skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the thing though, the publisher hasn't made any explicit copyright claims or issued any takedown requests, so they didn't do anything wrong. All of the actions taken were done proactively by the platform.
> I'm getting really tired of Chinese-made screws and bolts that almost seem to be made of plastic.

Supposedly, in the cheapest Chinese-produced goods, it sometimes happens that screws are made not entirely from metal, but are just a metal casing around sand.
You might be interested in the story of Dennis Kucinich and Muny Light. Years later, it actually did turn out to be the right choice (and I’m no Kucinich fan). Maybe something similar could be done with wireless and the utility poles.
Show HN: Should you buy a house and rent it out?
Is this an official statement from Mozilla? If understood right, it says that because every tracking site already does, we will put it inside the browser.

It seems like one day Nike will say, we need to send the location of every step you take, where you're heading and the speed so we can make better shoes. And people just, yes, seems fair to me.
It's too late to do anything. Those at the top stand to profit by cooperating. There is no reason to expect them to act against their best interests.

I do think it's worth considering whether this will result in a better world overall. It's a loss for many Americans, but perhaps a net-gain for humanity as a whole? If China is able to drive the price of high-quality goods down on a global scale, that might be a good thing, right?

I'd like to be optimistic about all of this. I'm hoping that most of us on HN in the USA will ultimately benefit from us, for lack of a better term, losing.
That's interesting. I think I saw that on the YouTube channel called Ants Canada. So some fungi do kill living things.

Added: That means some of the answers on the sample Singapore Science tests are not really correct.
IIRC, the Erlang BEAM format is based on IFF: http://erlang.org/doc/man/beam_lib.html

Edit: also http://www.erlang.se/%7Ebjorn/beam_file_format.html and https://web.archive.org/web/20011224134446/http://www.cica.i...
Just a TLDR, don't. Store the database record with a pointer to a more scalable better suited datastore like an object storage system (i.e S3). Most frameworks have a pattern for this (i.e https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_storage_overview.html)
It’s the strangest thing. It’s almost like Facebook CONSTANTLY lies about how big every mistake they have made is, only to drastically increase the original estimate later when people aren’t paying as much attention.
I started Parachute [1] by accident when I won the TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2015 Hackathon with its first prototype. I dropped everything else I was doing and launched it right here on HN a few months after that [2]. Today it's a healthy business without having taken a single cent of VC funding. I'm the only one full time on it, and it's made possible by relying heavily on a network of amazing friends who are each responsible for specific subprojects within their areas of expertise. Everyone is geographically distributed and I spend 9 months a year in NYC and the remaining 3 months traveling

Cheers to all the amazing engineers here who run ethical, douche-free, sustainable businesses

[1] https://parachute.live/app (app), https://parachute.live/platform (B2B)

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9885950
Well, there is AROS, but language guarantees don't stop a rogue binary from bringing the whole system down. For that you want ISA guarantees, and then you're talking a moddern OS. Unikernels only make sense when the entire application of the system is defined AOT.
The problem is sites don't need ping to do their tracking. In the past, search engines would just force a redirect to gather all the metrics they want for which link you go to. Most browsers put ping in as default because it improves responsiveness by not forcing the redirect. Firefox simply hasn't changed that yet. It hardly changes their privacy position, IMO.

Check out the latest episode of Security Now, which talks about this. https://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm
ah also these https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivorous_plant

in general blanket statement about the nature are going to always find corner cases
Sonic in the Bay Area has symmetric gigabit fiber for $60/mo!!!
> The human who doesn't want to belong to the masses need only cease to go easy on themselves; let them follow their conscience, which cries out to them "Be yourself! You are none of those things that you now do, think, and desire." Every young soul hears this call night and day and trembles, for when it thinks of its true liberation, it has an inkling of the measure of happiness for which it is destined from eternity. As long as it is shackled by the chains of opinion and fear, nothing can help it attain this happiness. And how bleak and senseless this life can become without this liberation!

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

That's not permitted though. This is the framework that is permitted, and within which we can discuss the difference between "be yourself" and "just do what you want" in articles of appropriate word count as suggested by the editor:

> [Hobbes] foresaw the necessary idolatry of power itself by this new human type, that he would be flattered at being called a power-thirsty animal, although actually society would force him to surrender all his natural forces, his virtues and his vices, and would make him the poor meek little fellow who has not even the right to rise against tyranny, and who, far from striving for power, submits to any existing government and does not stir even when his best friend falls an innocent victim to an incomprehensible raison d'etat.

-- Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism"

We have this "open world sandbox", moot and harmless, utterly devoid of deep meaning, because it's all printed on stickers without any lasting adhesive, that can and will be removed without any trace or consequence. We may not have noticed this, but our brain did.

Most "thought" expressed in the 21st century stems from rationalizing around that elephant on the couch, that's what I think. When I come across a turtle on its back in a desert, I don't know quite know what to do, I never seem to be able to help and it's really stressing me out, but I know what I will NEVER do, I will never say "oh, I guess that's just what the turtle does, that's just how it walks, it's not dying, that's how it lives".
The vast majority of your weight is in the harness, but there is some portion of the force vector that's going into the wall as well.

But you're right, the weight distribution isn't really what matters in this case.
The Conquest of a Happiness Network
It's both, just like representative democracy.
I don't see how you can get that read given the first paragraph.

> Because women used to be actively prohibited from full-time employment many decades ago, there is now the misguided belief that women SHOULD work, and if women AREN’T working, there’s something wrong…. Many women simply aren’t cut out for the corporate rat race, so to speak, and that’s not because of ‘the patriarchy,’ it’s because men and women aren’t identical, and women are much more inclined to gain fulfillment elsewhere.
The current patent system is utterly broken. Patents should have a validity of 2-3 years maximum.
On the topic, I think there's a better middle ground. Local governments already tend to manage roads, utility poles, etc. If they would manage conduit space the same way, maybe some colo, you could give fair access to private persons and companies, while preventing some of the ills of the way things tend to work right now (specific approval required for buildout, companies getting too familiar and working too closely with local government for there to be any fairness).

Maybe they could lease dark fiber similarly, but that may not be necessary with basic standards like those used for utility pole access in a decently well run town or city.
Tiobe Index
That's a shame. Now I have to either wait for someone to make an extension to disable hyperpings (so it can sync between all my Firefoxes rather than me having to manually change it every time) or learn to make one myself.
That's exactly what I said: according to their laws you being gay is a crime -- a crime committed at the time when you are in the country by simply being you. It has nothing to do with Hutchins' arrest which was for a crime committed in the past while being elsewhere.
I love your service. I've been using it for years! I use the responses at /geo and /json. The 'org' data is appreciated.
The main hold up to new development being UWP is the lack of compatibility with Windows 7, which is going out of support in January. Enterprises will most all have switched by then, and it will be considered pretty safe to develop ew software with UWP over legacy APIs.
What's wrong with plain old XMPP, imap with IDLE or even IRC with logging?

This stuff is a solved problem and the only thing that makes it complicated is that everyone want's to run the entire client on their iPhone, which is built by a company who refuses to cooperate with everyone.
I thought the missing escape would be the thing that drove me nuts since I spend a reasonable chunk of my day in VI. Turns out, it is the damn siri button above the delete. Not quite sure how I keep hitting it.
One of the comments on the site proper mentions that in light of the actions of the larger tech companies of the past decade, the commentor feels like they were unfairly harsh in their judgement of Bill Gates in the 1990s.

That's such a dangerous conclusion that's used in politics from time to time. Just because X is worse than Y, it doesn't mean that Y wasn't also bad. Y is only better by comparison. It's as objectively bad as it ever was.

Strive for better instead of simply settling for not as bad.
> Here in Maryland, our Comcast/Verizon duopoly is working pretty well. 60% of households have access to fiber.

Only 2 providers, especially in a heavily urbanized area, is not that many. How do your rates compare to other countries?

> our other government run services are so much worse?

Surely the answer is to improve the quality of government run services then, instead of accepting that the US is somehow intrinsically bad at providing them. In many cases, it's also a self-fulfilling prophecy: government services suck, so let's underfund/have low expectations of them, now they really do suck. For many functions government services are the only game in town, so it's in everyone's interest to have them be as efficient as possible.
I don't consider Mark Zuckerberg a model except for what not to do. I'd learn Mandarin because I want to communicate with Mandarin speakers.
>In the former case I’d bet that it turns out the wave would form within the event horizon of the hole, and that’s a good as saying it would never form.

Sorry if this is a bit naive and tangential, but I've always stumbled at the thought of how does gravity-information about the interior of a black hole propagate out of the event horizon? ...Gravitons/gravity waves travel at, c?
Semiconductor technology is one of the most difficult to setup a manufacturing base for. It is the last piece of the advanced manufacturing puzzle that an industrializing country would pick up, and the one where trade secrets / IP would be most valuable.
The last piece –- 21-part interactive video
I hate when people says LGTM but still have nits to pick. Either its ready to ship or its not.
Graphics drivers have definitely gone the other way. Those used to be in user space and aren't any more (although not in a microkernel sense, it was more of the DOS "go leave me alone and let me just poke crap into registers" sense.)
Read again, that's not what the OP is insinuating. In any case, this is a serious issue that deserves a serious discussion without getting angry.
Maybe now we can get rid of the god-forsaken javascript hell that does link tracking or the multiple bounces between servers before a redirect.
uBlock Origin already blocks this feature.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dashboard:-Settings#d...
As long as I can turn it off in about:config (and it won't try to automatically change the setting for me without my permission) I don't care if it is on or off by default.
I imagine sleeping is part of it though, when you're asleep your heart beats even slower than when awake.
I was in the best shape of my life around 33. It might be heavily weighted, but age is only factor in the equation of fitness.
It's actually not at all original. Maybe he independently came up with the idea, but there are tons of these.
There's an absolutely fantastic podcast called "ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast" [1] I listen to. The show started off a bit slow, a normal old-guys-talking-about-old-hardware. But somewhere along the way they started hunting down people involved with Atari or Atari products back in those days and have started amassing an impressive collection of sometimes incredible interviews. It's a treasure trove of oral history of the late 70s and early-to-mid 80s computing movement.

I don't know how they find these folks, but the interviews can be absolutely awesome. Sometimes people who's names I never knew, but who's companies or products I absolutely remember give detailed background on the goings on of early computing in a way that's just really amazing. There's hundreds of interviews now.

Their non-interview shows are mostly about the three hosts talking about the modern Atari 8-bit scene. New hardware, new software and so on. Devices for using the internet, SD cards and such on these ancient machines.

I never had one of these boxes, and only ever saw one a couple times, but I've grown to deeply respect the thought and engineering that went into these machines.

1 - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/
The Linux Foundation is made of a number of companies who are told to behave by the GPL.

IMO, if it weren't for the GPL we would see very few of the contributions made to Linux get handed back to the community. That it more or less runs everywhere is part of what makes it interesting (and was a major point of TFA.)
We’re right down the way in Pinewood Springs and can only dream that the fiber will get laid along 36 so that we can get in on the action, too!
You're right, giving advice to a wide audience increases the chances of it harming people.
Killing someone outside the USA unless they are American I dont think it would end up that way. Unless it was in a US Embassy.
If you store your BLOBS outside the db, you'll have to write your own two-phase commit logic to ensure when row X is deleted, then /wherever/X.jpg is also deleted.
Similar for inserts.

And you'll need to provide a detailed README to your DBAs and your team to explain all your special backup and restore operations.

Or, you can just live with a backup that takes longer and requires more disk space.
> copywrote

The past participle of "copyright" is "copyrighted" (note that it's derived from "right" rather than "write").
Yeah, they offered to do the work for cheaper
I don’t like using the government for these problems. I think private collectives could be very powerful here. If you have a collective of a few thousand members cooperating with another collective, the members would have to all choose profit over cooperation to defect. Our normal corporate structure with a tiny board of directors creates perverse incentives for the board to profit greatly at everyone else’s expense. Collectives can be designed without a board of directors, or the board can be better held accountable to the members. That means collectives are less likely to choose profit over public interest, because the voting members are the public much more so than the few members of some corporate board.
> Most of this "spies" are trying to escape China ! all the regime did was offer them more money / opportunity than what they went to the West to find.

Your second sentence directly contradicts the first. The "spies" aren't escaping China - they're playing whatever side has more money to throw at them.
Yes, there are always going to be useful idiots to buy legal solutions that mostly benefit existing institutions and lawyers
One ought to argue sub specie aeternitatis.
> RTOS for mobile phones

The market has clearly demonstrated that it doesn't care about phones being real time. They used to be considered critical systems from what I understand and many did actually run realtime OSes. Now we've got android and iOS (android is about as far from an RTOS as you can get, it's almost impossible to write an app that's not guaranteed to just killed by the OS at some point.)
Hn.algolia and News.Y Combinator?
What's the difference between hn.algolia and news.ycombinator?
I'm a big fan of an i3(gaps) distro, but it's somewhat humorous to say "without all the visual bullshit" and have compiz included.
There's always Microsoft Edge Beta.

And in all likelihood it works with that un-ping addon for Chrome.
How is cheap labour where people commit suicide ethical in any way?

One of the reasons Chinese companies can manufacture so cheaply is the possibility of IP theft. The west want to pay their poor less to manufacture things cheaply. The Chinese want to pay the western rich less to use their technology.

Calling IP theft unethical in a sentence with cheap labour is oxymoronic.
> lenient sentencing

This is what I was alluding to. Historically judges have had a lot of leeway when it comes to sentencing, and, having heard all the details of the case, they are in the best position to decide the defendant's fate. (For what it's worth, I disagree with mandatory minimum sentencing laws.)
Congrats on running it sustainably and profitably for so long.

I imagine that TarSnap must have done very well since many tiny HN startups used it 10 years ago, and some of them are now huge. When those companies are growing like crazy I'm sure they just pay the bills and don't think about switching!
> mainline userspace.

I don't think you quite understand what I'm saying? Mainline here refers entirely to the kernel. There is no "mainline linux userspace." (unless you count a handful of Linux specific userspace tools for stuff like ext4 filesystem creation.)
This is the fault/design of the law isn’t it, not the platform?
The linked example provides a good reason you should use negative AoA. It would be ridiculous to have a discontinuity in AoA jumping -5 to +5 just because the direction of lift changes slightly.
I know a few artists that suffered quite a lot of theft primarily in art assets and concept work including their work being used as concept art for commercial projects and textures and 3D models even shipping in with some.

Even in such cases like bargain bin games which were made by a Russian and Chinese studios and were published in Europe by fairly large publishers and used stolen assets they had little to no legal recourse the Publisher didn’t care, the artists don’t have the money to fight a legal battle and even if they do win at best they’ll barely cover their legal fees if they even turn a profit and the game devs would just patch those assets out if they would even exist by the time the case is settled.

From their point of view it’s not that the public domain is too small but that the current copyright laws are too lax and can only be used by those with large legal teams on retainers.
>Apple does NOT plan to make your devices obsolete.

Running on an upgraded late 2008 MacBook and running Mojave, but only thanks to people keeping it compatable as a hobby. According to Apple, this setup is obsolete and incompatable with Mojave.
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Feds: TX man stole $370k using credit cards found in mail
Helped on a ferry flight of an aerobatics plane from Denver area to Chicago area. The front half I was in had a ball compass, altimeter, and airspeed indicator. It has been a long time since I've been in something without any electronics. The dumb and ugly was strong when I started to chase the compass rather than look outside. :)
Yeah, flying upside down.
The point is that the key is never in the possession of the edge (i.e. Cloudflare). There is no way the edge could recover the key. They can use it to sign whatever they want, while you allow them to, although you can take whatever auditing measures you'd like there.
How cannabis use has changed
I mostly just want to abandon copyright. Everything I create lately - software, robots, and writing - are released with unrestricted licenses. CC0 or BSD in most cases. I tried copyleft briefly but all it seemed to do was limit other people. I don’t want to do that anymore.
I'd love to see someone name one US company that faced material damages as claimed in this comment. It really doesn't seem to be the case.

World police strikes again.
ASML is not a chip company. They are a chip equipment company. The machine they have designed is a wonder of science and engineering. It is also the only model by any company that is capable of printing the chip layers at state of the art nanoscale. Every high value chip produced in the world has its lithography steps in ASML tools.
So, take the idea that Starkey is going on, but make them ostentatious? Kind of the way arm and leg prostheses have gone now that 3D printing has reached consumers?
I'm the solo founder of Loadster (https://loadster.app) which has been profitable for a while and is now making me pretty close to a comfortable living.

I really enjoy the freedom and variety that comes with running a SaaS, and while the grass is always greener on the other side, I think I'm pretty much ruined for a regular job at this point. So beware!

One piece of unsolicited advice: if I were to start all over again as a solo bootstrapper, I would probably do something less technical. As others here have pointed out, there is a LOT more to running a SaaS than just building software, and it's often hard to find the time or brain space to give all the facets of your business the attention they deserve.
My saas https.appdoctor.io is barely profitable but that is mainly because of how cheap the infrastructure cost is(something I think helps a lot in 1 man/woman projects). I would agree with what others have stated though that I don’t recommend solo founding(looking for a co founder now). They don’t tell you that making an functioning application that is useful is less then half the battle to having a successful saas.
How about "looks good so far"?
Just wanted to chime in that I agree with you. I had some artist friends who were pro strong copyright, but personally I don’t think they realize the vast groves of information everyone on earth is being deprived of for this scheme. We absolutely need to find ways to compensate artists but I think the cost of copyright is far too great.
ASML CEO Peter Wennink strongly denies that the Chinese government is behind the theft of sensitive business information. according to https://nos.nl/l/2279983 (translate https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&u=https%3... )
Ah yes, people must be working at all hours of the day. How dare they spend time doing other things!
I don't know that. Do you?

I took a look at editions of the report available for pre-order on Amazon. But there were several, and I didn't want to look at them all. I don't see any copyright claim in the Scribner edition.

And to be clear, I'm not arguing that the publisher requested the takedown. I'm just curious whether there's a copyright claim on the title page.
I expect massive global climate change and food shortages before China can use the IP it stole to dominate “everything”. Dust to dust.
In fact, having it on by default is better for people who are privacy conscious. If everyone has it off by default, then no site will implement it. If it's opt-out, the average site is more likely to use it rather than using JS tracking.

It's kind of like Do Not Track. Once IE enabled it by default, every single ad network stopped honoring it.
Android’s browser and search ballots for the EU
Kustomize – Templating in Kubernetes
Am not sure if you are joking. As someone who does not use social media much, are people so hooked that withdrawal would cause them to commit suicide?