skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not excusable when you're putting out the work and claiming it to be free to use and later some chap uses it, they get sued because the wording was vague. There is some level of professionalism and ethics that is required to avoid nasty situations. Criticism of their wording, lack of license and the need for adopting existing licenses (don't roll your own license if possible) is valid.

"Rather than shaming their work for it,.." - No one is shaming their work. We are talking about the licensing terms. I love the font concept and I think its brilliant.
So people want non unixish tools on unix, seems like a road we keep going down over and over and eventually goes back to the unix way. Also piping isn't 'scripting'
I know you posted them all, but the articles on there are exactly the kind I’d like to see as a user of HN. Looking forward to seeing a comment feature in the future if possible.
I replaced Notepad with Notepad2, very powerful and fast loading with a clean interface. I prefer it over Notepad++ for that reason.
In my mind, modular homes are factory-built pieces that are assembled on-site, and design-sized for the 8.5' W by 13.5' H by 53' L volume envelope and 6 ton/axle weight limit of a standard US highway semi-trailer. International modules would have to design around the 40' ISO shipping container--either to go go in one, or to function as one.

The hotel-rooms-in-a-box on the linked page are like saying that a single 2x4 LEGO block, with all the studs filed down flat and holes cut in the sides, is a modular building system.

Even double-wide manufactured homes are more modular, in that they come in left-half modules and right-half modules, that get joined together at the build site.

The curation has somehow left out all the manufacturers that can crank out four 53' x 8.5' modules in 60 days, deliver them all to your flat-slab foundation, and bolt them all together to make an 1800 sq.ft. ranch-style home that meets code and actually has enough space for your kids to have their own rooms. And most of those are less than $140k for the structure. Cost average is $50/sq.ft. for stock structure designs, $10-$20/sq.ft. for customizations, $5-$10/sq.ft. for delivery, maybe $15-$25/sq.ft. for site prep and foundation, $20/sq.ft. for utility connections, permits, finishing, and everything else.

This is boutique-style homes manufacturing. If you want to make a business of it, as implied by the AirBnB rental prices, skip this curated list, and go with a larger manufacturer with a factory within 100 miles of your build site.

If your modular home is pushing past $150/sq.ft. with all costs but site purchase included, you are not competitive in your market, and are approaching being uncompetitive with custom site-built homes. At $400/sq.ft., your business will die shortly after selling to the 50 customers that want to spend $100k and yet still live inside a shoebox.
It's undo stack is still limited to one operation, so it is worthless to me for anything other than a one line change.
PBS Space Time on the same subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YFrISfN7jo

Minute Physics SpaceTime Globe (The best tool for understanding relativity I've ever seen.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh0pYtQG5wI
This is the most california thing Ive ever heard.
Depends on the demographic. I don’t know that we can say what it should or shouldn’t do without data. Why should it work without JS
I agree - owning a house and raising a family has been a terrific experience for me. But in talking to my daughter (senior at Yale) about this, I am coming to understand that the next generation may pursue happiness through different experiences. Things like co-living come up in these conversations. Things like Uber come up. So I ask: "Are you not, then, going to buy a house or a car?" Her answer is "correct". If such shifts are widespread, it will definitely reshape our economy.
Yes. Forums worked this way for years. It was fine.
Tripp filed a whistleblower lawsuit with the SEC as part of his publicity campaign. It's mentioned in the linked article about the tweets.[0]

[0]https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/15/martin-tripp-tesla-tweet...
Two people can be against each other sure, but that's just adversaries. There's no politics because politics implies wrangling other people to your side against a different side. Politics is about building coalitions and alliances.

If there's only two of you and you're working against each other, there's nobody for you to build an alliance with. You can't be an alliance of one. You don't have to convince yourself to do what you want to do because by definition you already want to do it.
Yeah, it's terrible how things like Google analytics, web fonts, can slow things down. I tried to keep this app as light as possible. Of course, I will not get a lot of data for analysis, but as a user, I know what can be improved, I don't need to monitor every click, typed keys, mouse moves, ...
> By this token...

This would be like NYC building a road exclusively for Uber and Lyft, who can then charge you whatever for access via their transport. NYC loses because it then becomes dependent on ride sharing companies to justify its investment, so these companies can negotiate leases toward zero with the constant threat of pulling out.

> ...internet is priced based on how much people value it...

Yes, and it should absolutely not be. It's literally a series of ~~tubes~~ low-voltage power lines.

> Any promise that this will reduce prices...

Which is why it's a terrible idea. Residents should not be footing the bill for infrastructure that exists to create an artificial marketplace of identical (or worse, artificially differentiated) services. Being an ISP is not mysticism and is easily achievable by local government precisely because the majority of being an ISP is owning the wires. It also gives residents the ability to democratically determine what their own priorities are and adjust local QoS based on their own needs.
> Hackers steal private keys

Yes, just as they can steal bearer bonds or cash (or deeds, back when deeds were bearer instruments) from the safe in your house. That's why you don't (usually) keep physical deeds in personal safes, but rather give them over to a custodian, e.g. a bank, who will secure access to them much more effectively than you can. A "Custodian"-role smart-contract, likely maintained by a company like a bank, is a part of the proposed model for both security tokens and NFTs.

> courts can transfer ownership or invalidate the sale

A "Regulator" contract [likely maintained by an actual government agency like the SEC, or a subcontractor thereof] that can both force and prevent transfers, is also part of the model of security tokens.

> And if you have a backdoor, you might as well use centralized system -- it is cheaper, faster and more reliable.

No. The point of having the blockchain here is that everything—including the actions of the regulator itself—is auditable. In a centralized system, you can't detect regulatory capture. If the logic the regulator used to determine the validity of a transfer is built into an (immutable, versioned) smart contract, however, then it's very simple to detect when that logic has any special cases.

The point of creating these financial instruments as Ethereum-substrate token contracts, isn't just to prove what transactions happened; if that were all you wanted, you could indeed just use log proofs. Ethereum is used here because you don't just want to prove what each agent did, you want to be able to audit exactly the logic they used to do it. You want a verifiable why, not just a verifiable what.

A plain-old "blockchain" (or a distributed log-proof store) is like a video of a poker game where you can see everyone's hands and decks. Add smart-contracts, and you've instead got a video of a poker game where the players are 1960s robots and the video has captured all the movements of their computational relays and valves.
This article about the same occurrence is better constructed, because it doesn't start with the perpetrators; it starts with the bomb.

https://www.damninteresting.com/the-zero-armed-bandit/
Completely disgusted by a lot of these comments. It is outrageous. It is unfair.

People citing the "tax law" excuse are either willfully ignorant or they just do not care.

Why does Google not give them gifts, invite them to the company Christmas party, or let them in on celebratory team meetings? It is not because "the temp agency will handle it". It is not because "a shirt makes taxes complicated."

Google and it's ilk make sure these people are on the outside to dehumanize them. To make it clear they are not a part of the company so, when TVCs are abused other workers do not speak up. It normalizes treating these people like shit. "Just a contractor."

A lot of these TVCs do not get decent healthcare. They can, and often do, get 0 vacation time. They sit along with the full time employees but everybody knows "they are the expendable ones." They can be fired for any reason, including bringing up the fact that they were sexually harassed.

TVCs are employees deprived of their rights through a loophole.
The GTX 1070 launched in June 2016 with an MSRP of $379. Typical prices at the end of 2018 for that same product are above $400 even after the newer RTX 2000 series has launched.

I and pretty much every other PC gamer I know have been holding off buying upgrades until prices come back to some level of sanity. I don't understand how Nvidia (and EVGA, XFX, MSI, Zotac, Gigabyte, etc) can keep trying to sell at these absurd prices then turn around and complain about how not enough people are buying them or they don't make enough money.

Have their costs unexpectedly shot up on their two-year-old manufacturing processes? Or did they just bank on the crypto bubble to prop up inflating GPU prices forever and were surprised when it didn't happen?

Going forward they've doubled down on even higher prices for next generation, with versions of the RTX 2070 currently at $500 to $600.

https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/video-card/#gpu.chipse...

EDIT - I should add, my first thought on this was that gamers are no longer a market that Nvidia cares about, and they're hoping that high prices will still sell to the machine learning (where people are frequently spending someone else's money on a large quantity of cards) and cryptocurrency markets. Then crypto dropped out, and ML are considering other options even if Nvidia are the top performers.

But the RTX series is pitched for realtime raytracing effects in upcoming games, which sends the message that they do take gaming seriously. But I think they're out of touch with how much people are willing to spend on it.
Yeah, I wish they'd just sell a high-power but essentially commodity card with, say, double the 1080's power.

But it's in my interest to want maximum bang for my buck and it's in Nvidia's interest to extract maximum money from it's customers. The only escape would be if AMD comes up with an equivalently powerful card and I haven't seen an indication of this happening.

But yeah, it's hard to see them at any risk unless they really mismanaged their capital investment, which is always a risk for companies like this.
Both? I'm a CIO, but was first a developer. I transitioned into management from developer to a director of software development in 2003. If you're in a company like mine (and it sounds like you are) where you have to wear many hats, it'll serve you well to stay sharp on the development side while learning more and more about management.

Unfortunately, that's going to mean some late nights for you. To stay sharp while "managing", I'd also take on software development projects by night and weekends from other companies to keep my skills honed. In our field, you constantly have to be learning anyway, so doing similar things will really help.

Have my development skills suffered from not being a full-time developer? Probably...but not that much. I can still write code which would likely equal most of the developers that work for me. That said, I'd love, at times, to have mentors from who to learn better ways. The web is my mentor for now.

I will say that staying sharp on the development side has really made me a more effective CIO. I can call bs on our vendors when a less technical CIO would've bought into their sales pitch. I can keep my employees honest and can see paths to solving issues that other CIOs might not.

So...consider both. FWIW
Doesn't clicking on ads reward google, instead of punishing them?
Yes true, but if there's no instability then there is no opportunity; there are no losers, but also no winners.

EDIT: Also by analysing FX market movements in relation to polling in the weeks and months leading up, it wouldn't be hard to make a correlation between Leave and lower priced GBP. All the economic institutions were saying Leave would be bad for the UK economy, so a leave vote is bound to shake confidence in GBP.
So help me out here... where women really wearing nearly nothing in 1515 and topless in 1516 when they went out all dressed up?
I confess that I don't find Github's response that objectionable... the "10 and 10" limitation they suggested is plainly pretty thoughtless, though, since it clearly doesn't align with reality.

I do appreciate the Nier: Automata references in the post, though.
If this is legitimate, this could _easily_ be classified as a violation of the first amendment.

Yes, kind of shocking that such ideas are even being suggested, but I put low odds on this ever seeing a vote.
Perhaps that was decided because it was costly?
this doesn't help clarify things at all.

you send me an email. I use Gmail. you request Google delete all your data. does google have to delete the email from you that's in my inbox?
Yeah the use of the polls was the real failure in 2016. A narrative and conventional wisdom bias set in to the analysis in a lot of places that discounted close results in important states.
"The former employee, who used to work as a process engineer at Tesla's Gigafactory, filed a complaint of his own with the Securities and Exchange Commission in June. He accused Tesla of making 'material omissions and misstatements' to investors as well as of putting cars with safety issues on the road."

He did whistle-blow according to the article. According to another article he denies dumping data.
https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/15/martin-tripp-tesla-tweet...
No the uptrend is not just in the past, it's still continuing today. Just in the past year went too euphoric.

We need to be able to distinguish between the 2 tailwinds. AI and crypto. Crypto turned out to be more of a factor than analysts anticipated, leading to the huge runup and then fall. Consider that done and dusted.

However the AI story is consistent and strong. Now that the stock price has come back down to earth we're still looking at amazing returns, there's nothing to be displeased with here.

The Q/Q performance is not concerning because of the product cycles. Every generational change there was a big drop in sales of the previous generation. Look at the first quarter of Pascal and first quarter of Maxwell's introduction and you'll see the same pattern. A flat quarter is actually an amazing improvement over the straight up declines of the previous generations.

Major growth will return soon as new products get ramped.
Texting is know by the state of California to cause cancer...
At least if the corruption is local, there's more likelihood for the money to stay in the local economy. A big corporation siphons the money out of zillions of towns and concentrates it in one place.
I think we have differing terminology. I would consider this a GUI. After all, the command prompts are running in windows. You can move them with your mouse. Other utilities (like regedit) are available, and are not command line / text-only applications.
That's super cool. I'd love to see any of your papers/code.
There does seem to be a strong lure to the ease of cargo-culting over being thoughtful. I guess I am always surprised that it is such a problem in software development because we pride ourselves on using our minds to solve problems.
I agree in the case of Microsoft/Apple. In Google/DDG we're talking about transferring a domain name from one company to another, not saving a direct competitor.
As a gamer, I'm torn on the rtx line. On one hand, it really is super expensive for an entertainment product that will be outdated in a few years. On the other hand, the exceptionally large die justifies that cost on a technical level, and raytracing in real time games is legitimately cool—much more so, IMO, then just another resolution or fps bump.

I certainly don't intend to upgrade, but I admire nVidia for the gutsy move, and I'm glad they're pushing the industry in this direction.
I don't care about how many likes or how many followers I get. I use Instagram to share my photography which is my hobby. I only follow my friends and people whose posts I genuinely want to see. Through Instagram I've been able to connect with other likeminded photographers that inspire me with their work and support me in mine. I also find it a great way to keep up with old friends that never used Facebook in the same way.

If your happiness is dependent on the attention you receive on these social media apps, there are likely deeper problems that you should address beyond simply deleting the app and telling everyone else who uses it to do the same.

There's a certain irony to all of these posts that have been cropping up lately on how "I deleted (insert social media service here) and it made me happier". Many of these posts cite the cessation of the race for validation as the reason for their increase in happiness. If you weren't expecting the same validation that you got from the service you just left, would you have really made the post? Couldn't you have simply just quit and be done with it? Deleting Instagram may temporarily improve your mental health, but it isn't a cure for a deeper underlying problem.
1000x time this. OVH only has a bad datacenter in Singapore. I tried and left.

OVHs need to be in India and East Asia to interest me again.
In NC election fraud case, witness says operative held onto 800 absentee ballots
The utter stupidity and short-sightedness of politicians is on display in both the US and Australia this week.
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Banner ads are fine. Im happy to visit a site that has the odd banner ad, hell even 1 or 2 ads in the side are fine too. Its the tracking that bugs the shit out of me. Tracking and pop ups.

I'd use Facebook|Insta|Twitter more if it did less tracking, showed a couple of ads, allowed me to have a TIMELINE over a NEWSFEED and suggested maybe a few popular news stories from reputable news sources. If I want news stories from Daily Wire, I'll subscribe. If I want BBC, I'll subscribe.

I get it, it'll make less money from less targeted ads - but it'll probably feel less ethically bankrupt.

Or maybe im just a mad man.

If Amazon ads were a bit smarter ( like yeah, I JUST purchased 12 cans of Monster - I dont need another fucking ad ) I'd be less annoyed at the ads.
It's a virtual machine, not a container based system. So it's going to perform somewhat like newer versions of VirtualBox I'd imagine. I'm going to take this for a test spin and if I get time I'll post back my benchmarks here.
Thanks wasn't aware of that.

Anyway, I use the Firefox "smart bookmarks" (I don't know if it's the correct name), i.e. naming the bookmark search, so "gg foo" is for searching foo on Google, "dd bar" is for searching bar on DuckDuck, "w baz" is for Wikipedia, "dbts #number" is for the "Debian bug tracking system" and so on...
> What I don't understand is why they think they have a right to demand that a platform they aren't even paying for should cater to them.

Because those platforms consistently and repeatedly lie to their users: they claim that they are here to serve you, or to help connect you, or help you find things you love.

If all you ever hear is "we're here to help you!", is it any wonder people expect help with their issues?

Maybe if they changed their tagline to something like "Facebook: Here to sell you to advertisers" then people's expectations would be different.
It’s not only looking for the negative. It didn’t happen.

Whatever the reason, MS only infused $150 million into Apple’s coffers.

Apple turned around and used $100 million to buy PowerComputing’s Mac license. Apple also continued to lose money for 3 years. The Net $50 million didn’t “save Apple”.
Welcome to Our Modern Hospital – Want to Know a Price You Can Go Fuck Yourself
> If so, shouldn't we ask why we are attaching so much significance to something which has very little bearing on what we, as humans, do: production?

Production is what most humans spend their working days doing or supporting or contributing to.

In the case of company value, investors care not only about what the company is worth today but also about what it will be worth in the future. It makes sense that lower sales result in a lower stock price despite the fact that the products and current capital are unchanged.
Like HN with tags. Very cool!

I wish it did not require an email address to sign up. On HN it is optional.
edit: I'm commenting on the legal aspect of it, not saying CA should tax all WhatsUp messages. But they tax bread so...

Nah, they tax TV stations and newspapers too. It's just a tax not targeted at free speech. 99.999% are "what he cheated on you again????" and "I just ate mcDonalds" type messages.

They want to tax all messages and all services so it's likely to be kosher. I pay local tax on my phone bill....free speech my @ss, just a tax.
First amendment? That's a rookie move buddy. Ex post facto laws are explicitly prohibited by article 1 of the US constitution.
Robert May's Chaos Theory
But at the end of the day, humans are still in charge, not algorithms. If they can't adequately control the algorithms, perhaps they're not ready to be deployed.

To see this a little more clearly, if a military deployed autonomous killer robots that kept accidentally killing civilian children, would you then argue the military isn't responsible?
A new law and a new tax is right up their alley, but this is the thing that got me:

> But they add that under the regulators’ proposal the charge could be applied retroactively for five years — which they call “an alarming precedent” — and could amount to a bill of more than $220 million for California consumers.

Edit: I just wanted to point out: As someone else mentioned in another thread on this article, there's an idea of "ex post facto" laws in the US constitution[1]. So considering this "an alarming precedent" when the authors of the constitution already knew of such a thing and prohibited it is a statement about our generation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_Stat...
Me, I'm rooting for 5G broadband. Verizon started the rollout already, T-Mobile can't be far behind. If AT&T joins the fray Comcast will get the bill for all the negative goodwill they were snowplowing on their way to profits.

https://www.verizonwireless.com/5g/home/

https://www.fiercewireless.com/5g/new-t-mobile-s-plans-for-h...
There are a few organisations that arrange tours. ( https://duckduckgo.com/?q=baikonur+cosmodrome+tour&t=h_&ia=w... )

You need ROSCOSMOS permission, and a double entry Russian visa (you typically fly to Russia (one entry).. fly to Baikonur, and then fly back to Russia.

From what I understand, the tour is quite near, and you can stay in the famous Sputnik hotel. You can also time.it right to be on site for a launch.

In terms of seeing the Buran/s, you cannot officially visit. You essentiallywalk on a straight line across the desert avoiding detection to get to the hangar. It's entirely a different type of adventure in itself.