skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about land availability and water? And labour? Farms are just open air food factories. They are not ‘natural’..they have to be erased of habitat and soil structure to start anew every year. It’s actually horrifying and appalling. I am not a generational farmer and I don’t harbor any romantic notions about farming anymore after 6+ years. We have to change farming. It’s brutal treatment of nature.
Could you also add two lines: 0.008% of a $100 million company and 0.025% of a $1 billion company?

When you join early stage start-up you know only how much %% of a company is offered to you at the moment, not the future exit value.
Stability is bad yes, but work life balance can definitely be good in a start-up.
You can basically grow all year there. Land is cheap and you have the Colorado river. And it is close enough to Mexico that you can get cheap farm labor.
Ncc: Node.js Compiler Collection
Do you use some generative AI or is it still quite rule based with AI doing the classification bit ?
I have added a new env var DISABLE_FILE_OPEN_ON_NAV to handle this case. Thanks for bringing it out!
It that true? I'm 51 and I feel it's easier to learn new things now, I have a much larger base of knowledge and experience to draw from.

I'm genuinely curious if this a proven fact or something that just assumed to be the case.

I do recognize that most people I know have stopped really trying to learn new things; seemed like most of my friends got stuck around 35-40.
I agree with you. It's just the cards I am dealt.
Whether you like it or not, the fee is 0%.

Regarding the other costs:

> What about the overhead of hosting the site?

Hosting a static bag of bytes (e.g. a mobile app) costs nearly nothing. Just the cost of apple developer program (99$/year) would cover a huge amount of downloads.

> The cost to develop it?

Those are the same when developing an iOS app, except that with the web you would be able to target a much bigger market... if Safari was not actively slowing down the web.

> Drive traffic to it?

Breaking news, you also have to drive traffic to your app.

> Credit card processing fees? Managing fraud on payments?

Other people mentioned 2.9% on stripe. And if you are feeling adventurous, nothing spots you from creating your own payment system.
"Two dozen young people go through photos and videos, labeling just about everything they see. That’s a car. That’s a traffic light. That’s bread, that’s milk, that’s chocolate. That’s what it looks like when a person walks."

But in the U.S., we do it for free via Captcha. ;-)
I think the point was not that a company like Apple ought to invest their billions into ongoing fusion research, indeed the exact opposite: it might be more rational for a company like Apple to hide their billions under a mattress, so that they can make a single, economy-controlling investment on the very same day that profitable fusion power becomes merely a problem of capital.
>Go's GC is not optimized for lots of fine-grained allocations

Why is it not? Hadn't heard of this point before. Is it because of catering to the most common use cases, which are not fine-grained, maybe?
Automakers face fight to stand out in driverless era
That's a big and totally objective reason to abandom the Node.js/NPM ecosystem, like its original author did.

A language that doesn't have a decent standard library means that you'll have to use huge amounts of code that random strangers used, and the chain of dependencies will grow larger and larger.

In languages like Ruby and Python, you have a decent standard library, and then big libraries and frameworks that are maintained by the community, like Rails, Django, SqlAlchemy, Numpy, etc. That's healthy because it minimises or zeros the amount of small libraries maintained by a single guy, thus maximising the amount of code that you can trust (because you can trust the devs and development process of a popular library backed by a foundation or with many contributors).

With Node, almost every function comes from a different package. And there's no bar to entry, and no checks.

If Node.js is going to stay, someone needs to take on the responsability of forming a project, that belongs to an NGO or something, where the more popular libraries are merged and fused into a standard library, like that of Python's. Personally, I'm not touching it until then.
Home, the most dangerous place for women, UNODC study says
Easy for people who have zero packages and no pressure to say. Don't contribute to OSS and you have no problems.

If these huge companies profiting off OSS work actually contributed financially and with time, maybe maintainers would happily remain maintaining.
Skimming those links, I think the position is that people are already being judged on their identities before they're judged on the merit of their contributions, not that they should be.

The extent and congruence of the findings regarding, e.g., blinded vs non-blinded resumes alone should put the lie to the idea that a true "meritocracy" is something humans can actually meaningfully do at this point.
Everything you need to know is in subject anyway, and 35 comments beat 4
The problem with JS (Node and browser) is that the standard library is pretty much useless.

What JS/NPM needs is some sort of certification program for secure libraries that would fill the void of the lack of a standard library. NPM of course would give a warning when installing a non certified library.

This would be a tremendous effort, but it would really be the only way for NPM to survive in the long term. NPM is one of the reasons we've moved to Go for our server side code.
It's extremely symmetrical!
I always assumed that the choice was made due to piracy. I don't have any stats, but Photoshop had to be near the top of the most pirated software list, if not at the top.

On that side of the coin, I can't blame Adobe for going to the subscription model. On the other side, it's a real kick in the ass for casual users.

I worked in Graphic Design for 15 years, and always kept a personal copy of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. I didn't upgrade every version, because right around CS2, the upgrades weren't worth it, imo. I still have a pre-subscription license that I hope keeps working, because as a person who only opens it up once a month, it's simply not worth the price for me.
That would require Amazon to prioritize customer satisfaction over bulk sales.
Broadly said experience.

Denying reality, however bad it may be, hurts in the end more since this sometimes subtly, sometimes not so subtly influences action to avoid the thing I denied out of being.
Once everything is allowed there is not much necessity to deny the thing that is stopping you (me in this case). Imagine a central belief that can bring many useful actions to a halt just by being there.

Blame is from other people. You can deny all blame. You do not have to blame yourself. That's a thing which I haven't been taught before. Since I did rather the reverse, it needed the exact opposite to work out. Only consequences are physical. That's why only those matter.
If I'm ever in the situation you describe, I'd want to be seeking help from a trusted person immediately. Not to discuss "noise problems" but these questions: Am I paranoid? If not, how do I get out?

The scenario of being surrounded by backstabbers raises so many questions that there is no point of discussing noise problems.
> Especially as normal users keep dropping laptops for mobile devices

That really isn't happening. In fact laptop sales are now rising again whilst phones and tablets are saturated and static in volume.
I wish I could buy salad uncontaminated by feces but I guess I'll take irradiated if feces salad is all we can get.
Does it have to be .com? Actually, when I wanted a short .com domain for my project which was sort of a frontend for an S3 bucket I went to https://www.expireddomains.net and found that it was a great resource of short domain names! I don't remember exactly how long I was watching it waiting for a name I'd like, but it wasn't really long, maybe 7-10 days and my wait was rewarded with the name s3io.com, which, I think, was something I couldn't even dream of – 4 chars long and pretty much relevant! There's a Russian saying "It's the man who makes a name, not vice versa".
I really don't think this is very weird or new, but maybe I'm young. The truth is that without the "garlic clove", it's highly likely the next response is something along those lines, ie. "But assange has done abc so xyz".

I think it's less about partisianship and more about keeping conversation on topic.

An easy way to not let it devolve into a conversation about how he's an ass is to initially concede that he is.
Making time for creative work
Their low discharge nimh batteries were/are pretty good for the money. Though, most of mine are old, so I don’t have good current data on the quality.
Its minimum detection level is ~200Krad/sec (~2000Gy/sec). You would be extremely dead by the time it tripped.
Charged by the hour... pay for an instance.. Tsk tsk..

The thing I love about S3 and cloud services in general is when I pay per request and can scale through the roof.

Whenever a services is meter by number of instances my interest fades, and I look for other solutions..

S3 has this very handsoff feeling to it :)
> You're leaving others within the country holding more bags of bolivars. The problem hasn't been solved at all just redistributed.

The success of one's investment has nothing to do with censorship resistant financial transactions. It is irrelevant.

> If you can move money out of the country

You can move crypto of the country with the clip of a button.

Also, you can move it to the other side of the same country, quickly as well.

A financial transaction is an exchange of money, for a good or service. You send money to someone, and they give you a good. Crypto makes the money half of the transaction censorship resistant.
I've seen that too. One of our partners has such a stringent policy that the government of China allows them to entirely circumvent their "great firewall" with their own dedicated circuits. They track metrics on every single packet to and from anywhere. They essentially built their own world-wide ISP.
> Again compliance cars, these vehicles aren't trying to dominate a market but rather counteract fleet inefficiencies elsewhere.

That's not really what the term "compliance car" means in general use.

A compliance car is a lazy rebadge of some other vehicle, that only exists to meet compliance. The Ford Energi vehicles are compliance cars. The Chevy Spark EV is a compliance car.

The Volt and Bolt were mostly unique designs, with state-of-the-art technology, and were generally the best electrics available in the US to date (second only to Tesla). The Volt has the highest customer satisfaction rate of any car sold in the US. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1080762_chevy-volt-elec... .

Yes, these vehicles help Chevy meet compliance (as any efficient car technically does), but they are not "compliance cars" by the normal definition of that phrase.
If you can't evaluate the trustworthiness who you're handing the package over to, just don't hand it over. Mark it as deprecated and call it a day. This is Open Source 101.
> None of this is an issue in the US, where you're only taxed when you sell.

Nope. In the US, you may be taxed when you exercise, and will be taxed again (against the new basis) when you sell. Whether or not you are taxed at exercise is a very complicated matter.

Keep in mind, when you are granted stock options, you don't actually have any equity. You have an /option/ to acquire equity. The taxable events are the acquisition of that equity and the subsequent liquidation of it.
I'm excited for this - I have stitched together my own courseplan to study machine learning, but this will be great to workback from, complement, or supplant in certain cases.
I'm a sucker for T&M equipment and actually own a Geiger counter, but this is a bit much...
The sibling commenters here have it right -- and I'll add that reviewing and similarly reading grant submissions are tasks that benefit the researcher as well. Sure, it's work, but you stay on top of the new stuff in your field, develop some sense of what's important and what's minutia, are able to identify new people coming into the field and how they or their work might interact with your own. If you don't review at all, you are actually missing a fair bit of professional development and power. It works fine for some not to review but for others it's an important part of the intellectual process.
To be honest that kind of your fault for trusting that code. Heck, the commits were not even signed as far as I know, had they been signed the change of "ownership" would have been clear.
For others, the important pull quote from that link:

"consumer applications (not including games) sold in Microsoft Store will deliver to developers 95% of the revenue"
yes, i agree with both of your statements. :) As far as i understood (correct me if i'm wrong pls) the GDPR fines apply to each single violation and depends on the severity of the violation, so having a big range makes kind of sense, IMHO. I don't know if that applies to this case, though.
Skynet ist thanking you ;)
> If confinement is easier in a large machine, why are not very large machines being built?

They are. ITER was designed to be as large as the engineering allows. But that is Expensive.

The groups at MIT are trying to take advantage of the fact that newer superconductors allow you to get to ITER levels with smaller designs. However, those are Not Cheap either.
Amazon are like pre-lawsuit Microsoft and pre-decree IBM: you exist on their platform until you make enough money that they decide that your profit margin is their business opportunity.
I think the implicit point is that if you are NOT a cofounder those feelings of ownership are unlikely to be matched by reality. As a non-founder you do not have the input and upside of an owner.
Yes:

Apple P/E: 14,57
MS P/E: 43.82
Have you noticed that Google captcha now has photosets from Chinese cities? I can only guess what Google offered Chinese in exchange for permission to use their camera vans.

I guess, this is what their recent Chinese campus expansion was about.
Some Borland language tools' compilation speeds were insane. I remember them claiming 100s of KLOC per second compilation speed for their BCC++ and Delphi. Anecdotal experience bears it out. Even TP used to compile real fast. I read somewhere that early TP versions were written in tuned assembly.
> Convicting a non-resident non-citizen of espionage for sharing someone else's leaks would be a fairly shocking decision

The usual foreign intelligence case officer is a non-citizen, often non-resident, whose main business is soliciting, recieving, and redistributing other people's leaks of sensitive information.

It is, to say the least, not at all unheard of for such people to be convicted of espionage, as they are literally the primary target of espionage laws.

> I haven't seriously followed what charges could be brought over the 2016/Russia question, since it seems relatively unlikely that a Trump DoJ would bring a case there.

“Trump DoJ” is too simple of a model; both the Special Counsel's Office at DoJ and other DoJ offices (notably SDNY) are bringing indictments politically uncomfortable to Trump, stemming from (but not always specific to) the “2016/Russia question”.
The problem is that everyone is trying to push everything to one side. That's just not stable. Yes, the maintainer SHOULD (but doesn't have to) make a hand-off explicit at a minimum. Yes, people should take responsibility for ensuring their packages are (and remain) legit. But both of these can break down.

It's like litter. It is not realistic to have anyone clean up everyone's trash. It's also not realistic to expect that things remain clean if everyone only picks up their own trash. Everyone needs to clean up their own trash and a little bit more, to compensate for the burps in the system.
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This is pretty interesting, what languages does it use?
The best way I like documentation is via a docs/ directory within the repo. Uing js-sequence-diagrams ( https://bramp.github.io/js-sequence-diagrams/ ) to create self-contained one page diagrams (like this https://jsbin.com/jusiyusowu/edit?output ) which go into code.

That allowed me to include documentation updates in the code review.
Unfortunately, Word is light-years behind any alternative, open source or not. Styling is a half-assed inconsistent mess. Bullet indentation jumps around like crazy. Changing your default printer might cause reformatting. There is no decent separation between content and formatting. The menu ^h^h^h^h^h^h ribbon is such a mess you need a search function. Word is the kind of product that should be taken out and shot. I speak as someone who used word competitors back in the days when there were some left.

Now if you say Excel, however, we might start to agree.

BTW, while Gimp is not a photoshop replacement (please fix the window behaviour, guys) but krita is getting really nice, and plenty good enough for your average corporate user.
Exactly. As a Java dev, I can't imagine creating a dependency for such a tiny thing. I would want a reputable library. My dependency tree can grow pretty big but not nearly as much as my typical node_modules.
Big headlines like this, usually portend to a reversal. Look at the Amazon headlines around $1 Trillion, or the Winklevoss headlines when Bitcoin was at $25000. I suspect Apple will be bouncing in the coming days/weeks. That's why traders make fun of Barron's front pages, etc. If you don't believe me, you haven't traded often.

Both companies are going to keep doing great, but as I said in a prior post, I do wonder how resilient Apple's revenues will be if we have a downturn in the business cycle.
Childish

Maybe. It depends on your taste. If it's not your taste, don't read it.

and appealing to a small minority.

My guess is that The Register knows its audience better than you do. If that audience is a minority of the population, it's their decision to target it, not yours.
Automatically creating video game highlights using just a video as input
They do it for NPM deps too.
Reminds me of result types and ROP in functional languages, especially F#. Except in F# callers must handle all conditions. Maybe they can add that check to golint.
Amazon also doesn't know if this is a single use or consumable item. Some things have significant marginal utility beyond 1, and others can be consumed and need to be reordered. (Charging cables, Amazon echo for multiple rooms, paper goods, etc.)
https://www.foodpoisonjournal.com/food-poisoning-information...

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has estimated that every year at least 2,000 Americans are hospitalized, and about 60 die as a result of E. coli infection and its complications.
A study published in 2005 estimated the annual cost of E. coli O157:H7 illnesses to be $405 million (in 2003 dollars), which included $370 million for premature deaths, $30 million for medical care, and $5 million for lost productivity."

US GDP is $20T/yr, 325 Mpopulation.

The cost of E.coli is 1/50K of US GDP, affecting about 1 person per 150K per year, killing 1 in 5 million.

Meanwhile, second-hand is claimed to kill 7000 people per year and cost $5B/yr.

https://www.lung.org/stop-smoking/smoking-facts/health-effec...
From what I've seen "drop all" works at the moment but directly blocking the telemetry programs keeps getting undone whenever the file changes and it intentionally doesn't use the hosts file.
I'm not afthonos, but I think his/her point is that they may not be able to predict exactly what it is you want to buy.

(I find it super annoying, too; but that doesn't mean folks have figured out purchase reco's at scale)
About time… I never understood this car. It was way overpriced for the market, and didn’t seem to offer many advantages over the Prius.
So far your argument seems to be:

(1) Saving is not the same thing as investment.

(2) Inflationary currencies encourage investment whereas non-inflationary ones encourage saving.

(3) It is better to encourage saving than to encourage spending.

(4) Bitcoin is a better non-inflationary currency than gold.

1 and 2 -- sure, agreed.

3 -- This is the most important part of your argument yet you have not explicitly stated it, nor argued in favor of it, anywhere. It is unclear to me why it's good policy not to encourage investment.

4 -- You are right that neither bitcoin nor gold has intrinsic value (not counting the value that gold would naturally have as an industrial material). Both are only valuable because other people perceive them as value.

However, people have perceived gold as valuable for thousand s of years. The fact that gold has value is deeply rooted in human culture and therefore not likely to change in our lifetime.

None of that is true for bitcoin.

So, what are we left with? The only advantage of bitcoin that I can discern in all of this is that it can be transferred via the internet in a censorship-resistant way. I do not think that advantage is important enough for most people to outweigh the disadvantages.
I keep hearing this "capex vs. opex" argument from time to time; are there tax benefits to this, or something else that justifies putting the same costs under different label?
You should elaborate. In my experience academia is largely a status structure where people are groomed to be hirable at schools X, Y, Z and publish regularly in conferences/journals A, B, C. You're saying this is fertile ground for hardcore innovation? No way. The extreme majority of the work is incremental and predictable; small low-impact results. (Disclaimer: My experience is in CS.)
The (most recent) payload turns out to attempt to steal Bitcoin wallets:

https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream/issues/116#issue...
Maybe it was a typo and fixing it would have required more bureaucracy than getting the domain.
I've seen your trust-dns rust-based repo, raspian is supported, I'll give it a try! Thanks
> Is it the Github-ization of package creation and maintenance? Is it the pervasiveness of left-pad style packages? Is it npm's governance? Is it the community's perspective and culture?

A nasty combination of all of those, probably some more.

I was very excited with Node.js when I first heard about it here on HN years ago. I enjoyed watching Dahl's presentation. But as soon as the crowd that went "it's JS, I can document.getElementsByClassName(...), so I can code servers" flocked in and npm became a thing, that was the end of Node.js as a nice, bright little thing.

I don't want to defend or encourage gatekeeping, but Node.js brought in lots of folk that did not know what they were doing into software development, and they did not stop to learn a thing or two before creating a monstrosity like npm or making things like leftpad and this possible and popular. And there wasn't any seasoned leaders like Python or Perl communities had, so all that happened with no authoritative opposition. If it was Node.lua or Node.pl, the world would've been a different place today for the software development community.
"Intentionally slowing down old OS"

One of the main reasons why I am not upgrading my iPhone 7 Plus this year is that iOS 12 has made it amazingly smooth. I have an iPhone 5S and even that's fantastically smooth with iOS 12. This is not my experience alone btw. So I think you are just making stuff up here.
Tl;dr: event-stream repo was injected with an attack that crawls your dependencies trying to find “copay-dash”. It then attacks it to steal all your bitcoin. The attacker was given maintenance rights to the repo by simply emailing the owner, who gave the rights freely. The owner and npm didn’t do a background check. Because of the MIT license, the owner has no liability/responsibility for his actions.
I don't know what to tell you. I've flashed on a blank cart and used it on a real NES. Not sure what blank carts have done to circumvent it, but it's no work on my end.