skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sympathetic to your position, but right now your comment doesn't carry much information. Why are they the right tool for the jobs? Which reasons are those?
What field was that that became irrelevant?
I doesn't warrant 3GB of ram, sorry.
"Hey guys, now we run the .org registry we're providing valuable security to the registry users through synergistically responding to key realtime threats. As such, in order to now return correct IP addresses _every_time_ we need extra funding and so there is now a $100 security fee per 100k requests. But, in keeping with our forthright policy to stimulate internet growth the domain renewal fee is only 10% higher than last year. We're also freezing all updating of equipment as it might introduce security vulnerabilities."

-- new .org registry owners, next year, probably
I wonder how often the bugs will be so deep that something like LogRocket won't be enough.
LOL

"The Internet Society supports and promotes the development of the Internet as a global technical infrastructure, a resource to enrich people’s lives, and a force for good in society.

Our work aligns with our goals for the Internet to be open, globally-connected, secure, and trustworthy. We seek collaboration with all who share these goals.

Together, we focus on:

Building and supporting the communities that make the Internet work;
Advancing the development and application of Internet infrastructure, technologies, and open standards; and
Advocating for policy that is consistent with our view of the Internet"

https://www.internetsociety.org/mission/
Oh! Thanks for the note on the cover. Will change that. Don't want any nasty letters about copyright.

So, I agree re: the habit. I'm out of the habit, but I'm definitely in the habit of reading my email, so I guess the idea is bringing the content to where the people are.

Definitely not clear yet if this will be 'a thing'
Yep, those endorphins will mask the sweet pain of having 87 pages unread and knowing that number will keep growing ceaselessly until it is just another unread copy of the book in your inbox.
In my view you just replaced an explicit API built on top of known protocols, by a semi-magical implicit API.

The problem of serialization, deserialization, versioning, endpoint design... They aren't an artifact, they're intrinsic to how Web apps are built.

But yeah, for small projects I think this could be really neat.
Ask HN: Anyone Switch from Mac OS to WSL2? How Has the Experience Been?
Hi there!

I am thinking of transitioning from Mac OS to Windows, because I have seen good things about WSL2. Has anyone made the switch, and if so, how is the experience compared to developing open source applications on Mac?
Here's a better article which explains the advantages over traditional CSP.

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/science-and-health/2019/11/...

TL;DR Traditional CSP is aligned once, Heliogen aligns continuously. This allows them to correct for individual panel changes in warping, settling, weather, dust, etc. This approach also allows them to use cheaper hardware.
This wasn't made with the window.speechSynthesis API, it's using 2 older systems (espeak and sam) that have been ported to JavaScript. They don't sound as good but they generate AudioContext data which can be processed, mixed, and visualized in the browser. I don't think it wouldn't be possible to make this kind of Borg voice using the speechSynthesis API -- I did it by generating the speech using 6 voices, 3 in each channel.

I totally agree the built-in OS speech systems sound better over and I may end up adding window.speechSynthesis support to the API I made so it'll expose more voice profiles, but those ones will lack the visualization ability.
Oh thanks man! Let me know any feedback!
Totally. A lot of people leave the back door to their house unlocked too. Where risk is low, the amount of resources people expend to mitigate that risk is also low, and generally should be.
Perhaps you're a plant intending the minimize the impact of lobbying by comparing to FAANG, comprised of the wealthiest companies on the planet. But 3.2 million goes a long way in U. S. politics, especially when there's nobody lobbying against you, and you aren't really asking for anything new, just to prevent the existing, burdensome, anti-competitive laws from being repealed.
Interesting plots. What would actually happen though is that anxious elites would attempt to game the adversity system, doing things like maintaining an address in a “distressed” neighborhood for how ever long it takes to matter. The moral-ethical considerations aside (we’re actually going to punish or reward the children for the decisions the parents make?), this is just going to be abused. I’m skeptical it would even work as intended. Putting students into schools that they’re not academically prepared to be at because they had a rough time growing up sounds like setting them up for continued failure.

I also didn’t know UC was considering dropping the SAT all together. You know who will be the loudest cheerleaders for that? The same anxious elites that would move to a crappy neighborhood to boost their kid’s SAT score. Dropping the closest proxy we have for future academic performance (and a darn good one at that) would make everyone run for the side-door entrances to these institutions - and the back door will get a lot more lucrative. What a shame.
"The libertarian argument that YouTube is owned by a private company which is entitled to police content as it wishes is no longer sustainable. We live in a digital world in which a handful of big tech companies have seized control of the public square. As I have argued before, we need a First Amendment for the Internet."

So let me get this straight.

Conservatives no longer support property rights, believe access to broadcast media should be a government enforced entitlement, and support something like a fairness doctrine.

Liberals meanwhile believe certain ideas and forms of expression should be censored, call opponents of this "free speech extremists," and are fine with three or four corporations shaping public discourse.

Do I have this right?

It really does seem as if everyone on all sides lost their minds starting roughly 2012-2014. I could compile quite a long list of examples and not just around this issue.

My hypothesis for a cause is the algorithmic timeline and its kin. We shifted around that time from mostly neutral media for online discussion to the automatic moderation of discussion to drive engagement with the medium itself.

What drives engagement? Negativity, cartoonishly extreme positions, outrage, hate, fear, trolling, etc. Over time everyone has been driven toward... well... those opinions and styles of discourse that most effectively drive engagement.
I'd claim that most folks here aren't directly in this area and couldn't care much. The mostly quiet majority I would call us. And recession? It won't be started by this but bigger forces. A correction might be even healthy for most in long term.
If you’re putting all of your eggs in the “shielded other structures” - why have the other structure in the first place? It’s not as if you can live outside those “other structures” if you’ll just die of radiation poisoning.

Or, to put it another way, any structure capable of shielding against cosmic radiation should be capable of also holding air (we’ve gotten really good at that).
My father, who was a joiner, gained an abiding interest in Homer from an Oxbridge classics student he was stationed alongside in the RAF in WW2. Explains why my eldest sister is called Helen!
Frantic response to mysterious 'slow-moving blob' flying over Washington
Thanks for this interesting link - I take back my criticism of the article! Based on your comment and that of t3hz0r it sounds like the martian colonists would be fine with this setup, as long as they mainly worked and lived in shielded habitats within the ETFE covered areas and also had underground shelters for emergency radiation protection.
You mention "numerous examples of fabricated information or outright propaganda" and "fake news stories regarding ISIS from ABC" (stories, plural) but only cite one data point - a story for which the wrong video was used, and which was later retracted. And for which, as far as I understand, malicious intent has yet to be proven.

I understand it's considered axiomatic here to assume malice where stupidity would suffice as regards the media, but as you're attempting to argue against fabrication and deception by the media, your yourself are attempting to deceive readers here by conflating your case.

Perhaps you could add weight to your argument by listing the other fake news stories regarding ISIS from ABC?
According to the general public the only TLD is .com

My kids school can't use a .edu domain because everyone insists on typing in variations on whatever.edu.com and its just too much of a headache.

My home town can't use a .gov domain because everyone insists on typing in variations on cityname.gov.com and its just too much of a headache. Even more hilariously my city name is my county name so there's a turf battle over name.gov. At least my hometown city name is rare, there are supposedly 88 cities named "Springfield" in the USA. They heavily market a .com domain for my city although it redirects to a ridiculous variation of city-name.gov. I honestly don't know the marketing domain for my county, but its probably a .com also.

I can think of insider sites on .org for IT and technical people; debian.org for example. The death of .org would hit IT and tech people kinda hard. I can't think of a popular general public site on the .org TLD, and even if there is one, well, it can just move to .com where the end users already assume it is anyway.

In short, if .org is squeezed, a couple insiders and IT people will angrily leave to .com, and the general public will not notice, other than its a little easier to find them, because "all domains end in dot com" as I've been told many times over the years. Insider sites will go to specialty TLDs that the general public do not realize exists and are thus quite cheap, .mobi or .name or .biz or similar.

Presumably the private equity firm figured this out during due diligence. By analogy, they MUST know they did not buy the one monopoly cable modem provider for a region which they could squeeze for all its worth ... they knowingly bought the equivalent of one food truck in a highly competitive market. If they destroy .org for fun or whatever, well, its not really a big deal to switch, so knowing they won't make much money off the destruction, why bother destroying .org? By analogy you can make a lot of money by destroying Iraq, so there was intense corporate media pressure to destroy Iraq, and Iraq was destroyed. However, you can't make a lot of money destroying Clipperton Island, and as such there is not much big corporate media pressure to invade or bomb Clipperton, and its unlikely it'll ever be destroyed (at least, not for profit, LOL).
Yes, although Eben Upton suggests trying a better grade of HDMI cable... the frequency of the higher resolution on screen will radiate noise out of a poorly shielded cable enough to interfere with Wi-Fi in the 2.4Ghz range.

Don't use a cheap cable, use one rated for 4k, and see if that helps.
Developing on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 [video]
Humans won’t be the only creature that finds adaptation to seasonal food resources useful.

Anyway, this thought is probably difficult to study. We seem to be engineered to grab carbs when we see them though.
AWS Tag Policies
.org registry was already a pretty good cash cow. According to their tax return[1], in 2018 they grossed ~$93m over ~$33m registry administration expense, ~$7m employee compensation (interestingly there's a 30% year over year increase here), and some other smaller expenses. They raised $48.7m for Internet Society. Note that out of registry administration expense, $18.1m went to Afilias[2] (this should also be in the tax return), a for-profit technical registry provider. So every time you paid your $10 .org registration fee, at least $5 went to Internet Society as a mandatory donation, somewhere between $0-2 went to Afilias the for-profit contractor, some small amount went to GoDaddy for marketing, etc. Anyway, a non-profit printing $50m/yr without begging for donations is certainly nothing to sneer at, and under the control of a for-profit entity they should expect more even if the price stays the same. And you bet the price won't stay the same.

[1] https://thenew.org/app/uploads/2019/09/PIR-2017_2018-990.zip

[2] https://domainnamewire.com/2019/10/28/pir-org-slashes-regist...
1. We know that there's no limit in the contract, because if there was, they would just say that.

2. The reason there isn't a limit in the contract is because Ethos don't actually intend to limit themselves to 10% yearly. If they did, they would have agreed to write it into the contract, which would have let them pay less for .org
I've re-submitted it and it got to the front page with a bit of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21657504

A bit weird that the stories weren't deduplicated as they usually are. Next time I'll search on agolia first.
I like that, especially a chunk of pages.

SMS/WhatsApp would be a cinch, the APIs look similar to email sending APIs. It's on my backlog, but I never actually really answered the question of why you'd want that? When would you prefer an SMS/WhatsApp message over an email? The biggest complaint folks have is around lack of context for a single page, which would be exacerbated by an even shorter text message?
As you mentioned the => syntax is already being used in PHP with associative arrays and can conflict in some places. Taking your example [$x => $x*2] this creates an array with $x doubled on index $x, while a user might want to create an array of functions.

The fn() syntax was a non-conflicting alternative, which got most support for being not too weird.
@johndamaia – your Zillow testimonial has "an" misspelt in "knock ant artboard"
I think you’re right, universities are reputation maximizers - but so are parents and students, and I’m not so sure they think of the university as another rational actor in the same vein as themselves. The more I think about it the more I’m starting to believe that the only winning move is not to play.
Or Friedman’s SSCG function.
Because he's not naive. Humans are self justification machines and he's just exercising the semi-delusional post decision making process we all frequently exercise ourselves.
" around 10 metres of irreversible sea-level rise.
Reducing emissions could slow this process, allowing more time for low-lying populations to move."

This seems like hyperbole to me. I'll be glad to buy Hawaiin real estate (at an appropriate discount, of course) to show my sincerity.

Any sellers?

Seriously, articles of this kind are so over the top that they cause mental fatigue for the issue and de-emphasize climate change.
That's because it really doesn't work on AMD gpus (at least on Linux.). Sure if you spent a lot of time setting up the rocm driver you might get lucky but it's alpha quality at best and in my case (and the case of several people in this thread and the GitHub one linked) it doesn't work at all.
Not sure - in all cases, I asked for feedback afterward, but all had policies of not giving feedback.

I only interviewed at places where I believed that I met most of the criteria. A couple were full-stack Angular / Node roles. The rest were Spark / Scala / Warehouse related.
If you go for a PhD, do it because you want to expand your knowledge and education for the enlightenment of others. I know a few PhD folks in Cybersecurity and they’re one or two pay grades above me. Keep in mind they’re at the high end of this pay band, though. And they’re awesome to work with. The degree by itself will not garner you much more attention and could possibly categorize you as over-qualified much more frequently. The true mark of a person will always be their personality and ability to relate with a team. I’m almost 50. I work with a bunch of young (20’s - 30’s) people. And the influence they bring is refreshing. This is my second career, too. Your skills are transferable to an entirely new field as well. If I could do what you do I’d be significantly better at my job.
Ancient Greek Cosmology, Astral Lore, and Exact Sciences
Applications rarely copy dlls to the system directory these days, as that led to horrifying DLL hell just like Linux has, where conflicts abound unless some central authority carefully manages everything. I routinely run about a hundred different applications portably from a thumb drive. Try that shit with Linux (it only works with AppImage!).

User profile and registry are for settings. You can easily keep backups of those as well, but it isn't really necessary unless you have highly tweaked configurations or something.

Have you not touched Windows since 1995?
<sigh>. A "bookshelves" page to highlight good suggestions and moving the search up to the top are high on the list, but I'd got to the point I needed some real user feedback to get fired up to spend some more time on it.

Thanks for the suggestion!
Thank you for calling me out on that. I didn't read deeply enough into the article. I stand corrected... the issue is more about tourists going to thailand without insurance.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Asia-Insight/Tourism-prove...

Also interestingly enough while searching for the above article, it seems Chinese medical tourism in Thailand is also on the rise.
Does ICANN pay for that infra though or do you? Because if ICANN doesn't pay I don't see how that's relevant.
Thank you! Unfortunately I'm not, though - I gave up on the PNW in despair a few months ago, and I'm just wandering now. At least the backcountry of the US is a pretty place to wait for death.
I would guess by coating the floors/ground with sealing coating (and walls and ceilings if you're underground).

It might need to be nice and thick to withstand wear, but maybe not that thick depending on how tough the sealant is, how regular the surfaces and how well maintained.
Are you failing on the algorithm part? My girlfriend failed 80 interviews before landing a big offer.

There's also always project management with your experience :)
Very skeptical that this is a practical means to supply 1500C to an industrial process. Do they plan on piping heat via liquid metal, or what? Do you shutdown on cloudy days and sen everyone home?
Socioeconomic mobility doesn’t happen overnight.

Maybe the poor kid goes to a trade school moving up from poor to upper middle class.

The kid of said person would have a better start...repeat the cycle and after just 2-3 generations you have a Harvard/Stanford graduate

This is how many Jews and Asians moved up from being broke poor
I've heard that, but I don't find it to be true. For me at least, one page per day keeps me connected.
For all the good you've done in the past and now, Richard, this is just one long disappointing read. Between the lines, the text is "we don't have the people to maintain PIR and decided that rather than hire people for it, we should sell it" and then a for-profit shell was set up and PIR was funneled over to it, and now it's no longer your problem to have to deal with. From your perspective, that's not making things better: that's walking away from them. And now you've made it _our_ problem, one _we don't have the power to fix_ and from our perspective, that's not you making the internet better: that's making our internet worse.
* Lots of cheap developers available

* Strong community

* Mature frameworks and libraries

* Simple hosting model
Further to that, your child needs a society to live in. You could have the best educated child in the world, but if the society behind them doesn't function, the chances of achievement would be particularly low.

It's one of those greater good and where do you draw the line arguments. On one side, there's anarchy, every man for themselves, but you'll have to give up property rights here, because why should the rest of us shouldn't have to pay for police and courts for you, on the other hand there's communism, but with no reward for work, why would we bother?

Once you accept everyone is on the spectrum, it's harder to argue against a good education and medical system, paid from by tax, if it has the wider benefit to society.
The NY Times has something similar to what you (see the very bottom of the page): https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/27/upshot/make-y...

That graphic lets you compare and contrast between various gender/race and their income mobility.
We're talking about the primary tool used by highly paid professionals. A few thousand dollars just isn't that much, especially when your employer is paying for it.

Once you're price-insensitive, the quality looks good for macs, keyboard issues notwithstanding.
Magic, implicit glue code is worse than explicit, handrolled glue code, imo.

Do you need a web API? If you need to serve data to a web frontend then yes. Pick your poison, but you will have one. You can do a little dance that makes it look like you don’t have one, but in my experience that usually turns out worse than just writing the damn thing.
As a former mechanic, at least my shop would occasionally refuse to let a vehicle leave the shop- the one example that I remember most clearly was a SUV that came in for an oil change. The owner was planning on a 800 mile trip with their family and wanted an oil change before leaving. One of the wheels had a serious suspension problem, and would likely fall off shortly & cause a rollover.

We weren't going to let that truck leave our shop w/o getting fixed, none of us wanted dead kids on our conscience. We extended credit to the customer & cut our rate so the owner could afford it. Point being, in this case we definitely knew better than the customer, somehow they didn't realize a wheel falling off at highway speed is dangerous. P

However, that was a very rare situation. If a customer insisted they wanted work done that we didn't feel was necessary, we would tell them so but still do the work if they wanted it.
This isn't someone having an edge over someone else because they worked for it, took a risk for it, or earned it in any way. It's because they had different parents - capitalism is about rewarding work, risk, etc not having parents who can afford to send you to a better school.

Communism pretends to seek equality at all times for all, but this is only proposing a more equal start for all, and still allows some to do better than others. Are you sure authoritarianism isn't the word you were looking for?
I’m surprised by this observed usage pattern.

I would have expected a spike in usage upon initial signup representing initial bulk artboard conversion, followed by a lower steady-state usage for updates & iterations, with periodic annual/biannual spikes for major redesigns.

Technically your pricing model supports this — a customer would just buy “overages”. But people often don’t like paying both a baseline subscription plus overage fees, as it can feel like the service is punishing them for straying outside plan lines.

Have you looked into a “credit rollover” type pricing model, plus some kind of kickoff bonus? E.g. you get 5 artboard credits on signup, then accumulate 2 per month that you can use whenever you want. (This is the approach Audible uses, for example.)

Users would be able to top up their credits whenever they want, but are rewarded for deferring low-priority usage so their credits build up in anticipation of more important work. There’s also the additional advantage of sunk-cost perceptions making users less likely to churn a service while they have credits in the bank, even if they can’t envision exactly how they’d use them today.