skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have friends who work for WilmerHale. The SPK likely spent more than the €5 000 they'd taken in on the scan on the legal fees alone.

It's a shame to read this because the SPK does support good scholarship (I own a number of their publications) but Germany in particular seems to have a tight-fisted zero-sum view of copyright. And these kinds of games, where they say "yes we know we have to follow the law but we don't feel like it" are surprisingly common in both German and France.
The merchant's bank account should be just a parameter you plug into some account at NPCI, and that's it.

Sure, the banks should do the chargeback/fraud management, but the IT interface toward the merchants should be completely standardized.
> Benchmarks Game-style

Once upon a time

https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/archive-alioth-...

https://web.archive.org/web/20010616231931/http://www.bagley...
Not sure if something has changed, but I spent the better part of 3 years taking my electric skateboard on planes regularly.

Biggest issue I had was occasionally, they would look at it funny going through security and give it extra screening.

Fits pretty well in the overhead too, especially laying upside down, so bags can be stowed above it.
Amtrak is long haul, not "mass transit network", outside of the NE corridor which is a very special case in Amtrak.

Having a cheap enough car and expensive enough transit bill to exceed it is an extreme statistical outlier. I saw this as an owner of a cheap car and an expensive commuter rail pass.
Interestingly for coax, as the frequency approaches DC (say a few 100 kHz), the Z0 jumps slightly.
What does this have to do with Kay's claim that objects are "mini-computers"?
Turing didn't prove anything about human understanding. He proved about computation with an idealized, resource-unlimited computational system, which isn't, at all, the same thing.
> "A System with 1000+ Microservices at Planet Scale described As Code 100% Declaratively"

There's a fundamental problem here that I don't believe a (taking Pulumi at face value) better config language solves: you are working with an inherently complex system, and configs are only one part of that complexity.

Doesn't matter if you have 1k+ microservices, a monolith with 1k+ RPC services, or something in between - at that scale, you have accumulated such complexity in the system that configs are just one facet of the problem.

I do think it's an interesting premise (but I wonder if they've thought about the zip bomb problem, which has persisted across many, many new technologies, including yaml - at some level, you want to try to make guarantees about config parsing runtime requirements - cpu, memory, disk). An idea that's bounced around my head before is letting folks define small programs - Java, Python, whatever - to generate configs, and use static analysis to encourage hermeticity/reproducibility/etc (e.g. disallow random, disallow concurrency, no envvar deps).

A similar, but related problem: people very frequently write configs such that you could change settings x, y, z using this one line, often for the sake of comprehensibility/readability. But we have no way of writing tests for this- all you can do is hope whoever does the code review keeps that in mind.
The free market works best with lots of competition. Roads by their nature don't have that.

What happens when a company buys both routes between town A and town B? What free market forces are going to drive down prices?
Ask HN: Is HN killing threads about the Chinese abuses in Xinjuang?
I've run a few searches for threads on the NYT's commentary and translation on the CCP leaks, but it seems like the mods are removing them. Are they in violation of HN policy?
A prison worker at the time of Jeffrey Epstein's death was offered a plea deal
If you don't want to do complex diagnostics that kind of stuff is unnecessary for the overwhelming majority of repairs on the overwhelming majority of vehicles.

I think you're bother over estimating the complexity of modern vehicles and under estimating the simplicity of old ones. Back in the carburetor days people were complaining about vacuum line spaghetti to run the emissions system. People always complain about new stuff.

The reason new stuff is harder for DIYers to work on is because there isn't yet a body of knowledge on how to work on them without all the stuff a shop had.
NPM debuts conduit for funding open-source coders
It's not a modulated signal encoding. There's no modulation, and so there's no carrier.

The bandwidth is probably 20MHz, due to the Manchester encoding.
At a guess, high-latency phosphor changes on old CRT TV's made the video look smoother, even if it was blurrier.
Amtrak runs on electricity in the NE corridor. Please explain your plan to electrify thousands of miles of long haul low usage rail.
I note this was posted around noon pacific on a weekend.
Ha, last year I have created a video which showed 7 years of GitLab Community Edition history in 2.5 minutes and put some music from https://www.bensound.com behind it. It is definitely fun to analyze bigger projects. Maybe I should do the Linux Kernel, but my fear would be rendering that could take quite long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6ltmzQLO6k
The New Compton Is Picom
>half of the breakage in modern cars seems to require interfacing with the computer to at least clear an error flag.

Yes, you need an odbII tool. they are not expensive by the standards of decent '80s automotive tools (the cost of 'minimum viable analog tools' has dropped precipitously during my lifetime. )

The cheapest ODBII tools are bluetooth, and there is a cornucopia of apps to interface with them in the app store. You can get one that is easier to use that doesn't require a phone for $100 that will work for most problems on most cars.

(Of course, the more expensive ODBII tools are better, I'm given to understand, and allow you to do more, but you can do a lot with the cheap junk; and resetting the codes is generally the most basic functionality; unless you've got a fancy car, even the cheapest one that fits your brand should work for that. )

Having come of age at a time when I was driving and repairing (older) carberuated vehicles, I personally think that fixing a carb is like a thousand times harder than interfacing with the ODB system. Modern injection systems just solve so many problems without trying.

My experience of the modern diagnostic systems is that it's actually way easier. The scan tool saves you so much time and effort vs. the old manuals "go to page 5 if it doesn't X, 32 if it does" A lot of the time, the cheap scan tool gives you a code and description; you punch that into a search engine and you get a goddamn video of someone doing the repair. It's amazing compared to screwing around with an exploded parts diagram. (I mean, from the perspective of someone who isn't really a car guy) - I mean, there's always problems the scantool doesn't catch, but... I mean, I'm talking about all this from a shadetree perspective, there have always been a lot of automotive problems I couldn't fix, just 'cause I'm not an automotive specialist.
I'm still waiting for mainstream adoption/normalisation of workstation setup config as code.

ansible & friends fell well short.

biggest peeve is vscode allows you to programmatically install extensions yet firefox doesn't.

something something nixos but i'd like that for fedora/ubuntu etc.
Almost literally bikeshedding. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding#Etymology
Gamification works well for mundane, mindless, time-consuming tasks like flossing, taking the garbage out, and engaging in social media. So gamify everything? No.
I thought I read recently that the 'secret' to Roman Cement - was that they were using volcanic ash, which changed the composition and resulted in a better ingredient.

https://www.nature.com/news/seawater-is-the-secret-to-long-l...
Outside of speherical cows on infinite planes, Amtrak can't collect payments for the positive externalities it creates for the communities it serves.
Opened the link sure this was going to be about eve somehow ^^;
But that starts with first establishing your identity at the bank. And who knows what would really happen if someone really targeted you and/or your account at that bank.

I mean banks I have some dealings with try to match my signature (after checking my gov issued ID cards), but if it doesn't match they just let me look at the screen so I can try something similar.

So what would happen were someone walk in with fake ID cards? Probably they could just walk out with my money, and then it's up to the CCTV tapes to maybe "prove" that it wasn't me.

If there were truly properly secure and cost effective physical identity assurance services big Internet companies would probably use them.
Not to nitpick but OP mentioned "OSS" not "FOSS." Open does not mean free. You can allow others to access to your IP without the freedom to use it however they want, since nothing is black and white.
I interned at Meraki summer of 2017. I have never heard of a company poaching employees as viscously as Samsara is from Meraki. Based on that I would say that Meraki is on the loosing side of "cool".

I also wonder if Cisco would have changed their acquisition offer if they knew how many employees would be poached.
I wonder if there's a way to modify things to prevent gaming?
Not if you are a regular traveler. In that case you have global entry and/or clear, and aren't checking a bag. Depending on the exact terminal you can get to the airport about 15 minutes before boarding, 45 minutes before listed departure. The bulk of the advantage is the location of the terminal stations, which is real but not as significant as it is being made out here. I mean maybe if you live right at Penn Station and your meeting is right by Union Station, but if you coming from, say, LIC and going to Georgetown, you may be happier with LGA and DCA than NYP and Union Station.

You're absolutely correct about the comfort points, but price should be just as strongly in the train's favor and it isn't.
Very recently indeed, this is mentioned in the linked 2018 article. I assume there is some other secret sauce or it wouldn't be so secret.
This is mostly hype, but I am guessing they will adopt an accelerator approach for modern server computing in a data center. There are a few canonical computing pattern inside modern data center:

Data crunching Fungible is already on that

Distributed services a lot of fan in and fan out some kind of chips that can combine IO networking and moderate general computing instructions can be useful

Massive code data storage

Catching servers?

Overall, I see no reason to take AMD Intel heads on... It's not necessarily anyway, no one needs a third x86 player. We want to have true architecture disruptor...
Is there a reference list of these resources?
Walking through doorways causes forgetting (2016)
> being a maker, and having a curious personality

aka "participate in the site" (via show and ask)
Maybe. But the status quo doesn't pass along those rights to the users of the USER's services. Unless it's like the AGPL
Some data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8713324
> hard problems

Understatement of the year. The number of man hours Intel has sunk into optimizing each of these boggles the mind. And this is coming from someone who worked there for 2 years.
rest assured that your lack of funnness is appreciated :)
If by "efforts to ensure those patterns remain forgotten" you mean "do literally nothing because the public has the attention span of a goldfish" then yes.

The people buying and consuming the news are as guilty as the people making and selling it. The modern state of affairs exists by ambivalent forces present in any large population. It did not need to be engineered by any elite cabal, and it does not perpetuate merely because people are ignorant of what's in the archives.
That’s what I do. For me it’s in the math and algorithm side. The key is being able to craft up proofs of concept and scripts fast. Show their value. Document well so the dev team can implement and the be able to quickly learn the next topic. I love it.
An "algorithm" still implies human intent. Heck, even a blacklisting system is still a form of an "algorithm." Even if each changes to the algorithms Google have made in the past may be justified, the public can't make an informed decision about it if it's not transparent about what it actually does.
I see this repeated time and time again, and every time it isn't true.

This is what my console shows when it sees a 1 TB drive:

[ 1.629496] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/932 GiB)

If you multiply those 2 numbers (1953525168 x 512 bytes), you arrive at 1000204886000 bytes, or 1000.204886 GB. You can write to every single one of those bytes/sectors, none of them are reserved.

Your choice of filesystem dictates the maximum amount of space you can use on the drive, but the drive itself is giving you all of the capacity you asked for, and if you don't use any filesystem at all, you can write 1TB to it.

The confusion comes from Microsoft Windows being involved. Windows measures in IEC units, but displays the value as an SI unit.

So, for example, it will tell you that a 16000000-byte file is 15.26 MB. It isn't. It's 16 MB; it is also 15.26 MiB. Likewise, Windows will tell you that a 1 TB harddrive is 931 GB. It isn't, it's 1000 GB; it is also 931 GiB.

If I'm a cable vendor, and you ask me for a reel of 8 kilometres of cable, and I give you a 5-mile reel, I gave you what you asked for. 5 is less than 8, but 5 miles is not less than 8 kilometres. 931 is less than 1000, but 931 GiB is not less than 1000 GB.
Source on those 3 trillion passenger miles being on exclusively federally-funded highways? That sounds horribly off, pretty sure you're referring to total passenger miles for cars across all road types, which would then have to take into account subsidies at the local and state levels.

This has total vehicle miles at 1.4 trillion in 2017, having around 2 occupants per vehicle on average sounds about right: https://www.statista.com/statistics/193007/vehicle-miles-tra...
This is a quite inaccurate comment. The catalysts (in 1966) for the ideas I had included Sketchpad (especially), Simula I (a few days later), the ARPAnet (under discussion), operating systems inter-process communications (especially Project Genie), the Burroughs B5000, my old biology and mathematics majors. All these are mentioned in "The Early History of Smalltalk" that I wrote for the ACM History of Programming Languages"

Actors appeared after I gave a talk at MIT about the very first Smalltalk.

There were several later ideas that were discussed at Parc but not taken up because of the whirl that was already going on. One of these was derived from McCarthy's "fluents" and "situations" (essentially a labeled states/layers idea for allowing concurrencies without race conditions -- this was done very well in David Reed's 1978 MIT thesis.

Another was not waiting for replies. This was in the original set of ideas -- via biology and OS techniques -- but never got implemented in a deep way. The hardware we had at Parc was tiny and Smalltalk was expressive enough to fit a lot into a little.

Another set of ideas that were completely missed appeared in LINDA by Gelernter. This (and the larger ideas around it) are very good ways to deal with larger scalings, etc.
Years ago I saw a talk by someone who built mems oscillators. They were fervent in declaring something like "Brownian motion... it is evil! EVIL!!!". I've since wondered if you could leverage that for science education. For every phenomena and property, find someone who deeply emotionally cares about it, loves or hates it, and create an interview clip. To give topics emotional weight, and shift them from unfamiliar incoming trivia, into something that at least someone really cares about.
Promise management features are coming to Monte soon, satisfying your first and third bullet points. The second point, of course, comes for free with E-style vats.
This idea is circulating in the web, but it's just cherrypicking what important and discover means to create a storm in a teacup. The main problem is that the experiments are very expensive and the pipeline from the theoretical idea to the experimental confirmation has become too long. So you must wait a few decades to see which of the weird current theories is the correct one.

Note that the bottom quark were discovered in 1974, and everybody expected to see the top quark then, but it was confirmed in 1995. So that push the dates at least 10 years or more.

The neutrino oscillation was discovered in 2001, and it forces a change in the "Standard model" to add mass to the neutrinos. Depending on how you count, this may reduce a few decades the time of no new things.

This year there was an announcement of a possible fourth neutrino, it's unconfirmed because they have only 4.5 sigmas, but it is very promising.
The street in Cork looks strangely toy-like. Kinda like a tilt-shifted photo, but without the tilt-shifting.
Maybe if the words were spelled according to the way they are to be pronounced, we would not need to go through an exercise of memorization like this.
Don’t want to upset China, a large marketplace and potential investor.
He edited his original two word comment after I posted mine.

I think my basic point stands up pretty well though.

The entire class of arguments along the lines of “why should we do X when only some of the people need/want X” just has no value at all.

There’s no coast guard in Iowa either. Or avalanche prevention.

Why is geography the privileged metric here? It only matters if things are segregated by location, but not if they are segregated by age? Medicare is a subset of Americans too. So are people of school age.

You can argue the programs on the merits of course, and say that it’s too niche, or panders to special interests in a way that’s harmful.

But to just make the facile point that a government program contains an element of some people subsidizing something that benefits other people adds literally zero to any discussion. That’s a characteristic of literally all government actions.
The fact that they were using volcanic ash is nothing new. I mean, Vitruvius basically wrote down that it was volcanic ash.

The specific chemistry of how the specific silicates interact with seawater and how that forms new compounds is a new discovery.
If it was Perl.. You get my point now.
Does anyone know what led him to be such a productive engineer? I would love to hear about his design principles and his routines.
I've been regularly 6-18 hours late on Amtrak, which is longer than the length of the flight alone. At least when planes are delayed you usually know ahead of time and can just not go to the airport.
FYI: The state keeps a percentage of the tax as an administrative fee as well. Each federal state apparently keeps 2 to 4.5% percent of the tax as an administration fee.

So the state is basically the collector of said tax.
I have been tracking a few and commented on one. It does not seem like they are being removed.

Sadly, it just seems that no one is commenting on them. Perhaps people are burnt out on talking about related issues or this is a chilling effect of moderation on previous related issues.

It is a shame that this is not getting more attention, I see the actions of the CCP as the biggest threat to western values globally.
The thread you posted recently is still alive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21560871

HN Guidelines [1] generally discourage stories about politics, but this one seems interesting enough that it would qualify as something that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".

Your post would have probably gotten more attention if you would have submitted the original NY Times story rather than a link to a Reddit discussion. (You might still be able to edit the link.) From HN Guidelines: "Please submit the original source".

Also, the moderators don't usually kill specific stories or topics (except spam). If articles are killed, it's usually due to users flagging them (e.g., as off-topic).

Finally, if you have questions about moderation issues, you can contact the moderators at hn@ycombinator.com.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Can you share some insights on those optimizations?
Both. See the followup here: https://rootsofprogress.org/cement-redux
I suspect the default focal distance for smartphone cameras is a bit too wide-angle. I haven't tried recently, but zooming in a bit (say 1/4 to 1/3) would help, as would tracking the target (panning slightly so the main subject stays in the center).

It all really depends on how close the subject is. You need to exaggerate the separation a little but not too much. In an airplane, the time between shots (and speed of course) determines the separation. If you're doing the same thing on the ground, it depends in how far your subject is, but you can step 1-2 feet sideways for your second shot. You just have to experiment to find what works.

I have tried on an iPhone before, but the default "slide" between photos isn't fast enough to get the effect, so I had to download them to my PC. Maybe there's an iOS app for it now.

Edited to add: I knew someone in the age of film who screwed 2 SLRs to a piece of wood about 16 inches apart, for 3d landscape photography. He used 2 mechanical remote shutter releases to make sure the photos were in sync. A similar rig with DLSRs and electronic remotes should be easy and more precise (to get same settings and synchronous release). I'm surprised I haven't seen it done yet.
> ddos the lightning network so it won't record their HTLC when it expires

this is not even a thing. lightning network is collection of independent nodes, there is no registry of payments and channels, every node keeps their own record.

> And so while the other party will eventually see the secret on the block chain, they can't get their HTLC unlocked on the network before it expires.

why? if a party is stuck in a payment and especially if they notice they are getting attacked - they will take steps to mitigate. the moment commitment with secret is broadcast and in the worst case - the moment it gets confirmed on chain the other party will know the secret and can unlock their htlc. the risk is essentially the same as with deep reorgs - very low because those are very rare events. and the hassle is most definitely not worth the value of a stolen micropayment, which is the primary purpose of LN.
I have heard good things about tailwind. Do you find a lack in flexibility with Tailwind? To use the same example, what if the client wants a product card to look different on the home page compared to the listing page, and again in the mini cart and checkout? One approach I have seen is four different components for each location, in which case you have traded cascading of CSS for duplication of markup/logic code.
How does engineered wood do on strength and fire resistance? Would appreciate any unbiased comparisons vs. steel and concrete on those points
Have you read about how those glasses work? It's kind of cool.

It turns out that many color-blind people have the normal distribution of cones, but the spectral response is similar enough that the brain can't differentiate. By putting an optical notch filter in the overlap region, the difference is accentuated and the brain starts picking it up normally.