skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One fundamental struggle between a government and its citizens is that it is believed the more control of/visibility into citizens' lives it has, the more effective it can be at its goals. (I'm not going into whether I think this is actually true.)

Given that, there's the continual struggle between people not wanting government interference in their lives, but wanting the government to be able to accomplish some goals - people ~universally dislike taxation, but many of us think the government should be permitted to levy taxes to fund itself and programs we would like to see.

When people are uncertain or afraid, they will often make more emotional rather than purely rational decisions about clinging to solutions which purport to offer a way back to safety, even if they don't see or understand how their plan provides that.

And once people have gotten themselves into a belief system which they did not reason their way into, they are far more likely to double down if you attempt to reason them out of it.

Authoritarian measures are the political equivalent of "if you sign here, I promise to do whatever it takes to make [bad thing] stop bothering you", nevermind that "whatever it takes" is something you would never have agreed to otherwise, and probably wouldn't have agreed to before your first emotionally-fraught decision. Government agencies have incentives to favor them, because they believe the authority to do X (especially if they're given a blank check and can fill in Y,Z, and W as additional things) will let them accomplish something more readily.
That's not true though, is it.
Transportation public data from Bureau of Transportation Statistics
I mean slender, less width. The latter. I saw that in the Mozilla post about goodbye edgehtml, the headline was in wide font.
autoconfig is essentially a front end like the linux module loading tools, it makes some fake COFF files containing the kernel symbol table and some glue code and links them against the driver(s) you want to load, then it loads the code into kernel space, patches the block/char major tables and calls a driver's init routine

Sadly it's not as functional as we would like, I actually wrote it for UniSoft as a way we could sell drivers without building kernels every time, someone at Apple saw it and not only demanded we include it in A/UX but also demanded that they own it .... so I wrote another one for Apple, it worked differently and was barely functional - Apple could have had the original better one for free if they'd dropped the demand that they owned it
I am. I'm not trying to make a comparison to parent. Just that I've not seen it below a dollar in a long time.
Show HN: YouRepl 1.0 – Watch tutorials and program at the same time
As I said before: it is a defence for non-compliance if a TAN/TCN would compel you to commit a crime in a foreign country

That has nothing to do with whether you are an Australian citizen or not. If you are a resident in Austria, these laws do not allow the government to compel you to commit a crime in Austria.
ah! thanks for explaining
We add question marks sometime as a way of de-baiting a controversial title.
The population replacement in Hongkong that's at its another height, will inevitably occur in Taiwan if that starts to be a remote reality, albeit at an even larger scale.
Azure functions is also a serverless framework that works across clouds and on-prem.
Can! But judges and the government can take steps to limit or torpedo recovery by less virtuous (or disfavored) whistleblowers.
> Think of ownership as percents of a whole, not little pieces of paper.

Shares don’t represent a percentage of anything other than the current number of issued shares. No one should be expected to work for free. New shares should always be created whenever someone contributes labor, capital, or some other asset. If existing shareholders aren’t being continuously diluted as people make new contributions to the company then something is going seriously wrong. Just because someone got shares for a previous contribution doesn't mean you don't need to pay them for future contributions.

I mean would you expect your series A investors not to get any shares because you already gave some shares to your seed investors? It makes literally no sense.

Your options pool should be negotiated with your investors to cover your first X (e.g. 100) employees. It makes no sense for it to cover founders, nor does it make any sense for it to cover some indefinite amount of future labor.
That looks really nice. But I'd still need an escape hatch of being able to install android apps.
You can also get the version of Macsyma that runs on Lisp machines, and it's possible to run it without owning a Lisp machine.
Having worked with James directly many years ago as a developer at/on Pivotal/Cloud Foundry, he is a bit of a suit... but he's also a really great human, very smart and he genuinely cares about the product. Cut him some slack please.
I would be comfortable saying that subways and above (e.g. high speed rail, airplanes) are a special case of public transport that will always make sense and will nearly always beat out a car for transit time.

Aside from that, I agree with what appears to be your premise -- that we could invent public transport devices that mitigate and perhaps mostly erase the advantage of the car.

But then I'd ask ... why? Why are we supposed to hate cars? It's okay to like scooters and bikes, but nothing larger until we get to a bus? I imagine a future with all sorts of automated cars that never get into an accident and roll silently along emitting not a whiff of noxious fumes, while being big enough to carry just the right amount. If nobody needs to own their own car, then they can call a car that is sized for their exact needs. One passenger or ten. They efficiently get to exactly where they are going in the minimum time possible with minimum effort. What a dream!
Ok, we've put your suggested title above. If someone can suggest a better (i.e. more accurate and neutral) one, we can change it again.
Sounds like Photopia.
Any relation to the computational chemist Martin Karplus?
Meanwhile, the Android OEMs that tried to get in front of the Apple Watch by rushing their own products to market seem forever condemned to third-class marketshare. What happened?
I'm less worried that these clauses will be used/abused, and more worried that the mere existence of these clauses will be catastrophic to the trust of Australian suppliers to overseas customers.
I just preordered the Amazfit Verge. I've tried smart watches in the past, and I never could find any use for them, as I'm the type of person who silences all notifications, but now I play tennis and maybe it'll be useful there. It was mostly just an impulse purchase, but I hope I don't regret it.
Because the people have become pacified and complacent and allow it to happen. They're "protecting" us, after all, so it's all good, man. There is a relatively small percentage of people who understand and care, and most are on places like HN. To the rest, it's just more noise in the ether to filter out. "Nothing I can do. Hey look, a cute cat pic."

The name of the game is distraction, and to pump so much contrary and competing information at everyone that no one can discern the truth from fiction. It's happening. Now.

From another great HN discussion today, watch this (HyperNormalization by Adam Curtis): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh2cDKyFdyU

We get what we deserve.
Roblox seems to have a pretty good Lua mod ecosystem.
Investors are usually diversified, holding stakes in lots of different companies. Meanwhile, founders are usually all in with all their eggs in one basket (albeit a basket they are guarding intently). An alternative to asking for more equity is to negotiate for a higher salary, and using those funds to diversify your holdings. As you'd expect, this conversation is easy if the business is going well, and isn't if it's not.
> I guess I feel like I don't have a screen time problem because [...]

That's an odd thing to volunteer and present a justification for when no one has accused you of having a “screen time problem”.
Only one cat image on that page and he doesn't look pleased about his collar to be honest. Cats need their agility unobstructed by an anchor around their neck. I'm still waiting for smaller tags.

https://www.whistle.com/images/whistle3/testimonials/tomsell...
> That line is already in trouble because of genetics research, psychology research, etc showing that people's actions are less based on deliberate choice than they'd like to believe.

I'd like to know more about this. Do you have sources for these?
I live in a city with about 700,000 residents inside the official limits, and 3,000,000 residents in the metro. The nearest bus stop is approximately a quarter mile away.

With all due respect, the number of people who live in cities as dense as Tokyo are the minority, most of us don't.
Wouldn't all of the autism cure cranks out there have gotten actual results other than dead children if this were true? Digestion and diet have kind of been a fixation for them along with them along with chelation - anything to avoid the heritability elephant in the room.
I believe it's transflective LCD display
Get a dedicated root server with hetzner. It's relatively cheap for what you get.
If you want LAMP/LEMP, check out https://vestacp.com/.

You can provision a subdomain and clone whatever repo into the root directory and be functional pretty quickly.
Autonomous subways are great for places like Singapore, but there are quite a lot of places where throughput is not an issue and where doubling the mass transit subsidies means hiring a second bus driver so the line can run every two hours instead of every four.
There's nothing but app ecosystem standing between Tablet aand useful flyweight mobile computer.

Getting Termux on Android was a complete game-changer, and took the device from hated useless toy to ... well, still-hated, but occasionally useful toy. But clearly the limitation is in apps and OS, not form-factor.
What you're describing is a simple false flag attack. They wouldn't be the first to use it.
> a brave new world of software development that is just ahead of us -- small teams, phenomenal productivity

It's also the brave new world that lies behind us. Doom, one of the most influential computer games due to technical innovation, was created by a team of 3 programmers (and 8 non-programmers).

Small teams of brilliant people can produce phenonemal results. Unfortunately in big companies a manager is not only measured by his results, but also by his budget and the number of people under him. The division of 100 people simply looks more impressive than the room of 10. So you end up hiring lots of (at best) mediocre programmers, pay them as little as possible, and use big architectures and processes designed to cope with idiots (Enterprise architectures and Enterprise processes, as we call them).
The point being that those VM can be distributed across multiple hosts for scalability and reliability. I'm sure that if you wanted to really package it all up into a single VM, you could... but that wouldn't make much sense when you're building an onpremis deployment cloud.
GO-JEK Goes to Singapore with the Name “Gojek”, and Challenges Grab
I think reddit serves a different purpose. It's not about personal accounts and subscribing to people; instead, everyone has a few collaborative lists (subreddits) and you don't really repost things. Upvotes are similar but again not the same.

It might be used as a substitute but the people that stuck to Tumblr this long probably consciously chose not to move to reddit.
I think this is partly the fault of how electorates work. Imagine an election where every electorate votes 30% party A, and the remaining 70% of the vote split somehow between parties B and C. Then you get only members of parties B and C in office, and so you could argue that 30% of the population is not even represented.

This is not so far off what happens with the Greens - in the last federal election they had about a 15% first-preference vote across Australia, but ended up with only 1/150 seats in parliament.
1password before the cloud only version
Jeremy's Web design in 4 minutes is a crash course on how to build up the different elements that go about in web design : https://jgthms.com/web-design-in-4-minutes/
It acts as a deterrent, similar to door locks in homes.

Lockpicking is relatively easy, and there is always brute force.
Please express your points thoughtfully rather than in the flamewar style. If you rant like this or otherwise do the latter, it ends up having the same effect as trolling.

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They basically are employees.
They work for the board and the investors.

If you want to control your own destiny, bootstrap. Otherwise, unless you're very successful, you're in for a world of pain.
> Wouldn't all of the autism cure cranks out there have gotten actual results other than dead children if this were true?

Probably not; systematic empirical investigation isn't exactly their thing, so even if their intuition (or deflecfion, depending on how you look at it) was in the right neighborhood (diet and digestion if gut bacteria offer some real help), doesn't make it particularly likely that they’d stumble on to the right thing.
Seconded. But why need the complication of AWS/GCP/Azure when you can go with a VPS from Digital Ocean or any of the many alternatives? No need to learn the special AWS ways, keep it even simpler.

For me the 'sea of icons' of a control panel is a headache, I much prefer command line and saving my history for when I learn something crucial.

I used to be a linux shell only person but I am quite keen on having ssh windows in the IDE nowadays with git and rsync for getting code and 'assets' from dev machine to the internet. Connecting to remote databases via the IDE is pretty good too.

It is easier to Google how to do something and copy/paste command line commands than it is to follow a GUI tutorial.
trackmania is not the same...
Except in AI terminology[1], it seems that inference doesn't mean outputting params. It means outputting y.

Yes, I believe the verb is "inferring".

[1] https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/08/22/difference-deep-lea...
This is why I'm choosing to stick to the term commandeering
Ask HN: IDE that provides text formatting
This is kind of a weird use case for an IDE, but does anyone know of a good IDE (or editor) for taking notes? All my files will be text files, and I want the ability to format text (e.g. change font size, underline or emphasize text, etc.), but would like to use an IDE or code editor because they provide really useful features (like hotkeys for searching through files or searching file names, which is really important to me for quick navigation). Any ideas or suggestions? The current hack I use is using more text to add visual emphasis (like a row of "=" to delineate sections in my notes).
No offense but if you think walking a quarter mile is a hindrance to access public transport then the car culture has done even more damage than I thought.
> pressure still elevated around 125/80
Elevated? 120/80 is perfect. 135/x seems only a bit worrying for everyone around me. I recently had around 150/x for whole week.

I know something is going on, keeping on doing the checks, but saying 125/80 is elevated sounds so silly to me. I've never seen such nice pressure on myself.
Radio4 published Hitchhiker's Guide online for an anniversary: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml

The article boasts that the fish puzzle isn't even that hard for the game. Curious which ones they found the hardest or most random...
I'm cursed with thumbs that are not compatible with touch screens. Not because of my thumbs themselves, and obviously touch screen keyboards work for most people so it can't be the keyboards. I don't have abnormally fat thumbs, or any physical deformities.. touch screen keyboards just hate me, to the point where it's a running joke among family and friends. Every post I've ever made is a relentless struggle against typos that even the best autocorrect can't seem to help with. I've tried every major keyboard on Android, and have owned iPhones and every other device imaginable.

Windows Phone though? Absolute pleasure to type on. I've never used any device that was easier to type on than my old Lumia 920.
battery replacement on an iphone from what i have seen is a 30-50$ part and 30min of your time with a screwdriver.
> It happened only on Monsanto threads.

Go to any thread about China and you will read similar accusations. Sometimes people disagree with you.
MIT researchers create a robot houseplant that moves on its own
Roblox has a very good Lua ecosystem. It's on the scale of an actual featureful game engine now, with free cloud hosting and microtransactions support and developer payouts that attract would-be gamedevs. It's been growing extremely rapidly with players, and makes it very easy for kids to open up the game editor and start slapping blocks around to try and switch from "consumer" to "producer".

I'm 21. I first learned programming through Roblox when I was like 15. I don't play anymore, and haven't for years, but I have a giant friend group that also got introduced to programming through Roblox. A lot of them have gone on to work there now, and they've been making it better and better over the years.

Minecraft is giant, and there are tons of mods for it, but also the barrier to entry for making those mods is extremely high. You have to open a command line, decompile a jar and deobfuscate the bytecode and then use Java, which historically isn't the best first language to pick up for a kid. More kids have probably been introduced to coding through ComputerCraft than have gotten a mod building correctly.
MS Access. It was still easier to build quite powerful apps covering the UX, controller and model than the commercial alternatives today. In many aspects cloud application development is only just catching up with 20 year old declarative frameworks of yesteryear.
In 2016 Seattle hosted a recreation (or maybe it was a memorial?) of 9 Evenings called 9e2. Organized by John Boylan, whose "Conversations" series is worth checking out, 9e2 was fun and intermittently thought-provoking but from what I understand not much more than an echo of the original NYC event which, as outlined in the McCray piece here, was itself an experimental shout into the dark that received many negative critical reverberations, but also some resonance that lasted.

There's a fine line where technical art - "new media" and beyond - and artworks made purposefully to reflect upon or expose specific topics, issues, or tools in science and engineering stop holding their own artistically and becomes either "gadget show-and-tell" (symptom: when it takes more time to put on the VR headset and wait for the creator to reboot the computer and scene than to view and interpret the 5-minutes-of-Unity-tutorials art within), the kitschy sculptural, musical, or whatever media equivalent of Popular Mechanics cover art, or interactive science museum displays.

That line is fine, and I wonder where each of the works and performances in the 9 Evenings program sat on the spectrum, but there are many artists currently and in the past who have adapted or interpreted science and engineering material successfully and to great effect (Refik Anadol comes to mind at the moment).
One thing to consider is anything that the government is allowed to do will eventually be maximized by technology. The slightest allowed oppressions will be amplified exponentially. Since tech is going to serious amplify anything we do that makes the root principles all that more important.
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In terms of games - Mechwarrior and Spyhunter are still my favourites. I’d love them to be resurrected. (I can’t wait for MW to come out next year)
How's AD different from simply calling the function with a slightly perturbed input and observing how much the output changes? I assume it's more efficient with multivariable functions because the aforementioned method requires one call per parameter?
What a strange perspective.

This piece seems to assume that founders of a company are just some kind of super-employee of the VC that are only going to be around so long as they are getting regular compensation.

That isn't how it's supposed to work. The founder has to believe they create the value. They don't work to get grants of stock, they work to increase the value of the stock. They created all the stock in the first place!

If they think that they could just hire someone else to do their job and everything would just turn out the same then what the hell did they even found the company for in the first place?

The way VC is set up in the valley has warped peoples understanding of what a business even is.
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The group patroling might encourage communication, it is very interesting. They are quiet when in the field, with the exception of the senior cat hissing and growling at the others when they get too rowdy.

One cat will deliberately yawn when she wants to come in the closed window, and observes that I spotted her from inside, every time. She is mimicking the opening motion, I am positive of it.

Much of their communication may be silent, and they are talking to us all the time. The meows are just an extra effort for our benefit, I think.
The TSA does nothing of the sort. If you had read the various reports indicating their massive failures, stopping passengers from carrying firearms and knives has a terrible track record. So no, it does't deter anyone.
If security was private the companies involved could do it however they wanted, including using AI to profile. The TSA was created not for security but to shield the airlines from liability, and also a bit as a jobs program. In those regards it is a success.
Interesting to see this on here. I love Denis Johnson, discovered him after reading his last book.
Link https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/05/mit-researchers-create-a...
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You're probably right then. I find AI nomenclature to be a bit of a mess.