skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gigantic is right, often, when it comes to telecom.

Some years ago I worked on a Unix/C/Oracle software project for VSNL, a public sector or quasi-government entity that was India's telecom carrier to/from abroad (V for the word Videsh, which means foreign country in Hindi). Worked onsite in their office in Mumbai, near the (Arabian) Sea coast, where international telecom cables probably come in. There was a huge telecom switch installed there. It was like the size of several really high refrigerators pushed together. First time I had seen one. Some Oriental-looking engineers were working on it (could have been from some Japanese company like Fujitsu or whatever, which might have been into that line of products - switches). I asked our VSNL contact there what the thing was, and he said it was the main telecom switch for connectivity between the outside world and India, and cost about INR 200 crore (IIRC).

INR 200 crore in USD (today's rates):

https://www.google.com/search?q=INR+200+crore+in+USD

Works out to about USD 28 million for that switch.
Apparently yes. A quick inspection suggests that this is the same in Ruby, Haskell, SWI-Prolog, Gauche Scheme, SBCL and D. (I might not have the latest version of everything, so maybe this has been fixed in some of them... assuming it needs fixing. Maybe there's a reason for the answer to be 2 if so many language implementations insist on it. Or, they all use the same faulty algorithm. I don't know.)
I'm not sure what you mean. The layout of the settings page is absurdly similar in Firefox and Chrome.

Firefox gives the user dramatically more range to customize their browser than Chrome, is that what you're referring to? about:customization?
Do people not widely know that until recently a huge proportion of Republicans in both houses were never-Trumpers?
Don’t know if it the glass needs to be cleaned regularly
A friend and I have been working on a side project that depends on Google Auth to send emails on a user's behalf. It's one of the app's two critical features. We're not necessarily deterred by this story, but we'll start rethinking our dependence on Google.

A $15-75k fee is something that's hard to stomach at our stage. We have about 10 Gmail users excited to try our product and they might not have an issue accepting the "Unverified App" screen because we have earned some of their trust through phone calls and meetings. However, converting people that come across the app organically will be difficult.

We aren't sure when the right time will be to pay the fee and become verified. Anyone have ideas on strategy here? It could help us and other developers in the same position. We'd like to avoid raising money but this might be a good reason to - investors may see Google verification as a competitive advantage.
> the more open environment of Macs and PCs is just not appropriate for mobile phones

This is changing too. The last major MacOS upgrade added iOS-style permissions for some things (contacts access comes to mind) and the latest version of MacOS (Catalina) VASTLY expands that.

We're not just talking about apps from the Mac App store either which are sandboxed. Fire up terminal and you can't access the underlying SQLite database powering contacts anymore. sudo to root and you still can't!

MacOS is gradually adopting a more iOS-style permission model in an incredible way. One which does not even remotely phase or inhibit me as an extreme shell power-user. It's a quite impressive transformation they're undertaking here.
Possible Uses Narrow for Negative Capacitance FETs
Would probably be shorter if you used `tostream`
Computers Powered by Zorin OS – In Collaboration with Star Labs
My main issue with Lenovo's mobile workstations (and why I've yet to buy one) is that they all use Nvidia for their secondary GPUs. Meanwhile, Dell's Precision line offers the option of AMD GPUs (e.g. my Precision 7510, which I got specifically because it shipped with a FirePro card).

That said, I've been pretty happy with my T470 at work (running Slackware), so an integrated-GPU-only ThinkPad that ships with Ubuntu sounds interesting (or even an Nvidia-GPU ThinkPad if they've managed to make Intel/Nvidia hybrid setups less painful). I'd probably be willing to pick up one of the all-AMD ThinkPads (I've got my eye on the T495, E595, and X395; all of them seem to have the same CPU and integrated GPU offerings, though the E595 offers way more RAM so that gives it a bit of an advantage); none of those offer preinstalled Ubuntu, though.
I think standard household activity would generate a lot of humidity. Usually dwellings vent outside, but here the outside is in a larger "inside".

I'm guessing the greenhouse has its own air regulation set up.
Must suck for anyone who was trying to get to work while he was shutting down transportation for weeks.

> He's brought the hammer down on the WMATA union

Ahh, that hero crushing the working class.
Building a CIFAR classifier neural network with PyTorch
This is an interesting piece. The author tackles a few different kinds of fears, starting with fear of Libra destroying normal consumer transaction paths and then looks at fear of entire small and medium sized businesses getting straight up destroyed by moves from giant players like Amazon.

I think the author is pretty spot-on in the implicit conclusion that this is the natural result of increasingly centralized businesses running pseudo-monopolies in key industries.
>Any supplemental heat they need, that is not provided by the sun, is provided by a wood-burning stove.

Such green, much modern, wow!

Edit: Hm, others in the thread have pointed out one could use a gasification burner
GM has the right name with Super Cruise. It works just as well and in some cases better than Tesla Autopilot, but the perception of the public is that it's worse because it doesn't have the inflated name of 'Autopilot'.

* now that I look at it again, it is actually more 'auto' than autopilot since they do not require your hands to be on the wheel but they do track your eyes for attention to the road.
I think this undersells how easy it is to disengage attention when you are actively driving. The task of driving (especially your commute route) is very mundane.
They do this for the 2nd stage of the Electron rocket, though the batteries are not recovered. Scott Manley video:

https://youtu.be/U5k1mlu6A7I?t=106
Being able to sleep properly is a health issue. I've had jackhammers outside my window at 6 am. It sucks.
25 is around the age where intellect starts to decline (along with everything else) so it isn't really that much of a mystery.
Common Lisp: https://gist.github.com/lispm/145fc3e0967f42ff44a11e0670be1a...
Indeed, the PLA's main garrison (ex. British Army) sits directly in front of Merrill Lynch's Hong Kong Tower (BAML), the irony is not lost on Hong Kongers for sure.
It looks almost executable! If it were, that might be handy now and then.
So the problem is the human attention span? Cars without any always-on computer aids such as automatic braking must be really dangerous then.
I mean that's a perfect choice as long as your marketing strategy isn't to hope that people pay extra for the feature thinking that it's FSD. The fact that Tesla still hasn't done something like this is proof that they're kind of relying on people to think that autopilot is something that automatically pilots the vehicle, which it doesn't.
Recommendations suck, they just write couple of times that administrators should update "Information Technology Security Database" and that they failed to do that. That should be automated. They have all those "CISO", "SAISO", "OCIO" and "CIO" but there is no one who knows how to setup automated nmap scan for a network range? Then trigger someone and add it to some inventory like "hey there is some new raspberry pi in network" should you maybe check it?
100% agree. Almost as bad for me was a recent conversation with a Tesla owner who said he drives his Model 3 to bars instead of taking Uber since it can take him home when he's drunk. The level to which people are abusing the system is phenomenal.
Replying to myself as I thought of an example from my own past which is relevant.

After discovering the eye-opening expressivity of functional programming years ago with Dylan and Haskell, I had a substantial project in javascript. I found JS supported first class closures and lambdas, which allowed me to make iterators.

The novelty was they were iterators not over lists but over trees (DOM trees in this case but of course any tree could be made iterable).

I understood there would be a learning cost for anyone who took over from me so I left plenty of docs and pointers. It would not be a small cost either, my successors would have to learn to think differently, at a higher level and possibly rather alien (to them) way.

But was it worth the cost, bloody hell yes! Not having that iterable and rather declarative abstraction over DOM trees would have greatly bloated the code and consequently brought in bugs by the bagful. I would do in a couple of lines what would have taken half a page to do, in many locations.

So it had a human cost but if you could overcome that, a seriously huge human benefit.
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Most Stephen king novels lead to societal collapse and people turning on each other. It makes for a great read but it doesn't seem that's what people actually do in a disaster. They usually help each other and try to rebuild society.

A great book on the subject is "A Paradise Built in Hell."
FizzBuzz to React, Practical Test Driven Development in JavaScript
Then the AWS engineers came in from the worlds most generic office tower started crying because they thought they would finally be free.
We follow RFC 5905 which specifies how upcoming leap seconds are handled. The linux kernel will step the time and the timestamps in UTC will be correct. NTP handles leap seconds robustly.
Well, people still distrust Microsoft for stuff they did during the 90s :)

But yeah, I'll grant you that it's not recent.
Guerrilla warfare relies on willingness to abide by the laws of armed conflict for its effectiveness. If you’re willing to kill everyone and the rebellious population realises it you win. See Chechnya. Also, Hong Kong is a city. In cities guerrilla warfare just plain doesn’t work. If it did the Israelis would not have been able to occupy the Gaza Strip and West Bank for decades. This without the willingness to disregard international law that harvesting Falun Gong organs or keeping millions in concentration camps in Xinjiang shows the CCP very obviously has.

Guerrilla warfare only works against weak states or strong ones that will follow international law. The British won the Boer war. The PLA has more men and Hong Kong is a lot smaller than South Africa or even just the Orange after State. Hong Kong cannot win a guerrilla war.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Taiwan_Defense_C...

Taiwan existed because of the US. Basically, the other side of the civil war got defeated and come hiding in Taiwan behind US military. Otherwise, it'd have been invaded by China since.

It seems currently that there is no official military presence. However, there is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Assurances

I think it's enough to deter China from attacking Taiwan.
What does it do? Is there a documentation link?
We wrote our own server which will be open sourced hopefully in the coming months.
Quote: "And every time it's the same pattern. First it's "hah look they make these cheap inferior copies" then quality improves and gets on par so it changes to "well they just copy our products and then sell them for cheaper because labor costs are much lower" and then when they finally start to innovate and excel everybody is super surprised cause it was just stupid Japanese/Korean/Chinese copying our technology without really understanding it so how could they possibly make something on their own?"

This same pattern exists in Software too... Google with respect to the original Chrome version ("It's just a cheap knock-off of FireFox/Mozilla"), or Microsoft with the earliest versions of Word ("It's just a cheap knock-off of WordPerfect") or Excel ("It's just a cheap knock-off of Lotus 1-2-3"), or even the earliest versions of Windows ("It's just a cheap knock-off of Xerox Alto/PARC or Apple Lisa/early MacIntosh GUI").

History repeats itself in very predictable cycles...

On the flip side, Intel and AMD are sorely in need of some competition... Remember that AMD's constant competition with Intel is one of the key reasons why CPU technology (well, x86-wise!) advanced as fast as it did, and more competitors should mean more technology advancement...
Unsubstantive == dang don't like it.

Worst moderator I've ever seen. Seriously, you are just atrocious.
What an interesting idea! On my last contract, I had to deal with 100mb+ JSON responses from a barely-documented API. This would have come in handy when I was figuring it out.

I've used JSONExplorer for this purpose, but it is web based and doesn't handle files this large.

Extending the filesystem metaphor to JSON data and re-using the same commands strikes me as a great idea.

Did another project inspire you, or did you come up with the concept yourself?

Have you done a Show HN yet?
Leadership from the Other Side of the Fence
I've found that there's a "hump" where reading a book where I get bored and want to do something else after 15-20 minutes, but if I'm really engrossed and stick that out, I can find myself literally reading all night long, for hours at a time, until I finish the book. (I'm someone who tends to finish books in 1-2 sittings; I never really understood folks like my mom who'll read for 15 minutes a day and nurse a book for months.)

For that matter, programming's like that too. After a 15-20 minute chunk I'll usually feel a strong urge to go check HN (clearly, I'm in one of those now). If I can resist that urge enough, and have long enough blocks of time (challenging with a kid now), I can find myself coding for several hours straight until I finish the change I was working on.
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I love humidity. This is inspiring all sorts of interesting ideas for me.
The US Ban is just revealing what is there. The CCP uses all levers at its disposal, including Huawei, to get what it wants. And from past and present experience, that does not include basic human rights.
I feel like this is some kind of weird Berenstein Effect thing, because I distinctly remember that from the first movie (when they were discussing how to fix the DeLorean and get Marty back to 1985), and they definitely weren't wearing hardhats when the exchange took place.

Man, getting spontaneously dropped off in a parallel universe is confusing as hell.
I was briefly in jail, and had the opportunity to examine the security systems there in relative peace.

It was a lot of fun actually. I would look at the screws holding things together, the locks, the hinges, the computer systems, etc. I would challenge myself to McGuyver an escape plan if somehow all the guards left and escape was my only option. I dont think there were any rooms, or areas that I could not have gotten out of.

It gave me an interesting perspective on security. It changed my understanding of the role of a guard. A jail doesn't have to be escape proof, it just has to make escape slow or noisy enough that the guards can intervene.

Without watching eyes, anyone determined enough will find ways to circumvent static security measures.
It's not a tinder box. It's a meat grinder. It's an optimized capitalist instrument: extract labour from people at the lowest cost possible to keep expanding.
I don't personally care about an intermediate cart page. Just as long as there's at least a cart page or purchase page which shows the item name/title, item photo, and item price for each item, and the grand total (including taxes and shipping).

Most checkout pages I've seen have that information, so even if the confirm and pay steps are on the same page, I don't mind since it's still the same information anyway.
Completely agree.

One of my favorite Kirsten Dirksen videos is about Russ Finch using geothermal energy to grow citrus in a greenhouse located near Alliance, NE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD_3_gsgsnk
you may like: https://www.uzbl.org/
So is that considered good or bad there?
So... you use lynx?
According to the movie it's security glass, the type that if it breaks, it breaks in thousands of tiny pieces.
Flask is a micro-framework, it's an explicit goal to not have that kind of tooling included: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/1.0/foreword/#what-does-micro-me...

There are lots of Flask extensions and other methods to extend it (relevant docs page: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/1.0/becomingbig/), but it's a framework that practically defines itself around the fact that it doesn't include anything. Pyramid or Django might have been better options.
Apparently it costs $1k/kg right now, if it were even available.
Sure, IMAP, POP, CALDav, same as all the other mail providers...

And the optimized JMAP protocol too.

The fact that I am getting voted down proves how absolute the groupthink is... If you work in Google's ecosystem, however, the only possible exit is being bought by Google... Get bought by a competitor and they'll just turn you off.
You're joking, right? Cause now I have one more thing to feel insecure about.
It seems to me that hard work is a necessary (in most cases) but not sufficient condition for success.

Anecdotally, my least successful friends and acquaintances are those who do not work hard and blame their lack of success on bad luck.
Bytecode is a broad category. The design of a bytecode suitable for interpreting JS has little in common with a bytecode for AOT compilation of static languages without tracing GC, other than that they're both made of bytes.
This is not a problem in the winter -- outside air (if brought up to room temperature) is extremely dry. So just a bit of air exchange would dry out any jungle if humidity is not supplemented.
They have not demonstrated that.
add in a few nil and undefined checks automatically and it really is executable
The, "biggest talent hub" on the East Coast apparently sends most of its Graduates to inferior schools in Massachusetts. More like the biggest military hotel on the east coast
Well then I wouldn't go to those people for a loan.
We have greenhouses far north of Stockholm too and they work just fine so far. They can be built quite stable and ofcourse they do that where snow is expected.
There is no good data on age related intellectual decline. Most cross-sectional studies that show a decline ignore the Flynn effect as well as things like higher levels of lead poisoning in previous generations.
The response by Congress was to pass a law that they get a "cost of living" increase unless they vote against it.

So, they wait until the "vote by" date passes, then vote against the increase. That way, they get the increase, but can claim they voted against it.
Deserts aren’t necessarily hot, they just have very little water.
You're right. Good tip:

jq -r '
tostream
| select(length > 1)
| (
.[0] | map(
if type == "number"
then "[" + tostring + "]"
else "." + .
end
) | join("")
) + " = " + (.[1] | @json)
'

EDIT: For those who want to save this script, you can put just the jq code in an executable file with the shebang:

#!/usr/bin/jq -rf
TL;DR: they replicated the famous study about liberals and conservatives reacting differently to threats, finding no difference. Science (a famous journal) refused to publish the null replication.

>We believe that it is bad policy for journals like Science to publish big, bold ideas and then leave it to subfield journals to publish replications showing that those ideas aren’t so accurate after all. Subfield journals are less visible, meaning the message often fails to reach the broader public. They are also less authoritative, meaning the failed replication will have less of an impact on the field if it is not published by Science.

Agreed, but maybe the issue here is journals shouldn't be prestigious. I understand journals' historical usefulness, but the Internet has made them obsolete.
One of the scenarios they describe - hiring documents - strikes me as a VERY limited value proposition. I can’t imagine someone paying a lawyer to review their hiring documents more than once. All of the associated documents (offer letter, non-disclosure, non-compete, assignment, stock options, etc.) are so easily automated with a basic eSignature tool like HelloSign. Our attorneys simply gave us template docs (billing very little time) and we’ve used them for dozens of employees and multiple due diligence processes. The actual ROI sounds minimal at best.

I can see this being more useful in a sales situation where you need to make concessions much more regularly and need flexibility in your legal documents. Depending on how hard Atrium is to configure, I suspect it could be a lower cost version of setting up Salesforce CPQ. However, you likely still want this process to be integrated into Salesforce at some point so you’ll have to do that separately still.

Also, the frequency of automating your financing docs is not very compelling. In my experience, your investors provide the term sheets and then you need to redline them back to them. The idea of scanning these types of documents to extract the meaningful data points is very cool (ie. Comparing valuations automatically across spreadsheets) but I would still say a manual review from an attorney is essential due to the risk/reward of missing some small item that isn’t conventional in a term sheet.

I’m curious if anyone here has used Atrium and has see a compelling ROI for your team?
Surely you meant to say "This is so METAL"…
This is not so easy. The Surface Books are made with a number of snap together modules, via fine cable runs and multi-pin connectors. Each part is made with care and subjected to detailed tests, that include a term of power-on burn in for the major parts with infra-red smart vision that looks for any hot spots (that might lead to failure). Then they are assembled with in progress tests at some points until the final productis made and it is tested after they add the SSD with all the operating system installed. There are assorted areas partitioned on the SSD that might hold an OS recovery partition, as well as other software provided by others as choice ware (since so many people like this so called bloatware not installed). Then it will be placed on a burn-in rack at a higher temperatrure than room temp and some sort of test program will be run on a recurrent basis. Those that pass are packed and shipped, those that fail are analyzed for faults and any faulty part replaced and it is re-tested. A lemon with recurrent faults will probably be gutted to find the part with an enduring fault.
Once in the field, it is rare for part level test and repair to be done. Those boards are marked as scrap with dye?? and sold in the scrap boards auction in schenzen. Buyers buy these boards and perform some analysis of them, or simply remove certain high value parts and sell them to other repris shops. Often many parts are tossed because these parts lack detailed information on them abd are not worth salvage. There are board maps online, so higher value parts like inductors, crystals, GPS etc have known locations and are removed and segregated for sale to hobby shops etc.

https://hackernoon.com/the-gladiator-pit-of-hardware-startup...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leFuF-zoVzA&feature=youtu.be...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUQzAhOVj70
> some vendors (especially hardware vendors) still expect you to have Windows for silly reasons (eg. to write an update file on an USB key for a car GPS — I'm looking at you, Renault — or to unlock a phone bootloader — I'm looking at you, Xiaomi).

Does this kind of stuff work in Wine for you? I generally need to use a VM, because if it needs to talk to another device drivers are involved.