skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you provide an API for the carbon calculator? Or is that relatively easy to build?
Apropos of the thread: https://www.seeedstudio.com/ICE-Tower-CPU-Cooling-Fan-for-Ra... (a fan for the CPU that is reminiscent of the first "big" Pentium fans). I asked on twitter if the RasPi had "jumped the shark" here, being sucked into territory it wasn't really designed for.

As someone who has lived through the microcomputer revolution it is amazing to see the "$100 desktop" at this point of history. If we arbitrarily pick 30 years as a delta (so 1989 vs 2019) and use BYTE[1] as a reference a 20MHz 80386 desktop with a 40MB hard drive was $2500 (as a clone, name brands were more).

An actually comparable computer (32 bit processor at 20MHz, 1MB RAM, 640x480 graphics, 40MB+ of storage (ignoring for the moment "protected mode") today can be built for less than $10.

That is a huge step function to try to absorb.

[1] https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1989-10/page/n347
It all boils down to one of the simplest and most ignored truths:

Most people aren't great at their jobs, they're average or worse than average.
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Is there bulk data that the public can download?
I've personally cancelled because of the virtue signalling/progressive agenda being pushed so gratuitously in pretty much every single one of their productions.

Bird Box was pretty blatant, with the single mother drinking while pregnant, all the white guys being bad, the Trump supporter pissed off guy, the mixed-race gay couple, the single mother ending up in a mixed-race relationship, etc.

It just gets so annoying to have to see politics being pushed the whole time when you just want to relax and watch a movie.
Are you a fan of Node.js REPL? Do you extensively use the REPL to try out small code snippets quickly while you are working? If so, Baapan is for you…
I just learned this same thing (Object ACLs) last night, and my mind was blown that a bucket can have objects owned and controlled by other accounts, which then prevents a third account from accessing those objects even though it has bucket access.

But when you stop and think about it, it's a similar model as Unix file/directory ACLs...I just hadn't expected it to apply to S3 buckets too.

I still have the tab open for the docs to fix access:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/example-walk...
Walrus operator looks like a great addition, not too much syntax sugar for a common pattern. Why were folks arguing about it?
It might be misleading, but it's not uncommon. Apple MacBook Pros have thermal throttled at high loads for the past several years. It has throttled for so long that reviewers were surprised that the latest version seems to be using a decent thermal paste and throttles much less.

So if Apple got away with it for years on computers that mostly sold for over $2k, then I think the RPi foundation will probably get away with it on a $35 board.
For sure, but how much that's a good thing vs. a bad thing is not so clear. This is one of those cases (like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20186280) where it's useful to have exactly one thing you're optimizing for. It helps you know what to do in situations that would otherwise be head-scratchers, and the consequences are often surprising yet rather easy to derive.

On HN, the one thing we're optimizing for is intellectual curiosity. That's merely one kind of curiosity and by no means the most powerful. Interest in personalities, especially celebrities or the infamous, tends to be fuelled by one of the higher-octane varieties—call it social curiosity. There's nothing wrong with social curiosity. It's human. But intellectual curiosities are smaller fish than that, and on HN we need to do things to prevent the bigger fish from eating them all up. Everything in our bag of moderation tricks is there to help with that.
Maybe you should expand your offering so that I can live guilt free. That's what I really want. To maintain my standard of living without harming the planet.
Outside the US they're only available on Netflix and are marketed as "Netflix Originals".
Data of 'nearly all adults' in Bulgaria stolen
There is also this: https://wicg.github.io/change-password-url/index.html

which is an interop standard for websites to expose a "Change your password" page, which is a good place to start. It lets the password manager link directly to "your password for foo.com is expired/known to be leaked/weak, [change it here]"
It's just common sense that life > death.

You can't just remove everybody with common sense or else we'll go extinct as a species.
My plan was to just use a Dremel to notch some holes in the top of the case I ordered a kit with... I just ordered another case that has a fan and will try that... the new one will probably take over retro-gaming chores and I'll find something else for my 3B+ to do.
I think the biggest issue with netflix is precisely the lack of things like Friends, Seinfeld, The Office - shows you can watch casually and not have to binge. My wife hates Netflix precisely because she hates binging. She wants to watch sitcoms and shows where you don't have to invest heavily. And you know, so do I. Life is hard enough without having to following tons of different plots lines and having tons of characters always die.

Anyway, we have Hulu now which has gotten quite good. I can imagine cancelling Netflix pretty soon honestly.
Yeah, when I travel I try to offload to the computer nightly, and sync to The Cloud or my house or whatever, overnight.
Mino Games (YC W11) Is Hiring Game Developers in Montreal
Maybe a composite ring with a magnet in it might have a larger market. In the same way ctrl-labs might give you an early-adopter heads-up (although it would be one-way communication)
As a former quant fund manager Netflix presents an interesting problem. If you read about the quant space, a whole load of people reckon they can use ML to make money.

The problem for them is much like for Netflix.

Having a way to predict the future is not the whole story of how to decide what to do.

Netflix having a whole load of data about what people watched, for how long, their demographics, etc, is probably very useful. But it is not an obvious step to go from knowing what people saw, even predicting it, to deciding what to produce and what to present to them.

Add to that the likely fact that people often want something fresh and innovative, and you have quite some stretched assumptions in statistical terms.

Not saying this is the end, I don't know enough about the business. Just that it's an interesting jump that I rarely hear anyone talk about.
desire paths, but for urban planning. Plus, the whole development model since post-ww2 has basically been a veiled ponzi scheme
It's sort of a well-known pitfall of centralized product management. In the short term, it's less risky and more profitable to create a product that 1000 people would find passable, than to create 10 different products that would be loved by their 100-people audiences and ignored otherwise. However, in the long term this erodes people's expectations of future products and they eventually move on. That's a part of the normal economic cycle and the reason why big corporations eventually go bust.

I think, this process is happening throughout the entire motion picture industry and in the next 10-20 years we will likely see a shift to some new type of entertainment that hasn't been ruined by formalized best practices yet.
Their auto-playing trailers seems to be something that I've only seen negative feedback about online. The assumption is that their internal metrics show auto-playing trailers has a positive impact (on their metrics) so they're keeping them?
When growing up, did you equally share duties around the house?

One of the guys I grew up with was the middle child between two girls. Girls never had to do chores, he helped with garbage and dishes, and in later years, helped with renos and yard work.

My point being that he was basically trained from birth to be productive, whereas his sisters were always allowed to explore their creativities (since they didn’t have to do chores). His sisters both have liberal arts degrees and have bounced around jobs, but he owns a very successful landscaping company.
Faceapp: Privacy Warning Issued over App That Lets Users Turn Themselves Old
Without wanting to ignite a debate about the walrus operator (and having not read any of the arguments), I can guess why there was one. It's not clear to me what it does just from reading it, which was always one of Python's beginner-friendlinesses.
But the content is specifically that repos by a notable maintainer are seeking new maintainers, not just random GitHub repos.

The most notable repo involved is "requests", an HTTP library more widely used than the one in Python's standard library (I'm under the impression it has become bundled with the Python standard install but am unable to find a citation for that).

How about changing the title too "Python requests library and other repos seeking new home"?
https://docs.python.org/3.8/whatsnew/3.8.html
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I think it's fair to point out that often they don't have a choice with those shows as the owners of the properties are jacking up the price in order to move to their own streaming services.

What Netflix should be called on is their stubborn refusal to improve the interface/search. They want to make it seem like they have oodles of content so they show the same show 5 times under different genres on the main page. They have all the information there, yet you can't do a search based on a combination of tags or genres.

I've been doing the 2 months off 1 month on thing for a while not because I don't feel their content is worth the full price but because when a company looks like it's trying to 'trick' you it loses a lot of goodwill.
Can anyone recommend MOOCs and/or university courses (open syllabus) covering Distributed Systems?
And one would think infrared vision that could be useful (except possibly when it's a magic number between 98.6 amf 104 degrees somewhere)

To me, every brown mailbox with a white reflector could be a deer coming to the road, to infrared, with a larger lens, it should be able to tell a lot better.
This article is:
1) pedantic
2) wrong
3) about fonts
4) written by a copyright narc

I simply do not understand its presence or popularity here.
Generally the term for these arrangements is 'consignment'. A lot of people are discussing this arrangement by allusion.

Where retailers also own brands and compete against other vendors in these areas, they are subject to competition bureau scrutiny. Typical competition bureau orders in the event of market dominance often involve non-discrimination agreements specifically aimed at stopping intentional measures taken to squeeze competitor dealflow by having power in another vertical.

Relevant terms here include abuse of market dominance, abuse of dominance, etc.

Sidenote: There's a LOT of absolutely misled, full of shit statements in this comments section regarding competition law. Tread with caution.
> If you've designed software where the whole service can degrade based on the CPU consumption of a single machine, that right there is your problem and no amount of alerting can help you.

Unless it's your database.
Medicine works not because we have learned to scale it in any sense, but on the contrary, because we still rely on individual physicians and nurses to provide care. So like the HR system of large hospitals is probably better/bigger than small ones in terms of on boardinging doctors, but the care at a large center is only as good as the individual physician or nurse caring for patients. Probably bigger, academic centers are (very slightly) better (though this is an active debate with recent literature in high profile journals on both sides), but if they are, I suspect its because they can recruit better individual doctors. This is very different from saying that their scale provides them some competitive advantage in providing care.
Ask HN: MVP using an off the shelf product?
Just curious to know if any of you built your MVP using an off the shelf product.

If you did were you successful?

For e.g.
Using discourse to start a community OR Word press to start a real estate brokerage page
It is not, strictly speaking, about censorship. Google is the best in the world at gathering information about people. If they operate in China, they will have to give over all that information to the Chinese government, of course. They have already built the largest surveillance apparatus in the Western world that has ever existed - imagine what the CCP could do with that?

Yes, Baidu already does this. But no one can do it as well as Google.
I agree, they lean far too heavily on the fight club tropes - which sucks because the characters worked really well without that unnecessary twist. After the first season it seems like the tech / hacker details were just shoe-horned in after the fact.

Not to mention the awkward alexa product placement...

..but ofc I'll still end up watching it
I have just forwarded this to my teammates who upload 9MB images!
Make new shows that appeal to that market.

Netflix content is a reflection of it's desire to compete with HBO, not NBC.
A Closer Look at Amazon's Privacy Policy
Just get an Intel NUC
I'm not sure it's any bigger a statement than saying that it is possible, though...
We are not amused.
Still, Spanish is a very real second language in the US
Haha :). But no, we're talking PRT here, not regular trains.
There is a (partial) solution to this: support press like ProPublica that bring the issues to light. Their reporting on a bill related to this, the Taxpayer Fist Act (H.R. 1957), was directly responsible for squashing a bad bill.
How are you supposed to tell if you dont know about a subject?
The reason European countries pushing battery production so hard is that demand for batteries is expected to skyrocket in the coming years, like 10 times present levels. This is for electric vehicles and also fixed electricity storage.

As a consequence there is a race all around the world to increase battery production as fast as possible, and the European countries don't want to get left behind.

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/europe-set-to-r...
Note that earnings were released after the close of trading, so the ~10% drop is in after-hours trading, which is not necessarily representative of what tomorrow's open (and trading) will look like.
What I find interesting is looking for creative ways to prioritize the game experience even when the 'official spec' didn't support it. They could have given up by accepting that the spec represented the limit of what could be done, but instead pushed to find a better way.

I hadn't put thought into how important that scroll effect is to the game, but if there was a clean wipe between scenes it would have been tremendously distracting. This technique really is essential to the feeling of immersion.
Oh perfect. We're using Stripe and accept Debit Cards currently. The credit card wording we're using is pretty confusing, we'll change that!
If you have "the database" then you're fucked anyway and probably your thing isn't on the scale that we are discussing.
There's a well known science fiction novel where a "programmer-archaeologist" on an interstellar fleet digs into a bunch of nested hypervisors and software nobody has touched in thousands of years, to find things still running on the unix time epoch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky
Agreed... have had several friends and coworkers over the years who are expat Russian and HK, and have no love for communism. Being born in the 70's and coming up in the 80's probably means some bias on my own part. I just don't want anything resembling that level of restriction from any government. I have enough problems with my own (US) govt, let alone adding a more repressive stream.
This is a very nice technique. I tried it for a couple of algorithms and while the author said that it a pretty mechanical to go from a recursive function to an iterative one, I think the non-mechanical work required to go from recursive to the CPS style is about the same as the work required to go directly from recursive to iterative. At least that was my experience.
I'm less worried about resource extraction, and more worried about pollution. Sure, mining pollutes and we have a limited number of minerals in the world.

The bigger problem IMO is the destruction of the biosphere. Trees are being cut faster than they are planted, fish are being fished faster that they can reproduce, etc. There's no biosphere on asteroids.

Moreover, would finding another source for resources reduce the incentive to preserve the ones we have locally? For example, in the future, if plastics become scarce, plastic products will become more expensive and people will consume less of them.

Let's suppose we learn how to synthesize plastics from compounds found in asteroids. It would be business as usual, and the insane amount of pollution in landfills and oceans would only keep growing, would it not?
Relevant: benchmarking WebAssembly using libsodium: https://00f.net/2019/04/09/benchmarking-webassembly-using-li...
It lets you define syntax, which may be invalid in javascript, which then generates valid javascript at compile time.
I think Netflix is pursuing the Silicon Valley mantra of product development: try everything, iterate fast, fail things fast. We've seen how that resulted in eroding users trust in many Google products (chat applications especially) so I think in the end it's going to end up hurting Netflix too.

Or look at how the main complain people have about Steam (when moving to GOG and other platforms) is the sheer amount of "crap" on that platform making discoverability of high quality content very hard.
Python looks more and more foreign with each release.
I'm not sure what happened after 3.3 but it seems like the whole philosophy of "pythonic", emphasizing simplicity, readability and "only one straightforward way to do it" is rapidly disappearing.
> A system only needs 16-32 bytes of pure hardware randomness for strong security. That's it!

Correct.

> You either have it shortly upon boot, or you don't.

Not correct. On virtualized systems, with minimal interrupts, there is frequently not enough entropy available. This comment seems to reflect a poor understanding of the getrandom(2) system call and its history; part of the reason for implementing getrandom was in order to provide this new behavior of no longer blocking once enough entropy has been collected for a secure CSPRNG initialization. Linux needs this "entropy accounting mumbo jumbo" because it doesn't have a standard mechanism for persisting random seeds across boots; OpenBSD doesn't need it because the bootloader and kernel are tightly integrated, so they can easily implement this feature.
It would hurt wasm, certainly. It was an arbitrary decision but that's the reality of the world we live in.
But this is where HN is blind; a non insignificant portion of America doesn't have access to a reliable automobile. So, there are already 10s of millions of Americans (and Europeans) that transport luggage and a baby just fine.
Many years ago, on a UK network (I think it was o2, but might have been GiffGaff) I couldn't and didn't tether.

However, one app would make calls out with a User Agent that looked like IE6 which caused the network to disconnect my data and require me to phone up to get it unblocked.
I loved the first season. The last two episodes blew my mind.

The second season was dull and the third I had to force myself to finish just to be a completionist. Don't think I can watch another season, sadly.
Yikes.

This is concerning but not surprising. After the Snowden leaks, a buddy of mine kept telling me that it was the tip of tmthe iceberg, that the private sector was even more dangerous than prism. I guess this is what he was talking about.
Archive of Apple’s promotional photos and ads organized by year
I'm talking about doing what airplanes and ATC are already doing, but in an automated way.
Who is congress being bribed by here?
> that hasn't been ruined by formalized best practices yet

So, Youtube? Unless Google ruins it in its own way of course.
For example, the aviation industry has standard terms for things. "Takeoff Power" means full power. Can you guess what happened? A pilot needed to abort a landing, and yelled "takeoff power" to the copilot, who promptly chopped the power, an accident ensued.

It takes an entirely different mindset to properly give, receive, and execute concise instructions in real-time. People who have not had considerable practice at this tend to mess it up horrendously. As seen above, even people who are accustomed to doing it will still mess it up, big time! (This is why submarine bridge crew speak to each other in the highly stylized way they do. Also, try playing Artemis with noobs, and you'll see why as well.)

Many people do not have short-term clocks in their heads! Those same people also can't properly add-up in real-time the time-intervals of the manual processes they're doing and about to do. Even if you tell them they are going to run down a deadline and mess something up, they can't properly process what you tell them. It's like telling a pitch-deaf amateur musician that they're out of tune. They're either confused by the input, or they think you're making stuff up to annoy them.

(I remember taking some friends into low security space for the first time in Eve Online. Some player-killers show up in our system, and I tell them, "Warp to me now!" The reaction? The husband starts in on this involved argument with me about it, saying, that would end up with us in the middle of nowhere! Arrgh! Yes, that would've been the point!)

The same thing also goes for medium and long term time frames, which is relevant to programming, business, and startups.
>This bill does not add one single green card

FALSE.

This only applies if everybody else, in addition to India, is also exhausting their per-country limits. But it is not the case. That's why although India face huge backlog, overall # of visas is smaller than the global CAP set in the law.

If per-country limit is lifted, the effective number of GCs issued will instantly reach its global limit and will continue reaching limit every other year from now on, adding more GCs and putting even more downward pressure in the labor market
Probably will end up having to change jobs - I suppose asking for a task tracking system to use in the meantime couldn't hurt though. Appreciate the suggestion.
If you're using a sharded SQL database then a single machine going bad could still affect thousands of people.
Honestly, not an unreasonable thought.
My thinking has been more towards running with an oversized cooler.

e.g. I've got a tinkerboard which also tends to run hot & there simply adding a solid pound of copper did the trick.

Really not keen on having moving parts on my SBCs
Next Software and Peripherals Catalog (1989)
All this is literally just concern for the first ~minute or two of the very first boot after disk cloning? It should be irrelevant for subsequent boots once they reseed on the next boot... hardly seems like such a huge deal.
Did We Mishear Neil Armstrong?
Perhaps to align with the final "else" clause, or it was familiar to c programmers due to the c-preprocessor directive https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Elif.html, or they were mindful that every character counts when you want to push 80 character max-line-length style?

To be clear, that's not a new feature in 3.8.
Realistically, I don't know if the font makers would bother suing someone for this reason. But I think it's more likely that they might ask GitHub to start removing unlicensed copies of their files.