skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well back when the iPhone first came out, my thoughtful Canadian carrier Rogers thought it would be funny to sell me a phone that does not even take videos but sell me a 1000 Video text messages with my plan. Hilarious I thought, I just bought a 1000 video messages and this phone only takes pictures. While looking into that I discovered the jailbreaking scene and those guys hacked the phones to take videos. For people saying what the hell is this guy talking about, when iPhones were first released they literally could not take videos, only photos. The jailbreak scene was FULL of ideas that apple eventually made standard on the phone.
How long have you being here? Random Wikipedia article makes its way to the home page from time to time. Every day, ~5 Wikipedia articles is submitted to Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=wikipedia.org), some have generated a lot of interesting discussions in the past.
> The phrase "took over" has negative connotations.

If you want it to, sure, it absolutely can!

> It's pretty clearly saying that it is bad that people who speak foreign came into the area, not just neutrally "describing [a] demographic shift of the mall "

No, it really isn't clearly saying what you're ascribing. That's your reading into it what you want to see. No one cries racism when an article about affluent whites taking over a neighborhood. This is just a different shift.
I hope they've complied with all the requirements of his rider

https://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/forum/m/#!msg/myso...
What's so objectionable about that. Honestly one of the more annoying to find problems with GitHub (and npm) is MIT licensed software with GPL dependencies, and even if you want to have closed source software on GitHub, having a "this software is closed source" UI element is still better license hygiene without forcing everything open source.

I think honestly this is something other providers (Google code when it was around, gitlab now) are much better at.
kWh is a unit of energy, that is, power over time, kW is a unit of power, that is, instantaneous energy.

Your car engine is rated in power (typically horsepower in the US, though kW is equivalent), your car fuel tank is rated in energy, that is kWh or joules.

Power determines how hard you can work. Energy determines for how long.

A big house running AC for a hour would give you a kWh number. The instantaneous load is measured in kW.
Toyota sells somewhere around 40 different models and 10 million units worldwide per year. There is no way Tesla is getting to that size in 5, 10, or even 15 years.

Tesla could potentially remain the number one EV manufacturer if the big manufacturers scale their EV efforts slowly and Tesla continues to expand aggressively.
dang / sctb could you please change the link to the English one? Thanks.
Debatable, I think this sort of investigation is what leads to a more robust understanding compared to some abstract, non-applied information that has dubious relevance st the moment.
Volkswagen and Northvolt form joint venture for battery production
I would agree. I think if you're talking about high-level design in a code review then either:

A) You've revealed a need to get more alignment on design, and should probably be explicit that the discussion has this purpose.

B) You're doing a code review of a spike so that you can get alignment about the design lessons the spike teaches...and should be explicit that the discussion has this purpose.
Can you add a link to https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news ?
>What would it take to build a sustainable dating platform?

Since finding the right person is a numbers game, I'd say the best path is an easy path. Something between speed dating and a normal date, where the goal is to check for chemistry as well as advance past the initial, in-person interaction. Start with having a few like/dislike parameters met, then get you both face to face.

Here's my idea for that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17356401

If we simplified and just went for a real-world, slower version of speed dating, where each pair would get 15 minutes with each other, it wouldn't control for like/dislike parameters. IE: I definitely wouldn't date a smoker. Having it start online then move to real-world, asap, helps to match likes and dislikes more closely.
In this case, the author is Phil 'BadAstronomer' Plait, an astronomer and skeptic.

If you have the time to check his previous posts on the Hubble Space Telescope at Syfy, you'll discover that he once worked on it and is proud of it.

For example, in this post [1], he talks about STIS, a camera on Hubble and the software he wrote to simulate using it to find stars accurately. He definitely knows his astronomy stuff.

[1] https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/a-juice-y-look-at-jupiter-from...
I think you slightly confuse regulations and enforcement.
No, no shifts in MS or in Satya. It's just Google's web who ate the world. And the move to smartphones.
Um, GPL is not “closed source.”
I'm not sure exactly what he meant by software license hygiene, but if it's what I imagine, it's a significant problem. Often people don't quite understand the licenses they choose and they get into trouble as a result. For example, there is a free software game that I follow which is licensed under the GPL. The author made a passing statement that the game is under the GPL, but none of text of the game is (it's an RPG, so there is a significant story). When I looked, they had mistakenly added the GPL to all the files that contained the story! They thought that since it wasn't source code, it couldn't be covered by the GPL.

It's clearly a well intentioned mistake, but it's the kind of thing that can bite you later because someone will accept the license and use it for something you never intended. At that point it's a really big headache.

It gets even more complicated when people try to mix licenses that are incompatible -- it works fine until somebody challenges it. At that point it's an absolute pain. The last thing you want on your project is to have someone say they are going to sue you because you don't have permission to use their code. It's really, really important for people to follow the licenses correctly and GitHub is in a wonderful place to help with that. It's a win for everybody. I would say even if people realise that they can't use GPL for some project because it is incompatible with the license for other code they are using, it's better than going for years and having a problem!
Does it touch my original files in any way? I have a huge selection of rare and obscure music not available via iTunes or any streaming service. Obviously I don't want any service to touch, modify or replace these or any of my more popular release. I'm wary about auto matching. Should I be?
That's not a gaping security hole. Only root users can run docker containers. Users added to the docker group count as root users and the documentation explictly tells you that.
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That's a pattern I learned a long time ago. It's much more future-proof to treat items as an array, even if it seems over-engineering at first, because scope-creep dictates it's more likely you are going to handle more items in the future, not fewer. And dealing with one item vs. many can change your architecture pretty drastically.
Mass vs. lift.

For the stated generation model, the kite's lift is being directly used to create electricity as it is reeled out and in. For lofted generators (Google's power kites), you're putting the turbines and generators in the air. Both are more effective with kites than balloons, as in the first you get more lift providing generation directly, and in the second a far smaller wing can support a much larger weight than is possible with a balloon.

Frankly I don't think any of these approaches is very practical in the long term at scale. Too many fiddly bits.
Effective regulation requires effective enforcement of regulations.
But, as critics have pointed out correctly, the LIGO alert for this event came 40 minutes after NASA’s gamma-ray alert. For this reason, the event cannot be used as an independent confirmation of LIGO’s detection capacity.

Leaving aside the question of why there was a "delay", this is a fundamentally incoherent and meaningless critique on Hossenfelder's part. (Well, unless you want to take seriously the implication that the LIGO team could have used that 40 minutes to create a fake alert to go with the gamma-ray alert.)

As long as we have reason to believe (and we do) that the LIGO data record is valid, then when the alert was issued is irrelevant to whether it is "an independent confirmation of LIGO's detection capacity."

(The detection of neutrinos from Supernova 1987A was reported about two weeks after the optical detection of the supernova [optical detection: 24 February 1987; Hirata et al. Kamiokande paper submitted to Physical Review Letters in early March of 1987]. So I guess we should question whether neutrinos from SN 1987A were ever really detected?)
Most non-religious people are "passionately committed to some ideology or other," explains Patrick McNamara, a neurology professor at Boston University School of Medicine. - so swapping one ideology for another.

Funnily enough a synonym for ideology is belief.
I wonder if getting rid of ALL beliefs (not just the unfashionable ones) is becoming more interesting to people.
But apple doesn't make it harder for you to install a competing application on your device, or hides those features from users.
Primitive Technology: Adobe wall (dry stacked)
>The day GarageBand launched, my app went from something like #24 in Music to #64, and downward from there. Fun times!

I don't understand. GarageBand must have provided users with some of the features your users wanted, so they switched. But how is one app responsible for yours to go from #24 to #64? Shouldn't it have gone from #24 to #25 (with GarageBand in front of your app)?
NASA Tracked Small Asteroid Before It Broke Up in Atmosphere
"And what the heck do you call an act like that?"

"I call it 'modern software development practices!'"
History of Weapons in Switzerland
Note: "History of weapons in Switzerland" is the second part of a bigger article. If you just want to read about that, you can scroll down.

"When talking about firearms, we often compare Switzerland and the US – one of the most heavily armed populations in the world.

"Despite a large number of weapons in circulation in both countries, there are – proportionally – more gun-related deaths in the US than in Switzerland. Even though the Zug parliament shooting has left its mark, this is the only mass murder that has taken place within Switzerland in recent years.

Each year, slightly over 200 deaths are caused by firearms in Switzerland, but about 90% of these are suicides.

Meanwhile in the US, several tens of thousands of people are dying from guns as a result of mass shootings or other accidents. In 2015 alone, the Federal Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 36,252 such deaths in the country. In the same year, ‘only’ 231 people died from gunshot wounds in Switzerland."

Population US in 2015 : 321'000'000
Population CH in 2015 : 8'238'000

US rate in 2015 : 0,011293 %
CH rate in 2015 : 0,002804 %
I wonder how much pressure airline companies put on FAA to ground the plane as I remember people getting very concerned about flying on that plane.
Oh sure: I didn’t mean to imply nobody does, I’m definitely just talking to startups.
Solar has a maximum uniform density of 1kW/m^2, roughly, at Earth's surface.

Wind, though a 2nd-order form of solar energy, concentrates at some points on the surface. Since both forms work by way of building some form of collection capital and recovering energy, wind allows a higher site-specific EROEI than solar, given favourable siting. Not in all locations, but in some.

That's why wind power makes sense.

Though I'm skeptical of airborne / kite-based generation.
I am a developer, who also dealt with ops in a small business context. I agree with Ansible striking a good balance between prior experience and the future of automating server configuration.

I did a write-up on how I used it on my blog: [link redacted]

The workflow worked really well, provisioning Vagrant servers in staging and Digital Ocean droplets in production.
Cafepress should automate that connection.
Groupon for Medical Scans? Discounted Care Can Have Hidden Costs
That may not be a bad thing. Having different solutions for different categories of experiments, or even just alternatives to select from could be useful.
I think this should not matter. The primary objective is safety.
I see such things with a lot of skepticism. Here's why:

With varying intensity I've been following renewable energy development for many years. I've seen many proposals for new forms of wind energy, many of them looking promising. Same for new forms of solar, new forms of water power and many other things. The Kite approach isn't new either.

However the reality is that the only thing that's been successful for wind energy is to do almost the same thing they've been doing in the past, just bigger, better and cheaper. The biggest efficiency win in wind energy is to build similar technology, just with bigger wings and larger towers. The biggest innovation was to bring costs down. Technology got better in the details, the basic "three blades that spin around" stayed the same.

I know this is pretty boring. But it's successful. I'd bet on "make wind energy cheaper and larger" more than on any fancy new tech.
The key is not just invest and expand, but embrace best practices. It matters how your structure the entire thing and basically something like NASAs programming guide lines, and a CI pipeline with rigorous automated test. The budget should reflect significantly higher allocation to QA than actual development.

Of course the infotainment software do not have to adhere to such stringent requirement, but if they don't push OTA updates for that, then they might as well to avoid crappy software.
This is the first post I have ever read that stated: "COBOL jobs pay very poorly".
> then the logical solution is to make sure they get that $100M immediately.

What? No, that's not the logical solution. Have you considered the consequences of paying that money beyond the immediate deaths? You've suddenly put a real price on terrorist attacks - as in, if I decide to go through with a terrorist attack after 9/11, I know that I can extort the country for anywhere up to $100m. Hell, everybody with a grudge against the US suddenly has massive financial incentive to carry out attacks against the US. How many more people will die because you've decided that it's okay to pay terrorists?
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Photographic evidence :)

https://mobile.twitter.com/ItalyPaleAle/status/1169354916281...

(Not mine, via Mark Russinovich)
Moon's haunted.
SS7: You have a tracking device in your pocket (2014) [video]
Competitive walking used to captive Britain
two sides of the same coin tbh.
Things We Must Take While Traveling
How to Onboard Pub/Sub Data from Google Cloud Using Splunk Add-On
Nanowires replace Newton's famous glass prism
My Pixel 3, on Fi, also seems to heat up quite a bit whenever I am at a bad network location!
> Can we talk about the NYT's fairly open anti-tech bias at this point

Sure. We work in tech, and see that the web has hurt the newspaper business model. Therefore, we protect our ego in the face of any criticism from the traditional press towards tech by rationalizing it away as vindictive rather than ask ourselves if the criticisms are valid and would also be written by a healthier press. And by casting it as a bias, we can avoid contemplating if more tech-savvy reporters would have noticed how morally bankrupt "tech" is sooner and/or provide sharper and more knowledgeable criticism that doesn't rely on poor approximations of goings-on in a domain inscrutable to laypersons.

These are some of the largest companies in the world, make decisions that effect the lives of billions but act like their shit doesn't stink and don't want people looking to closely at the societal ramifications of their business model.

If anything, I'd say the press is too kind and deferential to the half-truths their PR departments pump out.
Because a code review is not to pat each other on the back, it is to inspect and report issues. It is already costly enough without going off topic.

As said, if you want to praise then you are free to do it offline.

This is a professional procedure in a professional setting, not warm words from an encouraging teacher at school... I don't want to have to go through comments that do not add any value to the exercise of finding issues, and I have never seen people leave such comments in 20 years.
Clinton in 1998 made student debt unbankruptable; which makes all student debt prime investment because you know you're going to get paid back.

This has the unintended consequence that universities can keep raising tuition and you have to pay it. They will keep raising tuition far in excess of this.
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One of the local "dead malls" is thriving as a collection of about 3 strip malls surrounding the common parking lot. Each "strip mall" has one or two big box stores and a couple have a line of smaller stores.

Of course, the two story mall itself, with its internal hallways and rows of boutique stores, is gone.
Hard to say man - Xi can afford to play this out over another few months.

The CCP isn’t naive or stupid, nor are they impatient.

This kind of rhetoric is plainly opinionated and not balanced.
Could Etsy be cleaned by restricting number and quantity of products sold per vendor?
On Adversarial Mixup Resynthesis
Ya. And upvote my original comment plz, its down to -2 :)
So you suggest to deliver a couple of kilowatts of DC current alongside the water? Starting to sound like a good old crane is _way_ easier.
> basically blaming the dead people

This is strange wording to me. There's nothing inherently wrong with blaming "dead people" for something, because many accidents caused by user error result in death of the user. However, in this situation, it certainly seems rather hasty and inappropriate.
Nice work. But I would suggest to add a feature to report wrong tags. Perhaps that could even lead to optimize the classification AI or you could at least review the suggestions and delete wrong tags manually?
Works in bash, too (https://makeself.io/), as well as in PHP (https://www.php.net/manual/de/function.halt-compiler.php).
Not all music apps are drum apps. So its drop in downloads allowed other music apps to pass it.
Docker images to be used in Jenkins for projects with mixed languages (C++17, PHP7, JDK12) and platforms.

Using wine for running MSVC and jpackage ain't more fun
If you don't mind bit of a downer, I see three major obstacles in your idea:

1. monetization. How do you ensure your platform can at least cover its costs? The users want to know your platform wont go dark one fine day because of an overdue server bill. Better yet, that it won't get yanked like many of Google's cool projects due to insufficient profitability.

2. incentives alignment. How do you ensure the incentives for your platform are to get the users paired up permanently, which usually would mean they stop perusing your platform? Unlike typical services, a dating platform is one such that most people want to be able to ultimately do away with.

3. fulfillment. How do you make users feel they are putting in reasonably hard effort? How do you let them increase the effort if they so desire? People do feel fulfillment from putting in effort; cf. a lot of computer games that grant satisfaction through daily grind.

[edit]

A throw-away thought:

current dating platforms operate in "push" model: the singles make themselves available.

How about you make a "pull" platform - let already established couples find & match up great candidates to join their social circles - as new couples.

Making the already established couples your main users would solve the obstacles 1, 2, and 3. You would take money from the already established couples for finding & matching up new great, interesting, friendly couples for them. You would have the already established couples "grind" (put in the effort) for finding & setting up new ones.
Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager
No, but you can't browse in a shop while filling up with petrol (at least in the UK where we don't have those locks which keep the pump on while you walk away.)
> They used predatory and dirty tactics as much as it could. Apple is novice in comparison.

Apple is a novice? Not really. Microsoft plays dirty, Apple doesn't even play. They're basically a tyrant on their domain.

For how much people bitch about Microsoft, I'm happy Apple didn't win in the end, on either desktop or mobile.
> FAA has been under regulatory capture by Boeing for decades.

> The world ignoring anything the FAA has to say about anything is a stance that's long overdue.

I don't see how the second part follows from the first. Can you elaborate on how regulatory capture by Boeing affects FAA regulations on everything they do?
How can I install Firefox with the Gecko browser engine on iOS? :-)
Does anybody know which department was mostly affected? Devs? Testers? Marketing?
Of course HK will be done if China deploys troops. There's just a reasonably high chance that it will also be the undoing of the CCP.
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I would like to see your calculation for that.

My current company is much smaller in size and had 2 ransom attacks that I saw happening (in ~2 years). We use nimble as a backup and it is quite expensive (hundreds of thousands actually, depending on infrastructure) but worked flawlessly to restore all our systems in a short time. You will loose a few hours of work though. Attack vectors are the usual: mail with infected attachment and users with too many rights on documents. The attackers even know names of people working at the company and use correct mail signatures (not actual mail signatures, just the colorful stuff you put at the end of every business mail).

If production stopped for a week, the contractual penalties alone would probably eat up sums like that.
I tend to write custom parsers for jsoniter in this case so that I catch any unexpected data types as early as possible.
notepad++ is far faster to load. A notepad replacement should load instantly. VS code does not.
I wonder how long this could last in a container on kubernetes with a million other microservices. Could the author develop something so rock-solid nobody looked at it until after they left? Then imagine the face on the intern asked to add feature X years later after they dig into the code.
I don’t think kubernetes is nice because I’ve seen more than one small team throw a lot of resources at it and fail.

I’m not attacking docker, however, I can see why you would want containers. We still haven’t found an efficient usage for them at my place, but we never need to spin up more than one instance of our software. I think docker can sometimes be a way to cheat unsafe software around operations, but that’s more of an anti-pattern than an issue with docker.

Then again, I’m probably old and grumpy, but that sometimes has the advantage of not adopting techs before they are easy to use.
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> Careful with that assumption. A pure Go application will in many cases be more performant than a pure Python one, but Python has a better C interop story. In the particular cases of parsing XML and JSON, I'd wager Python is much faster, actually.

Using encoding/json maybe but also using 3rd party libraries? jsoniter is pretty fast, I just ran some tests and for my use cases it outperformed Python.