skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a great section in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance about instructions for assembling a bicycle and a barbecue. Pirsig talks about the nature of creating instructions and laying them out and how there are a lot of potential ways to assemble something, but how an author has to chose a single way for their reader.

This discussion leads to him mentioning a favorite excerpt from some instructions he came across: "assembly of a Japanese bicycle requires great peace of mind."
If farming died, so would we. I'm not sure how the dollar value of software would hold any relevance at that point.

This is, of course, snark - but a lot of people fail to realize that agriculture is incredibly undervalue, for how important it is to society.
The ideas behind many of the projects are good on paper, but in my experience it seems that many of the people involved can't be trusted.

I don't know whether it's because the lack of regulation (or rather enforcement of it) in the space attracts the con artist types, or whether it leads to previously honest people committing frauds when they realize they can get away with it.

I've heard ideas about how the industry could regulate itself to keep bad actors out of the way, but I've yet to see any real progress. Whatever regulation happens at this point is deserved imo.
Indeed, speedrunning the history of finance from prehistoric times to present.
We’re in complete agreement on this then. I wish energy policy was subjected to a reasonable RoI analysis more often.
Next week: this weeks sprint is behind schedule by 8 weeks, we need to push all sprints out by 6 months. Also we found some security vulns that need hot patched, which could either take 6 weeks or 6 months. We should probably bring the consultants back for another 12 weeks to get the ball rolling. We might be able to save a few weeks if we outsource some of the work to our subs in india...
I saw Kevin Mitnik (FBIs most wanted hacker in the 1990s) at a conference plug one of these into laptop with a fully patched version of Windows 10 and one of the very common security suite of apps.

The laptop was completely compromised in seconds.

From a remote laptop, he had complete access to the target machines full filesystem, started the webcam and turned on the microphone without any notifications to the target user and connected a bluetooth hard drive remotely.

And this was using a rogue cable that he just bought off ebay.

I was honestly shocked at how easy it would be to compromise someones machine. I'll never look at a USB cable the same way.
Turns out the government does actually protect people in first-world countries in ways we simply take for granted... Huh who woulda thought!
100% of my searches produced no visible(to google) clicks for over 10 years.

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I'm just making a very simple argument: when David Cain cross-pollinated hundreds of thousands of grape plants to make a new flavor, there's a terrific amount of diversity and "newness" and some degree of opportunity for something slightly hazardous to be introduced.

Compare to someone making a CRISPR edit to alter a Cavendish protein to the form in other bananas that people have already been consuming in quantity for hundreds of years.

Why do you assess the former probability of harm to be so much lower than the latter?
It's a massive interconnected freshwater lakes system. Much different from even the relatively small lakes in Maine much less the generally very small lakes in the PNW. And it's in a very different area of the country so different ecosystem in any case.
Ah great blog theme! I’ll definitely peruse...I just defended last November (variable stars) and now I miss it. Hope life outside academia is going well for you. Best of luck!
yikes, their site has over 20 different trackers. that's a major turn-off, really don't need to be retargeted relentlessly around the web from one curious click.
I recently ran into the input delay problem when I foolishly installed a firmware update on my HP 608 G1 tablet. The firmware update introduced an unfixable bug that "sleeps" the touch panel if it hasn't been used for a period of four seconds and introduces a full second of latency on the first tap thereafter. HP swapped units out while they were still in warranty but late adopters like me are SOL since no further firmware patches will be developed. I don't know what my limit is but that surpasses it and my tablet sits collecting dust.
They're using long-obsolete process nodes, so they can use surplus equipment, but at the cost of power efficiency. (Yes, that obsolete.)
> These days China produces an absolute majority of the world’s steel, many individual products like port cranes are solely manufactured in China, Shenzhen is an indispensable center of economic activity to a probably higher degree than even Silicon Valley, and the Belt-and-Road initiative is establishing Chinese soft power throughout the most rapidly growing parts of the world.

> At the same time, this is a regime that deals with ethnic and religious tensions by throwing people into concentration camps and brainwashing them into the majority culture, as they are doing with the Uyghurs today. Has that resulted in any consequences for them?

This is why I'm for the trade war, and frankly any action that decouples the Chinese economy from more of the world's. It turns out it was a lie that trade brings liberalization, the truth is trade actually protects authoritarians from being held to account (if they're big enough).
Yeah this has become a serious moderation issue. Having a policy that forces people to pretend it isnt happening is also totally counterproductive.
Atlantis is usually put at "just before history" -- Atlantis was destroyed and then their survivors did all the impressive stuff around the world like building the pyramids and Stonehenge, so around ~5000 years ago.

You're looking at something more like 50,000 years ago, so something like the Toba population bottleneck (which probably didn't happen 70,000 years ago).

The cleansing of saidin in the previous turning of the Wheel, might work.
Hi, your link is broken - just tries to log into wordpress and thats it...
in that case the news sites did get the click, but they wanted more
Oh, of course. Bananas are not going extinct. There's still Gros Michel bananas like we "lost" before. They're just not commercially viable anymore.

The question is whether there is anything that can be readily made commercially viable and used for the role that we use the Cavendish now.

Most of the rest of bananas out there are not very much like the Cavendish we're used to (though some of the small ones are yummier-- if they could be made more hardy it would be worth getting used to eating tiny bananas ;).
Yeah I was going to say I saw this near where I used to live at Dee Why - It would have been ok to some addresses but to others it would have been way to slow due to hills.
What causes pattern in picture when re-sorting pixels by R+G+B?
There's nothing impossible to implement about it, but the marketing from the opposition has been really strong. It isn't even a link tax, for example, but it's detractors have pretty successfully rebranded it.
i had to disable some things before the page would even run.
Did I just get my new tagline?
> "to all pool their training data"

The press would skewer them alive and politicians will have a field day about tech companies violating privacy and sharing data.
Bonus points if this results in mis-clicking something dangerous or irreversible, like "delete", "cancel","post","send", "close", "exit without saving" or the like.
What do these prices actually look like? the article does not get into specifics about how much it actually costs or how much it used to cost.
1 in 5 wrong at 80% confidence threshold...
At least it is well calibrated!
> You made it partisan here:

No, I didn't, nor did I implicate anything near what you're suggesting. I'll thank you to stop putting words in my mouth.

> Do I hear a dog-whistle?

Thank you for reminding me why I stopped posting here.
> nosnippet

TIL. That's actually a good idea. Does that eliminate all kinds of snippets? NOARCHIVE may also be of use.
Here we go again...

Seriously, it's not difficult to understand that any majorly autocratic government, left or right, needs a centralized government by definition.

That is got nothing to do with being left or right, but with being liberal or autocratic.
The Road to Ultima IV
It's time to end “trending” on Twitter
Could mcu's made using modern processes be as cheap ?
But you can keep bringing your 100 Wh powerbanks (coincidentally the same energy as contained in a 2015 15 inch MacBook battery).
Designs like the GreenArrays F18A core show that you can do dramatically more than the 6502 or Z80 did in a similar number of transistors. The J1 and J1A are free descendants. The MOStek and Zilog hackers were wizards but they were working under serious time and, in the Zilog case, compatibility constraints. We know enough to do better now.

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20688443 is on the same topic.)

(As others commented, those are transistor counts.)
You're missing the part where it's in the middle of nowhere and the land was dirt cheap. Also the part where the cabin doesn't even have plumbing, we have an outhouse and bathe with water I carry in buckets from the creek.
What's up with all these newly created accounts defending China's autocratic government?
"Nobody goes there nowadays, it’s too crowded"
-Yogi Berra

(by the way, he died in 2015 - I was surprised it was so recent)
Every other app also has competition, bugs and features to keep them busy with their iOS and Android apps
Minor note, the phrase "sunlight is the best disinfectant" is due to Louis Brandeis. (Although, according to this webpage[0], it's paraphrasing an earlier statement by James Bryce.)

[0] https://aroberts.us/2015/03/01/where-brandeis-got-sunlight-i...
> I was working at Sun, had joined as a reasonably early engineer, and watched how Sun had grown from a scrappy "start up with great pretensions" to something DEC and IBM started actually losing market share too.

If one wanted to read observations about specific things Sun did effectively in this process, from either an organizational, strategic, or execution perspective, where would one look?
Sounds like we should all just stay inside to be safe from the blackholes. That suits me just fine
Of course a new protocol might have new bugs, but what's your alternative? The web needed to evolve. HTTP2 offers a lot of new benefits.

Maybe if the TCP standards could actually update in time frames other than decades then that's how it would've went. And if did get TCP2, you could say exactly the same thing about it being new and more open to bugs.
Napster also made users happy. And bittorrent. And libgen. Why the double standard?
Just to clarify because I didn’t get it at first read

they mean restricting an unofficial say YouTube app
The supposed legal requirement to do "what is best for the company" is overrated. All sorts of things can be justified as best for the company. It's not really anything that company lawyers worry about. There is company training to make sure nobody does illegal things, but it's not focused on shareholder value.

Shareholder value is more of a pervasive cultural thing. Most people and certainly everyone in charge has stock or stock options, so naturally everyone wants the stock to go up. People are also rewarded for increasing revenue. There are OKR's. And this is all justified as aligning the interests of the employees with the shareholders.

However, just because you have incentives to be pro-business doesn't prevent you from putting other considerations first when that's what's important to you. The pro-business bias is often not that strong, but it's persistent and pervasive.

It would be interesting to compare how this plays out in different companies.
FYI: The house has unanimously passed a bill to update the definition of accredited investor to include professionals in the given industry. For whatever reason, the Senate didn't take any action.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr1585
That costs you maybe $.5 dollars a day? Maybe $1 if you are unlucky. This seems fairly reasonable?
I had saved up 30000 Belgian Francs, just enough for an Amiga 500, when my father offered to add another 20000 on the condition that I'd buy an 8088-based PC with a whopping 30MB hard drive so that he could run Latex at home.(x)

I sold out and have regretted it ever since.

(x) Rendering speed was around 1 minute per page?
The state of China and its willing supporters are the enemy. It would be senseless to beat someone on your own side.
Yes, protest is war if you're being attacked and invaded, the protestors have every right to slaughter their oppressors.
I'm surprised how low the buyout price was. Like Verizon basically killed Tumblr with the adult content ban but only $3million? I'm sure the net worth of Tumblr's employees is worth more than that. They should've sold Tumblr to the employees and then turned it into a co-op if they were going to sell it for that little.
The microcontrollers we're talking about here cost the same as a 555, or less, and don't need external timing components.
why is this even a thing. just use the NHS.
How would time dilation play into this? That observer would see the SMBH as further away at the time of the event, but they’d experience time at a slower rate. Would the extra time ever ‘beat’ the extra distance?
The problem is not an emission, the problem is the insane amount of waste.
And I repeat, 'getting back to nature' is a pipe dream for most people, living on a cement street in an apartment 25 stories up. Which is over half of everybody already, and growing.
Something about a firehose of money given on the flimsiest of prospectus seems to cause fraud. Can't think why.
I grew up connecting to 300bps BBS', this is just water off a duck's back for me!
This possibility arose 20 years ago according to the article.
$100/person/day is a pretty heavily discounted price. $200 sticker price.
$149 for peak
$129 for regular
$104 for value

When I went there back in the early 2000s it cost $65.
Yes. Even more weirdly, the PRC government is actually more tolerant of this position than they are of entertaining the idea of Taiwan as a separate country.
I am sure it might be a great effort, but what was the thought behind the app only approach? Was giving a web-end that much of a herculean task?
How do you buy the film chemicals? Online?

Interesting that you can make your own film. How well does homemade film work?
Chase Koch Turns Family's Industrial Giant to Tech VC Future
from https://www.codecademy.com/articles/what-is-rest

>SEPARATION OF CLIENT AND SERVER

>In the REST architectural style, the implementation of the client and the implementation of the server can be done independently without each knowing about the other. This means that the code on the client side can be changed at any time without affecting the operation of the server, and the code on the server side can be changed without affecting the operation of the client.

which is kind of different from having server side "on change" events
Ticket price is based on age, demand, number of days you want to visit and included features (park hopper and MaxPass). The cheapest, adult, lowest demand, 1 day, no features ticket runs $104 right now. The most expensive peak time, single day ticket with park hopper and MaxPass is $214.

Annual passes provide extra benefits over tickets and are priced based on what days you wish to be able to go (cheaper passes have more blockout dates or are limited to southern California residents only). AP runs from $599 for Flex (only allowed in certain parks and sometimes must reserve park entrance in advance) to $1399 for the Signature Plus which has 0 blockouts or restrictions. (There is also the Premier passport which costs $2,099 and gets you unrestricted access to both Disneyland and Walt Disney World in Florida.)
I always reference [1] when I see sensationalist headlines that end in questions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
That's the argument against ad blockers, and they seem reasonably popular, and accepted.
Designing Continuous Build Systems: Handling Webhooks with Sanic
I think this video does a great job at describing what happened, how, and the theories of why.

https://youtu.be/Or8O_b7F640

Is there an object massive enough to make the black hole emit that amount of light, but which is not bright enough to be detected by our equipment?
These guys scare the bejeezus out of me...
> The Militia is the people.

A bold interpretation. Does that include babies and seniors with dementia? They are part of the people by most definitions. Should we allow them to have arms? Hand a .22 pistol to an eight-month old? If not, where do you draw the line? Is a well-regulated militia a very distinct subset of the people?

> The state exists for the welfare of the people.

Theorists of the state would dispute that, and we have endless examples that contradict you. States generally exist to serve themselves, often at the expense of the people.

> To say it isn’t for the defense of the people is an argument of semantics.

The interpretation of a foundational text of US democracy is a matter of semantics. Semantics is about what words mean. You say they mean one thing. I happen to disagree with you. So yes, the whole nature of this dispute is semantic, and not in the sense of "semantics are trivial". The gist of the question is in assigning meaning to the words of 2A. And if you think they "just mean something and it's so obvious that no alternative meanings can be discussed," then you are begging the question.

2A explicitly says it is in defense of a state, not a people.
Only about 9% of the population is "literate" when it comes to health insurance. There are definitely some super users out there who can find tools and use them, but for most of the population we need to provide simpler tools and more straightforward explanations on their benefits and costs. That is where we come in.
Asahi has been doing this for years with their Super Dry Extra Cold (-2°C≈27°F). Might not have caught on in the states, but I grabbed one of these as early as 2016 in an Asahi brewery in Japan.
It’s not hard philosophy but I recommend Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
And googling it now brings up your comment!
"Google has a monopoly on websites being able to promote themselves."

Incredibly far from the truth.

"There are plenty of other channels"

Yep.
The farming that would die is the very heavily subsidized business of essentially exporting California water. It's not like Californians will starve if we lose our cotton industry or if we don't have alfalfa to export to foreign dairies.
The flip side of thin bags is that often people end up double (or triple bagging!) heavier stuff, or things likely to leak, or just cause they don't trust using only one bag.
I would argue that a major defining characteristic of AmigaOS was that it ran in the same flat address space and privilege level as the applications. As a result, message passing is lighting fast (just pass a pointer) and applications can easily obtain direct access to hardware. This has obvious downsides as well— unstable app takes down whole system, no security whatsoever.
Congratulations on making the most archetypically HN comment ever! You have managed to completely deflect all responsibility for any misuse of a system optimized for feeding ads to people without any care for what those ads are on from the people who created this system onto the rest of the world.
Cars are often not faster in dense cities. In NYC most deliveries are by e-bike.
A Few Things I Learned from My First “Unicorn” Investment
Arithmetic coded uniform quantization works very well and is straightforward to implement!
I don't know, but so far nobody has managed to do it. These microcontrollers aren't just cheaper than other microcontrollers. They're cheaper than most discrete transistors, cheaper than 555s, cheaper than shitty op-amps, cheaper than linear regulators, cheaper than many diodes.
Modern wind has basically no impact on birds. It is several orders of magnitude less bird-hungry than are American domesticated cats.
Didn’t people recently freak out about the ethnicity of the convenience store owner?
I don't see any change throughout the video. I don't see tom cruise even once. Where is he?
It went the other way: corrupt dictatorships started buying advertising, politicians, and media in the West. To the point that half the population now no longer know which way is up.

The Telegraph, who employ the Prime Minister, managed to get a push poll claiming over 50% support for suspending democracy in the UK.
How do they get the click? If so, what is the fair amount of clicks that businesses should get?
> Who would read "black hole flared 25000 years ago for 1 hour"? :P

"We Looked Back In Time 25,000 Years and You Won't Believe What We Saw"

"We Just Learned One Of The Last Things That Happened Before The Neanderthals Died Out and It Was Amazing"

Fortunately science is slightly more immune to clickbait titles than other topics. Though only slightly.
I'm sure this isn't a 'forgot to' - rather it is likely a case of a legacy feature / code-base that nobody at Microsoft understood well enough to realize the significance of the vulnerability.

That doesn't excuse it, however given the amount of technical debt I am sure exists in the code base for MS Windows based products... this does not surprise me.
Dark mode is not a option but a feature... or it should be marketed as such...
Or maybe imagine a future were actors only sell their skills, since it's decoupled from their face, race, gender, and other appearance related factors.
Perhaps by making the article from The NY Times available to non-subscribers?
Tom Cruise was the source video. His face has been replaced by Bill Hader.
Rules for Intuitive UX
A couple reasons:

- Elsevier, and other commercial publishers, also publish the journals for the societies I am a member of. Where my peers are. Where the audience is clear.

- "The Internet" has not exactly done a great job of coming up with a substitute. Every time this comes up on HN, there's all kinds of comments about academic publishing being "ripe for disruption" and yet somehow nothing manifests itself.

- "It only takes a little bit of courage and everyone else will join." People have tried this, and while it ends up being an admirable principled stand, it's mostly an affectation of secure senior academics who don't have to scramble for funding. For the rest of us, it's not "a little bit of courage". It's "lets detonate your career and hope some people come along."

- The alternatives put more burden on individual academics. Preprints require shepherding, and marketing and curation. Open access publishers put the costs directly on a lab, which especially for new faculty, is often a fairly substantial portion of their total funding. I can submit a paper to a PLOS journal - or I can submit a paper to a journal that's potentially better and hire an undergraduate to help with the work for a new project. Or send a graduate student to a conference.
I wonder if it's astronomy/astrophysics in particular, but I've found you folks are particularly good at having a layperson explanation locked and loaded.

Anyway, it's appreciated and this really was a great answer.
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