skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a tendentious, statist philosophy of infrastructure. America's freight railroads are private infrastructure. They are a paragon of excellence and efficiency, the envy of the world, and they do a damn fine job of turning a profit and being a multiplier at the same time.

If infrastructure is really such a multiplier, people should be able pay for it from the multiples they earn, and the infrastructure owners will turn a profit. This means that more infrastructure gets built, and higher multipliers achieved, until the multiplier is not so big, and they stop. (This is a state where owners earn an accounting profit, but not what the economists call an "economic" profit, that is, it's not any more money than you could make investing anywhere else.)

This is how the price mechanism works, and how the pursuit of profit in a market works, and why capitalism is actually good at making things happen. The alternatives to using the pricing mechanism generally leave you underprovisioning infrastructure (leaving these potential profits on the table), or overprovisioning infrastructure (wasting money), or in a state where people overuse infrastructure in wasteful ways (see the nation's road system, which is very good at connecting things -- but socializing its construction and access has led to ridiculous traffic jams in many cities, and many segments that are heavily accessed by trucks charge extra for the wear and tear through the use of tolls.)

Are there obstacles to realizing this capitalist utopia of efficiency in practice? Yes. Definitely, lots of them, and especially for network-y infrastructure like railroads. Is state intervention warranted sometimes? Yes. Is abandoning the pricing mechanism entirely, because multipliers exist, the only thing to do? No. And even when it is, it is a fraught endeavor. Among other things, the people who benefit are not the same as the people who pay, and the transfers involved can be unfair.
Am I the only one who hears Fallout's "wah-wooo" sound and sees a message "You've lost karma!" when hearing such foot-shooting news?
Intel's CIP wants to collect the “categories of websites you visit”
Ask HN: How should a 60-year-old get started with programming?
Suppose an able 60-year-old, who has never done any programming but is smart and tech-savvy as a user, wanted to get into some development work - both as a hobby/interest, but also with a look to maybe get some supplemental income from it in the coming years working remotely.

What would be a good way for them to get started? Which area could be a good fit? How could they look for remote work / monetize their hobby in the future if they find they have aptitude for it?

Perhaps one of you has had some experience in this area.
Not only is this a great idea, it's done in the real world. Once you realize you don't need the whole aircraft inside the rail gun, but only a hook, this is how planes take off from the newest US aircraft carrier USS Gerald Ford. The system is called Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, EMALS [1].

If one day we start using this in the civilian aviation, this is probably one of the lowest hanging fruit when it comes to lowering aviation emissions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_Aircraft_Launc...
I like the idea. I think this would solve my battery issues as well, because with high cpu usage comes low battery life.
I also wonder if a phone is enough to have a smooth session. Imagine carrying only a phone and a keyboard around and having access to a full powered desktop/browser.
It is true.
Just try to take about anything into the country which is not for personal use, and you will see it confiscated by Cuba's customs. Only a handful of entities strongly affiliated with the Cuban government can import goods for commerce in Cuba. You can check it here: https://www.nordeatrade.com/en/explore-new-market/cuba/custo... under the "Import Procedures" paragraph.
That's fair!

I suppose it's more that DOM+CSS has only recently really started to have broad support for more UI-oriented layout. Things like "make these N boxes all the same width, even if N changes" :)
Waking up a 07:15, taking the kid out of bed and put her on the couch.

Dress myself. Start dressing her while she's still sleeping, so she'll slowly wake up through the dressing movements. Wait until the sitter of the day for the other child arrives and then the kid and I walk to kindergarden.

After that, I'll take a walk of ~30 minutes to the office with a cup of coffee, most of the time listening to some podcasts.
Very nice to have more open source choice. Is there a flow builder with GUI included for bots?
Headline is unsubstantiated and false.

Intel is no longer serving BIOS updates for at least one product that was released 16 years ago and
last manufactured 15 years(!) ago. You've had 15 years to make copies of the BIOS files for your needs, and you can still use the original BIOS on your device.

Nothing to see here.
Currently in Germany. Everyone i've spoken to about this states their healthcare isn't the best either. Wait times, wait limits, misdiagnosis, etc.

Coworkers wife got misdiagnosed, developed into a lung infection, put her in the hospital. She can't change doctors.

This whole "Healthcare is better X" is a fallacy. No only do people not have enough first hand indepth knowledge of how healthcare works in each country. But many countries, cultures, and environments are different in ways you can't calculate. I.e. In Europe people will eat more produce and fruits simply because their Grocery stores are on every corner. In the U.S. Not so, even in major cities.
Is 15 years
not long term enough support for you?
Yes. I haven't found over the ear gaming headphones that I can wear. I've tried countless sets, and all result in a headache after about 30 minutes. My preferred gaming headset is a behind the neck style.

I think the headaches (for me) result from pressure (clamping force), not necessarily the noise-cancelling. The Sony's and the Bose were both light enough that there isn't much of a clamping force from left to right on my head. I do not get a headache from the Sony's and did not from the Bose either.
It almost felt like a cartel. At least for us, the consumers on the desktop side.
Because supporting 15 year old cheap consumer products is a waste of energy.
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Yeah, I've been buying Intel for years but just today I installed some Intel software and it asked me to join their "Computing Improvement Program." Part of the program? Send the "categories of websites you visit" back to Intel, among other things. [1]. They're really trying my patience with the semi-constant stream of Speltdown-like issues.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21563871
For their 10+ year old End Of Life boards.
Unsure why the images don't load, better than nothing I suppose?
I think this uses ConverseJS. Converse is not a full featured client on its own, and will require your own websocket-enabled proxy most of the time since BOSH is rarely enabled.
No one is paying for those. LXC/LXD has plenty of other groups to pay. MaaS, the same. Juju/Charms are not a widespread solution, and MicroK8S is way too late.

Ubuntu as a whole has nothing people want to pay for.
Ah, interesting that they tried to remove it. Edit: i just read the proposal to remove it and it was mainly, because vmf was classified as "mainfranconian" and "upperfranconian" spoken west of the city of Mainz. I agree with the proposal, it's nonsense. Mainz isn't part of the Franconian dialect region. It's basically Nürnberg and Würzburg areas and Mainz is west of Frankfurt (which speaks "hessisch" and is west of Würzburg). It's weird that the article about Franconian in Wikipedia links to the vmf language code. Looks like an error.

I guess the words you didn't understand are mostly due to absurd spelling to capture the pronouncuation and the use of colloquial words in Franconian dialect (high german jetzt -> colloquial etz -> Franconian etzadla). I had trouble reading it.

> A Kou (Anschbachisch: Kua, Hoaloisch: Kuâ) is a weiblichs Rind un a Väich as der Familie vo däi Honndräächer. Sie is a Nudzdier un a Milch- un Fleischlieferand. Der wilde Schdammvadder is der Aueroggs. Vor ungfähr 8000 Joahr hams a boarr vo denne eigfangd und an Menschn gweend. Däi Nachgummma davo sin edzadla unsre Käi.

High german (verbatim): Eine Kuh ist ein weibliches Rind und ein Vieh aus der Familie der Hornträger. Sie ist ein Nutztier und ein Milch- und Fleischlieferant. Der wilde Stammmvater ist der Auerochse. Vor ungefähr 8000 Jahren haben sie ein paar von denen eingefangen und an Menschen gewöhnt. Die Nachkommen davon sind jetzt unsere Kühe.
Why should I care about Data Scientists?
Used this before, overpriced and slow
Yes, But shrinking. The concern is not necessarily now - But in a decade.
I doubt that as it would exclude Chrome from many corporate environments.
Storage is indeed cheap. Buying it through a service provider not so much.
Yeah I was in RH during this and saw a lot of the internal talks. Red Hat had a reason to be bought.

Canonical... Doesn't.
Consumer Reports does crash tests -- well simulated crash tests, they've got a rig that accelerates the seat to see how a dummy of a child moves during crash-like conditions.
The risk is extremely high.
In Dutch "kwiek" means "lively".
Says the poster in "Hacker News"
In some industries, that's not even medium-term.
What are the welfare implications of this? Fish have a notoriously bad time - not stunned like other farmed animals, and usually crushed to death by other fish or left to suffocate for hours. Flash freezing sounds marginally less cruel I suppose.
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Cameras, it works for humans
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Is the implication that most humans are comfortable with freefall?
It is not our responsibility to find a solution for pedophilia. For example, I am an IT manager, not a policeman and not a law maker. Yes, I would like to know a solution exists and it will be implemented like I would like to know there is a cure for cancer, but it is not my expertise to find it and I have no expectation that a discussion about encryption will find the solution for pedophilia.
I'm personally not a huge fan of this, since I can't see the (as in: my) benefit of this. I don't have an azure account yet (this is where the benefit for MS is I guess ;) ).
I would love to just register my selfhosted environment without any hassles.
Maybe this would even bring more people to register their selfhosted environment, which could bring more people to buy a hosted environment. Could potentially even benefit MS to lower the initial hurdle for new users.
I would prefer sony wh-xb900n extra bass model for better bass experience.
I've always heard that car windows filter out UV light.
RELU is really good for mostly positive weights. ELU is good for both
Ford's big chance to 'get it right' and join Tesla at the top of the aspirational ranks.

It better be reliable.
Parent meant that it can't obscure the environment. E.g. you can't put your finger behind the cover of the compass in your image.
This cannot be emphasized enough. Normal humans can’t imagine the depravity to which child predators descend. I’ve heard stories from the teams who review content uploaded to YouTube to remove this filth and people who were just looking for a paying job end up alcoholic, suicidal and psychologically messed up for life after Only a few weeks of encountering this this stuff as part of the flagged content review process for places like YouTube and Facebook. I can only imagine the counseling required for law enforcement agents working these crimes is intense... as well as the temptation to shoot all suspects they arrest merely out of disgust.

That said: banning encryption is not the answer to this.
How much of a Linear B corpus is there? Deciphering Mesopotamian tablets included some experiments in which different people were given the same text to translate, and their agreement on the meaning was taken as evidence that the decipherment was more or less valid.

As long as there's enough Linear B material that we don't need to assume everyone in the field will be familiar with every extant text, it should be fairly straightforward to run that same experiment for Linear B, which would pretty well settle the "the character mapping is so incredibly loose that you can translate Greek from any random collocation of linear B characters" issue.

If you really want to stand behind that wording, you could very easily make up a text ("any random collocation of linear B characters") and see what different people thought it meant.
Admittedly I am a bit of an idiot here, I didn't see the fact the person was using Firefox, the way I described it is how it is done on Chromium browsers but I cannot find a way to do it natively in Firefox (aside from downloading the NoScript extension). Hope that helps...
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> Effectively you're saying unless a majority of people agree with you then it is non-democratic.

No, I'm not. My point is that we (citizens) are not in charge of government. It's misleading to claim that we are.

It doesn't matter whether "the people" are for or against encryption. It's irrelevant for political decision making (unless popular opinion on encryption threatens to influence elections, which right now it doesn't and probably won't ever).

> it is to communicate this argument to people and also to be part of our own government.

"We" (as in the majority of citizens) can't be part of our government. "We" can't even significantly influence government at all other than through elections. Popular political influence through elections only works for very limited very broad subjects that happen to be in fashion by the time an election takes place. Subjects unlike relatively specific things such as encryption.

> we have the responsibility

With the above in mind I don't agree. At all. You could try to explain the point of the parent poster to 1000's of people and convince them to agree. This would be a tremendous task and would politically change: nothing. At all.

You could also try to convince them of the opposite. And this would also have 0 political effect.

Even if everybody on HN did it. Even if everyone on here had the exact same opinion, arguments and same amazing sales skills.
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You can create the illusion of things sticking out of a screen and if the screen is big enough the illusion is easier to maintain.

For a "low tech" example of such effects take a look at http://amasci.com/amateur/holohint.html and related content.
My best Asian tatoo anecdote: I was at a party and chatted with a girl that had a five Chinese characters tatto. I deciphered it as "the mountain cat search a family". The girl correct me on the first word which meant lynx (which was correct), but was otherwise super impressed.

« — You are the first person I ever met that understand it!!

— No big deal, I’m read some Chinese.

— It’s Japanese tho.

— Yeah, it’s Japanese... »

Then I walked away without telling her I was majoring... in Japanese.
Heh, I think it's a matter of preferences really. Emacs is my daily driver for an editor. I access Gmail via Thunderbird instead of the web UI. I do use Github via a browser, but pretty much just for doing code reviews or creating a new repository. Branching etc all happens on the command line.

Looking at my current list of open apps on this machine, it's a bit of a mixed bag:

- iMessage (native)

- Chrome

- iTerm2 (native)

- Fusion 360 (uhhh something weird, dunno)

- Spotify (Electron)

- XCode (native)

- Emacs (native-ish, maybe GTK?)

- Thunderbird (native-ish, I think it's still laid out with XUL)

- Slack (Electron)

- Keybase (Electron)

One thing to note: most of the time I am in the city, but have a second home in a rural area. When I'm out there on a spotty tethered connection, all of the above Electron apps have to get closed because they lose their minds when there's a spotty connection. Slack in particular likes to steal focus/pop up over everything when it is in a loop trying to reconnect. Spotify gets into a weird state where the UI gets unresponsive. Keybase doesn't really complain much.
rayiner is comparing inter-city rail to highways. Pedestrians and cyclists aren't relevant to highways.
I’ve never presented Prosperity, the noncommercial form, as free or open source. The debate was about Parity, the strong copyleft form.
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Planet Zoo is, temporarily, a game about mass-producing knackered warthogs
What is even more frustrating than Medium's paywall itself is to check the top comment on a HN post just to realize it is another complaint about Medium's paywall, hiding the actually relevant opinions about the topic.
No - it means that the solar wind is affecting the atmosphere enough that a greenhouse effect on Mars is not getting started, even though it could if there was a magnetic field on the planet.

This means the solar wind effect is not negligible. An artificial magnetic field plus other means could have a drastic and extremely rapid (in geologic terms, hundreds of years) effect on Mars climate.
You won't be learning a language from a single source ever. Duolingo is the most efficient for what it does, including teaching grammar, actually.

Yes, it might help to have a more organized grammar reference, but Duolingo does make you practice grammar quite efficiently in my experience.

For those complaining about Duolingo: Are there better routes? The convenience of the app, integrating audio, grammar and vocabulary are really hard to beat in terms of learning efficiency, even if you might have an in-person course.
And an extra paywall for ligatures. That's the ultra-premium gourmet club.
Quickening is also the point in pregnancy when the women can first feel the infant's movements.
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It is not yet production code only ugly test code
I think the author massively underestimates how ahead of his time Weiner was and how relevant cybernetics is right now and how important it will become. I've been studying and working on cybernetics for a while now and have become a true believer in classic cybernetics as a way forward to develop better/smarter networked apps and especially for things like speech recognition and smart homes.

I've been developing a startup project building a cybernetic control system in JavaScript that makes extensive use of feedback loops that get dynamically spawned between devices and services and it is truly marvelous to see the full system in action. I'm getting capabilities out of the system that I didn't even foresee being able to do, like being able to write fully voice-controlled chess game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faOfKd1eAQA

That was just a fun side-project too. With a true cybernetic control layer running between the speech recognition system and the things you want to control building apps like this becomes relatively straight-forward, perhaps not easy but a lot easier than it would be without one.

I am quite busy in a rewrite of the whole system, not a whole lot of documentation yet:

https://github.com/jaxcore/jaxcore

I'll be rewriting the speech recognition system as well and integrating it better into the new version, I wrote a bit of a writeup here about how Mozilla's DeepSpeech can be hooked into the web:

https://github.com/jaxcore/jaxcore-listen

And there's hardware aspect of the project as well, I created a new cybernetic control dial that gets hooked into the Jaxcore to control all sorts of things like stereo equipment, wireless speakers, and can control pretty much anything in a super elegant way.
Different article, same topic, from the NYT: https://outline.com/WngSrf

Or try the SCMP's "print" link. It has less heavy javascript, no scroll jacking, and no "read the whole article" nonsense:

https://www.scmp.com/print/lifestyle/food-drink/article/3037... (I'd argue for changing the linked story to this)
No, according to my logic, ecosystems should be forced to open up where it is beneficial to the public. This pretty obviously excludes access to ring 0.

Also, it needs to be balanced with the interests of the companies owning the ecosystem.
Thanks :) We started off with a theme which is using Bootstrap and the illustrations are created by mixing humaaans.com characters with undraw.co illustrations. The font we used is paid font, so we couldn't make the repo open. Tech stack is React with Gatsby hosted on Netlify.
Those two are oddly correct - old media is largely too illiterate to report on those issues so instead they just incessantly repeat bullshit about "destroying democracy" and "selling your data".
This is not entirely accurate. (Well, there's a possibility that the FSF had early private drafts of GPLv3 that adapted the terms of AGPLv1 in some sort of straightforward sense.) (Source: I was more or less at the center of these developments at the time.)

The early public drafts of GPLv3 had already rejected the idea of incorporating an Affero provision in a strong sense. Instead, they explicitly classified AGPLv1-like Affero conditions as GPLv3-compatible -- but note that no otherwise GPLv3-compatible licenses with Affero conditions existed at the time, and it wasn't especially likely that they would spring into existence. Note that inclusion of some sort of Affero-like provision was already a publicly controversial issue in the run-up to the release of the first public draft of GPLv3, which you can see in some of the news coverage from the period (late 2005).

There was resistance or objection to the sort of compromise around network services the early drafts took, but this basically took the following forms: (1) some individuals (who I would say were mainly associated with the Debian Project or the FSF staff itself) argued that GPLv3 should have directly adopted an Affero provision, though one without the perceived flaws in the AGPLv1 version, which were sort of carried over into the wording of the draft compatibility provision; and (2) some companies (representing financial services interests who had come to be dependent on Linux for data center operations) raised concerns about the compatibility clause leading to an Affero-specific license proliferation problem. Outside of those two viewpoints there wasn't much interest in the issue, once the public drafts of GPLv3 were released.

The eventual solution, responsive to those two points of criticism, was to get rid of the compatibility solution in favor of a single, separate, FSF-authorized, GPLv3-compatible Affero license, with the Affero provision worded in a way that avoided the perceived flaws of the AGPLv1 approach.
Great story, thanks for sharing!

Whenever I see someone wearing a tattoo with characters like these I can't help but wonder if it's actually what the wearer believes it to be, or if it's just items off a take-out menu...
> Some people might think the tradeoff in terms of freedoms vs security is worth it.

That's fine, they can make the trade-off. I mean they can give up their own freedom for whatever security that gets them. What many people want is to make the same trade-off for others.