skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my graduate math research I had to find patterns, formalize them and eventually prove more and more little results that added up to bigger results. I went through a lot of iterations, calculations and "experiments". The thing that guided me the most was that I had a feeling that things could be simplified, streamlined and generalized. It was a feeling that didn't go away until I found what I felt like I needed to find.

I find myself in a similar situation with development. There's an unescapable feeling that things could be created or improved. The feeling doesn't go away until I've done the work.

So I think what you're talking about is more so dependent on the person's mind rather than what they're doing. Like Conway's law, I think usually systems grow to mimic the developers' way of thinking, whether those are mathematical systems or software systems.
They could be shipping stuff to jack up sales numbers in the short term. It could be an incentives program gone rogue.
You don't get many nerd points for knowing how to use a label maker :-D
The distinction people have been using in this thread is "buying eyeballs" vs. "buying user data." And it's a meaningful distinction; I might trust FB to show me an ad microtargeted at employees of my company, but I don't trust every advertiser to know what company I work for.
> and the more important bits are still LGPL.

Could you explain what you mean by this? It looks like the entirety of Racket is being relicensed.
I like make, but I had a lot more luck with just/justfile, which is similar to make conceptually but with less idiosyncratic syntax/execution.
Ask HN: Recommendation for a WiFi 6 router for home
I tried ASUS AC RT-AX92U but it doesn't work well in mesh mode. Any devices connected to the mesh node really crawl. House is a 2 level and about 1600 sq feet.

Any suggestions are much appreciated
don't forget the Exxon Valdez spill. That spill generated so much public attention and effort it seems like an entire non-profit industry was born from it.
I can't imagine Apple won't be seeing lawsuits from this.

The PAX app was taken off even though most people use it for dry bud/flower marijuana, which has never been a part of this big vaping health scare. Collateral damage, I guess.
> Agreed, but the average Joe with fight you tooth and nail.

charging for road use is the only way to decrease congestion. Neither building roads nor closing them will reduce congestion.

Traffic congestion follows a pareto principle. The marginal congestion impact of the last 10-20% of cars is very high, so if you can charge a small amount to remove 10-20% of the cars, you get a big decrease in congestion.

You can even give the money raised back to people as a dividend.
I have a uHoo monitor (yes, it is a dumb name).

https://uhooair.com/

It logs temperature, relative humidity, air pressure, CO2, CO, TVOC, PM2.5, NO2, and ozone. They are about $300. The device itself doesn't have any UI; you need to connect to it via a phone app.
Your question made me think way back to shared terminal labs where the terminals made an electronic noise for each key press, either a short beep or a harder click. I imagined this feature was an already anachronistic crutch for people who remembered typewriters and typing pools.

At university, I shared an office with a student who made so much noise typing that I could only stop and ponder with amazement. This guy typed like the keyboard was a piece of meat, and his hands were basting mops. Somehow, his fingers mashed out whole words and phrases as he dragged his paws across the keys.
It probably doesn't occur to him. What's the worst that could happen if you let him know?
I bet there was someone on the Pokemon team that wanted to exercise esoteric, obscure networking features just because they read about it in some spec and wanted to try it out.

It's like the person on your team that insists on shoehorning language features into the application from the dustiest corners of the language instead of sticking to the tried-and-true idioms.
If it's not harmful to sea life then a great potential market for this would be marine toilets. They all use extremely small amounts of water (especially the freshwater ones) and skid marks are always a problem. Boaters are also used to maintaining things like coating.

Smaller market but a good niche to start and spread from.
it's just that the amount of waste is way too large for the environment to digest

Solution: everyone must consume less, cut unnecessary things, and there are many in most people lifestyles
What is it with HN and the hate towards americans?
Disregarding a lot of the other shade thrown at NYT in this comment section - forcing people into a phone call is definitely a dark user pattern. You're making it trivial for people to start giving you money while raising the barrier for them to stop giving you money - that's a trap that'll retain some subscriptions for no reason other than low effort and super slimy.
They should have asked whether the current state of legalization affects their willingness to report when compared with pre legalization.
Things like this make it really hard to follow a discussion as it evolves over time.
Does anyone still shoplift? /s

Yes, people still steal. Torrenting is usually more convenient, but for media that actually cost a ton of money to produce, I still feel iffy about stealing it. I would never recommend it to anyone when buying and paying for media is still an option.

Even if something like Ghibli movies might not conveniently be available for on-demand streaming, I still think everyone is under the moral obligation to plan ahead and buy it on a more traditional format rather than to resort to piracy. It is your own short-sightedness if you can't anticipate the need beforehand and order it in time.

If for some reason media can't be bought new anymore and your money isn't good anywhere, then by all means pirate it. I consider that it has at that point entered a public domain of sorts.
I was sitting with a guy who was talking to his CAD drawings.

It was pure madness. Especially because in between he'd talk to me. As if he expected me to listen to him all the time!

The day I moved into my own office and could close the door was the happiest day I had in my whole working life.
I get what you're saying, but I think it's generally wrongheaded to tailor Linux defaults to new users. We're all beginners for only a fraction of our time on a platform after all.

I used nano until I got on my feet too and I'd love for it to be added to the standards so it's always present. But the goal of good POSIXy defaults are for transferable consistent experiences/skills. I think defaults should be things you'd want for typical real world use, not to upgrade off of.

Edit: To clarify: I think accounting for beginners is important! But I don't think using crippled defaults are the way to do that.
>More than a century ago, Belgian information activist Paul Otlet envisioned a universal compilation of knowledge and the technology to make it globally available. He foresaw, in other words, some of the possibilities of today’s Web.

No, he foresaw some universal compilation of knowledge, which is absolutely not the web.

But actually as the article explains, he was involved in the cataloging of books, and making the catalogs available via remote means. This development is significant in its own way and I think is diminished by a bogus click-bait comparison to the Internet and the web.
Mitigating controls, expecting the bias.

At the moment it's a Frankenstein set up with a rules/algorithm based ranking subsequently shuffled around by several separate ML runs with different aims.

The FTC did once unearth a Google attempt to purposefully influence the human ratings: http://graphics.wsj.com/google-ftc-report/ (long read, but worth it). Find this section of the paper:

"Unable to get positive reviews from raters when Google demoted comparison shopping sites, Google
changed the raters' criteria to try to get positive results."
ditto – is the script available somewhere?

I typically end up just nmapping :-/
this is a nice story
Thanks, Visually nomnoml is pretty sweet. That being said, syntax-wise the class diagrams from Mermaid seem way easier to read.
I'm skeptical for a similar reason. This isn't really "crossplatform" it is "capable of running on a very small list of platforms which bundle a web browsing component."
That’s also a straw man, since literally no one is making that statement.

The point of contention is whether after arguing that a tax cut was needed to do capital investment, did the savings from the tax cut actually go to capital investment, or merely financial trickery of stock buy backs as the critics of the tax cut predicted.

Literally everything else is a distraction.
I know Intercontinental Exchange (a sort of meta exchange that owns other exchanges like the NYSE) uses Smalltalk pretty heavily. They use Gemstone as their DB.
The 1-Km Radio Telescope
Adjusting depreciation schedules are very typical tax strategies for businesses. Hell, I've done this for a one-man shop making less than $100k in a year. Depreciation strategies are an important part of cash-flow management for capital-intensive industries. Otherwise, it's almost impossible to start a factory or other large industrial firm. Cash flow is marginal compared to capital, but the tax rate is proportional to capital. You can easily be put in a situation where the tax burden exceeds the free cash of the business.

I guess I'm not clear on what detail you think is missing. To me, their objections and actions are very clearly worded.

I believe they pointed out that they regularly pay taxes, that the tax rate for that year was due to accelerating depreciation, and the NYT is engaged in the same accounting strategies.

Accelerating depreciation has no net tax benefit over the full depreciation period. If the depreciation period is 10 years, but they accelerate in the first year, their net tax rate is the same over the 10 years as if they did not accelerate. They are simply moving their tax burden to the future.

They also took other current expenses to charge their pension, but again, these are expenses that they cannot take in the future - they will pay additional tax on future incomes. The net is the same.
Healthy sleep linked to brain-wave bursts that mathematically mimic earthquakes
It takes a while to read all this stuff..
Its good to be out and about so many years from now... links can be made.
The really essential difference is that when you deserialize, you trust the input, and so don't need to check syntax or validity. I.e., you assume it is output of your own serializer, and you can therefore be faster than if you didn't trust it.

I have no idea if serde follows this design, or if it has just hijacked the terms.
Ask HN: What's HN's commenter to reader ratio?
As the title says, I'm curious what the stats are for the amount of readers there are compared to the amount of comments and also what the standard distribution for the amount of comments per commenter is. The reason I'm curious about this is I was wondering what's the amount of contribution that supports HN, and how this compares to other social platforms.

Is there any place that has such data? Are there any theoretical equations for this?
I think it's intensely incorrect and that journalism is an asset to society that definitely is deserving of public subsidies - but given the environment NYT is operating in they're either going to need to seek a profit or a patron. I think it's pretty obvious the sort of PR fallout the Washington Post has (somewhat deservedly) gotten after being taken over by Bezos.
I'm really not comfortable with using public funds to help expand Google's market and surveillance. Not when there are other, truly free office suites available, and Chromebook's hardly have a monopoly on cheap laptops.
I'm often one of those people. Not a smoker, but a bunch of allergies as well as asthma. Allergy shots and inhalers have made a big difference, but some days can still be pretty bad.
There are two types of "this isn't a hologram" people in this thread. The first is the group of people that think holograms are the things in Star Trek. Those are not holograms, and neither is this.
brew install bash coreutils findutils gawk parallel
Just had my 4s15 Alpinist repaired. It's such a great watch - rolex inspired and the date window is annoying but still.

I'm eager to try the new Astron which is kickass tech in a wearable size for the first time.
> There's a PlantUML Integration IntelliJ plugin that's easy to use for preview/rendering

The VSCode one[0] is good too

0 - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jebbs.pl...
I understand your frustration. I moved my family (actually sold my home and moved to a different town) due to trespassers. I put up signs, but they were torn down or uprooted and thrown on the lawn. I also called the police, and they said that they would be as helpful as they could be, but unless they caught someone in the act then they couldn't do anything. The police said that if the trespassers were aggravated then they may destroy property, and that without solid evidence prosecution was unlikely to go anywhere. So if you irritate someone and "get a brick through your window" (this was the example the police gave), even if you get a picture, it won't prove they threw the brick. The solution was to move.
Architecture of Mesopotamia
I'm sure the journalists would easily manage to make Panama very interesting if their owners didn't tell them to knock it off. Same as with Epstein. Scandal of the century, not discussed at all within 2 weeks, no follow up or investigative journalism of any kind.
https://gist.github.com/Arnavion/32bf76c0ad35318c44041a6d1f1...
Other people have told you how this "account update" process works so I'll skip that.

I just went through this with Citi/Mastercard.

I'm not sure if other companies do this, but I was able to opt out of this "account update" feature to hopefully stop a Comcast charge from going through to my new card number. I'll find out on Dec 10 if it works, but the customer rep I spoke to says it should. It basically cancels that feature so that I now have to manually go through every merchant and update them to my new credit card.
There's so much wrong with this article that I'm lit. twitching, but I don't have time to write up a big thing on it.

Let me just say, speaking as someone who was homeless for about four and a half years and who did a little bit of non-destructive trespassing out of necessity, that, generally speaking, trespassing is dangerous and disrespectful. You should avoid it if possible. It's not "a radical expression of freedom, hope, and humanity." You are not "striking a blow against hierarchy and capitalism and uptight motherfuckers everywhere." You're risking your life, jail time, or fines, for a cheap thrill.

Trespassing only seems like fun if you're really really jaded, naive, or literally cannot afford to do anything better. You don't go to the amusement park and stand in line to throw rocks through the windows of an abandoned warehouse, do you?

If you want to be radical, feed someone.
you are building a straw-man version of an unworkable payment system.

it would be totally doable for the project to say

1) we are GPL licensed

2) if you can't use GPL we will sell you a license for $X

3) all proceeds go to the project.

4) if you contribute, you give us the right to do this, and retain the funds that are generated.

Dual licensing really could be a silver bullet, but because nobody has done it well (for some reason people want to use MIT + commercial), nobody understands how powerful it could be.
He could share past insights that are no longer relevant. I obviously don't expect him to give away a stock tip worth millions of dollars.
Ford unveils all-electric car – the Mustang
Sonatype Acquired by Vista Equity
WhatsApp fixes bug that would have let hackers exploit devices using MP4 files
You're referring to the blurred classification of indica and sativa. Breeders crossed these strains so often that there is less of a distinction. However, there remain pure sativa and pure indica strains that haven't crossed. Now, industry is using a spectrum to describe where in the sativa-indica spectrum the product experience usually lies. Sativa-leaning product are more psychedelic and introspective.
Pretending that recognizing "a^n b^n" is somehow better achievement than generating natural English creative writing from prompt is the real sour grapes here.
There are logistical issues to be improved on, but if (big if) we learn from experience we can solve them.

The fact remains, most people who are told to evacuate by car will pack their suitcases and enough spending cash so that they can live on their own once they get out. The majority will end up sleeping on the floor of friends/relatives, so once you get them out of danger you don't think about them again. All that is required is enough warning that they can pack (if you don't have this much warning nothing can work anyway), and enough fuel (accounting for gridlock!) along the way.

Government needs to deal with the small number of people who cannot care for themselves, but the vast majority of people can be self sufficient, and having their personal car makes them more self sufficient.
You can also visit easyperf.net (my blog). If you like Linux perf the same way I do, you will like it.
Here are some links:

- https://easyperf.net/blog/2018/08/26/Basics-of-profiling-wit...

- https://easyperf.net/blog/2019/04/03/Precise-timing-of-machi...

- https://easyperf.net/blog/2019/02/09/Top-Down-performance-an...

But in the end, my almost every article contains a Linux perf use case scenario.
Wait. I'm missing something important here.

Are you saying that after Amazon verifies your credit card once, a scammer can keep making purchases on your card after you report it stolen to your credit card company?

This is news to me.

How long can Amazon do that? The end of the day? The end of the month? What eventually stops Amazon from accepting a card which has been reported stolen, and how long does the process take?

But blocking one specific company such as Amazon works faster? Why is that?

I guess at the end of the month, you can dispute the purchases.
>(a sort of meta exchange that owns other exchanges like the NYSE)

You mean the company that owns NYSE.
the entire work at that point in time does.

but you can take the 98%, and also relicense it under anything the copyright holders (=authors) agree to, and include an extra 2% so that it is a new work.
James Beshara: Mental Health Is Wealth
I think you may be missing some of the key elements of Musk's vision. The tunnels would be for autonomous, electric vehicles only. Congestion wouldn't exist, each vehicle would travel along at the same speed. This is the same vision above ground, but harder to implement fully for two main reasons: special cases/driving situations exist in many many places, and it's hard to get 100% compliance, as plenty of people aren't ready to give up their manual driving freedom. In these tunnels, it would be standardized and electric only, solving both of these challenges and accelerating adoption.
I think it's unproductive to try and read all news in bad faith, there are very few things that anyone can truly 100% comprehend and in a democracy we need everyone to be at least somewhat aware of things happening in society.
Yeaper.

"Legacy software man, it's a helluva drug!"
A finger in their ass bothers some people more then others - can we please have more quality headlines like this...
I'm not clear if this happens only if the Switch is on the same network as the Roku, or if it can affect Rokus in range even on different networks. The first seems most plausible, but the article seems to imply the second in a couple of places.
Haha you're putting words in my mouth. Of course I have an emotional response to events of the past, usually negative like most people. I'm just separating that from the historical and factual response, and understanding the difference between the two.

The point is that it wasn't just Europeans that have done bad things in the past. It was every type of person. And now we can collectively move past with the lessons.
This. You can choose any license if you pay me, but anything I write for free is GPL.
Yes, just not we-work. The only thing that’s free is the instant coffee and milk.
But it's not like companies provide daily sales performance data to trade on. Markets move on speculation. They aren't actually pegged to company performance.

How would lower cognitive ability make markets move lower on a daily basis? All I can think is higher pollution creating greater pessimism among traders.
We can argue the exact distance, but it is details. His point is correct: rail makes sense for cities that are not very far apart. Rail trips across continents doesn't make sense (except as tourism).
An exception is the Netflix movie, "The Laundromat", which deserves wider viewing.

It starts off like quirky satire, and then it morphs into actual lampooning of two specific real lawyers by name. They sued to suppress the movie and then lost. A journalist writing about the papers was killed in a car bomb.
I don’t understand the law is being punitive to those who are productive. This is a my place of business and has hundreds of thousands of dollars of capital infrastructure. And many of them on credit lines. If there aren’t any credit lines, farmers can’t survive. And farm land with infrastructure isn’t easy to avail..it’s not just the space but also soil, weather, being close to market, labour availablility and so many other factors.
Some people work in both modes; they need quiet for concentration but communication for collaboration.

One solution for this is to have many easily accessible conference rooms, including one-person rooms for calls, with sufficient soundproofing that you can't hear such calls from the nearest cube outside them.
Thanks. You're talking about espalier?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espalier

I could only find a single picture of something like this on a curved wall.

https://images.app.goo.gl/AXPFnXgE47K1vm5U7

If the tree is going to be pinned to the wall (as opposed to being free-standing and surrounded by the wall), I don't really understand how making it curved helps with absorbing heat or shielding from weather.
You realize Stafford Beer was my primary source for writing that, right? His books and videos are all on file sharing.
Start with the premise [...]

This sounds extremely vague and contrived - something something, the money is speech thing, 1A issue. We regulate all sorts of sales, data collection practices, etc, all the time. Can you find a concrete example, especially in a non-political, plain business-to-consumer context where such regulation has received 1A scrutiny? Even a description by Google or FB or their surrogates of such a potential problem will do.

Every dollar is more advocacy.

The question is advocacy for what. To square this circle you have to argue that the interests of Google and FB are aligned with the privacy interests of individual users - those are the interests such groups tend to claim to represent. This seems implied in your line of argument as I read it and, to me at least, appears glaringly inaccurate.
Thanks, and don't forget to measure. :)
Not sure why you're being downvoted. "Epstein didn't kill himself" is still a meme. That proves there's a market for the Epstein news, IMO. The public absolutely cares. Plus, there's evidence it's being swept under the rug: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amberjamieson/leaked-fo...
Machine Learning Bias – Pycon India 2019 [video]
Alternatively don’t do anything like this and setup 2FA for your NPM account to prevent malicious publishes in the event of a compromise.

Another pleasant side effect is that 2FA prevents accidental publishes too.
If it's _actually_ false, they can be sued for libel.
Oooh Cayman islands, that one must be juicy