skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your comment, the post formulated extremely well what i was thinking about for a long time, but couldnt express in such a clear way.

I found this holds true for me with many things, not just music or any arts in general. That’s how it worked for me with learning computer science as well. I found that lecture slides and book chapters were waaaaay more useful for me after i attempted the relevant homework assignments and experimented on my won, as opposed to the other way around, where i just read a bunch of theory concepts without much context or immediate useful application.

Reading after attempting and experimenting felt like i was filling out the missing gaps of a puzzle piece, as opposed to completing a puzzle piece sequentially, starting with the top left corner and going left to right and then top to bottom.
This is why I dig HN. To the creator: Thank you for creating this!
Bacterial flagella are rotary, so very close to being wheels.
This is not true, the Sackler families have already put up $4 billion dollars of their own money as part of one settlement in this and they're still being sued by others not part of the settlement. There's also a criminal investigation into members of the Sackler family.
What law permits this now; or are you proposing a new law? If so, how would it work?
I'm not so optimistic about what would happen if the US completely packed up and went home. It seems to me that the logical result would be a return to pre-WW1 conditions, except the munitions are much more powerful.
Like a digital tattoo. That's what they're teaching kids at some schools: http://www.mydigitaltat2.org/
Very neat. Thank you!
Purdue never prescribed opioids to anyone. They only sold them to hospitals and doctors, after the FDA let them do it. Not sure what message punishing them is supposed to send?

But I get it. Someone dies and it’s the drug dealers fault, and punishing them will make everyone feel better. Except it doesn’t do anything about the actual problem (opioid addiction).

It feels to me like the elation here is because the Sacklers are rich and people really don’t like that, rather than any sort of victory in combating opiate addiction.
In the 1970s there were companies called “mainframe bureaus” that did exactly that
Use of the vast majority of the radio spectrum is not used by any form of life that we know of.

Being able to communicate non-visibly without giving away our position audibly would be a huge advantage (until your predators/competitors figured it out).

Life isn't generally suitable to the use of really high energies like X-rays because it damages cells. It isn't suitable for low energies because it is difficult to create an individual receiving/broadcasting element at such a small scale.

There absolutely are physical phenomena that life does not take advantage of.
Makes sense to have mass drivers like this on the moon or asteroids for sending cargo (mined materials) back to Earth orbit. Reduces the need for rocket fuel.
Nope. I think the article is about not finding fun on your own. It is not about overcoming boredom but instead actually letting them be bored.
Last I heard the transfers were several years ago
You mean everyone convicted of criminal misconduct? Or everyone everyone? Feel the latter would do more harm than good. The opportunity to become wealthy it a tremendous motivator.
It's not everything but H1B anonymized salaries (not equity though) are public in the US: https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=&city=San+Francisco&y...
> But the printer companies tend to be doing more and more to make that a pain

It's actually the opposite, recently all the brands have been introducing "ink tank" style printers (e.g. Epson EcoTank, Canon MegaTank) where you just squirt ink into the printer from a bottle, no DRM involved.
"They had no part in advertising any good will gained by Epstein."

And as we've found out, they certainly did.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/09/13/meeting-with-ep... shows the donations were not anonymous, but "confidential", that many people knew about them, and that Ito asked staff to send Epstein presents and meet Epstein for dinner.
The impact of smartphones on the camera industry
Football Fixed Match
Zen 2 EPYC CPUs have more than a third as much storage in their register file as my first computer had RAM.
A relevant read for someone to seriously consider the "Neither!" answer:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20695806 "The not so hidden cost of sharing code between iOS and Android" (dropbox.com)
The Muse Is Hiring a VP Engineering in NYC
People should be highly skeptical of "free" VPN and proxy services. They have the power to (easily) MITM you.
Seems like an abuse of the limited liability. Does the US have a way to set that aside? I know other countries do
Purdue is already convicted of a felony. You shouldn't be able to declare bankruptcy to dissolve damages from a felony and felony conviction of company should hold directors accountable for damages.
> There’s probably a niche of people who don’t like the potentially poor performance of Electron-based editors

Haven't noticed any performance problems with VS Code, since I started using it everyday maybe 3 years ago. I switched from Intellij based editors to VS Code and before that I used vim for a decade.
Who are these people?
Good suggestion, thank you!
Perhaps performance reviews ratings? That should already get factored into the bonus at least.
I have successfully done this, so you probably can too. Some things are hard to get rid of, and someone who already knows my identity could probably at least find my github. But nobody is going to be able to link my full name to any of my current accounts without a fair bit of biographical information. On the main sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) it's very easy to make all your data private, or to just share with friends.

Nowadays I try to follow the practice I have on this site of using an entirely meaningless username. Like passwords, I don't reuse, and so the links between sites become even more tenuous.

Now, someone might still be able to link this account to my real identity if they had a lot of writing samples of mine, but at some point you have to consider the threat model. I'm no one important. There isn't a foreseeable circumstance where someone would want to link my accounts on various social media sites, and even if they did, in the worst case scenario it would be mildly embarrassing. So, for example, I haven't yet deleted my github, even though you could probably find it if you knew my name or email address.

Now, I'm most interested in hiding my identity from natural people. But it sounds like you have different concerns. I think it's almost impossible to hide your identity from corporations, supposing they are motivated to link you to your economic identity. The credit card companies, phone companies, and retail companies are all building dossiers. And your economic identity is basically impossible to unlink from your private identity, unlike non-economic website accounts. Google should be the least of your worries on that front.
Saudi attacks threaten U.S. gasoline price hikes, particularly in California
Well it hasn't been updated for Android 10. Android 10 gives a warning the first time you run it. Not a positive thing.
A Chapter 11 is a filing for reorganization of debt, to keep the business alive and pay creditors over time, often at a discount and privileging some debtors over others.

Even within traditional US Bankruptcy codes, there could instead be a Chapter 7 liquidation bankruptcy. In which the company is simply (or not so simply) liquidated and all assets used to pay creditors. Purdue pharma isn't a public company. I'm not sure how to look up it's net worth.

The Sacklers will of course prefer whichever will lose them the least money.

That's before we start talking about the ways in which a company's owners can indeed legally be liable for the company's fraudulent or criminal behavior, and long before we start talking about the guillotines.
from the site:

> "Totally Free. No Strings Attached."

read as "avoid at all costs"

edit: oh boy, check out their "privacy policy" page. oh dear.

https://openinternetaccess.com/privacy-policy.txt
Ask HN: Is .io domain unstable?
After searched on HN, I found many people were not satisfied about the stability of .io domains.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=.io+domain

So, should I use a .io domain for my site? Or I should use something else?
OpenVPN and WireGuard config pages download each other's configs.

Also, keys are invalidated weekly and behind a CAPTCHA, so good luck automating the process of getting new keys weekly.
lasers would be another one, right? Is there any lifeform that can make a laser?
Image logos weirdly stretched on landing page, header links reflowing strangely, same company also runs a "vanity crypto address" to "advertise your brand"?

And providing free vpn services?

Yeah, that's not sketchy _at all_....
Fine-grained, secure and efficient data provenance on blockchain systems
This is covered in-depth by Robert Heinlein in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" ([1], [2])

1. https://archive.org/stream/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress_201701/Th...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress
Just Sue the shit out of them
if i read it correctly, the publishers have been able to push the idea that getting paid for a copyright work is work for hire.

now i am envisioning a different publishing model where publishers don't get ownership over the copyright but get a commission on the distribution of the work.

like mobile phone app markets. the creators keep their copyright, but the distributors get a share of the revenue.

does this exist already? how does amazon sell books by self-publishing authors?
Only when fully disclosed and blockable.
(This is a bit of an exaggeration but you get the idea.)
Thank you for sharing your thoughts! We designed the automatic camera path estimation to minimize the amount of disocclusion which indeed simplifies the problem. As you correctly pointed out, inpainting the background is an additional challenge and while we address it, the inpainted results sometimes lack texture.
Unfortunately, it's the same companies.
> even if you set up certain switch ports to be part of a different virtual interface, if you reset to the default config they'll have full Internet access again

This is why you usually just blackhole the default VLAN 1, and configure all your trusted devices to be on an non-default VLAN. Then if your switch loses it's config, it defaults to nothing working rather than a free-for-all.
* deadliest this year
Visited relatives, their kids watched PBS kids in the morning, I was appalled with how frantic the majority of the shows were.

The idea seems to be if it's not non-stop yelling kids will tune out. Lso the voice actors were mostly pitching their voices much higher than actual childrens' voices.
They lied about the drugs which they actively marketed to doctors.

That’s far more than just manufacturing and opened them up to significantly increased liability.
While it’s unfortunate bankruptcy code wasn’t designed for these edge cases, I’m optimistic about how a court will handle this. Even more so about criminal charges that will likely include a prison sentence due to the amounts involved and clear intent.
Cool sci-fi story hook, but the "Gen 2" magnetic levitation idea is insane.

> For the elevated end portion, the design considers magnetic levitation to be relatively less expensive than alternatives for elevating a launch tube of a mass driver (tethered balloons,[19] compressive or inflated aerospace-material megastructures).[20] A 280-megaamp current in ground cables creates a magnetic field of 30 Gauss strength at 22 kilometres (14 mi) above sea level (somewhat less above local terrain depending on site choice), while cables on the elevated final portion of the tube carry 14 megaamps in the opposite direction, generating a repulsive force of 4 tons per meter; it is claimed that this would keep the 2-ton/meter structure strongly pressing up on its angled tethers, a tensile structure on grand scale.[3] In the example of niobium-titanium superconductor carrying 2 × 105 amps per cm2, the levitated platform would have 7 cables, each 23 cm2 (3.6 sq in) of conductor cross-section when including copper stabilizer.[4]

> A SPESIF 2010 presentation stated that Gen-1 could be completed by the year 2020+ if funding began in 2010, Gen-2 by 2030+.[1]

Even assuming these numbers are right, I disbelieve that we'll have the technology, let alone the resources, to magnetically levitate a megastructure 22 kilometers above the Earth, using 280 million amps of current, in the next 10 years. I don't think we even have a material strong enough to create 22km-long cables which can hold their own weight, let alone be useful as tethers.
that is, the important thing is directing resources at preventing and treating opioid addictions and ODs, and if there's any justice the entire Sackler family fortune would be used to do so. Fortunately, these two goals are not in conflict, the Sackler's have a net worth upwards of $13 billion, which would be quite helpful resources to direct at preventing and treating opioid addiction and health effects.
Erlang, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let Things Fail
Yes. Clawback.
Nostalgia When jQuery used to be thing everyone used and wanted to learn.
> “We know Alaric, who was king of the Visigoths, raided Greece in 397AD,” he said. Historians believe he destroyed cities partly to gain wealth, but also to spread Christianity. “We discovered a coin that was issued by Alaric’s people. We also found a house that had been destroyed by a cannonball from around that year.”

... a cannonball in 397AD? The editing is a little strange.
I do not believe that Purdue is innocent of anything, and I would love for more evidence to be brought forward to a court of law.

https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/22/abbott-oxycontin-crusade...
There's Now a Meditation and Journal App for Stoics
as usual it is people who matter, not the tools they use, for good or ill, or something in between.
For some negative consequences of this, check out the book Super Sad True Love Story.
Depending on the viewing angle: yes. If the part should land particularly unfavorably on the belt then there is a small chance that it would not be seen.
What's wrong with their privacy policy? It's clear and easy to understand for anyone.
Recently in the news: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/health/sacklers-purdue-op...
It was posted last week already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20917742
Might be worth checking out Fastlane as well.

https://fastlane.tools/
I was very glad to have some wasps help me with my gardening this year!

Earlier this summer, I was pruning my tomato plants, when I came across a giant green tomato hornworm attached under a leafy stem. I looked up and noticed an entire stem's leaves had already been decimated by it! But lucky for me, I had a bunch of flowering plants right beside the tomatoes, and some miniature wasps had been frequenting them. They'd found the hornworm before me and laid a couple hundred egg sacs on its back, incapacitating it. Later on the larvae hatched and devoured the hornworm. Weeks later I found another similar hornworm, half-way devoured. In both cases, wasps saved my tomatoes from potential disaster.
Yes, zero hardware changes or mods to the piano. I think that would be a dealbreaker for many people. It also means that the barrier to entry would be much lower.
Yes, the article points out that the transfers were several years ago
The Toxic Trash That Is Poisoning the West Bank
Looking for better alternatives on the backend. I really like PHP. I have used it heavily so there is not much I am gonna learn from PHP. Elixir seems like good choices for a few reasons. easy access to the OTP and a good ecosystem (when compared to Clojure).
There was a criminal investigation into Epstien as well. Look what happened to him. They even got his dead mans switch.
> I just don't do much printing these days, and it's just a 2 min walk to Staples from my place where they do all kinds of printing, scanning, and photo services

This is what I've ended up doing. We print maybe... 3-4 times a year? So I just walk down to a convenience store where they have a big multi copier/scanner/printer you can use for 10-20 cents a page. It also does photo printing so I don't have to choose between buying a laser or ink printer.

The only worry is you know the internal harddrives in those things are holding a copy of every thing that's gone through them, and god knows how they're going to be decommissioned...
The Sackler's $13 billion could be used to do quite a lot about the actual problem.
His brother Ric Burns made a documentary about the Donner Party. It really is a masterpiece of non-fiction horror.

Unfortunately it's unavailable for streaming. Every time someone uploads it, it gets taken down.

This Peabody Award clip is all that's available. The DVD can be had for cheap on Amazon.

https://youtu.be/w-eTjCuNDoE

https://film.avclub.com/the-most-terrifying-pbs-special-of-a...
I like Flutter as well, I've tried both react-native and Flutter for some small size side projects. I did not like Flutter at all when I've tried it just after the release but now that it had time to mature a bit, it's an excellent tool.

However I don't see why people try to push it on the web, it just renders everything in a canvas, it's a poor fit for web development.
I think in the UK,a judge can rule that two companies constitute a 'group'. Prevents misuse of multiple companies for tax, etc.
At that point you probably start doing weird global scale things like screwing up all the bird migration patterns too
I’d like to see a big hardware company explaining its shareholders that they got a fine of 4% of the company’s worldwide revenue because they wanted data that was supposed to increase sales.
appreciate the author man. No crib
$4B is peanuts. I would put them in front of a firing squad for all the damage and suffering they caused.
Thanks! :D This made my day
People keep misreading this, or maybe just looking at the headline and getting the wrong impression.

The news in that piece is that NY discovered the transfers at all. The transfers themselves are a decade old. The payments to the Sacklers from Purdue are from 2008-2016 but the lawsuits only date to 2018. All of this is in the article if you read it.

I.e., no self-payments after lawsuits became material threat.
I think if you are starting mobile app development, learn the basics of the 2 main native stacks (iOS, Android). Preferably learn one of them well. A couple of years ago I might have suggested web (PWA's) as a third kind of 'native' app, but that route seems to have lost traction.

In my experience, you'll be a better x-platform developer if you know at least the basics of the native platforms you're targeting.

This is not to say that native is the best choice for all apps. You may find that flutter or React Native suit a particular project best. You may ultimately prefer to specialise in one of those. But that's a separate issue from what you should do starting out.
I guess they’ll have to flog even more pills in order to pay the litigants...
Well, if we exclude all the visual spectrum, which is the most useful part of the RF spectrum for animals: transparent to water and atmosphere, reflects well on a lot of surfaces, has kilometers of range if there is line-of-sight, wavelength of a size making it possible to have lens and sensor cells small enough to fit an animal.

But yes, the idea is that if there were a physical principle that would be super useful to animals yet not witnessed in nature, that is something that needs to be explained. There are reasons for evolution to miss a solution.

In the case of quantum computing, I could not really see it: the effects happen at a scale where evolution operates, and could easily be integrated, e.g. in nerve cells to create a workable signal. I thought reasonable to make it an element to feed my skepticism, though not a ultimately strong argument to deny any possibility of quantum computing.
Although I, since a couple of years, ride (and preach) 50mm tires I believe it should be mentioned that Jan Heine's writings aren't exactly independent and objective research. He makes his money selling (mostly) wide and supple tires (Rene Herse, formerly Compass). They're not always as superior[1] as he likes to point out.

If you want to try wider tires (and your frame can fit them) there are alternatives to (the expensive) Compass tires. Try Maxxis DTH for 26" wheels and Torch for 28". Panaracer makes a bunch of supple and wide models. Pacenti Pari-Moto (made by Panaracer) nice and cheap. Also have a look at Schwalbe G-One Speed (available in a wide selection of sizes). Maxxis are cheaper in the US, Schwalbe are cheaper in Europe.

[1] https://www.bicyclerollingresistance.com/tour-reviews/compas...
Hmm, yes, if you can get it to work with just sound, that would be trivial to set up. If not, I think the light idea would still be valuable, as technically you wouldn't be changing the piano (just adding a camera and light above it).
All the self-payments ("funneling out") the public knows about were years before the lawsuits. Unless you know something the rest of us don't...
You're wrong. Purdue actively misled healthcare professionals and the public about the risks of Oxycontin.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/world-health-organiz...
Manufacturing is an awful lot more than “cobbling together” a cad file. Cruise missiles need some pretty complex components to be made with specialized tooling, none of which are going to last long with Saudi Arabia bombing the fuck out of them on a regular basis.
I saw an ad but it truthfully looked pretty lame.
The transfers, through Swiss banks accounts were happening up until 2018: https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/13/us/sackler-family-purdue-phar...
A misleading summary, not in the least because artists have no voting rights to exercise.

It's mostly about how copyright laws always favor publishers rather than readers or authors. Publishers use their strong market position to extract favorable terms in contracts, like exclusive assignment of copyright, and courts have consistently found these agreements valid. This leads to strange situations like being sued for copying yourself. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/jul/11/artsfeatures...

The author suggests collective bargaining, market competition from new digital services, and publicizing contract terms as solutions. Personally I lean towards the digital services.
Is there any lifeform that needs it? With light sensors that basically give us line-of-sight range, I don't see which problem organic lasers would solve.
Most opiod deaths are from fentanyl. Most fentanyl comes from China, not perscription medication.
"Sackler was involved in 137 wire transfers totaling nearly $20 million, and some of those transfers occurred as recently as 2018, the filing indicates."

Who's misreading what now?
After 2001?

The lying in marketing, over the period 1995-2001, was already litigated in 2007.
The Server Bone Is Connected to the DNS Bone…
I think OP is saying “just use VMs” as a metaphor for segregating your identity across multiple services. But literally using VMs could make fingerprinting easier or harder.
statistics always involves selection and/or generalization of data. both of those acts always involves some kind of bias (even random selection) in what, how, and why, criteria used in process
Don't forget about "=" and ",". 0644 would be u=rw,go=r.

Also worth pointing out that this syntax isn't an extension; it's defined by POSIX and widely supported.[1] People like to add a positional syntax as described in the article (e.g. "rw-r--r--") to their ad hoc utilities, but it's not nearly as powerful.

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/c...
Not sure why you're downvoted. Fentanyl is involved in almost 2/3 of opioid-involved overdoses.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/o... Fig 3-5 & descriptions.