skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Goodyear bought 1 or 2 Zeppelin NT to replace their aging blimps.

Edit: All their „blimps“ are Zeppelin NT now https://www.goodyearblimp.com/behind-the-scenes/current-blim... and they manufactured them by themselves with parts and know how from Germany.
The Museum of Ancient Greek Technology has Antikythera mechanism replicas for sale [1]. They are kind of pricey, at €550, but sure are cool looking.

[1] https://www.kotsanasmuseumshop.com/en/shop/108-antikythera-c...
80kg * 100s of millions adds up soon. Plus this number can sliced and diced in several ways (e.g. does it included total costs for raw materials, transport, and so on, or just the assembly manufacturing?)
> Finally, all shoes and socks must surely be banned, to ensure the proper development of calluses on children's feet.

Banned sounds kind of harsh, but in moderate climates going barefoot as much as possible is a good idea, especially for children.

Instead of a ban, it would be better to run a public education campaign, do more serious research about the effects of wearing shoes, etc. In particular it would be nice if people were better educated about the possibility of using thin flexible shoes and ditching stiff-bottomed shoes, which are quite terrible for foot development.

Development of calluses is one minor effect of going barefoot, but also the bottoms of the feet do not become hyper-sensitized (as they are for the habitually shod), the feet do not become deformed into a weird shoe shape with the toes crushed inward (as sadly happens for most people in our society), and perhaps most noticeably the muscles of the feet and lower leg become much stronger and more coordinated and motor control develops quite a bit better. Kids who habitually walk around barefoot learn to move quickly, efficiently, gracefully, with good balance.

Source: my 2.5 year old kid has 1.5 years of experience walking around the city, about 90% of that barefoot, and is about as fast and coordinated as the typical 3.5 year old around here. (I’m sure he would be below average among some hunter–gatherer tribe; surpassing typical American city kids is a pretty low bar.)
Whether someone likes surveillance is one question. Whether it discourages them from expressing certain opinions is another.
Are there any hybrid hot airships? That is hot air dirigible hybrids? That’d really tickle my diesel- & steam- punk interests.

Edit: they’re called “thermal airships”; Cameron Balloons sells them. Less lift than a helium balloon of the same size (by ~30%), but about 20x cheaper to fly. I really want one, now.
Overwatch is not the best example of graphical progress since they optimize for performance to be able to hit high FPS targets.
Check out telehack.com - it’s kind of a simulation / game /community. The early internet was about exploration.
The Chinese version does use the literal equivalent 文档站点. However, the usual term used by Chinese developers for static sites appears to be 静态网站 (see e.g. the entry in Baidu's encyclopedia https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%9D%99%E6%80%81%E7%BD%91%E7%... )

Maybe the author was simply unaware that static site generators exist because all they wanted to do was upload documents.
Analog equivalents existed, but did anyone care to extrapolate from the analog to the digital?
I have done neither, nor has OP retorted, so ...

Also, voting with your feet takes no real commitment when tech jobs for googlers are plentiful and easy.
Avoiding working for Google does precisely nothing on it's own.

The closest you get is the non-cooperation type of movement the other reply mentions, which is an active thing, but that's not being suggested here.
> "The global demand for automobiles will not exceed one million - at least because of a lack of available chauffeurs."

Such quotes are helpful to ask what are possibilities if we subvert the imposed limitation. E.g. I got a thought what if we switch the subject to some other invention e.g. a medical equipment:

The global demand for gamma knifes will not exceed one million - at least because of a lack of available surgeons.
Hiew (Hacker's view)
I know. Written in context, for passers by as much as anything.

Implying anything about you is not my intent.
>*They could do it before too: the difference now is a direct usb c connection

The main difference to me is that now it's officially sanctioned, and even mentioned on Apple's material (shown in the keynote, etc).
Help me go to the bachelor party of a stranger
In very early stages (like too early to know what's going on or why I'm taking certain approaches). However, I have built a couple libraries I leverage. There is a Tor embedder/controller [0] (with a project assisting with statically linked Tor [1]) and there is a Go wrapper for locally encrypted Sqlite [2] (which I need to update). That Tor controller even has a gRPC example that shows the basic idea of starting an onion service and communicating over Tor.

0 - https://github.com/cretz/bine

1 - https://github.com/cretz/tor-static

2 - https://github.com/cretz/go-sqleet
Rembrandt and Van Gogh Mastered the Art of the Selfie
This is still my favourite website from those days - https://hamsterrepublic.com/ :)
Some people still have personal pages. Here are some that I've run into while reading HN:

https://www.gwern.net

https://bellard.org
Suck.com, Gone for Good (For Good)
There's a surprisingly large amount of research done based on Wikipedia. Those interested might want to check out the Research Newsletter: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter.

By the way, I found this linked in the sidebox that might be more understandable to laymen: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612726/this-algorithm-bro...
Newb.
> Individuals hosting servers with whatever functionality they wanted that people would connect to, substantially spread by word of mouth ... Information you found was generally published or organized by a passionate individual ... delivered without commercial intent ... if someone was passionate about something and wanted to share it it was there. ... Servers were often located in people's homes

Woa, I'm not old enough to have experienced that period of the internet, but this perfectly describes what I do. My servers are at home, I have lots of little tools in a folder that I'm happy for people to use ('connect to'), I used to run a lot more services but with my email hosted on it that is quite a security risk (maybe I'll start doing it again on the new system that I'm setting up, which is much more compartmentalized), my websites do not have ads and only one has visitor counting (using StatCounter, installed when I was 16 and curious how people used my first site). In the early days, I collected facts, links, and flash games about BMXing because I thought that sport was epic. I also shamelessly hacked those games' online highscores, if they had one, and that's how I ended up where I am today (security consultant) :-)
I hope my high school margin-doodles make the news in 300 years :)
Just to be clear, this is a different kind of injection. Yours is at the visitor end (the ISP modifies the page while delivering it) while the original is at the server end (GoDaddy modifies the page while serving it).
Commanding/(Re-)configuration is usually done through a separate S-Band transceiver that is part of the platform/bus, not the payload.
Google also had Project Tango, which I believe used hardware IP they acquired through their brief ownership of Motorola. They scrapped that approach since current mobile processors are powerful enough to accomplish the same thing in software.

Occipital's Structure Sensor has been available for years, and uses an active scan along the lines of what the Kinect does.

Among the available options, I'm most interested in calculating depth from parallax relative to motion using scale heuristics and dead reckoning, like Tango. Particularly for outdoor applications.
Buy Best Arduino Robot Kit, Robotics Starter Kit for Elementary &amp
Sure thing.

I’ll typically make a few cards at first trying to test different aspects of the MM (general concept, example applications, given definition identify the MM, quiz any internal associations I have with it like if I learned it in a specific context, etc.) then I can delete ones that aren’t useful and/or add others later.

Let’s use the mental model of inversion as an example. I found this one in a Farnam Street blog post about Charlie Munger. Here are some cards I might create:

Front - what is the principle of inversion?

Back - when you want to try to maximize something, instead try minimizing its converse. Or vice-versa.

Front - what mental model might help if you’ve unsuccessfully tried implementing programs to increase innovation in your company?

Back - inversion. Rather than thinking of ways to increase innovation, can you instead think of things that are decreasing innovation and eliminate those?

Front - what’s another way to think about reducing time spent on work tasks?

Back - invert the problem. Try to increase time saved on nonessentials (e.g. laundry service, meal prep, outsourcing)

Front - what’s it called when you work backwards through a problem you’ve already tried to work through forwards?

Back - inversion

Front - what would Charlie Munger ask you if you came to him with a tough optimization problem?

Back - “have you tried inverting it?”

This is a bit contrived, but I hope this gives you a sense of how I think about creating cards for mental models.
Outer Source
I am not surprised this monstrosity was build only one year after the Velvet Revolution (meani g it must was planned and approved during the communism era). Still, there was a very bitter public debate recently, before a Roma concentration camp was expropriated and turned into a memorial (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lety_concentration_camp).

Needless to say, since the outbreak of Russia sponsored fake news and propaganda, the Czech society is increasingly divided, with racism and xenophobia on the raise.
Where you mention the book :

The Forgotten Revolution by Lucio Russo

The Kindle version of this is being sold on Amazon UK for £52.24! Not much cheaper than the paperback.
California doesn't ban that much, for instance while I can't buy a 100 round drum magazine, I can buy liquor at the grocery store on a Sunday.
Would be interesting to pair with some of billydiy’s crystal radio ideas: http://billydiy.blogspot.com/2013/06/wearable-battery-free-j...
Thanks for the links. I will check it out. Recently I created a hidden service using whonix but didn't get a chance to build the site itself. actually created a couple different types so I have a little, very little, experience in the creation and utilization of H.S. but I look forward to looking at your idea and work. The concept is something that has a lot of positive possibilities.
I agree you can have an active non-cooperation movement. That does not appear to be suggested here.

It's the difference between "i won't participate in patenting software" vs "i'm actively avoiding any companies or software that file patents"

The former i see a lot, and it does not help in any meaningful way, in part because their participation is not required. It doesn't help, it's just something people do to pretend they are helping without having to do anything real.

The latter would be something useful, though it does take large groups.

Not working for google "as a way of helping" is clearly the former. Google doesn't need their help, they will do no good by leaving. They have plenty of other jobs, so it's not hard either. They likely can do more good by staying and agitating than by leaving and being ignored.

Additionally, the argument that they must leave google to have an impact is also clearly silly.
"awesome" lists are basically this. They often end up with not enough curation.
Plastic.com was a good one also
>> Sometime around 1983 I had an IRC conversation with someone at a big US consultancy

IRC didn’t exist then. So it was some other chat or you mistyped the date
> Do not rely on Ricochet for your safety unless you have more trust in my work than it deserves

This is an interesting line from the github readme. And I applaud for being humble. This is something which seemed lacking when I read about dapps (etherium) -- people rarely talked about having low trust on contracts written by somebody else.
T.S.A. Agents Refuse to Work During Shutdown, Raising Fears of Airport Turmoil
There is no evidence that Bill Gates said "640K ought to be enough for anyone."

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/09/08/640k-enough/
Her paper on control flow analyis written in 1970 is a better intro to flow analysis than most compiler books you will find today (IMHO):
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~suman/secure_sw_devel/p1-allen.p...

Though it covers intervals, which no longer are used due to other abstractions being found to be better later on.
I was just starting to read this page https://www.seat61.com/Canada.htm#Canadian and was thinking, this is a nice resource.

Then it kept going, and going, and going with a wonderful set of recommendations, images, descriptions, a nicely edited video etc

What a great website!
Stack Overflow Developer Desktop Build – 2019
These are all welcome trends by a societal point of view. Living standards are increasing. Even low income have access to decent electronics such as iPhones and nicer TVs.
Not all comments can be positive, didn't knew this was a requirement. I hope you don't read the comments when Google has there next privacy related topic...

My view was balanced, based on experience of the past.

I had no Apple warranty/support when there seemed to be a iPod hard drive bug.

iTunes was a requirement for iPhone and hell. My desktop was no Apple, I felt like a second class citizen.

Ps. You didn't argue why my comment was false. I like second opinions. Which is why we are here, seeing another perspective or learning something new.

I guess you knew :)

But perhaps I'm just here a bit longer than you ;)
To quote Colin Chapman - 'Simplify and add lightness'.
While a lot relies on Java, Clojure also has ClojureScript. And a lot of work as gone into making .cljc files work for both of them. There are large numbers of library who are designed to work for both and it would not be hard to make many of them work on Common Lisp.

However, I do agree, I'm not sure if this is actually useful.
I agree with this. Additionally, a lot of QAs at my company are transitioning to a test automation role where they are writing/coding their tests in addition to their normal work.
iTunes wasn’t always a trash fire on Windows. iTunes 7 on Windows was definitely a trash fire that bundled in some version of Apple Software Update but I couldn’t tell you if the fire ever got put out because I bought my first MacBook shortly after and moved my whole library to it. I do remember the hellishly long update process from 6 to 7. I think I started it, went through the prompts and then crossed the street to the supermarket for a few minutes figuring it would be done by the time I got back. Took another two hours after my return for the process to finish.

To be fair, I still kept my PC around for some stuff and I remember every version of Windows Media Player I tried (9 to 11) being something of a trash fire in its own right, so in a sense, it was with iTunes 7+ that Apple first conformed to the platform standard. I still think the nicest media player I used on Windows post-iTunes 7 was a music playing gadget from Google in my Google Desktop sidebar.
Its about as fast as JS
Quantum Computing Issues and Progress
Almost all things need to be conceived by a person before they are created. Its much easier to conceive something than build it. Thus most objects will be written about before they exist. More emergent properties are less likely to have been predicted by fiction authors. Say the decline of good news sources due to the capture of most classified revenue by Craigslist and all the knock-on effects of that.
In the US, yes. Otherwise the goods will be shipped from other countries and it will often be impossible to return them or get refunds. Amazon does as little as it can get away with there.

This is not by accident, since most people then choose the shipped&sold by amazon itself, of course potentially more expensive.
Oh come on can we drop the cat pictures trope?

I use RocketChat for my consulting business for a few reasons that are largely unavailable on IRC without bots:

1) Rich text and syntax highlighting - Small properly fenced off code blocks are a wonder. Contrast that to IRC where it would never look quite right, relies on the other person's client to have monospaced fonts, and usually gets you yelled at for flooding

2) URL expanding - Viewing titles and a snippet of the content is useful. Requires bots on IRC.

3) File sharing in a trivial non-p2p. Nobody liked DCC, and I shudder thinking of going back to opening port ranges for that.

4) Reliability of having a central history which alleviates needing a bouncer, and reduces how important a stable connection actually is.

The only other thing you could come back with is to use yet other external platforms to alleviate those issues like:

For 1) An external public/private pastebin solution

For 2) A bot as I already said

For 3) An external filsharing service: Dropbox, Nextcloud, etc

For 4) External bnc: ZNC, bip, weechat, irssi etc

RocketChat, Mattermost, Slack, et al incorporate all of those things and more and are inherently useful - Plus, if you're the administrator you don't have to enable gifs or cat pictures, yes that shit is dumb.
It's a good analogy but...

The corporate web is an "improvement" on the decentralized web only in the way ice-cream is an improvement on vegetables.
It’s about efficiency too - I love skipping generations but usually I go for the max every time I skip, so that I have peak performance for a couple of years. How does an iPhone se even work efficiently? I could not stand my 6+ because it has become too slow to do anything, and just got rid of it this month for an xs.
Bluetooth Enabled Arduino Brewing Controller
But a communicator is primarily a voice communication device. If I were to say a cellphone is like a star trek device, I'd say it's more like an undersized PADD

(and yeah, I maybe agree that the Apple engineers may have a lot of TNG. The 'too lazy to make actual buttons' set designers, I think, actually inspired apple; it really is a lot easier to design a muti-use interface if the "buttons" are all behind a glass touchscreen.)
Probably risking committing secrets if you plan to use this git folder as a sort of "backup" for your dot-files.
Funny you mention the store when it's been in the news for their repair ripoffs.
Fantastic answer because it highlights how these conditions can be overcome by changing your situation.

Clinical methodology for treating depression in Sweden is to change the person's living / work situation as a first step before pursuing other treatments.
Clojure/Markdown Editor Inspired by Emacs and Vim
> Think of data centers as huge mainframes and we will soon come close.

I... kinda doubt it. All of the really big players have access to markets that are willing to pay huge margins.

there are a lot of smaller players that would be happy to sell you compute at 75% the price of amazon, and bandwidth at 1/10th the price of amazon. Yeah, the big customers are happy paying the premium, but there are plenty of small customers that will buy service from a smaller player if it means a big discount.
Ask HN: What should a one-man commercial app launch look like?
Show HN: Python script to automate filling out Google form using Selenium
Asynchronous Flutter chat client with Go chat server which are powered by gRPC
Swift as a (shell) scripting language has been terrible for me. To get us to Swift shell scripting, I think what's needed is the "syntax" for calling out to other executables directly instead of wrapping it in a task. Of course, plumbing follows immediately and I don't know if we can keep the shell plumbing syntax in a Swift environment.
> A significant number of owners live in areas where prices were not affected by EU investment

[Citation Needed]

EU membership has improved the _entire_ economy, and thus house prices nationwide.

--

I can't quite tell if you are from the UK or not, but fixed rate mortgages are not normal. Even purchasers who purchased 20 years ago commonly have to refinance their property every two years or so in order to get a fixed rate.
Swift's APIs tend on the verbose side, but they can be wrapped up into much more concise versions. Since few people have been using Swift in this way, those wrappers haven't really appeared yet (and because Swift packaging is still in such poor shape) but it will come - just like the "requests" library made http so much more concise and easy in Python.

The obvious question, of course, is: why bother? The answer is that this code runs at about the same speed as C. So if you're doing data munging of a big file, this is a really interesting approach. For data scientists, I think there is a lot of opportunity here.
What do you do when people call you?
That's interesting. Do you have source(s) for that?

I'm not a 'the Moon landings were faked' person, but how does this reconcile with manned Moon missions?

[Edit]

So I don't have to add another comment:

My first thought was, 'oh shit, how long before someone hacks one of these and repurposes it?'
Although I have mixed feelings, I've switched all my domains to Google... the one down side to Google's domain management is there's no way to bulk edit contact information (when you move).

It's about as simple as it gets to add services, but Google's DNS is included (as opposed to GoDaddy's, which is slower) and I don't get pressured multiple times and have to click less obvious links to not choose other services. Privacy is included at cost, for TLDs that support the option.
Depends; I don't like single-dial ones. The Sony fullframe ones are decent (but I prefer directly coupled mechanical focus and real aperture rings, most FE lenses don't have those, sadly) and have exp. comp. dials, which I find useful.

Leica M rangefinders still have the best controls for non-action photos, which is a bit sad for a design from the early fifties.
This is excellent insight, chipotle_coyote. The article is a poor take.

For anyone who might not be aware of the history, Apple media products have always extended outside of the "walled garden". QuickTime appeared on Windows in 1991, iTunes for Windows was introduced in 2003, and Apple Music has been available on Android since 2015. AirPlay has been supported by 3rd-party devices for quite some time (close to a decade. IIRC).
I know a guy who buys a spec'd out MacBook Pro each time Apple updates the line. He uses them to check his email and Facebook.
That should be doable with a library, right? Is there any need for language syntax for this?
Jodie in HR is going to run Quassel?
This is the correct analysis. If you have any doubts that Apple can pull something like this off, you don't have to look very far. Right from the early days of the iPod Apple had the biggest players on the scene on board: Jimmy Iovine in that case.

Apple is a much more powerful company than it was then and I see it as very likely they'll pull off a Netflix-sized coup.
That seems counter to the narrative that led to the current holder of the highest office in the United States, no? Because if his fans believe in unquestioningly science then why do they disbelieve in a tapas selection of the following: climate change, evolution, vaccines, gravity, a round Earth, and/or whether the moon landing happened?
Meanwhile, a Mad Reclusive Engineer is Plotting the Blockchain of Death.
Signal Weechat does this iirc, there are a few other alternative clients out there too: https://github.com/thefinn93/signal-weechat
MIT ML Platform for Personalized Skincare Looking for Full-Stack Engineer
I don't agree with laziness leading to depression.

Laziness stems from not caring, depression stems from the opposite.

I think what you've labelled as laziness could better be labelled as something else. Apathy perhaps?