skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would definitely be the ultimate goal. Tesla just released the V3 charging, 75 miles in 5 mins. Hopefully others can follow quickly. I do think reservations can add quiet a bit of convenience or at least the predictability that feels good. Taxi were hailed, and currently we basically reserve them.
There are professional whiteboard style products that make use of electrostatic adhesion. Usually designed such that you stick a piece of paper behind a plastic overlay that you draw on. They are pretty nifty if you have a need for temporarily marking up printouts.
Oracle (and NetSuite) can charge tens of thousands for software because the software is worth thousands of dollars a month. Financial systems that form the backbone of your company are absolutely the one place you don't want to skimp out on your IT spend.
I mean there are so many tips for being productive, book X says maintain a schedule pre-planned for 2 weeks, book Y says do not maintain a schedule at all. Book X says do a bit of everything daily, book Y says devote a day for a single task. Hmph..

The only thing that works is somehow doing getting work done, rest is irrelevant. And that's why I don't see a point on self-help book in general.
Longtime user of i3, looking forward to sway becoming fully adopted.

I won't be switching to sway anytime soon as I really need support for screen-capture and video-sharing (i.e Zoom and Google Hangouts) to share my code screen for walkthroughs with my remote colleagues.

I effectively downgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to the more stable 16.04 due to the lack of above support.

I see the following in the release notes:

>A real time screen capture protocol has been developed and implemented (which allows for future third-party screenshot and video capture tools)

Waiting with baited breath till support for it is fully fleshed out.

Cheers.
In online banking the bank knows who you are. In this case that would be the government, this is not and should not be allowed.

If such a system could be made that it somehow was able to verify that you are actually the individual registered to vote, but also anonymous so no-one could possibly trace what you voted for. Then you need to be able to setup a secure and verified connection (but still anonymous) but unlike your bank account, isn't the target of multi-international efforts to subvert democracy to gain political favour. Deciding what compatible devices and technology should be used and to ensure that all of the voting population has access to it is another challenge.

Another thing required is for there to be a presence of the candidates or representatives on behalf of them that can monitor the voting process and call out any foul play, which would require people with the right expertise to examine the system so they know it properly counts the votes. Which means a open-source system is required, but the exact details of how it verifies voters will also be exposed.

And what happens to the votes, are they not stored at all or stored temporarily? How do you do a recount if they are not stored and if they are, how do you make sure that data is destroyed completely once the result has been declared?

These are all questions that nobody seems to have a practical answer to.
> But it didn’t stop a whole lot of news stories picking up the "Employees at Apple's factories are killing themselves" angle.

Conveniently leaving out that Apple isn’t the only American tech company using Foxconn
> "come help me save the planet" with overpriced cars.

You are helping the planet if those customers would've bought ICE luxury vehicles instead of BEV luxury vehicles. I'm not sure BEV could be done any other way but a top-down, luxury-first approach. So, what exactly is your gripe there? Are you a climate change denier or do you believe that cheap EVs were the path to take?
> lol. They also have SSO through facebook, and google... which of course allows those companies to track users across different websites.

The technology team that makes implementation decisions for the slate.com website is likely in an entirely different department than the journalists who write articles for it. It's kinda a cheap shot to mock the journalists for decisions they didn't even make.
Well, they did also do this: https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/

So it does seem to be a pattern this year.
> I really wish there is a modern alternative to FAX

What's missing from email + a couple lines of script code? (Or if you prefer, a lightweight piece of software that does the same thing). It seems like that covers all the cases you describe: automatically prints, don't have to check it, you can have only one email, etc. I mean the fact that some other parties are stuck on a legacy system is of course always a good reason, but that's not really a lack of a modern alternative.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19339544
I was going to make a comment on the line

>The fundamental idea of OpenAI LP is that investors and employees can get a capped return if we succeed at our mission

Is that the mission? Create AGI? If you create AGI, we have a myriad of sci-fi books that have explored what will happen.

1. Post-scarcity. AGI creates maximum efficiency in every single system in the world, from farming to distribution channels to bureaucracies. Money becomes worthless.

2. Immortal ruling class. Somehow a few in power manage to own total control over AGI without letting it/anyone else determine its fate. By leveraging "near-perfect efficiency," they become god-emperors of the planet. Money is meaningless to them.

3. Robot takeover. Money, and humanity, is gone.

Sure, silliness in fiction, but is there a reasonable alternative from the creation of actual, strong general artificial intelligence? I can't see a world with this entity in it that the question of "what happens to the investors' money" is a relevant question at all. Basically, if you succeed, why are we even talking about investor return?
Faxing provides some advantages that can't be easily matched by competing communications tech: it's solid tech that works well, it can operate without requiring access to a computer network, it's cheap, it's dead easy to use, etc.

I'm not surprised to hear that it is growing in popularity. I think that we'll find an increasing number of other "antique" technologies that will find a resurgence for the same reasons.
I think what you'll find if you read more of these stories is that it's not bravery that causes people to switch, it's fear.

Read it again.
Yeah but they've already said they need to raise billions not millions. It's a completely implausible cap.
> > We believe that if we do create AGI, we'll create orders of magnitude more value than any existing company.

> That sounds like the delusion of most start-up founders in the world.

huh? are you disputing that AGI would create unprecedented amounts of value?

"any existing company" only implies about $1T of value. that's like 1 year of indonesia's output. that seems low to me, for creating potentially-immortal intelligent entities?
This seems like way too much for Mellanox. I remember talking to the Nvidia guys at Supercomputing 2008 about Remote Direct Memory Acess on their cards. Huge to have their cards direct connected to the network.
I've got all my consoles set up to only open in workspace #1, my text editors open in workspace #2, my work browser in workspace #3, and my distractions browser & slack open in workspace #9. All of these things are a keystroke away. Within each of those workspaces, I am one keystroke away from: 1) tiling all windows to see them at once, or 2) Make them all full screen and flip between them with the equivalent of alt-tab.

None of this requires the mouse and so it all quickly becomes muscle memory. I don't really have to search for anything because it's automatically managed into neat piles within their own workspaces.

I also effectively get 10 times the desktop real-estate compared with a non-tiling window manager, because I'm more likely to use all 10 workspaces when switching between them is a matter of pressing command+{workspace number}.
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Austin is not that humid. Compared to say Chicago or NYC.
> Is the short form (Republic of Ireland) ROI used often?

It disambiguates the polity from the island, which includes both the Republic and a sometimes problematic piece of the United Kingdom.
OT: people often confuse being in tech with being an employed programmer. The key is to code but not as an employee or contractor. Then, being in tech is a joy.
In what sense does Wayland have better hidpi support than X?
That's definitely a big part of the problem. Many people actually don't have dedicated private charging even today. To get more adoptions to EVs, we definitely need to make sure folks that lack home or workplace charging can predictably charge their cars.
Where in Quebec are you located? I know a few psychologists here but nobody who actually left tech for it, it sounds like an interesting combination of skills.
Direct PDF link: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2018/NIST.IR.8202.pdf
As an active developer and maintainer of a cluster, I strongly disapprove of this move by AWS.

By forking on an earlier instance of the codebase for ES and Kibana they're not only creating an open source version of the code but also attempting a fork of the community - plugin developers, user groups, etc. It's extremely frustrating.
EDIT: If folks actively building plugins have felt pain here because of decisions by Elastic, then my view on this point changes considerably, obviously.

I find it very hard to believe there was no compromise to be had here between the current Elastic roadmap for their product and their previous work.

How is this good for users of the current tools? How does this help create better capabilities on a common platform? Will this encourage users to build businesses on elasticsearch open source elements?

I'm not sure where the community ends up after this, so I'm not sure I can support by using AWS' elasticsearch tools.
Thanks for the suggestion. Actually the rules say "Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with." so I didn't feel very sure about it.
I wouldn't trust that table.

1) I redid the calculations using the numbers shown in the table. With more decimal places, it's 1.054 for outdoor and 1.036 for indoor. The actual penalty for outdoor growing, using their own input numbers, is more like 1.7% than 10%. Presenting the results rounded to 1 decimal place is misleading.

2) The only reason indoor comes out ahead at all is that they gave indoor lettuce a 0.18 kg credit for sequestered CO2 and gave the outdoor lettuce no credit. Plants absorb CO2 while growing regardless of whether they are indoor or outdoor. In the case of lettuce, there is no long term sequestration anyway; the plant matter is soon converted back to CO2 when it's metabolized by humans or microbes. Setting both indoor and outdoor sequestration credits to 0, indoor has a CO2 footprint of 1.253, significantly larger than outdoor's 1.054.

The original source for the table is cited as a blog article from the Breakthrough Institute titled "Don't Count Out Vertical Farms." I tried going back to the original source to see if the numbers were misrepresented here, or if they had more justification in the original, but the Breakthrough Institute appears to have removed the article from their site. Existing links to it 404 now.
Have seen negativity as well also have been the source of it but luckily I realized it. But that's the problem:
You are invested because you care and there is too much around you you can't control.

Not caring is basically quitting inside. Is that better than negativity? Perhaps. Perhaps a new company would help but perhaps not.
I am also a Nissan Leaf driver. Charging at home is possibly the best reason to have one. Unlike a gas car, I can leave home for every trip with a full "tank".
When you publish open source, this is what you sign up for. As a publisher of open source software, I think "open core" does a huge disservice to the community as it feels deceptive. While there is no denying that creators needs to be paid, communities thrive on freedom and openness, and dual licensing takes that away.

Companies that publish open source must realize that they cannot make money from the "software". Open source gives companies a brand, that they can then leverage to do other services like support, consulting, hosting, merchandise, events, etc.

There was a time when service companies wanted to move into products because of high margins and artificial scarcity, but enough open source will ensure that software licensing is not a sustainable model to seek rent, and product companies must also move to services to be able to grow and sustain.
this is brilliant AND super useful.

also love the details like “flip again”
While Grant was financially troubled, the pension wasn't passed until Truman was destitute in 1958.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_Presidents_Act
This ^^

I've seen / worked with a number of startups that used the author's advice and just had a simple setup "that worked". Until it didn't.

Here's how it typically plays out:
Our "dev" setup "the server" for us at <AWS/GCP/DO/Linode/etc> and everything worked fine until the provider restarted the server, or an OS upgrade happened, or we fired the dev we found on Upwork and he shut down the server. Now X doesn't work. We don't know how to reproduce what he did.

Now you are left with trying to go through someone else's bash history and decipher what steps they used to build the server. Did they forget to tell a service to autorun? Who knows.

I agree with OP that it's possible to over-engineer a fancy CI / CD pipeline and matching infrastructure for a founder that just has an idea and zero users when you should be getting product/market fit, esp. when you just have one developer working on the system. However, the opposite is also true. It's possible to under-engineer the infrastructure where developer productivity is dramatically slowed when you're spending a significant amount of your dev's time doing deploys and blocking other work from happening at the same time. This can happen fast when you hire dev #2 and #3. This isn't even getting into the perils around security and scaling when you play fast and loose with the infrastructure side of the house.
im not sure about dead easy to use? i have figured out how to use all the tech devices including old school iptv cameras, smart cash registers and connecting thermal receipt printers but the fax machine is absolutely the shittiest gadget i have had to deal with in my life despite being shown how to operate it multiple times.
There's no mention of the governing legal framework, I presume it's a US state?

Also, what are the consequences for failing to meet the goals. "We commit to" could really have no legal basis depending on the prevailing legal environment.

Reading pessimistically I see the "we'll assist other efforts" as a way in which the spirit the charter is apparently offered in could be subverted -- you assist a private company and that company doesn't have anything like the charter and instead uses the technology and assistance to create private wealth/IP.

Being super pessimistic, when the Charter organisation gets close a parallel business can be started, which would automatically be "within 2 years" and so effort could then -- within the wording of the charter -- be diverted in to that private company.

A clause requiring those who wish to use any of the resources of the Charter company to also make developments available reciprocally would need to be added.

Rather like share-alike or other GPL-style license that require patent licensing to the upstream creators.
Faxing is a headache for a lot of people. The problem is that the industries that use fax are in a position to force it on others. Certain healthcare departments, some mortgage related stuff, financial garbage, etc. Places where if you HAVE to do business with that entity for some reason, and the say "fax this to us", you're stuck hunting down a fax machine or using an online service. They thus have no reason to change.
I got a mid-range Ryobi, because there is at least one string trimmer that uses the same power pack, and you can buy more of them. So far so good, but spring is coming so we'll see.

maybe this one:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/RYOBI-20-in-40-Volt-Brushless-Li...
Ok, so you say they're lying. Got it.
> Fax machine -> fax machine : secure

Not even close.

I can think of a lot of advantages to using old-school faxes, but security is not one of them. In fact, the complete lack of security is a big disadvantage to using old-school faxes.
By all means, read up on bass traps... but be aware that posts about bass traps imply a fundamental misunderstanding of what they do (perhaps I'm misreading).

The problem: a speaker in a room produces sound, that sound is reflects by the walls. Those reflections will vary WRT phase of the original sound and causing something called comb-filtering (some frequencies will be louder because the reflections are in phase and amplify -- others will be 180º out of phase, resulting in a complete cancellation of those frequencies).

Solutions: sound attenuating material at the edges of a room to interfere with the _reflections_ and this reduce or eliminate comb-filtering. The goal is to improve the listening experience _inside_ the room. Acoustic treatment does almost nothing to help your neighbours.
Awesome project, guys! Congratulations on the launch. Can't wait to see where this electrification takes us, and stoked YC is supporting EV startups. More!
That's what I do as well. I switched to JCLPCB from Dirty PCBs and am pretty happy, but I was pretty happy with Dirty as well. They give me ten 10x10cm paneled boards for like $15, and because I design tiny boards I get around 100 of them in the end, which is 99 more than I reasonably need. It's so cheap, though, that it's not worth doing anything else.
[update - re redis ssl] pretty sure thats what this upstream pull request to redis is https://github.com/antirez/redis/pull/4855
Playing some board games almost feels like meditation because it makes time slow down as you wait for the other person to complete their turn. It’s quite nice, really, although I found it mildly frustrating at first.
As I’m sure there is a massive difference between a two party state and a n-party state (or even senate/house). We all think our own systems are the best...
Better default window behavior. I do not need to use a mouse with i3.
The reference genome is undermining personalized medicine
Availability is a spectrum. There's a lot of room between "a single VM on a third-tier infrastructure provider" and "google.com".

Hell, even "two VMs on a third-tier infrastructure provider" is better than 2x better availability, because there are discrete events which impact a single VM and don't impact two.

Startups should be taking the easiest route possible to Happy Customers. That's the goal. There are two parts to that: "Happy" and "Customers". You need Customers. That's product-market fit. You also need them to be Happy. Availability is a part of that.

No, a startup does not need a multi-regional strategy behind redundant global ELBs with edge caching. I never said that. You know what's pretty damn easy though? HEROKU. You spin up multiple dynos and you get multi-AZ redundancy, NO EXTRA WORK. App Engine is the same way.

Startups, everywhere, for the love of god, stop spinning up servers. If you can SSH into it, that's a smell. If you HAVE to ssh into it, you're wasting resources. There are so many different "serverless" options out there. Focus on the product. The infrastructure can wait. Its not going anywhere.
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Corporations can make and ship plastic trash more cheaply than reusable containers. The populace likes it because its less time to toss something than to something actually reusable or actually recyclable.
> much like paying a dividend to victims of a polluting chemical factory to offset their deleterious health effects

Out of curiosity, why would this be morally wrong? To avoid reasoning-by-connotation, replace the word dividend with a word that connotes something positive (eg reparations): would you say that the functionally-identical ongoing payment of reparations to victims of pollution would be wrong?
Referring to no specific case in particular: that is not a circumvention but an application of the authority that Congress delegated to the President in the National Emergencies Act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Emergencies_Act
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u dont have to keep checking email. u can actually create a separeate email address that will automatically print everything it receives and give that email address to those people who faxes u confirmations.
> the visual cortex normally applies a filtering mechanism to what the eyes see and correct problems. It acts as a common-sense filter to remove improbable or impossible information and augment, perhaps even add some extra detail to save the conscious part from being swamped with ridiculous data.

Your comment reminded me the "SEP field" (Somebody Else's Problem) from Douglas Adams' "Life, the Universe and Everything". It was a sort of invisibility cloak where people perceive something so inconceivable that it can't exist, so they ignore it. (In this book, a space ship landed at a cricket match.)

https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Somebody_Else%27s_Proble...
AGI is of course completely transformative but this leaves me thinking you folks are just putting a "Do no Evil" window-dressing on an effort that was/continues to be portrayed as altruistic. Given partners like Khosla it seems to be an accurate sentiment.
Came here for the dumpster fire, was not disappointed.

My own take: Erotica is a good thing to the degree that it takes the edge off of libido. Being dragged around by your "little man" is a curse, and your life will greatly improve once you figure out how to stop this (one way or another).

Your first reaction to a naked woman should be "meh". It's only after you know her well that it might be more.
Who's making $140k as a teacher?
There are some bizzare, ignorant, sentient-fedora replies in this thread, and I think this one wins them all as the worst.
> the law explicitly requires phone lines to be confidential in terms of eavesdropping

However, POTS these days commonly uses VoIP as an intermediary. I don't know if the law covers the same phone call during its passage through a VoIP segment.
In a mature market, the two extremes eventually balance out:

* Companies that hire only cheap starry-eyed love-my-latest-fad youngster crash and burn due to poor execution and short-sighted design choices.

* Companies that hire only experienced devs move along a less erratic path but burn way more on payroll.

You could argue the market is not mature though. Lots of turmoil all around, lots of "dumb money".

In that atmosphere, "fund it & flip it & long-term be damned!" definitely favours the cheap and fast. Horror stories of shitty systems and general lack of accountability ensue… The price we pay for living in exciting times.

And senior devs better be mindful of "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" (or alive).
that's a big if