skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The great balance: fear of missing out versus focused work. It would be nice if there was a system-level setting I could engage that suppressed all notifications or event count indicators unless overridden on an app by app basis. Closest I get is putting my phone in DND mode and going full screen (with no/minimal chrome) on the app I’m using, at which point I begin to wonder if this is part of what makes vim and emacs so appealing: how they effectively shit out distractions.
I think the underlying mechanism is simply natural selection, just like you can breed dogs, tulips or bacteria for traits, humans can be "breed" into intelectual performance. None of religions/cultures do it, with exception of Ashkenazi.
Thanks for the warning! https://i.imgur.com/dF51Agt.png
This is the kind of chat that gives statistics a bad name. How does it make any sense to compare deaths per journey on foot to skydiving? What even defines a journey on foot? Why would you include the number of kilometers for the space shuttle, which is dominated by the arbitrary safe time spent in orbit, but not for skydiving? It also makes air travel look more dangerous by combining commercial and non-commercial air travel, while making cars look safer by separating out motorcycles. Some rigor would make this more honest.
No Man's Sky is a typical sales driven product, first you lie to users about what capabilities it has and sell it to them, and then you use the money you got from those sales to build some of the features you said you already had until the customers stop complaining.
>Anker products on Amazon

Actually try RAVPower - they're Anker's main competitor & seem to have more of a footprint in the US
Googlers are owed transparency because that's what we were promised when we were hired. It was the reason we were working over time (nights, weekends). I stopped doing that when I saw that the promise was broken, as a promotion without making something amazing together just doesn't worth to give away a part of my life.
If the supreme court rules in favor of Oracle here, you can expect trolls to start suing small businesses for copyright infringement based off of old software APIs. I think Americans should be encouraging tech startups not laying legal minefields for them.
Your owner doesnt pay taxes. Where is that story?
There's no excuse for LA putting the airplane back in service after the first crew had to cut off the stab trim, or even bothering to inform the next crew of the issue.
Why post this? It's not a secret.

What is more worrying is the emissions of air traffic, which is enormous.

If I remember well, a single seat in an air plane is equivalent to a single car, per unit of distance. So it's like accelerated travel, meaning if you move a person 1000 km by air, it's equivalent to riding that person 1000km with a single car. It's the same emissions per distance, except it's done between 8 and 10 times faster (not considering takeoff).

Imagine replacing a single airplane of 100 passengers with 100 cars who don't share passengers.
le Carré is one of my favorite authors. I was happy to see the article cover The Honourable Schoolboy, which is certainly overshadowed by some of his others, but which, to me, always packed the hardest emotional punch. After reading le Carré, it's impossible to see the world in the same way again.

I especially recommend getting the books on tape, the English readers really bring the stories to life.

For another excellent series, check out Martin Cruz Smith, Gorky Park (Arkady Renko series).
This is certainly true. My point was that I see no evidence that, should bitcoin become mainstream, the situation would be any different- nothing about bitcoin prevents its use as the basis for a credit economy like notes are now and bullion coins were before them.

And it’s the credit that’s making things complicated, not the central banks.
Let’s insulate ourselves from the delusional masses by forming coalitions
(Obviously) Since you are reading this you probably know what I’m getting at. People who are grounded in reality ( according to my definition of course) are rare and may often be lost among the sea of the deluded masses. So this post of mine is an attempt to gather people who are like-minded.( people who I deem to be grounded in reality through my own colored lens of the world). The idea is to form mutually beneficial alliances in this insane world. Right now this process of forming alliances is somewhat unplanned and subject to chance events(you meet/know someone reasonable at school, work etc.). I'm hoping to cast the net wide by leveraging the internet. As to what exactly should the alliance be, or what it hopes to achieve is something to be discussed (though I have some concrete preliminary thoughts).

How to start: Email me your core beliefs ( though I personally prefer a voice chat with on Skype, google hangouts etc.), especially the beliefs where you think you differ fundamentally from the vast majority of people. I will quiz you on various subjects ( and so can you) to see if our beliefs align. Overall my beliefs can be loosely labeled as: generally anarchist (i.e a live and let live approach), generally anti-authoritarian ( meaning I believe govt/authorities do not protect your interests), largely capitalist( i.e vehemently opposed to coercive co-operation, put forth by typical socialism) etc. Perhaps at the bare minimum we have to share a meta belief that it is necessary to reach out and cooperate with other like minded individuals as it is virtually impossible to 'de-delude' the idiotic masses though arguments/dialogs etc. My email address can be found on my profile. In my profile you will also find a link to some webpages that outline my beliefs.

After this step, if we think our beliefs align, I will add you to an an online forum ( zero people as of now) , where you can interact with other people that I will be screening.

Caveats:

-It often takes a very long time ( months to years) to form mutually beneficial alliances. ( more so when individuals are geographically isolated from each other.) This is not a quick fix for your immediate problems, or for people without perseverance.

-The online forum is not to rant against the world, or a place to discuss your core beliefs. This is more of a place for doers not ivory tower thinkers.

Side note: It’s really hard to for me to believe that someone else is not doing this ( i.e what I’m attempting in this post) already somewhere. Let me know if you are aware of similar efforts, I would be eager to join.
True but it’s even more tone deaf when the sales bros/Mad Men aren’t even woke enough to realize what they’re doing outside the lockerroom.
There is a lot still outside your control when you are driving or walking, namely other people driving their cars. You can be the best driver in the world, it's not going to stop people behaving like idiots.
That is not the mandate of the EIB and has never been. From their website: “The European Investment Bank is the lending arm of the European Union.”

From the first paragraph on Wikipedia: “As a ‘policy-driven bank’ whose shareholders are the member states of the EU, the EIB uses its financing operations to bring about European integration and social cohesion. It should not be confused with the European Central Bank.”

About their mission: “ As the ‘Bank of the European Union’. the EIB's mission is to make a difference to the future of Europe and its partners by supporting sound investments which further EU policy goals.”

So this is exactly the kind of thing they do.
Just because you badge in for your company doesn’t automatically mean your government or insurance company will get the data. Even if they did, they could probably get it in more detail from other sources like your bank and credit card company. Also they don’t track what you get, so I don’t see what the big deal is.
The problem here is that everybody thinks that they are a better than average driver.
Sounds pretty similar to US deer hunting season then, except beer wasn't mentioned anywhere.

There's something special about the recklessness of deer hunters specifically, as other game seasons don't seem to have this problem.
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Idea HN: Kubernetes-Native CMS in .NET Core
TLDR; Cloud native WP alternative for .NET Core. Disillusioned, and need tips and feedback.

Flexible, strongly typed models in C#. Serialization thru JSON.NET.

An uploaded image would be a public string Image { get; set; } with a [UIHint("image")] on top.

Admin UI is separated from the web application and can be run locally like kubectl. Written in native, non-transpiled ES6 modules.

Existing CMS:s lack good custom content support and pluggable form controls.

Web frontend is stateless and lightweight.

Data backend supports physical files for simplistic scenarios and development purposes.

Content types are generated at runtime and not persisted.

The CMS is free and open source.

The business idea is to provide shared hosting (namespaced k8s) with a free tier, as well as cloud architecture consulting.

I'll spin up an AKS instance, and make users deploy to the cluster within their namespaces. Developer accounts keep instances for 1 week, registered companies get meager but free hosting with tight memory/CPU limits. Then there'll be pricing tiers for scaling up and out.

In scandinavia there is a strong bias towards .NET, but with no good free CMS to use. Umbraco is a legacy monolith, Episerver is better but pricey. Sitecore, SharePoint ...

Making the case for a good .NET CMS with agencies would certainly be possible.

For legacy shared hosting, bundle the whole application as a monolith.

I must say I'm getting disillusioned. People really don't even want to have a look or even hear the idea. Yet Another CMS …

Much of the code is complete though. I just need more time and a user base. I don't wanna make an HN thread with no replies.

If this one gets no attention, I think I'll lose faith in humanity and drop the whole idea ...
> But we have to assume he is OK with people coyping or even selling the code assuming the license is not breached.

https://twitter.com/jake_albaugh/status/1195535720640856065
Mnesia is a toy DB compared with what Oracle DB is capable of.

So Oracle is bad, but accepting their free contributions is fine, surprise surprise.
Harassment & intimidation of pedestrians & cyclists per billion car journeys is substantially more than per billion air journeys.
That was my point (edit: and Nurcahyo Utomo's point). I was backing you up on this.
The two things are completely separate, but having a fixed expression is a necessary requirement. If I go to a sporting event and describe it in an article, then my article is copyrighted, and derivations of it are protected (translations etc.). But there could also be other people who wrote different original articles describing the same event, each of them is copyrighted, but none a derivation of the other or of mine. But the fact that all of those articles are different descriptions of the same match doesn't mean they're not all copyrighted, and that their derivations aren't protected. Each of those articles is a fixed expression, but the game itself isn't.
We don’t have a huge system, but already we are seeing bash scripts that sed values in Kubernetes manifests or configuration stored as a dictionary inside a python script that can generate large yaml files as part of a deploy pipeline.

I think it is an inherent error in basically all orchestration tools (Kubernetes, cloud build/formation, etc), that they don’t support scripting.
Also:

https://utf8everywhere.org/
What’s the current status, today, right now, of the copyrightability of APIs? Does the Federal Circuit decision stand because it hasn’t yet been overruled or is it not yet in force because it’s being appealed?
It’s time to talk about the mental health effects of student loan debt
Careful you almost sound like a distributed systems engineer following the first rule of distributed systems engineering: don't.
Yet the research is all about self driving cars.
No, that's not a reasonable interpretation of his comment. Other OO VMs (e.g. dot NET) exist and do not have the Java API. Google's argument is that the API is required to maintain compatibility with Java programs, not bytecode-based VM programs in general.
Linux would hardly gotten where it is without the contributions from everyone getting paychecks from IBM, Intel, Oracle, NVidia, AMD, Apple, Sony, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Huawei, Samsung among many others.

Which is kind of ironic, hate them, but then willing accepting whatever comes from them, 'cause hey it is free.
The fact the discussion is about a table on Wikipedia, an encyclopedia, means we are at a stupid level.

Which fits why we'd care about 'journeys' over anything meaningful.

But if we pretend there's something to recover here, lets look at the source

"The risks of travel Archived September 7, 2001, at the Wayback Machine. The site cites the source as an October 2000 article by Roger Ford in the magazine Modern Railways and based on a DETR survey.

Data would be at least 20 years old, from a random website allegedly from a Railways magazine allegedly from a DETR survey.
I don't really see the sense for breaking this down by nation, beyond having nation-scale car statistics to compare against...
I mean, the Boeing max fuckup could well be regarded as "made in the US" no?
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This is a well researched policy based on the government’s own analysis. I know people familiar with the current policy framework and (despite not being Corbyn fans) they think this is a good idea.
I hope those Google employees who think like that only apply their self-confidence to things relevant to their work. I think most people grow out of the phase where they think that they excel at everything just because they know how to program.

To be fair, a lot of people who don’t find a career success also have strong opinions and ideologies. People can always have their opinions to themselves if nothing else.
The basic gist of one feature I want to add is a cell delimiter split that turns one row into more rows (repeating the nonsplit cells) with grouping to determine whether the splits happen concurrently or sequentially if multiple of such splits happen in the same row (resulting in a Cartesian product-like result or not). Right now you only have a split that turns one column into more columns.

I have code for this already and I'd just want to add it to the UI.
Could it be changing? I used to be in that camp 10 years ago but in the past couple years my mind changed as these companies became much more nasty in their desperate quest for profitability; I'm sure I'm not the only one in this situation.
Untrue. From what I hear this is about getting a base level of fibre to everyone; some will pay for more.
I'm happy they decided to backport the fix for cyrus ! Some mails could become hidden on update from cyrus 2.5 to 3

I didn't want to use backports for a mail server and after the maintainers decided to not patch the SSL bug in the previous release (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=863520) I was afraid they would do the same.
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Or just use native data structures.

If you're throwing it all into a docker container as a single artifact you don't need a separate language to patch into a complicated config parser. Just use hardcoded objects/maps in whatever language you use.
Alright, is it possible you’re being a bit of a keyboard warrior here.
Literally 7% of people have fibre in the UK. How can you defend the behaviour of the companies involved? We need a radical solution; feeding market demand has been tried and it has failed.
IIUC Rust stack overflows are actually checked, hit a guard page, and unwind the stack https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-builtins/blob/master/s...

A cactusref is owned by a single thread so there's no STW issue, but you also can't share them mutably between threads like structures available in some GCed languages.
I know, I was just concurring. Thanks for lending a hand here :-)
Maybe it's your printer and/or computer?

I've used three different Brother laser printers with two different computers, over a couple of years on Ubuntu, and haven't had any delays like that.
And it should be added than ultimately the tech companies will benefit most from this: larger markets for streaming and other services.
I'm not saying that this is a good revenue model nor that I support it.

I'm saying that employees of a company probably don't antagonize the others like that.
IBM should be warming up their lawyers to sue Oracle for SQL.
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This is fun to do, but you’ll rapidly find that the academic sources don’t even say what they claim to.
Depends on what the price is denominated in. I initially read "price" as price in foreign currency, which would increase.

Actually, that works for anything, like bananas--you'd pay more bananas for the same amount of that paper currency, thus the price in bananas increases.
This is AFAICT the only genuine argument against the policy. But it’s being drowned out by hysteria over nationalising openreach, an omnishambles of an organisation if there ever was one.
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I've had three different models of Brother laser printers, Linux support has been good with each one.

If some reads this and is worried about it, just search reviews for the model number and Linux.
Yeah but saying it to me (a male) would still be tone deaf, right? There are no locker rooms even in locker rooms these days. All I'm saying is, it being in front of me is disgusting enough.
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It would probably remove barriers to censorship. Both main parties are reasonably hostile to free speech but Labour (or it's supporters) seem to me to be more hostile to "fake news" etc
I think you can 10x that bandwidth from what I hear.
> An API doesn't implement anything, it describes a function.

Unfortunately, that is also a definition for the whole of programming: describing functions. In Java, the method signature gives only a very incomplete definition, but that is a factor of the programming language itself.

For example, you might wish to imagine a hypothetical language that has a type system so refined that the behaviour of any function is completely described by its type (1). In such a case there would be no difference between its description and its implementation.

(1) We'll leave aside the question of whether this is strictly possible. It would be possible to have more powerful type systems than Java's, and program designs that use such small and clear function definitions, that if you have the type signatures then filling in the code for them is more straightforward than designing the function definitions was in the first place.
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What amazes me most is that Oracle has been able to find any expert witness willing to put his name to this frivolous case.
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I would expect Labour to put in place more blocks around things to protect the population against "extremist" content but porn would probably be ok for a while.
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I am not sure that a ‘bloodline’ is a valid genetic concept. It depends a lot who the partner is, after all they provide 50% of the offspring’s genetic material. Put another way, if you are a genius in some field, the chance of having a child with someone of equal or greater aptitude is effectively zero.

The ‘more to the story’ is possibly just affluence and family stability, which are also culturally embedded.
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That war criminal? The sooner we forget about him the better.
I'd really like to see the NTSB report on this when it is released. I've read some of them, they're far more detailed and contain a lot of pertinent facts that were omitted from the usual clickbait sensationalist journalism.
Thanks for reading!

Yeah, the notifications are really what get to me. My solution has been to just avoid things that generate notifications and broadly disable notifications on devices where I don't need them.

I haven't found the need to fullscreen apps to protect focus as long as nothing is on my screen that can pop notifications or change state without me interacting with it. For you, is it the temptation to interact with another app or are there apps you need to use to get work done that create notifications/distractions on their own?
It’s a pubic forum. If someone decides to be a shady scam artist, people have a right to point that out regardless of the thread context.

I’d sure agree that Satan is allowed to comment, but other commenters are certainly allowed to point out that the freaking devil showed up.
If we're talking about von Neumann, or even just the math olympiad, then clearly we're not talking about how well the education system serves the 50th percentile. It's possible for a system to be awful for most, and somehow find and train the top few percent brilliantly.
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If Labour gets in I hope they use the nationalised internet to block russian fake news!

We need a firewall to protect us from Tory and Trump's friends

(Satire, but not far from the party line as Labour supporters also cry fake news these days)
Yeah, it is somewhat convenient in a way.
What if your language is compiled?
TIL that I can search for comments by:<case_sensitive_username>.

Well, I never!
Bitcoin is useless for this use case

At a certain point they will start to ask you "where did you get this coins?" because sooner or later you'll have to convert them to real currencies

Cash is still a better option, there are plenty others: rechargeable CC, gift cards, vouchers, etc etc that work better than bitcoin, require no setup, no knowledge and can be used without hassles.
What if you are using already existing tooling that takes very verbose yaml files? I've seen Concourse CI pipelines that push past 5k lines of YAML, where 50% internally is repeated 10-line blocks, and there is tons of repetition across different YAML files.
But is that enough? Let's use a deliberately extreme example to test its limits: Skyrim mods.

Does the presence of third party Skyrim mods mean that everything they refer to is an API and therefore non-copyright? The game geometry, maps, characters and events are facts about Skyrim that those mods need to operate. Does this therefore imply that a hypothetical person could sell their own re-implementation of Skyrim on the grounds that all those things (characters, missions, events, geometry, models, etc) were function required for mods to continue to operate?

Or, to stretch it in a different direction, let's suppose I write some functions. If you write some functions that call them, presumably my API is therefore functionality and non-copyright? But what about if you don't call them, and only I happen to write calling code. It's still an API, it's still functionality required for other code to operate (my own), so is it still non-copyright?

What about whether I mark my code public? If I omit "public" from the same function definitions so they can't be called externally do the definitions become artistic and copyright? If so then is the artistry in the lack of a public keyword? If not then is any code structure copyright - it's all functionality that calling functions requires to operate.

Yes, that's deliberately playing logic games and taking things to extremes to see if there's a clear line in the sand. It's going to be interesting to see what the court determines, anyway, because it seems like a big question.