skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
just look at how many sleeping babies are hurt in your country per year by strangers and base your decision on that
I'd love to know the math behind the physics engine, particularly angular momentum. Planar rotations are weird in 4d.
I'm guessing that Paradise Lost [0] isn't standard reading for HN'ers, but I have to say that when I read it for an exam when I was 17, I loved it (compared with the Shakespeare that was also on the syllabus). The article reminded me why:

Lucifer being cast out of heaven...

Him the Almighty Power
Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky
With hideous ruin and combustion down
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
In adamantine chains and penal fire...

On seeing Eve for the first time:

That space the Evil One abstracted stood
From his own evil, and for the time remained
Stupidly good of enmity disarmed,
Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge,
But the hot Hell that always in him burns...

Superbly visual writing, for a book published in 1667.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost
I've watched many of my and coworkers spending huge amounts of time (many hours a month) fiddling with the complexities of managing software packages on OSX systems. Everything was so frighteningly manual and impossible to reproduce. They easily individually used 50x as much time doing that as I spent fiddling with my Linux installation. Those are levels of effort that definitely matter to me enough that I put importance in the OS I use.
I've used Golem and it works well and is cheap. Only issue is buying GNT which is a pain.
Kids around the world are suing governments over climate change–and it’s working
It might be surprisingly cheap but seems incredibly miserable to work there. It shows that the company does not trust their own employees and is a sign of bad management.
This is why as an armchair physicist I'm excited about the new neutrino observations and research going on, mainly because neutrinos aren't affected by gravitational lensing and other effects other particles encounter as they 'roll around' on space-time. Would it be possible to understand conceptually how other dimensions extend out of space time? I'm imagining a Y-axis perpendicular to the space-time fabric....
Would you like to add more dependencies on server-side code for this decentralized project?
Yes, emacs GUI is more fit for purpose. If you use a terminal emulator you have to choose one or the other (assuming you even can) while emacs allows you to mix and match at will, even within the same file.

I fully expect nobody will try emacs due to religious reasons, though.
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If I understand what you’re saying - that still requires printer manufacturers to write and users to install printers.

I have three printers at home (long story). I bring a Mac home, connect it to my network and it finds all three and I can immediately start printing. I bring home a Windows PC, I have to install printer drivers for three printers.
I also think animations are not what’s making slack take so long to load.

I don’t think it would load any faster without the animations.
Oh yes maybe the previous rainbow would not be found in the new rainbow, previous colors would maybe be changed that's a good question...

I'm even wondering if we all "see" / "perceive" the same colors / have the same response to the same hue (i.e. is my blue the same as yours ?!)

wouldn't new grays appears

Maybe, my wild guess is just that gray would be more rare, if we define gray as the neutral color (de saturated = mix of every color, a kinda flat spectrum)
Please provide your sources for this highly questionable claim?

From where I'm standing, your comment is straight out of Kafka. You just apologetically ("I'm afraid") keep insisting that the hostility being experienced is "the best way to deal with this."

What is your source for the proposition that Firefox gains from removing RSS?

What is your source for the proposition that telemetry is superior to randomized user surveys?
There's no such thing as originality in many cases. Everything is based off of something else. Many video games and books have similar plotlines. I had to do research for CRM systems for a nonprofit and there's like over 100 of them. I'm sure they are all different in some way shape or form, but I don't know enough about CRM's to say anything here.

There's a really good writeup of a european company called "Rocket" that does exactly this, it was mentioned in hackernews somewhere before

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/inside-the-clone-factory

I have an app idea I wish to pursue that doesn't yet exist, but its the merger between 2 common pieces of software in the market. Building it would be a huge time saver in things I struggle everyday, I imagine others would feel so as well. I couldn't find anything in any alternatives I've tried and tested.
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> touchpad drivers (libinput and wayland are making progress on this front, but the experience is still not on par with Windows Precision and macOS

This is the only thing I need before I move to Linux on my laptop. Until then I'm sticking with Linux on my desktop and MacOS on my Macbook.
> but with technology something like an ekiosk (essentially the same types you see at newer airports, olive garden, etc)

What's an ekiosk? And Olive Garden is a fast food chain isn't it? What do these two things have to do with each other and with prisons? And why do you need ekiosk or fast food chains to solve this? You just need any two tablets and an internet connection.
I grew up on Byte magazine. Love the covers and the articles on programming. My parents had bought me a TRS-80 Model I with Level III Basic and learned programming by typing in programs (and then debugging them) from Byte and other magazines. Did anyone ever type in the Scott Adams Treasure Island adventure game from the December 1980 issue? https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1980-12
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What's really interesting that in 2D maps, every country had their own variation of it.

If you were to take a 2D printed world map from America and compared it to a 2D printed world map, the sizes of continents wouldn't be the same, nor the centerpiece of the map itself. It would always center around that respective country first.
Don't let the patent trolls read this comment. Whilst I agree that everything is borrowed and inspired from something else, there can still be blatant rip offs. If you're going to steal like this, at least change it a little bit so it's not a direct copy.
I think they'd be great for new users but we'd need to be able to turn them off. No matter how fast and intuitive an animation is it's never going to be as fast as no animation.
Ahh yes. I agree. Men don’t do their share of parenting as a whole. I thought you were saying this is specific to tech, of which I’d disagree. It’s more wide spread than that.
I didn't see any articles relating to how it was decentralized. Is internet archive going for something similar to a blockchain setup, because that would actually be one of the few cases it would make sense

I am not familiar with this new dweb subdomain, what is unique about it?

Archive has actually lost some of the archives I stored on it, which is weird, because I ran multitude of backups on it a few years back when the site got taken offline
Using the 4th Dimension, the two interlocking rings can be separated. However, what would be the equivalent puzzle for the 3rd dimension? What 2D system requires the 3rd dimension to be separable? Is there even an equivalent? Clearly a circle within a circle is one such system, but it corresponds to a ball wholly contained by another ball in 3D, not a pair of interlocking rings.
There are some good points here, but it's a bit over the top.

For example: "NIST is considered harmful". Have you seen the latest NIST SP 800-63-3 on authentication? There was a public comment phase, the whole thing is hosted on github and it has deprecated the whole "your password must contain uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, special characters (but not single quotes as our database doesn't like that) and a haiku" nonsense - the only remaining recommended password restrictions are minimum length and check against a blacklist of common passwords.

Dual EC is considered harmful, and perhaps in a more general sense closed standards and unexplained constants in crypto algorithms. Whether the label NIST is on something or not makes very little difference (or are you going to tell me next that AES is insecure because the US government approved it)?

And this is the kind of thing that makes my hair stand up: "The hash function SHA1(SHA2(x)) is just as secure as SHA2 (it has less bits of course but no better attacks)." Yes, I know what you mean, but you've just given us a lecture on why key length matters.

That said, there are some good recommendations here for setting SSH up securely. Meanwhile I still have to deal with a server that shall remain unnamed and that truncates passwords to the first 8 bytes ... sigh
Ask HN: Which domain registrant do you recommend?
I have been using Namecheap for the past few years but I am thinking about moving my domains to another registrant. Namecheap is fine for the most part but I have found their support to be completely incompetent (looks to be outsourced, takes 10-15 emails to get the most simple of things resolved).

Google Domains has a decent UX but I'm concerned Google might close down my account out of nowhere and leading to me losing my domains
Composer's solver is pretty advanced. It started as a PHP port of libsolv, which is the library used by both SuSE (zypper) and Fedora (DNF).
Think about it from the other point of view - the hiring manager has 20 people in front of them who can do the job. You need to tell them a story that shows it is better for that manager to hire you vs. the other 19. You being homeless and not having steady work for the last three years is a big negative (perhaps unfair, but true), so you need to not just show you can code, but show that you have better work ethics, can be more productive, or something else that puts you above and beyond the other 19 guys.

Admittedly, that will be tough. So if you aren't able to do that, then you need to build up a history of good, recent work. Take advantage of being homeless, and offer your services to local non-profits who work with the homeless. They almost all need some tech help, even just to organize and report on their data. Helping out will build up a track record of getting things done, and a network of people who can give you references for your capabilities, as well as let you know who else need help. It is possible that starting a small consulting service doing such things is easier than landing a full-time coding gig.
Ask HN: What would you do joining a new team as a manager?
How would you onboard a new team as an engineering manager starting a new job?
>Oh yes maybe the previous rainbow would not be found in the new rainbow, previous colors would maybe be changed that's a good question...

Well, the prism/rainbow is the pure wavelength specturm, so that's one of the things that probably would turn out the same in the new mapping.

>I'm even wondering if we all "see" / "perceive" the same colors / have the same response to the same hue (i.e. is my blue the same as yours ?!)

The sensitivity range does vary between individuals. Some women are in effect tetrachromats because they have two sets of, I think it is, Red cones that are sufficiently wide apart. I find this very fascinating.
Japanese society has been described as a homogeneous society--lacking, suspicious, distrustful of difference. Whats more, there is interesting research on social psycholgy of Wheat People vs. Rice People [1]:

"[Rice People] are more likely to understand themselves as interwoven with other people — as interdependent, not independent. In such social worlds, your goal is to fit in and adjust yourself to others, not to stand out."

With this social distinction in mind I am of a mind to think Japanese society's fear response to robots is a dialog or binary opposition. Humans who act like robots vs robots who act like humans.

Personally, I'm not fearful of robots who act human. I'm fearful of robot actors shaping human society in their image while being controled by a new class of technological oligarchs. Humans dominating humans through robot proxy.

The truest statement in this Wired article occurs at the start:

"The Western concept of “humanity” is limited, and I think it’s time to seriously question whether we have the right to exploit the environment, animals, tools, or robots simply because we’re human and they are not."

The author _sets us up_ with this self-recflection of human hubris, and then launches into a love letter of Japanese social acceptance of a nostalgic cartoon character Astroboy.

Fooey!

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/opinion/why-are-some-cult...
This sounds pretty cool. My own workflow is so pandoc-dependent though that I don't think I could use it unless someone who is much better at Haskell than I am works the markdeep extensions into pandoc :-(
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It practically is a feature, you can see whos offline and who is not. Its just done manually now not automatically.

But there's other alternatives to slack, such as Zulip
How is it moral for people to get rich from imprisonment?
it's interesting to mention that both Alan Kay (see "The early history of Smalltalk") and John McCarthy (see "advice taker") have very high opinion of logic programming.

Thanks for showing your code! I just placed my minimalist DSL tools and decided to use "Halt Problem" as an example. Here is my code: https://github.com/true-grue/dsl-tools
Understandable since cricket itself is not very common in the US either.

It is played though, and there is a national organization: https://www.usacricket.org/.
Petty crimes like stealing phones and wallets are relatively rare in US cities like San Francisco.[1]

Pickpocketing is a major issue in Paris and in other major European cities[2], yet children are trusted to do activities alone and independently.

The issue of child independence is is unrelated to actual crime and culturally based.

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2011/02/the_lo...

[2] http://www.traveller.com.au/worlds-top-10-worst-cities-for-p...
The traders get a discount when they lose and the margin call does not cover their loss. They can just walk away - while traditionally they would have to cover it all.
Same here on stock Safari on Mac. I can't read the article as a result.
At first I thought this was a fiction story in a hypothetical 2035. The dramatic description of legal technology is completely at odds with my experience. I’m a young, technologically savvy guy who happens to be a lawyer, and I’ve never even used, for example, “AI” discovery. Not for want of economic motivation—I’ve pored through documents manually in contingency cases where having an instant AI answer would have been a god send. But what the article makes it seem like legal tech can do, and what it can actually do, are two things with a vast chasm between.

For example, “AI” discovery requires tons of handholding and careful training/QA. The process is so complicated, it’s really only practical for very large document sets. Ironically, these huge document sets only tend to arise in highly valuable commercial litigation, where clients have strong incentives to demand human second level review anyway, mitigating much of the cost advantage. In practice, the biggest advance in discovery in the last 10-15 years has actually been culling document sets based in search terms (“fake” NEAR “testing results”).

The article also takes a jab at legal outsourcing and makes it seem like AI has had a bigger impact than outsourcing. Not so. The trend of clients demanding that low level work be outsourced to contract attorneys has had ten times the impact on law firm economics compared to any legal technology invented in the last decade.

At bottom, the article is based on a fundamental mistake about the industry:

> What kind of repeat buyer lets the seller push the price up every year for doing the same thing in the same way, where the product stays the same and there is no improvement in the outcome? One answer to that is: a buyer who is faced by a monopoly.

Today’s clients are savvy. They’ll bring in half a dozen firms to pitch any substantial matter, getting dozens of hours of free legal analysis from each just as table stakes. Fees are capped, rates are discounted, and success-based fee arrangements are routine. The legal industry is stiffly competitive, even at the very top. (Thanks to conflicts rules, consolidation in law has been limited. So there are dozens of firms that you would consider just the “top firms”).

On the whole, lawyers keep getting more expensive for the same reason as programmers in Silicon Valley or nannies in Manhattan. The stakes are high compared to the costs, and there is a rush to quality even in light of economic concerns.
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Listen to the team. Spend time observing and getting to know the systems, the people, the processes. Don't try and make major changes on day one because you cannot possibly understand the reason things work they way they do at that point.
Presumably life would eventually evolve.
'Time Well Spent' features are the Marlboro Lights of the tech industry
As another data point, I am French and I hate speaking French when I'm abroad, especially in the US or any English speaking country. I find it much easier cognitively to stick with one language, the context switching is too costly.

When I force myself to switch back to French I will initially trip on sentences and find my own accent weird.
Yep, this is a pretty odd way to describe TSMC especially considering that Apple doesn’t even consume a large percentage of capacity.
3rd largest semiconductor company in the world, largest none-affiliated fab, first to roll out a 7nm process node and degraded to an “Apple supplier”, but I guess Bloomberg needs a hook for readers to care.
A great related article is the introduction to PubGrub, the new solver algorithm for Dart's package manager. I especially liked the focus on better error messages, which can get pretty cryptic in other package managers.

https://medium.com/@nex3/pubgrub-2fb6470504f

The official docs are a rare learning resource, but require a bit more time to digest.

https://github.com/dart-lang/pub/blob/master/doc/solver.md
> It's often done that someone appeals to examples from other cultures that might not be entirely accurate.

Or we just learn to work around it. For example, I never schedule something right when a business is supposed to open Paris. I've been bitten multiple times while trying to pick up a rental car. There's also the some part of the city always on strike, but that's a slightly different issue.

And yeah, trains schedules in the UK are suggestions while in Germany they follow them with precision. I saw a UK comic in Munich one time and he had a bit how when he asked the train ticket person if the train was usually on time she didn't even understand the concept of it being late. :)
It is not possible for two ring shapes to interlock in 2D so there is no directly isomorphic trick.
That... could actually work. In fact there is a bash kernel for Jupyter. Not a lot of info about it on the github page, but it's there.

Then the issue becomes how well bash output takes advantage of Jupyter. Research forthcoming.
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Plus:

- no upselling, no nonsense

- text based interface

- quick and easy to use/renew/change/etc.

- privacy add-on is reasonably priced and easy to select

- competent, long track record, reliable

- supports 2FA

Minus:

- there may be cheaper ones out there, but not by much.

- I don't know how many oddball TLDs they support.

- If you like animations, eye candy, flashy IU, gradients, 3D elements popping out of the web page, JavaScript changing the page out from under you as you click and hover around, then you won't feel at home there.
China is really weird. They already have the bigbrother level of social media in place (social media credit scores), this just takes it a whole another level now. They are really heading towards a dangerous unethical path right now, and with google's censorship engine that just brings more worry honestly. China is paving the future of George Orwell's 1984. When other countries see how successful China is at doing this, others will potentially follow suit
I wonder how much urbanisation plays into this. If your city is designed entirely around cars there's far less opportunity for kids to go out themselves.

I've always lived in a walkable places (ie in the UK) and growing up was told to walk everywhere. From a young age (maybe 8?) I could walk faster than my mum so she let me power off on my own to school. Naturally I became very independent.

But if there are no sidewalks, if your town is car centric and drivers have no regard for pedestrians? How in those places do you create opportunities for independence?
[content warning: plug for paywalled academic article I wrote]. If the (a bit overheated) claims in this article are true, it probably isn't good for social equality---at least, not in the absence of a sustained effort to build what in effect are social ventures (memo to YC...) around legal AI. Just building machine learning into existing legal workflows will probably reduce the legal costs for the rich and powerful without trickling down to the poor, who often face social in addition to financial barriers to legal services. Article I wrote making this argument at some length: https://utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/utlj.2017-0047
How is it moral to make money off of selling shoddy products and services to people and not actually holding up your end of the deal? But that happens all the time. It's the way of business for many companies. Coinbase takes money from its customers and doesn't give them anything back for months at a time while itself becoming more valuable by the day. That's not moral, but they'll have a front page posts over the next month, celebrating some venture of theirs. Or some CEO who is known for regularly exaggerating/lying or calling people they don't agree with slurs will have people rabidly defending their honor when that rich person has done nothing for them. That's not moral.

When the top of society is greedy, you can't expect the lowest rungs to be any better. We barely care about people if they are contributing members of society (unless you've got money), we sure as hell aren't gonna care about prisoners.

It's just hypercapitalism. You sound surprised, but it's business. If you can exploit, you do exploit as far as legally possible and then make excuses later. I bet you the contractors have some great justifications for why what they do isn't immoral and is even good and necessary.

Short answer: it's not moral, but we're greedy and it's hard to admit that.
A homeless shelter, a day center, a church, a sympathetic friend. My local indie book store allows homeless people to use their mailing address. Finding someone who will hold your mail is a lot easier than finding somewhere to live.