skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Android and iOS has night mode and can be set automatically during certain time of the day.
Re: your #2. This is also something I've been thinking about.

I jokingly talk about "The Fear". The Fear is what makes people work hard. The Fear that your company might not exist, that it might all come to an end, that you'd better get after it, work hard, and generally do your best work.

People at Tesla have The Fear. People at startups have even more of it. People at Google, emphatically, DO NOT have The Fear. It might be because they're basically a monopoly in many things (search) or because their management encourages it, I don't know. But it feels like they're worried about a lot of things and business success / customers / shipping / competition, the things people usually care about in a competitive market economy, isn't a big part of it.

I've heard that great societies often fall when their elites become too inwardly-focused and fight each other too much, rather than whatever enemy/competition they have. I think this is what's going on at Google; their elites are so distracted by political correctness, gender politics, etc. etc. that they're opening themselves up to get overtaken. I don't know by who or what, but it does feel like so much of all of this is such a giant distraction.

I think this sort of thing is going to get more common in tech though. There are such huge reward to monopoly and let's face it, Google has no real competition in search, or short video playback (Youtube), or Internet advertising other than facebook.
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> People are endlessly fascinated with the piece of success that we might have some hope of exercising control over. It gives people something constructive to try to work on. This is generally better than hating your life and buying lottery tickets while not bothering to work towards anything.

Except there's a lot more going on here and a lot more at stake. Beliefs about the world, specifically beliefs about, long story short, why bad things happen to good people, can dramatically affect policy decisions and what a given culture considers acceptable. Someone feeling good about themselves is absolutely not a good enough reason to mangle reality. And that seems to be all that this whole mess is about. You want to believe you are in control of your life so you bury everyone else with you when that's absolutely not what we need right now to actually understand why things happen.

Rejection of the influence of randomness means we do not examine or account for said randomness. It means we think safety nets are worthless. It means we vote against free healthcare. It means we leave people to fend for themselves because we convince ourselves that it logically makes sense. If people control everything and if their determination is all they need, then we do not need to help them.

For a large slew of events that can randomly hit a person, there is often a very non-random source. But we are so focused on an individual-based rhetoric that we cannot admit that sometimes people affect others and that is a much bigger lever to pull than trying to convince every individual person to be some sort of a superhero who has no problems.
Intel needs more customers for it's fabs.
So, as an example, I just got an ad for a "personalized women's fashion" retailer (I'm male, and Facebook knows that for certain), that stated "You're seeing this ad because eShakti wants to reach people aged 23 to 56 who live or have recently been in the United States. This is information based on your Facebook profile and where you've connected to the Internet."

Now, I'm fairly certain that they're not casting that wide a net. Those filters may be in their targeting specs, but I can guarantee you there are more specific than that, especially as it started showing up after my wife went looking for women's dresses recently.
I’ve done that race, it’s awesome. Wading across the river when your legs are shot from the run is especially exciting...
Page up and page down work normally to me. In Chrome on Windows.
tl;dr web rendered case study of a computer vision system by K Thompson and H Baird. They used ocr plus word level heuristics to digitize an encyclopedia of chess games/moves. By modeling each game during a second page of parsing, they were able to constrain the possible interpretations of questionable characters/words to legal moves. They claim this reduced their error rate 30 fold.
From a post by Steven Schear.

https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2018-July/042...
Facebook to CNN: InfoWars offers “opinion and analysis,” will stay on platform
I am not the ultimate authority at my company but I get a small amount of input. And working at Facebook is an automatic pass now.
His philosophy was a prediction that groups in the 19th/20th century coopted because the rhetoric was useful. The first communist nation's were supposed to be Western Europe and the US: capitalist to industrialize and then revolution. Eastern Europe and china were not industrialized when they had revolutions. It's not surprising it didn't work out too well.
Well, it's feasible if you fork the web instead. If a significant number of people want draconian measures to be taken, and they converge on a search engine that can exclude the non-compliant, then the new standards have a chance of catching on.

Suppose I say I just want to eliminate javascript entirely - that's not feasible to enforce, but if I could just search the non-javascript pages out there, then a new way of doing things can be bootstrapped.
I'm a huge fan of Notion.so. They offer personal plans, and a free plan to students.

They've helped me organise my life - I've built a small personal "wiki" of study notes, WIP writing, calendar plans & email drafts.

I recently persuaded a friend to get it (so we can collaboratively work on a startup idea) and it's worked really smoothly. We both love it. Can't recommend enough.
How do you utilize Quiver? Just making notes of programming concepts with code snippets?
Simple Note https://simplenote.com/ and MS OneNote.
Having said that, I’d be very leery of the action plans born from that analysis.

Already covered that, in anticipation of being dragged pointlessly down the “evil communism” HN rabbit hole. His analysis was good, the way people chose to use it to justify their political systems was not. Of course the same can be said of many things, from politics to religion. I can admire the tenants of Christianity while acknowledging how it’s been abused for millennia. Both can be true.
What do you mean by "quantum communication"? Quantum key distribution/cryptography as done in that satellite experiment certainly is real, there's even some companies selling early commercial implementations already.
Your remarks in no way fit with anything I am trying to communicate.
Show HN: A feed of tech blogs I follow
SRAM routing (in FPGA) uses volatile storage to switch programmable interconnect points. Via routing implies that their structured ASIC has a fixed routing network that only requires one mask layer to connect routes resulting in much higher density connectivity than SRAM schemes in FPGA. Via layers tend to have simpler masks than other layers too.
I work from home 3-4 days a week, and absolutely have a home office setup. As it falls into the "two or more days per week" category, my home office is considered a "remote office" by my employer for workplace health-and-safety purposes. This means I needed to take photos, and fill out a declaration that the setup was ergonomically sound (chair, desk/keyboard/mouse/monitor height, lighting, etc), that there werent any dangers/risks around, etc. Certainly no way I could get away with sitting on a couch or at the kitchen table (well I can, I just have to say that I'm not...). Welcome to big corporate CYA!
They explicitly said it was because of the environmental impact, so the murder thing is not in any way a reasonable interpretation.
That's fine I wouldn't want to do business with that type of bank.
I don't understand this justification. If someone I worked with had a habit of "occasionally" insulting people, they should be fired. Just because we can't fire Linus doesn't mean what he does is okay.
We don't have any demo ready dashboard but I'll work on one and share here soon. Thanks for the feedback!
Evernote + a subscription works for me.
Turtl: https://turtlapp.com/
Largely because it's open source and privacy oriented, encrypted client-side. It's not as convenient and feature-rich as OneNote, but entrusting Microsoft with all my notes seems crazy.
Most people in developing world use mobile devices purely for communication and music/videos, i don't think that these uses will drive rise of PC usage.
Wouldn't the correct thing to do in that case then would be to wholesale delete pro/anti musk threads that specifically revolve around him as a CEO?

Right now it seems like current moderation tactics are encouraging a "lie hard and fast" mode, so the truth can't catch up -- so to speak. Essentially the moderation policy is acting as a floodgate that only closes when perspectives that negate the "pro" side of things are brought into play.

This is apparent in what was allowed to be posted without question and in how you, intentionally or not, only replied to anti-musk threads. There were at least 4 threads, that I just looked at now at the time of this post, that were both not flagged by the community nor set straight from a moderator that were purely composed of vague personal attacks (it would have been better if they had just been forthright with it).

I understand that HN has limited resources and you clearly value the integrity of this forum, I just think certain perspectives unfairly caught your attention more than they should have.
Just curious, what if you wanted to register a gun that you made (put a serial number on it, etc)? Is there even a legal pathway to do that?
I think it's a very poor idea to convince ourselves of falsehoods for personal benefit.

Believing luck is not real pretty much immediately activates the just world hypothesis, which is responsible for some rather awful things happening to people. It's the kind of shallowly selfish, short-term belief set we do not want to have.

It's not just about a given person and how productive they singularly happen to be, why are we focusing on that so much?
Same here. I once had a boss tell me that he never had anyone that he reviewed that had a larger range of good/bad feedback for/about. When I liked my projects and was engaged in the work, I was kicking ass. Otherwise...causing trouble. The solution that I've found is to try to always stay in roles where I really feel engaged and useful.
Good article, but what they failed to notice was that the bathtub already blocks both doors from opening.
Why be alarmed? You can do the same thing with a mill or CNC machine except its made of metal and not shitty plastic and it has been available for like 60 years. Gun technology is not secret nor are the mechanics unreasonably complicated, plans are easily available both in books and online and have been since before near everyone here was born.
I struggled with the auto updates on the Omnia as well. I wish they'd upstreamed their code so I could run vanilla OpenWRT.

I'd say the Turris Omnia will slowly die in favour of the Mox [1] so it's probably a good time to jump.

1: https://mox.turris.cz/en/overview/
If what you mentioned existed I would immediately implement it on A number of sites I’ve made for clients. I don’t want to ask for the time to setup and maintain something that will take over an hour of the allotted development time.
You're communicating that there are just two dichotomies: either one believes luck is real and so should just do nothing and buy lottery tickets, or one believes it's not real and is doing things that are useful.

Otherwise, I'm not sure what you were aiming at with the lottery ticket example, given that it's pretty much nobody's choice even if they believe in luck.
I'm excited about ARM chips from Qualcomm and Cavium, hoping to see open source commits to projects to support the architecture.
A break from asking questions? I don't understand your point.
Memory can be tricky. You need some data, not anecdotes.
I have a home office in San Francisco. With a remote team including direct reports nine hours ahead of me, it’s important to me that it’s a specific room that’s mostly dedicated for work. When I’ve had guests in town who take the room, I work from the living room but it’s not the same. I can work from anywhere—but day-to-day, I like to have
- a decent sized desk
- pen and paper handy
- screen real estate (e.g., home office, I have two 27” monitors in addition to my MBPR; setup isn’t as polished at corporate office where I have one 21” external display. Still, better than one.)

Prior to being in a position where I pretty much _had_ to work from home certain days, I found it unnatural. I couldn’t imagine not going into the office... Getting the workspace right helped. Leveraging communication tools helped replicate the hallway conversations I missed a lot initially. (Quick video calls > chat > email).
So what were they used for? I thought it was still a mystery.
US laws doesn't allow any way to register a firearm. Stores have to keep records, and tracing requests have to be forward to the store of purchase. There's a great documentary on this:

https://vimeo.com/180763356
The article says the alarm is over a perceived increase in the ease of obtaining an unregistered and untraceable gun. If that’s your goal, isn’t it still lucky easier to obtain a manufactured firearm, grind off the serial number, and then (somehow) modifying or distort the refiling? Even excluding that option, I’d imagine it’s essier for these types to find a buddy who owns a mill and lathe and make a gun the old fashioned way than it is to build or obtain a working metal-capable 3D printer (and the result will still need finish machining on a mill and large anyway, right?)
Clearly the federal government asserts a fair amount of control over marriage - See DOMA or Obergefell but beyond that, do you think congress couldn't pass a law creating a national marriage license? Or say a minimum marriage age?

I wouldn't argue that the Federal government doesn't delegate a lot of things to the States - see Medicaid - but that's not the same thing as the States doing something only because they can do it.
They've also had close to 50% of the market before.

And the "No one gets fired for buying xxxx" works more with software than with hardware. x86 CPUs are essentially a commodity. The best price / performance + performance density + energy efficiency will probably win. Previously Intel had 2/3 (perf density and energy efficiency). With the new EPYC they will probably have 0/3.
You have to be an experienced metalworker to make one that way. A computer doesn't do it for you (at least not yet). Whereas any idiot can download a file and send it to a 3D printer.
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This is a very tricky situation.

I generally abhor guns in society.

However, I'd be more concerned about living in a society where creating and disseminating information, such that no crime is committed, is a crime in and of itself.

On a more practical note, I'd be surprised if any 3D printed gun was actually strong enough without metal components/reinforcing. I'm reasonable experienced with 3D printing... and I'd personally expect such a device to at least blow a few fingers off.
> Except there's a lot more going on here and a lot more at stake. Beliefs about [...] why bad things happen to good people, can dramatically affect policy decisions and what a given culture considers acceptable. Someone feeling good about themselves is absolutely not a good enough reason to mangle reality.

nodnodnod

> Rejection of the influence of randomness means [...] people control everything and if their determination is all they need, then we do not need to help them.

Well, it is complicated and gets very subtle. For every person who is struck by catastrophe through sheer bad luck, there is at least one who is struck by catastrophe after a series of terrible personal choices.

Deciding which is which is not an easy choice. For example, imagine a bush-walker standing at the bottom of a cliff - a rock falls, and kills them. Looks a lot like bad luck. However, in the Australian mining industry, workers are essentially forbidden from standing near cliffs because that sort of thing is /actually quite likely/. Because they deal with the risk all the time, they see it as a choice to made.

Not mangling reality cuts two ways. Just because a choice isn't obvious doesn't mean that decisions don't play a role. In addition we can't attribute success solely to luck. Success strikes randomly in a small pool of people who have the capacity to be successful. That pool is small, and the people in it shouldn't be made responsible for the vagaries of the universe at large.
Look for well-connected or very visible people and do software things for them. Next time someone asks them about a guy who’s good with X you will be on top of their mind, provided you tell them you are good with X. Worked for me.
> Thing is, most people are terribly afraid of the freedom, and – as the example with the lottery winners prove – most can't handle large sums of money anyway.

This hardly proves much since the group of people who buy lottery tickets is self-selecting. A person who understands probability will not be buying a lottery ticket. Most people buying them are not in the best situation.

There's a lot more going on in the world than people who work hard vs people who buy lottery tickets.
Not quite correct federal law provides a method to serialize a gun if you are applying a tax stamp for registering with the federal government if you are adding a NFA regulated modification.

states law as usual vary but only a few states have serial number database of guns. Ymmv if they will allow it or not.
> Also: 70 percent of lottery winners, end up broke just a few years later.

This often quoted line is a complete media distortion of what really happens. It is wrong. I highly recommend being skeptical of the misinformation spread by news and looking into the primary sources yourself.

Here’s the Florida study that this line is referring to:

https://eml.berkeley.edu/~cle/laborlunch/hoekstra.pdf

Here’s the actual results of the study:

Results show that although recipients of $50,000 to $150,000 are 50 percent less likely to file for bankruptcy in the two years after winning relative to small winners, they are equally more likely to file three to five years afterward.

First, this study wasn’t people winning millions and blowing it, it’s people winning modest amounts under 200K. Second, they’re not going bankrupt at higher rates than other people, they’re filing less often in the short term, and at the same rates in the long term. In other words, the lottery winnings of $10K - $200K didn’t help their longer term life prospects.

Is that some sort of surprise? Anyone would spend $200K in 5 years.

The winnings did not create higher rates of bankruptcy, and I don’t know right now where the 70% number came from. The number of people who filed for bankruptcy was 5.5%.
I'd gladly use any map except Apple maps for navigation on my smartphone, but its the only map software that navigates through the lock screen on my iPhone.
And plastic isn't detected by a metal detector (there's a movie plot about this! [+]).

[+] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Line_of_Fire
This is nothing new. The socio-economic hierarchy was there in every human society throughout history. Some times journalists don't have any imagination.
Full article here:

https://outline.com/6kWxDs
Title saids Activists Are Alarmed, but it doesn't quote or say a single activist. Also, this happened during the Obama administration (who didn't have anything to do with it) and the article trys to slam it as a Trump administration with totally separate subject.

New York Times is NOT a reputable news organization. Yes, they once were, but ever since the whole WMD 2002 Iraq war, to me, they've been horrible. Yes occasionally they might have something good, that's how propagation works: you hide your agenda with things that make it neutral so that you can't distinguish between facts and agenda narratives, it also gives plausible deniability against critics. So whatever.
And the former CEO of Intel said their goal was to keep AMD to 15-20% of the server market. I agree. I think they will be able to capture more than 20%... 30-50% seems reasonable.
frogs gay, was real news afterall.
Okay, how would tying the two doors together prevent the doors from opening if the doors opened inwards? It’s pretty obvious the doors would have to open outwards from the bathroom into each suite. So the bathtub’s size and position in any diagram is even more irrelevant, I’d suggest.
I think alarm is due to the fact that the expertise and training required to use a mill or CNC machine is vastly greater than a 3D printer. I’d also imagine that a 3D printer set up is cheaper (but am not sure). The result is that these unlicensed guns can become much more common.
I don't think i said research was valueless. Certainly risks can be mitigated with research, but I reject that they can be avoided entirely.

If "with adequate business research, those can be avoided" is true, it can only be true as a syllogism where 'adequate' is defined to mean the research necessary not to fail, and any company which fails hasn't done 'adequate' research.
If we are talking about the US yes and no. There is nothing illegal here about producing your own guns without any licensing until you start mass producing them to sell. It is fairly straight forward to stamp or engrave a serial number and submit the paper work of it. However we don't have a 'list of guns' to just submit some random new serial number too, they only want the serial if you are doing something not normally available like short barreled rifle, silencer, or selectfire/full auto. Technically you can even make your own machine gun legally if it is of your own design and manufacture, doesn't leave the state, and only really comes up against legal hurdles when you are producing them for the purpose of selling them to civilians (which you will of course be denied). You can however sell them to the military or law enforcement, well the prototype for the design anyways, you would still need to get federal licensing to produce them in mass to sell the actual finished product to the military but that just takes a bit of money to push the paperwork through. There is an even further legal/not-legal hole that allows you to sell that prototype machine gun you made to somebody else, you can sell it just because you don't want it any more or need the money, but only if producing it originally wasn't for the purpose of selling it which would make it illegal to even have in the first place. I don't think it has been challenged either way (I might be wrong) but the lack of legal clarification and the potential for losing all your gun rights is the only reason you don't see homemade machine guns being sold more often. If you sold more than one or two you would assuredly be investigated and likely charged.

So tl;dr, you only need register a serial if you made something like a machine gun and hold a federal firearms manufacturing license, and you can only make one or two versions of each design without changing things, and the serial number only really matters when selling or trading it, which you both are and aren't allowed to do depending on what the courts feel your intentions were. Otherwise the mechanical design of the gun can be freely sold to law enforcement or the military. Also the rules change once you actually get a manufacturing license (you are signing away some rights in the process, similar to signing away your right to not have an ID while driving when you get your driver's license) but if you get your manufacturing license you should probably have an actual lawyer.