skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're asking about useful things to grow, hypothetically, we could process CO2 into O2 using plants. However, at our current level of technology I rather suspect it would require a lot more space than the space station has, because we couldn't pack the requisite infrastructure in a very tight space right now.

In Vernor Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky", where ramships travel at sub-light speeds between the stars in the story, they use algae (IIRC, if not that some other similar thing, as opposed to big plants) to process CO2. The process doesn't just run in one big vat, though; it has to run in multiple partitions, because it's a routine event that a mutation in a particular partition manages to work out how to more efficiently convert the provided resources into reproduction, at the cost of putting out less O2 or putting out other undesirable gasses. It's a routine maintenance job for them to look at the output, take some gene sequence samples, and dump & sterilize sub-par partitions and restock them from the other cells.

I give this as an idea of the potential problems we'd face right now. Even if the tech to do that is a routine design job today, it's still not something we have (AFAIK) and would need time to be tested, and the result would be, as I said, quite bulky for some time (for instance, if you work out the necessary volumes, IIRC it's not like you get "20 cc of algae per astronaut" or some similarly dainty value; it takes quite a bit of algae to put out enough oxygen for our high-energy metabolisms).
>has an extremely long history.

That's really not a meaningful argument as to its merit. In fact, it's so famously not a meaningful argument that it has its own fancy name: argumentum ad antiquitatem.
>they are simply unaware of the different benefits of a bank account, such as overdraft facilities or credit schemes.

surely that's a good thing? to avoid people getting snared by high interest debt
You're right. I should have clarified (typed on phone). Financial businesses are not allowed to service any entity dealing with crypto currencies.

If I'm a publication business, if I start accepting BAT tokens, I lose my ties with my bank. Not really a ideal situation.

The circular: https://rbi.org.in/Scripts/NotificationUser.aspx?Id=11243
See again what I quoted up in the thread related to the NSAKEY:

“Windows NT 4 Service Pack 5 (which had been released unstripped of its symbolic debugging data)”
Are you serious? I have long ago accepted that some people just like different things from me, but I still don't really understand how you couldn't love STEM work.

There are other fields which are also fun (obviously), but STEM has all the really cool puzzles and weird edge cases that a certain type of personality really likes.
Arctic fox dispersal from Svalbard to Canada: one’s long run across sea ice
> exegesis

That's a ten dolla word if I ever saw one.

:)
Super noob question but i'm trying to wrap my head around how one could figure out the source code just based on things like debug info and assert strings? I watched the video and am staring at your examples and I just don't understand how you go from those to actual source code.
Ask HN: Name of business model between OSS and SaaS?
Two questions:

1) Is there a name for the service model that's between open-source, and a software service? I'm specifically thinking of the model where you let users run your service as a binary inside their platform/cloud/VPC, but you also offer a hosted version. Sort of like [0]Metabase or [1]Terraform?

2) Are there many successful examples of this?

[0] https://metabase.com/
[1] https://www.terraform.io/
Ask HN: How is it working for Improbable?
Are any readers currently working or have worked in the past for Improbable as Software Engineers?

How was your experience there? What are the pros/cons?
So, what does one do if all they have laying around are mismatched drives?
Route planning is a very hard problem I came to realize having faced it at picking in warehouses and route planning for bus charter company, imagine MOIA for travelling groups.

It gets easier with volume so due to density. Getting to that critical volume is business wise the first trick. And in cities you have competition by Taxis, Uber, Lyft and public transport running on a schedule. Especially your last example shows a critical point: people complain about busses, subways and so being 5 minutes late. And than you have the total unpredictability, as of now, for providers like MOIA.
In an effort to be more agreeable, I really do understand where you're coming from. I'm just openly wondering if there is a technology bias at play making stuff we're already accustomed to and which feels normal to us (e.g. cameras with rectilinear lenses capturing images from arbitrary angles) feel less manipulative than stuff which is new and technically sophisticated.
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Email+Telegram would be best for me. I don't want to give my phone number
After a year with several Echos we ended up with listening to Spotify and getting the time of the day. Everything else looked like a gimmick. So we dropped the Echos, the tradeof between people listening into your conversations vs. using a light switch just wasn't worth it.
Don't overlook his work at Chrysler!
With a well-written and comprehensive design covering 100% of the scope, I believe any software development project can be safely fixed bid.

The problem is that most of the time, people who do attempt project-oriented work/fixed bids do so without a comprehensive design – and it does indeed tend to end up a disaster.
There was a feature advertised for Android phones a few years ago (IIRC) that I always felt would be used for this kind of purpose.

Basically, if the phone was playing video and was no longer pointed to your face, it would pause the video. I could be wrong on the specifics here, but that seems close to what the feature advertised was.
Show HN: A user interface for Postgres EXPLAIN that also gives tips
What Smartphone is listening all the time and sending the voice data to some people to listen in?
I know this is only tangentially related, but could you verify the famous HN post by an anonymous Windows kernel developer explaining why Windows is so much slower than Linux

http://blog.zorinaq.com/i-contribute-to-the-windows-kernel-w...

It's one of the most insightful posts I've seen on this site, and if true, would certainly help to explain why Windows is so much worse than other operating systems :)
We are inspired by https://explain.depesz.com/ and https://tatiyants.com/pev/ and would be very interested in how people think pgMustard compares. Thanks!
Well then "delete past recordings here" is probably not true.
I routinely see major artists complaining on twitter that spotify allows people to upload their content directly and get paid.

While I think the GDPR plays into it, its really two birds with one stone in my mind.
The above link points to: “OffensiveCon19 - Alex Ionescu - Keynote - Reversing Without Reversing” and to 9th minute of the talk where it’s very relevant to the current discussion.
I like this honesty and transparency, employers such as Microsoft encouraging it's employees to act in this way is a good thing.

Shutting down discussion behind lawyers and bland public statements should be discouraged.
The CCS chargers here are DC.
> MySQL can't add TEXT type column without length specified

Mysql does have a TEXT type with a max limit of 65536 chars (you can have MEDIUMTEXT or LONGTEXT if you want more).

You don't supply a length when you use TEXT

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/blob.html
I'm not a MySQL expert, but I've been told that TEXT has very different storage and performance characteristics than VARCHAR, because it is always stored outside of the database tuple and that TEXT can have bad performance. I can imagine that is a reason for them not wanting to use TEXT variants in MySQL.

In PostgreSQL, TEXT/VARCHAR (same type) is only stored outside the tuple if it's large.
So, it's driverless or what? I have no translate button in Firefox... Is it like Uber?
I feel you are making rebuttals to portions of my comment without actually reading the full comment to realize that everything you're rebutting is actually in agreement with your rebuttal. This behavior is confusing. Could you explain yourself?

EDIT: In clarification, I'm essentially saying 'Well, X, but Y. On the other hand, P, but Q.' and you're demanding I prove X to arbirary metric M, even though Y evidences that I'm not in the interest of proving X at all.
I guess because it is difficult to define "good".
> insane corruption of mid-20th century US politics

Not sure things have changed that much in the meantime, to be honest. Nowadays you've got the US Dept. of Education being run by the sister of the guy that runs one of the biggest and most despicable mercenary companies in the world, and regarding sex-related blackmail I still regard the escort-related thing that happened to Eliot Spitzer as a blatant set-up. If it matters I'm not an American and I've never set foot in the States, these are just my opinions on the American political life as seen from half a world away.
Svelte is strikingly similar to Marko.js [1] which predates it by few good years I believe.

Sadly the latter is still under the radar despite bringing in many interesting innovations to the space: its server-side approach being one of my favorite features.

[1]: https://markojs.com/
Why would you call it a PR campaign if it wasn't favoring you? Just curious.
I'm not sure that's an unpopular opinion in these parts.
I imagine the various teams at Google see each other as competition more than we might realize. How many chat-like applications are there? How about the Java/Kotlin Android teams versus the Flutter team? All of the GPL die-hards looking at the non-GPL (MIT, BSD, and Apache2) Fuchsia project wondering just how committed Google is to the Linux kernel.
Further, when installing, it would hang at some point without any sign of a prompt but would instantly continue if the mouse were moved. You could easily test this - turn your mouse upside-down during install and wait (to avoid any incidental mouse motion due to desk vibration etc).

Told my IT friend who was loading my machine and he said "you're confused; I've installed hundreds of times and never seen that". So I turned his mouse upside down and waited. Voila! It hung.
> I don't buy the slippery slope argument here, yet.

That's how the slippery slopes get you. They look all gentle and inviting at the beginning like you can totally stand on them no problem, then the slippery gets you and you're sliding right on down.
At a minimum, the user should be able to turn it on and off.

Edit: Just saw where someone else posted there's a toggle.
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Have used it for over a year, works well, simple upload process, gets out to all the stores quickly, and annual fees are very reasonable.
But that doesn't mean that it's "unsettling" that we want to save bees, which is what that statement implies.
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Limited by caps and electromigration. I'd say a half life of 10-15 years
... but the product.
What about blockchain? Oops, this is not reddit.
"no legal limit."

There is in the EU. Keeping data indefinitely is illegal. Expert opinion varies on how long you can keep it, many think you're save with 12 months, most think 36 months is too long.
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I think "on-premise SaaS" is the term where the pricing can be fixed per month or usage-based, though latter requires some reporting back.

I've also seen cloud images, e.g. AWS marketplace, where customers can deploy their own servers with the software preinstalled and AWS lets the author set a price per hour (on top of what the servers cost).

https://www.mapbox.com/atlas/

https://slack.com/intl/en-de/enterprise

https://www.replicated.com/
In this case, just refuse to sign for the delivery package.

Normally, the provider will let the service work anyway, and then at the end of the year, point out that they never delivered the hardware, they'll check the records, and refund you.
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Senators were just to make a comparison point against other rural areas (considering that the Senate is the place most rural places are over-represented). The same division though also ensures that, unlike Californians, Appalachians have relatively little voice in the electoral vote or for governor-level positions as well because WV is their only majority state.
It looks like ms has some sort of inside sect training on that matter. It is so easy to hear blames from ms staff on minor legal troubles that it just feels to be true. For one, I once read the thread on local ms support site that yelled at and almost banned a user for a story of upgrading to w10 and then downgrading back to 7. The problem was that his LICENSE was converted into 10-th one and now he LOST RIGHT to use 7. While maybe formally legal, for me this behavior is completely out of sane bounds.
Ternary operator don't nest very nicely though (they do nest , but it's not very readable). IMO a bigger difference is Rust's match and blocks also being expressions. These have no alternatives in JavaScript.
Is there someone behind what's happening at the US southwest border?
According to the CBP website there were 144,278 border apprehensions/inadmissables in May of 2019. In May of 2018 there were only 51,862. That's an increase of 278% year over year. Is there any data behind an orchestrated campaign to exacerbate illegal arrivals at the southern US border? The plausible culprits are numerous. What do you think?
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration
That's quite the non-sequitur. What relationship are you implying between this supposition and the scientific facts of climate change? Would your argument change if it were astronomers telling you an asteroid would hit in 5 years?
Dont worry, the 3rd world will more than make up for your abstinence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...
They can easily say it's a condition of the rest of the service.

If you don't like it, don't sign up in the first place.
What's the news here? The same happens with Google and Microsoft. You can even check on their websites and see ALL your audios on Google Assistant and Cortana.
https://myactivity.google.com

Even your dictations on Windows is there too (Win+H).
https://account.microsoft.com/privacy/activity-history?view=...
You can consider that a positive, but it is also an inevitability. Nobody is talking about immortality here. But you also wouldn't be saying the end of all life would be positive (which you could, for exactly the same reasons) and that still wouldn't mean you shouldn't delay it for as long as possible.

>almost everything we enjoy about life may be because of our mortality

You don't know that you're mortal until you die. It makes no difference here, because even if this were true, you are already assuming you are mortal regardless of the facts, and you will continue to do so. Being immortal doesn't imply you've also reached some state of deep enlightenment about it.

Besides, you can invert this just as well: everything we enjoy about life may be dependent upon the belief that we're not going to die soon.
I’m amazed by it. Using a low cost molecule’s phase change, electromagnetic material stimulates electrons in high temperature conductive material.
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You can e-mail me directly. E-mail is in my profile. Any feedback is much appreciated.
>That doesn't mean we forgo all privacy, that doesn't mean we deserve any violations, that doesn't mean we are okay with information being collected against our will

You did forego all privacy and clearly you are okay with information being collected, otherwise you wouldn't have those devices.

That being said, you do not "deserve any violations".
Show HN: Playlistor – Convert Apple Music Playlists to Spotify.
This is not just about the content creators. Operating YT as a platform is far from cheap. I bet YT is most concerned about their own bottom-line.
>A word I was unable to find anywhere in the brochure: "mileage."

>A word I only came across on the last page of the brochure, down with the fine print: "safety."

They're optimizing to sell cars, not to have the most upvoted comment on an article posted on /r/cars. The average buyer's caring about safety and the environment is mostly limited to "can I afford to buy gas for this" and "will the other decision maker in my household consider this safe enough".
> There are no layoffs planned as part of the deal

This was also the message when a previous employer became acquired by KKR. The layoffs came after each acquisition. Acquisitions followed by integration seemed to be a large part of the KKR strategy, at least from my limited perspective. And of course with acquisitions comes reevaluation of structure, processes, and roles among other things.
Agreed. There are so many nice little touches in Rust that having nothing to do with it's "safe + low-level" USP. I would love to see a Rust-style language (expression orientation and rust-style enums being top of my wish list) in the javascript/python/ruby/php niche.
Yes. To obtain tagged data to train models. Just like all big companies become leaders and push juridical boundaries.
Right, I understand that. I just don't feel this particular use of the technology pushes us significantly closer to that point.
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I don't think Alexa nor the Google homes listen and send data to the respective "motherships" at all times.

Both do local processing for the keywords until it hears one then sends the following data (and I believe a few seconds prior) to the servers for processing.

My phone works the exact same way with the Google assistant. I don't know if other "assistants" (like Bixby) work the same way.
Where did i say i dont?
You can stand up for yourself while others support you.
Its not mutually exclusive

You always have Situations where something did go wrong. Usually multiple persons involved.
Owning up their share of the blame has a corellation to standing up for yourself in my experience
Here’s the current state of cameras in screens.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/06/get-ready-for-under-...
> Given enough experts and a drive to make it work, technology finds a way.
Given no experts and not enough users to complain or care about breaking compatibility, technology finds the door.

I'll have to steal that one, great quote!
I think that's why DOIs were created:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier

Also: archive.org
>It was their silly design choice that lead to disclosure of secrets after all.

Wait, was the 200 private repos issue an AWS thing or a GitHub/GitLab/whatever thing?

What AWS product has a concept of private/public repos and limits on how many of the former you can get for a certain price?
if google could gain a market advantage similar to the one they got from linux (for free) they would do so immediately no matter the "cost" to linux/OSS/the-world-at-large
Paul Stamets is a fascinating person. You're right, the Star Trek character is named after him [0]. I remember hearing, perhaps in the Joe Rogan podcast, that he consulted for the show. He has a brilliant TED talk on the world-changing potential of fungi research [1].

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/paul-stamets...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI5frPV58tY
“The perception that mountain folk like to be poor serves someone — but it’s not the poor mountain folk. The representation of Appalachia as all white is not only inaccurate, but it preserves a false and destructive ideal of imaginary “pure white stock.” Images of decay and absence allow those in power to turn away from a place that has been forgotten, but has not disappeared. The narrow ideas that circulate about this broad place do active harm.”

Brilliant.
Insert image of Clockwork Orange film scene where a machine holds your eyes open and forces you to look.
because a lot of people probably just learned about ReactOS as a result of this controversy. "There's no such thing as bad press." -someone
https://i.imgur.com/Ak6UP4z.jpg
exactly. What other features of our faces will software "correct" next ?
Are you arguing that MS mistakenly releasing a version of Windows with debug symbols didn't happen or that it constitutes a leak and isn't fair game?

Because the former is fairly well documented and the latter doesn't seem right in the context of this discussion. If MS themselves messed up and published the symbols through an official channel that's fair game IMO. Although obviously IANAL etc... I'm talking from an ethical perspective, not a legal one.

I don't know much about ReactOS or the NT kernel but we have this type of controversy regularly in the emulation scene and while sometimes it's true that people reuse docs they shouldn't have, a lot of the time people underestimate the skill and cunning of reverse-engineers to figure out how things work without having access to any restricted information.
How many lives saved until airbags are worth the cost?
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In the Spotify payment model, some artists make non-trivial amounts of money, and most make effectively no money. The listener doesn't choose which artists fall into which category.

I prefer to choose. If some artists that I listen to will be paid out of my $10/month contribution, I'd rather control that distribution of my $10 directly.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC-9.1-...
This is exactly what I meant. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Hey there I am a member of USDS and a local community organizer for DCJS / NodeDC / DC Code & Coffee / Alexandria Code & Coffee. I would be happy to chat at or after any event I am attending. There are a bunch of us around who are DC Tech organizers, I am sure any would be happy to chat.
It's shocking to me that more people aren't aware of this fundamental concept when democracy is discussed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority