skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great idea. I've signed up and I think your execution is pretty slick.

I'm still noodling on a somewhat similar project with treespree.io but had some of the same concerns raised in your thread that I still need to think through.

I think one of the core value adds of these approaches is that they convert people who are inactive out of fear or uncertainty into people who are at least starting to do something and possibly discuss the issues with people they are close to.

Still not sure how to best ensure ongoing engagement for the long haul.

All the best to you guys though - really want to see your project succeed.
> Jesus christ, running Windows Server 2003 alone is something he should be fired for if its connected to the internet.

Never look under the hood at any of the companies involved in silicon development then. Server 2003 would be an upgrade for many, many tester machines.

To get to the "why dont they update" question:

1. Proprietary hardware with a custom driver.

2. Barely functional proprietary software, good luck getting it to run on anything except Windows XP/95/3.11.

3. The tester is LONG out of support.

4. The company that makes it is either out of business or was bought up by Teradyne/Advantest

5. The software is licensed specifically for that hardware it came with(CPU/Motherboard guids/serials, MAC addresses, etc).

6. If there is even a replacement for the tester, it will cost a minimum of $500k to replace, probably $1MM or more.

7. A customer requirement is to have external access, as much as IT fights it, the tester must also have internet access so the customer can send/receive files with their own workflow.

Sometimes we got lucky and I was able to push forward multiple upgrade projects moving testers from Windows XP to Windows 10. This was the case with most anything using a National Instruments GPIB where the software wasnt also locked down. Since National Instruments makes drives compatible with Windows 10 for their PCI cards, we were able to transition to Windows 10 on an entire floor once I developed a compatibility shim to get around the non-UAC assumptions of the tester software.

Example from 2018:
A tester that runs on Windows XP meets all of the above. Capacitors on the P4 motherboard blew up, company was bought by Advantest, but they dont make that tester anymore or even have a replacement. It is one of three left on planet earth. What do we do? Replace everything we can. New RAM, SSD using an IDE to SATA bridge, PSU, etc. We sent the motherboard to one of our internal techs who replaced every single cap on the motherboard, by hand.

A few days later, it is back in action. It will remain in this condition for another decade or more, with internet access. This is normal in anything involved with manufacturing, and yes, it will all end badly. Thankfully, I am out of the Bay Area now and not at all involved with hardware manufacturing or that company, no longer supporting internet connected Windows 3.11, RHEL3, AIX4, and SunOS 2.6 machines.
Ive been considering building a product that would help eradicate "lax user management" of Slack, and like platforms. It would basically keep an audit trail of managers approval for their specific team members they manage access to specific platforms and products. Basically, helping scale that one IT guy whom should somehow know every person at the company in detail.

If I succeeded in making the process easy & less time consuming than it is now, do you think it's a product you would pay for?
Steps for Tying Executive Compensation to Sustainability
"It depends".

I'd suggest trying it and seeing what happens, if you wish to learn rather than listen to people who aren't using your host - and don't know what you run..
> Would Erlang/Elixir do better? I don't know, but I wouldn't be so sure.

Pretty sure it can. Let's give it a try:

#!/usr/bin/env escript
%%! +P 2000000

%% run with ./spawn_n 1000000

-mode(compile).

main([NStr]) ->
N = list_to_integer(NStr),
T0 = erlang:system_time(millisecond),
Parent = self(),
Waiter = spawn(fun() -> Parent ! {final_result, wait(N, 0)} end),
spawn_n(N, Waiter),
Res = receive {final_result, R} -> R end,
Dt = erlang:system_time(millisecond) - T0,
io:format("Done in ~p sec result:~p~n", [Dt/1000.0, Res]),
ok.

wait(0, Acc) ->
Acc;
wait(N, Acc) ->
receive {result, R} -> ok end,
wait(N - 1, Acc + R).

spawn_n(0, _Waiter) ->
ok;
spawn_n(N, Waiter) ->
spawn(fun() -> Waiter ! {result, 1} end),
spawn_n(N - 1, Waiter).

And it outputs:

./spawn_n 1000000
Done in 1.613 sec result:1000000

In summary, it started 1M processes, all with isolated heaps, pre-emptable, with only a few KB of stack size. They didn't execute much just sent their result to a collector process and then exited. All in about 5x as fast as C++.
Better link:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29063/marine-anti-dron...
I understand a well off nation ruled by democracy due to distributed table-stakes, and a poor nation ruled by a dictator due to centralized table-stakes, but I've never known a well off nation to intentionally sabotage its own table-stakes in order to surrender to dictatorship. Why is this happening? Who supports it? Why do they think it is necessary?
This is in some ways a preview of why the theory of basic income replacing other government spending (and therefore being fiscally conservative and libertarian) is false. Alaska is redirecting money from universities to basic income (the oil dividend) and it’s considered an outrage. The same thing would happen for any government program.
my one can be found here its simple and still a work in progress
https://github.com/aetar
will try to implement yolo3 later
project name road trip
Jay Inslee forcing the issue three times has mostly soured Washington voters on carbon taxes for the foreseeable future.

The hard work is going to be passing a carbon tax or climate package and getting it to stick instead of fighting another decade long fight against gutting it like Obamacare. But Jay Inslee is not good at convincing people who don’t already agree with him.
So being the kind of person who has a lot of random trivia floating around in my brain, this is the first thing that came to mind when I thought of Alaska engineering colleges:

Search DuckDuckGo for the following :

"[Censored] Evaluation is a study at the University of Alaska Fairbanks using finite element modeling to evaluate the possible causes of [Censored]'s collapse."
>"For retail/catalog search SOLR dominates."

Interesting, could you elaborate on why SOLR is dominant in that space over say Elasticsearch?
Mostly I include it in my protein shakes, but I also use it for baking.
https://nextcloud.com/install/#instructions-server

https://nextcloud.com/install/#install-clients

I've installed it for personal use before but now use Hetzner:

https://www.hetzner.com/storage/nextcloud
Amiga 1200 Plus Project
It's not as much as you think.

t. born Alaskan
They only had ownership of this illegal-to-own item because of a special dispensation granted to their ancestors that allowed ownership so long as it was in the possession of a museum (i.e., the only lawfully allowed owners of such items in the US).

The issue here was never possession--the children would never have been allowed to actually possess the eagle. The issue was ownership and how much value the eagle had as an owned item.
But isn't it only a problem when there is a significant discrepancy between the market value and the IRS appraisal? Obviously the IRS doesn't have the funds to buy the entire market, but if people own something that's actually market value why would they sell it at a significant discount?

Also you're taking a gamble by challenging the IRS to buy something at a discount that they won't actually call your bluff and you lose out on money. And if you're actually standing by your personal assessment over theirs, you either make money or you get to skip the tax bill.

This seems like a much better balance than what we currently have.
That's the stupidest reason in the world for Iran not wanting to fight the US, and its utter BS. Stop thinking Iraq and Iran are comparable countries.
The official press release is even worse about this. It leads off with "The good news is that adolescent "sexting" is not at epidemic levels as reported in some media headlines".

18% is epidemic levels.

Also of interest in the press release:

> Among those students who were asked to send a sext by someone who was not a current romantic partner, only 43 percent complied.

Assuming that's 43% of the people who admit to participating in sexting in the first place... this still seems shockingly high. "Only" 43 percent?

press release: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-07/fau-nso07171...

SciHub: http://sci-hub.tw/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/...
Hindus (and related religions) have been vegetarians for thousands of years, and they're fine. It's veganism that is untested.
Dunno. Do you care about hibernating your system?
I'd imagine most HNers are aware that MS owns the world's social code platform as well as the hottest general purpose editor. That mind share counts for an awful lot compared to like, 3 years ago.
We could just build fission power plants, they're reasonably safe, not too expensive and we know how to store the waste safely, heck - we've built a place to store it, but until there is political will to overcome the NIMBYism of not wanting to live in the next potential Pripyat (no matter how remote that risk is) nothing will change, except the climate of course.
"That's very rarely the thought process in the real world when you're dealing with a production system though. Most developers who have the seniority and experience to make the call to upgrade something aren't just upgrading for the fun of it."

you and i's experience varies greatly, Ive worked at a number of firms that update things based solely on age(and boredom) and nothing else... thats what happens when non-tech people steer the ship. I also see this happening a lot to justify someone existence on payroll.
I was thinking it looks like a slightly modified John Deere Gator Utility Vehicle [0] that had an RF system placed on top of it...

[0] https://www.deere.com/en/gator-utility-vehicles/full-size-cr...
To the siblings wondering about reaching out to the sites and offering to pay for the data: I'm not parent poster, but where I work, we absolutely have reached out. We've even offered to build and maintain the systems/APIs/etc we'd need at our own expense in addition to paying for the data. None of the companies we've reached out to seem interested in providing easy access to their data.
DoNotPay CEO – How to Break the Rules and Gain Millions of Users in the Process
i run a scraper on craigs list style marketplace for my country, they have now one of those commercial scraping protection, that i trivialy escape with basicaly adding random string to a url. try how they work and then create a workaround, i think most of them use some of those comercial solutions.

i do my scraping just for myself. maybe if i would scale it up they would detect me.
There is nothing in this study that is useful, it just confirms pre-existing theories that autism is all in the genes. I think those theories are wrong and harmful.

In the real world, autism develops. If the medical profession treated the diagnosis as something other than a chronic condition that a person is going to have for the rest of their life, they might figure out how to treat it.
Composing fatty and high protein waste can be difficult, if for no other reason than it attracts vermin. I think that's one of the areas Black Solider fly larve excel.

Realistically, using them as a food source for farmed fish and poultry is much more likely. Although obviously less efficient in a gram for gram basis.
The only issue I have with this suggestion is that all of the situational awareness needed to _use_ Elasticsearch effectively is the same as is needed to _operate_ Elasticsearch effectively.

If you're just spinning up something's defaults and throwing data in it, that bill is going to due eventually and it's probably going to be ugly.
A lot of Americans don't even just think that life isn't fair, they have the mentality that America is the divinely placed police force of the world. And as such they are entitled to projections of force through acts of war whenever necessary.
Ok, so what happens if the estate consists solely of a single piece of art? The art is worth zero, no one wants to buy it, but the heir would like to have it for sentimental reasons, but the IRS says it's worth $100M. The estate has no money to pay this tax bill. Now what happens? The IRS gets stuck with a piece of worthless art? Is there some warehouse somewhere with a bunch of old crap seized this way that the IRS can't get rid of?
They're not wrong, though.
No, it could not be gifted to a company as that transfer of ownership would be legally invalid. The children only had ownership due to a special dispensation granted to their ancestors (not them) and the dispensation didn't include the right to transfer ownership to others.
> the area had much more of a community feel... local interest groups for expats and Koreans alike, libraries, a wide variety of restaurants, meeting places... makeshift vegetable gardens on the outskirts of town

Thank you for sharing this. Far more than the article's specific concerns like CCTV coverage, planned cities seem to fail when these things aren't present. Places like the planned core of Brasilia or Section 8 highrises in the US are defined by interchangeable spaces, a lack of pleasant third places, and restrictive use of land (either by policy, like banning gardens, or logistics, like paving deadspace and closing rooftops).

Overbuilding is definitely a concern, too. It's not just a waste, it tends to feel isolating and interfere with more natural as-needed expansion. It's not as catastrophic as rendering inhabited spaces alienating, though, so hopefully things will stabilize in time.
No thanks. The SO community made it very clear they aren't interested in having me be a part of it.
From the discussion 10 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20384388

Didn't click summary: After the cut, Alaska will still spend 3x more than average per student. And tuition rates are comparatively low.
It won't be effective rapidly but:

- walk as much as possible

- buy as less as possible (if the sales plummet, less sending products overseas I suppose) or local

- plant trees
We could also just build renewables.
They're sorted by gradient. But you can sort by upvotes too.
The article shows a graphic of year round shipping lanes by 2075

That seems like an un-dire consequence of the ice being gone

What am I missing? I should put a downpayment on beach front property in Nevada?
Also, it is covered by a patent.
I moved from Dropbox (when they dropped xfs Linux support) to Google Drive. Fine so far.
It's entirely safe to speculate who downed MH17.

> The responsibility for investigation was delegated to the Dutch Safety Board (DSB) and the Dutch-led joint investigation team (JIT), who concluded that the airliner was downed by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory in Ukraine. According to the JIT, the Buk that was used originated from the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade of the Russian Federation, and had been transported from Russia on the day of the crash, fired from a field in a rebel-controlled area, and the launcher returned to Russia after it was used to shoot down MH17. On the basis of the JIT's conclusions, the governments of the Netherlands and Australia hold Russia responsible for the deployment of the Buk installation and are taking steps to hold Russia formally accountable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17

That Russia decries this as "fake news" is of little consequence, given their consistent lies about involvement in Ukraine.

It's nearly certain they didn't intend to down an airliner, but that's a different issue.
Is that really a problem? People tend to vastly overestimate our protein needs.
No you are not. I'm using a Nexus 6 (Android) so I was unaware that there is not a native iOS client yet. There are in progress talks to build one but apparently it is a high lift to get done.

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/on-syncthing-ios-port-again/89...
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It *melts off* like *an artic* shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-ver...
Yes, but the protein conversion factor is orders of magnitude better.
Apple is probably one of the better companies w.r.t. accessibility. You can make the cursor big and a bunch of other things.
A counterpoint is our ingest-time deduplication system at Segment: https://segment.com/blog/exactly-once-delivery/

It's done at ingest time because Segment has a completely different use case. Message data fans out over multiple downstream systems, some of which distribute this data to systems outside of our control. However, if I were in Mixpanel's shoes, I'd probably do it how they're describing it here.
It does cost money to run a service like this. He's historically had sponsors, but you can't expect someone to run a high traffic service for free forever.
What is the measurement of "overblown"?

>Overall, approximately 13% of students reported that they had sent a sext, while 18.5% had received a sext. About one-third of those who sext had done it just one time.

Perhaps people who are concerned would find those numbers concerning?

If that is true... then is it "overblown"?
We did take a pretty deep look into shipping containers. There are a number of sites that will sell you a pretty fully featured container (https://www.curbed.com/2017/6/21/15839730/shipping-container...)

While many of them look pretty reasonable, longevity and sense of value are the main issues people have psychologically. Shipping containers often elicit worry about rust and decay which is not unreasonable by my understanding is that they have coatings and paint that can largely prevent this.

The bigger issue is the homeowner's sense of value. While any ADU should increase the value of the property it's on, a shipping container home may make the home a bit harder to sell.

Shipping container homes often come with a very technical installation. Since the entire unit is built, if access into the backyard is limited the unit needs to be lifted over the home (and all the power lines) by a massive and very expensive crane. An easier version of this installation by crane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDTLBbfKL3E

As we've thought about these problems, we've honed in on building beautiful largely prefabricated flat-packed units that are easy to get into the backyard and then bolt together kind of like Ikea furniture.
Not for me and I’m on mobile.
Walking 6 Miles to Work in NYC
As long as the IRS was given a sufficient window to pay for the item it would still work. There is no reason for them to have to pay up front.

If they can't sell the asset and then return 80% of it's market value to the original owner over the course of a year, than they were probably wrong about the market value.

Of course there are certain items that may take longer than a year to find the right buyer, mega yachts, specialized works of art, but if these things take years to sell and find the right buyer than their potential market value should be reduced to reflect that.
Competence is a spectrum. I've worked with managers who would listen, and nod along to problems I was pointing out, and after the meeting nothing would change.
This isn't on topic of GP, but you seem to have a handle on what this is, so I thought I'd ask...

The conversation seems to focus on JMAP as a replacement for IMAP and primarily as an email protocol. The RFC identifies itself as -
> a protocol for clients to efficiently query,
> fetch, and modify JSON-based data objects, with support for push
> notification of changes and fast resynchronisation and for out-of-
> band binary data upload/download.

It reads like it applies to APIs in general, or is this only for mail/messaging services?

edit: I see now, this is the core spec, not specifically the mail spec as referenced in another comment. Thanks.

source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20478227
Its versatility, all within one file format.

e.g. for anyone who hasn't glanced at the Org-Mode table of contents:
https://orgmode.org/manual/index.html#SEC_Contents

For managing tasks: org files can be richly structured. So you can organise a task in some nested hierarchy; or with a tag; or with some key-value property.
You can also make use of the way you organise notes to quickly search for tasks.
Org also provides some useful ways you can view your organised tasks.

Besides task management, it's kindof "2nd best at everything", but all within one file format.

For GTD: Org supports a workflow where you can quickly 'capture' some information; then later organise it.

Org Babel: supports running snippets of code in an org-file, outputting the results. It's more primitive than something like Jupyter, though. (But you can also re-arrange the code snippets into files, supporting a literate programming style).
-- I've found this a useful tool for keeping code and notes together.

Org has some support for tables/spreadsheets. I don't use this very much. But, again, useful to be able to embed (and update) within notes.

You wouldn't start using org-mode to get all these benefits. You start using a small part of it. And then you notice some other feature of org you'd benefit from, and figure that part out.
Here's a DIY Black Soldier Fly Composter with an Automatic Chicken Feeder

https://gardenpool.org/beneficial-insects/black-soldier-fly-...
The part that isn't apparent in this 7-year-old article was that the appraisal board, comprised of museum curators and professional appraisers, was not informed that US law makes it illegal to actually own stuffed eagles, unless you're a museum.

So they evaluated it as a work of art, and as museum curators they weren't aware that it wasn't legal for the owners to actually own or sell the eagle. Hence, the large valuation for the unsaleable item.

(This case was resolved 6 years ago.)
Hey Josh, very interesting concept. Thanks for building it!

I tried to use the "technology" category, but the results are not what I expected. Perhaps it would be more useful if I could narrow it down to more specific things, e.g. programming languages, or databases.

Keep up the good work!
You have to know your last comment is nothing more than flame bait.
It's not acceptable in my experience. People are just ignorant to the fact that this is an ingredient.
IIRC the way it's presented in the film was as a horrifying surprise -- or perhaps as an element of the subjugation/cruelty that the movie focused on. But when I watched it all I could think of was, "Uh, yeah, that's actually the kinda thing that we're considering now."