skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those interested in old photographs documenting Paris should have a look at the work of Eugène Atget.

He basically documented the streets, shops, crafts, people of Paris at the end of the XIXth century, before most of the old and derelict housing were demolished and replaced with the "modern" ones we see today.

https://www.moma.org/artists/229#works
Does anyone know how accurate this set up would be be in comparison with the NetAtmo Indoor Air Quality monitor [0]?

[0] https://www.netatmo.com/en-us/aircare/homecoach
The article argues the information collecting people agree to isn't evil.

It then goes on to describe a whole other set of activities and their consequences, but doesn't characterize that one way or another. I don't need the author to draw a conclusion here, but it's odd they don't.
> is it still hard to get a text center-aligned vertically and horizontally

This has not been true for over 5 years.
Could you clarify why you thought this? What evidence do you have that supports this? The big thread shows that the top comment agrees that 8chan should be left alone. [0] and the comment chain shows that there seems to be something like a significant minority against 8chan, but it doesn’t appear to be a prevailing majority.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20610395
The article talks about this case being a political one, but they never make clear what political motivation is involved...
Another name we often use is "Business-As-Usual" (BAU) or "Technical Debt". Although some business-as-usual and tech is a necessary evil and in some cases, a good thing, I have also wasted many hours to tasks that create little to no value.

Another way to spot "The Churn": When you're done, what new value did your effort create or unlock? Are users better off? Is the system more resilient and reliable? Or did you just get it back to the way it was working before everything went sideways?

Find more ways to create and unlock value and you'll find you move forward much faster.
"whiteopinions", really?
Nvidia/open-GPU-doc: Documentation of Nvidia chip/hardware interfaces
> Appeal to tradition, not a real argument

What people are used to seems a valid enough argument to me...

> This isn't self-evident as you make it out to be. Depends on keyboard layout and the typist. For me it's usually faster to press a combo than reach for that far-flung dedicated key.

I don't have references of course, but it really does seem self-evident to me. Take FN-Backspace vs Delete as an example - I need to use keys on opposite sides of the keyboard, vs a single Delete key that's next to the Backspace key, so I don't buy your "far flung" keys argument. Also, I don't know what kind of massive keyboard you're using if keys are "far flung" ;)

> Maybe Mac users honor their traditions?

I was being sarcastic with that final quip, but that seems fair enough to me.
Correct me if I'm mixing up the timeline, but that's the moment in history when Intel used illegal market manipulation to keep AMD out of the OEM market, right? So Intel did more than lower their profit margin, they basically bribed their way through that period. An option they are unlikely to have again, and which as a strategy shouldn't even work anymore for the type of data centers existing today.
What were the most unsettling things you found in your Google Account data?
I've got a rasp + air sensor.

Quickly turned it off. It has a tiny fan that goes bzzzz. No thanks - my peace & quiet trumps my need to know air particle count
Chemical (non-electrolysis) hydrogen generators are a thing, although not directly useful for larger scale needs like the fuel cell hype, they are adequate for topping up balloons.
New York State has been involved in a few of these "activist" type of cases stemming from the AG's office. So far I haven't heard of any of them meeting great success, so will have to wait and see on this one as well.
Couldn't agree more strongly with the first half of your comment. Bravo!

Radio Shack gutted itself, IMO, albeit probably in response to the reality that they couldn't sell very many single 555 timers for $1.99 anymore once people had obvious alternatives.

As for hacker spaces, if people want them, they have to be willing to pay [enough] to have them. If the local real estate gets progressively more expensive such that the hacker space is no longer viable economically, then it's going to close or move. It was game playing collectives before them. It'll be something else next. Things we like aren't immune from the laws of economics.
>Funny, I thought HN's prevailing attitude in the case of the recent ban of 8chan was, hell yeah, good riddance to those reprehensible twats.

Those threads wouldn't have passed the thousand comment mark if HN had anything close to a prevailing attitude on the matter. As with many contentious issues, people tend to believe HN is unilaterally biased against them, sometimes to the point of that bias being enforced by the moderators.

>Which, personally, annoyed me, because I believe that even the deplored should have a space for communication.

8Chan and its contingent of neo-nazis were free to communicate as they wished until the site started to become a cultural nexus for racially motivated mass shootings in the US. I don't think deplatforming them was unwarranted. They have the right to their views, but not the right to force any establishment to host those views, even when people start dying over them.

Also, there are still plenty of places on the internet for such people to congregate and communicate. They can start a private Discord server and post manifestos from the race war there if they want.
Skipping from thread to thread felt a bit like arriving at a party where half the room was sipping non-alcoholic shrubs and the other half had spent the afternoon tailgating in a stadium parking lot.

This kind of vibe is why I read HN.
They needed a fancy word to attract and anchor the ridiculous investments made. This area has attracted so much attention, it has become an overlay IT organization that demands a lot of care and feeding. Nothing escapes the cyber-amoeba... even sleepy areas like asset management need expensive cyber tools and expensive cyber people.

Think of it like front end web development in the 90s. Webmasters ended up with a lot of independence and cash, because the company had to get on the information superhighway.
> You really don't need meat with every single meal.

That is some weird BS. I definitely don't need meat every single meal but I need animal every single meal - meat or liver or eggs or milk or whatever, AND meat every single day.

Given that plants are more often evil then not (think allergy, natural pesticides etc), I don't really want to trade my health and fight the nature of this universe we live in for the dubious potential benefit on climate change.

I very much doubt its better for environment. There are so many contra arguments that I don't need to repeat those here.
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Rent seeking is trying to capture value without creating any. Most startups are trying to capture value after creating some, IMO.

If you're tracking engaged users [or even growth of revenue and churn from individuals], you're probably not on a path towards rent seeking.
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When is your browser launching?
I highly doubt "2 moderators" would be able to do anything if half of the community was composed of trolls. The fact that trolls are very few in the first place, and not welcome by other members who flag them and downvote them to hell, make it possible for it to work even with a low level of moderation.
I have similar experience with more than 1 startups. The worst ones who you cannot even challenge even presenting all the facts, they defend their unscalable spaghetti till the end.
The company can always get new developers, why would they care about their consumption of resources?
Plant based diet can also fight your good health too...
on a scale from zero to Facebook.... I would say its an 7.

But is a 7 with lots of power, and plenty of people with good intentions. And the hell is full of people with good intentions.
If you could find out what sensor the NetAtmo is using you could do an apples to apples comparison.

I bought a cheap soil sensor from microcenter that is absolute garbage. According to a few YouTubers it would corrode in a couple weeks. They recommended some higher quality sensors.
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>It's an appliance model of computing.

That's the real strength of Linux, creating appliances from commonly available hardware. The biggest mistake is therefore to copy Apple and MS and their general purpose approach, it will never work because the community isn't united like a company, every Linux camp seeks to make the best thing for their own purpose, and constantly clashes with other camps that want to do the same for themselves. A general purpose Linux OS is an anti pattern.
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What's Wrong with Buying a Dinosaur?
Also known as "Parkinson's law".

Also the name of the little funny book where you will find the origin of "bikeshedding".

More pleasant and timelesd a book than "bullshit job", IMHO.
It happens all the time. Constantly and consistently. If you go against any kind of socially conservative or libertarian perspective it will get down voted and very likely flagged. It's always been this way.

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/28232.html

>The effect of both is to enforce the status quo of social beliefs. Stories that appear to challenge the narrative that good programmers are just naturally talented tend to vanish. Stories that discuss the difficulties faced by minorities in our field are summarily disappeared. There are no social problems in the technology industry. We have always been at war with Eastasia.

You cannot discuss things in an actual academic manner on this forum. It is a tech enthusiast forum that happens to have a lot of money surrounding it.
The difference is that most people can't afford to live just a few minutes away from the subway. City centers are very expensive. You can't expect people to live with the same standards if they have to walk for 1 hour to get to the nearest public transport.
unless you are compiling chrome in the background or streaming, you're not going to saturate even eight cores while gaming. in most benchmarks I've seen, the 9900k still performs better while streaming.
RMS would have probably said "If you didn't want it in their control don't put it on their computer."

And really paying for software is no guarantee that you won't also be the product - I'm not sure where that naive notion came from. Paying for the software isn't what keeps your privacy safe - keeping your privacy safe does. That it is an inane tautology is the point - they are separate aspects.
Relevant (arguably overblown) talk by Jonathan Blow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk
> What kind of power do you think we have?

Not having power, or having less power than before, makes the discourse even more important.

> We can't even convince our friends and family to stay the fuck off of Facebook.

The idea that people should stay off Facebook is part of that narrative. That is how the industry can claim that they are changing the world, but at the same time aren't to answer for any of the changes.

> Aside from the fact that some people from our industry have a shitton of money I don't see us having any kind of social influence.

Social influence isn't so much what is said and done in isolation, but what is and isn't accepted. Things like what you see as a problem, why it is a problem and how it should be addressed influences what happens next.
You are correct and link to a good source, so thank you, those two boxes are rare to check in a climate related contrarian-take.

But don't lose track of the engineering constraint here. We not only need to get to zero emissions, we need to get to roughly -20% emissions (relative to today). So the fact that something is "only" 9% of our positive number today in no way shields it from the necessary change that's coming ASAP.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mean that as a justification for behavior policing every little thing at once, but generally anything big enough to register on the gigaton scale we have to have a plan for NOW.

Its too late to do this serially.
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We are live on Product Hunt today! Check it out here: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/space-browser.
I'd also like to see benchmarks where z is pre-allocated to the right size and instead of append you're just doing z[i] = x[i] + y[i]
Six Shades of Coupling
What are you inquisitive about?
Optimistic perhaps, but maybe not impossible ;)

I've done some further googling and found some studies on the topic, though on-land: https://cbmjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1750-0... and some more from a presentation
https://www.feem.it/m/events_pages/20167111127315Zeng_presen...

Though the question still remains how securely the CO2 would be stored under the ocean. Maybe with a large enough layer of rock on top it would suffice.. I suppose it's high time we started field trials on all these approaches.

My own back-of-napkin calc says that we'd need to cut about .1 to .2 % of tropical rainforests per year and remove them from the carbon cycle, not sure if that's right.
Definitely noticing the trend of politicizing of this place. But yeah, if that is what people cares about then so be it.

Performative erudition is an interesting characterization, especially when this is from New Yorker.
Destroying Multiple Production Databases
I love the way this blog displays code. Just beautiful.
I understand why you’re going for mobile, but I think the market would be way bigger if you would go for desktop.
Nice concept though.
I run a company (https://flair.co) that builds a device you could use but is admittedly out of your proposed price range. That said, it's consumer/prosumer grade and you can network as many as you want together. You need at least one to be wired so it has enough power to fire up wifi and the rest can be run wired or on batteries. They mesh over a 915MHz radio and temp/humidity/light/pressure. We have been contemplating building a cheaper headless unit (these have a fancy little E-ink display) but haven't done it yet.

The actual device is here: https://flair.co/products/puck

There is a full fledged API (api.flair.co), desktop (my.flair.co) and apps of course. For what you are looking for, there is plenty of plotting built in but you can also export the data from the app as a csv/spreadsheet or grab it from the api.

Anyhow, it's definitely over your targeted price point but functionality wise, I think it does everything you might want.
I think Google made the right choice for themselves avoiding directly answering the question because you'll get absolutely nowhere with a "yes, but this is meaningfully inaccurate characterization of how the search space works." Nobody will hear anything except the yes on the various blogspam sites and Google's eventual long-form defense/rebuttal/explanation of the report will get lost on page 2 of their own searches for the story.

This is what you're supposed to do in law and PR. You never accept the premise of the question, which in this case is that the percentage of searches without a click or clicks to Google owned properties is a meaningful metric. If you answer at all you lose.
The parent is just surprised it made it to the front page, not suggesting that it isn't an appropriate submission.
> Intel is on its second or third refresh of their Skylake architecture from 2015, all ironed out.

More like the fourth, I think.
My parents-in-law also live by a lake where all ICE's are banned. Mostly people row, and a few have electric outboards.

It's really wonderfully quiet, even though it's close to a city.
I am afraid it was mush long before I was born even. That internet platforms could beat it isn't a praise of the platforms but an utter indictment of their quality - if they had it they could survive regardless of medium.
I believe all (most all?) of the MSOffice VBA automation doesn't work in LibreOffice.
This kind of thing is described in Scott's book "seeing like a state". The state takes steps to modify the environment and society to make it more legible to management by a central bureaucracy, to further the aims of the state.

For example, the state knocks down existing dwellings to build more roads so it is easier for the army to rapidly mobilize and crush unrest.

The state begins to require all subjects to have a last name, where the people themselves have no real need of one, in order to better identify individuals for more effective taxation.

It's worth a read, both for the appreciation of how it plays out in the world, and also as a source of interesting analogies for how other regimes, such as large hierarchical organisations, will embark on grand projects to attempt to make the surrounding environment more legible and tractable to centralised control and governance.
I understood this to mean the power of appreciating the societal consequences of technology, and the responsibility of educating others about those consequences, both positive and negative.
Meat is not necessary. Plenty of lifelong vegans healthy enough to disagree on that. However it's pretty well documented that a diet with an amount of meat is healthier than straight veganism, though in much lower amounts than we generally consume. Animal husbandry is also likely an important part of sustainable large scale agriculture, but again not in a way that remotely resembles modern mass scale cattle production.
Is this the first successful remote exploit of the iPhone?

If I am not wrong, Android has been exploited multitude of times.
I agree with what you said, but my presumption has been that the HN status quo would generally be receptive to the argument that u/paulmd made, or at least, not offended/angered enough to flag it. Especially it being so well-written, and in response to someone whose argument was entirely speculative or based on emotional appeal, and who didn't bother using basic capitalization or punctuation.

It's even more surprising since HN had the "vouch" feature since before Dec. 2016 [0]. My best guess is that people might have reflexively downvoted/flagged upon seeing the opening sentence of "Black people are measurably less likely to own a car or have a bank account".

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11589410
There's a counterbalancing option to downvotes and flags - you can "vouch" comments. Enough people using it[0] can make the software unkill a comment provisionally, though doing this puts your own reputation and vouching rights at stake, since according to [0], vouched comments are eventually reviewed manually.

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[0] - Not sure what's the power of a vouch relative to a flag or a downvote, but my impression is that it's stronger.

[1] - https://blog.ycombinator.com/two-hn-announcements/
"Modern-looking" these days means shitty JS that tries to be a "WebApp" and breaks basic website conventions like open in a new tab middle click, and uses the same GUI both for small touchscreen and large desktop, so ends up working poorly on both. Why would anyone want that ?
Yes, this is why I didn't post as Show HN. Show HN requires you to actually build the stuff first...
Plugging a small script I wrote that is a bit more targeted than this by only snapshotting the datasets that are going to be changed. Haven't written a readme for it yet (or packaged it :) ) but both files have some header comments explaining how they're used and where they're put.

https://github.com/paxswill/zfs-apt-snapshot
It isn't at all clear that (1) is true. Until recently, no-one was particularly concerned about companies which link advertisers and purchasers. Unless you say the hypothetical benchmark company is a company which tries to track you and build a database on you and basically spy on you, Google seems to be overtly more evil than any hypothetical benchmark company.

Effectively you've defined yourself into a corner were the hypothetical benchmark company is Google, since they must be substantially identical in all relevant ways. It isn't sufficient that they are advertising mediators: no, they must be advertising mediators who track every detail of their users life.

But even if we decide to compare within their business methods - not just their product space - and say, "given that they're Big Brother, are they an evil Big Brother or relatively more benign", it's not clear that they're benign. I have heard stories that leave my concerned (trying to produce a censored version for China, for instance, and gagging former workers who don't feel comfortable with that). I cannot provide evidence that they operate an evil business in an evil way, but it isn't clear that they don't. The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Google worries me more and more, even though I'm tied to them more and more.
Like all industries we can't just stay still.
Curiosity and creativity are important. The "olives" are a fruit of some sort of older technology that has matured. Maybe this technology was the "shiny new some some time back then"
Some people try to fix the the shortcommings from yesterday's technology with their own ideas and view of things and nobody can prevents this. This is just basic, human creativity at work.

Maybe what's important is not making people belive that yesterday's technology is obsolete and should be burried or abandoned.
The shiny new thing is just an other tool in the toolbox and it's not because I created a new shape of screw that all the other screws are worthless. There is still plenty of screws all over the world that need to be unscrewed, we need those tools to do that, people to know how to work with them and some of these screws still need to be made. Maybe people don't talk about these screws as much ? They don't make the news anymore because they've been there for so long ?

Maybe the point here is that social media thrives on the shiny new thing, it's the core concept of it. An old news paper is worthless, no one ever sold an older news paper. So they need to grab some attention to live and the shiny new thing is a way to accomplish that.

But it's not because there is lots of articles about all those new frameworks that the older ones are worthless. We need both. Maybe for some projects we will not choose an architecture based on 10 years old concepts and frameworks and some other projects need stability and a whole tested and stable toolchain and documentation for the years to come.

What kind of work do you want to accomplish ? Small projects where you work alone ? Where you just serve a few people ?
Or big projects with a huge infrastructure that needs to deliver to millions with great economic impact ?

I bet you don't use a hammer only when you want to build kitchen furniture. And then tools that are needed in a factory that build kitchen furniture are not the same that the ones that needs to be used for home. They need a whole supply toolchain, some testing & quality checking. Whereas the worksman in his own workshop is going to have less tools ...

We need all kinds of software and technology, maybe what's hard is to be able to identify the right ones and defining precisely what we want and where we think we will go. People are always going to want to try to use the shiny new thing. We all need novelty, enhancing the shortcommings of your current tools.
Might have been bad timing, too. I don't know how many people vouch for comments; I do so when appropriate, but every now and then I discover comments I would have vouched for had I seen the thread when it was live.
Ask HN: Why isn't domain squatting illegal?
Getting good domains gets harder and harder, for new companies it gets difficult to find a good domain and so to find a good name for their company (matching their domain name).
Almost every short domain name is already taken by big companies like godaddy, just to be sold by some thousands of dollars.

Why is this not illegal?