skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing not mentioned: the fact that so much work in the Netherlands, especially in tech, is focused in just a few cities. If the work was more spread out over the country, not everybody would have to make their way to Amsterdam every day or live there.
There is no background check at the time of sale for non restricted rifles or shotguns. This is compares to restricted firearms (handguns and some types of rifles) that do require background checks at the time of sale. The "background check every day" statement is somewhat correct in that someone's PAL is invalidated if the commit a crime, or get divorced. As far as I know that's what's referred to by daily background checks. I am almost certain that background checks are not actually peformed every day, that would be a massive amount of labor.

This in contrast to California where all firearms sales other than black powder muzzle loader have backgry checks run every time someone buys them.
>The same thing also happened to software, which is why so many companies moved to SaaS.

This isn't true. If you make updates paid enterprise customers are going to drag their feet and you'll be stuck supporting a large number of versions for a long time. It is much easier to lock corporations into continuous subscriptions.

Did anyone ever make much of a living on selling recordings?

I think a big problem is the lack of market for the less intense public performance (live music at restaurants and cafes and the like) which makes such things rare and usually very poorly paid.

I would love to frequent places with good food and good live music with the atmosphere of being able to carry a conversation while the band was on. What I've experienced is bands in big rooms with terrible acoustics and bad mixing so loud I can't hear myself think or anything really but the drummer. Combine this with the social and economic situation of everyone staying home and watching TV most nights makes the demand for live music weak.

There is an opportunity for targeting that kind of market but difficult to capture requiring a good booker and a sound person that doesn't want everything to sound like a rock show.
No it wouldn't. The ridership cliff for HSR is around the 3-4 hour mark, or about 500-600 miles--Denver-Chicago is 1,000 miles, well outside that range.

What would work quite well, though, would be something like the Auto Train: you can get an overnight ride that ferries your car and you don't have to drive the thoroughly boring drive of the Great Plains.
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Yeah reddit was my substitute for awhile and as you said it was way worse. Glad to be rid of it
Do you feel that it is production ready and that the sync won't become corrupt? Any plans for Android?
Heh, can you say more about it?

That is true. I am military and I work in a true military lab, so I probably have a different perspective
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Interesting, thanks for the link! I had never seen this one. It does look a bit more heavyweight; that might be a good thing for some use cases. I currently use this on many different containerized setups, so simpler and less setup/config is better for me at this point. Cheers!
If you're loading them asynchronously, no.
Why bother? There's no internet in China anyway, whatever hacks you are going to use, the result will be completely random at best and your website working or not there is just a matter of luck.

Even the big IT companies can't make it work so why would you?
Is google becoming useless or the majority of the content people are putting on the web is useless?
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Yes, I have. I'm not sure how that is relevant? I was pointing out how the commenter was ignoring a very key part of my argument.
It sucks and i agree its kinda awful but change how you live your life? (if possible of course) I rarely see any ads these days.

I don't listen to the radio or watch TV
I dns ad block my home network with pihole, my phone with adguard
I double down with ublock origin and other privacy plugins on my computers
I don't use facebook or instagram all that much
I pay the 15$ a month for spotify family and share with 3 friends
I don't put up with people trying to sell me things, it's easy to say hey I hate to interrupt you but i'm honestly not interested.

sometimes i see a youtube ad while casting and i'm usually genuinely surprised.
only when i am on fb or instagram i see ads reliably and when i do they are at the very least relevant to my life, sometimes amusingly scammy, but always easily ignored.

the only place ads are ubiquitous are in the real world and while ugly they are easy to ignore. I do wish it was against the law to have large public advertisements, public art would be an immense improvement.

Honestly it's come to a point that when I'm at my parents or in a car with a friend who listens to radio i'm fascinated by the ads because its maybe been a decade since i've been exposed to them with any frequency.
The lasers in these things are often not class 1, but the whole system is. Perhaps it's fairer to say that laser classification is not just about the power of the laser, it's about how it's used and under what conditions. Class 1 basically means that it's safe under normal operation. You can look at the certifications for scanning stations (e.g. Faro put theirs online) and they usually get round it by specifying that the system is spinning, so you don't get hit with a laser that often, and that you're standing far enough away that the divergence is large.

If you somehow fixed the laser and stared into it, it would probably hurt.

See for example: https://knowledge.faro.com/Hardware/3D_Scanners/Focus/Laser_...

according to the test report, if the mirror fails, you would hit dangerous levels of energy deposited within 0.2s and they recommend that the laser must be turned off within 100ms to avoid risk of eye damage.
Just as a nudge for something not really of practical importance but something I'd like to see for other reasons: self-hosting.
I said "what most people mean by 'free will'"

For most people, "outside influence" means, "at this point in time, only the contents of my brain affect the choice I make" and "no force or agent outside myself is compelling me to make a different choice than the one I'd make otherwise".

It's a word game of course. Even if you try to be extremely precise with your definitions, to avoid this kind of thing, most people won't quite follow.

Compatibilists believe what you believe. They just agree to use the popular, vague definition of free will instead of the strict one you're using.
> I think it's very hard to think about making a technology you know is to killing someone.

That does not appear to be related to this conversation. The OP does not have those worries and instead feels embarrassed when he/she must explain such.
Honestly interested, do you have kids that you make this statement?

I don't, but appreciate that as an adult, "appropriate context" is a rapidly moving target, and it seems that being trained to be and assume all-literal, all the time would have left me deeply unprepared for interacting with other human beings in the real world.
In my experience, most people don't actually claim there is no higher intelligence or god. They just don't accept the claim that there is (because there is no evidence). The nuance of this tends to get lost through imperfect language.

That's the point of the teapot. Technically there is equal probability of it existing or not, but that is meaningless.

Anything without evidence is equally likely to exist or not, but for some reason people only tend to take this seriously in regards to religion.
The wooden pipes in Edinburgh were recently removed from George’s Square and are on display on the Middle Meadows Walk (though I don’t think they were included into Forza Horizen 4)
"This post has made me realize that I hold these conflicting opinions simultaneously."

I am not good with poetry, but I've enjoyed "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes." from Walt Whitman's Song of Myself.
Ask HN: Do you wish you could invest in Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, etc.?
With some big company IPOs on the horizon, do you get sad that only "sophisticated investors" got in on the ride up? I keep thinking that the 100x return was captured by VC's, and now the public will get the leftovers. I am happy for the employees with options, but the common man is left out with tech companies waiting until they are massive to IPO.

Can Congress change regulations, so people that aren't worth $2MM or don't make >$200,000/yr aren't left out of tech investing?
Hum a day old might be early to say, but the sync is handled by rsync and that has been around for ages, corruption due to rsync would be surprising. (although hash and adler32 checksums collisions are theoretically possible.. :-)
You can still use them, but a different URL. Google has a CDN in China for those fonts and stuff. Also Google Analytics are not blocked at all in China.
How is this snarky or uncivil? The lack of opportunity to earn good money is the reason I never continued on my journey to play chess professionally.

Also I am pretty sure the gm had money but he had a concept of other people's stuff and had other issues. I am just adding to the point that op made that plenty of chess grandmasters have issues
That really is misleading. Ok, we changed the title above to that of the book being reviewed.

That 2014 article is much better. Interesting that it was discussed here so recently (as vram22 points out).
I'm guessing it would be cheaper and/or more profitable to run their own ad network than it would be to pay for running ads.

Think about how they've turned expenses into profit in almost every other aspect of their business.

- Shipping their books? Ship their own + others and make a profit

- Hosting their website? Host their own + others and make a profit

- Advertising their products? Advertise their own + others and make a profit.
1. What are you basing this answer on?
2. If you don't want to meet their expectations, what can they actually do?
oh this is so much fun! love it.
I have a cron job that adds an email of the form `month-day@domain` to the list of aliases.

The address is automatically updated every day.

So whenever I need to an email to register on some app or website, this is the one I give. It will be gone the next day.
art and music do require skill, and people will pay for good art/music no matter the availability.

take pop music (of all sorts) for example. the money that pours into it is puzzling if you consider the music on its own merits. the melodies are catchy and the lyrics too, but no one really considers it high art. any barroom crooner could sing and play it.

(in fact singing is probably the most accessible and widely distributed art form. we're all born with the instrument and a little practice is all that's needed for passable entertainment.)

so why do pop stars make so much money? it's simply not scarcity that drives the price. it's fashion, or culture, or whatever you prefer to call it. it's the need to forget our troubles. it's our secret hopes and dreams routed through a channel for bonding with our fellow man. that's what we're paying for.

and we'll likely always pay for it. but whether the marketing machine of yesteryear can continue to maintain a stranglehold on access and taste is really the open question.
Sad. I thought I saw it coming.
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There was, and is a lot of snake oil in consumer audiophile gear. There is in most fields. Let's discount idiots suggesting snake oil, and stick to the rational. :)

That there was a noticeable difference in equivalent quality master sources where one is digital and the other analogue, that can be heard in blind testing. As a result some engineers and artists preferred analogue mastering long into the digital age. Digital mastering had issues for years, and they could be heard on both the CD and vinyl. Hardly a case of claiming record is always better.

Superficially there is some sense - the higher frequency signals are rendered less and less accurately, and nearer a binary on-off. Who knows what nuance and harmonics may be lost affecting what's heard at lower frequencies.
Dailymotion is French. Funny, because I often find videos on Dailymotion that we're copy-struck on YouTube.
I had never come across that one either, thanks for the link! It does look a little on the heavy side for my use case, but it might come in handy at some point! It looks like it has all the bells and whistles. Cheers.
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I can see where you are coming from. I went along with that word choice because it does a good job of capturing the severity of the harm, which I think is important.
I'm sure there is a better word. Perhaps my sibling comment's suggestion of "abusive" is a good one. Something like "very harmful", while potentially suitable, feels rather vague and uninspiring.
This is wonderful. I found it more enjoyable if you add the following css to the canvas:

canvas{
image-rendering: pixelated;
width: 100vw;
height: 100vh;
object-fit: cover;
position: fixed;
top: 0;
left: 0;
filter: contrast(.3) sepia(405%) hue-rotate(273deg);
}

Then view full screen (F11).

It fills your screen with a red toned version, with less contrast which I prefer. These things are highly personal so I suggest you experiment to find settings you like. Setting image rendering to pixelated is really personal as well, as some will prefer the softer look of blurring, but it helps me lock on to the stereogram.
The author of this article has full blown autism and expects his children to conform to his mental illness. Sad.
> What about having to have your phone in your pocket and a wire coming out of it into your ears? I've always found that annoying and usually wind up running the wire up inside my shirt so that it's not moving around or getting caught on things

Again it's never been a problem for me however upon further thought I usually put my phone in my bra when doing something physical so it's not a surprise there not an issue.

Now don't get me started on no headphone jack... i have an iphone and I irks me to now end that they removed it for honestly no good reason imho. I only put up with it because it's only occasionally a problem for me as i can charge up the phone pretty quick with my ankor and I prefer iphones for other reasons but man, i would buy the new iphone tomorrow if it had the jack.
On this page[1] it says that even links (e.g. Google Play links) might cause slow page load time.

[1] https://crossborder.digital/how-to-test-your-page-loading-speed-in-china/
The Oculus Rift S is impressive but unnecessary
I can cross my eyes, “rattle” them, diverge them, move then semi-independently... and I’ve never seen a Magic Eye picture. I even tried to see the inverted view other people in this thread are describing by intentionally crossing my eyes and bupkis. I could almost believe it’s an Emperor’s New Clothes type of situation.
This could have something to do with changing Swedish definition of what constitutes "rape". The definition was dramatically expanded in recent years.
There is no main editor, you chose your own. Some who like VSCode made [1], which you could use and contribute to.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaEditorSupport/julia-vscode
For the late 19th century, compared to the rest of the world, it was pretty good.
This is such a non sequitur that I looked through the parent poster's comment history to see if he'd made some other post down thread that you were replying to. Do you mean "people who work in military research", "people who work at military contractors" or was there something else I didn't pick up on?

Edit: Am not a military researcher, military contractor, etc.
Although it doesn't necessarily cater for the home market, Zapier is suitable replacement for many use cases IMO.
It's not a value judgment, which I feel (though I can't prove) you are still reading it is. But it isn't. It just is what it is. The performance characteristics of various technologies just... are. It's a mistake to read too much value judgment into it. I don't "hate" PyPy because it's not as fast as C, or love C because it's fast. They've got all sorts of characteristics, and a professional engineer ought to understand them as dispassionately as possible to make decisions about how to solve problems.

PyPy is a solution to "my Python code is running slowly". For very little effort you can obtain a very cheap speedup. It may not be all you need, but it's very engineer-effort cheap. But it certainly isn't a solution to "my Python code is running slowly but I need it to run at C speeds", and there are a ton of other solutions to the problem "My Python code is running slowly", since Python is such a slow language on its own terms. (By contrast, "my C code is running slowly and I've already profiled it a lot, etc." is a huge problem.)
I’m not at all confident these economics are true, but I imagine the argument is this: products like music, news, tv, Facebook, google search, YouTube (any ad-supported media) will now have to cost money. Their prices clearly have to go up without ads.

Next are all the businesses that will have a harder time attracting as many customers as they used to with ads- with fewer customers one can imagine they will have to raise prices as well to sustain their business.

Last, without advertising it will be much harder to start a new business. If you don’t have a highly visible store front it will be tough to gain traction no matter what sort of business you’re in. This leads to lower competition overall which also means higher prices.
The litmus test appears to be requirements that Google says IFTTT does not currently meet:

> These apps haven’t yet complied with our updated data privacy requirements announced on October 8, 2018
If it's not fun, you can't ruin the fun.

It's, of course, anybody's right to make oneself a toy for a partner, even if it hurts. But the partner might not like to actually hurt you, and might be sorry if she learned she did so by mistake.
Most of the small south Pacific islands were first settled in the past 1000-2000 years, and even some major ones like Hawaii and New Zealand. Sea levels haven't changed much at all in the past 3000 years. Certainly nothing approaching even one meter over that time.
"Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Of course they didn't say anything about Twitter, so you do have that.
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Maybe yours is way more expensive, but the $300 brands I buy tend to go down in price as new models come out.

Its a fashion accessory to me, dont even use it for time as we have smart phones nowadays. Just the skeleton looks cool.
Blind the public with lasers, fix with the patented blindness treatment
'Never seen so much rain': Zimbabweans struggle with storm floods
It's not rsync I'm concerned about. It is fswatch and adding/deleting multiple files (possibly from multiple devices) and having them automatically synced.
Something thrashes your disk therefore it’s telemetry?
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by the way, livenation and ticketmaster are the same company (headquartered in LA).
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It has been said that there is a certain demarcation between those pro-Brext and the Remainers of 50 years of age or something.

This would suggest that there is a limited scope for Brexit to pass a referendum, before the demographic groupd of those born before 1968 or so diminishes.

Although I understand the demographic Brexit difference has been brought into doubt, it would be interesting to see after when it becomes unlikely.
Iirc, she also has or had quite a bit invested in Australia’s media.

How would I find out which companies are invested in the media and the cross over between it and mining companies? That would be something I want to read.

I’m not saying that they uses that to influence public opinion. But I do worry that it could be that way. The media here loves going on about the ‘baseload’. What ever that means.
I don't understand your comment. What people are you speaking about?
>the mode of destruction is just different, e.g. corneal damage leading to cataracts or surface burns rather than retinal damage.

[IANAD] corneal damage seems to be more preferable as it is fixable
Ask HN: What's a proven SW team structure?
There has been many industry trends (Spotify, for example) and process trends (Agile's cross-functional teams) that provide an opinion on how to best structure a SW business unit.
But I'm seeking HN's tried and proven feedback on what works and what doesn't when putting together business unit consisting of multiple teams that ultimately should produce working software for internal consumers in an enterprise organisation.
How do you structure development & operations? and what do you make of the modern DevOps & SRE approaches?

on a more specific note, does a dedicated DevOps team that services other development teams work? or is it an ani-pattern as suggested by some?
It's not about preparing anyone. The (sometimes unannounced) murder drills are about learned helplessness. I know of instances where it was done to special-needs students.

I find it difficult to articulate how much it pisses me off. Teachers are each responsible for a priceless group of people, if they individually would like the option to defend themselves and their students they should get the proper training and carry a firearm.
Not true in the USA. Thousands of towns had multiple amateur concert bands during the 19th century, and band shells are still left over in many parks, although of course they are seldom used for their original purpose.
As far as the language goes, Julia is absolutely awesome for general purpose work, including web development, scripting, glue language, etc.

The associated libraries are, unfortunately but understandably, less well developed than counterparts in other languages. E.g. right now I'm happily using AWS[Core/SQS/S3], which are highly functional community developed AWS packages, but they're definitely less full featured than boto3. My impression is this situation is common for a variety of web and database packages.
>I often wonder what is the right thing to do: non-participation, or conscientious participation

And I often hear people talk about how they would punch nazis. Yet when being in the reality of present day prevailing groupthink which justifies such abuses, expecting people to "conscientiously take part" is already getting hopeful.
> Eric Weinstein is a mathematician, economist, physicist, and managing director of Thiel Capital.

Eric tweeted otherwise earlier today [1]:

> Attention: I found out from Wikipedia that as of the 17th, I'm NOT a mathematician anymore despite a PhD, but an economist. I now state that I've never taken a class in economics. In physics I have a semester of mechanics. No E&M/QFT.

> I'm the Impostor your mama warned you about.

[1] https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/110881430478500659...
There are a lot of color pickers out there. This one is pretty cool.

I wish I could feed it a color and get options from there.
The show was originally shot for 4:3, that didn't change when it was remastered. Thank goodness. It was very impressive remaster, as shown in various comparisons:

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/observations/tng-r-changes...
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probably more than a few are knowingly working for "opt-out" products that forget the "out" and claim it's a bug when someone discovers their negligence.

Do you have a source for that?

What data are they collecting maliciously? For example, what program(s) with telemetry are using it to exfiltrate my financial information or passwords?