skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jumping into a new thing regardless of its potential is a necessary, not sufficient, component of innovation.

If you wait until it's obvious to everyone that something's a good idea, you're not being innovative, you're just an opportunist. Similarly, if it turns out that it's not actually a good idea, you're not being innovative, you've just wasted a whole lot of time.

Innovation happens at the intersection of contrarian & right. You have to be willing to stake your time, energy, and ego on an idea that many people believe is bad, impossible, or not worth it (otherwise it would've been done already), but you also have to be right in your judgment.
I agree—and some of the RSS feeds I follow are in fact almost entirely that.

However, there's also a big difference between leaving a comment/reply on an existing discussion site about a particular frustrating topic, and posting it on a personal blog that doesn't have a significant readership. Sure, maybe someday it'll gain such a readership—but until and unless it does, everything you post tends to feel like masturbatory shouting into the void. And while some people may like that, I suppose, I certainly wouldn't. (Which is why, despite thinking about it several times and having my own domain running a web server, I've never actually put anything you could reasonably call a "personal web site" there.)
Car should be silent inside and a little noisy outside so that blind and animals can be alerted easily
> who clicks on these ads?

Me, accidentally while trying to tell facebook to never show me that ad again.

Like you noticed, the ad situation has become dire.
Keep them in your ears or in the case and the probability that you'll lose them will be pretty close to zero.
That logic only works if iPhones cannot be repaired. Obviously they can be. The demands in the various Right to Repair bill drafts never talk about changing the design of the phone, only about requiring the information and parts necessary for repair be available to the public.
I understood that, I just don't understand why Bismarck is considered a diplomatic genius instead of reviled as the architect of a dangerously fragile diplomatic situation.
Seems they're both at it:

https://www.comptia.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/201...

(pdf) https://api.ctia.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/coalition-le...
This is the only correct response.
>”The issue is that many of these companies operate in a grey area because they are forced to purchase replacement parts from third parties in Shenzhen, China”

What is the grey area, here?
If you have scratch and junk lying around, why not make a watch from it?
Sure, but nobody would hold onto USDT for a long time anyway. It's not meant to be a long-term investment.

As long as it facilitates short-term transactions and people are agreeable to trading it at 1 USD, that black box system fulfills its mission as a product, and doesn't need to fulfill anything else.
I don't think farmers really want to mistreat their animals. It is apparent that some farms put profit ahead of suffering. I would like to be able to look up a brand of meat in the grocery store and have them document how they take care of the animal. I would like to be able to make an informed decision in the marketplace. Saying it is impossible because farmers don't manage their supply chain is a way of answering my question.
The quality of software available on the nintendo store has nothing to do with how locked down the hardware is! Of course nintendo (or any other platform holder) would like you to believe otherwise, because by controlling the platform, they are able to maximize the profit extraction. Hardware lockdown and quality of the curated store has nothing to do with each other. Nintendo can (and should) continue to curate their store.

But if i want to produce homebrew for my own machine, I'd have to get permission from nintendo. I also have to pay for that priviledge, when the hardware is something i have purchased.
I'd guess that wink is hinting that Yann LeCun might've had something to do with this research. Whether that's true or not, I have no idea.

(Yann LeCun is a Turing award winner for his work in deep learning)
Kenya has secured $173M in funding from Huawei to build a data center
I think this is not true, it's just an often told cliché. French is spoken in so many countries around the world and yet still French have this thing with foreigners trying to speak it. I think it's just more cultural and educational, nothing else.
> The event loop will literally print out all the un-awaited coroutines when it exits

IIRC, I've only ever seen "unawaited coroutine found" (or similar) errors; I've never seen anything that points to a specific unawaited coroutine. In either case, a bug in prod is still many times worse than compile time type error.

> you can enable debug on the event loop and have it print out every time a coroutine takes longer than a configurable amount of time

I don't run my production servers in debug mode, and even when I do manage to find the problem, I have limited options for solving it. Usually it amounts to refactoring out the offending code into a separate process or service.

An extreme counterpoint is a language like Go which

1) Is roughly 100X faster in single-threaded, CPU-bound execution anyway

2) Allows for additional optimizations that simply aren't possible in Python (mostly involving reduced allocations and improved cache coherence)

3) Has a runtime that balances CPU load across all available cores

This isn't a "shit on Python" post; only that concurrency really isn't Python's strong suit (yet).
>The Guardian columnist Jason Wilson argued that "It's OK To Be White" was devised by white supremacists in order to stoke overreaction from the left, sow confusion, embed a racist agenda in the mainstream media, and ultimately invite a backlash against anti-racist activism.

If you're actively trying to invite a backlash against anti-racist activation, then you'd better be able to come up with a damn good explanation why you're against anti-racist activism, or just admit you're racist.
From the article:

"When you work with servers, the developer workflow is quite tedious. You have to run a process, find the port, then make your changes, then kill the process (usually with Control+C)..."

I don't know what web servers they are using but in development that's not the case at all in Python, Ruby and Elixir.

With most modern web servers you can run them in some type of development / debug mode where on code change, your code gets reloaded without having to do that manually, and you'll get sub 100ms updates. This has been available for many many many years now. Even with PHP development from 10+ years ago you had a way to see code changes without having to restart Apache.
Me neither... I prefer (most of) the tight design integration that Apple is able to do over the think-pad utilitarianism in my personal devices. The most I've ever done inside a computer is add RAM a few times. If I want to do more I'll build a PC.
I think they are tied together. China and the US are the two biggest world powers. Any conflict between them would draw Japan in. Japan also has rivalries with China and North Korea. Any conflict between Japan and one or more of those would draw the US in.

If the there is a conflict in the eastern Pacific, Australia would like join in as well. It is also highly likely that the UK, Netherlands, Denmark, Poland will likely join as well and possibly Germany and France.
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How your vision is different from Freebase and other ontology projects?
Correlation, perhaps, but the causation could be reversed.
I thought the article was pretty clear that the loss leader price was only active for one week? That's very temporary.
Do yourself a favor and follow an iFixit phone repair guide once in your life. There's really no mystery or safety concern to it.

I did thousands of laptop repairs in my early 20s with essentially no training and no support (tooling) behind me.

Once you buy something it should be yours to fool with. For good and bad.
No. It is very poorly thought out

First, it is fully recognizing my speech.

It is then refusing to do the action because they decided that I need to unlock my phone, PRECISELY in the situation where I CANNOT use my hands to perform that action.

Also, I last summer had an opportunity/need to use an obsolete DragonDictate from circa 2009. This old software was FAR better at recognition and well-thought-out command flow than any of Microsoft's or Googles current offerings. Yes. it is hard, but doing better than a decade behind is not hard.

So, both your general premise and your specific characterization are wrong
> In a surveillance era, some version of GoogleCIA will have the ability to move or alter elections in any way they like. It's always for the best reasons of course.

I think we're past that tipping point already.
>only about requiring the information and parts necessary for repair be available to the public.

The parts and information are already available to the public, as noted by the article. The Right to Repair bill would compel companies to provide that information and parts directly.
Ever since I've first learned about his story in-depth, this idea has also fascinated me – but I've never seen anybody else raise it unprompted!

The analogy with software is right-on, in my view. He crated a system that was complex, sure, but very manageable and powerful if you understood it in sufficient detail.

For a fast-and-loose comparison, he was running foreign policy in Vim/Emacs, while his contemporaries were using Notepad, and of course he did a damned good job. His biggest fault is that he never taught any of his subordinates how to use Vim/Emacs.

He didn't seem to have a succession plan for himself. It's a mystery to me why (hubris, lack of interest?), but it regardless goes down as a fault against him, IMO.
> It seems to me that an iPhone is a lot easier to repair than a car.

In my short 55 years on the planet I've heard of 4 friends of friends[1] who died or were badly injured by having cars slip off a jack and fall on them.

[1] AKA friends coworker didn't show up one Monday. Friend recently had to dash across the street to jack a car back off of his neighbor.

Yeah never heard of anyone seriously hurt messing with ordinary consumer electronics. You would think if that were a possibility then UL etc would refuse to certify.
For both I did. The Google Pixel screen cracked because the safe space for prying it apart is so tiny. Kindle guides aren't as good as phone guides and didn't explain the risk of pulling apart the display layers when wedging apart the bezel. :(
Well, some of us do: https://adnauseam.io/
They probably view it as:

"Let's A/B test everything to see what leads to higher rates of binge watching"

rather than a specific set of OTHER behaviors.

Plus, given how a show can become a hit just based on "Hey, did you see this totally awesome new show??" style recommendations I would imagine there is a sweetspot of Netflix wanting you to watch the show but then talk to your friends about it. In other words, you need to have friends to be able to hype their show.
Yeah, I can see some components as being relatively easy to replace, but I've also seen people trying to swap out components that are soldered on…
I do fine using my normal desk.

Not everyone has space in their apartment for a "normal desk".

Bring a laptop to a different corner of the house or a library/coffee shop if you can't adapt to using your personal space for work.

Not every coffee shop likes having people lounging around for 8 or more hours a day, making minimal purchase. Aside from the fact that most are too noisy to concentrate, have shit wifi, bathrooms that are frequently occupied / barely work, etc.
The culture of buying rounds causes a problem. You don't want to miss a round, because it's a free beer.
Seems like a lot of people have their own solution, I'll add mine to the pile: https://github.com/pR0Ps/PhotoFloat

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/F6w8Ixz.png (just took it now so I redacted some info)

It consists of 2 parts:

- a Python script to parse metadata from photos into json files and create thumbnails.

- A JS-based frontend that consumes the json files and thumbnails to provide a UI.

Features:

- Can be hosted completely statically making it ideal for low-power servers

- Serves up your photos in the same file structure as they are on the disk

- Works with many types of photos, including most raw files

- Parses and displays common EXIF data

- Works well on slower connections (minimal HTML+CSS+JS, small thumbnails, placeholders, preloads images as you view, etc)
Can you tell a reason why not? Opening up any technology has proved to be good for innovation in 100% of the times so far. Perhaps we have all missed on some amazing mods of iphones.
Did you mean to reply to someone else? My comment is also arguing against pervasive surveillance.
Depends on your use case. Certain parts of the app fit the bill really well.

Just yesterday i put the 'dnspython' module behind a google cloud function and all it took was 5 minutes and i had a REST interface to query MX records. It's great for small little use cases like that.

Another use case might be a simple webhook, where you're receiving pings from an external service and all the serverless function does is save it to a DB and maybe trigger another task for it.

In cases like this you can skip a lot of the devops boilerplate and reduce it a single file containing your function and perhaps a requirements.txt(or whatever manages your dependencies)
You could report the issue here: https://github.com/soul-lang/SOUL/issues

(We might open the soul.dev website too at some point, but that's private for now.)
But ultimately it does not stop those who want to try. I don‘t see a problem. Will this right to repair revocation put those who attempt in prison? What‘s the underlying problem.

Look, I bought a new car. It comes with cameras in the bumper. It made replacing a damaged bumper inherently more difficult for an average Joe. It doesn't mean though that it is impossible to replace it without visiting an authorised service centre. Same logic.
do you guys think there's room for another big social mobile app, maybe unbundling some of facebook/instagram's features?
I'm starting to read "When Google Met WikiLeaks" by Assange. In this book Schmidt is the villain. It will be nice to match Assange's point of view with all the eulogies that we will read about Schmidt now.
Usually, if a place seems to filter on CompTIA stuff they don't get anywhere close to the places I filter for employed work or contract work. If you as a company or government department can't figure out how to do a job right (hint: it doesn't have anything to do with CompTIA) it's not a place I'd want to be.
I'd probably end up turning the Army into a grindy JRPG-style augmented-reality game, and the enlisted would eventually end up referring to civilians as the NPCs.

But we'd also have viable gunblades and dozens of rare uniform crafting recipes, and our military would be well prepared to repel zombie pandemics, space-alien invasions, and goblin sieges, as well as to defeat S-class daikaiju.

...So there is something to be said for letting experienced professional soldiers run the military. They might know what they're doing behind the facade of repetitive busywork, like Mr. Miyagi teaching Daniel-san karate. Or they might not. It's hard to tell from where I sit. A lot of the budget is not freely auditable by the public, and I have certainly seen firsthand a very small portion of it totally wasted on absolute nonsense.
Wouldn't they have to sue you to enforce the noncompete? It would still be expensive to defend but the game theory would say at that point that they shouldn't sue you because it would cost them money to do so and there's no way they could win.
Simulating Natural Selection - Primer
Argenteuil: the Parisian commune beloved by the Impressionists
This is a ridiculous question: would any of these transmissions, via VHF or satellite uplink, have been capable of escaping our solar system and be receivable by some distant intelligent life in some distant solar system? Or would the signal be completely lost to background solar radiation or otherwise simply not be capable of transmitting that far?

How much of what's transmitted around the Earth escapes?
That is not a well supported use case unfortunately and involves hours of work to restore the burner phone to a state that you have set up.
Care to share? I haven't seen a single such blog post and would like to learn. (never did much serverless myself but could see us use it in the future)
Buying parts that "got lost" from the official supply chain at some point, are knock-offs of unknown quality or legality (where patents etc apply), ...

Lots of parts in such devices that aren't standard components that you can just buy from the maker or an intended distributor. Recycled parts might be legally clean, but how do you know that's what the parts you're buying are?
iFixIt at least occasionally conflates the two... complaining about Apple using glue when they "should" design it to use something else.
Uh-huh. http://palmerluckey.com/i-cant-use-rift-s-and-neither-can-yo...
That would be a sad but funny epilogue to this history: trap laden phones, designed to keep their owners away from any diy repair dreams.
The list of things that are allowed on planes is not necessarily grounded in reason: https://www.xkcd.com/651/
3Blue1Brown for population dynamics
Source them from places where such laws do not exist?
I know this was just an off the cuff response, but it's a little more nuanced than that.

They don't really care where you went or even if you have a degree, but there are so many people applying through the front door that that ends up being a filter everyone uses. There are obviously excellent people outside of that, but it's harder to find them through the noise.

This is another reason I think Lamda School is great - they're actually attacking this problem too: http://zalberico.com/essay/2019/04/08/lambda-school.html
> In terms of numbers of contributors we believe Golden is at the stage where 1 hour editing on Golden produces more content/data than alternatives and the friction to edit is much lower.

In my experience as a Wikipedia editor, 80% of the time I spend writing an article is searching for (good) sources; 10% is editing friction like looking for the right infobox or the right model for what I want (although that time is reduced by experience); 10% is actually writing the article. Wikipedia’s contributing documentation discoverability is quite bad.

Your “high resolution” citations is a really great idea I wish WP would had. Does it support having multiple citations for the same part of the content? Overlaping parts?
BTW, here is an excerpt of the book: https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
Hi,

A few weeks ago, I posted about my startup, Maildown. You can see the original post here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19590646

I've now changed the app substantially based on feedback I received, and also simplified it massively. I now believe that Maildown is one of the simplest ways to integrate transactional emails into any project.

Maildown supports Markdown syntax, and lets you send emails to multiple email addresses very quickly with minimal code.

Maildown also supports markdown syntax, meaning that your emails are always cleanly formatted

Thanks for looking

Chris
But isn't that just an outcome of regulatory capture, political back scratching, and cronyism? Not due to actual respect for CompTIA, the institution?
I was in line behind someone fumbling around trying to get the app set up and logged in, and I was going to say that in spite of having set it up myself, it rarely saved me more than a couple of percent on my total. I didn't, and due to some combination of stacking discounts I saved ~15% that day. But it's been 2-3% ever since...
decentralized is very important, don't give up on it! Its fine if people don't care about it. People don't care about relational algebra but SQL is used everywhere in their life and they have no idea or care.

The idea of distributed cris-crossed data sets all over the internet, I think, is a powerful one in a day where data is wielded as power and is so asymmetrical in nature.
Laymen, especially techies, often assume that termination for "poor performance" or "bad fit" is a "for cause" termination because there is a "cause" behind the termination, but that is an incorrect understanding of employment law.

Businesses always have a "cause" for letting someone go (usually financial or performative), so the inartfully term "for cause" actually means a cause for something other than business considerations. Generally, today "for cause" means misconduct. Each state enumerates a different set of activities constituting misconduct, but there is always some sort of misconduct involved.

(Unfortunately I no longer have the employment law book where they cover the history behind the origination of this term and I don't have the time to google an alternative history, but in a nutshell it's shorthand for a somewhat longer phrase.)
Likely just because https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/programmers-solve-mits-20-yea... was near the top around the time this was posted and for some reason these kind of postings always follow popular topics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19782634 for the conversation.
Do startups invest in stocks of public companies?
do tech startups invest in stocks of public companies to help generate funds for their core activities?
is it legal?
Why not actually work on capturing knowledge in a machine-readable and usable way?
I would think you could go a long way with just creating an ESP style game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP_game

In this talk, the creator also goes into how they created a version to actually locate the key points in the image: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx082gDwGcM
It also depends on China/US relations.
Are there servers that don't sufficiently deal with clock drift on their own? (And TOTP devices that drift their clock by more than a few minutes a year?)
Spotify has 100M paying users
Am I the only one who wishes they would continue their v1 system work? It Just Works(tm) and was wonderful to use and easy to understand, especially from a pricing perspective. I feel like the gas pump style pricing for their serverless offering is shoehorning a pricing model that works well for vendors but less so for users. With that said, I really enjoy these guys/gals’ work and would love to work more with their platform.
This doesn't pass the smell test.

A lot of countries don't allow used electronics to be imported, which is more than you think.

Not to mention the duty you have to pay for the countries that do.
... longer than you can remain solvent.
I get that you used it as an example, but IRS's rules wouldn't apply or likely even be relevant to a Canadian airport's internal policy.
I'm torn on repairability. The iphone would be worse by some metrics if it had to be designed in such a way that it would be repairable (size, for instance).

So long as I can determine repairability (by looking at the service manual or similar) then I'm fine letting people decide for themselves what they want to buy.

The only other argument I could see for a "repairability" law would be from an environmentalist standpoint, but I would want that law to allow a less-repairable item that was sufficiently recyclable.
I'm glad to hear. Should you encounter any bugs, please let us know at https://zeit.co/feedback/dev and we'll get right to it.
> internal PC struggles

There's plenty of reasons for why they started taking place, that have nothing to do with who is CEO. Societal expectations have changed, formerly unpopular ideas gained both a voice, and mindshare, and Google's influence over the Internet has grown - and with it, expectations that that influence should be wielded responsibly.

Intelligent people strongly disagree as to what 'responsibly' means in this context.
3D-printed beehive could be our future home on Mars