skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the problem is that Slack/Discord are proprietary, isn't the solution to build an FLOSS alternative to Slack/Discord that anyone can run a server for? Do such projects exist?

While I loved using IRC 10-15 years ago, the user experience is simply terrible by our standards today (and adding emoji reactions isn't going to solve that imo).
Packem: New JavaScript Bundler Written in Rust
Packem is a precompiled bundler implemented primarily in Rust. It is more than twice as fast as Parcel and up to ~1.5X faster than webpack.

Learn more: https://github.com/packem/packem
I said "chestnuts" not "wood".

It used to be part of the general American experience to eat chestnuts in fall/early winter. Hence the line "Chestnuts roasting over an open fire" which I quoted earlier.

The chestnut shortage caused that tradition to all but disappear.

The shortage wasn't caused by government setting the price. It wasn't caused by "Tragedy of the Commons".

You don't even think there is a shortage because we've adjusted. It appears to be that if people can survive without it, perhaps by using an alternative, then there cannot be a shortage of something.

Which is not what "shortage" means, at least for those who don't subscribe to the Texas sharpshooter fallacy.

(If that is what shortage means, there can never be a shortage of toilet paper because there are other ways to clean one's butt - or you can get used to having a dirty butt.)

Let's go back to the passenger pigeon. If we apply your logic then of course there's no shortage of passenger pigeon meat because really people are getting their food from other sources. Yes?

I'll note that you even acknowledge that the absence of passenger pigeon meat was not - contrary to your first assertion - based on government price fixing ("The only time there's a shortage in a free market is when the government fixes the price.") Instead, you say the problem is that it wasn't part of a free market at all.

So, what's the solution? Is is possible, within a free market system, to have saved the passenger pigeons? How does one "own" a migratory species which requires vast numbers in order to breed? And how does that ownership seem any different than price fixing by a monopoly owner, a.k.a., government prohibitions? And how does it factor in ecosystem changes caused by the presence/absence of that species?
Weight. Not all things require the same number of stamps.
They didn't try to, they actually won. Microsoft switching to Blink was had news for Mozilla, and sites that are "optimized for Chrome" started to crop up all over the place.

Yes, Firefox is slow on Macs, but you should consider switching to it. We know how it went with IE back then. On Android, the extension support alone makes it so much better than the competition.
https://riot.im
The Infinite Scroll: Life under the unbreakable lure of the screen
To be fair, Rus becoming the CEO was tragically unplanned.
A fun, interactive and visually appealing word game written in Java
According to the official website [1] (which is linked to from TFA), the images were processed using PixInsight, a program popular among amateur astronomers. This page: [2] explains how PixInsight performs image alignment; it turns out to be a pretty complex (and interesting) process. The same page also explains the process of merging images.

[1] http://www.cielaustral.com/galerie/photo95.htm?fbclid=IwAR3G...

[2] http://pixinsight.com/doc/tools/StarAlignment/StarAlignment....
Containerising the IRCD would probably broaden the pool of people willing to host the network, due to not needing root on their boxes anymore.

Shameless plug for anyone who just wants their own IRCD: https://github.com/LukeB42/Psyrcd
> the checks could be run-time or disabled overall, enabled just for testing

If you do not require proofs, how is that different from C-like asserts and unit testing? How are refinement types related?
Minor nitpick, but Rovio seems to be doing ok. https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/ROVIO:FH. Their price went down pretty hard after the IPO, but lately they've been trending up. They currently have a market cap of $500M. Would they ever have gotten that far without VC? Their only big raise was $42M, if Wikipedia is to be believed.
There is increasing recognition by institutional investors that climate change risk is a factor which must be measured and managed. While there are opportunistic trades to be had, the sheer volume of pension fund money slowly shifting to de-risk will have significant impact on industry.
We Measure Standards (and why it’s sort of a problem)
When Firefox killed RSS support, they mutilated my bookmarks to remove all of the RSS URLs.

Those bookmarks were mine, and Firefox destroyed them without even giving me a chance to opt-out.

I can't use Firefox if it's going to do stuff like that. I use qutebrowser, instead.
China already has the largest carbon trading market in the world [0]. Perhaps it's not aggressive enough, but they're significantly more ambitious than the US, and their population isn't nearly as wealthy to begin with, so it'll hurt them more. Either way, we can chose to invest now, or pay the price for this silly game of chicken later.

Besides – how do you suggest we get China and India to cut emissions without doing the same, if not more, at home? Perhaps Border Adjustments [1] can alleviate some of your fears; they would protect domestic industry. All of this has already been worked out to stupendous levels of detail by legal scholars and Nobel-prize winning economists [2] – your armchair criticism just shows that you're decades behind the policy wonks. Leave it to them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_national_carbon_tradin...

[1] https://www.carbontax.org/nuts-and-bolts/border-adjustments/

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/business/economic-science...
Did you read the WSJ article? https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-tech-whiz-behind-vine-and-h...

The reporter basically insinuates that Rus had been aggressively trying to undermine and get employees to turn on Colin for a year and leaves an open question on whether stress resulting from their toxic relationship contributed to him increasing his drug usage.

Basically, it was maybe not a complete accident unrelated to his work.
They use an image stacking process that realigns a set of images to form the single image. See for instance https://rogergroom.com/astronomy-deep-sky-stacking-software/
This is awesome.

I know it's just a quick hack, but I'm curious about this in the code:

200 +(30*word.length - 7)

I've never used TypeScript, but I'm assuming this is the same as:

(200 - 7) +(30*word.length)

But I guess you meant:

200 +(30*(word.length - 7))
Tim Ferriss used to advertise for them... a lot...

Ooof
I’m curious how the learning effect would have changed if the breaks had been 20 seconds. What if they had been 5 seconds?
The Angry Birds movie made what, like $350 million? It's a phenomenal franchise.

Making money off the stock isn't like, the only way to make money. HQ would kill to be anything close to as significant as Rovio.
You did receive fake goods. About 3-5% of all sales are counterfeit.
Really? You can’t figure out why someone might use a Microsoft hosted db over one at google or one they’d have to run themselves?

Azure’s growth rate is amazing. There’s a ton of adoption there that doesn’t have access to spanner, or maybe has a document based data model, where spanner / cockroach doesn’t make any sense
"it’s a lot better than prison"

I think our definition of imprisonment is different. To me being confined within the limits of a single house suffices. No need for that... other stuff.

I'm don't think the court will count the times his body should have been violated as a factor.
All I got out of that link of tweets was a series of "Look at all the ways big evil Google steered us off the internet". I'm not doubting any if those claims are true. At the same time, I don't think any of those malicious motives were strong enough.

That post came off as more of a whistle blowing speech from an oppressed developer. Nothing written was solid enough to make me think "Ohhh that's how Google killed Mozilla"

Just as Firefox destroyed IE, Chrome generally outperforms Firefox. If you dont believe me, read any benchmark out there. If you're too cynical, run them both yourself.

The GUI features Google introduced were very important. Draggable, swappable tabs that can be pulled out into separate windows, address bars with integrated search engines, built in PDF viewers. 10 years later these features sound like ridiculous remarks, but they were prominent selling points for many average users.

Not to mention, Google had an ever growing sense of brand identity. Especially during this time range of the YouTube aquisition, and rise of Android OS. Whether it's now or a decade ago, what is the first thing that comes to mind when the average user sees the name Mozilla? Does this demographic even know what Mozilla is? I stress average user because to us there is of course JavaScript and Netscapes heritage. Which is unfortunate to see Rome collapse this way, but so did IBM.
Wow. That's brave.
Depending where you live, be sure that your homeowners insurance will cost you more. The repricing will happen quicker than you might think.
I wish Youtube Kids was a curated selection of videos kids would want to watch that were at least reasonable, instead of algorithmic who knows what.
For anyone with a shitty computer like me, zooming into that is currently crashing my browser ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
zulip is open source (despite being developed by a company). They don't discourage you to run your own server, it's fully documented (and we do it in our company) It's not intended to be a Slack clone, but better by introducing email-like discussion topics. I like it, but seems that some less geeky people are more difficult to educate how to use it reasonably.
Build Your Own Netflix from AWS [video]
We got our first PC when my sons were 2 and 4. I made sure there was kid-friendly stuff available, both desktop software and online links. I never limited what they could do.

As they got older, I had a tongue-in-cheek guideline of "no naked pics and no learning how to build bombs!" (They're my kids. They understood what I was trying to get at.)

I was a full-time mom and homemaker and we began homeschooling when they were 8 and 11. So I had a good idea of what they were being exposed to.

There were thousands of books in the house. I took them to the library regularly and to parks, museums, etc.

When they were about 11 and 13, we paid what was a lot of money for us at the time to get internet for all four computers in the house. A single line was the norm at the time and only one computer could be online at a time.

My oldest's addict-like behavior went away once he had unlimited internet access. Trying to get his needs met in x amount of time per day led him to play the most intense online games and did bad things to his headspace. Once he had all day, he read, played a variety of games, began writing fan fiction, etc.

I never found it necessary to limit anything.
Is Firefox slow on Mac for you? I haven't noticed slowness in a long time.
> is it OK to rewrite it in another language (using original code as blueprint)

No. However if you just take a specification of the code’s expected behavior (in this case a description of the markup language), and do a “clean-room” reimplementation where you never look at the original code, you should be in the clear from what I understand.
Edit: thanks for the invite!
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Or Air Worldwide, or RMS, KatRisk, CoreLogic.
One of the 'mysteries' of corporations is that they will either do nothing, or take an action that furthers their corporate interests. People don't seem to expect that of companies with a public face and seem surprised when they turn out to be just like any other corporate group.

It's a coordination thing - coordinating a large group of people is so challenging only simple messages like 'make a profit' get through on average. Simple things with clear metrics.

'Support the open web' has no metrics and is realistically not a comprehensive shared vision a company can rally around. The message that a Chrome-first strategy doesn't support the open web is (1) contestable (2) requires a lot of assumptions.

Anyone who believed or still believes that Google the Corporation is controlled by the engineers employed by Google is in for an eventual rude shock. Anyone who believes a corporation will support the open web for any reason other than it is in their interests to is likewise mistaken.

This is why focusing on capability is more important than focusing on intent, despite what human instinct generally suggests (humans overweight intent). Google is a scary company. They have more power over people than most companies, with the exception of the banks - and look at how the banks are regulated!
Show HN: OCR Agent to extract text from images and pdfs in batches
Found this while evaluating options for moving away from React Native (which is not really working well for us). As much as I love Flutter/Dart, the big problem: most of our users are on iOS, and Flutter being a Google project, seems to prioritize Android over iOS (RE: UI polish and runtime performance). Looks like we'll be sticking to native dev for a while...
I see some of those "Oops" items. Recently, Codero's hosting dashboard stopped working with Firefox. They blame the Firefox configuration. They're trying to do something with cross-site cookies that Firefox doesn't like.
Related reading (2008)
https://thetruthaboutmozilla.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/the-go...

(That’s a year an a half before Chrome launched with a leaked comic book)
The Third Wave Data Scientist
I'll bite. Why is LMC less interesting than other stuff? What's more interesting in your opinion?
Media companies can most certainly be massive multi bil companies. There is a reason why telcos are buying up media companies (e.g. ATT buying Time Warner/HBO and Comcast buying NBC) and some of the richest billionaires are media tycoons.

I think HQ is on the right track but I don’t see the current team being the right team to turn it into the next big media play. The future of live TV should be heavily interactive.
Also: Does anyone here know what star that is? Is it one of the brightest stars in the night sky, or is it just super bright relative to everything else in this picture?
" Indeed, astrophotographers used a couple of special filters which transmit narrow parts -lines- of the visible spectrum : the Hydrogen Alpha line at 656 nm, the Sulfur line at 672 nm and the Oxygen III spectral line at 500 nm"

Can anyone comment on how much the images produced by these filters differ from what the human eye would see if somehow it was able to look at these objects. Are they also taking in information from the non visible spectrum and coloring it or is this all just a focusing of a light that real humans would have been able to perceive?

I know they mentioned using different filters to achieve the two different images but was
Fractosity?

Fractal nature of?
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Hey Hackers,

We've launched cloud based OCR agent in Agenty to extract text from almost any type of images or pdfs. You can just enter the URL of images or can also upload in a Agenty bucket to extract text easily.

No setup, no configuration, no coding requires.

Here is the video - https://www.agenty.com/docs/video-tutorials.aspx

Let me know your feedback.
I believe Gitlab and Github both render Org files with OrgRuby[1], which is MIT.

[1]: https://github.com/wallyqs/org-ruby
I think OP means that LMS isn't a place per-se (like a planet, or maybe even a solar system is a "place"). It's a whole bunch a places bound together by gravity.
I don't use a Mac, but it's a known issue with the high-resolution ones. I believe it doesn't use the OS compositor, so it ends up redrawing too much.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1191965
Time served always means in jail as specified by the particular law enforcement agency and court laying and trying the charges. The embassy and Maralogo are the same to them if either is used to evade law enforcement and arrest.
One challenge around OpenAPI right now is that most of it is still stuck in version v2, with relatively immature support for v3. And v3 is quite different.

Not too long ago, I tried to build a project around OpenAPI, trying to generate model structs in Go from OpenAPI definitions. The support just wasn't there. There were code generation tools for v2 and emerging library support for v3, but nothing that covered both.

I went back and used plain JSON Schema for my models, and used GraphQL instead of OpenAPI for the API, and that turned out great.
Jack Ma defends overtime work culture as 'huge blessing'
I only have first hand experience with NIH SBIR/STTRs, but I have heard good things from acquaintances with NSF funding. Sounds like NSF has put more resources into startup resources and mentorship, like its i-Corps program. I've also heard that NSF program officers are more open to NSF SBIR PIs pivoting their projects along the way, in order to suss out product-market fit. (Note that my impressions may be some years out of date.)
> You should know the price before you agree to buy the product' seems like such an innocuous principle. Why isn't their broad-based support of it for medical care?

This is not a probleam of health-care as much as it is of insurnace. If you paid doctors cash you will get straight up pricing.

Thing is the market is like 95% insurance.

I believe this will change in the near future. High-deductible plans and DPC's will bring back some sane price sensitivty into the system. But while patients with great PPO plans pay 20 bucks for a 300 dollar visit, its not going to get fixed itself by "posting prices somewhere"
List prices are not the whole information: you want to know for your insurance, how much you will get charged. And that is a completely different question.
It blows my mind to zoom in on just one part of the picture and see how many stars there are. And then multiply that by the entire picture. And then multiply that by all the galaxies in the universe. My mind just isn't built to comprehend numbers that large.
To be fair, they communicated that change. Did you miss the chance to export your RSS list? I think it was supposed to export an OPML so you could add them to another feed reader. Some of them are even available as Firefox extensions.

> without even giving me a chance to opt-out

It didn't flip a pref, the infrastructure behind that feature was removed because it was a maintenance nightmare, and not enough people were using it. You could have opted out (for a while) by switching to the ESR.

I haven't tried qutebrowser, does it have extension or RSS support?
Dangerous. You can die from water intoxication. It is an extremely painful way to die. Brain swells and is crushed by your skull https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
Used WSD web sequence diagram at Amazon, handy, never thought it was too much of a pain to snip it out and embed that somewhere; but I get the idea.
> They can charge whatever BECAUSE OTHERWISE YOU'RE DEAD.

Just like when you buy food! Or heating! Or water!
I haven't looked further into the nature of what you've described, but if that's all factual then that's a pretty damning set of actions.

Contrasting the first paragraph of the "IMF $4.2b loan" article:

The International Monetary Fund on Monday approved a $4.2-billion, three-year loan for Ecuador, part of a broader aid package to help support the government's economic reform program.

With this from wikipedia:

Moreno reversed several key pieces of legislation, passed by the Correa administration, that targeted wealthy individuals and banks

absolutely screams US influence conspiracy.

People don't change their politics that extremely unless it's worth their while.
I read an article the other day about how Miami residents are mostly not concerned and seem to hold up other places such as Rotterdam who are doing a good job dealing with these issues but not understanding that Miami's geology and hydrology is vastly different and is going to leave them seriously screwed.
> pale in comparison to the operating economics of having to additionally operate the air-launch platform.

That’s likely true, but depends on how many launches you do. An air launch platform could likely handle multiple launches per day, but finding customers for thousands of launches per year is not going to happen.

> I'm not even sure where "directly lowers costs" applies in the SSTO case.

I am very specifically talking about a non reusable, anti satilite weapon. You can find several such weapons launched from aircraft. In that specific case using far more fuel and a larger rocket is potentially worth it to have dramatically fewer moving parts. Actual designs may be multi staged to increase capabilities to reach geostationary satilites etc, but it’s far less nessisary for LEO.
These days all my needs for "structured data" start with JSON Schema. I refuse to work with schemaless apps and databases anymore.

The workflow which I use for one app is:

* Define a JSON Schema for all the app's models

* Generate static Go types from these definitions

* Generate corresponding GraphQL types and inputs in the Go app for serving the API

* Generate TypeScript types in JavaScript front ends against the same schema

* Same model structs in Go are used to shuffle data in and out of data stores

Since GraphQL is more limited than JSON Schema (for example, very limited union ("oneof") support), there are some features I'm not able to fully make use of, but the common denominator covers most use cases.

I love having end-to-end static typing, validation and consistency.
If you're a web developer or someone working pretty high level and have this desire to explore the depths, here's a project idea for you. First write a CHIP8 emulator in your most comfortable language, then write a Gameboy emulator in something like Rust or C++.
There is C syntax? Neat. Is it used in your book?