skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've actually attempted small slices of this.

The work isn't necessarily the difficult part, but the baggage to continue to exist and be recognized by the rest of the system is where things go awry.

Seeing as there is astonishingly low pressure to actually keep prices low, you have a maximization function in place that ends up ensuring that you're either having to maximize for capital influx to equip yourself for maximal time efficiency, or you end up having to condition yourself to be able to physically do the work, which tends to cost a great deal of time and regular personal upkeep.

Mind, this has just been forays into agriculture and basic manufacturing (blacksmithing/rudimentary fabrication).

All of this dive has also been done in an environment where most are content to live and let live. So the random interloper deciding to flex muscle to subduct your aspirations to self-sustainability are not a factor; and raw material processing has not hit the top of my research pile yet.

While everything is in reach, efficiency while doing it is always the most hard won fight to win.

On the other hand, you also learn a few warts of the system by doing this type of work as well. Our current society has become incredibly transaction-centric instead of people-community centric. When trivial transportation costs have effectively globalised the world, your ability to forge effective self-sustaining in groups outside the fiscal sense suffers.

I believe this may be a contributing factor to the recent resurgence of nationalistic tendencies. As every member of the market has begun to realize how tightly coupled everything has become, there is a desire to cut out the additional complexity and figure out a way to keep the in-group/culture sustainable regardless of fiscal outcomes.

Furthermore, technological advancement inevitably introduces higher severity and complexity problems, as well as extending the physical implications of addressing those very problems. Take the increasing prevalence of ant-biotic/fungal resistant bacteria/fungi as an example, or the consequences of climate change fueled by shifts in our atmospheric composition and biosphere depletion.

It's not at all a trivial matter, and when your technological carrying capacity is mated with a positive feedback loop, (drive to procreate/attain more wealth) you have a recipe for change that won't be denied.

The only thing people seem to be selectively blind to is The bits and pieces they are willing to accept as being caused by technological progress, and whether or not they can/should be remedied.
How can you tell? How can Amazon tell?

If you want a legit cable, you can buy it from Apple.

Nothing gives you the right to force others - or use the government do that on your behalf - to do something you don't want or cannot do yourself.
The default is public. Usually, the users who choose “must log in” choose it either because they’re paranoid about privacy, or because it is a prerequisite to having the site enforce a viewer blacklist for them (to block incessant stalkers.)

There is also, above and beyond that, the ability to make a blog private, by setting a password to access it. A blog with a password is still rendered out to a static site, though, strangely enough; just one with the equivalent of an .htaccess password-gate behaviour.
Wow, HenryKissinger - you're an asshole.

dekhn has provided proof of their claims - what does telling them they're full of shit without any backup of your claims add to the conversation but unverified negativity?
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> '[except for] the exponential increase in computing power.'

That would be incremental improvement, not major technological change. Take this list from the article:

> In our century, for better or worse, progress isn't what it used to be. Northwestern University economist Robert Gordon argues that by 1970, all the key technologies of modern life were in place: sanitation, electricity, mechanized agriculture, highways, air travel, telecommunications, and the like.

Most of the major technological changes in computing were already available by 1980:

Software compatibility across computer generations (IBM 360), microprocessors and personal computing (8-bit micros like the Apple II), packet-switched networking, GUIs (Alto), all the major modern types of programming languages (imperative, functional, object-oriented), etc.

Most of the seemingly big things that have happened since fall more into the category of incremental improvements and popularizations than "major technological change."
Maybe they're going to add a better ARM emulator to MacOS, or otherwise enable cross-platforn or backwards compatibility.
I've had great success in treating my anxiety (and general health) with mind-body approaches (yoga, pranayama, qigong) but these take time and commitment that I expect most would not be willing to gamble with. I do think that in my case I'm approaching "cured" (albeit slowly.)
Yes, but also no.

Firstly, it's not a new idea. Folks use JS8call (formerly FT8call). It's quite sophisticated and can work even below the noise floor. Folks have even gotten it to work in pretty ridiculous conditions. It has comically low bandwidth but works at comically low power.

That said, the only place I think this would be "clandestine" is in urban environments where there is a lot of reflection. Modern electronics and antennas get the benefit of very high fidelity simulation, so finding a signal with professional gear (especially if it's cutting edge and understands modern maps) is pretty wild. I saw a demo of a very expensive system that used Google Earth as its UX a few years ago, and it could do some amazing things.

Even in cluttered environments with low power transmitters, it still isn't very secretive. Amateur radio does this thing called "fox hunting" where they use a variety of handheld elements to quickly track down low power signals. Some of these contests get pretty technical, with the target transmitter being highly directional on some axis and deliberately casting false reflections, and lately they're entirely solar/lifepo4 so they're power constrainted.

But folks with a bit of training and practice can find them really quick.

If you want to be clandestine, then actually what you want to do is overlay your network over existing networks so that your traffic is difficult to isolate from a computationally infeasible flood.
I get hackernews think their conscious brains are in total control of their destiny, and I do think the nerdier and smarter you are the more that can be true, but psychology basically has proven this to be a self-delusion.

Your subconscious and instinctual drives have ludicrous control over your conscious thought. Anyone who knows an intelligent drug addict knows the lengths of rationalization that a conscious brain will wrap itself into in order to justify a fix.
> Bananas aren't seasonal purchases like berries ...

Fun fact, though - bananas ARE berries :)
Metaling with the internet!
So we asked ourselves, “What’s the simplest thing that would make the editor useful to our coworkers?”

To me, technical debt is associated with a sense of regret. The example in the quote above doesn't have that, perhaps that is what makes it the good kind.
Ask HN: Do you know any companies that offer on-site/on-demand courses for devs?
Our company is looking to upgrade it's back-end developers' knowledge by allowing them to take courses. So we are looking for companies that offer such courses.
More specifically, we are interested in on-site, company-tailored courses.

Because we use a pretty customized MS stack, we assume the best choice here is to hire an expert from an external company, and compile a tailored learning experience together with the consultant.

What are your thoughts and/or criticisms on this approach and/or can you recommend any EU companies that offer these services?

Or did you have any similar experiences with companies that offer(ed) these classes to their employees? (was it a good or bad experience?)
Prototypes are very valuable as long as you know to throw them away and build the real thing. The unfortunate aspect of many business environments is that low knowledge outsiders see something "working" and demand that it be thrown into production for [insert business speak reasons]. Tech debt isn't always a decision made by the subject matter experts.
This is an excellent post!

It does a fantastic job of defining the problem and walking the reader through the process of solving it. The language is so succinct and clear that even if the reader had never heard of SVGs before, they would understand this post.

Well done, Victor!
Dairy is perfect paleo food. It's rotting process. It also contributes with good bacteria for our body. While a cheese can be technically a "processed food", it is not inside that group of processed food I'm talking: sauces, cookies, etc.
> Financial debt isn’t universally reviled in the same way. Your friend takes out a mortgage to buy a house and what do you say? Congratulations!

We do say Congratulations! - we say well done on finishing the project you were working on.

I do agree with the part on not putting too much worth on edge cases, however the biggest issue for me with Technical Debt is the increased time it often leads to in further development. So I wouldn't say it's something to completely ignore.
Thanks, neogodless. I'll consider it. "We understand." is good I think
Are you sure you don't have XFinityWIFI next to you? Most people live near one.
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20666095
Small, limited production run at a high price.

They’re just iterating their R&D in public. Not a bad idea. The new higher price offsets losses of experimentation in a way the first version didn’t.

Ultimately the play here is slowly building up strategic hardware expertise (which takes a long time). Specifically expertise in camera and AR hardware/software integration.

I expect HN to be needlessly cynical about this and overstate the role this product intends to play for now.
Where do you see significantly better salaries? You might be ignoring the stock compensation which is basically like cash for an established stable company like Google
Sure you can, they need federal aid and aren't getting it. A city can't be by itself like some type of city state, a modern city needs huge federal investments. Which brings back the argument "because Republicans". Try again.
I gave this a spin a while back but, unfortunately didn’t get very far since the software and dependencies have grown long in the byte. Since then, I’ve found RustPython [0] which is progressing toward feature parity with CPython but entirely written in Rust (!). A side benefit is that it compiles to Web Assembly, so if you could sandbox it without too much extra overhead.

[0] https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython
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Building things to be easy to replace often does not mean quick hacks. Quick hacks are most likely hard to trow away, not easy.

Building things to throw away means componentizing your code, that is extra work overall.
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Lots of folks here are complaining there's no TL;DR, and I find that many of the comments (including my previous comment here) are essentially irrelevant to the article & simply rehashing the same old things we always talk about on HN... getting to be like old married people here....

So here's my TL;DR, in an effort to refocus the conversation to what I think is interesting about the article.

* First, the article does not discuss personal misery at all, so if you're talking about rich people whining about their problems, notice you're in old-married-people conversation mode, having an irrelevant yet comfortable and reassuring conversation.

* The article is long and has a broad arc, contrasting "don't be evil" with 1) Google's steps and missteps in China, 2) Google's tensions with the US government, and 3) Google's controversies over sexual harassment payouts and the Damore memo (HN's favorite!).

1 & 2) The article alternates employee walkouts over the Trump travel ban (tension with US gov), the initial entry into the Chinese market (tension with the employees and the US gov), the exit from the Chinese market (Google employees in China sad, US employees joyful), the Maven project (working for US Dept of Def, trying to downplay it to employees), the political backlash for dropping Maven (US Gov: Google is evil & unpatriotic), and the Dragonfly project for bringing Google back to China (unpatriotic like I said right?).

* The geopolitical push and pull is discussed in terms of employee opinions and government opinions. The harassment and diversity issues are discussed in terms of employee opinions and media and internet opinions/doxxing/etc. The larger idea is to compare the internal and external forces pushing on Google and Alphabet's C-suite and examine where they're going.

So. Do you think the comparison of internal activism re: Dragonfly & Maven to internal activism re: the harassment payouts is warranted? To what extent should Google be following the lead of its employees, and how should it do that when employees disagree? Do capitalism and "not being evil" fundamentally conflict?
This is a really bad take.

It's not a valid argumentative tactic to dismiss legitimate concerns as "whining", especially since you haven't addressed the substance of the issue at all, and it's pure what-aboutism and crab mentality to suggest that because somewhere there exist people who have it worse, you shouldn't try to make things better.
Or just charge people the actual price, rather than some hodge-podge of pre-defined rates based on Time of Day.

Yes, it will be complicated, but these providers also think we all care about itemization of generation, transmission, distribution, power factor, grid line loss and debt retirement charges. I don’t, all I care about is fixed cost and variable cost.

Maybe let people overpay through some hedging contract if they prefer to pay an average price.

For me, I want my dryer, A/C, water heater, etc. to throttle up and down based on price to lower my bill overall without reducing quality of life.
It looks like it's yet another missed deadline for Microsoft ?

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=18...

Edit: it's unclear: https://twitter.com/taviso/status/1161297483139407873

I'm not surprised, seeing how deep this reaches and the scope of the issues.

And the toolset Tavis used is also released (linked in the blog):

https://github.com/taviso/ctftool
"A man who committed a traffic violation while shouting "pigs" at police officers was made to stand on a street corner with a 350-pound pig and a sign that said "This is not a police officer."

"A nanny accused of hitting a boy with a belt was compelled to read articles on the consequences of child abuse, and then discuss them in the courtroom in front of the judge, the victim's mother, and spectators."
Yea. There a lot of flavors to anxiety, and the word itself is almost too generic to be meaningful. I experience it as a kind of "wiredness" or "on edge" feeling. The somatic experience tends to precede the mental one too. So, I'm with you, I think people tend to oversimplify "anxiety" and that it's actually a complex of zillions of little micro-disorders that share some rough features.
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It's written from the perspective of someone living in a mud hut and probably not on your continent.
HN also has noprocrast, max visit, and min away, that are designed to help you break that addiction.
Oh the irony. I always thought the people who do this were slightly insane. Guess I'm wrong.
So let’s leave out all the advances in biomedicine, personal genome sequencing, immunotherapy for cancer, genetic engineering advances for incurable diseases, etc. All of these are “technological”, yet this author was too focused on consumer tech to notice. What about battery technologies and new solar energy tech which make small devices and EV’s possible. The enormous advances in machine learning and AI (and algorithms in general across all areas of computation). Bioinformatics, advances in protein engineering, etc. I could go on and on. I think this article is going to be one of those quoted in ten years as being incredibly mistaken.
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There's ways we can mitigate the potential damage.

For example, give judges the power to issue unusual sentences, or ones violating the minimums, but have those sentences trigger an automatic review by an independent panel (perhaps a couple of appeals judges or something).
Thanks, devinjflick. Atypical is an enigmatic word though.
Google enables the US military industrial complex. The US military is pretty evil relative to your above examples. Also, internet ads are way more evil than you think. You know why the news and Facebook suck no. Ads! Profit driven news on the back of a internet ad industry dominated by google. Get a clue.
Either way, it sounds like there is a lot of Unobtainium there.
Right, so there is no such thing as complex form, and you'd be juuuust fine with living in a small bubble on an airless earth.

Your reductionism ad absurdum is not useful on any level of practical discussion.

Why, by your nihilistic logic I can murder you and burn the body, and that's absolutely fine by your line of thinking. I'm not destroying any atoms, dear judge, all the atoms he was composed of are still there. There is no such thing as a complex form. There is no he. He was atoms, and those atoms still exist.

"Disruptors" I'm sure love these arguments, because it absolves them of any latent subconscious guilt that they may have destroyed something better than what they disrupted it into.
I choose to avoid GMO products (it's my choice, right?). To do that, I have to be able to distinguish them from non-GMO products. That means labeling; and if GMO promoters are lobbying against labeling (and they are), then I'm against the GMO promoters. Unless GMO products are clearly labeled, I favour a ban on importing them at all.

As far as genetic modification in the lab being indistinguishable from genetic modification the way farmers have always done it (cross-breeding), here's the difference, in a nutshell: farmers have no method for cross-breeding a potato with a jellyfish (or adding genes from bacteria, or whatever). That is, the lab technique permits technicians to effectively create new species.

Now I'm OK (in principle) with new species appearing on the shelves; but I don't want to eat them myself, until they have been tested with the same rigour as if they were novel medicines. My choice, you see. If the GMO products are smuggled onto the shelves in disguise, then what happened to my choice?
> America is talking openly about militarizing space

Where can I read about this?
Veni, vidi, verti, cessi :o)
'true belief' is a philosophical term used in epistemology.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-pragmatic/

The question is 'what does it mean for something to be true', since Hume and Kant largely demolished any possibility that we can access 'objective truth'.

http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/panova1.html "On these grounds, David Hume posits two systems of reality: the first—the reality of perceptions and memory, and the second—the reality of the mind. The mind is able, on the basis of its judgments, to compose a picture of the Universe in spite of the fact that it never perceives all its parts. But as the "first" and also the "second" system of reality exist only in our sense experience, they do not say anything certain about the nature of the external world, the existence of which even remains problematic."

Regarding "true beliefs", you would probably agree with William James who held that "truth be defined in terms of utility", in other words, a belief is 'true' in so far as it is useful in accomplishing things, and another belief would be more true if it is more useful to accomplish that thing.

As for the soldier, you are missing the point. Different people can disagree on what 'beneficial' means without either being wrong. What is 'beneficial for a person' basically means the same thing as 'good for a person', and there is no objective way to decide what is 'good'. Any time you say something is 'good' or something is 'better' than something else, you are assuming some kind of ethical framework.
There's also https://vecta.io/nano, which I've found to sometimes give better results than SVGOMG
I think quite a lot of rural schools in the UK would have some sort of specialised bus service. US suburban areas are generally much less dense than UK ones and often have much worse public transport, if any, so the rural routes are probably a better comparison.
It's been a very long time, but my grandmother always used to give me spending money for vacations in the form of Amex traveller's checks. IIRC you could use them in essentially any situation where you could use an ordinary paper check (which was substantially more common back in those days).
It's pretty hard to get upset about this since nobody actually runs Windows Server on the Cloud anyway. Even Azure is dominated by Linux server usage.
Ask HN: What is the tiniest FOSS code you've written that does something useful?
I would like to see publicly available free and open source code bases for very small projects--say a single file with less than 100 lines of source code--that also does something useful and caters to users. Have you written any such thing?

The smaller the source code the better!

I hope to see what kind of real problems be solved in such less lines of code and also pick some knowledge and practices from such code. Now of course many small projects may also have a large number of lines due to readme, license, test code, and such things but let us not count them for this discussion. Let us count the lines in only the actual program that serves the user (like things that are being invoked from main()).

This is not a request for code-golf kind of projects. But it is a request for projects that naturally turned out to be small or the ones which were never fully developed beyond PoC and yet turned out to be useful.
I consider it one of the first major climate crisis shifts, after large record heat year in 2010 and drought in the region. Climate refugees were forced into cities and in closer proximity flaming sectarian and cultural divides. These tensions were easily absconded upon by those who wanted to make something better for their particular in group.
Managers rebrand because their bosses and non-technical people start ignoring a term once it's used long enough, so we have to market it in another way.

There's also a distinction between "we made intentional decisions that we need to fix up now" and "We (or people before us) made unintentional decisions and it is in such a bad state that it endangers the health of the business."
Thank you, looks great.

Looks like a lot of them are computer generated, correct?
Slightly off topic but (nearly) two years ago my father had a bad stoke. They keep him in a drug-induced coma for a week. Prior to the stroke his hearing was pretty bad. Loud TV, etc.

In any case, after the stroke I swear his hearing wasn't as bad. I didn't have to talk as loud. He would hear more of what was said even when it wasn't directed at him. I have no idea if his hearing is better but all the signs that said it was bad don't say that as much as often.
It's a bit strange that they use DigitalGlobe imagery, since DigitalGlobe owns 50% of Vricon who use aerial and satellite photos to make 3D maps. Their tagline is "The globe in 3D".

https://www.vricon.com/news/saab-digitalglobe-announce-vrico...