skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could save a ton of money starting a restaurant on the North Pole! Free real estate, low bill to light the place during half the year, what's not to like. As much as I hate the draw of SV if I were to start a company that needs that kind of funding I would do everything I could do to do it there. Why hamper yourself on purpose, the $1.1M saved might easily translate into a couple of missed connections worth a very large multiple of that amount.
Yes. Many ThinkPads had a small internal battery to power it when you were swapping the main battery.
Seems this is misattributed:

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_A._Michelson
Worth plugging https://sr.ht I guess. It's free for now and it's going to be very cheap[1] when it does start requiring a subscription. In addition to supporting the open-source developer who gave us things like Sway, you'd also be able to build on platforms like RISC-V, which I don't think anybody else offers.

1 - As little as $2/month, apparently.
As an aside, I find it ironic that the sibling comments all describe a different cause of the 2008/2009 crisis.

Next time someone rambles on about no one being arrested/held responsible for the financial crisis, show them this thread full of reasonably intelligent people still unsure of the cause 10 years later.
Jesus this was shit post. He doesn't make any sense or have ANY decent argument in favor of billionaires. He just rambles on about how "I know a few and they don't seem like bad people"

Whatever.

Billionaires exist because any system where people are given different opportunities when starting out end in vastly different outcomes.

Modern business scales to the point where you can create something in your basement that people around the world can buy.

Bill Gates isn't 100 billion times smarter than the top software people he worked with at IBM. Yet, he is worth that much more than them.

Income inequality destroys the social fabric of a community. And our country will continue down it's long dark path as long as billionaires and the rich elite hoard their wealth and power from middle and lower class Americans.
I’m gonna put here a timid «I call bs on this».

First of all: HTML+CSS is indeed pretty complex. When you care for A11y, Responsiveness, Performance, Maintenability, complexity rises as a cartesian product.

But if you introduce interactions, the complexities rise by orders of magnitude.

To keep up with those complexities, you need to have a strong engineering background in concurrent/event-driven programming. Because that’s what a UI is.

So a HTML+CSS developer is all good till they need to add a dropdown, or any interactive component. Then you either know how to manage that complexity, or you’re gonna introduce technical dept to the project (or just pass responsibility).

In reality, what I saw, is that developers focused on front-end usually can perfectly learn on the spot what they need to keep their HTML+CSS accessible or responsive. When they have a knowledge gap is usually for past disinterest.

On the other hand, HTML+CSS developers usually have a hard limit when talking about interaction.

So, when I’m searching for developers, I look for the skill super-set, because I can make a HTML+CSS dev out of a FE dev, not the opposite.
The Wikimedia Foundation is not wikipedia. Paying people to edit would be a fundamental change in the ethos of the whole movement
A la carte might make sense if the pricing was more reasonable. I don't want to pay $2-3 per episode to own a TV series I'll never watch again.
How Ants Sniff Out Food | ScienceTake
The problem is that "fake news" is undefined. It could be

pure lies
partial truth / known lies
partial truth / unprovable assertions
conjecture passed as news
limited snippets biasing intended viewpoint
commentary (Fox "news")
Disagree with assertions
Propaganda by state actor

And those are what I could think of in a few minutes. Worse yet, who's to be the arbiter of "truth"? What credentials do they have? And why would we believe them to be transparent with truthiness ratings? They will have bias - will we be able to discern? Doubtful.

The underlying thing, is that when things are bought to light, the truth surfaces. Yet now, the attack is on the very definition of "truth", playing the ultimate word definition game.
Have you looked at Citavi? It's the software many German universities offer. While it's PDF annotation system/knowledge database is awesome (elements of different types linked to locations in the PDF, categorizable and taggable) and the Add-Ins are very fast and bug-free (compared to Zotero), collaboration is cumbersome and its focus on "projects" instead of one overarching "library" is annoying
Why you should use Rust for your next DApp
Show HN: DIY DDNS with Bash and Cloudflare APIs
Scaling the Circular Economy: Google, SAP [contest for] social entrepreneurs
I wouldn't include Firefox in this just yet, a lot of people still trust Mozilla (who nevertheless still have to be very careful not to lose that trust)
Ohai o/

I needed a Dynamic DNS service for a couple of devices I had in my DMZ, but most free services requires you to confirm the hostname manually regularly, or include some kind of restriction.

I use Cloudflare for some domains, and I dug in their APIs to make my own DDNS.

It should be easily to adapt it to fit other DNS APIs, feel free to contribute!
If what you say was true, the bombs wouldn't work either. The bombs are based on the same math as stellar physics.
These animals are also famous for their cube-shaped poop!

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/11/wombat-po...
Oh if the likes are included then it makes sense.
At the same time you'd never know that just by being in Tokyo for a while. Take public transportation: lines might change color and operator, but you use the same trains and cards to go from ward to ward, and coverage is pretty homogenous from one end to the other. That alone makes it feel like one cohesive city.

Compare it to Lisbon (where I live): some five or six different systems to serve less than 2 million people. Disheveled, impossible to coordinate. Dense coverage in the city centre and sparse where people actually live, so masses of cars go into the centre every day. Gridlock and pollution everywhere. And the systems we have are considered good!

I'll gladly join the chorus calling Tokyo the future. Can't come soon enough.
Did you try extensions and not like them? https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1&q=firefox+t...
I much prefer Java's model of software dependency consisting of (for the most part) well-documented, large, feature-filled libraries distributed in an easily discoverable and maintainable manner (maven/gradle/...) to the dependency hell that is modern JS libraries. Hopefully newer languages like rust don't succumb to the same trap.
This could actually have a big impact as the ones who believe fake news are likely the ones using Edge.
The Git project has a trademark policy. You need permission from them if you want to use it in your brand.

This is not likely to receive permission, since this kind of thing is specifically why the trademark began being enforced—this is a service built on top of the GitHub social network. GitHub login has nothing to do with Git. GitHub issues have nothing to do with Git. GitHub's pull request API has (next to) nothing to do with Git. Trying to brand this as "Git Butler" just serves to further conflate GitHub and Git.
He was a bit more nuanced it seems: https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_A._Michelson
We switched from Travis CI to Circle CI because Circle CI was (a) significantly faster and (b) a little cheaper
The page reminded me of Fyre Festival. Probably since the two documentaries about Fyre Festival are being talked about. I'm skeptical they can deliver. I hope to be proven wrong.
Can't speak for all competition, but Predict is using third party company to securely connect to banks around the world. It would not be possible to do otherwise, and it is the main reason for subscription price.
My bad that I didn't see the earlier comment, interesting that it was attributed to Albert Michelson; seems a similar statement was made by him as well.

As far the article is concerned, I didn't quote to suggest they say it is end of particle physics. I just didn't agree with,

> But with the Higgs found, the next larger collider has no good motivation

Theoretical physicists were in consensus that to find precise answers w.r.t what happened during Big Bang we need high energy collider of the size of our solar system, that didn't deter them from creating LHC.
For me this sounds like FUD.

Sure, you can install a bunch of deps for every small problem, but you don't have to.

If you just take a bit time to think, you can roll your own solution for 90% of the deps, which are tiny packages anyway.
There's no reason to believe that raising taxes on the wealthy is just a free wellspring of enough money to fund huge, nation-wide social programs.

Actually there's a lot of historical evidence to the effect that, when taxes are more progressive -- income inequality is less severe, affordable housing gets built and infrastructure is better maintained.

And not only that: because we're "all in this together", society tends to work more cohesively and deal better with external threats, like say, WW2 (compared to the nosedive into nativism and paranoia we're experience right now, in the face of comparatively lesser threats).

Source: U.S. history since the beginning of the corporate era (1880s or so).
While I knew of Carmack and Torvalds, I only recently read a bit about Kernighan and Ritchie. And that was only because I got roped into doing some maintenance on a rather old system, programmed in C, which used a syntactic style that I hadn't encountered before. A bit of research on some of the structures I saw lead me to pre-ISO standardization of the C language, where the closest thing to a standard was a book written by those two, and the resulting pseudo-standard referred to as K&R C.

I bailed out of that project as soon as humanly possible, by the way. Not just because of the ancient language, but the entire organizational structure of both the codebase and the team itself.
>shoulders of giants

>leftpad

>escape-string-regexp

Yeah, giants indeed.
That's exactly right. Ctrl+P or clicking the button in the toolbar has always been a "quick print" dialog, while going File->Print brings up all the options. I remember some applications skipping the dialog altogether on the second click and using the settings from your last print session.
If you’re an Emacs user, TRAMP makes running compilers on an external system feel almost completely transparent. New shells automatically open up on the remote machine and it feels almost local if your network latency is low enough.
If noise was solved somehow, I think it would be awesome. I think you're underestimating just how much space there is above you. Guided cars in air-lanes wouldn't block much, and personally I think it would look pretty cool in a metropolis.
Whatever Happened to CurrentC?
>When the story seems too perfect to be true, it most likely isn't [true].

I was expecting to read

>When the story seems too perfect to be true, it most likely isn't [too perfect].

I only comment in case someone else makes my mistake.
It's probably helpful to think of this as phase transitions. At the plank scale "temperature" everything is mixed together, but when the system cools and undergoes a phase transition we start seeing different behavior.

Sounds possibly like an invalid analogy, but in fact there's substantial overlap in the theories. If you want to read more try reading wikipedia articles on "ising model", "spontaneous symmetry breaking", "higgs mechanism".
Fixed COFI mortgages are an interesting alternative as well.
> group people in individual subjects. That would however be a logistics nightmare

You mean... like... in college?! Especially with computers, this is a piece of cake. Collect all preferences, add weights/priorities and some hard constraints (e.g. no class after 3pm), throw it into a SMT solver to generate individual student's schedules, give schedules to students & teachers. Done.
- User upgradable/servicable parts, notably the battery & HDD

- All hardware supported by open source drivers in the upstream Linux kernel

- Durable frame

- Standard ports which have already been shown to stand the test of time (USB, 2.5mm headphone jack, and HDMI)

- x86_64 or RISC-V architecture
I wonder if this system would have flagged evidence of Iraq WMD's as fake news? Or is it something primitive that just asserts that anything != CNN et. al. is fake news?
I once had occasional to implement several of the algorithms from the second part of Knuth volume 2, in C++.

I don't recall the details, as this was a long time ago, but there were definitely times I was glad C++ used 0-based arrays, and there were definitely times when 1-based would have made for cleaner code.

So I overloaded the () operator to make a(n), where a is an array, equivalent to a[n-1].

It looked a little odd at first if I mixed a[] and a() form in the same program, but it wasn't hard to get used to.

I doubt I would recommend this in general, but it worked well for this particular application.
I 100% agree until we start talking about compile times. If you're a Chromium dev, you can't use an ODroid.
Travis is nice, but the cost always make me look at Semaphore or Codeship.
A lot of stuff in cosmology about the curvature of the universe, dark energy, expansion. Some of the quarks were not observed until after. Observation with high beam neutrinos. Controllable quantum systems were barely imagined in 84, and now they are "common" and we might even be able to scale them to sizes necessary for quantum computing in the next decade.
It is said that Albert Michelson made similar quote, but the quote I stated has been attributed to Kelvin.[1]

[1] : http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Kelvin.html
> And quite frankly, even though you can do more with a console, its a lot easier to remember how to do things with a GUI then without one.

I don't know about this. Whenever I do something unfamiliar/complicated on the command line I copy every command I used to a text file for later reference. Repeating these actions in the future is as easy as copy and paste. If I figure out how to do something in a GUI and I don't have to do it regularly I will almost certainly find myself flailing and clicking around randomly when I have to do it again in 10 months.
I think this would give us all kinds of insight we're totally wrong about at the moment.
Is this the contrapositive:

People who don't practice being fun and having fun at work won't make work that's fun.

Sounds reasonable.
Personally, I wouldn't start a company in silicon valley. On the whole, it looks to me like the downside of doing that far outweighs the upside.
I am not sure why the above comment is being downvoted.

I remember ... early 90s ... when the Superconducting Super Collider was being proposed/started in Waxahachie Texas. The original claim to the broader scientific community funded by NSF, DOE, and DOD was that building this wouldn't impact other science funding.

Then my thesis advisors grant was reduced as part of cost savings to move money around for the SSC.

So ... far from being a good expenditure, real science was cut to make room for a project that ultimately was shut down. Hit me directly, as I couldn't take a research assistant position with my advisor, I had to take a teaching position to provide me income and tuition support.

These were not fun times.

Sabine's article is quite good, and she asked a meaningful set of questions. A new collider is probably not the best use of funds ... though ... honestly ... I'd like to see a helluva lot more money pushed to real science, so we can build the infrastructure (non-retired) scientists need, fund the software they need to develop.

Doubling or trebling NSF budget would help. Similarly for NIH, CDC, and others.

Not that I think we should repeat the funding mistakes of the past (Ph.D. in physics in 90's, think 1000 applicants for each open tenure track position, and 100's of applicants for each national lab position). We should make sure we are doing quality work, and enable researchers to take risks. Current grant process doesn't really allow this.
Yeah. I think the person above is confusing a digital overlay with a digital viewfinder. Apples and oranges.

As useful as digital overlays are (and they are, particularly the graphs) they cannot do what an LCD viewfinder can do which is to say completely "demo" what the final picture will look like (i.e. show the results of shutter speed and ISO settings).

Mirrored lens cameras still have their usages. I'd definitely take one for high speed sports shooting in particular (even the best LCDs introduce some latency).

But for day to day, particularly learning photography, digital viewfinders are a huge improvement that make mirrorless worth it all by themselves. I'd never go back to a DSLR, the loss of information in the viewfinder is a massive deficit (not to mention the weight/size/unreliability).
Exactly. I often find myself shooting pictures and videos from across a church sanctuary (I'm my church's semi/un/official photographer). I've considered getting a lens because of that, but the stock lens's maximum zoom is good enough, especially if I walk around a bit.
I wrote a library for casting things, called catt:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt/

It supports youtube-dl so you can just do `catt cast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ` and it will work.
> is generally about as on the level as their contemporaries

This points to another pretty obvious problem with NewsGuard, though: flagging happens at the site level instead of the article level. It's obvious why that's necessary, but the result is a complete failure to deal with any source where quality varies widely. Fox's written reporting is sometimes quite good, but Glenn Beck's old videos are still posted under the same domain. The result is that NewsGuard happily puts a big green checkmark above a video declaring that the US is the only country in the world with birthright citizenship.

In the same sense that labels like "no added sugar" can actively mislead by giving the appearance of health, I worry that NewsGuard is going to warn people away from Onion articles while encouraging them to accept outright lies without due diligence.
Why not upgrade to more powerful desktop pc's unless your developing native mac software you don't "need" to use macs to develop on
Yes, of course - but what is the default if you don't have a CSP? I guess I will have to do the experiment.
Hi! I'm from the EC2 team.

This is a great tool to help uncover if CPU and memory NUMA within a VM aligns to the physical host or not:

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/projects/ipc-ben...

Paper from the USENIX 2012 conference: http://anil.recoil.org/papers/drafts/2012-usenix-ipc-draft1....

EC2 instances have been NUMA optimized since we launched our CC1 instances in 2010. I encourage you to try ipc-bench on your cloud provider of choice, if CPU and NUMA affinity is important to your workload.
The haskell quicksort is also wrong : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7717691/why-is-the-minim...

Here's the correct version taken from one of the SO answers :

import qualified Data.Vector.Generic as V
import qualified Data.Vector.Generic.Mutable as M

qsort :: (V.Vector v a, Ord a) => v a -> v a
qsort = V.modify go where
go xs | M.length xs < 2 = return ()
| otherwise = do
p <- M.read xs (M.length xs `div` 2)
j <- M.unstablePartition (< p) xs
let (l, pr) = M.splitAt j xs
k <- M.unstablePartition (== p) pr
go l; go $ M.drop k pr
Why now? (Or why soon)? Or why might flying cars actually happen this time?

The enabling tech is battery density. Battery density (per kg) has been increasing 5-8% a year (doubling every 10 years). That seems slow compared to transistors (doubling every 2 years), but compound growth sneaks up on you. Enough that an electric car seemed dumb 20 years ago and obvious now.

Urban human quadcopters are unlikely, a car like number of these in cities is hard to imagine. Even with silent electric motors, the noise from take off and landing from air displacement exceeds safe noise levels, and is far above nuisance levels. So I'd guess 2-30 times as much traffic as current helicopters. Also they can and will fall down on expensive stuff and nice people.

The more plausible market is medium range 4 person air taxis, from small airport to small airport, 50 to 400 miles. That's NYC to Boston, SF to LA, Portland to Seattle.

This Boeing story says 50 miles. Pipistrel's Alpha Electro, a 2 seater plane, has a 93 mile range with another 45 miles as reserve (138 total).

In 2029 with similar battery improvement, that will be 231 miles with 45 miles in reserve. The regulatory challenges will be difficult, but in about 2025 you could launch a viable autonomous air taxi company somewhere in the world.

Existing advantages:

- Drone autonomy is already or easily solved, so you don't pay for a pilot.

- Electricity cost is low.

- Maintenance costs are much lower than gas engine planes.

- Even with maintenance, gas engines are less reliable.

Better battery tech unlocks these last three advantages and makes air taxies feasible.

[1] https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2015/october/pi...
12,500, not 125,000. Still a lot ;)
We're not talking about "high-income" people. The biggest tax benefit for low-income people is the Earned Income Tax credit, which is calculated based on number of dependent children. Then there are all sorts of middle-class credits and deductions even for people who do not itemize: child credits, child care credits, child care deductions, teaching supply deductions, etc. And large numbers of middle class people use the mortgage interest deduction.

And even relatively high income people ($100,000+, which might just be a household of two teachers) might be hesitant to dispute a "bill" sent by the IRS.

As to applying these deductions automatically: the IRS simply lacks the information. There is simply no database (federal or state) tracking which children live with which adults (the credits are computed based on dependent children, not biological or legal children). There is no federal database of marriages, and while there are marriage certificates at the state level, it's unclear whether there are any easily accessible databases of married couples. There are no databases tracking which daycare you send your children to, what you spend in college tuition, etc.
On Algorithms and Interviewing
the quality, speed and reliability of GCP is second to none?

I hope this is a joke. AS someone who started on GCP, and got tired of the TERRIBLE quality and reliability of their docs among other issues saying that they are ahead is an absolute joke.

I've found some corner cases with AWS, but got quick resolution even on things they have in "beta" - and consistency from documentation through to system is high.

Secondarily, AWS seems to support even old tech FOREVER. I have a simpledb based app. That tech is 9 years old now. Still ticking. When you are building stuff up over time and can't afford to rebuild on the new hotness every other year, this is nice.

Anyone know the revenue AWS and GCP generate? Seriously hard to believe GCP is so many years ahead in this space from my own experience.
My own definition: While we have people who are incapable of paying for food, shelter, healthcare and basic education, we have people living in extreme poverty.

It's good that less of us are extremely poor today than 100 years ago, but the fact that you can watch Netflix in comfort while your teeth rot inside your mouth unattended does not mean change to the system isn't needed.
You completely ignore the scorched earth left by war. How is that exactly protecting the vulnerable? It would not be possible without massive entities like the State.
Noise was certainly a problem for this proposed inter-city transport:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Rotodyne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9633v6U0wo