skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now, a pessimist might say that some people can't advance science or art because they lack the capability.

Another counter is that this may be caused by our current educational system. With UBI, it may make sense to employ e.g. 20-30% of all workers in education, to enable 1:1 tutoring for all students.
I personally agree that uber has had the same impact as amazon... I don't have a car, and for the monthly TCO of a nice luxury car, I get driven everywhere. It's pretty great.

The problem is twofold, for uber. First? they're losing money. If they raise prices to solve that problem, it's possible that a lot of people like me will... just buy cars again. I mean, I certainly prefer to be driven over driving, but I'm pretty price sensitive on the subject. Much more price sensitive than I am for most of the things I get from amazon.

Uber's second problem is that the difficult to compete with advantage they have, that is, that they are global, only matters to me when I travel. When I'm somewhere I've been a while, it totally makes sense to install the local taxi apps and take what is best, and most of my car hire use is in places where I am often enough to know the market. This week? Lyft is having a 25% off sale, which makes them cheaper than uber even counting the uber loyalty program and prepay discounts. Once the Lyft sale is up, I'll probably go back to Uber.

I suppose both the problems uber has come down to the same thing; the only difficult thing about replicating their business is that they are willing to lose money doing it. They just don't have a whole lot of a moat.
Harris ranch (or whatever big cow op is on I-5).

(36.3057129, -120.2729291)

The solar project is Panoche Valley, I don’t think any satellite pics are new enough to show progress

There’s a map here:
https://www.panochevalleysolar.com/project-overview/
> Linux has a reputation for Not Invented Here (NIH) syndrome, and these licensing issues certainly contribute to that

I don't think the author understands with NIH means in practise, and this completely misplaces the blame. It's not as though the kernel team was completely unwilling to consider porting ZFS or DTrace, it's that for legal reasons they were unable.
The World Record Egg May Have Been a Viral Ad All Along
I guess the NCA/NCS rpc stuff explains why UUIDs are so pervasive on Windows, since DCE/RPC was based on NCA, and MSRPC is based on DCE/RPC.
> It's meant to be cross-platform, so a well structured CMake file will work in Windows.

A well structured more conventional makefile can also run on Windows. The tree I'm working on builds for Unix and Windows with the same makefile. (No cygwin or WSL either, just GNU make running on Win32. A few ifdefs and strategically placed variables.)
Telling other people not to share their opinions on HN is a dick move.
It's less of a problem nowadays with everyone carrying smartphones, or at least having internet access to vet these things.

But back when maps were on paper and travel agents used for the most trivial of trips, the airport names played a significant role in (mis)informing the traveler.

Ages ago when my elderly parents traveled to San Francisco to visit me, they had AAA book the flight and hotel without checking anything. They expected to land in San Francisco and stay at a nearby hotel with convenient access to the city.

SFO International is in Millbrae, quite a ways south of San Francisco proper. The nearby hotels are in an isolated pocket of industrial space on Old Bayshore Hwy, with no conveniently accessible public transportation unless you like walking on highway overpasses.

It does seem like a useful "lesson" to learn; that airports are often named after the nearest major city. Chicago Rockford International Airport is 85 miles from Chicago, but four miles from Rockford. Yet Chicago is the first city mentioned in its title.
Start by browsing numerous existing os tools on GitHub.
In Georgia there's an Alternative Fuel Vehicle fee charged on any vehicle that doesn't pay a fuel tax, or any AFV that does but chooses the AFV vanity plate.

The AFV vanity plate entitles you to drive for free in all Toll lanes.

All zero emissions vehicles are also allowed in HOV lanes regardless of occupancy since the HOV lanes were introduced to curb emissions in Metro Atlanta.
I was completely distracted from your point when you mentioned the "foxy twin" of the "stillborn child". I know foxy had a double entendre here, but...uh...disturbing choice of words.
You're describing different things. Teflon is a brand name of PTFE, which is a finished polymer. PTFE is considered safe until it has been subject to heat stress and undergoes thermal breakdown (around 200C). This makes use of PTFE as non-stick coating in cookware potentially dangerous.

GenX and PFOA are notionally different chemicals used in the manufacturing of PFTE. They are both used to accelerate the polymerization reaction. It is nominally possible to have finished PTFE products which do not contain relevant (choose your definition) amounts of either family of chemicals. GenX and PFOA are both toxic in themselves, regardless of use - unlike teflon.
I was thinking about making apps catered towards places where android devices are just getting popular. Like imagine a country like Bangladesh. A homogenous population of 180m where most of the people probably have similar needs and speak the similar language. The playstore barely has apps to cater to the people. I think the absence of apps can probably be attributed to developers unable to hire UX designers and maybe lack of good hardware. A lot of the current Bangla apps that are out there are very poor in terms of design. They look like they were made by a solo dev. And the devs are probably missing the point that a lot of "pointless" apps are able to make money in the states. They probably don't see the opportunity. The hot startups in Bangladesh are trying to copy Uber and Grubhub.

That's my current goal right now. I've been trying to learn android dev for a while but it's hard to manage with a fulltime job...maybe I'm making excuses.
Oh heck yeah. I've definitely gotten bored of reading Amazon Kindle Unlimited books, surfing the web and YouTube. That's usually when I turn my hand to creative pursuits. Writing a book is still more entertaining than reading yet another obvious shill or karma whore post.
is there a "don't try to use the data" setting, so it'll just present the plain text?
It doesn't help that in China down to Southeast Asia, the tanner your skin is, the less respect you get. That being that those who are more tan are people who work fields historically.
My argument is that if you pay less than your competitors, you can't expect to hire and retain the best people.

edit: More to the point, I think this idea that people don't work for money is one pushed by management at the expense of the workers, and when I hear employers putting that out there, I assume those employers are... bad to work for, because they think that by being manipulative, they can get you to work for less.

Usually, those employers have less pleasant cultures and pay less than employers who simply pay more than their competition.
I can't use Google search directly any more without being presented with a never-ending series of these things. Thus I use DuckDuckGo, and if it returns inadequate results I rerun it with "!g" at the end which sends it to Google. That seems to work without CAPTCHAs.
The syntax of cmake is not very elegant, and error-prone. It also does not scale to large projects, configure times go up quickly. The documentation also leaves much to be desired.

That cmake is in the place it is nowadays is a reflection of the state of cross-platform build systems 10 years ago, and possibly some marketing.

Interesting alternatives worth checking out: Meson and gn (the latter can be used for building llvm)
Oh wow, yeah I use FF with uBlock Origin and they are not short by any means.

An aside from the corporate dystopia at hand: I do not know as much as I wish about how this works, but am intrigued at how the objects so often bleed into other “boxes” at just the right amount to demand multitudes more cognitive energy to negotiate with myself over what side of this false binary to place my bets on.

Back to corporate dystopia, my awareness of the procedure and intent is so blackboxed that I feel like a mule. Since I started approaching them with sloppy selection and minimal to no discern, I’m doubtful that the length of the challenge has any correlation with a measurement of suspicion at all. Rather, those liable to be this considerate will similarly recognize identify the wrath the cookie monster.
This sounds an awful lot like the notoriously awful membrane keyboard on the Sinclair ZX81.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81#/media/File:Sinclair-ZX81...
Are you saying that, if we ever arrive at a technologically advanced, post scarcity society where there is no money and everyone has access to as much education, entertainment, and material stuff as they want without having to work, then we'll all fall into a nihilistic despair and commit suicide or become heroin junkies?
Regd #3 I suspect the reason Bloomberg is saying this for pharmaceuticals is because this is a regulated industry where the FDA actually inspects and certifies manufacturing operations abroad. Pharma is almost unique in this.

Similarly, when toys from China were found containing lead, there were many stories about the danger this posed, and Im sure Bloomberg was involved in that. The difference is that those factories don’t have a neutral agency inspecting them so you only find problems when they cause an issue and it is widely publicized.
The built-in QR detector is very finnicky/odd, apparently it just assumes every payload is an HTTP URL, nothing else works even remotely.

Other applications work much better for that, though they may or may not recognise non-http URIs e.g. here scanbot just displays the textual content and you're on the hook for copy/pasting it wherever you need.
Has the blockchain hype decreased over the last months? It feels we reached peak in 2016/2017. At least within the tech community the number of critics seem growing.

I usually don't follow what happens at WEF since the discussions feel very meta. Some of the people (Michal Dell & Co) are removed from reality and the daily struggle. You won't find any representatives of the precariat at Davos, nevertheless this punchy talk resonated with me:

Historian Rutger Bregman berates billionaires at World Economic Forum over tax avoidance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5LtFnmPruU (short version of Mr Bregman's points from a twitter video: https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1090045108064579584) TL;DR: we need to discuss tax and stop talking about philantrophy.
Comparing anything against plain Makefiles is a really low bar. Makefiles have been around since 1976. I think the hate for CMake comes from other directions entirely. The CMake scripting language is especially bad. Out-of-source builds were never really that hard in the first place. I think people hate CMake either because they were doing something slightly more unusual than CMake tolerated, or because they hated CMake's language (which is very easy to hate).

CMake has simply sucked less, overall, than the competitors of its time, for most common build tasks. That era is over, now that the new generation of build systems is here (Bazel, Buck, Pants, Please).
Look at the bright side, the less people use vim the more elitist you can feel.
It's circular logic to assume the externalities are ridiculous, therefore we must price cars into the realm of ridiculousness. If you want your argument to be more than cheering against cars, you should actually calculate the externalities and you should do so for competing modes of transportation. Heck if you're talking about noise pollution, someone dribbling a basketball is far more distracting to me than the white noise of cars.

Also note that you are only calculating the costs of cars to others, not the benefits. Cars allow workers to spend less time commuting and be more productive at work, which benefits strangers. They allow people to travel farther to make purchases. They encourage the purchase of larger objects that can't be carried by hand for long distances. Their gas taxes help pay for the roads that people walk and ride bicycles on. Their tolls pay for the maintenance of bridges that bicycles and trains travel on.

I'm a fan of congestion pricing, but the purpose of congestion pricing is to reduce congestion, not to be a sin tax on driving. If people time shift their driving, that's fine.
... might be because the US is sitting on millions of pounds of inferior, surplus cheese.

Like everything, good logic, taken with bad facts, yields bad conclusions.

"tariffs" isn't always bad. in fact, most of the time, its good.
On Windows, do you edit and debug your code in Visual Studio, or some other editor and just use the MSVC command line tools for building? Because one of the (very few) things I actually like about CMake is that it produces project files that Visual Studio can open directly.
Yes, CMake let's you do great things, but holy moly is writing CMake files painful.
They were data gathering devices for small, remote oil and gas wells.
I've long suspected that Google quickly realizes when the user is human, but then serves up some more images for them to "solve" to get some extra training data for its pattern recognition AIs.
Mistakes are the engine of language’s evolution
Luxury Developers Use the ‘Void’ to Build Sky High
Also, cast iron is known to cure anemia in women, and it has been tested for thousands of years and is well understood. It is not experimental. Also, really, how hard is it to put some oil in a pan and let that coat the pan before you start cooking? My friends complain that their food burns in an iron pan, which I think is a surprising complaint. The solution to burning has been known for centuries: just put some oil or butter in the pan, and use a reasonable flame.
Sun Microsystems pushed the hell out of it and Sun was the dominant server and workstation maker in the late '90s / early '00s. There weren't any alternatives with equally strong backing at the time, so it won out.
I see that on Reddit also. When viewing their site from a phone, a pop-up says "view on our app? [Reddit Logo] View on web? [Chromium logo]"

Silly goose, I'm never leaving Firefox.
macOS knows when files and directories are moved via inodes:

https://eclecticlight.co/2018/03/03/how-macos-tracks-your-fi...

so I can't see any conceptual reason to keep .DS_Store.
I don't see it as much of a problem. Unless only a minority gets to enjoy the increase in productivity, which is what we are mostly seeing now.
Preliminary Macintosh Business Plan (1981) [pdf]
I think you'd still be faced with a lack of truck-driver-to-research-scientist pipeline. There are already a lot of people that are qualified, or if not they're close to qualified, to be in these research roles so that if a lot more funding went toward these areas it'd still be hard for someone making the move from much more unrelated industries and educations at later points in their lives would still be at a disadvantage. The children of these people, given a good education along with having easier access to higher education, might have an easier time getting into these positions. But it seems like there'd be a labor shortage gap for those that aren't remotely qualified for a research position now.

This also seems to ignore that research science itself is increasingly becoming automated, and such positions that are less efficient on the dollar per fundamental insight scale may disappear at around the same time as our hypothetical truck driver's.

Personally, I think that we as a culture need to change our thought processes on the necessity of everyone doing work. So what if some people just end up in the sitting around watching Netflix all the time category? Not everyone's going to do that, there are a ton of different outlets I would pursue if I didn't have to worry about working or money. And they're mostly things that I'm only money limited on because if I didn't work and pursued these things then I wouldn't be able to eat or have a place to sleep.

Work on giving people quality educations and the open-ended opportunities to explore, play, and pursue, and I think we'd all be surprised at what people will end up doing with their time.
Nope. Only setting is to not scan for qrcodes at all.
I think you're missing the point. The tax goes towards infrastructure maintenance. All vehicles damage infrastructure and the amount of damage a single car imposes is a function of their weight and miles driven.

From an environmental view, the tax would be for cleaning storm water run off which contains contamination from the vehicle itself (e.g. oil, brake dust). From that perspective an older car is more likely to polute storm water than a new car.
what a strange article. No, networked computing was not invented by Apollo and indeed, I like how the author describes the first UUID as having been based on prior UUIDs. I feel dumber after reading this.
I wonder if all the 'compostable' bio plastics you see in utentsils and some food packaging have the same problems or are safe.
GPU-sentry: Flask-based package for monitoring utilisation of GPUs
Fletching
Iris Intends to Release Open Source Smart Home Software as “Arcus”
I assume that you're referring to magnesium deficiency problems, e.g.:

"Magnesium deficiency in tap water in Israel: The desalination era"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001191641...

So, yes, make sure that you're supplementing magnesium or getting plenty from foods if you switch from plain tap water to RO or distilled water.
A loss for renters? With rental prices being what they are, we've got a looong way down before that happens.
I'd take inspiration from tiddlywiki (https://tiddlywiki.com/). It already has much of what you need and is open-source. No need to start from scratch
They might be assuming that most computer users nowadays never learned to touch type. Maybe they're right. Anybody know the current statistics on this?
If the notion is that we're going to restrict where companies can office, this seems like a bit of wishful thinking, and possibly difficult to implement under the US constitution. It's a subject that doesn't get much discussion because there's not a foreseeable political regime where any policy to change the status quo on this front would be likely to be implemented.
This particular project did not require new roads. It is served by county road J1, and I-5. It also was not built on undisturbed land. Prior to the solar plant it was severely degraded range land.
Maybe.

On Android, iOS, Firefox extensions, and many websites, you can't give permission for one thing without giving permission for everything. Or those "I accept cookies popups" -- until recently, you couldn't choose which cookies you wanted to accept, so either you accept tracking cookies in order to use basic functionality, or you head elsewhere. The application developer could be a good citizen and request on the permissions needed -- but it's just easier to request that they be able to read and modify any and all data, regardless of their need or desire to do so.

On Windows, Unix, and other "system-level" permission systems, you have a different problem. There, there is no real ability to verify what an application is trying to do with its elevated permissions -- it just wants to be given God power, even if it only needs permission to do one or two very specific things in one or two very specific locations.

In fact, the web browser is probably the most accessible place to roll out a whitelisting-based permission system. It has already been demonstrated successfully with uBlock Matrix and uBlock Origin -- you can block specific types of activity coming from specific subdomains. Some sites break completely when you block the few specific elements you don't want to see, but most work just fine, or at least close to fine. Being able to whitelist specific Javascript APIs (e.g. the battery API, the ambient light API, etc) is a logical next step in my opinion.

An OS-level analogy would be the ability to block specific syscalls made by specific processes, optionally only when spawned by a specific parent process.
Ask HN: Disadvantages of Creating Uberjars in Clojure?
I recently just walked through the leiningen tutorial for Clojure, and I generated "Uberjars" and standard jars at the end. I was curious why the Uberjars where running by themselves, and the jars would not run and found that apparently Uberjars package all dependencies into the jar so the target machine doesn't need all of the dependencies installed separately.

That seems like a lot better of a concept for distributing software, but what are the downsides besides larger files?
Thanks, I've always heard good things about Anker.

I've always bought Aukey power supplies and battery banks and been very happy with them, however I bought a batch of USB cables once that were rubbish and won't ever buy cables from them again.
In this context, "hermetic" means that for every step in the build, all inputs and outputs are known by the build system. Hermetic builds are reproducible, and can be more easily done by a distributed build cluster. Hermetic build rules can also be run in a sandbox, so you can have assurances that your build scripts are correct.

With non-hermetic builds, it's much more difficult to verify the correctness of your build rules, which means that you might get non-reproducible builds or you might get incorrect incremental builds. With hermetic builds, it's always safe to do an incremental build, no matter what state the repository is in.
AI WILL TURN US ALL INTO FILMMAKERS
Just because some people may have had concerns about one thing that is not necessarily justified does not then mean that we can extrapolate concerns about new technology going forward to then be defacto unjustified. I'm not sure of the entire psycho-physiological effects that books had on society, but we can see many very real negatives that are very likely causally related with our new technological pursuits. For instance there have been sharp increases in all sorts of psychological disorders, physically people are becoming grossly unfit, fertility rates are plummeting among higher income, well educated, secular individuals.

Less talked about issues are things such as a worldwide reversal of the Flynn Effect [1] in numerous developed nations. The Flynn effect is the observation that real IQ scores were increasing over time. IQ is normalized to always have a 100 mean with a standard deviation of about 15. But what Flynn found is that the mean 100 in e.g. 1920 was substantially higher than the one in e.g. 1900 and similarly moving forward. People were becoming 'smarter' over time, so much as IQ can measure. Sometime in the 1990s this trend began to reverse and quite sharply. IQ scores are dropping around the world by rates up to around 1.5 points per decade. This might not seem like much at first, but remember that a whole standard deviation is only 15 points. Imagine you are one standard deviation (15 points) ahead of the population. That means you are 'smarter' than 84% of people. Drop that just 1.5 points and you're down to only being ahead of 80% of the population. For that scale of change to be happening as a population level event, every decade, is really insane.

It could be that these are all spurious correlations that have nothing at all to do with the rise of the internet, 24/7 digital tech, social media, and so forth. However, I think that the probability of that being the case is something very close to 0%. This will probably be a self correcting problem (many of these issues are going to correlate strongly against successful reproduction) but it'd be much more pleasant if we could resolve this without going full darwin on ourselves.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect