# can do all the work that you described at compile time using type providers with no runtime cost and no need for a call to pledge()...
What will happen if someone forgets to call pledge?
Or, even worse, if someone calls pledge and then he does some other dynamic operation?
Or if he calls pledge at the right time but one thread has been rescheduled and when it is executed again it will continue to issue dynamic instructions?
Not _so_ casual.

> This was my first time meeting Elon and Ilya, and I strongly remember my impressions of both.

It makes sense given Sam Altman runs the most renowned accelerator in the world and Elon has a big interest in AI.

And yes, I know you're joking but it piqued my interest.
“When we take down a dark net marketplace, these criminals will move to other marketplaces,” Melendez said. “So the focus of this operation was really the bad actors, the people utilizing the dark net to sell drugs.”

I can hear Ross Ulbricht screaming
Stealing the term "blame laundering" btw.

Seminal systems theorist Donella Meadows mentioned in an excellent talk[1] that she (and other "systems thinkers") tends to avoid blame entirely, due to understanding the constraints and incentives people operate under.

[1] Timecode to her comments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuIoego-xVc&t=12m55s

Start of her talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMmChiLZZHg&t=7m03s
Well, to start, why would users want to move over away from the platforms they already are on? What benefits for them are there on these other platforms? And, what kind of marketing/outreach has been done to let them know about them?
If your narrative can be derailed by pseudo-anonymous actors, you don't control the narrative.

The idea that I'm primarily disagreeing with is that Facebook, Twitter, et al. can be hegemonic in a user-populated space. I don't think they can. They can certainly exert large amounts of influence and constrain it, but it's not monolithic and they don't control it. Federation only makes that influence more invisible. It certainly doesn't remove it.
I have trouble understanding what significance the "so much as" means, nor even the "sold out", since it appears to have been an acqui-hire, with the (cash) assets being returned to investors.

The company did shut down.

We can only speculate on the founder's motivation.
That explains the slack outage.
Very cool, glad you mentioned it!
I used to write a lot of PHP. My framework, MicroMVC was faster and lighter than the original phalcon framework (written in C) according to the techempower benchmarks. In fact, in round 3(?) it was the fastest PHP framework period (and it included an ORM).

I still think PHP and Ruby need to be depreciated. I would never start a product using either in this day and age.
It helps if you realize that there's nothing wrong with that. The smug superiority of techies starts to feel like a guy who spends every weekend tuning his car for track racing and just can't understand why anyone would ever want a factory-standard sedan (even though they only need to it to carry groceries).
clearly a states' rights issue

Some of the states have formed regional rail alliances. There are also non-profits doing good work in this area.

Example: https://www.midwesthsr.org
Probably a moot issue with Connected Standby enabled laptops. It doesn't actually sleep - just puts everything in low power mode - my X1 consumes 0.3W in that mode and the desktop is right there as soon as I open the lid and place my finger on the FP reader!
Googled but couldn’t find an answer: Does GCC have a CFI solution? If so, does it require flags?
Same here, fonts are very important
Boeing Unveils Rendering of Hypersonic Passenger Jet
"Don't leave shit in the forrest" is far easier to understand and enforce, however.
I recall a guy who re-tiled his kitchen with them.
I can see that as a possible scenario but without the real numbers of dilution, it might have not had such a significant impact. Nevertheless sequoia did made a bundle and that was paid either by founders or employees. There must be some sort of funny business in that deal.
That actually sounds like a really interesting game.
The instantaneous system wide search is my number one favorite thing about Mac OS. I wonder how many hours of my life I have spent waiting for a Windows explorer search to complete only to accidentally click on one of the results, hit back, and have it start the search all over.
Err, a robbery is defined as theft under the use force or threat thereof. Where do you draw the line due to psychological effects?
Google's Real Diversity Problem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtjNbIxrYK4
Urls? Tried to google these, but did not find anything.
This is cool, I used to really like this sort of thing.

At some point I transformed into a bitter sad man who can't stand reading articles like this because I feel like such a worthless piece of crap.
Intriguing, I wonder what could be the reason for and source of jamming over the Brecon Beacons?

One possible explanation is that your GPS receiver front-end was overloaded by transmissions from Woofferton transmitting station[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woofferton_transmitting_statio...
Unless you mean Russia, Europe doesn't have the same kind of long-distance rail service. Remember Europe is geographically very small.

And as much as it pains the anti-Americans in the audience, the United States still has the world's largest rail network. Number two is Russia, which is a distant second, followed by China.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_tran...
>"...the bill always comes due..."

Yes. But it's __always__ the consumer that pays that bill. Increase in the cost of anything simply gets added to the price.

Yes. You might get manufactures to change. But the consumer is still the one who pays.
The Southwest Chief runs between Chicago and LA, via Kansas City, Albuquerque, and Flagstaff. It approaches Wichita within 25 miles, but bypasses it to run west for ~350 miles across rural Kansas and Colorado, serving several small towns, and forming a significant transportation backbone. Thereafter, between La Junta, CO (east of Pueblo, CO) and Lamy, NM (adjacent to Santa Fe, NM), the Southwest Chief runs over track owned by BNSF that the freight railroad no longer uses. This lattermost stretch is the most troublesome section, and the topic of much of the article.

BNSF has offered [1] to host this train over a different route that it actively uses -- the Southern Transcon. Using the Southern Transcon would add direct service to Wichita, Amarillo, Clovis, and Vaughn, but would bypass southwest Kansas, southeast Colorado, and northeast New Mexico. Doing so would also remove direct service from Albuquerque and put it even further from Santa Fe. If it weren't for the Albuquerque complication, this would be a pretty good route.

Amtrak has, under its previous leadership, worked with the governments of Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, and various localities along the route to solicit funding for continuing the service over its original route. It also got some federal grants. Previous CEOs were staunchly supportive of continuing long-distance service. The new CEO, significantly less so. Representatives from these states were caught unaware by his new approach, and now those matching funds could be in question.

The Southwest Chief is a notable cross-country service, but it's also the transportation backbone of southwest Kansas and southeast Colorado. In my opinion, KS and CO, together with Amtrak and BNSF, should investigate a service between eastern Kansas (e.g. Wichita or KC) and Denver, serving many of the same rural towns of both, but also the major cities of Pueblo, Colorado Springs, and Denver in Colorado. The track is owned by BNSF and is in good shape, and would provide service to new markets on a less fraught route. New Mexico should investigate a solution that works for them, which may or may not include more transportation options from Las Vegas, NM, to Santa Fe and Albuquerque, and working with Texas to explore routes towards Lubbock and Dallas.

[1] https://www.codot.gov/about/southwest-chief-commission/swchi...
Gates Foundation spent $775m on an education project that was worse than useless
It is just environmental debt that the next generation would have to pay.
I'm sorry you feel disappointed. But do you also feel like you've been bamboozled? Because this is how I feel after reading the whole article thinking that somebody managed to refute the 'simulation hypotheses'. Interesting article, of course, but I would have not read it at all if the titles was accurate. So I feel bamboozled.
Molds do not cost that much. The prices you hear quoted for injection molds is to get the molds developed -- the partially trial and error process to get them right.

Once the molds are worked out, getting new ones made is simple and cheap.
I think you are saying that it would be cruel to create a game where the scenery has real consciousness or sentience.

But just because something could be cruel doesn't make it less likely. I think we are basically talking about the plot of West World. And pointing out that it doesn't make sense to give an active inner life to characters that exist only to fill out someone else's designed game experience.

But just think about it. If Sims 2099 is capable of giving consciousness to its characters, or at least something so much like it that the characters believe the are conscious, don't you think its very likely players will ask for it? Regardless of the ethical implications.
At least we have trains. Even if we are not allowed to access this news site. Was this one of the GDPR panic sites, that blocks all Europeans or just a random error?
> When we say 10x programmer, are we comparing to the worst or median skilled programmer?

The worst.
https://halcyon.toromino.de/

https://pinafore.social/
> And the ones not on mastodon.social - yes, they would still exist. But Joe would have to make a new account somewhere else and ask each and every one to follow him again.

But it's the same with gmail and everything else like that, I don't see it being a problem of ActivityPub or Mastodon. There's keybase or having your own domain with some index.html where you can direct your followers to a new account is not that big of a deal nowdays. If having to host it somewhere is too much for you - use dot tel tld (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tel). People that really want to read your ramblings will find you anyway.
You're still replying as if control is binary. No, FB doesn't fully control the content on their platform. Nor does China fully control their media. But they still exert much more control than do distributed systems.
I've shutdown my laptop/closed the lid loads of times during updates, Windows manages just fine. It rolls back the update if needed and tries again upon boot.
CO2 doesn't really go into anything to any significant degree unless it's under pressure.
I think they're trying to focus on arguing the points that are more obviously problematic. I'm not sure if you asked the average person today that they would even be worried about abuse of power by their own government, despite history showing we should, unfortunately.

Further the trend in modern left-style rhetoric is to sacrifice civil liberties for civil-security which is why this topic is even being discussed again. If you are already mentally in the camp of sacrificing your liberty for security, no argument purely to the contrary will sway you. Personally I find it more productive to focus on the practical problems and use those to dissuade people instead of trying to convince someone to shift their ideaology. I'm not saying you're wrong that it's a weaker stance, but it may be a more effective argument...

At the end of the day the IEEE is a standards organization, not an internet ideaology group (c.f. The EFF).
Alcantara and touchscreen? Pass.
Half-joking. I read that sentence and couldn't help but groan because it came across as so damn privileged.
That's just how it optimizes their usage under-the-hood, but as far as JS is concerned they are all hash maps.

For example, try this:

var foo = [1,2,3]; // or `foo = new Array(1,2,3)` also works
foo['bar'] = 'test';
console.log(foo);

and you get:

0:1
1:2
2:3
bar:"test"
Allegedly, airports' coordinates are hard coded into consumer drones' firmware, at least in Russia. That's the reason why gps devices at Moscow Kremlin walls think, that they are at VKO airport.
So jamming gps signal in the airports seems counterproductive. I would think that they'd want drones to know they are in a no-flight zone.
Yeah the first version looks like something that many people would try to 'optimize' but in reality it is extremely readable and should be very easy to change/extend.