skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm... so, at first blush at least, this sounds like a pretty Big Deal, and a Good Thing. From the press release:

Better World Books, the world’s leading socially conscious online bookseller, is now owned by Better World Libraries, a mission-aligned, not-for-profit organization that is affiliated with longtime partner the Internet Archive. This groundbreaking partnership will allow both organizations to pursue their collective mission of making knowledge universally accessible to readers everywhere. This new relationship will provide additional resources and newfound synergies backed by a shared enthusiasm for advancing global literacy. Together, the two organizations are expanding the digital frontier of book preservation to ensure books are accessible to all for generations to come.

This new relationship will allow Better World Books to provide a steady stream of books to be digitized by the Internet Archive, thereby growing its digital holdings to millions of books. Libraries that work alongside Better World Books will now make a bigger impact than ever. Any book that does not yet exist in digital form will go into a pipeline for future digitization, preservation and access.

Sounds good to me. Of course, there's a big difference between issuing a press release and actually doing something. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out in reality.
Yes. We cover numerous types sources, from traditional newsprint journalism, to online reporting by some crank with a blog. The idea is to develop and apply critical thinking skills while reading/hearing various news/editorials/advertising sources.
It’s worth noting that it’s not the parachutes that typically fail, rather, the deployment systems.

You’re packing (by hand) a large area of fabric and cord into a very small volume. You’re coating that fabric and cord with a variety of anti-stick substances, which have to be stable with extreme temperature and radiation levels, and huge vibrations.

Parachutes are deployed in several ways - springs, hydraulics, compressed gas, explosives, drogues, and combinations thereof.

For flight tests, parachutes are typically pre-stressed as though they’ve been to orbit and back. This wasn’t always the case.

So - there’s a lot of surface area to go wrong purely around the problem of getting it to eject and unfurl, before you even start to think about the parachute itself.
"Not many, because their urban planning is better" reads like a swipe. It's clear from your reply that you didn't intend it that way, but unfortunately intent doesn't communicate itself on the internet. The burden is on the commenter to disambiguate. There are two main ways to do that. The first is to include more information in your comment—in this case you could have spelled out your argument more clearly and relied less on one-liners. The second is to use neutral and factual language. For example, you could have macroexpanded the nearly-informationless "better" into an explanation of just what the relevant difference is.

There's another point about how your comment was flamebaity: it steered the thread in a more generic direction. When discussions go from more-specific to more-generic, they typically get more divisive. This is what your comment did. All it said was "their urban planning is better" and "car culture is not some fundamental invariant". Those claims were larger and more generic than where the discussion was just prior to your post. This is basically always a step down in discussion quality, and nearly always makes a thread more divisive.

If you're going to do that, you should include enough specific information to put meat on the bones. Large claims with little information amount to provocation on the internet. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21456176 was a predictable response to the provocation, and you reacted by taking a swipe at the poster ("I'm glad that gave you the opportunity for the zinger"). That's what I mean about taking threads further into flamewar.

This whole dynamic usually starts with the swerve towards more generic discussion. This is a subtle point, but a surprisingly reliable one.

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A Study of Pay at the Washington Post
Judges that process traffic tickets don’t really have any of those things.
Money is less powerful than it used to be.

Technology and global markets have driven tremendous efficiencies. Companies can make more money selling a $300 TV to the poor than a $3,000,000 TV to the rich.

Up until around 1900, in the US, the top 10% lived drastically better than the bottom 10% (or whatever top/bottom chunk you want to look at).

Now, extreme money just doesn't buy you anything special. It will have more gold on it, less inconvenience, be bigger (or smaller), faster, etc.

- Bezos has a private plane, the poor have Southwest
- Gates has a Porsche 959, the poor can take a bus
- Buffet lives in a small house in Nebraska (well, bad example)

So the rich earn and/or accumulate more and more money, but since they can only spend $1200 max on a new phone once a year, it mostly get re-invested into the market.
I wonder how much influence these benchmarks have in terms of (a) promoting Intel's performance and (b) eroding trust and confidence in Intel
Maybe they meant Microsoft didn't really stick to the C standard library. _strdup vs strdup. malloc vs HeapAlloc. assert, fopen, etc. The functions mostly exist but really aren't the way to program Windows.
Actually yeah, can we not rig some kind of bicycle with the same sensors and test self-driving that way?

The steering mechanism would have to be modified obviously, but surely steering is a trivial part of the problem compared to actually figuring out where to steer to?
And I’m honestly not sure what the answer is other than not carrying with it quite the same amount of negative baggage that Uber does. They were differentiated but it turns out most people don’t want to fist bump their taxi driver.
If they allowed everyone to underpay property tax by $8.41, it would add up to far more than the proceeds on the single sale.
Maybe the best you can do is price it low to account for the risk, and put big warnings that it'll only work as long as Facebook continues to allow side-loading. If people still want to buy it, that's on them.

Looked at your profile and I assume we're talking about Soundboxing?

Did Oculus give any feedback on why they won't put it in the store? Looking at your website, I'm thinking it makes heavy use of user-created tracks with the audio being pulled from YouTube (based on the VEVO thumbnails)? Is YouTube ok with that kind of embedding?

The Quest store just put Synth Riders up this week, so clearly it's not a complete ban on games that play unlicensed user-sequenced tracks. But those have to be loaded into a folder on the device from your computer instead of "HAND MADE CHALLENGES" with a Daft Punk song prominently featured in the marketing material.
If the property is legitimately owned, the title is registered with the land registry office. These are public records and the county definitely has access to them.

> It sucks, but once there's a lien on the property you're SOL as a property owner.

That implies that any home with a mortgage means you're SOL. Does this mean ownership is dead? The US has a mix of title-theory and lien-theory states. In lien-theory states, a mortgage counts as a lien on the home. Michigan, in particular, is an intermediary state, in which case the mortgage does have some component of a lien. It gets complicated since each state has it's own rules.
I have a collection from EZ-Pass in NJ.

The toll booth didn't read my EZ-Pass on MY car registered to ME an EZ-Pass customer. So EZ-Pass sent me a bill in the mail for $2.50 + $50 administration fee.

I went on their website to pay, and they gave me an option to add the license plate to my account and only pay the $2.50.

I did that.

Last week, after never hearing from EZ Pass again, I get a letter in the mail from a collections agency for the $50.
"which analyzes temperature data from around the planet, said October 2019 was the warmest in their data record, which goes back to 1979."

This is meaningless. "On record" should be hundreds of years to really show me that there is a real heat wave. Instead, we have data only going back to 1979.
And lawyers, courts, and judges. For completeness.
Already possible with guns, bombs, and poison. Already accomplished with guns, bombs, and poison.
Wow. I wonder how many other people got nailed by this? Ticking "total balance due" would've made me immediately figure everything was free and clear as well. Worse, since the "outstanding collection amount" is less than the total, it's easy to assume it would be included, you know, when you click total.
I know it was a rhetorical question, but because of negative externalities. Same reason I can’t dump pollution in the river that runs through my property, because that polluted your property downstream.
Really curious as well, will you please do a write-up if you can make the results public?
Slack client is single-threaded.

However, 'chrome' would be valid. :)
Make the back taxes due on sale then. Simple.
If propulsive landing was a harebrained scheme, we'd have never had the lunar landings.
Slip Lanes Would Never Exist If We Prioritized Safety over Speed
This will be an unpopular opinion but we should index the DNA of every citizen.

The two objections are 1) exposing genetic health info 2) foreign countries can identify our spies.

For #1, I have news for you: insurance companies already build risk profiles of you, DNA profiles are not going to tip the balance of your premiums against what they already know. This ship has sailed. (and TBH if they didn't insurance would likely be even more unaffordable and out-of-reach than it already is)

For #2, I can't say.

But think of the benefits: how many more crimes would be solved? How many LESS innocent people would go to prison for crimes they didn't commit?

Plastic straws, browsing history and DNA indexing are white people problems, IMHO. Look at what it's like to be black in America in 2019: Botham Jean was sitting in his own apartment, eating ice cream, watching a ball game when a white off-duty Dallas police officer broke in and murdered him for no reason.

She'll be out of prison in 5 years.

The rise of body cams has the last 10 years has shown these types of incidents happen more frequently than we ever wanted to admit.

How many people are hurt in real life by things like DNA indexing? Please. It must be nice to be so rich to worry about frivolous non-problems like these. A national DNA index could keep a lot of innocent (mostly minority) people out of prison but oh no god forbid a white person be revealed to have a genetic marker for Alzheimers and their insurance premiums go up. The horror.
Spam can be solved by just making it easy for people to spot when something was classified as spam, e.g. as spam folders do.
The article conveniently hides the fact that the owner was a slumlord and the residence that the county seized was not owner-occupied and must have been in very bad shape. If something fetches 25 kUSD at auction when Zillow tells you that equivalent properties nearby go for five time that there's a good reason.

You'd think that especially other slumlords appreciate when a derelict property is seized and disposed of quickly because the traphouse next door really causes a headache. It's the county that implemented the process, someone must have voted for the fast-track process!
But I’m guessing you probably tend to favor one for your regular shopping because it has characteristics you like better than the others.
While that's true that there were fewer people starting businesses, there were also proportionally fewer consumers in the world. I'm not sure things were any easier 50-150 years ago in that respect.

IMO only VCs want a bullsh!t "story". The rest of the world just wants X for $C and doesn't have access to it yet because the competitors aren't big enough. Brand loyalty, network effects, and cost of switching applies to some certain markets, but also doesn't apply to a lot of markets.

Nobody reads the story behind the founding of Taco Bell or Del Taco. They just get hungry, see the sign, and eat. Billion dollar business right there.
You'd be surprised. I even connect from an Oculus Quest and stream VR over wifi without noticeable lag.
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Start before you think you’re ready
NB: toed the line.

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learn to make Hot Spicy Yummy Momos Chutney
There was a CMU CS intramural basketball team in the '80s called "The Turing Machine".
What I need is something that let's me write my docs in markdown and then quickly and easily render them to PDF with nice output, runs on Linux, and doesn't render remotely.

I've used Grip, and I use the Markdown to PDF plugin in VSCodium but none of these really meet the requirements.
Very cool. So you have two SD cards, one for infra nodes and one for worker nodes, is that right?
A question I have here is are we asking for people to pay taxes on the value of the home because it is at some dollar amount, or are we asking to pay taxes for the cost of services?

If my modest home (really it’s modest) doubled in value, I’m not using “double the services”. Why would my property taxes increase? What if it’s an entire neighborhood? Maybe salaries go up for firefighters and teachers... ok? What if they don’t live in my neighborhood?

Let’s say we want higher property taxes to subsidize/provide services for other areas. Why not just raise their property taxes as well? This would offset the price of the homes and make them cheaper.

I’m getting the feeling part of the issue lies in people realizing the true costs for things. I don’t have the first clue how much it costs to have a fire department, or a school. They always just want more money (which I basically always vote to give them - maybe I shouldn’t ?).
There are no wet lab communities out here (Switzerland), at least I couldn't find any. But asking a postdoc to help out for free sounds promising.

Btw, I work 50 hours a week plus travel, I don't think it's going to be that fast to get up to speed.

Cheers
I am a solo founder of a website monitoring SaaS [0]. Theoretically, my uptime should be higher than that of my customers'. Here are a few things that I found helpful in the course of running my business:

* Redundancy. If you process background jobs, have multiple workers listening on the same queues (preferably in different regions or availability zones). Run multiple web servers and put them behind a load balancer. If you use AWS RDS or Heroku Postgres, use Multi-AZ deployment. Be mindful of your costs though, because they can skyrocket fast.

* Minimize moving parts (e.g. databases, servers, etc..). If possible, separate your marketing site from your web app. Prefer static sites over dynamic ones.

* Don't deploy at least 2 hours before you go to sleep (or leave your desk). 2 hours is usually enough to spot botched deploys.

* Try to use managed services as much as possible. As a solo founder, you probably have better things to focus on. As I mentioned before, keep an eye on your costs.

* Write unit/integration/system tests. Have a good coverage, but don't beat yourself up for not having 100%.

* Monitor your infrastructure and set up alerts. Whenever my logs match a predefined regex pattern (e.g "fatal" OR "exception" OR "error"), I get notified immediately. To be sure that alerts reach you, route them to multiple channels (e.g. email, SMS, Slack, etc..). Obviously, I'm biased here.

I'm not gonna lie, these things make me anxious, even to this day (it used to be worse). I take my laptop everywhere I go and make sure that my phone is always charged.

[0] https://tryhexadecimal.com
The problem with this is many developing countries overprescribe antibiotics or have them available without prescription. In developed countries you see antibiotics used en masse for livestock breeding. Both of these things dwarf any usage in people in developed countries. (You also see things like betablockers available OTC in places like India, and there was recently a research article on HN about how much this improves quality of life and quality of care.)

It is kind of a tragedy of the commons, but the real solution is not to let people in the US die from easily treatable diseases. After all, what is the point of effective antibiotics if you never use them anyway?

The real solution is probably to develop enough treatment options so that they can be cycled or used in conjunction.
I'm the opposite. I mostly choose to see big budget films released in IMAX which isn't very many. All of the rest I think that I agree- the home experience is satisfying for the vast majority of other films.
If you execute such an order and try to seize the property, you deserve to die if you die in the confrontation. After the Nuremberg trials, "I was just doing my job" is not recognized as an excuse anymore.

Now, should the judges, bureaucrats, etc deserve to die too? No, because they don't actually go there and try to seize the property, but they must be put in jail as taking part in the conspiracy to unlawfully get the property of the old man.

When bureaucrats and judges will begin to pay, they will stop doing stupid stuff against weak people.
I love my boyfriend but I hate his job help me friends
Google Voice number for car dealerships.

Turo to try cars out for a few days. The owner would probably be happy to tell you what they do or don't like as well - and perhaps sell it to you if they were looking for something else.
I didn't realise that. My original post was just to warn that AVX512 benchmarks can be highly misleading. Everyone has troubles measuring AVX512 performance:

"In GROMACS, transitions in and out of AVX-512 code can lead to differences in boost clocks which can impact performance. We are just going to point out the delta here." - from https://www.servethehome.com/intel-performance-strategy-team...
right, and someone is still providing services to those its just higher up the chain right? there arent that many people living with water, roads right? they just arent organized at a town level
There was a man who was pushed too far once, by the local government. He used his free time to build a bulldozer, covered in armor, and do millions in property damage. I'm not saying he was right or wrong, but there is a serious cost associated with this kind of injustice, and its not entirely unpredictable.
Ahhh! I appreciate the tip. Still getting used to the UI
Because the new Edge browser is Chrome for all intents and purposes
You simply cannot make a parachute that always works. My pal that works at SkyDive Perris has seen plenty of perfectly-packed parachutes fall prey to an errant gust of wind turning the chute inside-out mid-deployment and making it useless, requiring immediate deployment of the backup.

Now imagine this happening under supersonic conditions. Recovery would be almost impossible.

This is why skydivers wear multiple chutes.
> The pickup truck shown in the video most certainly does not mass 7,200 kg.

Exactly, as the video title is "2,500 kg @ 30 mph"
Lyft was “Uber but in a normal persons car and much cheaper” until Uber created their cheap option
Firefox is working on a JS popup blocker. They're collecting data now, use https://github.com/ehsan/popup-reporter to report sites.
> At least for Big Tech, which seems to be the focus of the problem, the solution would be telecommuting.

I like to call this the "thoughts and prayers" solution - we offer thoughts and prayers that big tech will suddenly de-prioritize having butts in their HQ and that demand will greatly drop as a result.
> supposes that there are some mustache-twirling masterminds ... picking and choosing what content

Uh, no, he points out, accurately, that the mustache-twirling "masterminds" are actually kicking people off of the site for having unapproved viewpoints.
"oh no, this asset appreciated too much, woe is me! Now I'll have to sell and become a homeless millionaire"
Back in 1999, I did really well on the PSATs. I was inundated with flyers. A dozen a day or more. I often just through them out.

One day, my dad glanced in the trash. It was a small box with a fighter jet on it. I had assumed it was an Air Force recruiting package (some of the flyers were... robust) and had tossed it.

Turns out, it was from Gillette. "Now you're a man. Use a man's razor." I laughed out loud. Gillette had bought PSAT scores just to get the birthday of males to advertise to them, which I thought was hilarious.

They made a loyal customer that day. (Loyalty of a 17 year old is pretty cheap to purchase but also worthless.)
You're welcome! I'm not sure what you mean by symmetric vs. asymmetric relationships, but if you mean that they're developed in parallel, both as first-class citizens, with each informing the other, and each taking about the same amount of time and code, then yes. Or you could also call it a symbiotic relationship.
Really like the look and feel of the product. Do you have any specific target audience (company size/type)?
What are the high level problems/metrics the product focuses on?
Citation needed. This is my argument. Unless you are working for Uber/Tesla/Waymo where is the data? I'd even be satisfied with seeing incidents where the system successfully avoided collisions, at least as a baseline. How do regression lines trend in comparison to non-autonomous cars considering scale?
Depends what you mean by "a forum like HN". Before HN the main geek watering hole was Slashdot, which famously never censored content and fought strongly against attempts to force it to do so.

Slashdot also had a rather sophisticated moderation and scoring system, that allowed spam (hot grits etc) to be downranked and appear auto-collapsed, whilst longer form content was upvoted and expanded by default - even if it was a reply to negative ranked content.

You may feel a personal preference for HN, or not, but they were essentially the same from the perspective of any lawyer.

In other words HN could easily keep its distinctive feel without ever banning or erasing anything, just by implementing sufficient controls that let users see what they want to see: in fact it already does via options like showdead.
So you’re telling me you can just pay off the current amount? Effectively allowing you to ignore the amount in collections until they choose to settle or never pay?
If your threat model is "all the threats all the time" then I assume you also wear a helmet when walking down the street.
> I don't think however that 1.2s is a bad reaction time for a complex situation.

1.2 seconds after hitting a predestrian. That's a pretty poor reaction time. Typically you want to apply the breaks before you come into contact with a person.
You know it's not too far out because Saudis are selling shares in their oil wealth. When this stuff actually starts to work, the impact on the world economy will be insane. I suspect this is why it's not being adequately funded: nobody in power wants to flip over the massive fossil fuel apple cart.
Hopefully this means that we’ll never achieve nuclear fusion in a practical way. As far as I can understand this will practically create energy at close-to-nothing prices, which while it will certainly solve some of our today’s issues (burning fossils is quite bad) at the same time it will also create a lot other bigger issues. For example, if you make it energy-free (i.e. price-free) to cut trees and build highways wherever you want I’m pretty sure the Amazon rain-forest will disappear a lot faster compared to what’s happening now.
It may be worth examining whether there are national security risks to commingling sensitive assets like ARM with assets that have huge funding and liquidity needs, like many Vision Fund investments (and until recently, Sprint).