skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I guess we should outlaw or regulate every labor saving device that produces any form of annoyance, no matter how fleeting. What a bout loud circular saws, concrete saws, jackhammers, vibratory packers, etc. etc.

Yes, all of those should be regulated. They should be made as noise pollution-free as possible, and their hours of use be made as small as possible. There should be a monetary penalty for ruining the environment - some kind of noise tax.
Reducing friction when interacting with government. The alternative of using a credit card carries stiff fees (~2%) [1].

[1] https://www.irs.gov/payments/pay-taxes-by-credit-or-debit-ca...
That's a shorter version of a quote meant to dismantle materialism.
Because some malwares block microsoft.com.
I wish you were my neighbor.

My neighbors do whatever they want - however pointless - whenever they want.
From their website it seems they don't allow bank transfers out, so money in is, well, in. Getting it out means a 2% fee. FX at 1.5% is also high.
The Chinese "Communist" Party has even started persecuting Marxists who organize outside their control.

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/21/669509554/in-china-the-commun...
I’ve iterated over that one a few times. Added decryption and timers, it’s a much more complete service.
The only thing I can think of right now regarding a database of confirmed avalanches, is the list of confirmed fatal avalanches in Switzerland, regularly updated:
https://www.slf.ch/en/avalanches/destructive-avalanches-and-...

As per today, it's still at zero for this winter, but there's also a historic list: https://www.slf.ch/en/avalanches/destructive-avalanches-and-...
Thank you so much for your kind words! Made my day :)
Netflix Algorithm Wrote ‘The Princess Switch’ Which Is Why You Should Watch It
Understand programming for beginners
26/11: Trump admin announces $5 mn reward for info on 2008 Mumbai attack
> Either the software would get less invasive, or we'd see Linux everywhere, wins all around.

The unfortunate part is that this is just one department in our government that sort of independently does these investigations. Whether anything politically is going to come out of this result, like a law or even just a directive for other departments, is questionable at best.

Other departments will readily ignore this report, if it's convenient for them to use Windows 10. Heck, there's been a warning before from a federal data protection department that even Windows 10 Enterprise sends encrypted, undisclosed packets off to Redmond, and shortly after that the self-proclaimed Microsoft fan and Lord Mayor of Munich signed off on migrating back to Windows from their perfectly working Linux solution.
> Money quantifies value

Money quantifies value... in our money based economy. Which is basically a tautology. Money in many cases fails to quantify utility and the same quantity of money has wildly varying utility from market to market.
Yes, authors even pay for submissions themselves often
One production write up, compressing Kafka messages at Cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/squeezing-the-firehose/

“For our data zstd was giving amazing results even on the lowest compression level. Compression ratio was better than even gzip at maximum compression level, while throughput was a lot higher.”
What plan was that?
Left or right, I haven't heard of any politician taking on the bart safety issue.
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Could you summarize, in 50 words or less, what tangible benefit your family’s business provides to justify the intermediation?

I’ll wait.
That's not a very useful perspective, because you could say the same thing about any part of language or science. Human knowledge is an abstraction, and can only ever indirectly represent reality. (And surely, "not in the slightest" is an exaggeration.)
I can see sites that say that its regularly used in orchards to control weeds, etc.
Go forth and report back!
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I'm a pretty huge bitcoin critic because I view it from the problems that I want to solve. I want fast, low fee micro transactions and it doesn't serve that need. If you look at another perspective though, of people whose economies are collapsing, or people living under authoritarian regimes, it serves a need.
Just because most requests are granted doesn't mean that the court is a rubber stamp. It's just the opposite.

Most criminal indictments are also end in the state's favor, but that doesn't mean the jury system is rigged, it means that prosecutors don't bring cases that they are likely to lose. Similarly, the FBI doesn't apply for a FISA warrant unless they are certain its well warranted and the court's decision will be easy.
There's a new business model where a restaurant is just a kitchen that delivers. No need for a dining place. Uber eats and such give new restaurant owners the flexibility. Given that the majority of new restaurants fail within 5 years, this is a great option. This could be the case with CNG Burgers.

Some companies decide that they should have a physical address for places like Yelp. I suspect you have to have an address for people to review your business.

Is it a scam? In some sense yes but what do you if all you want to do is deliver?
Folks here on HN are (understandably) leaping on the notion that this will force Apple to allow other app stores, or sideloading, or something else that keeps the App Store from being the exclusive distributor of iOS apps. But, a few notes that are important to keep in mind:

(1) Apple is the petitioner here. They're the ones asking the Supreme Court to make a ruling, specifically on whether the complainant has the legal standing to bring this case at all.

(2) If Apple loses at the Supreme Court, this just gets sent back to a lower court. It's not going to force Apple to do anything at this point.

(3) Most importantly, there's no guarantee that if Apple does ultimately lose that the remedy will be opening the iOS ecosystem up to other app stores.

The complaint in Apple v. Pepper is literally that Apple's lock on app distribution drives up app prices. If app prices are not being driven up by that lock, the argument has a very good chance of falling apart.

This is not a case about what restrictions Apple puts on the app store , about software or device freedom, and it's not even a case about whether Apple's mandatory 30% cut is "fairly priced" by whatever definition of fair you care to use -- the case as filed literally hinges on the claim that iOS app prices are artificially inflated by that cut. And I think that in a world where people have been trained to think that $4.99 is a crazy high expensive price for software, that could be a real tough case to prove.
Sigh. Yep, I also ran into trouble on my first jump in a few pages from the start:

> "asymmetric encryption uses a public-key cryptosystem (like RSA or ECC) and a key-pair: private key
(encryption key) and corresponding public key (decryption key)"

Ummm.... when using RSA to encrypt something (e.g., a DEK) you use the other party's public key, and of course the other party uses its private key to decrypt.

How do you get stuff like this so wrong??? Sheesh, even flipping a coin gives you a 50-50 chance.
If you ever want to give a Japanese visitor a significant culture shock, ride with them on the train (whether it's SF, NY, DC).

Untimely train schedules. Disorderly conduct. Blatant disregard for the rules.

I took the 7 Train from Grand Central to Flushing with a visiting Japanese colleague in NY. The face of concern he gave while on the train was like he was witnessing purgatory. I remember he looked at me and said, "Is this safe?", to which I replied, "I don't know, I guess so". Retrospectively, the honesty did not ease the anxiety. The crowdedness part he had no trouble in managing, given how packed the Tokyo metro could be. What struck the most was: 1. The lack of fucks people gave on train, 2. How much of a free-for-all the US metro systems are, and 3. How on-edge people are. There's people who take naps with their phones out on Japanese trains. On the NY metro, he was wide awake and clutching his belongings for dear life the entire ride. Of the various things to appreciate about the U.S., that was certainly not a highlight.
Slippery slope

See I can name meaningless aphorisms too.
Is anyone doing this kind of thing already there? If not, why not? Are the exchanges regulated out of existence or just not enough entrepreneurs with the right skills to bring them to fruition?

Any sites you recommended that are discussing this topic deeper? It's a great comment you made.
> a law allowing merchants to add any processing fees (perhaps above some nominal baseline cost) on to the bill

This!! So much. The status quo amounts to price manipulation that harms the market and is utter B.S.

Item 8 from http://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to...
What do you think of going for worker-owned-and-directed-cooperatives replacing traditional corporations as a first step in combating capitalism?

I think the idea is, to distribute power to the people. These cooperatives would generally make decisions that benefit the majority. Unlike what we have today where mega corporations (dictated by a handful few) keep doing whatever they can for 'growth' even if that means destroying people's lives and our planet.
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Ask HN: What financial info is one entitled to as a stockholder in a private co?
I exercised some stock options as I left my last job.

What financial information about the health of the company would I be entitled to? What is typically shared with stockholders, and how regularly?

As an employee, I had some insights about what was going on with regards to revenues, profitability, etc. But I haven't received (nor asked, mind you) anything since. So I'm wondering what is typical, and what is required.

Thanks!
I agree, likely we would have had a few smaller splinter companies from it but I don't see that as a bad thing in anyway except for those handful of people who were at the very top of the managerial/administrative pyramid.
What happened during the 2008 economic crisis? What was the 2008 Wall St crash?
DNS Queries over HTTPS
From myself. I mentioned it once before in this HN post (if that's what you're referring to)
There was a long post-9/11 stretch during which many US banks made this somewhat annoying. Much less so now, you can do it entirely online, both domestically (although why would you) and internationally. It's just (comparatively) expensive.
Yup. We know with certainty that this sort of thing is done, we just don't know about this case.
Farmers irrigate heavily. That's why groundwater is in crisis around the globe.
It’s definitely not full OOTB on any machine using Broadcom wifi/Bluetooth, and sometimes not even Ubuntu’s additional drivers tool is of no help — if you have no reasonable access to alternate network connections (hardwire, tethering, etc) you’re stuck ferrying around .deb files on thumb drives and such.

There are other less than ideal aspects of taking up Linux as well, but that one is on the top of my head because I’ve encountered it so frequently.
NPR's Report on Amazon Is Essentially an Infomercial
I do enjoy this, thanks. It reminded me of another memory: Growing up, my house sat on the border between two of the incumbents. It was odd enough that dialing the Operator got the pre-connection announcement for the incumbent that mailed us the phone bill but calling Information (411) got the pre-connection announcement for the adjacent city's incumbent.

This also happened to make my hometown one of a handful that could call local numbers served by either incumbent in the same area code. I was doing work for a tiny ISP and my boss asked my parents if he could put a Livingston PortMaster 16 in our house and hook up 16 phone lines in exchange for paying my parents a small sum and giving us free Internet access by sharing the connection with the PortMaster.

We agreed and, thus, I became one of the few teenagers at the time to have high-speed wired Internet at my house. (None of my peers gave a crap but I loved it.) The phone company was less overjoyed because we consumed every available pair in the cross-connect box at the end of the street and nobody on our block or the next one over could get an additional phone line for months until a new box was added.

(As a capper to the story: A second cross-connect was added...but the tiny ISP went bankrupt a month later and all 16 of those lines were disconnected, rendering the shiny new cross-connect pointless.)
I was pulled over multiple times in NJ while driving with a valid, registered out of state license plate. Somebody's LPR software is conveniently flagging valid plates as an excuse to make traffic stops.
I don't think I can think of any computing problem in the world harder than what you just described.
The decompression step on the receiver does not need the knowledge of the pre-trained dictionaries; they are used only to bootstrap the compression step.
IMHO, the reason some GPLed software is not allowed on iOS/tvOS is because RMS and others don't want their GPL code on iOS/tvOS.

In particular, the argument I've seen used in the past to contest GPL code in App Store apps is that Apple (as distributor) must distribute the source directly on the App Store, rather than the application or the App Store description having a link to the source via the developer's website or another third party site.

This isn't something Apple really cares about - but if someone says your app has a license violation, Apple will of course push dealing with said people onto you.

This has always stuck out to me as pedantic and hardly a violation of the spirit of the license. Such politics are what have and will continue to relegate the FSF to being a small social group rather than the originally intended purpose (whether you consider that a revolution, or a reversion back to software freedom)
The trouble here is that the entire academic structure is extremely difficult to question and change. Disrupting academia is kind of like disrupting the Catholic Church. It's so entrenched in its assumptions and rituals that trying to bring revolutionary change to it is pretty hopeless. Professors gained their status in this archaic structure and will resist challenging it. I mean, your PhD advisor will make sure you never challenge the research status quo with your thesis topic, let alone partaking in the academic publishing structure being fundamentally restructured.
Right, I think "fast" is the idea. Do know of at least one OSS compression lib for the other kind of realtime use case FWIW: https://github.com/atomicobject/heatshrink
Thanks a lot dang!
It can absolutely do offline navigation - you have to tell it to download an area offline, but if you start navigation for a route that passes through out-of-the-way areas it'll prompt you to download the offline maps.
> The result of this training is stored in a file called "dictionary", which must be loaded before compression and decompression

The docs say that the dictionary is required for both compression & decompression.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18525511
I knew that we werent far of this.
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Farming is an incredibly inefficient way to keep people alive. The way we have been feeding ourselves must stop. 1. Taking some Ag indoors would help 2. Making synthetic and customized ‘food’ would also make sense. We eat too much and not right. 3. Enormous wastage in the industry. We treat Ag like industry and supply chain is very leaky. 4. It’s imbecility to dig up fossil fuel and release it to create food and use it as fodder to eat more. We are just a fart’s way to create another fart. 5. We need to think of food as fuel and food as pleasure. Let’s farm to create food for pleasure. In a sci-fi world, we should be able to synthesize our own nutritional requirements...but realistically it’s possible to customise individual food needs at diff life stages and consume synthetic food. 6. If I were to imagine a world where this is possible..one could go to a health center once a month and assess nutritional/calorific needs based on health requirements. A monthly supply of food-meds should sustain us. ‘Food’ as we know it now would be for hedonistic purposes. Why shouldn’t this be possible in our lifetimes? I am appalled and horrified and disgusted by what we are doing to this planet in the name of farming. One can’t say one word against large scale farming without being shamed and called anti-science...and then being accused of not knowing the reality of ‘feeding the billions’. Farming has NOT made our lives and our planet better. I am hoping robotics and AI and automation would perhaps make things better by nudging us towards a diff way to farm. Not sure if it will happen in my lifetime. I just think of sci fi story plots instead.
The use in government would mean running it in centrally administered form. The end user would just as well just click on the icon on their desktop and the application opens where they do their work.

There may obviously be other problems, like the application not being available on Linux, or needing administrators with Linux knowledge, but that's nothing the end user has to deal with.
https://youtu.be/jvZ5m3UMer4
Don’t read analyses of startup success. They are full of BS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley gives a capsule biography. He died 22 November 1963. He lead an interesting life.
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I'm not sure why it wasn't the first thing that was said, but let me say it.

It's to give freedom. Freedom to make and distribute your own currency without borders, rules or monopoly.

An outcome of this would be elimination of an artificial recession. There's a reason why Bitcoin paper was published in 2008.

Another outcome would be reduction in the authority of banks and governments. There's a reason why all the banking institutions and governments are quick to call it evil. Reason is that control of money grants banks and governments great control over citizenry.

There's no denying that it's far from perfect and has to be updated to solve all the bugs, many resembling to fiats.
I'm surprised Ryanair is supported, given that they've been engaged in a long and nasty lawsuit with Expedia, over scraping their fares. I was under the impression Ryanair only wanted to sell fares through their own website.
What does this have to do with subsidies? Did Canada pay GM to locate this plant? It doesn't seem like it, it dates back to the 80s.
We added a lib to a java image and the size went up by about 4x the library size, I spent a few hours trying to track it down to no avail. Hopefully this will help pin down the issue.
France fuel protests
It's not quite "pay", but Google have a notion of "points" to reward contributors, who they call local guides: https://support.google.com/local-guides/answer/6225851?hl=en

Anecdotally it's mostly credits towards Google's own products, free storage, etc, but also freebies like subscriptions to the NYTimes Crossword, etc -- at least at the lower levels.
Cinemas where I am usually don't have allocated seats. Now that you've prompted me to think about it, that fact definitely makes me less likely to go.

Pay money and have a fair chance of getting a seat I'm not happy with? No thanks.
For those critical of the 2008-2009 bailouts, GM or any other automaker with manufacturing operations in North America going belly up would have contributed to an even larger disaster. It's not just the main plants that would be affected, but also the entire supply chain - from mom & pop shops up to the big component manufacturers located in clusters across the country, not to mention GE, National Instruments, Intel, and myriad manufacturing-focused startups.
Sort of. Some printers have built the print head (with low MTBF) into the ink cartridge itself. You can refill once, but by the second time the output will be really bad.

Some printers ship with only partially-filled cartridges. This winds up being destructive on several fronts - users feel buying a whole new printer is cheaper than buying all the refill cartridges, not understanding that the new cartridges are different than what they had. This means the printer company is constantly selling new printers at a loss, with functional printer hardware thrown away to make space.

The print cartridges also usually sell with an XL-size option that appears cheaper overall. However, people who feel they should buy a new printer rather than cartridges are typically people who are at an ultra-low usage level (<10 pages per month). Even at the normal size, they are not going to make it through the ink before the cartridge starts to degrade with age.

HP rolled out a printer monitoring/ink subscription service which may solve these problems - assuming people feel it is financially sound to subscribe.
CRISPR in China claim research has resulted in world’s first gene-edited babies
> Consider yourself told, then.

Oh, please enlighten me, Drew.

> Linux works OOTB on pretty much all hardware, often better than Windows

Are device manufacturers supporting Linux?

> since it ships with all of the necessary drivers.

No it doesn't, last time I checked to even get the recommended usb wifi module to work on Arch required downloading additional packages and compiling a kernel module.

> The average user can handle KDE Plasma just fine.

Cool let me know how you handle explaining why they can't run some exe they downloaded on your GNU/Linux setup, and when they complain that they're used to Microsoft Word not this LibreOffice stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_to_know though I do not endorse it for academic research
The pornographic dreams of Lovecraftian horrors.
Google actually has worked towards creating a better internet service provider (ISP) with Google Fiber. While the business did push other internet providers in the US to offer higher speeds, Google Fiber itself has stopped expanding to new areas. Its failures are illuminating as to why the major tech companies haven't entered the ISP space in a major way. 1) There are major regulatory challenges including purchasing licenses, getting right of ways, dealing with state regulatory bodies. 2) Being ISPs raise major concerns about these companies being monopolies and requires competing against companies that are very involved in politics. 3) ISPs don't have the same growth potential as software companies so the businesses aren't that attractive. 4) The skill sets required to run an ISP are very different from the ones that they currently use. It requires running street construction crews to lay/fix/replace the fiber, running installation crews to residences, running technical support and usually running advertising that's skewed towards direct mail advertising. All of these combine to make the ISP business unattractive to Google and Amazon and other traditional tech companies. That said, Google is still actually working on this with Project Loon. This is more in their wheelhouse since the main challenges are technical and I suspect that they'll partner with local ISPs who will provide the customer service and installation services.
It's hard to say that GM made out in the bailout. Shareholders were 100% wiped out. It's not as if some fat-cat shareholders did well while laying people off. Anyone who owned stock in old-GM lost it all.

It should also be noted that the US ended up owning 60.8% of new-GM while Canada owned 11.7% and the unions' benefit fund owned 17.5% with the unsecured bondholders owning the remaining 10%.

I know that it's easy to hate on the bailouts. People think money was given as a gift rather than the loans and ownership stakes which were what actually happened.
Never mind a journal citation, I'd settle for a clear hypothesis with a plausible method of action. All I've seen so far is woo.