skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats on the milestone. This is a huge boon to the open source community. I love the pricing model.

Are there any plans or ideas for a migration path from GitHub to sir.ht? I would imagine that if there was a way to transfer issues and discussions it would encourage more users to make the switch.

Here's one data point for you: zig programming language. Influencing factors:

* If we had syntax highlighting in the file browser, that would be a win over GitHub, which insists that there be "hundreds of GitHub repositories" before accepting a syntax highlighting pull request for a new language. I could imagine it would be reasonable to support "repository-local" highlighting configuration.

* Transferring existing content as mentioned above. It would be unwise for us to give up all the issues and discussion.

* The fact that the build service supports FreeBSD is already a win. However, to switch from Azure DevOps we would lose Windows builds. Is that ruled out due to the open source nature of sr.ht, or is that planned? Related, it would be attractive if sir.ht offered more architectures, e.g. i386, ARM, RISC-V (I believe this was mentioned but I could not find it in the docs)
Or it may be that Chrome OS runs on fuchsia, and the 2nd linux kernel runs side by side for Crostini. But even if it did, this is at least a couple of years away, I think.
> There are no special laws and protections about photography of people in public for example

Yes there are, for example in France [1]: "Before any public diffusion of a photo through newspaper or any other media (including internet), the Publisher has to obtain the autorisation from the people on which the picture is focused"

This law would apply to all the pictures in the article where the people are the focus of the picture

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_%C3%A0_l%27image_des_per...
Historically, there were no standing armies, so naturally the monarch could not be a professional soldier. But quite a lot of them since, including current royals, have military training. Before the age of standing armies they’d have had training in warfare and politics as well.

Even if you are going to delegate it to the generals, you need some appreciation of how it works and who seems like a good general.

I’m not saying people need to have phd’s and 20 years experience to manage. But probably more than a couple of years.
I'm asking because when someone says they are offended by someone else's words, it's because the use of that word makes their daily normal life more difficult to live in a direct material sense. That's the measure being defined when someone says "I'm offended". It's a matter of material conditions.

Slurs are used by people who have structural power in society, directed at those who do not. It's punching down, not punching across or up. That's what is meant by taking offense to someone's words.

Forgive me If I question whether or not a man, which is quite a privileged identity, is truly being punched down upon from someone more powerful by the word "creepshot".
Then why are miners buying so many graphics cards that the price is going through the roof?
Has any George Soros conspiracy theory ever panned out? Hearing his name come up is a bright red flag that the person you're talking to has had his brain poisoned by right wing nutjobs.
> These companies could disappear over night. Is being a monopoly for a decade really a big deal?

They could also not disappear. Is being a monopoly forever really a big deal?

> they have produced so much for the world of technology

As did and do so many others. What of what they made could not have been made with ethical behavior, or more competition?

> they have produced so much for the world of technology [..] This whole monopoly business is so overplayed.

Nobody said a monopoly cannot have any positive effect besides the negative ones. Refuting one argument, and one that nobody even makes, doesn't prove that anything is "completely hyped". That would require not just refuting one actual argument, but all of them, hence "completely".

How would you compare it with the opportunity costs, with "what could have been instead?" We usually consider that zero, because it can't be simply measured. That doesn't mean there wouldn't have been anything, or just more Microsoft and IBM, so to speak. It's like weighing two things against each other, and the one scale is welded to the frame.

Insofar competition leads to innovation, your one argument [for a monopoly being good] kinda backfires. They did that with barely having to try; imagine what they could do if they did have to try.
I don't know why you are being downvoted. It is a cool project, and, as its title says, it's experimental.
It's okay to miss a few details.

Keep building stuff.
How I built a toaster – from scratch (2010)
I mean, are we sure that isn’t the right choice? Depending on the difference in cost and probabilities, it might make economic sense to act this way.
They can go higher...and they will. The state can always issue bonds, so creditors always get paid. CA isn't about to default for a few tens of billions.

The biggest problem is zoning. OK, PGE might caused this, but odds are that within a decade it would have burned anyway. A camp fire, a faulty car exhaust on late August, fire works and so on. ZONING is the real issue now. You know that the area is prone to fires and people build houses in the mountains, surrounded by 100 feet trees?
I wonder what is the name of the Law that dictates that there is a name for everything?
Hmmm.

I built a couple of 40-meter band direct conversion receivers in high school in the 80's. One of them became the basis of a Westinghouse project. Since all my parts came from either Radio Shack or desoldered from scrapped electronics, I had no IC's to work with. Never thought about it before but I wonder how different my experiences would have been if I had to deal with stuff like that. It was hard enough getting what information I needed to build the projects I did. Thank heaven for easy access to the Brooklyn Public Library!
Well you can't get more cyber-secure than that.
I'm not an expert, but I believe that's why patents and trade secrets exist - to protect your product from simply being cloned. If your product has no secret sauce or patent-worthy mechanism, why shouldn't it be cloned?
Weird how the title has nothing to do with the question below.
The gas station chain, Buccee's, in Texas posts the average starting wage of their employees in their stores, and the amount that it is above the average in the area. Or at least the did several years ago.
Productivity is literally defined is the ratio of the output (revenue) to the input being measured. It has nothing to do with profit.
the end goal of antitrust rules is (or should be) protecting consumers. if Facebook can kill your startup by adding a couple features to their platform, it implies that users would rather have the feature on Facebook than on a standalone platform, so they are probably not being hurt. if Facebook does the same thing and then charges money for the feature after your startup goes under, maybe the users are getting the short end of the stick.
How Widespread Is Labor Monopsony?
I think I get what you're saying. The savings from not paying the employee are increased when the profits are taxed less.

This makes sense if the employee is a net negative on pre-tax profit. If having the employee increases pre-tax profit, wouldn't lower taxes on profits make them effectively cheaper?
I think what you are describing is OK for leaders like CEO, President, a king or whatever. But their second level people (e.g. cyber security minister) should be subject matter experts in my view. Why would would you become cyber security minister or any minister if you know nothing about the subject matter?

In my company the CEO doesn't know much about tech or IT which is OK. But the CIO is also basically just a well spoken people manager who can't really judge any new initiative and it shows with a lot of stuff that gets started but set up in a nonsensical way so everything fails. And they keep hiring more managers who talk well but don't understand much either so things perpetuate because nobody in leadership knows how things could work if run by competent people.
Good point. I was struggling with the idea that lower metabolism might mean higher efficiency (like when we started cooking food). And being Paleo/carb restricting could be seen as a step back too!

Maybe we should continue eating processed, insulin spiking, gut destroying foods and see how our body adapts next? (That's not sarcastic, just a proposal) How is our body adapting currently? (Diabetes is not an adaptation)
Streamlining Reddit's UX with Auto-Completion on iOS Using Create ML
Seems to be the last of this family before going to a nrw SoC line.
So he can buy a current phone and have more computing power than the world had in all its computers combined in the 60’s. He is in for a treat if he uses one now.
https://www.quora.com/When-was-the-last-time-all-the-computi...
Some of the comments indicate they try to burn as much as they can. The ambivalent, uncertain language is a sign the game is already lost. If you ask you car mechanic if the lugs on your tire are tight, the answer is yes; the answer is not some lugs are federally owned so we did the best we could.

This is a serious public safety issue which if left alone is guaranteed to end in widespread death and destruction.
Oh grasshopper, how little you know.

Just to pick one point, the allied forces in WWII were led by men who had fought in WWI, just a generation earlier. WWI was a technological arms race that moved along just as fast as technology moves today. For example, warships built less than a decade before WWI were obsolete, unable to compete range-wise with ship artillery built just a few years later. Technologies like tanks got introduced midway through the war, and the most important technology was arguably barbed wire.

Why use horse-drawn artillery in WWII? Because it was there. Because they still had it, and they weren't fully recovered from WWI yet. Because cars and trucks and tracked vehicles were unreliable and dependent on imported fuel - fuel that everyone remembered would be very hard to get once war blockades started. Because they needed every gun they could get.

The blitzkrieg was the result of very modern technology, and new strategic and tactical thinking to go with the technology. A couple of years later, it was obsolete...
Dual nic PIs welcome. Need a cheap router.
Disillusioned, with millions [of dollars]
>> When has that ever not worked out in our favor?

Would you explain a little more?

I'm ignorant about the history of German government investment in IT. But here in America, federal investment has helped ignite new industries.

And as a data science engineer, I'd love to see more German code.
Thanks, I didn't realize that about Maker. But here's an old page I pulled up on the ZRX ICO: https://icobench.com/ico/0x
From what I've seen, the far-left have been inflamed since the late Obama years and the far-right have been inflamed by the actions and words of the far-left. All this goes back to Gamergate and further, and seems to just be spilling over more and more into the mainstream as the sides get more aggressive (though the severity does seem to have peaked in 2016/17 in my opinion). The Russian agents/bots I suspect I've seen are just adding fuel to the existing fire, though I question the effectiveness of their efforts.

Overall the whole political division seems to predate the election and Russian involvement by quite a few years. It just seems to have been snowballing since. I mean, I remember seeing stuff about "feminazis" and "MRAs" like 10 years ago.

I keep hearing that fake news and lies are being propagated but as a Brit I haven't really seen that outside the usual political propaganda around the referendum, and Trump's usual crass blathering that occasionally pops up in the news.
Any stories to back this up? Sounds interesting. Personally have a lot of respect for PT’s investment views
No, I don't. The laptop was in suspend-mode for long enough that I forgot the password. It's been on a power supply since, to keep it from turning off. I can get it to a screensaver, and that's it, so far.
The lens itself is never going to be able to change, correct.

When we get into implifying the problem by “bringing up the ISO” though, this is where you’ll run into problems. Anybody can raise ISO from 800 to 3200 but then you run the risk of inadvertently producing massive amounts of noise on your photo. This is why Google introduced HDR+ to reduce noise. [0]

So, what Google did, or at least it seems like, is they were able to take an algorithm that will automatically adjust ISO, reduce noise, and allow for low-light conditions that f1,8 glass would never be able to produce cleanly.

[0] http://ai.googleblog.com/2014/10/hdr-low-light-and-high-dyna...
I would imagine because it will break lot of scripts that use yum tooling. Just changing binary name could be painful.
I bet the investors are just piling into nuclear stocks with that assurance.
This is impressive. The level of thinking that you’ve put into this project is totally amazing. Kudos.
I think this is missing the point about the Equifax hack. Here is my opinion in more detail: https://ciexinc.com/blog/quick-assessment-of-a-companys-secu...
3 of the best ETL tools on the market today:

Informatica
https://www.informatica.com/products/data-integration/powerc...

Diyotta
https://www.diyotta.com/

Talend
https://www.talend.com/products/talend-open-studio/
Ever heard of social engineering?
What's new[1]?

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPgZfhnCAdI (The Daily Show - Burn Noticed)
There is literally a video of Soros saying he sold other Jews out to death camps for money and had no regrets about it. I'm a lifelong Democrat if you support Soros you defend a self admitted paid Nazi employee
$5 AI Board makes AI embeded to any IoT device possible
I noticed that there's no link from, for example, https://todo.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/man.sr.ht to https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/man.sr.ht - is there any way to link a project's pages together across multiple sr.ht services? Otherwise the navigation isn't so friendly for someone just discovering a project.
There's a reason why George Soros is singled out among liberal billionaires by certain right wing groups, and it certainly isn't evidence.
How to quantify software products
Are there any tools for web apps that can help determine the approximate number of customers/users that it can support. Or in other words is there a way to tell sellers beforehand that this piece of software will support X number of users without any significant effect on performance. If you want to add more users the organization has to pay $Y to scale it up.
Can't read the specs, but loverpi.com has up-powered versions - notably, with up to 4GB memory.
Well, those people will need healthy people in their health insurance pool to fund their lifestyle, so maybe not.
>There is no such thing as "shortage" of anything.

Sufficient money/effort can create and do a lot of amazing things. But probably not anything
Quick assessment of a company’s security posture
This is why the 10x is a unicorn. HN likes to shift the definition every time it's found to have some quality we don't like. In the real world there is a broad spectrum of devs and their capabilities. Each one has strengths, weaknesses, areas of expertise, and character flaws. You'll basically never find one that just blindly produces 10x the code of the rest of your team without some downside.
Most epic political series ever made. Unfortunately for the rest of us, it is the most accurate too.
This seems vastly worse than "kings who were not professional soldiers" or "...not good governors".

If the minister had never done cyber-security work, I would understand. If he had never done any kind of technical computing at all, I would basically understand.

But to have never used a computer? That's like administration by a king who has never seen uncooked food or left his palace. Past a certain point you have so few referents that expert advice becomes unintelligible. There's precedent here too, but it's the precedent of puppet kings and court intrigues - leaders who either do nothing at all or make their decisions without regard for any concrete facts.
So you're saying politics in France are ludicrous?
>Traditional monopolies "control supply of a good or service, and where the entry of new producers is prevented or highly restricted."

Well Courts have ruled the NFL is a monopoly...but there is no control over new entities organizing and playing football games (i.e. not prevented or highly controlled).
When your half mil house in the CA hills gets burnt down it's PG&E's fault for not trimming trees and they should pay you for it.

When a storm erodes the beach out from under your 3-mil beachfront house it's the town's fault for not building erosion controls and they should pay you for it.

When your dumpy trailer in a dumpy trailer park is tossed by a tornado you knew the risks and nobody should give you a cent.

See the double standard?
Diets are superficial solutions to the problem of gluttony.
I know some people in South Carolina whose beach house (on stilts and everything) withstood Irma just fine, however it had to be demolished because the beach had eroded enough that it was basically over the ocean now, and it was infeasible for them to dump enough sand there to have it be over dry land again.

It's absolutely possible to build solid safe housing from most natural disasters, but it costs money, and often a lot of it.
Soros admitted he worked for Hitler as a paid Jewish snitch. He sent other Jewish families to the oven for money and said he had no regrets. it's on video I've seen it and it's not hard to find.
>Really? Why so?

For a minister of defense/secretary of defense type role you would hope they had been a career military person, specifically an officer. Officers, at least in the United States, are taught many things from tactics to military history, they understand command structure, they understand procedure and policy, as a career officer they would have years of experience in various commands serving in various capacities.

If you take John Smith from ABC Corp that got a degree from Harvard and is your golfing buddy and give him control over it, sure he's great at handling the civilians and the fobbits but he has no understanding of how a military operates. When generals/admirals tell him things he has no good context.
It's astonishing that there exists any grown person working in a white collar career that has never used a computer. That could be a headline on its own.
Coinbase-Backed Startup Launches $799 Home Crypto Miner
Says the guy who owns Tesla shares and always talks about Uber being terrible in every Uber thread. Basically, you make these posts because it's the only company that worries you because it threatens your financial position.
May not be related to your particular issue, but many instances I have seen where people report SD corruption were due to running the Pi off of USB hub/port power only (essentially underpowered) instead of from a wall plug -> USB power adapter.

Been running daily for a couple of years now as a Pi-hole with no SD corruption (3B+ model). Still using the same card as I had in the beginning as well (Samsung Evo)
What Do B2B Marketers Do When No One’s Paying Attention?
Big "celebrity" companies like Google do get flooded by huge numbers of resumes, which is one reason they have the hiring process they have.
CON is the perfect name for it.
Germany is still not allowed to have an offensive army, so it makes a lot of sense to at least stay first class in tech, and in AI, in order to stay relevant as a world leader for the future.
Snark218 over on Ars Technica claims to be involved in land management decisions, and has some details about why it's not feasible across the state. E.g. https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/what-is-going-on-wit...

And like I keep saying: these fires are not burning in forests. They are burning in suburbs, exurbs, and dense residential areas. In towns. Up steep canyons that are treacherous to hike up, let alone tote a pulaski and mattock. In many of the pictures, it's obvious that trees are damaged but survive. It's shrubs, grasses, brush, and chaparral that's burning.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/what-is-going-on-wit...

I mean, yeah, we can intensively thin and manage forests to protect high-value, critical areas. We can encourage landowners to pursue defensible space treatments, and maybe save their home, if not their neighbors'. But honestly, I don't see any practicable way to prevent fires like the Camp Fire. Or the Thomas. Or Carr and Mendocino and Ferguson and County and Delta and Hirz and the other 7,579 fires that have burned in California this season. I wish I could claim otherwise.
There are time, as in emergencies, where the purchaser doesn't have the ability to shop around. But in general free markets work fine for food despite the fact that without food you'll also die. The problem is more that it's hard for the consumer to know the quality of what they're purchasing.
When all the big players on the market do the same then you only have an illusion of choice. I've seen this clause everywhere I interviewed in Europe(both Eastern and Western). I don't like it but I got used to it since nobody will hire you without it.
As an aside, the font(and size) they've chosen for the copy in this article looks dreadful on a Win10/Chrome setup. Chrome tells me it's: "Garamond,Baskerville,"Times New Roman",serif". I don't know if it's using an embedded version of Garamond, or the one that ships with the OS, but I could barely get through the article.
They aren't accusations I think those are awesome things

Again, I am more surprised people care

For example, I am surprised people need a "mild mannered Nebraska man" in their minds, when its really "type-A trader doing type-A things but check out the thought leadership my publicist suggested I do"

I'll consider coming back with sources, I don't really think these are worth "proving", they aren't accusations, they're privilege, and are par-for-course for traders living that lifestyle.
Insurance (expensive and a pain as they'll be checking on you but...)

Honestly, if you cause economic harm, the minimum is that you should pay for it. People lost everything in these fires and insurance companies will pay but then sue the other person /entity responsible.
A pretty nifty one too: the games are fast because you don't have to wait on blocks, but you don't have to trust the casino (either for custody or randomness) because it's based on state channels.
Reminds me of ex-presidents/ex-leaders who have regrets about decisions they made when we depended on them. Now when they're washed up and have zero clout, they're suddenly on our side again.
Of course it matters because these companies play a huge role in how we use the internet. Facebook is creating a walled garden for their users where they want to have their own closed version of the internet that they control. Google wants to become the gatekeeper of the internet and get to decide what websites people can view. AMP is a perfect example of Google using their monopoly power to force websites in that direction.
Skimming the list in the article and then reading the reactions here on HN have been pretty helpful for me in identifying some of my own problems. E.g. annoyance with diplomacy.
Yeah, improving this is a pre-alpha todo item.