skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don’t Blame Tech Bros for the Housing Crisis
I was there last year, World of Tanks seems to be a huge thing there too
China is investing in Belarus. They build factories and infrastructure, likely to get easier access to the European markets.
I love that the post points out the importance of selling to executives instead of users. As much as users hate most of their tools, they have very little say on what gets bought. Executives make those decisions and no amount of grousing or changing from internal users will change that. Solutions that sell upwards in an org (yammer for example) are very much the exception.
tl;dr for those not wanting to dissect abstract art this afternoon: peer to peer network via blockchain focused on social communication.
China due to introduce face scans for mobile users
I think the point is it’s not a subsidy that could instead be spent somewhere else.
Would love to see some postmortem from the tech folks @ Costco. What really got them down. Also, does anyone know if they use any cloud services or run their own DC?
Impressive. Thanks much, I've been a fan of theirs for some time; you've illuminated things i hadn't seen.
Anecdata: my pi4 with heat sinks in the clear plastic case it came with would regularly hard lock under normal loads (presumably thermal issue) until I put it in an actively cooled enclosure. Now it’s fine.

Not sure if this was before or after these fw updates but it was two weeks ago on stable raspbian. I don’t actively monitor the temp as it is remote.
I've felt I'm forced to only publish one post a day, which is a pain, because yesterday I had a ideas for five posts

This is what the drafts folder is for. Write the ideas down, leave them in there, come back to them later and finish them.
> The Smart in particular offers very respectable occupant protection

That's reassuring

> for its size.

That's not. Passengers risk rises with the size of the incoming car, not the car they are riding in.
It’s an overlay OS, a VM made to allow anyone to run their own server easily
Does anyone know how Urbit's solving the problem of being incredibly slow? It's running on a naively simple virtual machine and they claim that higher level operations can be abstracted and implemented in native code (called jets last time I heard) to make the overall execution time reasonable.

Or, alternatively: Does anyone even actually use urbit? I tried once and it was so god damn slow it made me sad. It's so cool.
I think that describing Alibaba/AliExpress and the Shenzhen electronics markets as two different things rather hides reality .... Many of those little online stores on AliExpress and the stalls in the Shenzhen markets are just two views of the same thing ... Come 5pm in Shenzhen, all you can hear is the ripping of the beige packing tape as all the stalls pack up their online sales of the day ....
Does anyone else find the pictures of tractor engines hypnotizing? It's a total antithesis of American or Chinese-for-American manufacturing, where everything is maximal or minimal. Instead everything is "reasonable", a reasonable cost, a reasonable engine efficiency, a design that makes simple sense, parts that aren't optimized to the micron in order to save plastic...it's so refreshing to look at the inside of a mass-market machine that doesn't look over-optimized.
Just like the president, right?
But Adams can't be impeached, so what about it?
I agree that the founder has some pretty odious beliefs, chiefly racist, misogynistic, fascist, and the ilk. That said, Urbit is one of the most interesting projects I've seen.
Founder isn’t associated with project anymore. Worth taking another look
Neither of those is remotely comparable to a head on collision with 500+ lb car at 500-100mph relative.

If an opposing car pushes a part of your car into your body, that's like you being hit by a car while standing in front of a wall. Once the pressure wave hits your body, where is it going to go? You can't be "thrown clear" through the back of your own car.
I’m disappointed with articles like this. If I wanted to be in sales, I wouldn’t be in engineering. Not everything is about marketing. Some people need to, and daresay, enjoy building things, otherwise nothing would ever get built. This salesification of all business strata is strictly an American phenomenon, and will eventually be the death of American industry. Already our major exports are media and pop culture that exemplify this phenomenon. Now engineers are supposed to market themselves? No wonder we don’t manufacture anything worth exporting anymore.
It seems that you need to do more dissecting yourself. It would be unjust to summarize urbit like that. It really is as they say, an "Operating Function."
I believe Emacs has its own regular expression syntax that doesn't correspond exactly to either POSIX regexes, PCRE, or any other common regex variant. (Presumably because none of them existed yet when Emacs implemented regexes?)
Capitol One are true scum, they tried to entice my son with a credit card with like >25% interest.

Of course he threw it away.
could you elaborate
If someone has no email listed on their github or twitter and doesn’t have open DMs but you need to contact them privately for whatever reason (eg a security issue in a repo they control).

GitHub doesn’t have private messaging.

There are tons of legitimate uses. The point of a username is to identify someone.
> I owned this domain for 12 years ...

Rented. They rented this domain for 12 years.

Not to excuse the appropriation. But no one owns their domain, except possibly govs and mega-corps by virtue of mass.
This tool doesn’t publish anything at all. It runs locally.
So they claim copyright? So they can prove they own it? Where did it come from? Who exactly is the craftsman who made it? Can I see complete documentation? I’ll be expecting a complete transfer history or the current ownership claim is invalid. No uncertainty allowed, names, dates and place of origin please. Do they still want copyright if they can’t even show complete chain of creation to their current ownership? How about certification that shows legal transfer of the item from the original craftsman to the current holders lawful possession?

Obviously these are farcical questions but the museums answers are likely not to be so laughable or ridiculous. Quite a lot of their answers will show they don’t actually own the item - they just have it. For now.

In reality the museum is just the current holder of something that was probably actually stolen. A thief can’t claim much of anything can they?

Perhaps the museum should clarify its exact claim so that no others can challenge them. And “because we’ve had it for awhile” doesn’t count. Maybe the museum should not only admit they don’t have copyright but that in a very real way they shouldn’t even have it to begin with.
It says he quit; it does not say he doesn’t still have equity.
Hm I like that.
Hey, I wrote the PR you just linked (#1668). Was there an issue with the code changes you ran into? Just asking since you said you were waiting for it to be fixed. If so, I'd love to know what the error was so I can test/fix it. Or did you just mean the underlying issue (ACMEv1 protocol being deprecated)?
I don't think you understand. Bill gates isn't doing anything. He's been retired for 15 years. He doesn't work anymore. None of the profit that Microsoft has made since then can be in any way attributed to his effort.

Nonetheless, he has increased his hoard of wealth by 60 billion dollars, 120% of what he retired with.

That money was made by the hard work of Microsoft's current engineers, devs, testers, managers, salespeople, call center workers, the whole bunch. THEY are the ones benefitting society, and they would be doing the same job whether Bill Gates existed or not. THEY should be the ones reaping the rewards.
How I take notes in workplace
Show HN: Locust.io and TeamCity better integration and reports
Well, I did have specific reasons for those examples (besides comedy value). Weed dealer tends to bring sketchy and dangerous people to the property. (If you don't buy that, try "heroin dealer" instead.) And I also stipulated that they lied about it. These are all things that happen all the time.

And then as far as "bass player," that's just a proxy for low income; I also picked a hyper-niche genre that even most metal listeners don't enjoy. If he can prove income via sending copies of contracts with music venues or something, more power to him.

For good or bad, this all stuff that could plausibly be used as an accurate source of information about someone's ability to pay and to not be a problem to the other tenants--especially the lying part.
It’s way faster than it used to be (about 10x). I’m interested in knowing the progress of their new JIT interpreter, because they claim that’s giving them another 10x in internal tests
Unit Testing an Existing Code Base
Terminally ill patient gets to see next Star Wars movie before it’s released
The problem with this formulation is that all other laws, all other rights, only exist as a result of the first a-priori assumption: that you are allowed to engage in discussion of any idea. Without that, people self censor and can’t feel free to think.

That isn’t to say that there are no regulations on content. Plenty of media has standards and regulations about how it produces content, rating systems for media, and a system of classifying content that is acceptable for different degrees. For instance, I could see better regulation around a rating system for YouTube content to prevent children from stumbling upon poor content. This is still different than banning speech.
Given the devices he uses to try and bypass the DRM don't result in any 4K captures and appear to repeatedly break his ability to watch in the right dynamic range and colour space, it seems like the DRM works perfectly at doing what it's supposed to do.
OK, I get it.

It's like an extreme version of metal tape measures. Which are ~flat when rolled up, and then curve enough when unrolled to become ~rigid. But in this case, they seem to become almost cylindrical when unrolled.

I know that it's likely an old design. It's just that I know nothing about satellite design.
I'll be happy if I can get a PinePhone next year. After that, I'll call it victory and just watch other people's TV. This streaming fiasco is too crazy to entertain.
On the authors Sony too. At least it works fine on my lower end model. Can’t remember whether it shows Bitrate, but resolution is certainly there. And no color format issues. I think they made their life voluntarily complicated.
I mean, it is. He has a TV with a perfectly good Netflix app that plays back in UHD without having to touch anything.

He just didn't want to turn it on due to paranoia, and ended up using a bunch of extremely dodgy devices that seem to have broken his viewing chain and created lots of problems instead. Well... yeah?
Since when is Slovenia a former soviet state?
>If judges in a jurisdiction are elected, it is the responsibility of the electorate to make sure the judges they select are the most qualified (perhaps by studying previous decisions, academic publications, etc). Analogously, if judges are appointed by other elected officials, it is the responsibility of the electorate to select public servants who are good at appointing competent judges.

Responsibility is not a zero sum game. Voters and officials who elect and appoint judges are responsible for their actions just as much as judges are responsible for upholding and following the law. While many areas of the law are ambiguous and up to the discretion of the judge to decide, many other areas are well-established and clear cut (such as the illegality of jailing defendants who have not had access to a lawyer). The fact remains that we cannot exist as a society that depends on the rule of law to function if we have judges and other officers of the court who are unwilling or incapable of upholding the law as it exists.
I have a blast with Godot. It lets me really focus on making the game instead of navigating through a bunch of stuff I don't understand. The Discord and various other Godot communities are great, too. As open source software, there are some known issues that simply end up at the back of the priority queue for remediation, but in general, anything important is patched quickly. Plus, if you're so inclined, you can help patch the core product. I really like working with it and I try to pitch in where I can with the docs, etc.
Proposal for a Composable Web
There's a classic paper that shows that refcounting and GC are in fact duals of each other, where GC is effectively tracing live objects and refcounting is tracing dead objects:

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1028982

This had a number of important corollaries to this. One is that they have opposite performance characteristics: GCs make creating new references fast but then create a large pause when RAM is exhausted and a collection happens, while refcounts make creating new references slow and create a large pause when large object graphs are freed all at once. Another is that nearly all high-performance memory management systems are hybrids of the two: lazy refcounting is basically like implementing a local garbage collector and then feeding the live set of that into the refcounts, while generational garbage collection is like implementing a local refcount (the write barrier) and feeding the results of that into the root set.
thank you for writing this history up. I am a regular but never really got involved in the effort to revive (except to announce it's return 10 months ago on HN)--I didn't really know the story.
"Operating function" is just more abstract woo. My description says what it was made to do not how it is supposed to make you feel or the fancy terms people have come up with to describe how it goes about making you feel that way.

Is it not "peer to peer network via blockchain focused on social communication."? If so feel free to explain why and what the website means when it talked about each of those things. If it's more then please talk about how it's more but please stick to why that means it's not the above and is instead designed to do something else (and what that something else is).

Sidenote: is there an internet law coined describing the inverse relationship between the size of the main landing page image and the actual amount of content in the landing page?
Oh :O, up here in the north (Sweden) you have to look pretty hard to find a plan without unlimited everything but data.
That's a big list, but often, you only have 1 or 2 of those options available to you.
You can only code so much as you can - your output is limited to your skill, ability to learn, work ethic or determination, and time. There are all kinds of things that can waste your time - programming something that wasn’t required, programming something in a way that becomes a problem later on, oversights and other mistakes, but hopefully with experience you waste less of your own time by learning from all these previous less than optimal decisions. Now if there is more work to do than you personally want to do - it would just consume your life - maybe it is time to get some help, and then you are managing your helper in some way by guiding what they work on to help you out in the way that helps you get more work done than you could have by yourself. And then you get another helper, and another, and soon enough the team of programmers you are managing can produce more than you could have ever done by yourself. You don’t write much code anymore but You help your team solve problems with the building blocks you have, and keep them on the right path when customers and other forces will try to benefit themselves at your teams expense.
Maybe we are talking past each other then. Because to me group selection is a type of genetic selection.
I'd argue it's entirely fair. The fact that people in the US spend a lot more time in the car is part of the problem.

Fatalities per distance is fine for a technical comparison of road safety regulations.

Fatalities per population is more useful when comparing the safety of roads as they are used.
No, they do not claim copyright over the physical bust.
Hang on, let me try to understand your point:

1. A computer simulation where wealth is exchanged by chance has power-law behavior

2. Wealth IRL has power-law behavior

3. Therefore, wealth IRL was exchanged by chance (as opposed to skill)

Is this what you were saying? If not, mind breaking down what you are saying?

Needless to say, the above is affirming the consequent. The exchange mechanism random simulation is modelling need not be the actual mechanism in real life (though it may very well be a good model, viewing skill as randomly assigned to members of the population).
B-tree index improvements in PostgreSQL v12
Wow, thanks! Earlier FIDO stories never mentioned that Tom's later life was as inventive as Fidonet. WP's bio also notes that he 'built Wired magazine's first internet presence, wrote the portable BIOS that led to Phoenix Technologies BIOS' and is currently on the faculty at Calarts in L.A.
How would one host a website over GNUnet?
An African village was one of the attractions during the 1958(!) World Expo in Brussels. My mother remembers it very well going there as a teenager.

https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/m_features/human-zoos-a-sh... :

"And by the time of the fair in Brussels, the notion of a human zoo was largely considered distasteful and had been banned in most countries.

Yet change didn’t happen quickly enough for those of the Congolese village in 1958. A number of the original 297 died during the show and were buried in a mass, unmarked grave."
Most of the people that might stalk, harass, or threaten you aren’t in traditional seats of power. This tool at the very least makes the ability to connect the dots more salient to bad actors, and allows them to do so with industrial efficiency.
I assume that they are claiming copyright in the digital file that they created. As in: I took a photo, I made a digital file, I have copyright in the file. The question comes down to exactly what copyright law for the particular country says, but it's likely to require a degree of originality, which an exact copy of an existing work doesn't provide.
Copyright for a piece of art stolen from Thutmose's worshop, 3000 years later. Great job
I remember seeing a few toy ones. No real serious languages though.

I don't think the parent meant to implement an elisp interpreter in Clojure. I thought they meant to build an Emacs like editor in Clojure. Similar to this now abandonned project: https://github.com/hraberg/deuce

There'd be no point in re-writing an Elisp compiler/interpreter in Clojure over its current C implementation apart maybe for if you think it be nice for you to work in Clojure instead of C when coding on it.
It might show info only in some modes. E.g. I only got bitrate tests with the 60FPS test screen, but not any other.
More then just people in the US use iPhones?
Internet Society CEO: Most people don't care about the .org sell-off
Big tech changes the rules for political adverts
Some of these ads really could be from this year. Not so much is changed in peoples’ style the last 25 years. I think advertising from 1965 looked much older in 1990.
Sure, you can change any of the individual properties.

But if you cannot move memory (adjust pointers like most GCs do) then you will have to deal with fragmentation, which slows down allocation (or causes other drawbacks).

Moving GC can also make the program faster due to memory compactation and hence being more efficient wrt CPU cache and TLB.
What are the working skills needed for research in math?
There’s also another idea about speech:

Speech can be thought of as simulating action without having to actually do anything.

Your thoughts die so you don’t have to.
I'd say its the job of academic researchers to dream up high-risk ideas to work on, and to hype up incremental advances as potentially proof-of-concept for those ideas (when they're decades away still, with many potentially unsolvable hurdles left). Generally they are careful to give all sides though, since their reputation among their peers is the basis for their career. The media is a very different story. They just need to catch the interest of the mostly-ignorant, then move on to something new the next story.
' I don't think we should limit the number of anything, if are qualified and knowledgeable enough to do brain surgery, you should be allowed to.'

Unfortunately that's just not how it works. I want the best people to do brain surgery(not everyone who can), just like if I'm running a formula one racing team, I really don't want every idiot who can barely drive a car cluttering the track.
Real-world objects are generally not copyrightable, unless they fall into one of the categories in which copyright law defines, such as sculptures, buildings, and "works of artistic craftmanship". If it's just a rock, or a mass-produced car part, it's unlikely to be copyrightable. Hence it would follow, at least to me, that a mechanical 3D scan of the object wouldn't be copyrightable either, since it has no originality.
I don’t understand which of the several possible implications you’re leaving unstated here. Could you say more directly what you mean?
I didn't mean to imply he screwed up his life. My intent was just to convey the anecdote as I remember him telling it. I recall he referred to it a 'CLM' at that time. That was likely just his oratory flair.
WeChat and the Rise of Chinese Internet
It’s okay to use this to stalk someone as long as you keep secret the fact that you’re doing so.
Seems like a few folks here know how to project a single sample onto a vector valued function. Brilliant people.
avoiding linking usernames on different sites...
Secrets about People: A Short and Dangerous Introduction to René Girard
Such analysis also requires language design that limits the legal statements in a program to make the analysis tractable.

Without these restrictions, this problem is isomorphic to the halting problem. (Proof: assignment of a given memory object to a field within another unrelated object creates another reference. The job of automatic memory management is to determine when no such references exist. Now replace that assignment with HALT. Any such automatic memory manager that operates statically would be able to find all HALT statements within the program and so solve the halting problem for an arbitrary program.)

That's why languages that manage memory statically like Rust & C++ must be able to reject some programs as "not passing the borrow-checker", and everything else requires run-time support via either GC or refcounting.
> despite it being a Labour party matter

This is an internal matter and has no bearing on who might be leading the country in a few weeks and voters don't have a right to know and the Tories don't have a right to point it out? Ok then.
Bimbo Ademoye Turned Down Butt Enlargement Deal
I remember logging on to my local BBS in 1992, my new wife was not happy I was spending too much time online.
I mean, I'm not arguing for this method, it is obviously crazy and has contributed to a lot of issues in other parts of the country [0]. I'm just giving the rationale I have heard from others.

[0] https://www.newsweek.com/2016/10/28/teen-suicide-contagious-...
Why India Banned 86% of Its Currency
Just ordered a 16" MacBook Pro with a AMD Radeon Pro 5000M. Will that now work with TF 2.0? How does it compare with the Radeons mentioned here?