skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had to go as far as completely router blocking twitter, Snapchat, certain websites, discord, certain Google pages to block new accounts from being created, locking a phone with parental controls so I can disable the camera and only apps that work are texting and calls, bios locking a laptop so I'm able to control usage, disable the camera and plenty of other apps, using my personal email as a recovery option for all the old social media (because you can log right back in within 90 days and it's all back).

If that's what it takes then so be it. I don't have time to be watching every last move so I just nuked it all at once. Oh well.
What percentage of agile managed enterprise software platforms blow up before they even get to the launch?
This shows how sick ideas like DRM slow down progress. Amusingly, they keep obsolete technology undead for years too, because of this mandatory requirement.
Time and effort wise it would be unsmart to not keep them properly backuped up. Otherwise reripping 4-8tb of data is time consuming.

25gig costs 50 cent / month to store on something easy like google drive.

For keeping a zfs cluster up and running and maintained, its probably way cheaper but still you pay for power, hardware and your labour.
(waldorf kid here) while that is an obvious confound, the waldorf pedagogy strong encourages children not be exposed to any screen time at all. It goes further: even at the kindergarten level, all toys and costumes are natural materials, you won't find a single piece of plastic among items intended for a child's use. Even the crayons are made of beeswax.
"Chinese sales of domestically-built new energy vehicles in 2017 totaled 777,000 units"

To first approximation none of these were Teslas. EVs are being mass produced.

Mass producing a car might be difficult. But the others manufacturers are already doing that.

They need to figure out how to mass produce electronic drive trains (vastly simpler than what they are building now) and batteries. Batterys are more complex, but most of battery production coming online in the next years is Chinese. Tesla is a fraction of what the Chinese are bringing online.

I don't see any reason why Teslas long term potential should be higher than, say BMWs. Mind you, creating a BMW size company from scratch while driving the electric transition and a pace faster than we otherwise could have hoped for are amazing achievements.
Ok, come on. There is way too much "back in my day games weren't that bad" in this thread. Do you guys remember WoW? And Diablo?!?! Talk about a game designed to target addiction centers.

The issue is not games like Fortnite. The issue (as you said) is people letting their kids spend all their time playing Fortnite.
Similar the rental market, I'd guess. Mostly done by those who couldn't afford to buy new but at a greater long-term cost.

I've seen people commenting that the money you save on buying new just goes on repairs instead: I don't agree. There's a fashion and entertainment value to driving something that works just as well as a new car but is newer, so the market gets pushed down.
My domain and email provider is GoDaddy. Unfortunately, they said that they cannot do anything about it but still asked me to send IP email headers to their abuse team.
YouTube and Netflix stream for me just fine. Are you on 4g/fibre?
At work we are moving from VSTS to Jira :( sucks. It’s soooooo sloweeee compared to VSTS... luckily we can move our repos to GitHub.
Same question here - how do you ration this? I am looking to swap to ubiquity network router just to get some control back.

Being able to create such fine grained control on ios seems ... unlikely
Pretty cool. I was a huge Mathworks fan for years, (still am, though I think Julia has a brighter future), and they always have great documentation.

The OS spotter in me is having a hard time identifying what's on the monitor in the image - is that some stripped-back Windows 7 verison or XFCE?
I think it's just supposed to carry the same meaning as "Denial is not a river in Egypt," which is: hey, denial is a real thing, and you're facing it right now.

I'm not the OP but I hope that helps.
> To understand Git's design philosophy better it is helpful to understand the circumstances in which the Git project was started in the Linux Kernel Community.

I don't understand this sentiment. It's not helpful to know the history at all. At best, it romanticize the choices made. Stating the goals would be an intro that shows some level of analysis.
You're right on the 10x being low asprouse, I probably shouldn't have included that.

Agree Tiny Seed looks interesting, I actually recommended someone that earlier this afternoon. Great to see new takes on funding businesses and I'm excited to see what it can unlock for those who need a little boost but don't want to chase the unicorn.

Lost and founder is already on my Audible wishlist, expect to get to it in the next month after finishing Scott Belsky's Messy Middle.[0]

https://www.amazon.com/Messy-Middle-Finding-Through-Hardest/...
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Small typo: should be %Comment{}
> We'll be using easySUP to convert our ASS file to a SUP file.

Was the spec written by precocious twelve-year olds?
I'm young too (21), I was taught programming in scheme. In UC Berkeley the very first CS class (called "SICP" lol) is in Python and Scheme. https://cs61a.org/
The “Harvard Sentences” Secretly Shaped the Development of Audio Tech (2015)
Yeah, because games are really expensive to make. Fucking up a single time has been known to take out entire publishers. The issue is that many games simply can't break even at $60 a copy and so they have to look to other methods.
Yup, on both sides of the argument. But in any way, there is some deeper truth here, the whole discussion went ad hominem already years ago.

Also it sucks for "the good guys" - literally - that tech has a bad reputation in that sense and on the other hand this is improving only so slowly.

On the other hand it's of course naive to say that artists are good people per se, that is just not true. This is almost biblical, considering that artists are always poor and thus good. We all need to progress, not only people in tech.
In a way, after 3-4 years, there isn't much difference whether you have to update your self-hosted service, or the SaaS you're using is finally removing the functionality you rely on after having deprecated it 2 years earlier.

The only difference is server resource management, which is not much effort if automated correctly, and security fixes which is not that much more.
Show HN: lazy, functional data structures; stack-safe recursive lambdas for Java
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What you're describing sounds like the Google Translate camera feature(erstwhile WordLens).
If you haven't tried it out, you should. Works quite well on photos taken on phone for signboards etc.

We are little particular about what to translate and how to faithfully reproduce it. That's the main differentiation.
That's generic and not really convincing except to the already converted.

Getting into the concrete example of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, on the other hand...
> A 6 year old's brain has no chance against a team of trained data scientists. We all know this.

This is ridiculous. I mean, utterly and completely ridiculous and you should be ashamed of yourself. This all happened by chance, not by some miracle of data science. For every product that captured 6 year old brains, there are millions of failed products that did not capture any brains at all. For every claim of "hey, I just tried to stimulate dopamine addiction in my successful table game" there are a million people who tried to do the same thing and failed. This is just a ridiculous narrative that uses post hoc reasoning and ignores survivorship bias to try to justify some parochial view of what makes children become "productive" adults.

No human is going to be able to predict what will be good and bad for child development except in very narrow cases around health and nutrition (and even there we're wrong 92% of the time when we stray out of those narrow bands). The world of tomorrow is not the same as the world of today and each generation will adapt and thrive in their own way. We'll keep stumbling through trying different crazy approaches, each with drawbacks and advantages, and occasionally pushing for the "one true" approach that will be discredited before we ever get to figure out if it works.

> As much as we want it to be true, technological advancement can never be separated from social/ethical impact

Yeah, sure, of course. But responsibility for social/ethical impact is almost zero in all cases except as a retrospective tool, and trying to predict social/ethical impact is a suckers game because this is simply not possible. This idea that we can somehow have a simplified model of how humans behave and that such a model has any validity at all is a common one in marketing and social science research, but is clearly fallacious.
Do you have any of the listed behaviors and traits?

http://outofthefog.website/personality-disorders-1/2015/12/6...
Well, if github is using elasticsearch, then it's fair to blame them too.
> At the highest levels of play.

So not for 99.99% of the players.

Although it's not the same subject, this reminds me of a video by Duncan "Thoorin" Shields, a rather controversial and prominent eSports figure: "Gaming is a Waste of Time" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiXfnfBk3BM)

In the video, he talks (among other things) about people justifying the time they spend on video games by the fact that some players win millions by playing the game. Sure some do, but the very vast majority of players don't, and using the 0.01% of players as an exemple is not a good argument in favour of video games.
I would say you gain different* experiences, not necessarily more valuable. It depends on your circumstances and your goals. Hopefully my perspective on that came through in the post.
Legally dubious? Not sure of the "website is old so pop along to a .ru site" exemption to copyright law. Did the author attempt to contact the copyright owners or discover an alternative?
My family definitely rewatches videos all the time. As they grow, my kids become new people every year or so; I like the chance to at least briefly visit every one of the people they have been.
Can you recommend any literature on the topic of these "tricks"? If you're not in the industry, awareness is probably the best weapon against these practices.
For comparison between BluRay and DVD: I did something similar, also for an animated series, for DVD. I took DVDs from Japan, ripped the video, and inserted good subtitles (the original subtitles for the series as released in the US were trash), and burned to DVD.

The hardest part was making sure the subtitles were in sync. After that, a simple shell script and dvdauthor were all I needed. With some modifications, this shell script could also take speedsubbed episodes and produce DVDs containing between four and six episodes per disc (this was before streaming simultaneous releases).

To address a question from mrec above about why physical media was chosen - I was making this set of discs for a friend for a lending library for their club. The easiest way to move video around at the time was DVD (this was right as BluRay was taking off). Having the disc images was also helpful in case the (relatively fragile) DVD-R media got damaged while it was lent out.
Why would anyone rent a downtown apartment with heating, air-conditioning and a Jacuzzi? Might as well live in the jungle.

The answer is simple. People are different. Some prioritize travel. Some prioritize Home-ownership; and some require a nice car.

You are neither a genius nor frugal. Different people will have different priorities.
How is the school legally allowed to do that?

EDIT: I should say that I can think of two ways they can argue this: since it is school property, nothing on there has the expectation of privacy, and is monitored (my work does that, and as a result I don't log into personal email at work). They could also argue the "in loco parentus", in which they are acting as parents by searching it.

However, legally or not, that is a massive breach of trust, and if I were that kid, I have been taught a hard lesson not to trust electronics I own and not to trust authority figures.
Arbitrage exists - the difference can't be that big because if it becomes so, then lots of people just drive used cars across half a continent to resell them.

International movement of used cars is a big business, generally from more wealthy countries (where more people buy new cars) to less wealthy ones, but also to cover gaps in the market if there's a disbalance in some sector e.g. a surplus of used vans because of some large company selling them off, or a lack of a particular model that's randomly gotten in fashion somewhere.
The design defects of X11 do not necessitate the implementation defects of Xorg.
Better is a very subjective term here, which was my point. The lower-to-middle class person is still subject to all kinds of economic issues that are of zero concern to the wealthy person.
Welcome to the world of software engineering! See, building software is more about people than code or technology. It is always a people problem.

Use this as an opportunity to improve your social skills. If you think your colleagues are sloppy, find a way to reach them. Learn how to give in-offensive feedback. That's invaluable for your career, no matter what you do.

Also, the resentment you feel towards others is likely resentment that you feel towards yourself (as you say yourself), so that is another area you have now the chance to use and grow.
procrastination is a modular, zero-dependency library for Java 11 that provides:

* lazily evaluated, memoizing, purely functional data structures

* ad hoc pattern matching

* an extensible, reusable alternative to Java 8's Stream

* stack-safe tail-recursive lambda expressions via trampolines and fixed points

If you have JDK11 and a recent version of Maven installed, you can easily play around with this in jshell by cloning the repository, and from the root directory, running mvn compile and jshell procrastination.jsh.

I would be very grateful for any feedback.
Video games are protected by the first amendment right to free speech and expression. Slot machines are gambling devices that take in and pay out money. The two aren't really comparable. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but the regulations on slot machines only apply when they're used in real money gambling. Presumably, if someone built a slot machine that didn't take in or dispense tokens, and could not be used in gambling in any way, it wouldn't be subject to those regulations. But obviously this is a moot point since a slot machine without a payout is just a glorified random number generator.
Iirc, it is a state decision. It is hard to get firm answers as there are different concepts that overlap:

Is it legal to pay someone to vote a certain way? Saying 'no' does not mean it is a truly secret ballot, but it is something.

Is the ballot printed by the govt as opposed to parties or organizations? (Meaning there is an "official ballot" and not just any piece of paper) At one point this was a new thing.

Are you doing an oral vote?

As it is, I think in general you end up with no obligation to share your vote, but that is not the same as any legal obligation to make the voting booth well concealed, depending on state, but that is no small amount of reading between the lines and conjecture on my part, so dont trust me too much.
Not addressing your point directly (I thought it was interesting). I would recommend you simply replace the word "lies" with "stories," or "fictions". You might find people more willing to engage you constructively, and less willing to downvote you.
I remember myself struggling with Quake 3. It really felt to some extend hypnotic. Only after giving myself a proverbial slap on the face at around 2014 when I was 13 or so, and getting conscious of that being a problem, was I able vent Q3 out of my head.
Yawn. When I was six people said video games would rot my brain too. Turns out I had more to worry from my parents generation wrecking the economy and destroying our shared institutions. Cue next moral panic.
There is nothing in this article that suggests any error in the naysayers’ reasoning. None of the analysts were so dumb as to say that Tesla’s massive capital expenditures should be instantly depreciated and were thus worthless. The issue had always been cash flow: Tesla’s cash flow was negative enough that there was a serious risk that they would run out. Fortunately, they seem to have turned the corner without running out of cash first.

I think they still have considerable risks ahead:

- All the Model 3 cars they’ve recently sold represent potential liabilities for repairs. My neighbor’s has spent weeks in for repairs due to poor QC, and is probably a lemon under CA law. Even ignoring the lemon law, warranty repairs are expensive.

- To be worth their valuation, they need to sell massive numbers of cars for quite a few years. In particular, they need to continue leading after their competitors introduce serious EVs. Having driven Teslas and other cars, Teslas have a lot to be desired in terms of interior amenities and controls.

- The NTSB is investigating an autopilot fatality. The liability from that particular fatality is irrelevant to Tesla, but the NTSB could plausibly force a recall of Autopilot. That would be bad for Tesla. (And arguably quite good for transportation safety.)
HN effect in full effect
If you're arguing that Somalia isn't a failed state that makes it very difficult to approve visas (the example in your first link), that's not a "crackdown on legal immigration", it's a feature of a system that does not grant visas to people whose names can't even be verified, let alone criminal background checks performed. That's been a feature of the US immigration system (and in fact all immigration systems) for a very long time, it didn't originate with this administration.

Your second link is a bit silly. Perhaps you're not acquainted with how immigration works. When a person is sponsored to immigrate to the US, their sponsor signs an agreement to essentially pay for them for the next ten years no matter what. I know, I've actually filled out and signed that form along with the I-130. Use of public assistance programs is a significant red flag on a citizenship application (always has been), due to the fact that means the person probably somehow does not have the means to support themselves, and thus is not likely in compliance with our immigration system. Our immigration system and citizenship system is based on allowing people to immigrate who can provide for themselves or have people who will provide for them -- that's a feature, not a bug. You may disagree with the program, but the administration is simply enforcing policies that are current law. Previous administrations may have chosen to ignore those laws, but that doesn't remove them from the books. There are plenty of features built into the US Government to change those laws if the people so desire -- the people in the US have chosen not to do so, your feelings notwithstanding.

The census flap is about counting citizens, not illegals. We all know that some people want all illegal aliens counted as it would skew things in some areas, but again, change the laws if you don't like them.
This is actually a rapidly developing area of law. There is a lawsuit brought by Washington State that is arguing that virtual credits, in connection with games of chance, constitutes "something of value" that is covered by the state's gambling laws.

If the state wins, it could result in an expansion of regulation of this type of mobile game.

Here's an article with some more detail.

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/game-show-network-hit-online-g...
Ask HN: Do you have Aphantasia?
"Aphantasia is the suggested name for a condition where one does not possess a functioning mind's eye and cannot voluntarily visualize imagery."

Hello HN,

I am writing this post about aphantasia as I have it and very recently discovered what it even was and that it is not "normal".
There is so little research done about this subject that we don't have any idea of the origins of it, why some people are affected, if it is developed at a later stage in life or born with (I feel like I developed mine) or what % of the population has it.

So I started doing a little investigating of my own and asked my close circle of friends and colleagues if they had it.

Out of about 20 people I questioned (all are either working as devs or designers), not a single one had it. Makes sense for the designers, but I would have thought that developers would have a higher chance of having it, for some reason.

My first intent was to try and find a correlation between aphantasia and being a developer. The way I see it programming has always allowed me to materialize things that I could think of but never "imagine" or "visualize". I have always been passionate about code since I touched a computer in my life for the first time. I could create without having a need to be creative, through _repetitive trial and error_ (strong emphasis on repetitive), where a designer, for instance, could simply visualize then apply, maybe add a little shine here and there and be done.

As my sample pool of 20 people was quite small and not very representative I figured it would be a good idea to ask you guys about it, maybe even get some anecdotes, life repercussions, and whatnot out of it...

So here I am. Do you have Aphantasia HN?

PS: Sorry if this sounds confusing, my limited vocabulary hardly allows me to express these very specific topics... Also sorry if this is too off-topic for HN.
This is like the first thing I research for. I usually prepend reddit because somethings I search things like:

"reddit software X vs __________"

because the alternative is not semantically correct

"software X vs reddit"

google is smart enough to know I really meant "site:reddit.com software X vs _________"

The same is true for youtube, if you go to the video's section sometimes you don't get youtube results on first listing. Just prepend "youtube"
This does not hold to to scrutiny. The case that was appealed to the supreme Court that establishes that video games are protected by the First Amendment was challenging a law championed by a California Democrat, but was mostly overturned by liberal justices.

What video games have to do with "white idntity politics" is beyond me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Entertainment_Merch...
> Why AREN'T certain games subject to the same regulations as slot machines?

The regulations were designed for casinos before video games became so popular and way before mobile games and micro-transactions even existed.

Example of gambling regulation for New Jersey: https://www.nj.gov/oag/ge/docs/Regulations/MergedRegulations...

> Is that a state-by-state regulation?

Yes. Delaware, Nevada, New Jersey and Pennsylvania allow gambling. But I guess that at any moment local or federal regulations could be created.

> And does the regulating code specifically mention physical machines?

There is specific regulations for casinos, for on-line gambling, for jackpots, sports betting, etc. e.g. CHAPTER 69O INTERNET AND MOBILE GAMING from the linked PDF

Example of definitions:

* "Authorized Internet or mobile game" means any game authorized by the Division for use with an Internet or mobile gaming system.

* "Client terminal" means any device that is used to interact with a gaming system for the purpose of conducting server-based gaming activity.

* "Data warehouse" means a system of one or more servers located in New Jersey for the purpose of storing transactions received from the primary gaming equipment.

* "Dormant account" means an Internet gaming account, which has had no patron initiated activity for a period of one year.