skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know this article was about how commodore screwed up there marketing on the Amiga, but all those references to software, publications, and developers just took me on a nostalgia trip back to my 15 year old self pining for an Amiga as I worked in a farmer's fields all summer long to be able to buy one, and after I finally got one I spent many late nights teaching myself to code up some Homebrew bbs software for it.
They want to share this opportunity with people who don't have a driver's license. It's the sharing economy, after all.
Have you read the huffpost link above and the wiki link of rebuttal below?
Related note:

This is a variation of a winning sales technique taught by Jay Abraham [1]: Reverse the risk to get a competitive edge

People are unwilling to take on risk. Do what you can to reduce that risk (even if it means taking more of the risk upon yourself, e.g. offering free returns) and those potential customers will be more willing to buy what you're selling

[1] https://booksummaryclub.com/getting-everything-you-can-out-o...
I came across the mental disorders 'depersonalization' and 'derealization'. People usually describe it as feeling foggy or like a dream. Maybe that might be what you mean and help you explaining it.

The 'depersonalization' is probably the 'fog' I'm talking about. But I know that sleep deprivation can also cause it, so I hope that I have something treatable related to my sleep.
> It’s also fun to remember that this event happened 26,000 years ago.

This is one of my favorite (but also the most daunting) things about space. It is so awesome (and bizarre) that we can essentially observe the past. In this case, the event occurred sometime around when humans were figuring out how to make baskets[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_human_prehistory
The dream of AI is to build a StarTrek like computer that can read and understand all human knowledge and answer questions about it, synthesizing answers.

Web Search for factual answers is a stop gap on that road, but distributed knowledge databases are inexorably going to be centralized, melded, and transformed.

The 90s “content is king” business models just aren’t sustainable if what you’re publishing is static mostly factual content.
Nobody have a good definition of intelligence or general intelligence. How are you sure that your friends are really intelligent and they are not faking it?

A few year ago, playing chess was a task difficult enough to require intelligence, until someone solved it and it became only a brute force trick. Later, playing go was a task difficult enough to require intelligence, until someone solved it and it became only a brute force trick. You can add image classification, translation, whatever task or test you want to add. When it is unsolved it requires natural or artificial intelligence. Once it is solved is only a trick. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

We only agree that humans are intelligent, so the only test that we can make to ensure that a computer is intelligent is that the computer can fake a human. Anything else will be dismissed as a trick. And when we have a computer that can pass the Turing test it will dismissed as a trick anyway.

The problem is that making a computer that can fake a human is more complicated than we expected (or perhaps less complicated than we expected, it depends on whom you ask). So the current advancement are in small subtask.

When we have more computing power, more subtask solved, more clever ideas to solve subproblems and more time to make attempts, we will be able to make a computer that pass the Turing test. (Or not, nobody is sure, I guess we can.)

How about a nice game of chess?
MIT engineers fly first-ever plane with no moving parts (2018)
Maybe Wikipedia could do with a fact-pulling tool that answers small questions like this?
> ZFS NAS (also possibly ceph) + backuping

This part, though, is really easy nowadays. FreeNAS is idiot friendly.

At some point, I need to migrate my current FreeBSD/ZFS setup to something newer, and I'll probably use FreeNAS next round simply because it's so much easier to manage. (Yes, I can do it from the command line--but I do it so rarely that I always have to go reload all the ZFS command set into my working memory.)

Why didn't you at least do this?
It’s OK for the NYT to attempt to “prevent another Trump situation”. They have an editor and that person is legally responsible for what they publish. They don’t even pretend to be non-partisan. But Google takes a position then hides behind “common carrier” status. It’s not reasonable that they can pick and choose. Either they’re the phone company or they’re a publisher. It’s their right to be either of course, but they must choose.

Similarly for Twitter.
Of course it doesn't sort the internet alphabetically, that'd make no sense and be a bad user experience as well as optimize for URLS starting with A.
I think this is a neat idea. I would love it if you made this into one of those scary image popping up and loud screaming audio pranks. Three and a half minutes in everyone would be pretty sold on just relaxing. The perfect targets.
Cool, good stuff. Thanks for being open to the feedback (in hindsight I could have worded it a bit more constructively).

For context, I look at a lot of analytics tool sites, and there's just little things that give me good or bad vibes from screenshots that inform whether it may be worth a deeper dive. Things like "does the UI look like it is more than an afterthought?" or "how friendly would this be for non-technical business users on my team?" or "does the UI indicate any functionality not explicitly called out elsewhere that seems like it meets some of my needs?"

All of this is to aid me in a quick filtering decision of whether something is worth further time investment, since I try to avoid unnecessary sales calls or just signing up for the sake of getting basic questions answered.
Honestly, John, you were responsible for a massive hit Broadway musical, one that's entirely acceptable to the out-of-towners after their visit to Times Square. You didn't "become respectable". You sold out.

Getting gross stuff shown in a modern art museum is hardly an accomplishment. Manzoni did his "canned poop" thing in 1961. You're gonna have to try a lot harder than clips from porn movies. Pink Flamingos is still gross. You could do that again, if you wanted.

Though these days you're competing for attention from everybody on YouTube. You were an attention whore when it took some real effort to get it distributed. Now everybody can do it. They'll censor Pink Flamingos to put it on TV, but I'd be shocked if there weren't a dozen imitators on YouTube. (No, I'm not going to look.)

Congrats, you lowered the bar on bad taste, and I guess that's enough of an accomplishment to make you a commencement speaker. But once people figured out your formula, the bar lowered pretty far pretty fast, and rather than get ahead of it you let 'em make Hairspray.
TeslaUSB – Automatic Dashcam Backups with Raspberry Pi
hey joshi! What kind of website are you thinking of building? Would love to hear about why WYSIWYG website builders break down for certain use cases. We're thinking of using WYSIWYG builders interally
Earn College Credits Online with Outlier (Calculus I and Intro to Psychology)
Portable amusement ride models made of Lego
Something is weird with all these new accounts with few comments on this thread supporting this.

Are you using a bunch of secondary accounts just to comment on your post?
debian, bspwm + polybar + dmenu-recency, sakura for terminal, emacs for editor.

Desktop looks like this:

https://i.imgur.com/xH3mMU7.png

(that's in a VM atm, but my linux install is identical (except for workspace 9 being forced to my 2nd monitor) across physical install, VM under windows and laptop

As for what it physically looks like, it's a fractal design C case so it looks like this:

https://www.fractal-design.com/media/f05c4b6e-d88d-4962-af3a...

imposing but featureless
I can personally attest to the dramatic change in the environment since the removal of the Edwards dam. Of course this year there are so many pogies (Alewife) that you can just about walk across the water. Warming waters down south are causing them to shift northward in search of cooler temperatures. Offering welcoming habitats to shifting populations seems the very least we can do for these species.
You can't compare apples to apples but dams that have big negative ecological effects and don't actually produce much power would seem to be net negatives from an overall "green" perspective. There are also other effects including flood control, recreation, effect on local communities, water supply, etc. that can go in plus and minus columns but dams are absolutely not always net positives.
Hipsters, that's what happened. John Waters has become something of a hipster schlock icon, a way for millennials weaned on easily available hardcore porn and rotten.com to connect with a time when things like what John Waters does were actually shocking and transgressive.
Depends on where you live, but round here, I use both the GPU mining rig and the home server (Dell R630) to heat my basement. For >70% of the year I would be running electric heaters down there anyway, so it's "free" electricity.
There's a significant amount of fake news around the Ebola outbreak epicenters, such as aid workers trying to take people's blood and other conspiracy theories. We have to keep in mind some of these places recently had a genocide and/or are generally unstable.
The Z80 had that many transistors, not gates

The CMOS rule of thumb is one gate is 4 transistors (eg a 2-input NAND). But the first Z80 was nmos, and so the equivalent count is harder to state. 3 transistors per 2 input nmos gate is a rough first order guess, but in nmos wide gates still need only a single load resistor, and designers sometimes used dynamic logic to save even more transistors.
Because it's continually laying itself out for whatever reason.
Eh, its not really that bad. The variable latency needs to be much more extreme to be noticeable. 250ms is about the threshold where I start to feel hampered. So going from 34ms->78ms->150ms->56ms->14ms really isn't an issue. If I was seeing 100-200ms jumps, I think that would have a much bigger feedback effect, similar to to hearing your own voice on delay. Especially if it changes on a `space` rather than every character. Just long enough for you to get used to, and anticipate, the delay. Then a wild change.
What makes you think so? How do you know how many exploits people are sitting on, but not using because they don't have a good sandbox escape exploit?

Well, now they do have an escape. That useless IE/Chrome exploit might be able to suddenly gain SYSTEM privileges.

You can get compromised by such attacks no matter how responsible you are.
There is a large gap between not wanting to do it full time and not wanting to do it at all. I"m certainly in the former camp, and as opposed to OP my wife makes more money than me, so it would make even more sense. But I know I would be unhappy doing it _full_ time. To the point, I would not take a job that did not afford me morning, evening, weekend, and occasional PT time to spend with my kids. I enjoy being heavily involved in their day to day rearing. I just don't want to abandon my (enjoyable) career if its not necessary.
Characteristics of Weak Leaders (and how not to be one)
Meh. Why so negative? A man makes money after doing some transgressive things in the past that are considered iconic. Sell out? Really?
"This project has received too many requests, please try again later."

Can't figure out if the site is down or if this is part of the test.
There are two interesting (to me) things you talk about.

First, you claim that some $150MM data center project had to be abandoned to protect the "spotted boll weevil".

Really? I ask because weevils are typically considered pests and rather than protected they are actively eradicated:

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_health/plant_pest_info/emt/...

Additionally, is there even such a thing as a "spotted boll weevil"? I ask because neither I nor Google seems to know about them (Other than some funny joke picture)

https://www.google.com/search?q="spotted+boll+weevil"

So, I'm guessing that there is in-fact no such project and that you just feel on principle that nothing should impede progress, certainly not the welfare of some random species. You are of course entitled to that opinion, it just places you in the overwhelming minority. On a tangential note, I think it does not help your argument to simply make up something that sounds plausible and present it as fact.

Secondly, on the topic of 95% of Americans not being qualified to speak as experts on conservationism, I totally agree but...

I hope you agree that they are entitled to an opinion about conservationism. I also feel quite confidently that those who are in fact experts on conservationism will be the strongest advocates against weakening the endangered species act.

I think that last thing people who want to weaken environmental laws want is for their representatives to listen to actual experts.
While we're doing asides: In days gone by I worked with a person who was regularly 2 or more full window switches ahead of Emacs. Meaning, they could type a switch window command and using their memory of the code and point there type a search/delete/change, switch to a 2nd window, do the same, etc all before the 1st window rendered.

Of course this was on slow computers so it was not so much a feat of speed but rather how much of the full code they were holding in their head at any time.
Yep. And I love how I'm getting downvoted too!
Other democracies should offer automatic asylum status to anyone who wants to get out now.
I would be suprised if there wasn't a pro china vote manipulation/propaganda campaign on hn. This story was posted 2 hours ago with 183 points, and dropped off the front page like a rock. Meanwhile there are stories from 6 hours ago with less than 100 points still on the front page.

OTOH Who Owns Huawei? (ssrn.com), posted last friday evening seemed to stay up without any issues. Perhaps even shills need to take a break?
That's a great question, but it does not invalidate the point that there is nothing about Nix that states that binary packages cannot and do not happen.
Probably from a keygen or duplicate use. But won't matter anyway. The ILO (or HP) will never know.
I was in the meetings where the decisions were made. The decision to add 1:1 in the first place was because of performance problems with M:N.
Bitcoin and gold imo, in addition to a balanced portfolio of stocks, bonds and real estate.
When the nationalists fled to Taiwan in 1949, they wound up killing a lot of the intelligentsia already there. So you had a huge divide between pre-1949 Chinese (mainly of fujian descent), who became the populous working class of the island, and the minority 1949 mainlanders, who became the richer factory owners and such (and also ruled the country in a dictatorship until the 80s). To add more kindling to the fire, the Japanese treated the Taiwanese pretty fairly before the war ended, with Taiwanese considered almost as full Japanese citizens (unlike the Koreans). So whenever these questions are addressed, it isn’t just antagonism against the PRC that comes through, but also a lot of antagonism for the ROC.

Now that the opposition can easily win elections, they have mostly become the ROC government, but they don’t buy those original tenants of mainland unity at all (though they don’t have the power to change them, nor do they want to antagonize the PRC as much as they would if they could).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism
The state of advanced code injections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_and_evil
Ohh... This is embarrassing! I work in embedded/low level and I have always thought that gate == transistor. It's really obvious in retrospect...

I stand corrected.
If you truly want to help the protestors, please tell them to keep calm, violence and blocking other ppl's life is not how satyagraha works, they will lose support from western ppl. Check interview from Richard Scotford and you know what I mean.
This leads me to think that the problem is not that "the banana" will disappear as a fruit globally, but that there will be no more a variety that is durable and cheap to transport around the world. So I think it's more a problem of international shipping than the extinction of a fruit.

Can't this be solved by improving the transportation of the less durable varieties?
Doesn't look like I can comment on this article or contact the author, but there is a typo.

> SO-2 made it’s closest approach about a year before the flaring observed in May 2019.

Should be its not it's
There is a difference between parallelizable and embarrassingly parallelizable. The former means that you can get better performance by dividing the work among different processors, while the latter usually implies that the work can be dividing into independent units of work that don’t need to communicate with each other.

A supercomputer typically means that those thousands of cores are connected with fast and expensive interconnects so that the cores can communicate with low latency. A large portion of the budget is usually spent on this interconnect. If you have an embarrassingly parallel problem and you run it on a supercomputer then that expensive interconnect is sitting idle - you would get the same performance on AWS or a more standard compute cluster.
Insurance might not be required, depending on your jurisdiction. In fact, in some states (WA state, for example) motorcycle insurance is not required, regardless of whether it is a 50cc or a 750cc bike.

You still need a driver's license to operate an under 50cc scooter, but it doesn't need to be a special motorcycle license, a general driver's license that a heavy majority of people already possess is enough.
Common carrier and safe harbor are 100% separate and distinct concepts. The same way that a forum could have a theme ("political party X posts only") and still be allowed to remove illegal content is Safe Harbor (both curation at their discretion and no responsibility for illegal posts) - and I don't see how one could be against that - and Google is nowhere near that, whatever "positions" you envision them to have taken.

Google and other tech never claimed to be common carriers, and even internet service providers have been cleared of that status - barely anyone is legally required to transmit without discretion (it's pretty much just phone companies). So why make it about Google and Twitter, and start with ISPs?
Drugs That Boost Our Circadian Rhythms Could Save Our Lives
Or cure just mean for the people which it works for, they are cured. Contrast with medicines slowing down the effects such as HIV medicine.

In other words, cure is probably the right word, just not for everybody.
Deflated, Uber May Swap Anniversary Balloons for Stickers to Save $200K per Year
It's interesting that the Slack UI design is becoming so popular. Also the VS Code UI (which is very similar to Slack) is another style growing in popularity... Maybe it's easy to find templates for these styles?
If I recall correctly content(news especially) publishers and some Europeans were very angry about that. I think the consensus was that these businesses don't understand the internet.
Yes, they say it's easier an issue with the statistical model, or a change in the black holes neighbours.

So it's possible it could be the black hole itself, but it could be a disruption in close proximity.
Hawking radiation has been observed in multiple experiments.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.4634
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1241-0
I don’t mean literally alphabetically but according to some objective measures. In the old days it was by incoming links (PageRank). But now it is opaque and many people are finding that it orders by whatever is best for Google, not for the user.
We're moving around it, but we aren't moving very fast (relative to c), and our relative distance from it isn't changing much. The duration shouldn't be much different despite the distance.
It's slightly more complicated than just pattern-matching.

- In general you have to be careful that if you're returning Poll::Pending, it's after something has registered a wakeup, otherwise your future is going to just stop.

- As a specific case, your match has to be inside a loop so that a state transition results in the new state being polled immediately. You can't just return and expect the caller to poll() you since there will be no wakeup registered that triggers the caller to do so.

- Because futures receive `&mut Self` rather than `Self`, it's difficult to do a state transition where the new state needs to own some properties of the current state. Eg `State::Foo { id: String } -> State::Bar { id: String }` Instead you have to do Option::take / std::mem::replace shenanigans on the state fields, or have an ugly State::Invalid that you can std::mem::replace the whole state with.
While true, cash management accounts that'll insure up to $1.5 million in cash across many underlying banks is now a commodity offering (Fidelity, SoFI, Personal Capital, to name a few). As an individual, it's rare you're keeping more than that liquid.
Good luck! How long did mvp/integration take from idea? Us was long....over a year
Yeah. Hipsters. Totally non-existent 40 years ago.
Every time an Amiga article comes up, I say the same thing. I want to put together a dream team and reboot it. :D Imagine if the Ferrari brand died and nobody used it ever again...that is how I feel about the Amiga.

[Edit: to be clear, I am aware of the existing stuff...what I would like to see is the Amiga used to reimagine what a computer is - new hardware, new OS, new "web browser" (that ditches current conventions) ... I am aware this is a pipe dream :) ]
I'm definitely in the target group for this. I consume this content just like a faucet and don't care about bookmarks or tab arranging or that. And I generally like the app experience better for most of the social media I consume, so if someone pulls off a really well made UI that consolidates Reddit and HN I might well end up using it.
I really like the idea, but are you going to port it to windows or browsers?
The big delivery services like Grubhub are just awful and inconsistent. You never know exactly what their relationship with the restaurant is, so you never know what to expect.

What I want is a pure aggregator. Give me a way to order online from restaurants that have their own delivery service. The middleman does nothing more but to give them by order and end there.

I want to say Foodler worked that way (I dont think Foodler had its own delivery logistic?).
> This sounds like something that creates a chicken-and-egg problem of there not already being any such DTLS-speaking USB devices...

Or only allow completely unauthenticated devices as a fallback when there is no other available authenticated device.

A computer not having any keyboard is a rare case. Most of the time you have what is built-in (and should be authenticated) or what came with the computer (and should be authenticated).

Allowing unauthenticated keyboards only on detection of no authenticated ones probably covers 99.9% of all use cases and increases security dramatically.
Can any astronomers comment on if we are in any danger of getting blasted with gamma radiation or other black hole excretions?
Sure, I'm not saying damns have no consequences. I'm saying that it's silly to declare them "not green" because of the existence of environmental consequences because there are consequences to everything we do.

Damns are not a perfect solution, but compared to the ecological costs of coal mining, gas extraction, and burning of Fossil fuels, I feel it's disingenuous to just dismiss them out of hand for not being "green".
Cow meat makes me strong. Veggies makes me poop.
Saharan Village Is Home to Thousands of Ancient Texts
This has been blowing up on Twitter for the past few days, or at least something similar.