skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I studied and practiced Wicca for years before settling into Buddhism. I've personally got no quams about the presence of this symbol.

but I also have lots of family and friends in rural, conservative, christian USA. I assure you, upside down or right side up... If I tried to show them this video, they would flip out. There would be no talk about privacy or cell phones. All discussion would be hyper focused on the presence of this symbol.

Yes, the would equally flip out if the symbol had been a Star and Cresent (Islam), or Swastica (Hinduism, Buddhism, et. all).

I know this debate isn't new (safe spaces, trigger warnings, etc.) but the only point I'm trying to make is that some people will always find the choice to include any religious symbolism in a technical talk divisive. (which sometimes is fine if we are aware and choose deliberately...)

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Hopefully I'm allowed brief tangent back on topic - just in case anyone associated with the project/talk notices this post (and grandparent post): I'm super excited about this phone, and as soon as there's concrete data about comparability for US carriers, I would love to purchase one.
More information on these: https://github.com/lennylxx/ipv6-hosts/wiki/sn-domains
France Is Still Cleaning Up Marie Curie’s Nuclear Waste
Yup, "lets kill the poor and all our problems will be solved" is a trendy old idea, trendy and deeply wrong also.
Found lots of detached houses in Vancouver for around 150k CAD a few miles away, do you mean that you can't find them in the city center? When people say that they pay a million for a house in the valley what they mean is that they paid a million for a house and still have to commute for an hour per day.
I really don't understand what was so unpalatable to other users about this comment... The link I shared goes into the same details about Ferguson as the top comment and the notion that it is poorer people that bear the largest burden is also stated in the featured article. Is it the idea that these same issues also arise in the private sector that rubs people the wrong way?
That sounds pretty racist to me. Basically saying that any race they give the upper hand to is poor in their eyes.
The Playstation 1 "TOOL" actually ran windows [1]. A large success of the the PS1 however was the the "twin ISA" card dev kit, which could be plugged into any PC-Compatible for PS1 development, which drastically lowered the cost of development for the PS1.

Also BSD != FreeBSD, BSD 4.3 Net/1 (the first BSD released under the BSD license instead of containing AT&T code) was released in 1989.

[1]https://www.retroreversing.com/official-playStation-devkit
With a derivative name and derivative marketing/design, this just blends in easily with the crowd. This desperately needs a brand refresh to have any chance of leaving a lasting impression on potential customers.
That seems like a big stretch.

The FDA approves their dosing schedule after a careful examination of the clinical trial data. They are required to stick to 12 hour dosing. Based on anecdotal reports, you're suggesting they withdrawal the drug from the market?
USA to HRK, only one option - transferwise.

Are you sure you didn't build a transferwise clickbait? I know for a fact there are other services that do this transfer.
I agree with you, but that's not what gp wrote:

> I hear rumors that there are exactly as many units of oil sold as units of oil bought

Gp compared the number of items sold with the number bought, not taking into consideration the number manufactured.
Depression Linked to Chronic Medical Conditions, Disability in Aging Minorities
your comment led me to wonder why we commonly represent real numbers as floating-point in computing, and not, for example, as fractions.

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/7810/why-...
This is all opioids prescriptions. 12 hour dosing is a small fraction of that. Most opioids are dosed every 4 hours.
There are quite a few protobuf responses. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get Marc's service to work for me. I'd have to revisit it at a later time to peer further into the bits.
"Company encourages employees to be helpful"

Linux users: "It's a conspiracy!"

If it's pushed by your employer, you aren't "conspiring" in any normal use of the word. And even if they are "working together" to respond to anti-microsoft posts, ... what are you suggesting they are conspiring to achieve?
that is actually much nicer on the eyes. nice one.
Ask HN: What solutions are there to the trust crisis in freelancing?
> known good apps

Correction: known bad apps (where changing it just works but they've decided not to let you use it).

I consider it very shameful behavior, sabotaging the internet.
Qualcomm Wins Reprieve in FTC Antitrust Case with Appeals Court Ruling
The Aha of Monty Hall
I'm confused, is this actually controlling parameters in some physical system or is it merely a simulation of biological life?
Why is it hard? Certainly, it is not a shortcoming of the prosecutors, but of the laws. Why don't these regulations have any teeth? Why do so many white collar criminals get away with so much? Once you're rich enough, you can lobby for (or against) laws.

But the alternative is that you potentially lose leverage and you never get any of the bad guys.

I see the alternative as voting in politicians who will pass laws and regulations with teeth, not kowtow to lobbyists.
The question is are governments/companies checking and monitoring that actively enough to catch it or do they only check when they have suspicions about the provenance of some oil already.
On top of all the things people mention here there is a huge vulnerability in Chrome that is undermining the whole thing. They mine data at the browser level and sell it to advertisers. This is in addition to what tons of advertisers do on individual web pages. So irrespective of what we do as long as Google and other browser manufacturers mine user data there is not much progress.

I should add that Safari and Firefox (?) seem to be the only exception.
PyPy does it too: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/src/2fc0a29748362f2a4b99ab57...

Jython instead uses BigDecimal::doubleValue: https://github.com/jythontools/jython/blob/b9ff520f4f6523120...

But as another comment noted, BigDecimal::doubleValue can pull a similar trick: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818586
This seems heavily weighted reliant on transferwise. I picked a combo where I'm familiar with the many options, and it only listed Transferwise. Stopping short of making unsavory correlations here, I'll just say you should research adding more options before advertising it.
The right to privacy is the right to wear a mask, not the right to go around poking out other people's eyes.

There is no ethical distinction between installing a camera to record, and watching with one's own eyes and remembering what was seen.

We might, perhaps, have an ethical right to be informed when someone is watching us, that we might take reasonable privacy countermeasures if necessary. On the presumption that people may look in as easily as we look out, we typically put blinds and curtains in our windows. It is not so difficult to do similar things with sight-lines around the exterior of buildings. An umbrella here, an awning there, a fence around, planting some bamboo or arborvitaes--the further away the observer, the smaller their potential viewing angles, and the easier it is to block their view in without also blocking your own view out.

While it may be unsettling to think about our neighbors monitoring our comings and goings, it might also be comforting that they would notice any unusual activity around our property, and maybe also take action to interrupt it, or at least report it. If you put up a screen such that no one else can see it when you go in and out of your front door, likewise no one can see it when a housebreaker is patiently picking its lock. So you put up a camera that you control, to monitor your own threshold, and the surveillance/privacy arms race can stop there. Your neighbor can no longer either look out at you, or look out for you.
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I did. Even spent a few months away from home at the accelerator to get stuff done. You'll need a supportive spouse and co-founder. It helped that I was broke. Family members are much less supportive of those who leave a good job to do a startup, than those who do it because they have no choice.
That’s a bit of confusing things. My argument is that regardless of how these products are funded, they ARE funded and their target segment is different based on that source of funding.

MacOS is a premium product. Windows 10 Home edition is obviously not. You mention yourself in another comment that you estimate the cost of it to be around $40.

HN collectively throwing a fit because Windows 10 Home doesn’t fit their needs is silly, because they are not the target audience.

IF you intend to compare macOS with Windows, you need to compare same market segments, i.e. macOS and Windows 10 Pro.
I've shared this disclaimer elsewhere, but I work for Brave. That said, based on an objective evaluation, I think Brave is the best. This conclusion is drawn by the results themselves. Brave doesn't pass me around from third-party to third-party, allowing cookies to collect on my session like barnacles.

As for "very worst," I'm sure there are far, far worse browsers out there
The system as described actually worked fairly well in an economic sense for a few decades, pulling Russia up from a poor agrarian country to a much wealthier industrialized country. In the 1950s there was a legitimate case to be made that Communism was winning and would soon beat capitalism at its own game. Essentially, if the recipient of the nails had their own large-scale industrial project to complete they could pull strings with the Central Committee to make sure they got the raw materials they needed to get their own bonuses. There wasn't much representation of end consumers, so they tended to get low quality stuff that they didn't want, but the system was actually quite good at producing increasing amounts of steel and cement. However increasing disillusionment and corruption, combined with the complexities of a computer-age economy lead to the gradual erosion of the system. There was a bona fide attempt to build a computer model to gather all the relevant inputs and do the central planning, but it didn't get very far in practice.

The book Red Plenty gives an informative and compelling lightly fictionalized account:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/24/book-review-red-plenty...
Thanks for asking, it's fun to answer, plus the other answers are a treasure trove!

For me it currently is archery, underwater hockey, running, volunteering (as swimming instructor), keeping a (planted, tropical) fish tank, learning a new language (a local Filipino dialect), electronics (home automation).

In the (in some cases distant) past (yet could come make a come back): drums, guitar, drawing, writing, photography, origami, snowboarding, reading.

I work as a(n independent) software dev by day. So programming is my job, but it is also my all time (well, since 8) favourite hobby.
I completely agree with you as taken verbatim.

However, what they are really talking about is that "why will it fail" is a "conversation ender", and "how might it work" is a "conversation continuer".

Those are probably bad terms, but hopefully you get my drift. One promotes conversations to end, and one encourages conversations to continue. I would personally promote that viewpoint instead to keep people from doing exactly what you are talking about.
Ahh yes, these super-foods that get transported half way around the world for us to consume. Much better for the environment.
A friend of mine that's self made and worth about $40m strongly advised me to cash out my 401k. His reasoning just boiled down to who has your best interest at heart, you or some random broker in New York? If you think you can do a better job of putting your money to work, then you should. To be clear, he wasn't talking about buying mutual funds.

My counterpoint is that my wife would kill me if I cashed out my 401k.
Sgr A* is thought to be 4+ million solar masses.

GCIRS 13E, 3 ly away from Sag A*, is thought to be 1300 solar masses.
I was doing a bit of this unintentionally, while monitoring network activity. It's intriguing to see which processes are calling out to which end points.
Well, you can get another OS, no? It’s not like it’s a monopoly.
Actually, you could do much more with non-iPod devices than you ever could with one. Beyond the price advantage, the cheaper alternatives played multiple audio/video file formats, played FM radio and did voice recordings without an additional dongle, and didn't require creating an iTunes account to do something as basic as sync album art.
We really need checks and balances on police. Seems like such a fundamental underpinning of democracy eroded.
> it would be better if these platforms were neutral entities that just connected sellers to buyers in an efficient way. But they try to totally control the sellers.

This is more true of Apple than of Uber or Amazon. There are ways to build your own reputation. You can operate your own store and your own website and also at the same time make your products/services available via Amazon for the people who look for them there first, and include information about your own website on the retail product packaging. The real problem is that building a reputation is hard and a lot of people will fail. The large majority of small business fail. That isn't something Amazon invented or caused.

By contrast, what Apple is doing would be like there being a city where Uber owns the roads. You can go where you want (unless they decide you can't), but you have to take an Uber, you can't use Lyft or a taxi or buy your own car or get a ride from a friend.

Which is a much bigger problem, because it prevents anyone from going from client to competitor. It prevents, for example, what Valve does with Steam on Windows (and other platforms), or Amazon or F-Droid does on Android. Even once you're a big enough producer to justify doing your own distribution, you still can't. But that's how distribution competitors come about, which means there can't be any, and then you're completely at the mercy of the monopoly distributor. If they decide they don't like you, or they start to compete with you in your market, or they just fat finger some paperwork, you're completely excluded from the market. Can't switch to Lyft or Walmart, can't strike out on your own, you're just dead in the water.

Most companies will never make it to the point where that matters, but the ones who do are really important because that's where competition in distribution comes from. Recall that Amazon started off as a book store at a time when Walmart was considered unstoppable.
So essentially you're only seeing the silhouette of the car and can't really observe it as a 3d object? Sounds like a fabulously bad idea.
Givimg up their ownership sounds like selling their shared at a profit, than using those profits to pay a fine. While keeping all of the other accumulated games.
I'm rather sure that the natives knew then, and know today, of past crimes within their populations. Many such crimes were recorded in oral histories.
Many (but not all) dietary vegans are also holistic vegans, meaning they choose cleaning products, clothing, beauty products without animal ingredients and aren't tested on animals.
Bottom line: they're all kind of the same, except TransferWise is generally better... Plus they're customer service is _awesome_. I'm not a TransferWise employee or shareholder, but been using the service since the start, and been blown away by the quality of service.

My story is that I made a big transfer (400k+) on the day before the Brexit vote (cause I thought that Brexit wouldn't happen, and the pound would bounce back). Because of the trading volume on that day, TransferWise missed the deadline. So I got in touch with them, they told me that they would give me the best rate between the one that I had locked in and the live market rate the next day. Basically I didn't lose 10k+ because they're decent guys.
> (The million- and billion-solar-mass supermassive black holes that anchor galaxies’ centers formed differently, and rather mysteriously, in the early universe. LIGO and Virgo are not mechanically capable of detecting the collisions of supermassive black holes.)

Is this because those collisions would be too "loud", in the same way that I wouldn't expect my microphone to be able to pick up an earthquake?
It sounds like you are suggesting asking "how might it work under <failure conditions>?" as a way of pointing out hazards while still continuing the conversation.
If there were prior observed cases, then it certainly wouldn't be thought to be impossible. Instead it's just that theory can't yet explain how.

In the same way that it is, or was, ludicrous when people say it's impossible that bumble bees can fly, when clearly they can. Instead our understanding of their flight mechanics was incomplete.
Brave wouldn't know if the cookies were collected during a Chrome first-run, or explicit user navigation. They could also be picked up by direct chains during normal browsing.

To my knowledge, this type of knowledge would require updates to the underlying cookie specification itself, where additional meta information records the type of action responsible for setting the cookie (automatic vs user-navigation). But then, I would assume, everybody storing cookies would do so as 'user-navigation' to avoid getting cleaned out.
For those wondering what the heck you are talking about, it appears that this criticism is of the title of the actual article, which is "Possible Detection of a Black Hole So Big It ‘Should Not Exist’".

I don't know if that was also the HN title at some point, but now the HN title is "Possible detection of a black hole with a mass that was thought to be impossible".
> If you subsidize the public option, then you destroy the market because private companies can't compete on level ground with a subsidized competitor.

That assumes apples vs. apples; the examples I listed above aren't.
The tone may be confrontational, but the meaning is basically true.
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/07/colliding-supermassive...

> If the theories are wrong and there is no problem, supermassive black hole pairs should approach each other and merge frequently enough to create a background “hum” of gravitational waves. “This noise is called the gravitational wave background, and it's a bit like a chaotic chorus of crickets chirping in the night,” Goulding said. “You can't discern one cricket from another, but the volume of the noise helps you estimate how many crickets are out there.” But this hum is outside the hearing range of LIGO and VIRGO, though astronomers are looking forward to projects like LISA, a space-based gravitational wave detector that will “hear” at frequencies current instruments cannot.
Personally using Nightingale when on Windows and couldn't be happier. I don't need or want another electron app running on my machine and currently all the cool kids in the space of API clients seem to be using just that, including Insomnia.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/nightingale-rest-api-clien...
Show HN: SideNotes 1.0 for macOS – Clean notes on the side of your monitor
I don't think converting is slow by itself depending on what you need done. I have a function in my code I wrote to convert strings of floats/doubles to a rounded string of however many digits you want(for storing financial data that was muxed with multiple streams), and converting 1.59688139452f to a string, and then rounding that string to the 5th decimal place took 8.759 seconds for 10 million iterations (87.5 nanoseconds/iteration). Granted, it was written for my specific use case, so I don't need to handle the various edge cases/formats. But, little is inherently slow if you take the time to write a solution for your own need.
I wish more orgs would move over to orchestrating fleets of NixOS machines with NixOps. I can't overstate the benefits of truly immutable deployments. "Be this, machine, and be nothing else."

Feels like DevOps championed the lowest common denominator. I have to deal with containers flipping out all the time because the distros running inside these containers were never intended to be what we demand them to be with orchestration.
I work on Brave (stated numerous times elsewhere). That said, Vivaldi was one of the better browsers I reviewed (as stated in that thread). I still think Brave is doing the most here, though. I did find a place last night where Brave failed to proxy a call, and reached out to my team this morning to work towards resolving. In my sincere opinion (based on objective criteria), Brave is the best browser to use.
How we reduced deployment times by 95%
Thanks for the feedback. I do not think that k8s is bad bet long term as you paint it to be. Of course it is less mature than AWS. But the point is 5 years from now.

The problem with AWS is the price and the latency. Everything is fine until you get the bill. But by than you are completely locked to that architecture. The same apply to all the public cloud providers, not just AWS.

So as I see it, for new applications which are based on micro services, and want some day to become self managed, K8S is the only long term good bet.
> In every example the public option is considered the lesser one.

And for some people, the lesser option is Good Enough, because their alternative is — nothing, because they can't afford one of the better options.
Ben Eater has an excellent step by step tutorial on creating a complete (simple) computer on a bunch of breadboards. It's fascinating to watch, and he does a great job explaining all the details. Highly recommended.

https://eater.net/8bit
Larry Page founded his own side startup while CEO. Levandowski worked on on Larry’s startup.
But the ethical base-case is potentially that none of those cows, pigs, chickens or turkeys are ever born. Case by case we couldn't say, but statistically a lot of farm animals are going to be reliant on human logistics, organisation and protection to survive in the numbers that they do.

So the question might reasonably be 'are the conditions these animals face worse than never existing?'.
The stamp lends a level of surety about the product both in origin and quality. If I'm buying a bar and I know it comes from refinery X with a long reputation I don't have to worry as much about the bar being gold/silver/platinum at the stated quality. It's not perfect but with other documentation about the source that matches what the bar is telling me it provides a level of certainty. I worked in my family's pawn shop as a kid and the rare chance to buy a bar (I only ever bought a silver bar so it wasn't as big a deal) was always stressful because there's no good way to check the quality of the whole bar (this was before the advent of the handheld devices but even with those you have to worry about it being say lead with a thick layer of gold around it).
> Reading material

Patrick Lencioni has written a few good books on company culture. Some of them are in the "business novel" style of The Phoenix Project and Critical Chain, which has the benefit of working well in audiobook format. If you prefer more straightforward nonfiction, then read The Advantage.
Ok, so now i realize that i have absolutely no idea what a black even actually is.

Can HN ELI5 what a black hole actually is and explain how they even come into existence, let alone that binaries can combine??