skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few years ago some of my coworkers used a Raspberry Pi to instrument our work foosball table. They had badge readers so all the players could badge in, and IR sensors for autoscoring. They found some open-source foosball leaderboard software that they ran on the Raspberry Pi as well, so we had an auto-scoring, auto-ranking foosball table. Best Raspberry Pi project I've ever seen :)
That's precisely what it doesn't do. It's a transitive trust relationship.
AOC said "never again" in her concentration camp remarks, CLEARLY making the connection to WW2 concentration camps.
I would go further and lower the voting age to 16 and not let anybody over 60 vote. Call it undemocratic, call it a violation of rights but theyre not going to be here when shit hits the fan and they're going to vote accordingly and in doing so they will prevent anybody under 18 from making it to their age on a planet that anywhere near resembles the one they have devoured. That's an even more egregious violation of rights but nobody talks about it because there can be no accountability. Like putting a bag a flaming shit on somebody's doorstep and then running. Rather keep the shit where it is now then step in it later, thank you.
ML's suitability for parallelism mostly comes from the fact that bigger models/state spaces tend to be more powerful. In cases where there no benefit in scaling the problem horizontally, you probably won't have much luck scaling the implementation horizontally either.
That's just a narrative to shift responsibility from government and industry to the individual. Individual action is virtually meaningless[1]. The solution is really quite simple, but nobody wants to accept it:

1: Properly price pollution -> aka carbon tax. Use Nordhaus' climate club plan to combat the knee-jerk "but China" reaction.

2: industry will adjust appropriately to stay profitable

3: individuals will follow

I work in the environmental movement. I don’t care if you recycle: https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/the-highlight/2019/5/28/186...

Edit: individual action isn't completely meaningless of course; every little bit helps. The biggest benefit of individual action IMO is that it shows your government that you care about this. Vote and be loud about it.
Those poor, poor drug companies, it is not their fault they acted like utter cunts. After all, they were allowed to act like utter cunts, so they just had to. So lets solve this by removing all regulation that stops them from acting like utter cunts in other interesting ways, that couldn't possibly backfire.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11140033
> you've earned yourself a shit list

Does this extend up and down the tree? The issue is not so much that John Smith needs to get randomly selected at every airport he goes to for the rest of his life.

The issue is that the business he worked for also hired Jane Doe who is doing the same thing - they'd need to trace the responsibility up to his employer/contracting company and back down to their other employees and contractors.

Businesses seem surprisingly good at providing scapegoats and deniability in situations like this, especially compared to our government's tendency to blame the individual.
IMO, Tether is dirty as shit, but we're still supposed to use the actual title on HN. The headline here doesn't appear in the article at all, even if the implications do.
Another friend of mine also used a Raspberry Pi with MagicMirror (https://magicmirror.builders/) to build a smart mirror. That was a neat project.
Agreed. Unfortunately HN isn't a viable place to have reasonable political discussion.
I'm not certain which synth you used, but you should definitely be able to get close with another synth
I’ve watched the video where she expressed “solidarity with impoverished farmers” in explicitly racial terms. Maybe her intent was simply solidarity, but race-based solidarity is frowned upon... and racist!

To those in disbelief, watch it yourself and see if it’s “deceptive editing” (a dog whistle)
As well as Colorado where, to my understanding, use a hospital to house their own doctors and their own pharmacy (not sure if they own the hospital).
I'm not - we absolutely need to do something. What I am advocating against is drawing an arbitrary line in the sand and going "well, I don't still fly, invest in fossil fuel, or consume extravagantly, therefore I'm fine and a good person." Even if you do those things, you're still going to be part of the problem.
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I think what lima is saying is the Verizon employee basically says "Why didn't you call us for comment before publicly complaining that we never answer our phones?"
> Is Revolut offering lower but less sustainable costs to attract more customers?

Revolut broke even on monthly bases in December 2017[1], and Monzo was still loosing money in April 2019[2].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fintech-revolut/fintech-r...

[2] https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/08/monzo-set-100m-funding-despit...
>...They set up a legal landscape for their own benefit and everyone else’s detriment.

So if I’m understanding correctly, the problem is not a lack of willingness to break up/regulate this monopoly, but instead the regulations and lobbying that explicitly facilitated its creation?

Are there any inherent facets of a free market that prevent such abuses?
ITU and Stanford Announce Partnership Supporting Pilots of Digital Fiat Currency
> - Nim is a great language, but unfortunately seems to be eternally unready for prime time. Lack of complete enough GUI bindings.

Out of curiosity, which GUI bindings did you try/want?
Most importantly, the consumer should decide what is the best option here. If you are poor and the only available option to stay alive is injection multiple times through the day using thicker needles, perhaps it is still better then die? Or maybe not. I do not want to decide that for anyone.
Show HN: Automated screening Job Interviews
Why most knowledge workers still work in the office
agreed, the precautionary principle should apply
ahh fair. i was under the impression that you could summarize the point in HN titles. tbh there's so much cognitive dissonance in the world of BTC commentary that an explanation should be mandatory!
Atomic Swap Between Bitcoin, Dai, and Ether: Liquality Is Live on Mainnet
That isnt what you appear to be saying though, it reads as, you are a "bad person" if you don't do $semi_arbitrary_thing. Not, you should be doing all you can.
Microsoft Flight Simulator brings back very fond memories of my childhood. I can remember learning to fly with a joystick that pushed in and out up and down just like real pilots!

I could never master the helicopter and I’m pretty sure I crashed into the Sears tower a LOT.
Looks fantastic! Could this be made available in the Canadian App Store by chance?
Unless you are doing disk io and most of your CPU cycles spent on it.
Think about the current state of ICANN. And now ICANN has to award contracts to monopolies for gTLDs like .com and .net.

What could possibly go wrong?

The registry part is easy to specify.

For the registrar, look at how google normally operates: everything they can automate works well and is cheap. As soon as something goes wrong and the they lock you out of an account it becomes hopeless. Imagine that google would be the only registrar for .com or .net

Of course, with a free market come shady parties. But with a bit of effort it is possible to find registrars that work quite well.

With just one monopoly per gTLD, it is likely that bad things will happen in the long run.
“Discredited” is a left wing dogwhistle for “socially invalidated but not necessarily proven false using facts”
> Whatever you may think, as a whole, people have to deal (personally and emotionally) with (sometimes perceived) much bigger crisis than that of the climate.

That is... until they have to evacuate their home, because there's a wildfire or hurricane nearby or the rising sealevel makes it unsafe.
I don't know if this is against HN "rules" - but I'm going to give you an explanation anyhow.

I downvoted one of your comments that was essentially a cut-and-paste of this comment here; I have noticed that you have done this more than once here within the comments.

Please refrain from doing this; it seems to add nothing but noise to the conversation. If you believe your commentary has merit within the context of the thread at hand, do your best to restate that opinion in an original manner, not by simply copying and repeating the exact same statement.

I hope this explanation clarifies why I downvoted you; I believe your comment does have merit to the discussion as a whole, but posting it once should be enough to reach the audience with it's intended message.
> You want help with a problem in your staging account? pay for support, fair enough. You want help with your production? oh sorry, you have to pay again.

That's not how it works for us. We have numerous accounts, all under the same support plan. We just let our rep know we have these accounts, and they add our existing support plan to it. After all, we are one client.

Edit: Occurred to me I should point out that we have Enterprise support.
You might not need to hire one if a compounding pharmacy can handle it
Remember it? There's a squatter on a domain I want, who is offering to _rent it_ for $2000 _per month_.

An archive.org search shows it was rented for 2 months in the last 7 years.

I don't agree with ICANNs proposal in the article, but squatting is an issue.
If a climate apocalypse is imminent, should we bother paying our debts?
LibreDWG 0.8 Released
> He did not make a rational decision. This is the most upsetting part. I looked. You can buy an insurance plan in Minnesota with a $750 deductable $6000 out of pocket max for $350 per month.

What did you find exactly? Are you sure it’s something that was available to Alec? That price sounds surprisingly low, and sometimes there are cheaper plans for temporary work gap transitions that aren’t available to someone with a job permanently. The article said he was looking on the healthcare.gov marketplace, which doesn’t have plans anywhere near that low. I was using healthcare.gov for a few years while I ran a startup, and the prices went up so fast and so high I don’t know how normal or poor Americans can even afford them. We looked outside the marketplace and only found the same plans for the same price being offered privately.
"Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing", arguably the first book with a how-to for what we'd now call 'internet startups', was about using Oracle and Perl to build web applications. But yeah it was published 1997.
Hey, I also take the 55 but I never saw the screen!
Sounds like a fixable problem.
> If you know about climate change and you still fly, invest in fossil fuel, consume extravagantly you are just a bad person. Sorry.

I do these things, but I don't think I'm a bad person.

I believe that collective action is the only effective way to make progress, and I choose accordingly at the polling booth. I believe that taxation of activity that accurately takes into account environmental damage is our current best way of deciding what should and should not be acceptable, and again I support this at the polling booth. Unfortunately the majority seem to disagree with me currently, which I believe is true by definition as otherwise we'd have made more political progress.

I don't believe that individual action (by self-censoring) can make any significant difference. I will be pleased to abide by restrictions society places on me for the good of the environment, including limiting or paying taxes to compensate for my own consumption, etc. Until that happens, it seems to me that unilaterally doing this myself only harms me compared to the majority who don't seem to care. I still have to play by the economic rules set by others, and suffer the consequences. I don't see why I should harm myself while others, who do not care and form the majority, gain.

You might think this is hypocritical. I disagree: I play the game I am forced to play, while advocating the changing of the rules. If you choose to harm your own position in the game by following the rule changes you wish for, then that's fine, but it's a step that I don't believe makes a difference and one I'm not prepared to take.

> You don't throw litter into the street even though it's a drop in the ocean.

Society has figured out that this costs us environmentally, has rules against littering, and I follow them. (Also littering has quite an obvious effect on the appearance of the general area, so there is an obvious localised benefit to not littering).

> You don't bully somebody just because everybody else does, even though it makes little difference.

Actually, it does make a difference. Localised changes in behaviour aren't that difficult to achieve.
Open outcry orderflow / otc trading on Twitter?
Anyone ever try doing pseudo otc trading on twitter ? Post a bid for x number of options of y tenor. If a match found, both sides route order through their normal brokers to be filled ? For public exchange traded products, would this be legal ?
An alternative would have been a powered USB hub.
I can support the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - an existing social structure - without being rightly defined as supporting white supremacy.

I can support woman's suffrage without being rightly defined as supporting white supremacy.

How do you distinguish between "taken as axiomatic" and "is the case"?

Eg, I can describe 1970s South Africa as being a white supremacist society, yes?

You certainly agree that at one point US laws were based on white supremacy, right? Eg, the Illinois Constitution of 1848, quoting https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Illinois_Constitution_of_1848 :

> The general assembly shall, at its first session under the amended constitution, pass such laws as will effectually prohibit free persons of color from immigrating to and settling in this state;and to effectually prevent the owners of slaves from bringing them into this state for the purpose of setting them free.

That sounds pretty white-supremacy, yes?

If so, when did the US stop being a white supremacist society, and how?
The pharmacies aren't the point where price is inflated. It's the pharmaceutical companies, which make the drugs, not the stores that sell them.
Kudos to Project Veritas. I always suspected Google were intentionally manipulating people. Now we know for certain. I cancelled my Google accounts yesterday after watching.

As a conservative, (not a Republican-they are too liberal), I find any tech company saying our goal is to prevent anyone getting elected hideous and un-American. Ditto Facebook and anyone else who doesn't like the status quo. People have a right to vote their conscience. Companies trying to manipulate people to vote a certain way is terrible.

I'm likely further right on the political spectrum than anyone in Congress, hence my disdain for the Republican party, but I would never try and manipulate someone to vote a certain way. People are freewill moral agents and able to think for themselves.
Thank you, it looks like I misunderstood the definition of “independent establishment of the executive branch” ( https://about.usps.com/publications/pub100/pub100_036.htm ). I can’t find it now, but in the ‘90s, the post office had a brochure about how wonderful it was that it wasn’t actually a government agency, but apparently now they’re more worried about becoming truly privatized and are playing up their government connections.
Show HN: Open-Source Starter for SaaS Products
For the past few months, I've been thinking about building a few different SaaS products.

The problem is that there's a lot of work to do before you even start building your product — adding support for recurring subscriptions, billing, GDPR compliance, authentication, . . . maybe your SaaS needs support for teams, scoped memberships, API key pairs, etc. etc., the list goes on.

Introducing Staart — the starter template for SaaS products. Written in Node.js/TypeScript with a beautiful Vue.js/Nuxt.js Progressive Web App (PWA), Staart takes care of all the boilerplate required when building a SaaS product, so you can focus on what really matter — your core product.

I'd love to hear what the community thinks!

Check it out on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/staart

GitHub: Staart (backend) and Staart UI (frontend) https://github.com/o15y

Live demo: https://staart-demo.o15y.com
This is a wonderful project, and inspiring too. I've been working on my own photo booth by gutting a 1930s Kodak Brownie, and now I think I'm just going to use my own CCD instead of using a GoPro which is what I have been doing.

Great build.
> They have a habit of sometimes spontaneously exploding, but that's all part of the fun.

So you lose your house anyway ;)
Translation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triethylenetetramine#Productio... (with some personal remarks):

It's not easy to put that Nitrogens in the middle of the chain. Moreover, the method to produce it is to mix some smaller chains that have the Nitrogen in the ends of the chain and make them combine in a longer chain.

This produces a mix of a lot of similar chains with different length and number of Nitrogen. They have similar properties, so it is difficult to separate them. They use distillation. But at high temperature that Nitrogens like to burn, so heat the mix carefully.

Also, the mix you produce have a lot of compounds with the same "2D" formula, but they have a different shape in "3D". Some of the versions may have totally different properties, like been very toxic. So you must separate them too, and again, it's difficult.

Note: I studied a Chemistry specialization in the Secondary School, so I have some general knowledge about this, but I'm far from an expert in medical drug production.

Note 2: If you like this kind of things, I recommend to see the Nile Red channel in YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFhXFikryT4aFcLkLw2LBLA It's nice to see some easy and not so easy projects, and he explain the reactions, and the problems and pitfalls he found. (I don't understand everything he does.)

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Anyway, the difference of the cost of the medical drug and the chemistry drug is annoying.
I installed the Pi-hole ad blocker (https://pi-hole.net/) on a Raspberry Pi Zero, and have it as my DNS server on my home network. It has improved general browsing speed tremendously.
Even the Wikipedia page contains information about the original Tokio research team that only has one shared author. Furthermore, 5D is the natural extension of 3D, which was already used to distinguish it from traditional 2D (like, say, CDs).

"Term of art" might be a subjective concept, but the article making it up or not is objective.
Oh boy! I have such great memories of playing this title. Very glad they are rebooting this!
reflects perfectly it does
The trailer link on this page is very impressive. Here is the direct link to the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReDDgFfWlS4
Again, how am I conveying that I'm only pointing out problems? I literally ended my OP with a scenario of how I'd go about it with a diversified energy and research portfolio. At this point I feel like others are putting words in my mouth and ignoring 90% of my statements. It is very hard to have discussions where people are arguing with points I agree (or mostly agree) with.

As to the mostly agree part, yes, 90% there. But that last 10% is hard. And the other part is that we don't just need to be carbon neutral, we need to be carbon negative. It also needs to become cheap enough that other countries can implement these technologies. On these two points I wouldn't say we're 90% there, but maybe 60%.
The secret, million-dollar world of baby eel trafficking
I'm really excited about this. I spent hours playing Flight Simulator back in the 90s, and it was a great experience, and am looking forward to another generation getting to play it!
Founder here. Happy to answer your queries about this product.

Hiring and job search takes way too much time. Most of the bottleneck is at the screening stage for companies, and getting a foot in the door for applicants. This is an attempt towards solving it, although right now our product is focused on the businesses.
Your tone seems very uncalled for.

All I am arguing is that if you prosecute people from selling drugs, or make more regulations, fewer people will sell drugs - at a higher price.

It shouldn't matter people are cunts, if they have competition they will have to provide better satisfaction.

As of now, american people are prohibited from importing drugs, and that's exactly what utter cunts lobby and fight for.
The complaint here appears specifically to be a lamentation that academics are behaving this way, so in attempting to prove their priors you're only strengthening the argument. Your tone seems to be adversarial, so I'm guessing that's not your goal...
And I'm saying I think you (and those nations' standards) are wrong. We're letting companies profit off of the environment without being responsible for cleaning up after themselves when shit goes sideways.
literally addresses this: "The blogger Bitfinex’ed disputes this, saying that Tether’s failure to disclose the Buy orders from its customers amid the New York Attorney General’s ongoing investigation into Bitfinex—which was accused of borrowing from Tether’s supposedly “fully backed” reserves to cover up an $850 million hole in its finances—looks fishy."
> And what if it gets scratched? What is the error tolerance? At that density, a single speck of dust could have dramatic implications...

My understanding is that it doesn't matter. The data is embedded three dimensionally in glass. Assuming there was some small margin of glass around the patterned region, you could simply grind / polish off the scratches. Of course if you scratched it deep enough to destroy the data region then you'd be out of luck, but this can be made arbitrarily difficult.

Furthermore, you can arbitrarily scale error tolerance with error correcting encodings; data can be distributed, such that damage in one or a few areas is still available elsewhere, similar to RAID 5 and 6.
My wife and I have been shopping for long-term care insurance. We're not in the zone where it's completely necessary yet, but we wanted to be in a policy before our health starts to degrade. Even the agents we've talked to so far think we're early, but not too early.

But I fear that tests like this will make LTC insurance very hard or even impossible to get for some people. Perhaps that's fair, if the test can confirm with 100% accuracy that you'll be a victim of a degenerative disease.

But what if it's not 100% accurate?
There is no difference. I think people just get hung up on the word 'dimension' in the sense of degrees of freedom in a spatial state vector (to reuse your terms). Perhaps these are people who learned linear algebra only in the context of spatial dimensions / geometry and have never had to apply the concepts to any other problem domain.
Do share what game that was, and if it was a DOS game, how did you make it run on Win7-8-10 :)
Doesn’t your last sentence go for literally everything?
> Properly price pollution

I don't know how to price pollution.

And I've been voting for the "right" policies my whole life. It didn't help.
Open source community project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlightGear