skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a note — open source doesn't mean free of charge. I think you can make a business from open source, even as a one person operation.

Off the top of my head: Newsblur, Bitwarden and Standard Notes, services I pay for, for one because I like to support open source, but also because I'm not in the mood of hosting them myself. I'm also evaluating Wallabag.

These examples are of web apps that require hosting, self hosting is a pain, so I prefer to just pay for it. And I did give up on 1Password for Bitwarden, because I'd rather support open source stuff, in spite of the former being superior.

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The author's article is however correct in saying that donations don't work. I too have thousands of stars collected on GitHub and I barely got donations for hosting the documentation websites.

In order to make money:

1. you have to ask for it

2. people need to get some value out of that payment and this means creating scarcity

With the online services I mentioned, what I'm paying for is the hosting and I'm happy to do it.
I don't see why not. The spikiness of the load can be handled via onsite battery packs. The battery packs can charge when power is cheap, discharge when it is expensive. The batteries can also be able to be used by shopping center tenants to help lower their costs.

Also, let's not forget that these chargers aren't there for everyone to use, but for those who cannot charge at home. For those who can charge at home, that will be a much simpler, cheaper solution.
Beneath the title of the submission, you should be able to see an option labeled past. That will highlight all of the duplicate entries.
Yeah, it's like a 12 year old kid taking a first drag off a cigarette in 1938 and exclaiming "That shit will kill you" as he hacks and coughs. Not the same thing as factual scientific evidence.
No one doubt this protest is about losing relevance of Hong Kong resulting in house, education and health problems.

I am the one saying the original title and Twitter is fake news. Indeed it is conflating the facts to foment protest.

If there is a protest in New York and national guards are having something in Philadelphia, anyone can conflate the facts to make it national guards summoned to end violent protest in NY.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/usda-report-sees-dire-climate-c...

Unchecked climate change could mean that the weather conditions hurting farmers this year will become increasingly common and result in higher costs for the federal government, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report.

The report, issued by the USDA’s Economic Research Service, found that if greenhouse gases are allowed to continue to increase, U.S. production of corn and soybeans—which are more susceptible to extreme heat during growing season—could decline as much as 80% in the next 60 years.

This is a problem. The US has some of the most fertile growing regions in the world and if we stop exporting cheap grain there will be global hunger and strife.

Shits about to get real yo.
Public nuisance is a thing, no matter why its being done or who its done to. Not illegal because of the target; illegal because its a deliberately public-disturbing outburst. Like crapping on the street - never mind who you were trying to send a message to, its just not to be done.
This is right! They (publishers) can't continue this path without the clients, provided so conveniently by academic administration.
Creating a 3d model out of 2d images requires computer vision to extract objects in the images and estimate their dimensions (including elevation). This will most likely require implementing an end-to-end deep learning model that's gonna need training, validation and test. Given the amount of data it'll have to deal with (100ks to millions of images) it'll need to load (high dimensional?) images in batch for them to get processed. This can still be done arguably on aws or Azure (or or...) with TensorFlow and HPC, but two things here, HPC bring a bit more overhead to the table, and a supercomputer could do better since none of the current cloud service providers have supercomputers that can compete especially in terms of cpu performance.
There is no personal information requires except email and I'm not hiding just don't decided yet in which way to present it on the site
"Sign in with Blockstack" - never heard of that, so won't be signing up.

No way to provide sign-in with e-mail & pw? :(
Stock based compensation happens quarterly, which is frequent enough to be a regular stream of compensation (and you get a sign-on bonus when you start so you don't have to wait for liquidity either).
That may just limit gun ownership to psycopaths who have zero empathy.

Perhaps also everyone who chooses to not own a gun should be compelled to go to the morgue to see corpses of the victims of crimes, so they understand the evil of bystanding.
Facebook is reportedly interested in licensing publishers’ content for News tab
Would be more compelling with the sizes of that neutral net in the different passes. As it is, this is like comparing two algorithms on a small dataset without accounting for growth in data on behavior.
> This problem could be readily solved if they turned their anger against the school administration

Not exactly. I'm an academic (mathematics), and I don't care much about what my bosses think of me. From what I've observed, within my university there don't seem to be consequences (positive or negative) for much of anything.

So who do I care about impressing then? Well, my bosses, a little. But mostly my peers within the scientific community. They are the ones who decide whether or not to invite me to conferences, whether to fund my grant proposals, and whether to interview me if I decide to apply for other jobs.

The problem is pretty entrenched. Really, we are ourselves to blame.
No, but some of the things people get worked up over in the tech industry can get silly, especially the ones with less experience who see themselves as temporarily embarrassed 10Xers. It’s usually in proportion to how overly seriously they take themselves, and it’s often from manufactured conceit to cover up insecurity about other things in their lives. It’s not most people but it’s definitely a type you encounter in places like SV.
The status quo won't get you what you want. One country, two systems was always going to end in 2047.
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If we're speaking of an iPhone, if you plug one into a CarPlay receiver then it lightly interrupts the phone use. The iPhone gets a big CarPlay splash screen (which you can dismiss), and switching apps on the car display will also switch them on the phone.

This is changing in the upcoming iOS 13, so the car display and the phone will be much more independent[1]. As someone who's often a passenger with their phone plugged in, I'm happy for this.

[1]: https://www.macstories.net/stories/carplay-in-ios-13-a-big-l...
Watch Death Parade Episode 3 English Sub Online – Dreamanime
?? Dan Gilbert owns around 100 buildings near down town Detroit.
It's mostly a response to US stealth and anti-missile tech. Russia has been having trouble keeping up with US "First Strike" capability. They are afraid that we will mark and destroy their nuclear launch facilities all at once using stealth assets and stop them from retaliating by shooting down any that they manage to launch in time with ABS systems. This would essentially neuter them as a nuclear power in an instant.

It doesn't matter if we WOULD do such a thing. But the fact that maybe we can, prompts the development of these nearly unlimited range cruise missiles that we wouldn't be able to shoot down in time to stop a retaliation. In addition having your nukes literally hovering around your enemy is a great intimidation tactic.

The nightmare for any major power is being open to nuclear strike without the capability to retaliate.
Ah, yeah the good old Internet factory : https://twitter.com/cryptonomatron/status/100839718221335347...
> I was interested to find out which steel mill, since they are almost non-existent in Pittsburgh these days

As evidenced by the smell of sulphur yesterday morning the coke plants down in Clairton are still alive and well!
>If the quick hack is well documented, written in a very encapsulated and removable way, who cares about removing it later.

I do. I care very deeply about removing it later.

The problem is that encapsulation is often mistaken as a strong justification for existence, and code that is written tends to justify its existence just by existing.

That's to say that once code is in production, it's scary to delete. It's much less scary to delete a couple of lines of inline code wrapped in a comment that says "this is a hacky solution," because code that isn't encapsulated probably probably isn't used elsewhere. Or if it is, it's copy-pasted.

The scary thing about removing encapsulated / abstracted things, is that oftentimes, other things refer to them, unbeknownst to the original author or their intent.

It's pretty common (especially on larger teams) - the first developer writes up a hacky solution, the second developer abstracts that hack into a module due to some sensibility (abstraction, aesthetics, organization, etc), so now the hack has legitimacy. A third (or often the first developer) sees that the hack is in a module, assumes that the person who put it in a module had more information than when the hack was written and that it's now a first class member of the system. And first class members of a system take thought and time to delete.
There’s no spec. A more accurate statement might be “all of Rust is implementation-defined behavior”.
declaring "No it is the children that are wrong and declaring Google is rigged against them."

The kids are alright. There are Google whistle-blowers coming forward to about Google's manipulation, and there are internal documents corroborating this.

It is like accusing rock music of making teenagers rebellious when it is really the result of development of agency

No, it's like calling out the media trying to push that narrative.

The true purpose isn't to be satisfied but to try to bully for control.

Bingo! So the solution is just to let people have their speech.

The whole damn point of a search engine is to prioritize.

When it helps things go viral that people want to see, this is being done correctly. When it's pushing an agenda, even though what's being pushed doesn't have traction, for the sake of ad dollars, and to prop up dying industries, then this is corruption.
https://insideevs.com/news/343622/tesla-model-3-on-superchar...
Guantanamo is bad, no question. But there's a chasm between holding 800 foreign nationals (and, from time to time, traitorous Americans) and rounding up millions of ethnic minorities for re-education based on their race, religion, or politics. If you looked up false equivalence in the dictionary, this would be Exhibit A.
> What makes you think London is more liberal? Most of Europe is more conservative in many respects than the U.S. in terms of transit funding.

Are you using the political meaning of "liberal" or the financial meaning, "not very worried about overspending"?

I mean liberal in the political sense of government being ultimately responsible for the execution and success of infrastructure projects. Such a scenario could be financially conservative in the sense of providing transit service on budget, which London appears to do. Or it could be inefficient (or financially "liberal") like the examples we've discussed.

I think the real difference is that in places like London, well off people take transit more than is typical in the United States (due to a history of class and race coding around transit in the US), so there is more political incentive in London to ensure that the government agencies that build efficient, comprehensive, and effective transit.

Similar cultural priorities and even better transit systems can be found in Germany and other parts of Europe.

Or to put it simply, in London, bankers take the Tube. The same kind of people in the US usually drive cars, because the mass transit option is underinvested and hence slower, less maintained, and used mostly by poorer people. This is the case for many municipal bus agencies in the US.
Yes, and yes.

Declare a delegate in C#, apply [UnmanagedFunctionPointer] attribute specifying calling convention (on Linux you’ll likely want CallingConvention.Cdecl), pass to native code specifying [MarshalAs( UnmanagedType.FunctionPtr )] in the prototype of the DLL/SO function which accepts that pointer.

This is even more convenient than doing that in C. In C, function pointers are stateless, typical design pattern is pass accompanying `void* context` for the state. Not needed in C#, that delegate can capture whatever it wants, the runtime will do it’s marshalling magic, generating a native function and somehow associating it with the captured state.

The only caveat is lifetime. Function pointers can’t be retained by native code, they’re too simple and don’t have a ref.counter. You must ensure the .NET delegate is not garbage collected while it’s referenced by the native code, or the app will crash.
Open source for me personally and my company was more of a marketing advantage. We work in fintech and the culture there is that the code will always be closed source (like there’s no way it can be remotely open!).
When we (the engineers) suggested that we should open source our whole system (make the whole development open source), the marketing team were so pissed and they just couldn’t imagine what benefits an open source will offer.

A few months later, our project is well known by major banks here and it became clear that my startup excels in software. The first thing we say when discussing with a client our offer is that the whole system is free and open source and they can copy-paste it without our help. And that turned out to be very great as many of our customers had vendor-locks before.

The thing I’m actively developing our core business in Github and quite happy with its evolution. It received a small amount of stars (like 9 or something), but I really didn’t expect any stars nor direct users contribution anyway. And it helped us a lot in building our reputation as a FOSS startup and it will also contribute to my teams resume.
My use of the word prove shouldn't be read as the mathematical method for establishing proofs. But the conversational use of the word prove. As in what evidence would you like to convince you of a claim. Not the rigor of a mathematical proof but to the rigor of "convince me this is more likely than the alternative."

There are two competing claims "examine is the best supplement website online"(examiners) vs "there exists a better supplement supplement website online".(otherers) One of these is true and the other is false.

While lots of "examiners" have argued and provided evidence, but the only argument brought by the "otherers" is they they don't need to bring any evidence.
I have been in an interesting similar situation with my Trianglify [1] library, and have made money off of it a few different ways:

- Commercial licensing (the library is GPL) occasionally gets me a few bucks, but isn't a reliable source of income.

- Consulting on custom integrations/tweaks has been slightly better, but in general it's a simple library that's well documented and easy to use, so there isn't much need for this.

It became pretty obvious after I launched the project that my primary audience wasn't developers who could consume a JS library, it was designers. I wound up building a productized UI [2], and I've been experimenting with

- making money via donations (abysmal)

- ethical non-tracking advertising (low conversion rate, people hit the tool to accomplish a task, not click ads)

- and lately, paid functionality (so far, this has been the most successful approach)

I think that the skillset for developing a good and useful piece of OSS and the skillset for monetizing it are almost completely orthogonal - it would be really great if there was a way to make decent income off an open-source project without building a flashy website, learning basic marketing, getting in bed with advertising companies, etc etc. Unfortunately, the above seems to be what the market cares about.

[1] https://github.com/qrohlf/trianglify
[2] https://trianglify.io
Yeah, they charge more if you're on their cloud.

Isn't that kinda the opposite?
Seems like they are using photogrammetry, most likely with a large amount of high resolution images. Photogrammetry under these conditions can be fairly computationally expensive, specially if they use aim for high quality reconstructions (which they probably should, given this is a one-time or few-time cost). Of course, it depends on what algorithms they're using, of which I have no idea, but there's plenty of fairly fancy methods, many involving deep learning in the pipeline.
Thanks, this is why I’ll never know if I actually fixed the WiFi. My girlfriend says I haven’t.
I can't really speak from experience but almost certainly it follows that open dissent will be greeted with open dissent.

As for retaliation, that's something else.
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I wanted to report gains from trading to tax authorities, but found existing crypto-tax solutions were not great.

There are some very fully featured tax solutions out there. I believe there is even a YC company that can solve this problem. However, I found that for my use case, which includes less than 100 trades, the existing sites would charge me between $150 and $800 for a handful of PDFs. I wasn't sure that made sense given the server-side costs to generate these documents (approximately zero).

CBR does this for free. A large portion of the codebase is open source (https://github.com/robertkarl/yabc).

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This demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of Western culture.

You make progress in the West by winning over your naysayers by memetic warfare, and ideally by grassroots sentiment/political engineering.

In recent decades, there have been issues with the system as a whole that have made it difficult for the system to self-correct. Namely, the obsession with never revisiting laws on the books to simplify the act of legislating, the dismantling of the legislative branch as the ultimate source of law through delegation to the Executive branch and dissolution of vital apparatuses like the Office of Technological Assessment, and overreliance on an overloaded Judiciary as a relief valve for legislation largely driven by donor/special interest organizations.

Resistance in the United States, and the West in general was never intended to be "buy the vote" but rather the end result of pushes to modify public sentiment through bottom up pressure, with laws being passed at the lowest level possible such that each State was free to run itself as it saw fit with minimal undue influence from other State, with a Federal body of jurisdiction to mediate cross-State issues.

At no point was the U.S. Government ever expected or desired to be able to control the populace. That was specifically avoided and straight up poisoned through various Constitutional Amendments, as well as quite elegantly rejected in the Declaration of Independence; which while not a document with legal force, remains an elegant expression that I still believe it safe to say expresses the essence of American culture. The Government is there to serve the populace. Not suppress, dominate, or terrorize them.

Any contest of wills in the States is fundamentally a difference of opinion between people; not a challenge to the superiority of the State. Whether in current times the establishment has started to waiver from the rails is anyone's guess, but currently there is a generational changing of the guard as it were going on.

Hope this is enlightening or at least provides food for thought.
Spot on. It was an otherwise very thorough retelling of the Google timeline.
Giant Steps _in C_? That's like a 6 color crayon coloring book version of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Ceiling. Thanks for posting this link. It's... musically obscene.

To understand why shifting this piece to one key is such an abomination, it's important to know that Giant Steps normally has 26 chord changes in 16 bars. That's a furious pace, and it's changing keys, marching its way around the circle of fifths, as it goes. It's a simple concept, in a way, but devilishly difficult to execute at any tempo. The article below describes it as a M.C. Escher neverending staircase of music keys. It's evidence that Coltrane was the best.

http://www.openculture.com/2018/11/jazz-deconstructed-makes-...
Your wording is somewhat oblique ("this hysteria"), and you are making distinctions that are not clear ("no one knew" vs. "people were aware of the possibility"; "terraforming" as a feel-good substitute for unplanned global climate change), and claims that are very strong, sweeping, and incorrect ("totally model-driven field").

Let's correct two of these. Of course there are empirical observations related to climate. There is a definition of 54 "essential climate variables" (ECVs), see [1]. One of these is greenhouse gases [2]. At the bottom of the link, you can see observing programs for CO2 and CH4, both in situ and satellite.

These are well-measured variables, with well-characterized error bars, and models are tested against these observations. For instance, the ~400 ppm CO2 ECV is measured to within 1ppm quite regularly and has been for many years. This is how we improve the models. The same kind of monitoring/model-improvement feedback loop is in place for almost all of the ECVs, including clouds and sea surface properties like temperature and salinity.

Another correction, relating to "no one knew" about a future crisis in the 1980s. Here is a paper [3] from James Hansen in Science magazine, in 1981, that clearly warns of crisis-level consequences. From the abstract -- In the 21st century, we will see "creation of drought-prone regions in North America and central Asia, erosion of the West Antarctic ice sheet with a consequent worldwide rise in sea level, and opening of the fabled Northwest Passage." For whatever it's worth, this appeared on the NYTimes front page in 1981.

That's just one publication. Throughout the 1980s there were broad-based studies, mandated by Congress, that indicated the scope of the problem. See [4], from 1983.

[1] https://gcos.wmo.int/en/essential-climate-variables

[2] https://ane4bf-datap1.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/wmod8_gcos/...

[3] https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/ha04600x.html

[4] https://www.nap.edu/catalog/18714/changing-climate-report-of...
What is Sec. 230 of the Comms Decency Act and why does Trump want to change it?
My impression is that it is a bit not very self-aware

> I find it extremely difficult to feel any sympathy for these folks because they have it much better than I do, and extremely better than millions of people in the United States and billions of people worldwide.

If you are living in the US, and making 35k, you are in the top 1% income worldwide.

So it is a world 1 percenter complaining about not being in the US 1 percenter, and saying by extension, they do not care about people who have it better.

Applying that same theory globally, 99% of people globally should not care about this post.
Speculations on the Nenoksa Explosion[1] is interesting. I'm not qualified to judge its accuracy.

The author's opinion is that it had to have been U-235:

"When you are concerned about weight, as a cruise missile designer must be, the places to look in these designs would be the moderator and reflector for the reactor. Highly (above 90%) enriched uranium is the only possible fuel; plutonium is too hard to handle, and lesser enrichments add too much weight. The moderators in the Tory and Rover reactors also served as structural elements."

[1] https://nucleardiner.wordpress.com/2019/08/11/speculations-o...