skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're are developing an open source offering in this space: https://budibase.com . Planning to have an MVP in the summer - at which stage we will also make the source public.

We are more focussed around a tool for building SaaS products, fast. However, we are planning to build a Notion-like app using BudiBase, for management of the project & business.

Sign up for updates if you're interested!

Website is a bit vague on detail right now... a few features:

- Design your own data model: create typed fields, data validation rules, object relationships, indexing & scaling options

- HTTP Api for all CRUD operations, based on your data model

- User Management & User Role definitions

- Generated UI, with the ability to drop in your own UI wherever suits

- Fully pluginable backend, for integrations

- Output is a Single Page Web application, with an HTTP Api & data storage. Web app will be mobile ready (PWA).
If he is so obviously guilty, then why not judge him with the current evidence?

Also, "content stored on the encrypted hard drive matched file hashes for known child pornography content" - this sounds like BS (but do feel free to correct me please), I am not aware of any full-disk-encryption software that stores the unencrypted hash of whole unencrypted files.
>We may escape to new planets[1], we may learn to live under the sea.

The problem is even those options put humans in a space where someone else (whoever that someone else is) can turn off your air supply, a kind of social constraint that even the worst individuals and societies and governments in history have never had at their disposal.

[1] baring a true Earth-like planet being discovered, but, even then, based on any foreseeable technology, the only option to get there would be generational ships subject to exactly the same constraints as outlined above.
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The thing is, when this tech hits, the aftermarket will eventually offer it too, and as anyone who's been around a vehicle with an aftermarket HID setup with no cutoff/a poor pattern/a poor install, the results can be blinding.
> That's why you use text based communication, if the internet drops for someone all they have to do is scroll up a bit when they rejoin...

And that's partly why working remote is so inefficient that less than 3% of people do it. Talking with someone in the same room communicates so much more effectively than a chat log.
One of the things I don't like about Google is their decision to not be transparent to their users about their mistakes. For example with Google Plus [1]:

> Google did not tell its users about the security issue when it was found in March because it didn't appear that anyone had gained access to user information, and the company’s “Privacy & Data Protection Office” decided it was not legally required to report it, the search giant said in a blog post [2].

As the owner of Simple Analytics I think it's super important to build user trust. It's impossible to not make any mistakes so if a company never shared any mistakes, it's probably not telling you any.

Let's change this fellow hackers and share our mistakes. That's why I wrote a blog post on a mistake I made last week where I lost some user data. Some people would argue if it's smart, but I see this as a moment to show transparency.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/technology/google-plus-se...

[2] https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-s...
Why would you assume they're trying to force you to use Sync? This change is being done at the request of a small subset of people involved in testing and development.

Is there a real world usecase where someone needs to have two versions of Firefox installed and it's beneficial to have shared profiles?

I would think someone paranoid about security and privacy would want different profiles so all your eggs wouldn't be in one basket.
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For those wondering, the japanese text means "sword" and is an unused sprite in the Link to the Past.

Source: https://tcrf.net/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_A_Link_to_the_Past#Swo...
> The USA basically won the space race

The USA lost the original space race, then redefined it as "race to the moon", eventually accomplished that and then dropped the ball.

I don't want to denounce the amazing accomplishment of the Apollo programme, but Americans have a tendency to undersell the groundwork laid by the Soviet Union by focusing just on the moon landing.
If you IT department is your adversary you should get a new job.
Or at least use a personal device for personal matters :)
A pleasant Icecast-using website is n10as (pronounced "antennas") radio[0]. I'm a longtime listener.

Personally, I like to use Icecast alongside Mixxx[1], an open-source DJ software that I highly recommend, to do live mixes of dance music over the web. Mixxx comes with configuration settings for broadcasting live audio within the program itself without the need for any extra client.

[0] http://n10.as/

[1] https://www.mixxx.org/
By that logic, wearing a helmet is also "deeply flawed reasoning"
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> I decided to be more optimistic or maybe stoic. Make sure I can do what I can or all I can and not let some potential apocalyptic future darken my life.

I am somewhere along this path, trying to find a mindset to cope. Yet I have the feeling that even so, widespread, happiness all but ensures the collapse, as the emergent effect of everyone being happy and living their best life, no matter what they think as they do it, is just as bad. I am sorry about this, sorry to be a bearer of bad news, sorry to bring this darkness out in the world, but honestly there is no way out of this box for humanity.
It means they don't think you're adding anything of value to the discussion.
Apple should file for Bankruptcy we dont want their garbage
Well now we have experimental evidence that it's possible. That is quite important.
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I'm trying to use this in mac shell, but it says `tr: Illegal byte sequence`
It doesn't seem like such a big deal to me. If you can grow plants in pressurized compartments in micro-gravity it should work on the moon, also.

It would have been another thing if they used parts of moon soil and the like.

And this wasn't the first time biological material has grown on the moon. The American astronauts brought plenty of growing biological material with them, too.
It's not equivalent since you're already alive. Not producing a child isn't the same as killing one's self in any way.
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Science and knowledge can help make it cheaper, make those profit margins look better, and have it happen more.
NVMe drives have it as well, at least the Samsung ones.

You can read it on Linux by running:

"nvme smart-log /dev/nvmeX"
I'd put malaria carrying mosquitoes at the top of the list, not tigers.

The concept of a tiger is an important part of human culture, and it would be a pity if nobody could see a real one, but they breed in captivity, so people can see them in zoos. It's easy to romanticize the idea of "wild tigers" when they live far from you, and you're at no risk of one eating you or your livestock. Humans killed most wild tigers for good reason.
I wanted to say exactly the same. The Sony page is horribly misinformed.

Calling Sony "toxic" for including a useful OPT-IN feature to extend battery life? Pfff...
Or when you're parked facing a restaurant with glass windows.

Or when it's snowing and all that directed laser light is being reflected right back at you (not mentioning reflectors which are already absurdly bright with LED and halogen bulbs).

Or when you hit a bump in the road and the redirection of light doesn't occur fast enough.

Or when the vibration of fifty-thousand miles impairs the aiming mirrors. Can you imagine the pathological case of a partially broken DLP chip?

There's too many corner cases and (literally) moving pieces for this to really be practical.
It's not useful in any way, but I have one alias... "doot". It runs a Python script that draws a skeleton playing the trombone over an 80s scrolling grid and sunset.
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Wait, within 100 miles of a border the 4th amendment doesn't apply? There are entire cities, large ones, within 100 miles of a border. Does the 4th amendment not apply to the citizens of those cities? That would be a rather serious problem.
Apple's server-side WebObjects stuff is all written in Java; and IIRC, the original Control Panel for OS X was in Java using the ObjC/Cocoa bridge stuff.
No problem. Here is the image: https://imgur.com/a/0wZsbQE
I know people who have had their headlights "tuned" to have them raised higher. Purpose was to "blind"/"warn" traffic on the German Autobahn when they wanted to clear the lane for themselves and the car to look more aggressive.

Works as easy as removing the battery, pushing the back of the car down, therefore lifting the headlights up. Reconnect the battery and that lifted state will be memorized as 0-level by the headlights. Now remove the weight from the back, the car will come back into it's normal position but the lights think they are too low, so they will level themselves higher and therefore blind oncoming traffic...
Sending things to (actual) space is expensive. Drones are a lot cheaper than orbital weapons and easier to justify than WMDs.

There's not much profit in sending things beyond Earth orbit as Earth is where all the strategic targets are. So other than satellites there's not much to do in space from a military-industrial point of view.
This Twitter thread has some good pointers: https://twitter.com/JamieJBartlett/status/966603813791649792
Loud pipes direct sound out and back, so anyone ahead of you, e.g. at an intersection or in oncoming traffic, still isn't going to hear you.

"Loud pipes save lives" has never been proven by any data. Decent article/rant about this saying:
https://www.revzilla.com/common-tread/stop-saying-loud-pipes...
I don't think NOT performing packet inspection due to privacy concern is a good idea. (Good security controls should exist over its administration)

One reason why organizations use packet inspection is to protect its staffs, customers and vendors from malicious actors who could cause data breaches leading to huge privacy issues.

Privacy over Security? The right balance must be found
http://news.cqu.edu.cn/newsv2/show-14-16860-1.html

This is from the university that lead the experiment. A control experiment was done as well
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To be fair, I hesitate to spend €1 on a liter of spring water today. However for a single drop of moon water I might trade my car, sex, or significant work.

Refined aluminum was once scarcer than gold, and aluminum jewelry was extraordinarily expensive.
What if there was a way to replace parenthesis with syntax? For instance, if you could declare your operating system as:

operating-system:
...
packages:
- vim
- %base-packages

instead of:

(operating-system
...
(packages (cons* vim %base-packages)))

would that help you? No more parenthesis, the complexity of cons* is hidden behind the "-" and it's pretty trivial to convert between one syntax and the other. If it was possible, how would that affect your opinion on guix? What if the installer came with a pre-configured vim for scheme?

btw, I'm also a guix and a vim user, and I don't use anything special for parenthesis. I just close them manually like a grown-up (which is a very usefull skill to have when you want to impress an emacs user :p).
As far as I know, Humans need lots of gravity to develop, so any settlement could not reproduce, at least until means to counteract the effects of microgravity are discovered.
> I don't understand this story at all.

setquk's father was sat in a car parked at the side of the road, presumably in the driver's seat, with the window open, and was using a mobile phone.

Someone came along on a motorbike, reached in through the open window, and grabbed his phone with the intention of stealing it.

He was quick enough to get hold of the would-be thief's arm and wind the window up, with the intention of trapping the thief there and summoning the police to arrest them.

Unfortunately, the thief escaped (but suffered some broken fingers in the process, presumably as setquk's father tried to hold him there); and unfortunately, although setquk's father was able to give the police the licence-plate number of the motorcycle the thief was using, this didn't help to track it down because the motorcycle was also stolen (and I guess the thief abandoned it shortly after this incident).

setquk sees this as another example of the same phenomenon described in the article and by dtf: opportunistic mobile-phone thieves on motorcycles.
Believe me we know what's wrong with it, we're just careful to criticise it. The root of all those problems is a lack of cash. The current govt. is de-funding it to breaking point so they can bring in private contractors.
I'm just saying it logically follows that killing yourself is likely even better than not having children.

I consider it a failure of the study if it says "don't have kids" if (and only if) its original aim was to show how that can be done without drastic measures (such as "kill all humans", "don't have kids", ...).

It's like suggesting to not have kids in order to fight cancer. Yes, absolute cancer occurrences will decrease if you don't have kids, yet we have not in any way addressed the underlying problem.

EDIT: Previously I said "absolute cancer rates" where I should have said absolute cancer occurrences
We put helium in children’s balloons and it’s down here with us at the bottom of the gravity well. It’s cheaper to refine the Earth’s helium than import it from the moon. And we have no use for Helium 3 now nor for the next 30 years.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/08/moonshin...

> Firstly, nobody's built a commercially successful fusion reactor yet. ITER plan to build a working test-bed; it's logical successor would be a working prototype first generation power reactor. There are huge obstacles to overcome, not least in developing neutron capture techniques and breeding D/T fuel. These are engineering problems (sorry, annoying paywall) and theoretically amenable to solution — but at a price of billions of euros and decades of work, and even then, it may turn out to be too costly to be a viable competitor for well-understood fourth generation fission technology and a mature waste disposal/fuel recycling chain. And that's before we look to a speculative second generation reactor, running on a different type of fuel, that — because of the higher Coulomb barrier between He nuclei — requires a far higher temperature (on the order of 500M to 1Bn degrees celsius, rather than the relatively chilly 100M degrees C required for D/T fusion).

> Given the average generation time for a new reactor technology of 20-30 years, and development costs on the order of $50Bn-100Bn per generation, we won't be even thinking about prototyping an He3 reactor until 2060 at the earliest.
Solving just about any of our sustainability problems on earth will be easier and less work than establishing a self-sustaining colony any place else.
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Because ISPs are desperately trying to be more than just "dumb pipes" that carry our traffic. To expand their revenue many of them track DNS and domains visited to sell ad data to other companies.
I'm in a rural area with literally zero street illumination. I cannot begin to describe my frustration with the blue tint, ultra bright lights, and off-road LED light bars. Install those on every other lifted truck (redneck's a plenty) and night time driving is hazardous.

I don't care who installed the lights, whether it was the factory, the current or previous driver/owner. If I can't see because of your lights, they're too damn bright.
Or a lifeguard blowing their whistle at folks who specifically used the "no lifeguard on duty" beach so they could swim out far.
This kind of attitude, diminishing of the person's feelings, isn't helping said person overcome their trouble with keeping working.

Not everyone's built with the kind of internal drive that makes you go for it without much hesitation. Some of us need a certain guidance, an understanding of the process.

In an ideal world, your message wouldn't even be mentioned. The one we're living in is far from ideal. We live in a complicated world, filled with norms, expectations, fears, desires, anxieties, and passions. Making sense of all that takes beyond picking the right goal.
I also live in the area. As soon as the weather get nicer, it is a great way to spend the weekends.
Depends on how you configure buffers, chunk sizes, key frames and other parameters. It is possible to get the same or better latency with chunked streaming compared to Icecast.
With DASH the client knows the timestamps of available chunks and the server time, so it can deliberately play as close to the live edge as possible or keep a larger buffer depending on network conditions.

Edit: If you want really really low latencies (<100ms) you can use WebRTC for broadcast streaming to the browser. If the network has a hiccup it will instantly show in the stream though, so for robustness chunked HTTP streaming is a much better choice at the cost of a few seconds latency.
It's more nuanced than that. I have to use Oyster over contactless because it's the only way to get the 1/3rd discount when you have a 16-25 or 26-30 railcard. They can't currently be connected to a contactless card.
This was one of the most important reason why I switched a site/app to PWA. It is so convenient to have single "backend".
https://support.1password.com/one-time-passwords/

Create a new login entry, then create a new field under the Section header. By default, it's a text field, but you can change it to a 2FA code. Then it will prompt you to scan a QR code.
You spin your O'Neill cylinders, that's how you get gravity.
> It’s another reflection of how the increasingly...

I see what you did there.
Most experts say the Human population will peak at some point.

The project to put even a couple of people on the mars surface, let alone let a couple of hundred live there, is currently too demanding to even attempt. Only vague plans exist.
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I try to avoid thrash food in general, but would still appreciate if you can be more specific about eating well. Do you have a specific recommendation ? A book for dummies ? Also exercise. I've done 100 push up challenge last August, but I was feeling so exhausted every single day.
It's actually common practice in a lot of countries that consistent public use over time creates a public right of way. It is conversely one of the reasons why private landowners sometimes engage in what often seems like relatively passive-aggressive signage, fencing or putting up gates to close access part of the day etc. to ensure they don't accidentally allow new public rights of way to be established.
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> And if the prior posters statement gets you into an existential crisis, I'd start reading up on the stoics, buddhists, etc...

Not that it's not a good advice (I'm quite enjoying Meditations by Marcus Aurelius), but I'm fairly certain the above-poster said so in jest.
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Are you against listening to the onScroll event in general, or only against scroll hijacking?
Isn't tor and its protocol open source though?
Can't anyone inspect the code that powers it, fork it, create their own network if they want to?
My click got hijacked and it took me to a PDF reader app on Google Play. Usually you wouldn't expect this kind of behaviour on a personal blog.
> I could have had a JTB that the code change had caused the emails to stop delivering, but still we wouldn’t want to say I “knew” this was the cause, because it was actually the service outage that was directly responsible.

He is wrong and this is not a gettier in any way. "The code change had caused the emails to stop delivering" is not a JTB, because it is not true. Rather it was that the email server went down.
I don't know what you're on about, but I am paying £2.90 to get from Brockley to Shoreditch High Street to get to work (7 miles in total). That's the same price I would pay for a bus I believe.

People presume that Berlin is the center of Germany, when in fact it absolutely isn't. Hamburg is a much more wealthy city that Berlin. Here's [1] the ticket prices for Hamburg [1] and here's [2] the ticket prices for London, are you seeing much difference?

[1] https://www.hvv.de/en/tickets/single-day-tickets/overview
[2] https://www.visitbritainshop.com/world/london-travelcard/
There is this:

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/46716
Forget fines, throw them in jail. Guarantee they'd shape up real quick.
logmyhours.com - I'm happy with it so far though, it's something I've built for myself (I log all my hours working on it) and 100% on my own and has been a great learning experience. But it is getting harder and harder to work after work.

I love that I get to chat with customers and see what really are their pain points (something devs rarely ever get to do).

If I can double the MRR and relocate outside of Vancouver, I can most likely go full-time.
3 sounds to me like mental models. I'm fascinated by the idea of how we can learn/teach using mental models directly, rather than expecting the learner to build the mental model over time by working through rote memorisation and experimentation until it "clicks". I strongly believe that opening up mental models would make learning new skills vastly quicker and more accurate.
that's a fair point. you shouldn't encourage your customers to do something like that without including the bits of plastic that make it safe.

that said, I got the combo bundle with rotor guards and I almost never use them because they make the drone so squirrelly in wind. I hand launch/land every time and I have yet to cut myself on the rotors. I was very happy to have them when I used the drone to check all my gutters for leaves, takes a lot of the stress out of flying so close to the roof.
I don't really understand what he means. Just point it down at an angle? Or will it be motorized? How is it supposed to know where to point, some sort of fancy machine learning?
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Isn't the MongoDB code covered by their Server Side license [1]? AWS could not use this legally.

1. https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/mongodb-now-released-under...
Yes, they can get it. However, government can get more data to start with. Or at least, that has been the case: I'm incredibly worried about self-driving cars. This is not for the usual reasons (safety etc.): I am concerned that they record everything they see in neighborhoods and areas not under surveillance normally. This is seriously, seriously bad.

We don't want private companies watching everything we do. They photograph license plates, and can use it to track who we are and where we go.

How long until recaptcha involves transcribing a license plate number?
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The unshielded radiation dose for a round trip Mars expedition with 18 months spent on the surface is roughly equivalent to the life time dose allowed for a worker in the nuclear industry. The risks are completely negligible compared to the 50% or so chances of not making it back to Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_threat_from_cosmic_rays...

One of the first mass products of a colony is likely to be Methane and simple hydrocarbons like ethylene which can be further used to produce polyethylene, an excelent shielding material that can reduce the radiation to earth levels if applied in thick blankets.