skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I write my server in c++ (my own framework).

I studied lwan while doing it. It's in C. https://lwan.ws/
"It's also great for when you're first starting out and don't know when or where you'll need to scale."

To me this is probably the most significant benefit, and one that many folks in this discussion strangely seem to be ignoring.

If you launch a startup and it has some success, it's likely you'll run into scaling problems. This is a big, stressful distraction and a serious threat to your customers' confidence when reliability and uptime suffer. Avoiding all that so you can focus on your product and your business is worth paying a premium for.

Infrastructure costs aren't going to bankrupt you as a startup, but infrastructure that keeps falling over, requires constant fiddling, slows you down, and stresses you out just when you're starting to claw your way to early traction very well might.
Israel is an extremely entrepeurial society due to many reasons , both historical and current.

But beside that, there's a simple explanation: it's quite hard to earn a decent salary in Israel, without being either an Entrepreneur , or by working in a startup company.

Germany(and maybe Austria) probably don't suffer from that problem.
Coming from Puppet, I almost migrated to Chef long ago because Puppet lacks stability (not "the system is down" stability, but "all my scripts stopped working again this month"), but looking at it, I concluded Chef lacked it too.

I'm still at the "shell scripts are enough for everybody" camp, but Ansible is looking stable enough to use.
Agree. Landlords take a huge cut of the wealth flowing through large cities like SF. They are purely parasitic. Real housing reform looks like Berlin, where the people are trying to get a referendum to expropriate housing from big landlords[0].

Treating housing as an investment is completely at odds with the ideal of housing being affordable.

[0] https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/04/11/a-referendum-to-...
The trick with those is you can make a TI-BASIC program that will make it look like you cleared the memory - fake empty "programs" list and all. There were a few tiny details you couldn't replicate like the highlighting animation, but they never noticed when I did it.
What's the mortality rate on transplants? If you keep doing the same surgery over and over, won't the patient eventually die on the operating table?
So because they fight human trafficking (which is undoubtedly a good thing), we should overlook people dying in their concentration camps and children being kept in inhumane conditions?

Is there some sort of scale we measure these things on where if you do enough good things you're allowed a certain amount of atrocities without intervention?
I picked up the relatively new HP Prime in the last 6 months and the ability to do 3D graphics with a touchscreen is amazing and really gives a great appreciative for the underlying functions you are plotting. Would have loved to have something like this in my advanced math classes.

So much better than the pretty terrible TI series by comparison.
Mental illness exacerbated by drug use that leads to ER visits is a pretty disordered state of affairs to begin with.

There are plenty of legitimate reasons that would make sense for a person to wait an hour or so in an ER once they have been stablised/triaged, such a for observation, further diagnostic tests, or the attention of a particular specialist.

An otherwise-healthy person can generally deal with this without getting violent, even if they're feeling a bit stressed, but if someone's tripping balls and being chased by robotic dinosaurs, then it's no wonder that people are acting out and behaving in ways that transgress social norms.
Casio makes several graphing calculators that are cheaper and faster than the TIs. $70 gets you the top color one that can run Python programs and is test compliant - it has a flashing test mode that disables all user memory. But the $35 b&w one works just as well for tests. So low income parents can get a good graphing calculator that does it all for around 1/4 the price of the recommended TIs.

Students fear Casio because the button pressing procedures are slightly different than TI and TI also has cleverly captured the textbook market, with TI specific instructions only found in many courses, textbooks, and teacher materials.

Below $35, there's $15 Casio models that can do numerical integration, solve equations, and find roots, enabling students to do most all things required for say AP Calculus exams easily, and the couple of questions that involve looking at the graph can usually be done by interpreting the critical points. One can get a 5 on the AP Calculus with a $15 calculator, though a couple questions will be slower and that might lose a few points, but not many because there's only a few questions like that. Most calculator required questions on various tests don't need the graphing capability at all even though a graphic calculator is recommended for the test.

Serious bad-asses can also take calculator required tests with no calculator and attempt to still get the highest score, and some manage to do this. College Board requires you to sign a waiver when you do this since the test center will normally lend you some random calculator and wish you the best.
It's itching me the wrong way as well. I prefer academic publications "dry" and austere, keeping distractions at a minimum. Stylish, cutesy graphs are better suited for other forms of dissemination
A Wide Range of Testing Results on an Excellent Lithium-Ion Cell Chemistry
Politicians on both sides agree big tech needs regulation, US citizens are split
That article only talks about the company’s formation in 2007 and history since the 2000s. Here’s the predecessor founded in 1841:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cook_%26_Son
> His whole excuse is that Minsky wouldn't have been able to tell that in the moment, even though he was on f'ing sex trafficking island.

Did he know, in that moment, he was on a sex trafficking island?

> That a 17 year old offering to sleep with a 74 year old man on a billionaire's sex island was a victim of trafficking is not something that takes any bit of thoughtful reflection to figure out!

Well, apparently Minsky may have figured that out, given that the witness testimony is that he turned the offer down.

Regardless, this is off topic anyway. What's on topic is that RMS did not excuse the accusations of sex, only the accusations of violence which the original accusations (to his impression) risked turning into.

> Now you're making excuses for the excuser.

No, I'm only repeatedly restating what RMS said in different forms in a vain hope that one of these restatements "clicks" with you.

> You have proven no lies in my bulleted list.

I believe I did prove one (note that I didn't accuse you of making it, just repeating it).

You know, this thread and the whole RMS story does make me worried about future of humanity. Great many people in the industry have revealed themselves to have no ability to read with comprehension, or parse clear English sentences. Now I see why people can't even agree about most basic facts in scientific issues like global warming - they read one thing, but in their minds, they read a different thing.

I have nothing more to add on this topic.
I'm less cynical interpreting the author's motives. I think the author was just in a "get of my lawn" mode of thinking, not without some cause though unless/until the internet forms the immune systems needed to fend off the worse excesses of extremism and propaganda.
I in fact did this in high school. But now that the current high school teachers are people my age who actually grew up using the calculators, they are wise to that ploy. :)
I don't understand this all-or-nothing mentality your prescribing to 'the mob'.

No police brutality, racial profiling and horrendous record on institutionalized racism is not the same as 'No police'. Everyone is for community policing.

As for CPB. Fuck them. Abolish ICE. That branch, that puts children in cages, it doesn't provide any value -- nothing can justify there existence.
1 meter is on top of about that much subsidence and storm surge increase. Most of Langley Air Force Base and much of adjacent NASA Langley will be below high tide level, not counting storm surge. My neighbor's house (who are trying to sell) will be under nearly a meter of water. This is not "non-issue." We're talking only about 80 years from now. Within living memory. And we're already seeing impact.

https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/#/layer/slr/6/-8502032.768614948/...

EDIT: I understood your point was about how the REAL threat is the existential threat of nonlinear feedback loops, HOWEVER, I thought your post under-played the real consequences on people alive today of even the most likely outcome. We're going to have to rebuild much of cities that have been around for 100s of years. There's an enormous amount of capital involved here. Imagine Katrina-like scenarios but for dozens of cities in the US and at regular intervals. A vast system of dikes will be needed, probably at the cost of a trillion dollars, all along the US sea coasts. In addition to on the order of trillions in real estate that will have to be abandoned (in places like Miami, Norfolk, New York City, San Fran and surrounding cities, much of the Mississippi river delta in Louisiana including New Orleans, and even Washington DC) or maybe rebuilt on stilts or vastly upgraded dike systems. This is stuff in living memory of today, and it's the result of a stay-the-course growth in fossil fuel usage.
>Raptor is a small company and one guy is fronting most of the support load so keep trying, he's not out to screw any customers or provide an inferior product.

But Radio Silence for a few months... surely that is a bit too much?

On the other hand I didn't know Raptor was this small.
UNICEF's Innovation Fund slides from “blockchain” into cryptocurrencies
Hell I had a buddy in high school that went through and wrote a custom program that's only function was to perfectly 'emulate' the entire calculators menu system, so that when asked to demonstrate that he had no notes or programs, he could go through the entire process of showing nothing being archived and then wiping the memory.

Dude wound up in the Stanford CS program after high school, so clearly he learned something.
Most of what you'd call open source seed are varieties produced through university research programs. Independent seed farmers reproduce and sell the seed in commercial level quantities.

I think this license is potentially important. There are commercial seed companies taking these public varieties, renaming them and selling them as their own product. There is nothing technically wrong with that.

However where it gets sticky is where they place legal demands on the farmer buying and planting the seed. If the open source license prohibited them from doing that it would be a very good thing.

If somewhere on the bag they had to put the public name the university assigned that would help. Farmers sometimes plant seed from two different companies and think they're spreading diversity risk when in fact they're planting the same variety!
They have learnt historical lessons from the USA who stole IP from the U.K.

https://www.apnews.com/b40414d22f2248428ce11ff36b88dc53
I'm not sure 'open source' is a very good qualifier to use in the name of this project. I read the license, and I'm not seeing anything analogous to 'source'. It doesn't appear that any details about the development of the seed has to be shared along with the rights to use the seed.

If I'm not mistaken here, this just looks like a copyleft license, which is a totally separate concern from 'open source'.
You'd of course do it inside a controlled environment, via virtualization or similar technologies which let you monitor, veto, or roll-back anything the analyzed program does. (And if it's malicious/sneaky enough to escape that, then it wasn't safe to use in a manual fashion, either.)
soo.. you're saying payola and product placement?

seriously though, payola aside, there's some truth here.
This is awesome! Clearing some of the challenges without having to Google for the right selector feels good =) Congrats to whomever made it.
I did that too.
How is there not a giant 2nd hand marketplace of TI graphing calculators for super cheap? Like after 30 years of basically producing a functionally identical product that few people need after college, there should be cheap used graphing calculators everywhere.
IIRC that's the story of Asus: they started out by making parts, and at some point (a decade ago?) started to sell their own desktop/laptop computers.
كلمات اغنية الله يسامحك طوني قطان مكتوبة كاملة
Sounds bad, and I think Hegel is a crank, but this, if genuine, is a one-sided story from a spouse who really wasn't looking for help in her marriage (on Reddit, of all places!).

Also, let's be frank, both philosophers and physicists spend most of their time talking past one another at the best of times. So unless both of these people are willing to actually engage in the literature that each is respectively immersed in, they should avoid talking to each other about these things entirely. By engagement, I mean a sincere attempt to understand the ideas on their own terms, without leaping to conclusions or insisting that they understand it already.

One of my least favorite things about academia is the disciplinary superiority complex everyone seems to carry around with them. I've jumped around about 3 or 4 disciplines in my career, and every one of them thought they were better and smarter than the others, but know what? wasn't true.
Should there be one? Pain is a symptom of something else, treat the root cause.

Managing pain should only be a temporary measure.
What would be "overpopulation" by your definition? No way to grow enough food, resulting in mass famines? No physical space for people, even after tiling the planet with skyscrapers?

Or would "unsustainable carbon emissions and ecological damage" be enough? And if that's enough, aren't we already there today?
People using their phones while waiting for the light is absolutely a safety issue.

They aren’t paying attention and when the light turns green they may either hit a pedestrian as they hurry to move , or not notice the green and be rear ended by a driver who expects them to begin moving.
Not really related, but I just browsed through all the projects on http://unfoundedlabs.com/ and really enjoyed it. You have a unique voice and an artists sensibilities which will now serve as an inspiration to me.
Anecdotal, and I have been out of school for 5 years or so, but I never once had a teacher or proctor clear the memory on my calculator. Also, storing notes on a TI calc is trivial, you don't need any programming knowledge to do so.
They don’t need new technology, just a bus. Sit a few officers in it where their vantage point is about a meter over the top of cars, drive around the highway a bit, and mail merge a bunch of citations.

I was bored on a 2 hour bus ride the other day and easily spotted hundreds of drivers fooling around in their phones while driving at highway speed. Mostly texting. Insanity!
What are you talking about?

The OP wrote a crawler and used it to crawl Tor. Depending on where they live, accessing the content might be illegal, and storing some of the content in your computer might be illegal as well.

Law enforcement might be monitoring some domains, or have set up some honeypots that the OP might crawl automatically.

You don't want to end up in court having to argue about why your computed accessed some child pornography and downloaded it, and trying to explain to a jury that you did not did those things, but that the crawler that you programmed to do those things did.

Sure, nobody might end up raiding the OPs home, and even if they do, the OP might be able to successfully survive a jury. But just having to go through that might suck.

If the OP only wrote the software and never used it, then they are fine. But from the article, they did use it, so who knows where the crawler landed. Chances are nowhere good.
In recent memory, there's been no trouble getting the American government to lower taxes.

Of course, they've borrowed heavily to accomplish this...
>Police get a lot of hate on HN because of some obviously over-the-top policies that need to be corrected. But we would have major problems without law enforcement

This seems like a fantastic leap. I think there are zero or borderline zero instances of calls, even implicitly, for the abolishment of law due to individual horrors.
You can't balance despicable policies by being merely competent in your other missions.
at prodigy.net? Loving it.
From the link:

gooey_options={ # NEW!
'validator': {
'test': 'user_input.isdigit()',
'message': 'Please enter a number'
}
})

'test': 'user_input.isdigit()',

'user_input.isdigit()'

'o'
Also progressive corporate taxes might be enough to stop monopolies.
> Previous adm deported more people

Which is irrelevant; the anger at ICE isn't over the number of people deported (or even particularly about deportation, specifically.)

Other than disproving this administration’s defenders’ talking point that opposition to this administration’s policy is about opposition to the enforcement of immigration laws, I'm not sure what pointing out that the Obama administration deported more people in the early years of his administration than Trump has in a comparable time frame.
>> The combination of hamstringing operations along with increased public awareness are steps along the path to shutting them down for good.

On the contrary--hamstringing their operations just raise their costs. They are funded by US taxpayers, so if costs go up US taxpayers will pay more.

If you want to shutdown ICE or change how they operate, the US Congress must change the law. If you are a US citizen, write / call / email your representatives and demand that they act accordingly. Also, VOTE! If you don't like what your representatives are doing, vote them out!

Petty protests like this do little to change the operations of a federally-funded, legally-mandated entity that is enforcing federal law. If you want change to occur, federal law must be changed. Congress changes federal laws, so you must start with them.
How did the cost profile change? You can include reduced labor costs if you want.
Thanks for pulling that link out. Just look at that exemption list.

Product category description lists look to me almost exactly like rigged state tenders would look like in some post-Soviet country

> LED lighting fixtures, a kind of used in horticulture, containing over 5,000 LEDs spread across 6 light bars

> Grills composed of steel wire, each measuring 49cm by 47cm, weighting 0.36kg

> Power supplies ... measuring 148cm in length, 43cm in width

Those items are pretty much purpose written for individual benefactors
Or “how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.”
Sometimes doing what's right lands you in prison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
I don't think that is a defect of thinkpads at all. something is clearly broken in your particular machine. Is your hard drive located in that spot, loosely connected, and perhaps not connected at all when you squeeze it right there.
I used to really annoy my Japanese ex by interrupting. It seems in Japanese conversation the main point is arrived at, with a satisfying and meaningful ending. I'd just blurt out my next thought.
The FAQ states that paywall links with known workarounds are allowed. I don't know the known workaround, though.
Other people can choose to enable evil: it's their moral failure.
Is the program required to be syntactically valid? I assume not in which case you can just type your notes into the program editor.
> but the action being pressured for by mobs is usually irrational.

This comes across as pseudo-intellectual anti-democratism. The current prevailing political/economic system of neoliberal capitalism is deeply anti-scientific and irrational. One only need look at the ever increasing rates we are emitting CO2 into the atmosphere to see that.

Your statement also completely disregards morality and ethics.

> But I think having to fear crowds of probably less than completely informed people generally lacking nuance is not something to be lauded.

These abstract objections to specific actions are, frankly, a cop out. The actions undertaken by ICE and DHS under the current Administration are horrific. Pressuring companies not to do business with them is both ethical, rational, and correct.
> I don't understand this all-or-nothing mentality your prescribing to 'the mob'.

Here's a good example:

> As for CPB. Fuck them. Abolish ICE. That branch, that puts children in cages, it doesn't provide any value -- nothing can justify there existence.
Duo security isn't really in Detroit. They are in Ann Arbor, which is much different.

Ann Arbor is home to the University of Michigan and many talented engineers that graduate there.
Pose’s Billy Porter Makes LGBTQ History with His Emmy Win
Great. We need this in every US city ASAP.

Walk around in a downtown area and it’s blatantly visible how many drivers use their phones while driving , often performing illegal maneuvers due to their distraction.
It's from "How Will You Measure Your Life?" https://www.amazon.com/How-Will-Measure-Your-Life/dp/0062102... discussing how Dell started outsourcing bits and then expanded until Asus decided to make their own computers.

Google search revealed http://sajithpai.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/How-will-you... (summary page 13)
I love this kind of free-market activism. I just wish people didnt force people to bake cakes
It's an open source project. ICE can, and likely will, continue to use the software.

Chef is just no longer going to provide them with a paid support contract.
The TI-89 series' CAS is really impressive, particularly since it was released over 20 years ago with automatic equation formatting and a powerful unit subsystem.

The price of this is worth it for the software alone.
Definitely. Networking on DOS was an absolute nightmare for so many reasons.
Cities with High Bicycling Rates Are Safer for All Road Users
Your program doesn't have to be valid BASIC.

It can just be a text document, open it up with the editor.
> The classic "here's some tech go figure out what to do with it" approach doesn't work.

Actually I think this does work, many us on this forum learned this way. It's just a shitty general purpose approach to intentional education. I think this would have been fine had they been able to sustain the project and someone else could have tackled the problem a different way. It seems like there was nobody with the right vision to attract money.

It also just was not clear what problem it was solving.
This isn't the Fox News comment section. Nobody cares what you think.
Casio was the standard graphing calculator over here in the U.K. back when I did A levels in the 90s.
A Letter to President Rafael Reif and Provost Marty Schmidt Regarding Epstein
Here’s what you’re missing. Imagine you retired in 2007.
If SS was invested in private stocks you’re likely destitute and possibly dead, because your home, 401ks and social security are all underwater.

Social security has less volatility and has an associated cost for that.
Operation Dark Divide for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Is Now Live on PS4