skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AhmedF has posted a truly remarkable response to this post, one I think is very relevant to assessing the integrity and trustworthiness of his web site, a response that has unfortunately been flagged into oblivion. It's quoted here in full for the benefit of those without showdead turned on:

Just wow.

> since clearly the dishonest strategy that produced that headline was chosen intentionally, but I do want to make sure that you don't misunderstand my critique.

It's people like you that put a bad name on engineers.

> The thing that is oversimplified is the (broadly incorrect) belief held by many people, the belief you are arguing against. Since it contains an important element of truth, it is dishonest to simply call it a “myth”.

It's a myth if it's preached when it does not apply to a majority.

Yikes. I wonder how fresh and clear the air is up there on your high horse.
The US does not have unlimited data on home internet subscription ?
You misunderstand me. What if I'm the monopoly who wants to jack up prices and extort? I. Me. And a few select people working for me who I reward, plus a bunch of nameless employees who I don't care about. But primarily me. Then there is no problem is there?

Anyways, my apologies. I see I really pinched a nerve here. I will become smarter and understand the basics of big businesses. It's a good thing to do especially if you want to become the monopoly, right?
If you bump into Tersius on your travels, tell him he's awesome! ;-)
I spent a month living with a Mayan family in the Guatemalan highlands. Around just one lake in Guatemala there are three different Mayan languages in use — K'iche', Kaqchikel and Tz'utujil.

Everyone spoke Spanish for tourists, but for the most part it was not the primary language people spoke.

I was quite surprised at how completely Mayan the culture was. I had expected it to have been completely subsumed by Spanish Catholicism over the centuries, but there is a substrate of the old religion and rituals everywhere, even in supposedly catholic festivals.

The impression you have from casual knowledge of the history is that Mayans used to be in Central America and then the Spanish came and they all died out, but that is far from the case. It’s a culture that is very much still alive.

If this interests you, I highly recommend visiting Guatemala. Book a flight to Guatemala City, take a bus to Antigua and from there you can find buses that go all throughout the Mayan highlands — lake atitlan, xela, Tikal. It’s a beautiful country with beautiful people and not at all what you would expect from the way people talk about it.
I feel the exact same way (and even did the same things on the Amiga), except the breakage is taking place as I write this. For the last 30 years I lived on borrowed time provided by Sun and SGI.
An unpopular opinion that I'm sure will garner negative reactions because everyone likes to self diagnose themselves, but I find the introvert/extrovert dichotomy quite weak.

Most people who I meet who proclaim they are "introverted" have just not invested any time into building their social skills.

Most people who I meet who proclaim they are "extroverted" are people who are not comfortable with being alone for whatever reasons.

It is seemingly obvious to me that both social skills and being with one self are both equally important.

Deciding which one you are by taking a shallow survey with surface level questions seems unintelligent.

Choosing one to identify with seems irrationally limiting to who you could be.
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Downloading it now to give it a whirl. Thank you for the recommendation!
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IFF actually lives on thanks to Microsoft and IBM in large part. RIFF is basically a little endian IFF,and used for AVI, wav and Webp among others.

What hasn't lived on, of course is a concerted push for an ecosystem around tools for working with the underlying container format instead of the specific formats. This is what made the biggest difference in the Amiga: to a great extent when coming up with a storage format,the question was increasingly "which IFF chunk types are suitable" rather than a question of designing a format from scratch.
I often just add "whirlpool" which is a fairly reliable Australian forum that started covering telcos but these days will have things about cars, home maintenance, personal health, etc. Or I add "forum" and that can be enough to tilt the results.
I like to throw one of these on: https://youtu.be/f9Sxdi_82rU
Tobias's mixes with the MilkDrop visuals on my TV in the background with laptop on my lap gets me focused.
> As a dj, people would grumble at you if you played daytime trance at night, or vice versa!

I can understand that. The shift from raves to daytime 'festivals' basically killed the whole scene for me, the mood was all wrong (not to mention it was way too bright and often way too hot). I realise you can still find night raves but by the time the next one came around after a string of daytime events I'd lost interest.

Still have a giant playlist of live sets as my coding music though. I'll check out your link. :)
How common is it to have data cap on cable internet? I lived in a few countries in the last 10 years and have never experienced it. Is US the exception here or other countries also have such limits?
Suprema said they will take the immediate action. The only action of any value now that the data is already exposed is to fire the CEO and everyone in line below to the devs who touched the unencrypted data.

If this were just a regular company, the failure could be excused a little. But an authentication management company that doesn’t have security controls in place shouldn’t be in business.
"Async/await causes you to lose control of your data flow, use my library that completely hides it instead!"
Yes, yes, I got that explanation.

But the first time a foreigner hears it, it sounds a lot like "Germany over everyone in the world", which can carry the implication :P
I must disagree about democracy - abstracted out it only relies upon distribution of power and dependencies.

I keep on hearing AI claimed as an extinction level threat yet never has an actual mechanism been given - just a pile of tropes taken as dogma.

Let alone the fact that if humanity does something stupid enough with basically anything it could be an extinction level threat. A comet and a sufficently large number reenacting Heavens Gate would be an extinction level threat with no inherent technology even communications.

Mass adoption of plutonium codpieces/IUDs and deliberate refusal to recognize the effects of radiation poisoning for fear of effect on commerce or pride could be an extinction level event.

AI won't save us from being a pile of complete idiots unless it is vastly superhuman but it cannot be blamed for death by stupidity.
There was a recent article in Radio Free Europe claiming that almost 2 million people (a third of the population) have fled Turkmenistan in recent years:

https://www.rferl.org/a/escape-from-turkmenistan-almost-2-mi...
Where would Sphongle fit in on that list? I like Sphongle but do not know much about the genre.
This paper contains some pricing from mid 2018 (including Planet/Dove):

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326417596_Benchmark...
Wouldn’t plastic explosive have a different density to real batteries, and thus show up very obviously on the scanner?

The machines are tuned to highlight specific risky materials (such as liquids & gels).

At one point it was common to be asked to turn on laptops etc. But I haven’t seen them do that for years - presumably because the scanners have improved.
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Yes you can. There are other ways to market yourself and your website. For instance, the author of “Fearless Negotiation” has appeared in four or five podcasts I follow. The well known pundits in the Apple ecosystem grew an audience organically through word of mouth.

Hoping to stand out on Google results as a business plan is recipe for failure. You are one algorithm change from going out of business.
The article posted cites them and doesn't even discuss them. Furthermore it doesn't even go into any deep discussion as to why the navy couldn't figure it out. It's just hand waving about money and organizational politics. There is no depth or breadth of subject matter in this article. I think that makes "maddeningly superficial" an accurate description.

Edit: If you're going to edit your comment to change the subject of your comment from "it" (referring to the posted article the GP is talking about) to "the Wikipedia article" thereby totally changing what you are discussing do us all a favor and mention it.
The ease with which you could drop in new filesystem drivers is another one of those things that was great. Aside from the official FFS there's been a number of other filesystems even long after Commodore went under.
“A batteri” is direct current.
Flew yesterday out of Dulles and they were inspecting and ordering "no fly" on certain models. Was a complete shit-show.
Honestly, it seems to me more that, in some circles, it's just become more acceptable to talk about. Plus, over the last decade or so, there's been enough talk about it in popular media that it's become somewhat more normalized.

It's cool for me. I'm not shy. I love standing in front of a room and teaching. I'll happy go do social things. And if I do too many in a row, I get completely exhausted. First comes an overwhelming urge to sleep, followed by a strong desire to stay home with my dogs and a book and just read in silence.

15 years ago, living in University dorms, it was the same thing, but instead of having a framework to describe it, I had to make excuses to have alone time. Sunday was perfect for that... Sometimes there was a real hangover, and sometimes there wasn't, but it was always a good reason to chill out solo.
As a parent of Few Young kids (non teenagers) I have made it my mission to not give in to the social media BS. My kids will only get phones when they go to college. If they get a phone before then, it will be a dumb phone with no internet.

Looked here and looks promising: https://tello.com

For the others that say, we all get distracted, well then you might have no clue what distracted means to someone with a kid. You ask them to brush their teeth, they bring their toothbrush in the living room just to watch TV. Phone for a teenager it’s the worst thing a parent can do (outside of the emergency reasons)
>People who use more bandwidth should pay more, they say, especially since capacity isn’t unlimited.

But don't people already pay more for higher bandwidth connections?
The correct way to say it is that the speed of light is the speed of causality only in vacuum. In any medium the speed of light is slower but the causality or other fields (for example gravity field) that are not impeded by matter can and will propagate faster than the speed of light.
I traveled 2 times in US and didn't heard such thing.
Also never seen this in any of the dozen country i travelled to.
Agreed. Some orgs are better than others at practicing good security hygiene.

The better ones have awareness of their network and have systems monitoring their networks, etc. There are afterall the equivalents of Qualys in the IA world.
Human-scale drones would have much more powerful batteries and room for redundancy. More powerful motors and blades.

If a helicopter is doing it with a single main rotor, I'd be surprised if it can't work with a hexacopter and redundancy.

I'd be more worried about noise. A consumer drone is noisy enough, though mostly just noticeable because it's a new thing people are yet to get used to.
I disagree. They've constructed a sentence that will always be true by using the weasel word "may" and the emphatic "no doubt."

I have no doubt that one day someone may win big at poker in a casino. Someone may; or they may not - of this I have no doubt.
I guess that is why I am not too much into electronic dance music(at least not those types you mentioned), as it is too predicitable and therefore booring to me. I like music to be wild and when I am in the flow, I feel a beat coming, even if it is out of "order".

But why does it need a label to inform dancers of a genre change? You just feel the beat and move to it, no?
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I'm a huge music lover, but discovery is a problem. Thank you for this. May I suggest links to popular music platforms so 1. We can listen to it via common music platforms (and thus easily listen over and over.) 2. So the artists can clock listens.
Holy marketing spam Batman!
We used Suprema readers and they were absolutely terrible. They would match the wrong fingerprint with regularity (~50 people trial we had a wrong match on day 2 and we averaged ~2 a working day after that)

Suprema blamed us for not using a high enough quality for enrolment and also for not doing the enrolment properly.

We used their enrolment method, a very specific way of placing the finger on the enrolment reader, and this had the effect of making it easy to reach high enrolment quality, i regularly hit 90, 95 out of 100 but you needed to be an expert at enrolling.

Effectively, it took about 10 attempts per finger and we'd do 2 fingers minimum. Even after that we had the odd wrong match.

Our client had 500 people to enrol, with a further 4000 to 6000 [sic.] to come in the next two years and they decided to can the whole thing and blame us for the whole fiasco. Even when we had suggested they go with the more expensive readers (Ievo) and made it clear that we were using these cheaper readers for them.
The Amiga was made by a Silicon Valley startup, bought by stodgy old Commodore out of Pennsylvania. Commodore simply milked the magic but was not able to support and develop the franchise.
Most major ISPs (Comcast, AT&T, Cox, Brighthouse) have a data cap in the United States, however I rarely hear of them enforcing them. They're usually 1TB with another tier for truly unlimited.

I listen to 80 something podcasts, most of which are weekly if not daily, and watch 2-3 hours of YouTube/Netflix/Hulu on Weekdays and probably 20 hours on the weekend and never come close to hitting the cap.
"The happy ending for me was that Gnu/Linux and Free software nicely filled the void in my heart."

How ironic, considering that exact same thing is the bane of my existence: for someone like me who skipped the primitive, clunky, derided PC and jumped straight onto Suns and SGI's, Linux and GNU are a terrible, utterly depressing regression compared to HP-UX, Solaris and IRIX. I lost all will to work on computers because of GNU and Linux. It's that terrible when I compare it to AmigaOS, HP-UX, Solaris or IRIX.
Even with 4 hours of battery storage solar should be substantially cheaper than gas peakers.

There also should be a huge amount of opportunity for demand side behaviour. For instance someone coming home at 6 could precool their house at 3 and save money, we just need to make that easier for consumers.
While there are more defenses, one chinese official did publicly admit it as a mistake. Unfortunately I can't find a source right now.
Yes, absolutely, emptysongglass, a person just wants to be happy and be surrounded by happiness and serenity, by good natured friends and forget about bad things for at least some time. But the people you would like to be with can be not only “normal” but anybody else and those who would have the same mental issues could understand you better than anyone else. It's not necessarily to talk only about pain and issues. Just to find new friends, share something interesting in life and such things. The aim of this community is just find comfort, make new friends and in the future get some help too. Thanks for your great comment, emptysongglass!
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Not nearly as much as if more people were willing to listen to feedback.

I'm never-endingly amazed at the degree people don't want to hear. I greatly value the company of those that do, and return the favour.
It’s called the Yellow Pages. The more money you spent, the more noticeable your business was.

On top of that every Locksmith and towing company had names like “AAAAA Aaron’s Locksmith”.
On a consumer, not high-tier plan? It's a standard in close to every country. Where is that not the case? (I assume cable here as "any non mobile" rather than actual cable tv internet provider)

You can find a non-capped (at least in theory) plan everywhere if you pay enough of course.
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With D&B being my main love, I might focus some time on this. In the mean time, if you want to know the subgenre of a track, or some tracks in a subgenre, let me know :)
I live in a major Canadian city it’s still somewhat common to see, though usually more for budget brands. Packages usually are capped at 200 GB and the next tier will be unlimited.

I’d say the shift to more unlimited offerings happened about 5 years ago.
The Wired article is better https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-ha...
I have Commodore: The Final Years right next to me right now,as vacation reading, and Dale Lucks attempts at getting the Commodore board to listen to criticism from engineering is an important thread in it. I wish he'd succeeded in getting more influence.
The trick is to salt your face rigorously before ever leaving home.
Yeah, that's one of the most painful parts of, for example, the r/Introvert subreddit. There's a mix of people who just need alone time to recharge (per the current popular description), and people who seem to have terrible social skills or absolutely crippling social anxiety.

At least the community is sort of good at distinguishing between the two and sometimes encouraging people to find help.
Law Firm Announces Investigation on Behalf of Uber Technologies Inc Investors
What do you suppose this is about?

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190813005793/en/INVESTOR-ALERT-Law-Offices-Howard-G.-Smith
"We have free lunch, a ping-pong table and a VR room with monthly fitness days"
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FWIW - http://everynoise.com/everynoise1d.cgi?scope=all
I often say that psytrance is not my favorite kind of music (I still like it) but they have the best community.

Even if you don't share all their ideas (my case) you won't have any problem getting along as long as you are open minded.

About drugs, sure, there are lots. But no one will force you to take them and they won't think any less of you if you don't.
His use case and mine are very different. For one I don't work from home, have an old home and cool it with window units. When I got home at 6 or 7 last night it was 90+ degrees in my bedroom. I'm not going to risk paying spot prices and having to wait to run my AC because it takes hours to cool down as it is. He can run his AC when it's cheap and weather a few hours of it being off if he has to.

I hear you about possibly saving money the rest of the time. It's worth considering if I can get the data. I can tell you today my use is so low in the winter I've had the power company come out and disassemble my meter because they thought it was hacked. The shoulder months around summer is when I could save the most. It's just whether that savings outpaces peak prices and frankly whether I want to take that risk since IMHO this kind of thing is only going to get worse.
Higher transfer rate, but since most plans are "unlimited" they're talking about charging for the total size of data transferred (on top of charging you more if you want it to happen faster)
> You can also think of it like water in a filled tube. If you pump more water into one end the person on the other end will get your signal long before the physical water you put in to create the signal reaches him.

This made it click for me, thanks!
That's only the release date. My mid-2015 MacBook Pro 15" was manufactured in June 2017. So it's outside the recalled laptop range.
I think there is always a cap in name, mine is like 1000GB per month. Though I never hit that limit anyway, so not experiencing it as well.

"Called the "Xfinity Terabyte Internet Data Usage Plan," the cap restricts the amount of data you consume in your home to 1TB per month regardless of the speed of your plan. Comcast claims 99 percent of customers use less than 1TB per month, but it does now offer an unlimited option for $50 more per month"
Pets.com of the current tech boom, imo.
I absolutely agree with this, and I think it is often overlooked in the "why Amiga lost discussion".

The PCs VGA hi-res graphics mode was 640x480 in 16 colors/262144 palette (non-interlaced!)

The PCs VGA text mode was 720x400 in 16 colors (non-interlaced) and very fast/efficient since a whole screen took up just 80x25x2 bytes - 4 KB.

And, if you need to work 8+ hours/day you really prefer flicker-free efficient display modes.

I may be wrong, but these are also higher resolutions that the first Amigas.

VGA was introduced with IBMs PS/2 line in 1987 and 1024x768x16 color SVGA was slowly becoming the standard on the PC ca. 1989/90.
Not in the UK. I've literally never had an ISP contain about bandwidth, and I use a lot of bandwidth.
Data caps are common when there is little to no competition and ISPs feel like they can get away with it. Rare when there is competition. Even on mobile where they physically have very limited bandwidth, but when there is enough competition they can't get away charging for it and resort to things like sms warnings, throttling, fair use policies.
In Germany, couples with more than €5160/month belong to the upper class
First time I hear about this company. Why is it related to HN?
I'm no fan of Facebook's privacy track record, but this seems like a pretty alarmist story. Accurate transcription is hard. You need hundreds or thousands of hours of training data to get to WERs that consumers will accept on a single accent in a single language. Then you need to do the same for major accent variations (Irish & Indian english, for example). Then you need to do the same again for other languages. You also need to account for big variations in microphone hardware, perhaps bandwidth (which might affect bitrate of the captured audio), and so on and so forth.

Facebook could theoretically have paid voice actors to produce the training data up front to eliminate concerns, and then never tweaked their models based on user data, but the results certainly wouldn't have been as good.

That all said, if they buried the opt-in, they deserve flak.
If you drop a mouse down a mineshaft it will likely have a bit of a jolt on impact, then scurry away looking for some bit of cheese. If you drop a horse down a mineshaft there will be horsebits splattered on a very large area around the point of impact. Noise problems are inherent to fast spinning rotors, gravity is where the real problems are, and redundancy in drones is more along the lines of controlled crashes than emergency landings. I'd be very much worried about the performance of the system if one or more rotors failed to do their job.

Helicopters auto-rotation is not at all comparable to a drone with one or more failed rotors, a helicopter that is autorotating is comparable to a gyrocopter, it will fly relatively well, a drone with one or more failed rotors will not fly well or even at all.
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If you believe that the wealthy should only spend their money in a way that provides for "serious long term benefits for humanity" I ask you to enter your income into this website and then come back and tell me if you still feel that way.

http://www.globalrichlist.com/
Maybe they could put an airbag at the underside of the vehicle for when it flies a few meters above the ground
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> in vacuum it's 300 000km/h

300 000 km per second