skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any plans to have a Windows client of Vorta? [Edit: Saw it now: "Windows is currently not supported by Borg, but this may change in the future."]
Thank you for posting. Really great resource.
I remember stumbling upon the Flat Earth Society back around 2003. I was convinced it was one of those elaborate ironic jokes/hoaxes that we used to have back then (bonsai kitten, World Jump Day, etc.)
They provided detailed sales numbers.
> The cost of actually delivering the video was so tiny it didn't matter.

By one accounting standard, yes. By another, if you include the costs of producing Netflix's (actually really great) original content, no.
People seem to assume that once they get a computer science degree, and when they become good programmers, they will automatically be wise in all domains of life. The cockiness and gigantic egos of programmers is very clear evidence of this. Some of the weakest people I encounter, in terms of the thoroughness and completeness of their existential philosophy, are programmers. Having a feeling of content or completeness when you identify as a “programmer” is a trap that only the weak-minded seem to fall into. Just look around the peninsula now.
It can be made thicker.
With „worse“ you mean what exactly?
Probably just „not fitting my personal needs and ideas“? That doesn’t make something generally worse... or can you tell me how it’s bad for me?
C++ Pointer comparisons with std::less: a horror story
Flat Earth theory seems like a symptom of a condition. Those who are showing symptoms deserve love and compassion, not ostracism.
$600 for 360d coverage or for ~1/10?

edit: for just one: https://store.dji.com/de/product/livox-mid?vid=48991
You can do this on Android with One-Handed Mode[1]. However, personally I prefer Reachability Cursor[2] instead, which lets you temporarily shift your finger with a gesture.

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xda.onehan...

[2]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.niftyui.re...
This is most likely from QLOCKTWO, who is a German company with a similar product

https://qlocktwo.com/en/
> a comment that gets a lot of upvotes on Hackers News every time it’s made.

I wonder how many of us, if asked, would say that we spend too much time on our phones? Probably higher than the population at large. A bigger screen is nicer to look at, I readily grant. But that's exactly the problem.
You're susceptible to misinformation to the extent that you can't verify a truth claim. And you can't verify most truth claims.

You can gaslight basically anyone about basically anything by playing epistemological games with them. Unless they have direct experience with the thing in question and they have personally observed the phenomena in question you can always get people to realize that they take everything they know on faith. It's a hell of a thing to realize.

I did this to my nephew recently with regards to Flat Earth when she said "but we have satellites up in space, so we know its round!" and I asked her "did you see the satellites go up into space?" and the penny dropped for her that she realized she took it on faith that the satellites were really up there and that if she wanted to find out if they really were or not that it would be one hell of a task.

Now, that's a pretty reasonable thing to take on faith and aside from a few conspiracy theorists there is broad consensus about that and it doesn't seem to be particularly contraversial. But our epistemology about most things boils down to that. We don't actually know anything. We are told things, we don't verify them for ourselves because it's way too expensive or not even possible for us to do so and we build our whole model of the world on that + things we personally observe.

You also can't explain basically how anything works in great detail. Look around any given room in your house and start going through items and explaining them in as deep detail as you can.

So with that as a reference point any time anyone has an explanation for something that provides more detail than your model has and they seem believable, it's actually not easy for you at all to tell when someone is bullshitting you either on purpose or because they are just as clueless as you. This is why we believe all manner of crazy, implausible things.
Ask HN: How do you deal with your internet addiction?
How do you balance browsing the internet for work and having the tendency to mindlessly browse?
Isn't this it?

https://store.dji.com/product/livox-mid?vid=48991
To avoid getting into an argument about the blanket term "dictatorship," can you list the specific things you think China does that are uniquely immoral (i.e., that the Five Eyes countries don't also do)?
welcome to cookie policies in 2019. EU privacy breaks the internet for european IP ranges.
https://twitter.com/anoopr/status/1071921156687626240

> the game is background noise. Fortnite isn't a game, it's a place.

https://char.gd/blog/2018/fortnite-is-the-new-hangout-spot

> Fortnite is different, because it's not even about the game at all: it's a place we're all going together.

> Not only is Fortnite the new hangout spot, replacing the mall, Starbucks or just loitering in the city, it's become the coveted 'third place' for millions of people around the world.
yes. Maybe dji backing it is a sign of it really existing?
And your comment is precisely the reason why.
I think you're underestimating how hard it is to disprove a flat earth (to a flat-earher).
I belive this is caused by anti-inflammatory medication and not by the fever itself.

There is plenty of research linking brain fog with inflammation. I myself am far more social on ibuprofen than the default and I suggest you try this yourself; try taking 400-600mg ibuprofen even when not sick but "not feeling like yourself" and notice the effects.

EDIT:
Reading the article further they tried to give sulforaphane to patients and they saw improvements. This compound is believed to have anti-inflammatory and neuro-protective effects ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5225737/ ).
The answer my friend... is blowing in the Wind.

I can do way more(orders of magnitude more) with less resources in Lisp and C-python and very simple JS than most of those frameworks do. But it took me years of learning to be able to do that.

The alternative is just having frameworks that have everything that most people will need prefabricated. This way beginners could use them easily if they do not get out of the paved way.

When they want to get out of the paved way and do something else... well, there is another framework for that.

The fact is that from an economic point of view, if you market your courses for the general Public(in the millions) , those people(most of them, 90% or so) do not want to invest what it takes to become an expert in this particular area(or any other by the way).

Most of them just want a pill that fixes their problems as fast as possible, an instant gratification at the minimum possible cost(free). They want a job, they have heard this is the future, they want money to pay the rent.

Those people in the end spend way more time always following the new fashion, the new trend, the new bubble, instead of learning the fundamentals that never change.

If you market your courses for the General population at free prices, IMHO there is no other way. General population is not going to change, they consume porn(fast sex),fast food and fast education.

For me, it will be crazy if paid courses were like this. I spend my money on paid courses(some of them expensive) and certainly they are not like this.
Well actually I'm glad that I'm protected by GDPR.

If I can't read time.com, that's their loss, not mine. If they are blocking EU users, that can only mean they were using ad bidding exchanges that violate users privacy and I want nothing to do with such publications.
I'm not the poster, but I have local and remote backups of photographs.

When I shoot a model I will take 400-600 images in an hour, each about 25Mb in size. The shoot I had last weekend resulted in approximately 18Gb of RAW files, and output JPG files.

In total I have just under 3Tb of RAW, JPG, and other media files. (Sometimes I film shoots, or do some video-work at the same time.)

That kind of volume is not huge, but still painful to upload remotely. Its also at the cusp of the kind of data you can backup to a cheap SAN-box locally. I currently have two toy NAS devices each with 2x4Tb drives. If I want to bump my local capacity to 8Tb, or similar, it'll get quite expensive.
There are distinctions between them. Some of the things you mention make claims that fall into the domain of science (I.e. are falsifiable) and some do not (those regarding spirituality, miracles, etc). That is an important and worthwhile distinction.

Incidentally, a lot of the problem of the anti-vaccine movement is not the facts (though there is a lot of that, too) but rather risk analysis. It is extremely probable (pretty much certain) that some vaccines have been associated with harm to some people in the past (and some maybe still do today) but the risk of that is so much ridiculously lower than the risk of not getting the vaccine that it is irrelevant.
Using Exceptions to Write Robust Software for Stable Production (2016)
Is the baseband firmware open source?

It would be exciting to have an open source phone based on the risc-v processor. Until the hardware is open source, it will never be truly secure.
It’s really curious that you seem to respond so frequently with whataboutism on HN posts that are critical of China. As I’ve noted before, this seems to happen every time an article about China comes out.
Ah I initially got confused because I thought supermac was some bigger Big Mac I had not heard of and went to Google. Disappointed now.
Tippin.me: easy way to receive micro-payments in Bitcoin via Lightning Network
Ask HN: What are the common models for academy-industry cooperation?
I'm planning a academy relations program for Palo Alto Networks.
I'm interested in learning what others are doing.

Examples of high tech/cyber security are more relevant but any example is welcomed.

Our current direction is to share data sets with the academy.
In specific areas of interest we would like to enter into joint projects with academic partners.
How often do you do the incremental backups on backup drive #2?

Some degree of cold storage would have reduced the OP's stress level when restoring their NAS mind you.
http://www.cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/
Wasn't that exactly my point? That you can't merely judge them based on the recovery mechanisms when the frequency of freezing on each one actually makes a huge difference?
I think you are confusing how hard it is to convince flat-earthers that the earth is not flat with how ridiculously easy it is to prove the the earth is not flat.

I (and the original comment you responded to) are discussing the second of these two.
This.. looks cool as fuck..?, but I don't get what it really is or how it works or what you're supposed to do. Found these slides which are pretty helpful, though: https://c3lt.de/media/bodymind-operating-system.pdf

edit: basically it looks like using the physical motion planning aspects of dance and a kind of martial arts to alter how you do stuff
Students learn from people they love
It breaks the pay-per-copy model, which is realistically the only one that is viable for a lot of proprietary software.
> Using the agile approach we develop the education technology based on embodied understanding, bringing the body back into the equation in this digital age.

Can someone please tell me what this sentence actually means.
You could be an Anarcho-Nativist and go back to living in tribal, hunter-gatherer societies and spend all day foraging for and hunting food just to survive and have nothing to show for it.

But it's Capatilisms fault.
I didn't claim such a thing? What I said was the parent needs to specify how frequently each one is freezing for them in the first place, which is what you're also saying. And I illustrated it by giving an example of how the freezing rate would make a difference.
iirc its not (simply because there is no oss baseband) but they went through great lengths to isolate the basebands chips from the rest of the phone. Greatly neutralising the threat the it can pose. In normal phone designs the baseband has unfeathered access to everything.
Can confirm, I think it's over ten years since my last power glitch. I don't think I've ever even seen a surge protector; UPS I've seen a couple of times at people who run servers at home.
Vorta can run on Windows (it's in Qt), but Borg can't (for now). They are working on it though.[1]

You could probably run it today using the Windows 10 Linux subsystem, but it's not fully tested and will need some small fixes. Maybe later this year.

If anyone is interested in working on this platform, just post at [1]. It's probably very doable.

1: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/936
Meh paywall here a tldr:

2015 opens the robot hotel in japan with 50 robots (in response to jp worker shortage)

Because of the good reception they add more (useless) robots - many don't work

Now they realise the robots who should reduce work, made work and half the robot staff.

Example was churi a doll in the room that woke up a snorer and frustrated guests because they expect alexa like capabilities.

https://www.efe.com/efe/english/technology/strange-robot-hot... (without paywall)
Security for the Modern Age: Securely running processes that require the
They provided the number “75” for each year with nothing to back it up.
Someone on reddit dug up nutritional information on insects and found that they do in fact have a lot of B1:

https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/ahpwqe/see_below_...
Do you have anything to say about the tool itself?
Interesting. If the camera feature is enabled by default this means you can’t use Google Maps anymore in France.
If we look at the software world the cost does seem to be trending towards zero.
I think this is all true, but one important factor is that there's currently an assumption that any serious project must necessarily use all this complexity, which makes your second point true - but not in a way that's the fault of javascript, but more the community around it.

If you're making a simple site, or even a fairly simple application, the typical modern Javascript toolchain is absolutely unneeded complexity. It's not even React - many developers will turn their nose up on anything that isn't using Redux / Typescript / GraphQL / whatever flavour of the week is popular, even on sites where Javascript itself is probably not that big a requirement. As an example, we're all talking on a site that has almost no Javascript and works perfectly well - but I have no doubt that if you hired a developer to build a site like this in 2018 it would absolutely use a typical complex setup.

That isn't Javascript's fault, really - no library demands that you use it for everything, and many like Redux make it a point to push users away from using them inappropriately. But the Javascript community is currently in a phase that's probably unhealthily pushed towards the new, shiny, more complex library, regardless of how well it suits the problem.
Without having looked into it, my impression is that the popularity of astrology (and psychics, etc.) is down to the fact that they tend to make broad, vague predictions with a relatively high P(E) that people (emotionally) tend to underestimate. For instance "something bad will happen to you this month" -> "OMG, I stubbed my toe the other day, they were totally right". If we're accurate at assigning P(E), however, then we'll probably end up with a low P(H|E).

The prior P(H) is also arguably trouble. What's a good prior likelihood for the hypothesis that magic sky gods affect your fortune? I don't know, but I'd probably have to start somewhere pretty low.
Doesn't actually say it's mass produced either - just "Mass-Production Ready", whatever that means.
Crashplan ending their consumer product was such a shame. As far as I know it was the only consumer product supporting Linux. I am currently on their discounted business plan, but I still have no idea what to do after that discount runs out.
Any developed country has a long-range radio time station.
I don't understand a word of this.
Talks a lot about privacy, but adds Google Analytics to his website.
I’ve been running Linux Debian Sid) as my primary OS for well over a decade and it’s great not to be an average user.

It has come so far over the years (back from when kernel / Xorg / drivers whatever) has to be compiled to get things to work. Now it mostly just works, although some effort is always required.

Over the years I have reduced my GUI usage to a minimum (it is still very useful for some types of operations) and it has made life simpler because there is a lot less variation in the CLI than than GUIs.

It can still be a pain (I have Nvidia card in my most recent laptop and it took some effort to get it working) but I have learned enough over the years that I was able to do it with only minimal Googling.

Once everything is set up it works and keeps working. It doesn’t slowly build up crap over the years, it doesn’t gradually work slower and slower. And if I took out my hard drive and put it in another machine it will probably just work, or at least get me to a shell where I can tweak a few things.

I can run the same OS on my desktop as I run in my servers and routers.

Being fluent in Linux has done wonders for my career in IT.

If I need some Windows apps for work I just run them in a VM with zero problems.

A big part of why things work so well of course is Debian - it is really good. As good a balance of freedom as you get in the Linux world.

So my experience is: if you are a basic user Linux is great, if you are an advanced user it is great. If you are an average user, not so great, but it’s hard to please everybody.
Are we expected to order the phone without knowing its features/specs...? I can't find them.
> the frequency of freezing on each one actually makes a huge difference?

Of course it does. But you presumed that Windows freezes much less frequently, which is not accurate in my experience and indeed I don't specify numbers precisely because the difference isn't significant.
This is an advert for a cult, it has nothing to do with OS:es. What is the point of posting this?
Looking for feedback for soft Beta launch of SaaS for Trade Show teams
I think some of them are ignorant about the effects. Many smokers I have spoken with over the years believe that the butt / filter is just cotton and tobacco and paper and will decompose very quickly.

I'd like to see more education about this, and the amount that end up in the oceans.

Someone developed a backpack that can keep strong odors inside, there should be ashtray inserts and portable small proof boxes that smokers can use, so that their car does not get the old smoke-butt smell which is way worse than the smoked in the car smell - which I gather is one of the main reasons to get the butts out of the car as fast as possible.

I'd also like to see a change in how cigarettes are made, requiring the butts to be faster to break down / decompose.

Surely these things are possible, and less litter in the future as well.
Can you explain? And when you say "actual answer", what backing do you have?
Seems like the title should be “World’s First Algol 68 Compiler”.
Is a pity that we have lost "his" library by human stupidity. There could have been a lot more to know about the state-of-art of astrography at his time.
sharing forced by license is not good.
Ask HN: Good book on resilience of natural systems, for non-biologists?
I find the way how natural systems (animals, plants) organize and respond to outside influences interesting and would like to learn from that - is there some good book that is understandable for engineers with just common understanding of biology?
I don't totally buy this comparison. People aren't bemoaning that shared libraries exist in the first place, they're arguing that Javascript's particular approach to them isn't great.

Javascript didn't invent shared modules, but their particular approach has led to an explosion of libraries with marginal utility, an anemic at best standard library, dependency management that has historically been a big source of problems and still isn't as mature as other languages approaches, disk size explosion due to each individual application storing their own dependencies (and dependencies often storing different version of libraries in their dependencies).

You don't see nearly as many arguments with say, Bundler and the gem ecosystem in ruby.
Newer implying better is a bad presumption. Don't compare on dates. Compare on architecture and design.
You could argue it both ways. I've always just thought the point is so void.

Compared to what? And someone might propose an alternative system as if to say "well it's better if we do it this way" and you could argue it both ways that they were exploited under the new system too.

The fundamental problem is you need to eat. No matter what political or economic institutions exist, or if any even exist at all, as long as you are alive you are never absolved from having to eat food. For the vast majority of people this means you have to do some form of work. In the base case it means you are a hunter-gatherer and need to forage. This takes all your time and I'm not sure how enjoyable it is either.

Imagine just how ridiculously magical the notion of financial independence through passive income combined with a market where you can procure all the necessities of life would be to a human being living at the turn of the Neolithic Revolution ~14,000 years ago.

It just blows my mind. And people want to throw around words like "exploited". Woe is me.
Augmenting the human hand – smart nails
300 Years of Urbanization and Farming Transformed the Planet
I like this. I very much like this. I feel what you described matches the problem almost perfectly. Modern economy seems to be transmuting all kind of work into labor.

In particular, in white-collar work is something that abstracts you almost completely away from reality. You come in, do whatever arbitrary thing you're asked to, and get money for it, which you can exchange to services of the modern society. Any contribution you may have is separated by a couple layers of abstraction from its real-world result, so there's almost nothing you can point to and say "I made that".

Your comment also reminded me of my own thinking on a slightly different subject - maintenance. Maintenance is essentially synonymous to "labor" here, the repeatable, unending activities needed to support things we want, as opposed to being the things we want. It's something I always believed we should strive to get rid of entirely.
The best thing i found to enforce backup discipline on myself is to regularly migrate between machines- who are regularly offline for more then 4 hours.

You will have mostly current backups of your projectdata and workdata on all those machines you migrate from and towards.

The problem theire then becomes destructive automation. You must avoid automating syncs with half-corrupted or full-corrupted instances of your work environment.

Also backups. Always backups.
Interesting that they decided to stick with the "Pocket Operator" name despite the fact that these can fit in nobody's pockets.
This is a brilliant paper, it seems more applicable and relevant today as we are developing modern AI and defining the design how AI will interact with users and programmers. The author did miss the mark on his prediction (he said it Advance AI will be doing the job by 1980's which obviously didn't happen).
Could be the physical body (e.g.: smart watches that track steps)?

At first, I thought it could be the body politic.

So, in short, not too sure, as well. =[
No, but the perverse market forces that gave us human junk food also apply to pet food.