skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like a serious case of Elon Musk time and planning (missing deadlines, bad time estimates etc.). A small company like Purism delivering an ambitious first time project like the Librem 5 phone on time would be nothing short of a miracle. The clouds would have parted and jesus himself would have come down to congratulate them.
I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and have some more patience.
Only because they keep it on the version of the engine they started on. Just ask any game developer using Unity about whether they tried to update the engine mid-project and how that went if they did ;p
It is only sensible to be skeptical when the attention he's garnered could be useful to some
By the way, this is the article they are referring to [1].

[1] https://tweakers.net/nieuws/159002/amsterdams-bedrijf-start-...
Horizontizally scalable RDBMS that can grow by adding commodity hardware and storage and can be queries with ANSI SQL. And MIT/BSD licensed.

(Not a Six month project, I know....)
For many people, Google results are an advantage. Much as for many people targeted results are an advantage. Your definition of advantage seems unreasonably strict.
Twitter bot that tweets out random visually appealing integer sequences: https://twitter.com/amazing_graphs
Ask HN: I want to validate a problem targeting students age between 14 and 21
What is the best channel/community to reach this audience. help?
The Slow Phone Revolution
If you're doing a weekly yt video with a million views, then you're looking at about $8,000 - $12,000/month in income.

Add in merch, Patreon, etc. and you're balling.
Writing 4 articles per week for a single publication, possibly writing exclusively for them, sounds like a pretty good case for considering someone an employee rather than a contractor.
Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes
Ah, okay; that does make sense. FWIW:

$ wc -l ./.profile ./.vim/vimrc
249 ./.profile
173 ./.vim/vimrc
422 total

...but I probably just forgot that I'm an outlier:)
I'm a video maker and this is very cool! Good job
It's not clickbait aggregation, it's a coherent summary of a long rant. At worst, it could be challenged as copyright infringement or plagiarism.
Pando failed as publication with last article from June and before that for a year or so all articles were written by Sarah so no money for journalists. It's not so much selling publication as selling web site with residual google traffic.

I am sad - I was subscriber at one time and attended a few events. Lots of good content a few years ago. Good journalism is expensive and Sarah failed to make finances at Pando viable. Now competition for subscriber dollars is intense with theinformation, business insider, digiday, etc and ad dollar will never support niche publication with no unique audience like Pando.
> This also made no sense to me when I visited the US.

This is not because we don't tip in (parts of) Europe that "it made no sense". These are just minor cultural differences.

> You just pay for your meal, and you call it a day.

In the US, you pay for your meal + tax + 15% tip and call it a day. It's really not that different once you realize that the price you're going to pay isn't the one that is advertised on the menu.
I'm sure people in the space are well aware of intermittency issues. I think the interested public isn't well aware of it. Many people seem to think batteries solve the problem, and it's just Big Oil and Big Coal in the way.

I'm not despairing that it can't be done. I just think people who say it's a solved problem are undercutting the challenge, and hand-waving away serious problems with the 100% intermittent renewable route while proclaiming confidently that other massive low-carbon energy sources aren't desired or needed. Full disclosure: I'm a nuclear proponent.

I know we can decarbonize rapidly; it's been done at scale in small regional areas many times.
CMake Lesson Learned – Set your variables before creating your target
There have been stories in the news which have raised awareness about how Canada exports their recycling/trash to the Philippines.[0] The Philippines seems to pollute heavily, based on this map. Given this data, it seems counterproductive to send waste to the highest polluting countries, since they are obviously not able to process their existing burden.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93Philippines_was...
script -f filename ?
Ha, I got something about making love with monkeys and thought that sentence was lost in translation.

> getting a new byline every time I tested the site.

Did you make sure that it is new every time? I'd say a simple timestamp would be a better choice.
Secretive military spaceplane lands in Florida after record-long orbital flight
I see you omitted "to society" on purpose on your question (after the word "value")
Please tell me that there is an extension with which you randomize this data? I want it as well!
I think that “spaceplanes” where a great idea until SpaceX landed a Falcon9 first stage, after that point they are mostly a complication.
Maybe? The one that sticks out in my memory is running sshuttle on Arch Linux; Arch considers sudo to be part of the base group, so it doesn't want to remove the package, and I think sshuttle invokes /usr/bin/sudo with special options to control it. But... I might try just making a sudo symlink in my path and see how it behaves; thanks for the idea:)
You mean a reactor that is cooled with Sodium, a material that, according to Wikipedia, spontaneously explodes when it comes into contact with a rare substance called water?
You need to travel a bit more in Europe, then you can understand that many Europeans find the overattentiveness and simpering friendliness of American waiters shallow and insincere.

You will also find that whether tap water is free or not varies between (and sometimes within) countries.
Unix 4 Life
hello dear electronical minds.
Am looking for a futureable operating system and I won't learn again into a new one. I tried out many Linux distros like ubuntu, Kali, Debain, but that wasn't what I am really looking 4. I used since 20 or more years Apple Computers, during the last years i become more and more fascinating by the unix terminal. On my point of view: no linux os is more likely and friendly to you like an unix os can be. Few days ago, I started with FreeBSD and I am totally happy with it. of coz its hard to begin only by command line consoles, but I really think that this is what I was allways looking 4. well, am a newbie on it, but i feel that this is my future OS. and it's also very close to apple unix, but its more hard and direct. Am glad to get both of this, like I think best unix-like host system. thanks and best regards
Yup. Same with Neo4j. You can write your stored procedures in Java ( or any JVM) language. Import any library you want, go crazy.
Pragmatic Unit Testing in Swift
Good point with the license, GPLv3-ified it now. This should not be a hindrance to use the software, since one never needs to link against it.

Thanks :)
Ask HN: How can a company prevent industrial espionage by the NSA?
Nothing against your comment, just ... everyone on HN found this nit pick the second most upvoted comment on all of this??
The barber dishes out haircuts with average utility of X, where the average price for a X utils of haircutting is Y. I personally receive more than X utils from this guy’s haircuts. As a courtesy to compensate the additional value that I personally receive from him, which would not be fungible to a randomly chosen barber of equal skill based on anecdata, I provide a tip.
Why memories come flooding back when you visit places from your past
Can concur, we had huge success sharing our core business logic as a C++ library which was then used by UI on Android/iOS/Web and even desktop native apps.

Using Dropbox Djinni (https://github.com/dropbox/djinni) also helped with the horrible pain of JNI... although it's unmaintained these days. I guess people use SWiG now.
To be fair, the title is accurate as written and raises a point that is relevant in its own right, especially as the FAA's approval of Boeing's response to the first crash was given under the new law. Furthermore, the article explicitly states that MCAS was initially approved under the old law.

If one is going to speculate beyond what is explicitly stated in the title, part of that speculation might well include the thought that if the change occurred before MCAS was approved, the title would likely have said that instead.
> Impossible to get the "exact" tone via text.

Somewhat true, but re-read your statement again. When you don’t know me (or really anything about me), why would you imply you know my exact location and the only reason you didn’t share it was because of respecting my privacy? Your first sentence was fine (although factually incorrect), but I feel many who read your second sentence would find it to have a bit of a creepy tone (possibly why it was downvoted, but who knows what actually goes through someone’s mind who downvotes w/o commenting).
Not mainly talking about restaurants, but mainly cafés and places with counter service.
https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/4513751?hl=en...
It's exceedingly difficult to get traction and buy-in. As a freestanding effort, all but impossible. I'm holding out hope that as a side-gig / loss-leader (that is: rather unlike Purism's model, unfortunatley), it might be tractable.

Keep in mind that Microsoft and Facebook failed at this. That former industry giants Nokia and RIM were felled. That Sony Ericson is no longer free-standing. Palm has died.

It's a ruthlessly competitive market with huge winner-take-all dynamics. Apple and Google are the current incumbents. History's lesson is that they will probably fall, but only to be replaced by equally oppressive monopolies. This to me is not progress.

I'm hoping Purism does succeed.
A good number of github projects I find say "Install with npm install foo, or try it out online [here]"

The online version can host the exact same code from git master. For many projects, no hosting is even required, because the whole thing can run in a codepen-like playground.
C is pretty rudimentary for more complex logic - not having nice containers, things like std::thread or smart pointers can mean a lot of pain when trying to write code portable across platforms.

I don't think it's worth staying there - especially since C++ is a first party supported language on pretty much all platforms.
Tipping is important to many people who already make a solid living wage, it is what puts them in the middle class. I know people that earn $60-70k, some significant fraction of which is tips. It isn't just important to low-wage workers.

An under-appreciated aspect of tipping is that it is a form of wage elasticity in industries with small margins and highly variable revenue. Hedging revenue risk is going to come out of employee paychecks, and tipping allows the employee to take on some of that risk for higher average take-home pay. Eliminating tipping has been tried in bars and restaurants many times in the US with poor results, such that they revert; employees hate it because they would rather have the income variability and higher average income, and it also impacts the quality of their hours.

There are some complex economics going on with tipping that it would be foolish to ignore.
Some ideas also have a tendency to be leapfrogged by a combination of lesser novel ideas used in a new way, the idea of a plane as a first stage was probably great until SpaceX showed up and landed a Falcon9 first stage to reuse.
It does feel like this whole concept is predicated on chasing the new hotness in languages or frameworks.

In practice, if you’re thinking of changing at that level, the problem probably lies elsewhere. Unless your app is some special snowflake (note: 99.99% aren’t), any of the popular languages/frameworks will do just fine for a very long time.

The only move Sivers arguably needed to make here was away from Perl. To Ruby, PHP or JavaScript, but not all 3.

If those extra moves hadn’t happened, this wouldn’t even be a thing.
> Apple is now deprecating ObjectiveC++

I’d be very surprised if this was true. Apple’s own frameworks are all C++ under the hood, e.g. CoreAnimation, AVFoundation, AutoLayout (part of UIKit and AppKit), Metal, etc. The meat of these frameworks is in C++ with an Objective-C++ layer on top, exposing an Objective-C (and thus Swift) API to developers.
The first one looks neat, and if it is indexed by Google/duckduckgo/Bing/AltaVista it should be sufficient for people to find the project. Thanks for pointing it out.

The last one looks like it has too many features for my taste, but I will keep it in the back of my mind (or rather: my bookmarks) if I'm ever in need of something along the lines of GitHub.
Having attempted this in the past let me say: I’m in violent agreement.

Attempting to “share code” between Swift/Kotlin is folly at this point. I’m not going to close the door on Kotlin Native some day. But for now just say, “No”.
If your only solution involves "let's do that all at once", then it's not a serious proposal.
This is a bizarre comment. I've not made any assertions or definitions. My initial comment was in reply to an unsupported assertion. Perhaps your comment was in response to someone else.
Progressives such as Elizabeth Warren want Facebook to censor political ads by candidates that contain falsehoods. They believe that falsehoods are predominantly from the right. Zuckerberg has resisted such censorship, and I agree with him. I think conservatives may be warming up to Facebook.
Great question, but off topic. I think it would be a great Ask HN though. That said, why don't I just pile on here: yeah Catalina - what a steaming pile.... :)
Aggressive deadlines do not preclude options once you reach sufficient scale.

There's a truck that will get to your street today. If you have a rush package on that truck, it goes along with all the other rush and non rush packages from N days ago.
Thank you for the suggestion. I like the idea, but unfortunately I think it is out of scope for me!
It's enough of a hurdle to open up a lot of culture. Maybe not Mara Jade since she is probably the most popular Disney owned character to never appear on film or TV, but the act of having to itemize, describe, track, and actively protect a "derivative work mark" is not going to be pursued for every minor character or box office flop. I doubt even Disney would find it worthwhile to create, produce, and distribute non-trivial content to protect every minor character listed in Wookiepedia from the Legends canon. The reason I picked trademark law as a metaphor was exactly because some formerly profitable brands have been abandoned and then revived by third parties over the years, so there is precedent.

What constitutes abandonment of a "derivative work mark" ultimately would probably be a delineation the courts would make. I'd hope that in a sane implementation of this scheme your strawman wouldn't hold up. It would be pretty easy to demonstrate that next to no money was spent on the creation or marketing of the product, and no one bought it, so that could still be considered abandonment. That being said, it wouldn't take much to produce new IP the keeps the mark alive so long it as it was 1) actually the same concept as the original mark (Mara Jade can't star in a rom com set in New York City without lightsabers. (Also Disney should call me about putting Mara Jade in a Rom Com set in NYC WITH lightsabers, because that would be amazing.)) and 2) gets some limited degree of public recognition.
Or just link to pastebin/your-favorite-alternative where someone can view it while looking good + copyable? I get that it isn't "in-feed", but I think most people would prefer that over having to find some OCR software that likes this specific font and feed an image into it.
> 96% of customers usually tip according to that link

Interesting, I almost never tip in France. There's no tip line when you pay by card. You may tip if you want (people may leave a few euros...), but it's certainly not frowned upon not to tip. It probably depends on the context too.

EDIT: your reference [1] says that 96% of French people tip, but only 3% on average (it used to be more but has been declining recently).
That handicap is also mitigated by a fanatical fanbase who will support a failing company to the end on principle.

You can't say that about most current manufacturers
You're still not providing any sources.
This is exactly what the print media query is for, which is supported in all modern browsers.

https://joshuawinn.com/css-print-media-query/
This story about a delivery company that thought they were negotiating their parking tickets is hilarious:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/nyregion/price-of-a-parki...
I have so much hope in this project. Linux apps adding support for libhandy is so full filling to see. A long time dream seems to become true.

My thinking might be way to posetive but the fact that the post gets a lot of attention on HN might even help the project instead of letting it die.
Slides are often (usually?) shared, which would now be rendered uncopyable.
I don't think private.sh can provide the kind of protection that they seem to imply is their goal; sure, they can encrypt your traffic in the browser, but unless the search engine(s) they use as a backend are the ones are decrypting it then private.sh controls the exit nodes and can MitM anything they want.
It's not either/or. You can use this to add an image to your post containing the link. Or a code-snippet website could use code like this to generate preview images to show up on Twitter.
Gotta appreciate the sheer research and length of this article... Can't read it all.
This.

Fuel-driven systems offer dispatchable power.

Resource-driven systems offer dispatchable load.

We're used to thinking of idled loads (factories, etc.) as wasted capital, but idled dispatchable power (peaking plant) is the same thing.

The old approach to this is described by the maxim "make hay while the sun shines". Find a task suitable to your current situation, stockpile for downtime.

(The fact that our present fuels are stockpiles of a previous era, that we're burning through at rates of 5 million times that which they accumulated, also bears heeding.)
I don't see if it's all that "simple". They just found that we use the same information flow for doing a complicated task, but that applies pretty much to a computer; when it carries out a difficult task, its execution loop is still the same. The simplicity of structure does not necessarily mean the simplicity of the method.
For anyone interested in implementing this, here is what I found last time...

Postgres queries are streamed to the client - ie. some results are delivered before the query is done running. That functionality is necessary for really big resultsets.

That makes it difficult to change plans mid query, because your new plan might return results in a different order, and you need to filter any already-returned results, but you can't afford to keep all of the already-returned results in RAM. Even if that weren't an issue, I'm not even sure that it's always valid to do this.

To add even more complexity... The postgres protocol allows the client to reverse the query (ie. midway through getting the results, the client can say "yo, go back, and return results from earlier again"). It must return the same results in reverse order. That means if you do switch query plans, when the client goes backwards, the server needs to un-switch query plans back to the old plan when going backwards.

These issues are not insurmountable... But they certainly stopped me implementing it in the day I had set aside for the task...
True in retrospect, it’s an industry regulation, just not a legal regulation. Thanks for catching that!
California will have plenty of shallow seas, by and by.

Mostly in places like the Bay counties, Stockton and Sacramento.
>The short answer is that Intel is the only foundry that even tries to keep its "technology node" in step with feature size. I give them a lot of credit for it because technology node 'deflation' by their competitors has been very successful in misleading consumers and even tech-savvy people.

1. That somewhat implies Intel is telling the truth with its features size and all others are lying, when today's features size are all pretty much marketing terms.

2. The misleading also somewhat implies Intel had the better transistor but marketing from other firms mislead consumers. Had Intel labeled their late, and not yielding latest iteration of 10nm to 7nm ( which is different to their original version of 10nm ) they would still be behind TSMC's 7nm ( Whether that is N7, N7P, or N7+ ) in both technological advance, yield and total volume output.

3. The node "deflation' started with Samsung Foundry. Morris Chang, CEO of TSMC at the time said during investor conference, they renamed their Node because their competitors ( No name given ) uses it and they were getting lots of marketing, investor and most importantly customer's pressures. If company A came out with Samsung Foundry 10nm, company B would also want to be at least 10 or 11nm. He also add the naming system before the renaming already had little relevance to the actual transistor size.
What happens after 15 years?
I suggest we try an experiment. Appoint an austrian (say, Alan Greenspan) to run the US federal reserve. See if we get improved stability, or the largest recession since the Great Depression.
It's definitely clunky, but I think there are a couple reasonable readings:

1) This points to a larger pattern of disdain for robust safety regulations as opposed to a hiccup with one specific product line.

2) The change only happened because the crashes happened later. Had the crashes happened first, Boeing would have been forced to back off.
Really, your problem is over attentiveness? That someone comes over a few times to ask you if you something?

What I found immensely insincere and fake is exactly the European style.

There is this pomp, where initially the waiter is expected almost humiliate themselves, seems like the customer expects to be treated you like royalty, but in fact the waiter is sick and tired of another "royalty" bossing them around, getting nothing for good service, and will screw you over at their first opportunity

In the US the waiter fakes that they are your friend

In Europe the waiter fakes that they are your servant
I am all for bikes, but this is super silly.
How is it an improvement for a hundred people waste their time and clog up the streets to do the job of a single truck?
Obligatory mention of “The Clock”, a veritable piece of artwork soldered from hundreds of individual diodes and transistors. The bare uninsulated component wires form part of the artwork.

https://techno-logic-art.com/clock.htm

Picture inside it’s own frame :
https://techno-logic-art.com/images4/fc1.jpg
This is the new frontier for the Arduino's users.
Absolutely visit the website, it's really interesting and very well done. Sincere congratulations.
So no buses in urban areas?
The link has been changed. Here is said coherent summary of the long rant: https://www.businessinsider.com/sarah-lacy-is-selling-pando-...
That doesn't make any sense. One could simply implement a yearly fee for companies that accumulate a large number of traffic violations (which are checked for validity as a whole unit). This would not force companies to pay the fees for the tickets but it would force them to keep the number of tickets low. If they decide to fight the tickets then they will have to pay the yearly fine anyway and since they keep accumulating tickets they will never actually reduce their backlog to manageable levels and eventually become forced to pay the ticket to stop the yearly fine.
Funny that php5 is safe from it
A product that finds me the best deal for my customized services, for example servers, emails, hardwares, etc.
Yes, it’s a great feature! They also have many non-fastmail.com domains available on the basic plan.
It'd add value to my bank account if I stole your car.