skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those photos are warm. Could reflect the actual light and film choice although I'm not sure there were explicitly warm-balanced films that far back. If those are from the 70s, presumably either Kodachrome or Ektachrome--though actually Ektachrome from that era tended toward the cold site.

Honestly, comparing scans to digital images today. The difference is going to be mostly how they're processed. If anything, I find there's a trend to overprocessing (e.g. HDR) certain types of digital photos today.
The ETA tells the average passenger what they want to know. What good does knowing the distance do you? If the ETA is bad the analysis should be improved. There's little point in encouraging the passenger to try to outsmart that analysis. The designer of the system has much more information to work with.

Sure it would be be nice to supply that information in some open API somewhere though.
That was a really interesting read. I embarrassingly have never thought deeply about how marketing or branding works to manipulate the viewer in very subtle ways. I think I’m starting to understand why some serious money is put towards advertising budgets.
> But in this case I suspect the voltage required to drive those headphones properly was the major deciding factor in using two stacked 9V cells

Maybe it was the deciding factor for whomever designed the original circuit. But in this incarnation with the 11x attenuation, the input signal would have to be above 80V for this to matter! It's obviously modified from some folk audio design, I'm just trying to figure out how much of its oddity actually has some purpose.
What am I falsely equating? I don't think that the store of value argument is absurd, even with real world assets like gold their value is really just socially constructed. I don't see why it couldn't in principle be the same for bitcoin, it just needs to be the biggest cryptocurrency and concrete the idea of it's own value in people's minds for a long enough time, until they take it for granted. Whether that actually will happen I don't think anyone can say. I think it's a mistake to assume that the value here has to do with the technology, e.g. the "best" cryptocurrency must win. It's likely just long-term momentum.
It reminds me a little too much of my family’s cattle ranch. No thanks!
C/C++: Do you know #ifdef?
For linux there are mc, my #1 thing to install on a new server.

If you want the gui version, there is double commander, available in both gtk and qt(how do they support 2 frameworks?)
I mean, video games are about as useful as a summer swim, a piece of music, fine art, and fictional literature. Sometimes they’re also educational.
Honestly, I sort of have the opposite perspective. I never had a darkroom after graduating school and slides became something I mostly just shot on trips. I find digital and the sharing of digital photos rekindled my interest to a large degree.
None of this is the computing world regressing; it's just businesses regressing, or the law regressing, or convention in your social bubble regressing (regressing from what you like, mind, not what other people want.) The time with maximum availability of lossless audio and high-quality movies is right now. You can go join a private tracker and have the largest catalog of them in existence available to you for free, and you have the most bandwidth, most storage, and best tools in existence to organize and consume them. With books, you have to exert even less effort, because there is a huge global search engine where you can instantly download them without any registration barrier. If you don't choose to do that stuff, it's not software stopping you.
Thousands of people went to the street in Paris because of a fossil fuel tax hike.

Even if the timing was very stupid (mixing it with a tax cut for very high income individuals to entice them to relocate to Paris from London post-Brexit, even if in the end that tax cut pays for itself), the French gov. tried to do the "right" thing, and it completely failed to communicate this. (As far as I know.)
Project riff most closely compares to OpenWhisk and in fact both riff and OpenWhisk contributors work together on Knative. Of the two, riff has the advantage that it came along at the right time to be based directly on Knative without to be "ported", so to speak.

PFS might be more fairly to commercial plans announced by other vendors to repackage OpenWhisk.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, though not directly on PFS.
I would say in

for x in lines:
tdiv:
text x

Whenever the DOM gets rerendered, it iterates over the the lines (or the "model" in general), and creates DOM elements from it. At least it looks very similar to React and Angular code, and they do exactly this.
And "M" dates back to the Roman number 1000.
> do any better in a thousand or a million years

From what I can tell, there is a much bigger chance that we'll do much worse - and much sooner.
Hex – Creating Intelligent Adversaries (Part 2: Heuristics and Dijkstra’s)
> I am having a terrible time working with PAS.

Then we are not doing our job. I am happy to talk to you and/or to put you in touch with any team you want to give feedback to.
Promoting Aliexpress as an alternative in the first paragraph is a bit inconsistent with the j’accuse on disregard for intellectual property laws on Amazon.

The Aliexpress deals are likely over, since they were being subsidized by the US postal service who have pulled out of the treaty that encouraged it.

https://hackaday.com/2018/10/17/us-announces-withdraw-from-p...
Ask HN: Which factors influence adoption of standards?
I work with research so I have a lot of "what if" moments, e.g., "what if we use X technique to secure IoT devices". However, this often leads me to think "the idea is good, but it would require everyone to implement it".

Knowing that convincing people is a very hard thing to do, I would like to hear what you think are important factors for the success of widely adopted standards.
Not sure if that was directed at me but my estimate is using Lightning Source as the printer/distributor. The wholesale cut only applies to online (ie, Amazon, BN.com, etc) distribution and not bricks n mortar (as then the compensation is much higher and you must take returns).

Using a firm like Lightning Source requires a little more upfront legwork than Amazon, but not substantially so and really is appropriate if author plans to publish again.
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In most scrum processes the devs just want to get going and don't want to waste more time breaking it down in even more meetings, so they might think that the story will take 3 weeks for dev effort + QE effort (we at least combine the efforts in our estimates) but still estimate it as 2 max (expressed as a point number of course, which is going to necessarily be a rough estimate) so they can get going. Another common thought is "1-3 weeks, not sure yet, need to get going to provide a better estimate, can't estimate well enough until then even if we try to break things down."

Maybe as the replies suggest, it gets dev-done in less than a week despite the longer estimates, and if you're lucky QE picks it up and closes it before the end of the next week. The usual outcome for these types of stories is that one or the other takes longer, or the sprint was packed with too many 2-3 day bits of work that kept getting prioritized over QEing the big one, and now you have bleed-over as you push it to the next sprint (along with any 2-3 day stuff that you started on Friday because you were free). Bleed-over is the normal way you get > 2 weeks of work stories done, and is also a consequence of smaller things not perfectly fitting into the two week period as well.

My team had these problems with the scrum process and switched over to a kanban style a couple years ago, it's been better for everyone. Because of the concept of WIP limits at each major stage in the pipeline, we get parallelism where it matters -- i.e. people unclogging the pipe: if the WIP limit is reached for dev-in-progress work and someone is looking for new work, it has to be something later in the pipeline. Because we don't do things in chunks of 2-weeks, if something takes longer than 2 weeks to get through the complete pipeline, no biggy, some work is just optimally sized for one person to spend a few weeks on to do the best job. (But that ended up happening less because of the WIP limits helping to force us to get things through instead of sitting around in one state forever.) And if you want to start something new on a Friday, no biggy, we don't have to argue over bleed-over and trying to optimize the bucket of new things per sprint for the next sprint with the other rule of not bringing in new things. (Sprint models are so obviously defective when you've finished up everything in the sprint on a Thursday morning. What are you going to do for the next day and a half if you have the rule that you can only add stuff to the board during sprint planning? Well the answer some shops give is you add something anyway, and it immediately bleeds over, and then you get criticized for bleed-over.)
That is also feedback. Having unresponsive customers is a bad sign, often suggesting that maybe they're not as interested in the product as the smiles the hyper-gregarious sales team receives would suggest.
Wait...A grocery store open until midnight in Europe?

What sorcery is this?
I always love a chance to use my old farmer background on Hacker News.

So, manure is decaying animal excrement. Compost is decaying animal excrement plus some additional biological matter handled in such a way that certain species of bacteria take over. Basically, you turn it frequently.

What kind of bacteria take over? Aerobic ones. Now, granted, aerobic bacteria do produce greenhouse gases, but they're in the form of CO2, which really isn't so bad. By contrast, anaerobic bacteria release more potent greenhouse gases such as methane and nitrogen dioxide.

A big steaming pile of manure, left on its own, will easily be overtaken by anaerobic bacteria. With proper treatment, however, aerobic bacteria will dominate.
They seem to offer this in most markets, but puzzlingly not Canada.
>> Which means if you reserve a new release, be prepared to wait.

Except we wait 2 or 3 years for the damn thing to be written; a little delayed gratification until your hold comes up is such a minor, first-world problem.

Popular public libraries are most definitely better than the alternative. They can justify better funding and bigger budgets, improve physical facilities and move into new service areas.
> Aren't watches anachronistic, though?

This is perhaps the best pun ever to appear on HN. I hope it was intentional!
Nice. Where did you found the information about the origin of the GDS? Was it difficult? Once I researched a lot and I didn't find too much.

I worked integrating software with GDS systems for some years, and I co-own a travel agency. I also built a tool to help travel agents, it translates some GDS codes to a human-readable format: www.easypnr.com

How did you find the information about how to interpret the black screen? Thank you for writing your article, I bookmarked it.

I have so many thoughts of this industry, and I also a personal theory of why we can't kill the command interface.
While I do agree that the high taxes on labor are harmful, I really don't want to live in a country where "pensions are phased out", one has to work until 70 at least and public welfare is non-existant for young people. Luckily, I don't have to and to be honest, I prefer paying 50% taxes but also getting a lot in return. World class public transport (in my city), free university education (including master), pretty good health care, pension which amounts to 80% or inflated life income, lot's of art and culture...
For the most part, the Foundation's just a project to support existing projects and developers who use the IRC protocol. This can mean providing financial support, access to more business-oriented resources like designers/legal/etc, as well as simply improving the quality of protocol documentation out there (the part I'm handling).

In terms of strict protocol improvements, the IRCv3 WG is the real place where that's going on, the most authoritative thing in terms of introducing new stuff across the IRC infrastructure these days: https://ircv3.net/

But, for new developers looking to get into IRC today, the resources aren't as available as they could be. Sure, there's a bunch of code to look at, libraries you can use to get started that seem to work fine. But when you wanna start digging into the wire protocol, how particular commands or functions work, how to actually approach writing a client/server from scratch, all you have are either the RFCs, some newer resources like the ircdocs/IRCv3, or stuff spread across 20+ year-old textfiles and pages all across the net. My intention for the documentation side of the Foundation is to build up information on how to use/parse commands and numerics, how widely they're used (in terms of software support), and how to really dig into and approach development with the protocol – since that feels like the more valuable information to be out there right now for new devs. It'll be linked to and public sometime soon, it's just that building up a swathe of documentation large enough to show we're serious about it takes some time (if you want those docs to be decent-quality, at least).

For what it's worth, I'm both the primary writer/maintainer of the Foundation's developer docs work, and the maintainer of the more community effort https://ircdocs.horse/ , so hopefully I'm on the right track with supporting devs in the protocol documentation sense.

If there's any questions or suggestions for directions to take on this (stuff that you, as a dev, would find useful for writing IRC software), please let me know! Even if it's not there for initial launch there's a fair backlog of stuff I'm looking to make up with this project.
AI assisted code completion for C++
Every public road in Puerto Rico is kilometre marked as highways in the US are mile marked. Addresses to property are then designated by the km sign they are nearest too. From what I can tell with my limited Spanish ability, the legal address of the property is based on this as well. The government here decided to remeasure and mark these roads twice in the last ten years, effectively creating an entire new set of legal addresses for many roads that cross the entire island.
Money leaving my layman bank account today looks all the same regardless if it's colored product, shipping, or tax. When the Supreme Court's decision becomes the global ecommerce status quo, a reassessment of value will clearly be in order. Until then...
Also in the news: Many drug dealers are suffering because they used all their drugs. And many liars are suffering because the believed their own lies.
Something that has made my wrists a little more comfortable during long typing sessions is putting down the little feet on the back of my keyboard. Even though this "feature" was designed to improve ergonomics, and many people I know use it, it can make your wrists uncomfortable and is not usually smart to use.
> they were trying to sell the client on the idea that they could have a separate PCF foundation for each project.

Cloud Foundry (PAS) is not designed to be used this way -- it had multitenancy designed in from the beginning.

For PKS the idea of cluster-per-project makes more sense, given that Kubernetes doesn't reaaaally have multitenancy in the same sense.
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I gave up my prime membership at the last renewal about four months ago and haven't been to the site much since.

Granted, I was in Portugal at the time which doesn't get great shipping apparently? Not that I was going to order anything, I had trouble enough getting my luggage back as it was!

That being said, I'd been pretty turned off by the articles about their workforce at their warehouses, and also this recent development with their headquarters initiative.

In my opinion NYC should have come up with a package to present to Amazon and then turned around and used it to benefit small businesses. Why we're throwing money at one of the world's largest corporations by revenue is quite beyond me, especially for a city like NYC which could use that money for their subways and already is incredibly vibrant economically.

I enjoy going to the stores, chatting with people, touching products, and trying things on. It's mild exercise, it's social, it's something to do, so for me it's pleasant, and I'll pay a premium if I have to because of that.

The one thing I do like about Amazon is that I've heard it's more energy efficient for products to be sold that way as opposed to in individual brick and mortar stores which need heat and electricity.

Finally, I really enjoy putzing around on AWS and feel less conflicted about using that (especially since my personal use is all on the free tier) since their engineers and tech teams are well compensated (although I've heard and have no idea if this is true, worked hard).

All that being said, if I was in any of the articles situations or lived in a less dense locale shopping wise, I'm sure I'd use it or similar services. It is certainly true that there is a ton better variety online for a lot of items.
I agree but you are still not selling your body - only the wear of your body.

I also do not find selling your hair, your blood, your saliva or urine or your sperm or what ever your body produces as selling your body.

It does not follow that there are no ethical boundaries for departing from these "products".
I just quit my Prime Membership - wow, I had to click so many confirmation buttons, it was funny. At least 3-5 times click ok, really ok, are you sure it wasn't a mistake? It just too expensive with little value anymore.

I also started shopping books at Barnes & Noble primarily, although it is less convenient, I feel better to keep supporting alternatives.
Why not? If the market goes through another boom-bust cycle, Coinbase is at the forefront and makes bank. If this really is the end, they're fucked anyway.
Torrents and other P2P networks literally redefined how people consume music and movies. And people used p2p a lot for quite a time. Is there anyone that uses blockchain for anything, other than speculation? Any dapp used by more than 100 people?
> I'll confess I still don't understand why it's so hard to keep track of the position of subway cars in real time. I can think of any number of ways to do that more or less trivially.

That’s the source of a lot of error in project estimates, since it is trivial to come up with plans before considering the details.

Phrasing it as a software project: “I don’t understand why it is so hard to find information on the internet. All of the pages are available through HTTP web servers, aren’t they? What’s wrong with just downloading them all?”
Many coin projects hope for a Coinbase listing as a way to boost exchange rate. Broader markets mean more liquidity, which in turn means more investor interest.

I'd like to offer a counterpoint: that Coinbase listing is likely to kill the tokens that get listed.

Shitcoin speculators are attracted to volatility, not technical merit. The wilder the swings, the more engaged they become. By adding liqudiity to a token, Coinbase dampens volatility. Projects must then compete on technical merit, which means most will fade away as new tokens not listed on Coinbase emerge.

Second, shitcoin speculators trade with the understanding that they can evade taxes by trading on unregulated exchanges. By muscling out competitors, Coinbase will drive middle tier exchanges out of business. Given its strict guidelines around AML/KYC, Coinbase will make it very difficult for speculators to conceal their tax liabilities. This in turn will drive out most speculators who will see little advantage of cryptocurrency over traditional forex or penny stocks.

Bottom line, this move will not increase demand for trading more mature tokens, but dry it up. Speculation will instead take place on thinly traded, unregulated exchanges.
I don't necessarily mean "market value" by that; I mean something more like "public perception". Since the public perception of Bitcoin heavily influences whether the average Joe is going to trade on Coinbase or not.
This form of fabrication exists and is known as DLP. I have a DLP printer that cost me less than £500.
>it’s not the checkbook that pays salaries

Doesn't the checkbook of a business literally pay salaries? I'm unclear as to what you're arguing here.
Last second abort for Delta 4 Heavy spy satellite launch
> Aren't watches anachronistic, though?

> I haven't worn a watch since I started carrying a cell phone and it perplexes me why they are still so popular.

That very much depends on the person. I started wearing a watch again because I wanted to spend less time futzing with my cellphone, which has worked. Secondarily, it's jewellery, so I do tend to match my watch to my outfit as a result.
Crypto needs a middle man bank to make the market to allow people to use it to buy stuff.
I'm saying it'll be applied to all major US sellers relatively soon
What is your source for gaming being a drain on happiness? I can only find research that says the opposite.

Also I’m certain gaming would have created more economic opportunity than it would have destroyed via lower productivity
Redacting with sharpie migh still leave the text visible via gamma futzing or other photoshop tricks. Print-exacto knife-scan is an improvement on print-sharpie-scan.
Electron microscopes already exist today. It's impossible to predict what advances in microscopic imaging might be made in the next 3000 years, but if we assume they at least don't regress, I think there's a fair chance that a dug-up integrated circuit could be recreated in software based on an image of the die.
Learning on the Job
I don't follow you. How is keeping track of the position of a small number of subway cars in a limited geographical area anywhere near as abstract a problem as "finding information on the Internet?"

This is a relatively-trivial engineering exercise with any number of safe, efficient solutions. If someone says it will take a billion dollars to solve the problem, that is the person you should demand proof from.
How costly is Chinese IP theft?
Apple seemingly refuses to implement modern web APIs, especially those required for SPA's, in Mobile Safari. The popular theory is that this is to avoid SPAs threatening their App Store.
Exactly. Just buy 100 Ender3s for somewhere around £15,000 and run them in parallel.
The thing about the bomb in particular, that stands out in this discussion, is that it was/is a fairly simple physical device. It had to be constructed to some very exact standards but the main thing was that getting uranium 238 was extremely difficult. Most of the ingredients were relatively simple - the major single, cost overall was K-25/Oakridge.

The process used was very crude, simple and inefficient so they needed to do it on a huge industrial scale. And only the US could do it on that scale.

You could call it "the dumb luck of nature" that something like an atomic bomb couldn't have been produced with, say, 19th century technology but that it could, barely, be produced by the full industrial might of a mid-20th century nation.

Which is to say that start-up producing amazing things in basements now certainly rely on the sum-total of previous industrial achievements, we don't how much some interesting bit of knowledge compared to those achievements could be leveraged.