skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't believe a Project Veritas article made it to the front of HN.
It's very much a solved-many-times-over problem. Search the following terms: bike child seat, extracycle, bakfiets, Burley, kid bike tag along. Those will take you all the way from infancy to big enough to ride their own bike. You wouldn't need all of those, but you could probably buy one of each for a total cost of less than 1/4 the cost of one car.

Your baby entitles you to drive, thereby endangering and impoverishing everyone around you? Yeah you're right, there's an out-of-control sense of selfish entitlement in America.
> What's the profit potential for Facebook here

In a world where "everyone" uses Libra, they need a FB account to access their wallet, and FB will see every consumer decision at its most valuable - the point of exchanging money for goods and services. This is immensely valuable for an ad company.
I don't disagree with your statement at all.

But I do disagree with the statement I was replying to.
Windows 2000’s stability was something else coming from 98SE and Mac OS 9. My family’s shared/house PC back then was a Dell Dimension 4100, which was actually pretty great in terms of hardware but was chained down by 98SE. The increase in usability that thing had as a result of being upgraded to 2000 was staggering. It went from “ok” performing and bluescreening every so often to a rock solid powerhouse in a single step.

If only all OS upgrades went that way…
It feels perverse to speak of a churches success as a business rather than success through the spiritual satisfaction of its members. It belittles the "good word" and treats it as corporate decor.
Absolutely, that's my point. We should care about people, period. Whether one has a family should be irrelevant to the question of how to engineer a society.
The same way Alaska supports STOL and seaplane taxis.
I recently listened to a podcast about trademarks which does a good job of explaining why this, seemingly nonsensical, bully behaviour occurs.

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-70-under-the-influenc...
> I have an ITX build that fits into a camera case. For being a digital nomad. Then when at a coffee shop.

So you bring a spare monitor with you to the coffee shop too?
You stripped the first part of that paragraph: “ When fulfilling the purchase, please bear in mind that we are offering the Pinebook Pro at this price as a community service to PINE64, Linux and BSD communities. We make no profit from selling these units...”

While that doesn’t state anything definitively, it sounds like they plan to either increase prices later on, or that the first batch (of PRE-orders keep in mind) is being released early in order to get feedback from customers.

In either case it doesn’t sound like they’re planning to operate as a charity forever.
Zuckerberg sees shiny things and wants his name behind it. VR and now Crypto.
If you are talking about marketing or advertising, sure. If it's politics, and one side uses them and the other doesn't, you'll never win another election.

Ethics don't matter in that case.
Can confirm, live in a rural farming/ranching area. Drive past farms (vegetable, grass, ornamental, and commodity) every day. Local grocery store trucks produce in from all over the country. The local grocery stores (Wal Mart, HEB) are also higher priced than even their stores in the nearby suburban area. We drive weekly to Aldi for most of our groceries, or to the bigger, nicer HEB with better food. The local farmer's market is overpriced trash / antiques and junk. We do have a local friend that gives/sells/trades eggs with us though.
Really? Because this poll suggests that Republicans are pretty supportive of things like Social Security and Medicare.

https://socialsecurityworks.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/N...
I remember taking Control theory classes and thinking 'Why the hell did it take me 4-5 years to get to this level of mathematical mastery.'

It was amazing to be able to just do a little bit of odd math here or there, and suddenly have the solution on how to fix something completely unrelated, like how to tilt an airplane safely or make a robot balance a pen upright or something, by modeling it. Granted, we did very simple models, but the sheer scalability and power of these techniques is what made me feel on top of the world.
To be honest, 3 years later and you still can’t figure out why Trump won.

And no, I am not a Trump supporter. I didn’t vote for him. I won’t vote for him. But it’s really easy to see how he won.
Then I will continue to not give money to those that support, fund, or act for despots. So Sorry.
Or based on what the politicians elected by those states say and then vote for. "Vote the most against"...
This still requires an API key; it isn't local.

So I decided it would be a good idea to open an issue in the linked repo, to find out what the costs would look like.

Turns out someone else already did that! https://github.com/google/live-transcribe-speech-engine/issu...
nitpick for people that like pictures: JPEG uses a 2D discrete cosine transformation (DCT) instead of a fourier transformation. Basically the same principle with a different set of base functions, but suitable for compression, because you generally net fewer real coefficients.

I think DCT is a good entry to understand these kind of transformations. The set of base functions for DCTs is displayed in the image on this site:

https://edoras.sdsu.edu/doc/matlab/toolbox/images/transfo6.h...

I think imaging makes understanding the motivation of frequency dissection plausible and you can imagine any image being a sum of these base images with a weight(R) and a phase/offset(IM). From that understanding LaPlace and FT is far easier. You can even kick one dimension in most applications like audio.
> When you make a oversea money transaction the banks take up to 20%.

You need to comparison-shop the price of remittance: https://www.saveonsend.com/blog/welcome/#more-1
> Chronoshere, a startup from two ex-Uber engineers, who helped create the open source M3 monitoring project to handle Uber-level scale, officially launched today with the goal of building a commercial company on top of the open source project.

I recall a thread here from 2-3 weeks ago about how “Uber-scale” wasn’t really Uber scale, and that most of these publicized “Uber-scale” projects ended up getting canned internally. Any insider insight to this M3 project?
Wouldn't the most Google style thing be... "Liquid Democracy with Google Votes" [1] ;) ?

The deep question though is: should employees of a corporation have a say in its governance ?

Views from anyone in Germany would be interesting, as they seem to have a particular system for this. [2]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4lkCECSBFw

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany
By 2025, 43M children under the age of five will be overweight
Really cant wait to get my hands on a pinephone, it looks absolutely amazing. Hopefully I will be quick enough to get a BraveHeart model for christmas, I would rather not test my technical skills with assembling the developer edition.

Hardware switches for almost everything and open source software :D
I can assure you I'm no troll. I'm just more open-minded than others here. If Microsoft makes the best product, I use it.
It's like the yearbook that high schools publish at the end of the year, but colleges published and distributed facebooks near the beginning of the year, so students could get to know their fellow students and promote a sense of... collegiality.

I remember seeing a printed one in 1995. It was an official college of arts and sciences publication, so did not include any hotness ratings or non-academic vital data. Basically names, photos, undergraduate year of study, and majors.

They moved to departmental websites during and after that time, which is how Zuckerberg was able to scrape names and photos for his own skeezy little project.
The simplest definition of profit seems to imply that someone paid more for something than was put into it. How does one get savings with no profit?

edit: I'm trying to ask a question; and I should add, it is my understanding that's how profit is defined. Why would this be downvoted? Do I really have to paste a definition of profit in here?
Tbh if you can "teach the test" without imparting meaningful understanding of the material, the test wasn't good the first place.
My Maximalist Lifehacks
Let's Not Misuse 'Refactoring'
It's surely a VoIP number rerouting to outside the US, that's just basic opsec for scams.
Laser-Based Audio Injection Attacks on Voice-Controllable Systems [pdf]
There's one airline in particular that I dislike simply due multiple bad experiences. I vocalise this significantly. I still book their flights if it's the cheapest: I'd argue to myself that (a) flying is a transient experience and (b) I'll use the saving for a 'free' lounge pass, taxi to the airport, etc.

I wouldn't assume that just because people vocalise brand loyalty, means that they stick with it when it's time to open their wallets.
One of the subtle considerations when discussing non-profits is that any organization can be a non-profit, but in order to get tax exemption you have to meet certain requirements related to your mission and how your organization is organized [0]. One of the exempt requirements is education, and there are numerous ways in which it could be argued that a local news outlet can operate as a medium for educating local constituents of important events.

I spent a number of years working in public accounting in the DC area, almost exclusively with non-profit organizations on both the audit and tax side. Tax exempt organizations come under a fair amount of scrutiny, because of how valuable their tax exemption status is, and the government checks everything from executive compensation to programatic expenditures. Most have to get audited annually, and you can read their audited financial statements just like how you could read Apple's or Google's [1].

A key note about tax exempt organizations is that as soon as they start to earn income from activities that compete with typical for-profit organizations, they have to pay corporate taxes on that income. I saw some people implying that Amazon could become a subcompany of WaPo and avoid taxes, which, while technically is in the realm of possibility, would have 3 major consequences: firstly, the 501(c)3 non-profit parent organization can't make dividend-like disbursements to shareholders, so the money would be tied up in the non-profit, secondly, excessive compensation to employees could result in massive punitive taxes [2], and thirdly, the revenue that WaPo would receive would most likely be taxable unrelated business income. Bezos would be better off keeping Amazon separate and donating cash to WaPo -- at least then he'd be able to get a write off.

[0] irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organizations/exempt-purposes-internal-revenue-code-section-501c3

[1] There are several sites, but guidestar.org is the one I've mostly used.

[2] irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organizations/intermediate-sanctions-excess-benefit-transactions
Yeah, but what about deplatforming speech I don't like?

These last few weeks I've had some really astounding conversations on Reddit. People are literally demanding censorship, doubling down on the "political correctness" enforcement aka "the fight against toxicity".

Yet at the same time, there's massive outrage over companies actually complying with that, as it happened with ActiBlizz, only then to backfire in a shitstorm along the lines of "Not that political incorrectness, that's the good kind, you are not supposed to censor that!".

Turns out that the same speech can be very politically incorrect in one place, while being considered the epitome of political correctness in another.

For companies that work on an international scale, this means there really is not much wiggling room, so they will end up rather over moderating than under moderating.
Any idea of the expected price?
Both yourself and Bernie say that the companies created this problem. How? It used to be that if a company brought in a bunch of high-paying jobs, governments would fall all over themselves, sometimes to a fault, to bring that company to their town/county/state.

But now we can cast 20-30K workers making over $100K/year as a "problem", relieving local government of responsibility for poor zoning and taxation policy. And the "tax evasion" angle is just a distraction that has nothing to do with the topic at hand. So my question to you (and Bernie) is: how does providing a lot of well-paying jobs make a company responsible for the local housing market? As a follow-up question, what is the suggested action that a particular company take to solve this problem?
Importantly, there are fully open source implementations of U2F hardware tokens.

On top of that, U2F tokens have no memory.

This makes them more durable and make the chipset even smaller.
> Regulations lead to lobbying. And lobbying leads to corruption.

So instead we just give companies what they want in the first place to eliminate corruption! That "fixes" it! No, that's stupid reasoning.
But from this point of view, they haven't been defending their trademark. The companies they're going after seem to be established and have been doing business for a while.
> Measures that are not ready for prime-time are as good as nonexistent

That's not how technology works. To become fruitful it requires patience and investment. Nobody is saying you have to be an early adopter of these currencies.

> We're talking about money here!

...and particularly whether it's current feature set is amenable to fraud prevention. I work at a traditional payments company and the waste is infuriating--there has to be a better way.
If they're simply quiet, obviously they don't care that much whether it happens or not?
Trademarks are granted in specific categories. Wendy's restaurant can have a trademark on "Wendy's" (the rendering of the name in a specific font, the pigtailed girl logo - these are different trademarks than the word mark using "Wendy's"), and Wendy's craft supplies can also have a trademark. Pretty straightforward defense when the hamburger company gets annoying; hard to argue that pins-and-needles can be confused with hamburgers.

But I see your point. I do wonder if any of these defendants have added 'the term is descriptive, and therefore indefensible' to their defense.
Sure, and yet somehow they are consistently voting in people who want to dismantle both.
I would bet the glass will outlive the M-DISC.
> I think the the author is doing what TDD (or BDD) is fundamentally trying to get people to do, by writing such detailed requirements and specs: think about shit before they write the code.

I hear this a lot, but I wonder if the people writing or saying have ever considered that TDD does not have a monopoly on "thinking about shit". Back in the day, we used to create a blueprint before we manufactured a metaphorical software constructed plane. We had design reviews, not just code reviews, we thought about shit far more than is commonly done today in the Agile software reality we live in.

I also find it ironic that many developers/managers that I have worked with in the past that have most ardently supported TDD, also tended to ardently support AGILE/scrum, which I find to be polar opposites. Agile development, to me, is the "fuck it, we're doing it live" development methodology where planning and other sorts of "thinking about shit" is dogmatically attacked "Don't go chasing waterfalls, take a bite and make some progress, etc", only to be invariably followed 6-12 months later with a retrospective bullet point that reads like something like, "X didn't take Y in consideration causing considerable delay/trouble/bad-shit with Z".
Typographic Illusions
> Cities that can go vertical rather than horizontal has tons of benefits

While it's a popular image in near-future scifi that doesn't look too costly at details, flying taxis with any current VTOL technology don't plausibly enable this, AFAIK, because while they can fly over cities easily, close proximity to solid vertical surfaces substantially disrupts the stability and effectiveness of VTOL systems.

That's why helipads tend to be either on top of or a distance from buildings now; even with a smaller number of VTOL aircraft, pads aren't at those places because it's the most convenient place for them, but because it's the only safe place.
Sounds like it will probably be a breakout success then. Most things that are wildly successful have "it's not going to work" opposition. Then it's rationalized after the fact when it does.
> I imagine “young people” care most about paying their bills

That's politics too
Interesting write-up, but it sounds like he didn't want to succeed. I have been using WSL for two years now as my primary development environment and it works great. Yes, file I/O is slow, but unless you do a ton of I/O it really isn't that big of a problem for dev work. I like having access to Ubuntu repositories and I actually prefer it to MacOS/Brew.

He also spends time complaining about Edge when it just takes a few minutes to download and install Chrome as your default browser.

Finally, Linux is pretty good these days. I have a System76 laptop running Pop!_OS and it's super nice, everything works out of the box. Why he decided to use Windows if he wanted a *nix environment is a little strange.
Similar story here but in a different country in eastern Europe where there's no G&T program. I had access to intensive math though and shudder at the thought of my son would have to deal with that. He's currently just 2yo so we don't have an insight yet..
Too bad Amazon will host this forever. You can complain, they'll remove that ONE URL, but will happily ignore the same people hosting the same sites and URLs all over their janky networks. And Cloudflare would "protect the First Amendment rights" of people who host shit like this.
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Get involved if you have the time :)

PineTime is a community project and its hardware will be produced and sold by Pine64. The Pine People are gaining some great experience in this space, it is truly a pleasure to join in!
As soon as I read that eco-something could be used to "coat windows, or even clothing", I just assume it's bollocks.
ABC anchor admits network covered up Epstein evidence
I'm sorry, but I think you must fundamentally misunderstand the right against self-incrimination if you believe that invoking it is, in and of itself, incriminating. Cf. "you don't need privacy if you have nothing to hide."
>The other browsers are very standards compliant, doesn't matter - still broke.

because it wasn't made to be standards compliant. It's just an art project someone threw together in 2 hours, not an actual website.
They're obviously talking about storage lifetime, i.e. sitting in the same place for many centuries. But it's a good point as you wouldn't want to store something like this for 1000 years in a place where there are earthquakes unless you adequately protect it.
> You can't assume they will do that everywhere.

I don't. Personally, I don't care if they do this or not -- it's entirely irrelevant to me. I was just noting it out of amusement.

In general, I tend to avoid stores that have a loyalty program, because (as you note) their "loyalty card" prices tend to be the same as the normal prices at stores that don't.
First, I'd start by building a product ecosystem that becomes an inescapable cornerstone for all communication and information retrieval in the modern technological age.

Second, I'd work to track users' every move around my various products in the name of "advertisement" to make my investors happy and rich.

Lastly, I'd start bowing to external governmental pressure and abusing all of the vast swathes of data I've gathered to become a mass surveillance arm of every superpower.

Now let's just do a quick "Background" check on every candidate's name, email address, social media and github usernames. Oh look, they post on Twitter about politics an average of 30 times a day and our ML models mark them as 82% likely to increase workplace dissent. Immediate disqualification.
An open source database playground by compiling Go to WebAssembly
"In eras when you couldn't as easily have news tailored to your preferences/prejudices?"

Well, no, not electronically. But in the early republic, political parties sponsored newspapers. In the early 1800s, southern postmasters would seize and destroy abolitionist literature. Considerably later it was easy to find one that leaned your way politically.
You are correct that it is easier to use functional languages in some domains. There are quite a few messaging clients that use Erlang under the hood. Facebook uses Haskell for its spam engine, where being very explicit about if a long chain of things fails open or closed is important. These days, most of the major programming languages have ways of representing functional elements.

However, it's hard to make functional programming general purpose. There are some posts about it elsewhere, but iterative programming tends to make reasoning about the storage of different objects in memory quite a bit easier. Given how all abstractions are leaky anyhow, there will almost always eventually be some component that is easier to deal with using OOP. The inverse is not necessarily true.

There are some practical considerations here as well. While it's possible to make OOP-esque structures in functional languages, it's not trivial. Meanwhile, using a piece of functional code in an already OOP system generally isn't too bad - there is, once again, some syntactic sugar, but the scope tends to be clearer. Putting a bit of functional code inside say, a class, tends to muck with the usage and assumptions of said class less than putting a bit of OOP into functional code.
Except accounting-wise, and tax-wise, that is what profit means. Retaining a surplus into future periods is generally going to be a taxable event.

I suppose you could create a reserve against projected liabilities such as warranty returns (which is commonly done in for-profit companies). But that is pretty well explicitly not for a rainy day or the unexpected; it’s for the rather firmly expected.
Heaviside is impressive. One of the most elegant eVTOL aircraft I've seen so far. Looks efficient, taking a lot of cues from sailplanes instead of just slapping together a quadcopter with some wing surfaces (or slapping some clunky lifting pods onto an airplane).

I think it's a feasible design. Hopefully they actually start flying it crewed and scale it up to at least 4 seats. If they can execute, I can believe it'd be significantly cheaper to operate than a helicopter.
I can only agree. It is like in our country where people are donating for "poor african children" by UNICEF while there are thousands of people living in 100 miles radious where they could help them much more efficiently by giving them food, shelter, even warm word, without half of their effort (money) sinking into endless pit of UNICEF organisation.

Same thing here. Instead of fighting the fight where they could benefit whole internet by obstructing google, lets say it mildly, shady bussiness, they are fighting for some strange, far away couses with doubtfull results (or even - any results). Not saying it is worse than doing nothing but it is more like PR (company or personal) than anything else, somewhere close to: "let us talk, talking doesnt hurt and it doesnt change anything, so lets discuss some more".
I'm sure they have plenty of cloud, Internet of Things, and AI. They might even have IoT AI in the cloud. Gotta stay buzzword compliant.