skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the same reason why journalists and whole host of other content creators are no longer making a living: There is so much out there for free, most people don't perceive it as having value anymore.

This is why music piracy of the early 2000s hurt the industry: the individual artist wasn't necessarily losing money directly at the time, but it definitely made it difficult for all artists to make money 2 decades later.

The same thing also happened to software, which is why so many companies moved to SaaS.
I highly recommend osync(1). It has been around a while and has had quite a few users report bugs. The maintainer is active and very helpful. I've used it for a few years now with great success.

1: https://github.com/deajan/osync
The guy was bashed by a lot of people on social media.

Class mobility will stagnate even more if English was not studied at public curriculum.

I would say everyone need at least trying another language to gain a different perspective, it does work. And it has net benefit for the mass to against propaganda, slanted media reports and xenophobia etc,.

Moreover, It seems we lose the ability to do something without completely understand that when we grow up, learning languages helps us sort of regain that kind of skill.
The Schuylkill provides half of Philadelphia's public water supply (the Delaware provides the other half). You're almost certainly drinking it all the time. Of course it's treated now.

https://www.phila.gov/water/wu/Water%20Quality%20Reports/201...
hey! thanks for your comment! I wrote this yesterday because I wanted the read speed of a local copy, hot-reload of the remote side app, and the ability to edit at both ends. I came across fswatch, I've been quite impressed; it does a pretty good job resource-wise. On linux it uses ionotify; I have not seen it degenerate into rapid fs polling (yet). Cheers!
way better than any "Uncle Bob" book for sure.
You might as well tell them, "Tough shit." Different markets and different languages, etc. don't deserve automatic accommodation, but if you fully believe in accommodating disabled people in order to give them the dignity and humanity they deserve, then you'd take on the moral imperative to make an effort at accessibility.

Maybe it shouldn't be a legal requirement for private-market web documents, but dismissing it altogether is not a morally defensible position.

Would the ADA have ever been passed under the principles you're espousing?
I don't think that comment is completely irrelevant. There are already issues of Amazon's own branded being pushed to top, then sponsored listings being pushed to to the top, on top of counterfeit stuff. Now there will be another thing to ignore. I rarely use Amazon because I don't have Prime but if I did, this will certainly annoy me because I am already paying Amazon for the subscription as well as when I buy things, let me get straight to the thing I want to and let it be what I want (read - not fake).
Not yet.

Nearest stars are only a few light years away. The journey might span a few generations. The raft will be a self-sufficient colony that converts onboard matter via fission or fusion to energy, and that energy into every other necessity for sustaining life.

It'll first start out as a proof of concept, only traveling around the local planets. Just like seafaring was first just a fishing thing near the coast. Maybe they try their hand at colonizing Titan first

Then one day, some group will decide to risk it and push off into space. Their distant ancestors will arrive at a suitable planet, and decide to give it a whirl.

All of this is just fun to think about, but just like the settlers of Polynesia 1,000 years ago, it's not unfathomable that 1,000 years into the future, we would have the means to engineer something like this. If we don't annihilate ourselves first.

That's the historical rhyme.
I think this is a really attractive and useful tool. Great work!

I'm not really the target market, I don't think. But my first thought as I was playing with it was "can I upload my own images/logos and have the colors displayed on my stuff?"

So, like the top comment said--don't get bogged down with random suggestions. But, here's mine:

If a premium user could upload their own SVG (or multiple) that adhere's to some kind of standard that lets you style it up with the colors like you're doing with the preset ones, that might be useful for visualizing the colors on their brand.
DELETE * FROM <table>

Yeah, I forgot the WHERE.

This was 15 years ago at my first job and I haven't done it since. I was lucky that we had backups.
Note that in the Netherlands you can't just "walk away" from a mortgage. If the bank sells your house and the yield isn't enough to pay for the mortgage, you're still on the hook for the rest.

After 2008 the housing market just more or less closed down. Nobody was selling as their mortgage was under water, so they just stayed where they were.
That is so cool. Congratulations on the launch!
HN occasionally becomes very, very slow (30-second load times), but usually this is just if you’re logged in and requesting templated content, as the front page is cached and loads instantly on a non-logged-in device. It does make a good connection test!
Yeah, Google has steadily become more and more infuriating to use to answer questions that aren't already answered on Stack Overflow. If they're going to use NLP, how about they use NLP to prioritize things that aren't exactly like the 10 or 15 results pages which give a 10 year old solution to my problem or which are written for an esoteric package and not the one I'm mentioning in my search results?
So the son inlaw of the president is more important than Hillary Clinton? I cant imagine why anyone would call you fake news.
I think that's a bit of a hastily generalization. We mentioned in the post (under Technology) that it's still beta quality.

More generally though we have millions of users that don't have the luxury of running a fancy local developer environment. Either they're on chromebooks or tablets or they don't have a computer altogether.
People do this all the time. Look at Toastmasters. Now, forcing someone that was highly introverted to go to Toastmasters would not be a nice thing to do. Strongly pressuring them to go when they didn't want to would also not be very nice, but that doesn't mean that Google should ban the Toastmasters app.

Living in a free society means that not everyone has the same ideas about values or psychology or religion. These things will be debated long after we're all dead. Until every disagreement is resolved, the best solution we've come up with is tolerance. If someone is doing something voluntarily that's not significantly hurting you, even if you don't think it's a good idea for them, you're usually better off shutting up and ignoring it.

The last people I want making these decisions is the company that makes my mobile phone operating system for god's sake.
Working in San Francisco and living in Oakland, I have to imagine that to a significant degree, it is not (just) that there is less crime, but that there are fewer arrests. I see crime every day — literally every day. My co-workers have been sent to the hospital by random street violence. I have not heard of any resulting arrests.
Tried KiCad out some time back and it piqued my interest. Can you drag elements around now with some basic auto-routing to maintain connections?

(IIRC the I think devs were putting some work into improving this?)
Just use PostgreSQL and don't evaluate anything. PostgreSQL can handle an enormous number of use cases, scales very well and can be made redundant with read-only nodes too.

If you outgrow PostgreSQL, you have an excellent problem and are probably making tons of money. Don't waste mental power on this; just use it and focus on your business/product's core value proposition.

Or, read the article, which reaches the same conclusion with way more words. :)
I never said that, but there is no reason to run cloud-based desktop environments like this in your web browser for tools that are designed to be ran on your desktop natively.
> and I have heard other newer projects exist???

Yeah, know of librepcb [1] and horizon [2]. Both try to solve kicad's library problems. Librepcb files are designed with version control in mind, which I like. Horizon used parts of kicad (like autorouter) and is more feature rich.

I probably would have switched to kicad by now, but these new projects seem nice, too, and I decided to wait and see where the community settles. Hence, in my case, variety in open source hurts adoption.

[1] https://librepcb.org/

[2] https://github.com/carrotIndustries/horizon
MMT is both a description of the current system, a system that is already in place, and a set of policy proposals. So "believing" in MMT may simply mean understanding clearly the process already happening.
Sure, but you have to accept that means you are not committed to the dignity of disabled viewers.
I have even seen emails rejected when using a simple dash, or because it was not hosted by a well-known mail service provider, and even because "your email should be of the form <name>.<surname>@<website>" (yes, with a dot, ironically).

At that point I gave up, and I use a single Gmail account for all the services that I don't use very frequently (also because it's not always easy to send mail from self-hosted mailservers, some destinations simply refuse any mail that is not from Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail).
I would not recommend OSVR hardware at this time, but the effort for free software XR is still alive. With the recent provisional release of the OpenXR standard we at Collabora started making the code for our OpenXR runtime "Monado" public.

It's not entirely complete right now and relies mostly on reverse engineered drivers that mostly miss positional tracking, but we are hoping to have something better to show for it soon.

https://monado.freedesktop.org/

A short demo of the current status on a fully open source software stack using linux with amdgpu/radv, the godot engine and the libsurvive Vive driver:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB-vVL-MPos
Correct. My apologies as I should have prefaced it with a description indicating it was an email from Google.
I have gotten a few duds, but as you say: Their customer support is second to none and i know if it happens i'll be able to return the item at no cost for a full refund.

However I also am pretty careful about keeping an eye out for scams and counterfeit items as well, there are definitely some obvious ones out there and it does make me wary and purchase less then i would otherwise.
It's not about anyone being "lesser" than anyone else. It's about not putting someone into a dangerous situation until they're prepared to enter those situations.

My grandmother is an amazing, intelligent person. I would not give her a potentially dangerous device if I wasn't also willing to sit down and talk to her about how it worked. Heck, with really nontechnical people I print out illustrated instructions so they can file them next to the computer.

That's what giving help means. Educate people about how their browser works. Teach them computer hygiene so they can use an adblocker. If you can't do that, then giving them a barebones browser with zero protections is not helping them.

No one's talking about banishing people from the Internet. We're saying that if they can't handle the most basic concepts of computer hygiene, they are not ready to do online banking yet, and they should wait until someone helps them get ready or until someone installs some safeguards on their computer to keep them protected in the meantime -- even if those safeguards make their lives less convenient every once and a while.

If someone can't work their turn signals, I don't think they should be banned from driving, but I do want to help them figure that part out before they start the car, and they should probably walk or be chauffeured in the meantime.
> “I skimmed your post, and read the first, last, and a few in-between paragraphs. It's incredibly verbose, repetitive, and wordy, and repetitive to the point of not helping you make your point. I'm not dismissing your point without reading it, though.”

This appears to precisely be a statement that you are dismissing it without reading it.

> “You leave no room for nuance”

Again, had you read the post, you’d have seen you’re wrong on this, as I granted that it would be possible to debate about the degrees of harm that different kinds of ads and associated data tracking can cause, as long as that debate is not based on any notion of self willingness of consumers to claim they are OK with the ad-harm-for-free-service trade off, since it is not possible for anyone on the consumer side of that equation to have enough of the information to make such a claim.

If instead it is based on actual quantified measures of harm, then you could ask whether there’s a way to make thresholds and classify some ad-based services as “safe enough for consumption” likely through clear regulation.

Also, without resorting to let-me-google-that-for-you link spam about all that has been written about ads causing harm, I also think there is a philosophical divide here that your mind seems entirely closed to.

It is totally fair to simply say “all ads are bad” or perhaps a slightly more qualified version “all ads based on personalized targeting criteria or narrow behavior-defined audience segmentation are bad.” For example, someone may just hold that targeted, personalized ads violate an intrinsic right to privacy, or that they come with unacceptably high risks that such behavioral data will be misused or stolen, and that a person should, morally, have a right to control the spread of that information or know the extent to which it was used to possibly manipulate them.

These things can just be statements of universal rights, and not necessarily rooted in any other observable outcome. Many people consider being targeted by behavior for an ad to be the harm, intrinsically.

This could in fact be a moral stance akin to saying “things that cause diseases are bad” in the smoking debate.

Pushing back and replying by saying “things that cause diseases are bad” is but a mere assertion is a pretty self-evidently vapid and useless reply. It’s basically table stakes of even entering the discussion at all to take as a premise that causing diseases is bad enough that unless the offsetting value was gigantic, such causes should be controlled and prevented.

It’s no different with ads. Lazy claims of oh but the value people get to stay connected or watch TV for free just don’t cut it. That approach doesn’t need rebuked, it’s just wrong. Baldly asserting that it’s wrong is perfectly fine.
> In fact, according to a public health study, all the value came from asking for the order (basically scaring the perpetrator) - actually being granted one was not found to provide additional benefits.

That is a completely different statement from "can't really be enforced".

The fact that something "self-enforces" because it might turn into a "legal enforces" is possibly the most effective enforcement.
Never heard about Mastodon, it’d have been nice if the article explained what it is. Is this yet another startup promising they won’t become a merciless corporation? Great value prop, lol
Do they really have the option to leave, though? I mean, have you seen how much success Britain has had trying to leave the EU?
I took Anthropology 101 at Auckland Uni and was lectured by Doug Sutton.

He suggested the reason they sailed against the prevailing currents is that when they ran out of food and water without finding land, they let the currents carry them back to their origin. The other way around is certain death.

Also that they may have been driven by overpopulation pressures to seek out new land.
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When did English become compulsory teaching in China? I ask this because about 12 years ago at a previous job, we were interviewing, by phone, potential offshore developers by phone and of the dozen or so we interviewed, we always had to go through a translator. Apparently, none of the devs spoke a lick of English. Not sure if it was limited to verbal communication or included written/typed.
I was under the impression that music industry revenue had been on the uptick for the last 2-3 years [0]

But did artists actually make more money during the 40's/ 50's? It was my impression that large record labels generally reserved the profits for themselves then too (would love to hear a more knowledgeable answer though about whether is was easier for a musician to make a living then)

[0]https://www.visualcapitalist.com/music-industry-sales/
Good to know you speak for “most asians”.
Discussed here a few days earlier:

The Voyage of the Kon-Tiki Misled the World About Navigating the Pacific (2014) (smithsonianmag.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19352806
For most of human history nobody made money doing anything. Capitalism is an an abberation in history, not "the way it should be".
Jared Kushner using WhatsApp to speak to foreign contacts, top Democrat says
> Is there any evidence or indication IFTTT is misusing, or could miuse it? Of course it asks for a lot of permissions -- the idea is that you can use it to replace APIs for everything.

I have not heard of anything.

IFTTT recipes have really made my life nicer through automating certain things, which includes gmail interactions. It'll be a bummer if support cannot continue.

I understand Google's changing of the rules, but am surprised IFTTT hasn't been in front of this change.
You don't need anything fancy to run a developer environment. Why not just build a local developer IDE app for Android, if you're the development experts? There are already self-hosted server solutions for development environments, and mobile developer applications for Android. The first thing you see on your website is "sign up" or "log in". Most of those "developers" are just getting started and will resent your products in a couple years. Just give them time.
Fred Dibnah – Steeplejack (1979)
These guys aren’t anti-advertising as much as they are protecting their bohemian “too cool for capitalism” brand.
Only fascists oppose free speech.
> Your online persona can just block anyone who harassing him. In real life, you can't "block" people...That why I don't get how harassment on internet can be a thing. Just block them !

You can't conceive of this because you have never been the victim of genuine harassment by someone who has nothing better to do but to harass you.

If the person harassing you is willing to invest the time, he can make your life profoundly miserable as you, rightfully, don't wish to spend the same amount of time fighting the harassment.

And, yes, you can block someone in real-life. It's called a restraining order.
Just wipe it away. Like with a cloth or something.
Kinda. It says we'd have May's deal but then a public vote on whether we want it or remain. The brexit enthusiasts wouldn't like it much I have to admit.
The full title is Pathway of the Birds: The Voyaging Achievements of Māori and their Polynesian Ancestors. The book shows - among other things - how tens of millions of shearwaters on migration to their nesting sites in spring point to the whereabouts of islands.
Not taking the 83(b) election...
Appears to have collapsed under the load :(
I think this is also why you get certain peanut gallery members complaining - the way that MMT is being brought into the conversation is first at odds with a lot of ideology, so it is being misinterpreted for intention.
Not a bad idea for a franchise like Star Trek. Basically judge whether market demand is high enough by asking for the whole production price upfront. Wouldn’t work for most media, but would for a known product.
Does just having links on a page (e.g. Google Maps link or FB profile) cause slow page load?
Minutes left to buy Sphero's RVR robotics platform
I appreciate the article and the fact that it is certainly an example of "today's 10,000"[0]. I don't appreciate the title making it sound like this is a new discovery that we used to have wooden water infrastructure. There's a nice little museum in the historical Philadelphia Waterworks building behind the art museum, and there is a lot of material about the original piping of the city.

[0] https://www.xkcd.com/1053/
> Better that they go where they should, than that they go where they shouldn't

True, at least when you're not the one being bombed.
With 10 year and higher waiting lists for affordable renting in the Netherlands, many people stay in their rental home for their entire working life once they've finally got one.
My alma mater offers a degree in Software Engineering.
Most websites offer no option to remove adverts. I will simply use an adblocker on all my devices. If this means free services go away and I have to pay for them now then that is ok by me.
Will take a look, I’m in the alpha of Openbook.social ATM
> Obviously the OP's social circle will know better than that because they know him (or her) and what they actually work on.

If that were true then the OP would not have to explain himself/herself in any way that made him/her feel embarrassed in the first place.
So it's not been posted (yet), but isn't it clear that this is yet another great concept for personal anonymity and online social interaction that can be majorly used for negative advantage?
Pro-tip: You have to change the YouTube setting so that you are watching in 1080 HD, not the 360p that it can default you too.

You know, I think there is some real promise here!

With some HD remasters, you can start to really see the makeup, the little pores in everyone's skin, the smudges and uncleanliness of real film-making. Film-makers and directory choose the lighting and the focus with the end-product in mind. They know that the screen won't capture certain things and so they know where they can skimp and save [0]. When you re-master it, you're going against the 'vision' of the directors. Not in a big way at all, it's very subtle. But it's still there.

With ML techniques, you get the 'idea' that the director was going for, without seeing all the screw-ups that they knew they could get away with. It's crisper but the idea and vision are the same [0].

Peter Jackson's recent 'They Shall No Grow Old' is another great example of using ML too. In that case it was to preserve the old WW1 footage, bring it's frame-rates up to modern 24 fps, 3-D it, and colorize it. The results are literally breath-taking. Personally, I gasped when it finally hits; it's that good. Not to geek out too much here, but Jackson is literally changing history with that film. He changed the way we all view old footage, as something all herky-jerky and grainy, to something that is modern and real. Those 16 year old child-soldiers become real people again.

Though Jackson's work is a lot different than this effort, I think we all know that ML and the movies are here to stay. It's relatively cheap to update, takes little time, and be profitable (Remember the Disney Vault gimmick?). How long will it be before Chaplin's 'City Lights' is ML'd and remastered into 24 fps, 3-D, color, and with sound? Maybe 5 years?

Hell, I'd pay to see the best of old cinema brought back to modern standards like that.

[0] I know no film-makers, this is supposition.
Kind of annoying that I have to hit the “X” every time I refresh the page or visit the site. Could you make it so the page stores some kind of state in my browser so I don’t have to do it manually every time?
I'm seeing an increasing trend of tech companies classifying content with opposing beliefs as dangerous or harmful.

This is a very scary precedent we are setting here. We are taking away power from the voting public and putting it in the hands of tech company executives.

Regardless of what side of these debates you fall on, please consider the ramifications of what is happening here.
> What kind of heartless monster trains kids to be as literal as possible all the time?

He doesn't say he trains them not to be sarcastic? Just to be literal about their personal boundaries. That doesn't seem heartless to me.