skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to Build the Organizations of the Future
Why the screaming hairy armadillo weeps
No, they are grammatically identical, with a subject performing action on an object. The only difference is that the subject and object are interchanged.
oof. I think we've gotten much different takeaways from The Lisp Curse.
We are already very close to "full scale warfare", just of the economic kind. There is likely not going to be the war you are referring to between two superpowers in today's environment.
Mostly nonsense. The improvements we've seen over the past decade have been improvements in manufacturing and other process, not subsidy. It truly is cheaper now, and will get cheaper still. The free market has had the baton for the past decade, at least. The main impediment is mostly the time scale of power plant projects, and the cost of intermediate storage (which has also plummeted).

And of course, this doesn't take into account our direct and indirect subsidies to the fossil fuel industry - you know, like what we spend on a military presence in the Middle East.
The learning part is pretty string, I guess. I sometimes do scripting tasks in Rust now instead of Python and the motivation is clearly learning. At the same time, the tooling is so good and fun to use that I don't feel like I'm putting myself through a painful exercise. Stuff like clasp for example (library to do CLI interfaces) is so good that I prefer it over doing that in Python.
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Sweden's Klarna becomes biggest fintech firm in Europe
> The argument is that making it difficult for users not to use your mobile app is hostile.

It isn't hostile - because as I stated, websites are often janky when used in a mobile browser, especially interactive websites, in which case the app is a net positive. This is my experience and opinion, and I don't hide behind "many people think __".

Everyone is free to have their opinion, but I hope you realize that passing it off as fact, and then forcing someone to agree with it is silly.
The missing piece in the beginner’s guides: React Native
Are they obligated to maintain feature parity across apps and websites? Is focusing on one or the other acceptable to you? If I prefer an app, and a website doesn’t have a high quality app or the app constantly pushes me to the website, is that also user hostile? It sounds like your definition of user-hostile is “things you don’t like”.
Europe launches second EDRS space laser satellite
Or a "demand better development" signal :-p
I thought about it for a minute, then quickly skipped it when I saw the instructions. If you are hoping that free software devs will help bootstrap this by using it then you'll need to make that process much easier.
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Hi. I would like to have an option of using just the automated part of the service and do the developer part myself. If hypothetically you would include that option, how cheaper do you think it wold be compared to the current price ? Also one more option: convert design to just HTML and CSS, without javascript or framework of any kind. Would that make sense ?
NYC Mesh volunteer here. We are our own ISP and operate with generously donated transit from multiple providers. Most recently Pilot Fiber donated a 40Gbit uplink to help us kick off our new Brooklyn PoP. https://www.nycmesh.net/blog/supernode-3-is-here/
This doesn't seem to be targeted at the frequently-swapped use cases that SD cards are made for. It's more about adding repairability/upgradability to internal primary storage in small devices. For that use case, the 4x throughput advantage is probably reason enough to rule out SD Express.
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Black-body absorption, ie : asphalt.

Urban heat bubbles are real.
If you're trying to hide something then that's a TERRIBLE place to put it.

I'd highly recommend something like veracrypt where you can encrypt a container, and the container may or may not have another part encrypted with a different password - you don't know until you enter the correct password for the hidden section.
Do you know what band they broadcast on? Is it the innovation band?
Is there ongoing research on methods to control weather on local level? Most suggestions i have seen are things that are meant to change the temperature of earth as a whole like build sunshade in L2 point, randomly spray aerosols to make it colder everywhere. But there must be ways to change the local weather with smaller and smarter methods, (maybe aerostats, solar updraft towers, short lived aerosols?)
> warning there could be consequences for Indian firms operating in China

What Indian firms even operate in China? What firms from any country other than China have a meaningful presence there?

I guess the threat is meaningful if you include firms doing any business in China, but by restricting exports or imposing tariffs they are shooting themselves in the foot as well.
TL;DR: Use ffmpeg

Man, if these reads like ad hominem, I wish you could read the whole story. The linked comment is admirably restrained to the point it prefers being confusing over explaining what happened (fwiw I have no dog in the fight, was privy to the goings-on because my project depended on ffmpeg)
I think they key word in my post wasn't "structured" but "shows". Even if the occasion calls for 100% unstructured research (let's spend some time in the sandbox to see what we can do with some new software) it's a critical skill to be able to communicate what you learned during that phase with other people, even people with different job titles and backgrounds.

I suggested formalizing and structure as words because new features/products/projects are a common enough occurrence that we have standard procedures for it.
How is the connection? I checked with them a couple of months back and unfortunately my rooftop isn't in line of sight with any of the nodes. Really want to use it and say goodbye to Verizon.
Rust is currently the most overhyped language because it promises a lot of things, but cannot hold the most important ones. It's a nice language, but don't believe any security guarantee. memory safety, type safety, concurrency safety massively overhyped. Still much better than C++ though.
You'd need to have been living on a different planet to think that the US is benign. Relatively benign to their own citizens but far and away the most globally antagonistic country over the last 50 years. The list of wars and interventions, arms dealing, extradition etc would be far beyond anything China has done.

No government is beyond over stepping it's boundaries but unfortunately non US citizens do not have a constitution to protect them from the US government.

China is threatening the US global trade dominance and the US is reacting in exactly the same way incumbents usually do and unfortunately trade wars between major powers have been historical quite bloody.
The main idea was probably patented decades ago. There have been optical touch screens around for ages (that use multiple cameras for good multitouch, and edge IR illumination to make detection more reliable and precise).
I also stopped routinely using soap in the shower years ago. I shampoo my hair once a week, just because I'm very active and after a week it needs it. But I rarely use soap, other than on my hands.
> Fahd allegedly recruited AT&T “insiders” to install malware programs that gathered confidential information and submitted unlock requests using employee credentials via a remote server.

These were probably 3rd party call centers or section of the company that ran their customer service lines which gave agents the ability to unlock devices.

The amount of spin this article is using to associate locking devices to keeping customers in long-term contracts is quite strong though.
Sure, but every bit of automation that "increases productivity" and "gives more time for other things" naturally ends up replacing those that it was helping -- if not directly, at least replacing potential future hires in the same role.
I am not sure why this is a surprise. The early Islamic period was a cultural golden age while Europeans were lost in a dark age. Many contributions from that period resulted in advancements for mathematics, exploration, literature, astronomy, and other ares that are still felt today.
There's still some centralisation to a network like this whether you like it or not. The internet connection it uses has to be paid for somehow.

> you're back at square one where it basically becomes an ISP.

Well, a non-profit ISP, which is an important difference. The non-profit nature makes a much bigger difference to customers than the mesh nature of distribution does.
Clean energy will never beat oil, its a pipe dream. Oil packs too much energy per barrel, its not even worth discussing. Reliable public transportation has nothing to do with competing for industries on a mass scale, it helps but I really dont see how it could cause a categorical change. Education does nothing if you have no good jobs to employ people with, education reform is largely a myth, hundreds of millions have been pored into education by Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, ZERO positive results have been shown. Bill Gates has said this himself. Education is a filtering mechanism, it doesn't upgrade people. The longer we continue with these pipe dreams the more jobs we lose.
I felt very cool bringing a 7-Eleven Slurpee(R) into a Starbucks to hang out yesterday.
> Now he will be held accountable for the fraud and the lives he has derailed

What? Whose lives? Those of the executives who got a couple thousand dollars less on their multi million boni packages?

Don't get me wrong, bribing people to install malware is reprehensible, but that argument is just... unbelievably braindead.
all the time. if only the pay were half as good doing any of the things i would like to switch to.

moving to the bottom and retraining, working my way back up doesnt bother me, but not being able to provide for my family to the best of my ability does. Tech doesnt bother me too much, but it would be nice to try other things.
Could you provide a source for that?

I recently tried to read up on the topic and everything I found stated that brain/nervous cells are generally barely regenerated and can stay with you your whole life. Granted, most articles trace back to this source[0] from 1967, but if newer information exists, they've done a really bad job at spreading it.

[0]: https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?&id=101940
Knowing some C/C++ is very useful if you want to get a better understanding of what the computer is doing. Or Assembly of course, but that gets complicated fast.

Common Lisp / Clojure / Scheme (or any language from that family) will really let you appreciate some fundamental functional programming tricks once you finally "grok" them.

Prolog, it's great. You'll never look at graphs, trees, search or first order logic the same way. And, maybe, some day you'll be the one that says "that's just two lines of prolog".

Haskell, or any other very strongly statically typed language. I'm definitely partial to dynamically typed languages, but you gotta try it before you knock it :-)

Also if you have some money to spend, try Mathematica. It's one of those things that keeps getting reinvented, but poorly. Shamefully it's not open.
+1 to Apple's track record for user privacy.

I do not regret switching from Android to iOS (even if siri is woefully behind the voice assistant game)
I took one of those this weekend for a dev position, along with what felt like an old MENSA test. Answered honestly, but still haven't heard back from them.

After reading this, I suspect I probably won't hear from them in the future, and while disappointed, it still amuses me.
I see people already noticing the timing.

In other news: https://www.dawn.com/news/1498428/china-says-india-move-on-k...
Another question about the design of the page: Does this kind of conversational / persona based pitch actually work to convert users? E.G. "Hi I'm Clara, my life's goal is... I struggle with..." "If you relate with Clara, try X now..."

At least for me the net emotional effect of the "For Desigers & Developers" section of the homepage was a strong impulse to bounce. (I'm in the target market.) Ultimately for the sake of research I clicked through to the ~/product page, where I found the diagrammatic graphics much more compelling.
The hero's journey is broad brush enough that what counts as heroic behaviour, what counts as growth in the face of adversity, what counts as victory, and what counts as a reward are entirely up for grabs. So it's THJ with a crude form of masculine power fantasy woven through it. Importantly, it's very similar in all but superficial form to the "jock" power fantasy that it is by subcultural convention held up against. Geek culture has been this since the beginning.
We did get lucky. It was not at all clear that solar panels could get cheap and have long useful lives. Or that battery technology, which barely moved for a century, would get much better. Or even that large numbers of huge windmills would be cost-effective.

We got unlucky in that nuclear power turned out to be much more troublesome than expected. Breeder reactors were a dud. Fusion didn't work out.
Perl 6: Fun with Objects – David Cassel
Came here to agree with you. Tons of great wings spots here.

Also, The Infatuation is great for NYC restaurant reviews.
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Isn’t happening anytime soon.
What's with the login wall to read the article? Does every random site need my personal information now?
thankfully the shift he points out with tan/work/leisure is happening and everyone now "works" as influencer on social media being the most basic as possible. By the time the author archives his desired basicnes as a status symbol, basicnes will already be repurpose to mean that you toil all day with basic social media influencing.
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Agreed. I wish hackathon judges actually understood how to question and analyze projects critically. I attended probably one of the most prestigious and well regarded college hackathons, where the grand prize was won by a project that did speech to text, then text to sign language. What nobody pointed out or acknowledged, was that deaf people can read. But since the project was done on a HoloLens the judges got swept away by the fancy AR and awarded them the prize.

I've become extremely skeptical of the hackathon model in general. It doesn't really produce good projects or products, it encourages an unsustainable style of working and it's a terrible place to recruit good developers. It can encourage people to build stuff, but only monkey patched, bursting with buzzwords, overly flashy projects that are thrown away at a moment's notice.
You can not "prove" a negative.
Most of the core contributors had a fight with the project lead, so many of them left the project and forked into libav.

So the community and the projects both split, and both fought about being the real one. And at first, ffmpeg focused only on features, regardless of code quality, while libav focused on clean code, even if that meant compromising on features.

Obviously, people who aligned with the project lead, and people wondering why stuff suddenly didn’t work anymore, were fed up with libav. Even though it was a situation where libavs codebase was, compared to ffmpeg, much cleaner, similar to openssl vs libressl, but sacrificed a huge amount of functionality for that goal.

EDIT: Rephrasing for accuracy
Which brings me to this Gedankenexperiment: If you buy/build 10 of the raspberry pi based high speed cameras and run them in parallel and could make sure each camera sees the same (we don't consider details here for the time being), is it possible to merge the videos in order to reach the frame rate of a "top of the line high-speed camera"? I could imagine two scenarios:

1. Start recording with time delay. Probably requires
excellent clock synchronisation, a real time kernel,
reliable/comparable hardware (gatter timings differ at
small timescales). If this works, this would provide a
high quality equidistand framerate.

or

2. Start recording randomly, synchronize by time or
with an video event, and merge the frames. This will
result in a stochastic distribution of frame rates. The
usefulness of such a movie depends on what it is
supposed to be used for (thinking of scientific usage).
Will probably not give nice slow-mo movies. But
here comes the catch: With interpolation, the shortest
reachable frame rate dictates the quality of this
"superposition camera". How many cheap cameras do we
need to archieve, on average, the top line high speed
camera?

I leave the questions open for friends of Gedankenexperiments ;-)
Most people connect over Ubiquiti airMax AC, which is 5ghz. Large hubs connect using airFiber, typically 24ghz.
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Broken pencils.
Take a look at Knight Capital for a case study -- tl;dr, they deployed an update that accidentally triggered a blind spot in their trading system which had been inactive for almost a decade. By the time their engineers were able to stop it, Knight was on the hook for several billion dollars' worth of trades and had to close their positions for a loss of almost half a billion dollars. From my understanding they ended up merging with another firm to cover their losses so while they weren't entirely "killed", they were still severely kneecapped by tech debt.
There was (might still be but I haven't looked since fiber went everywhere where I live) a local provider to me that use microwave links, it was at the time fast as hell compared to creaking ADSL but every time it rained it went south fast, I worked in a shared office building that used it for it's main links and it was a constant thorn in my side, I used to check the rainfall forecast to see if I'd have decent internet at the office!.
I may be naive, but I think the real problem here isn't Americans per se, but American corporations; once an industry in the states is large enough, taxing it (in any meaningful way) is virtually impossible because of lobbying dollars and backdoor dealings with politicians (e.g. "regulators," lol). Look at sugar, plastic, corn, beef, etc. There are examples a plenty.
> AV1 decoding support through libdav1d

Nice to see progress in the AV1 front!
Why would we willingly give up this fight? Isnt that idea defeatist? "Well in 100 years, theres no way we can continue, so may as well give up now".
> 63. When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.

This was what turned me off of machine learning some 30 years after this was written. Deep learning is amazing, but it still seems to be the people tweaking the experimental setup who are doing the real learning.
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I use touch screens on all my devices: desktops, laptops, tablets, phones. I spend a lot of time writing code, and I need and want those touch screens, and working without them is often slow and clunky. Your feeling is irrelevant, and in general just wrong. Developers are end users.
There isn't a good way to know for sure that something is going to work, but there is alot of research you can do that will give you good information.

1. Cold email/linkedin message then speak to 100 potential customers. Attempt presales. You don't actually have to get presales, but that process should give you a good indication for willingness to pay / desired functionality, how people are currently working on the problem, and what language they use to describe their pain (quoting that back to customers is good marketing copy)

2. Build a landing page, run facebook / google ads, find out how much it costs to acquire an email address. Your real CAC will be higher of course, but this is a good starting point.

I'm a founder of https://www.saturncloud.io/. I started with #2, and found it cost 70 cents in advertising revenue to get a click, ~7$ for an email address, and ~$100-$200 to get someone to signup. When we started we were attempting a low touch sales model.

Since then we've started focusing on enterprise sales, because the willingness to pay is much higher. We did #1 when moving towards enterprise sales, but should have done that in the beginning.
I think in almost every case you can also just clear your cookies for that site after reaching the free limit.
As a network architect this seems pretty cool to me - incentivizing individual node/router operators. How is billing & payment reconciliation handled between parties?
This is interesting - it says that they are connected to an internet exchange point (IXP), which means presumably they are their own AS and don't pay for peering. It makes them basically a peer of Verizon, etc..

It's a bit of a reminder of what the internet actually is - a bunch of networks connected together. If you make your own network, negotiate or purchase a piece of the IPv6 address space, and convince someone to connect to you and exchange BGP routes then you are part of it.

I wonder how hard it is to join an IXP and how much it costs?
It's a paid site.
I think the difference is that if it's a free app[1], the developer wants me to use it and I need to be convinced that it's worth my time.

If it's a paid app, I've already decided that it's worth money. If the app offers enough value for me to pay, then it offers enough value for me to learn what I need to learn.

[1] excluding open source - sure they want me to use it, but that's more like "here it is, use it if you want it". My expectations there are very different, particularly since I can often change things if it doesn't quite do what I want.
It’s a pay site. Logging in gives the, a chance to upsell.
This is the only way I could get them to fix a problem I had.

I went on vacation once, never having missed a payment to Comcast nor have we been late in the 7+ years of our account.

I get back from being gone after the week, and no internet. I call Comcast, who says there is no outage, and can send someone out to investigate in a week.

Meanwhile, I look outside, and my cable is disconnected from the utility pole, meaning someone needed a bucket truck to do this.

Going into the Comcast office, they were able to send someone out in 3 days instead of 4.

Also, Comcast has no record of them disconnecting nor can tell me why I was disconnected.

I would LOVE to ditch Comcast, but I have 0 other options in my area for speeds over 25Mb, which is a joke. I will never understand how Comcast is not a monopoly.

I guess this turned more into me hating Comcast...
The thing with birth certificates — it’s pretty difficult to backdate them or retroactively issue legitimate ones without rising red flags in process that would trigger some background checks.

So you need to assume identity of real person living or dead, which is more an effort than flat out bullshiting about your age.

And if you are assuming identity of other person, you cant simply snatch birth certificate and issue new id, but with your photo — if such id was issued before, it would be routine check to match photos. Alltogether it greatly limits, but not entirely eliminates this kind of identity thieft.

It is however other story to assume same identity (name, dob) but different parents (altought with same names) for inheritance or immigration fraud. That is pretty much undetectable in some circumstances.
I think pollution makes it more of a global problem, so I think you and GP are both right.