skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take the syncretic view that the GPL/apache/proprietary categories of licenses are greater than their components.

These three categories cover the spectrum of motives for doing software.

What's key is to respect these motives and protect the legal regime that supports their creative tension.
A full book manuscript is tiny, and requires zero spinup whatsoever, unless you count opening a PDF or DOCX file as such. I have a copy of everything I've written over the past thirty years available immediately, and it would fit on a $4 thumb drive. If my career depended on it, I would be quite certain to have it with me at all times.
For example, if someone commits AWS keys to a GitHub repo, GitHub will alert AWS, AWS will revoke your keys and freeze the account until they're satisfied nothing is compromised.

> https://github.blog/2018-10-17-behind-the-scenes-of-github-t...
> you can't use MFA authentication on Twitter without giving them your phone number.

GitHub also require MFA authentication since this year.

Does it mean that any MFA authentication now has same leaks?
For trips within Austria, you can save up to 50% with a Vorteilscard (66€/year): https://www.oebb.at/en/tickets-kundenkarten/kundenkarten/vor...

I bought the card last year and it's paid for itself with just a few trips into Vienna and back (I'm in Tirol).
Yes. I said it requires a deep connection, but if you have the conditions for that—such as non-judgment and presence and a willingness to relate to the person exactly as they are—then you are going to have a different kind of conversation anyhow.
I assure you the KKK is alive and growing its ranks.
The EPA likes to get in on the action, too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Gold_King_Mine_waste_wate...
>So hopefully they have those academic staff members on record as accepting the risk.

Then what? Use them as the scapegoat when the network does get compromised? Feels like the exact opposite of blameless postmortems.
Bit of a crypto-tangent: more than anything else, the hope of replacing advertising as the economic engine of the Internet is why I care about the cryptocurrency space. In most cases, I think crypto is a solution looking for a problem, but the capability to trade edge compute/memory/disk/network for an ad free Internet experience would be immeasurably good for our collective mental health.
Suggestion: put your email in your ‘about’ field so someone can remedy that :)
Worth calling out that Google literally compiled a list of outages caused by `required` fields before killing that field parameter.
OP here. Bingo! Karl Schroeder is fairly obscure unfortunately... I love Ventus and Lady of Mazes. I picked this handle mainly because it's unique everywhere I've tried to sign up.
> > Nobody wants ads banned.

> I want ads banned.

> They provide nothing of value and exist only to sway people into buying your product - a lot of advertising isn't overtly malicious but it all exists dependent on an assumption that being told to buy a product is a more valuable use of a time than whatever else you're doing.

I'm a prolific adblocker, but I disagree with you here. I think if things were kept at a reasonable balance, advertising would be a net positive.

There have been several times where I've tried new restaurants because of ads. Sometimes I'll go searching to buy a specific thing, and realize that it doesn't yet exist in the market. Then a few months or years later, I'll see an advertisement for that thing, and I'm always very appreciative.

That's not to mention that if ads were banned tomorrow, the established brands would have decades of advantage built up against newcomers, becoming a self-reinforcing monopoly that I'd imagine would last decades after the last person to have seen an ad dies.

And don't forget, making something illegal doesn't mean it goes away. Look at how often people accuse accounts on social media of astroturfing. Do you think that astroturfing will become more or less common after a ban on advertising? At least with ads legal I can evaluate them as ads. I can't tell which glowing reviews are legitimate and which are planted, and if you think you can I'd put money against you.

> I suspect that being constantly bombarded with advertising has ill health effects by making it harder to find peace of mind and de-stress yourself, but that's just a gut feeling.

I definitely agree with you on that. The current state of ads is nothing less than an assault on people's cognitive abilities and mental health. Something needs to give here.
You dont get low quality flag for one typo. Author chose to only share "moreso" in a bid to garner sympathy. Others joining in complain about being forced, oh shock and horror, to fix ordinary typos (like missing letters) in their flawless creations.
Merry Christmas!

Don't worry about a thing people write here on HN! Stay positive and be happy and successful! Keep coding and making the world a better and more fun world!
I think an implementation of Cap'n Proto that's actually optimized for embedded systems would likely be smaller than any implementation of Protobuf could be. However, I'd have to admit that the current Cap'n Proto C++ library is not so optimized.

Here's a GitHub comment where I outlined what we'd need to do to fix that, FWIW: https://github.com/capnproto/capnproto/issues/844#issuecomme...

Caveat: I don't have any personal experience with embedded systems.
> These authors should start from a position of gratefulness that their work is being published and read.

Real hard to be grateful that your work is being published and read if people are clicking buttons that cause those works to get de-published and un-readable.
I want the ads banned. For many reasons, which I've listed and described at length here: http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html.
Unless there's something I'm missing, Argyll is a small press. Smashwords is more like a vanity press, which is what you describe. There's a huge difference between those two kinds of publishers, even if both give authors more responsibility than a traditional publisher.

"Self-publishing" is really orthogonal to both of those, though today most people would probably describe any vanity press as effectively self-published.
They cost $150 and $700 respectively.
Nonsense. Investors are not uniform. He's got his buds and that's enough.
It does include Facebook and Google, because Facebook and Google do not make up a large proportion of the population.
Chuck Peddle Dies at 82; His $25 Chip Helped Start the PC Age
Mostly bug fixes and more active development so far.
Their technology aside, I don't think it's a good idea to put 7% of their vehicle payload on the roof. That would measurably elevate the center of gravity, which is not ideal for any vehicle that turns.
Many studies have shown that in the long term, OTC and normal trades have same stock impact.
Not a wierd headline at all. If you read the article you will find that your point is precisely part of the whole point of the Nightjet concept.
> Those are some of the results of a new study published today in the journal Science Advances that reports the Arctic has warmed by 0.75 degrees Celsius (1.35 degrees Fahrenheit) in the last decade alone. By comparison, Earth as a whole has warmed by nearly the same amount, 0.8 degrees C, over the past 137 years.

I can think of two issues with statements like this, especially the second part:

1. Measurement techniques have changed a lot over the last 137 years. Just reading the article, it's far from clear how these differences are accounted for.

2. The chart [1] in the linked original source ([2]) shows no error bars. The chart is trying to lead the reader to the conclusion that something new is happening. However, without error bars, there's no rational way to arrive at that conclusion.

[1] https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/5/12/eaaw98...

[2] https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/12/eaaw9883
Darktable is amazing! Can't wait to try this new version!
I've noticed similar things while profiling my tests - making a large static allocation or bumping GOGC=1000 can cause them to run more than 2x faster (my favorite took a 12 second test suite and dropped it to about 2.5 seconds). So much time is spent assisting the GC to keep memory at like an 8-12mb range, as if that small of a heap was somehow the most important thing Go could be doing with the CPU.
Why would you go bankrupt?

If you have a growing business making money it should be fairly straightforward to get a loan under your business name.
As I reader I expect the author got paid for what you have called busywork so I dont have to guess thru cat on the keyboard moments.
He's only raised $400 million and all of it is Saudi money because the Valley shunned him.
I personally prefer to tax rather than ban, but good on them.

What's different about the internet that has some countries trying digital services taxes rather than digital ad bans?
Seriously, second this. It was extremely helpful. I had both the background in programming and abstract algebra but it wasn't until this course that I was really on the path to understand what was going on with category theory.
Yeah, same experience here.

I tend to be very stubborn about adding features to libraries, though. A handful of times I got pull requests that almost duplicated the size of small libraries just to cover some weird corner cases. One was support for an ORM discontinued since 2012. Another was someone who wanted a build tool to inline their assets during development phase. After asking, most people admitted that they don't really need the feature, but were simply trying to make the app complete.
I’m yet to see BDD used even though I’ve seen BDD frameworks used a lot. BDD frameworks happen to be excellent for unit testing too! They force you to write the testing code to be better because you need to describe each action. I find in normal unit tests developers use shenanigans to shortcut testing something.
(2017)

IIRC from the discussion when this was published, the problem is that they use the images from dating sites, that probably have a lot of additional cues according to what is more fashionable in each sexual orientation community.
Very abstractly, LR provides more useful specific tools, whereas DT provides more advanced generic tools that can accomplish many different tasks.

E.g. the equaliser in DT can be used for denoising both chroma and luma, and dynamic range, and many other things. The LAB color curves are super powerful for all sorts of colour correction. Parametric masks allow powerful local-ish editing.
SuperHuman, the breakout tech company of 2019, according to Haystack
Given that hardware varies, and the article was showing 80-90ms floors: 120ms floor seems entirely reasonable to me.
I have licenses for some higher-end photo post-processing software on macOS but, I always return to Darktable because, it's fast, extremely flexible and the results are terrific.

It's a really good piece of software. Kudos to them for keeping up the good work.

If you're interested, you can see some of my photos at http://www.flickr.com/zerocoder
Or maybe even earlier by Cicero. Seems like a common sentiment through history. Thanks for the link!
> they have an active infiltrator in Twitter

If I was China, I'd go for this. Twitter has thousands of employees, many of which can surely be turned with some pressure. Also many who has family in China that can be used for leverage.
Amazon lets potential clients know of problems with the merchandise, what a terrible system indeed!
> Nobody wants ads banned.

I do. Yes all ads. Yes literally all.

Yes, it's sometimes hard to tell whether something is a advertisement or not; it's also sometimes hard tell whether something is fraud or not, but I don't hear anyone claiming we shouldn't ban fraud.
>If you have a growing business making money it should be fairly straightforward to get a loan under your business name.

this is not my experience, not without a personal guarantee or collateral that holds it's value better than servers.

(Leasing servers was also an option that would have made sense then. Most of the leasing deals I was offered that didn't include personal guarantees were two year leases wherein I paid about as much as the servers would cost up front over two years. It would have made sense in that case, but it's super expensive compared to buying servers)
Interestingly there is a hostel in Tokyo that uses parts from the Hokutosei trains called train hostel Hokutosei. If you have never spent time in a sleeper train, it's a unique experience, and much quieter.
Yes, these components literally exist to make small embedded systems.

Since a few years now, there are entire Linux systems on USB drives, for example.
A thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14026360

A bit more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15372856

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9459520
This is a "feature", not a bug. Twitter keeps asking for phone numbers all the time and then suggests you also allow others to discover your account via phone number.

So this guy merely enumerated a lot of phone numbers and found accounts of users who agreed to have their phone number publicly match their account.
Honestly this is the type of corruption you would expect in a developing country but not in France. Cutting off electricity is just making the lives of the workers harder than it already is. Those late packages won't be forgotten in some dark corner. Someone else has to take care of those packages during their next shift. If working conditions at Amazon are really violating the law then bring them to court or change the law so you can bring them to court.
I completely understand what you're getting at, and I generally agree.

However, for certain people who might be described as having "no business" at a race, the longer races are going to lean more heavily on a will to complete the distance than an ability to maximize performance. I would guess that for some people (certainly me when I was starting out) their 400m pace may not be that far off from their marathon pace.
Vermont as well. Really noticeable when you drive on the highway, much more relaxing and scenic.
Uh so they don’t have up-to-date AV definitions? Sounds like McAfee was on it in August and Windows Defender has it no later than the 9th of December [1].

[1] I’d expect it to be earlier than that, but this article date is the only thing I’ve found: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclo...
your absolutelly wright
>"There only service distinction is which app you use to book the ride, the inventory and employees are all the same."

The one area where I have been able to draw a distinction and for me this is the most important is customer service. When I have had issues with Uber I found the customer service to be completely worthless. It seem to consist of nothing more than canned email responses from a support center in India. Case in point I had a psychopath Uber driver who kicked me out of car at night and left me on the side of the road when I asked if they could turn on the air conditioning because there was a heatwave. Despite my persistence I was never able to get anything more than a canned email response of "Uber upholds our drivers to the highest standards ..." Every email I sent asking if they could please escalate this as it was serious issue resulted in a new canned email response signed by a different employee name.

Lyft by contrast on the two occasions that I had a somewhat serious issue responded to me by having a customer service representative call me and ask me further details.

For me this matters much more than the fare differential at any given time. In my experience Uber/Lyft feels increasingly more like a race to the bottom and this distinction has become more important to me.
That's not "agree" with "not preserving unknowns was also wrong."
> Yeah, no chance of abuse there.

The author having to file a lawsuit against you is a much higher hurdle to get over than an anti-fan falsely flagging the authors work and costing them money. The common idea that people should be able to do anything they want without consequences and with a huge corporation -- who doesn't know them from Bob -- having to provide them with cover is childish.
I get the "but actually" thing, but I don't think it was that.

The OP said the skills are "mindbogglingly expensive". From personal experience they aren't (I worked in a team with embedded engineers with similar skills to those required for this).

I thought this was well understood - it's been discussed here a number of times.

I added the average salaries after getting voted down to -2 and that turned around the voting.

While there are a number of issues with average salaries I think it's notable that no one is claiming the opposite.
> Ads allow whomever has the deepest pockets to dominate the public's attention.

Not necessarily. Advertising has diminishing returns -- we know this because companies don't buy unlimited advertising. If every ad dollar was as good as the first (i.e. it generated more than a dollar in profit) then everybody would buy an unlimited amount of advertising so they could make an unlimited profit. At some point you hit saturation and it costs more than it makes you.

Meanwhile the little guy needs it more because they're unknown, i.e. their baseline is further from the point of saturation so they have a higher cost/benefit ratio. If nobody advertises then people keep buying from the incumbent because they don't know of any alternatives.

The biggest problem with advertising isn't big vs. little, it's that it's a signaling war. If Coke spends a dollar and Pepsi doesn't, Pepsi loses $2 in sales. But if they both spend a dollar then they've each burned a dollar only to both stay where they started.

What would really help is to have some industry of trustworthy third parties whose job it is to tell you what to buy, but nobody has ever really cracked it, because the buyers don't want to pay for it and the sellers only want to pay if it will influence the results.
Opens entirely in Russian. WTF.
I've been similarly impressed with their manual, which while not the most thorough, answers the all-import question: "What does this control do?"
They're not acting in bad faith (probably) but they shouldn't try to fix things that aren't broken or they aren't an expert in.

The "wisdom of the crowds" isn't. Your average commenter, even on HN makes a lot of basic English mistakes (I do my share too, but I try fixing when I have the chance).
Indeed! The annual Christmas release. I do think it matters to note darktable yet again. This is a major release, of what has become a key piece of photographic software. It's also a wonderful example of some people deep into imaging math getting together to put some current thinking into nicely put together open source code, and a community of committed users showing up to try to understand and use the thing. One could think of it as the Dwarf Fortress of open source imaging software...
And Why I designed and wrote reactorjs
For example Nvidia's Jetson AGX Xavier. 512-core NVIDIA Volta™ GPU, 8-core ARM, 16 GB RAM,...
I've been very undisciplined when it comes to meditation! What sort of meditation do you prefer. Use any guided tools? How often?
I’d have to imagine this is very common, and they’ve probably got one at all the big tech companies. It’s an underreported threat IMO. Who would say no to doubling their salary in exchange for running the occasional DB query for their home country?
What does the republican administration have to do with this?
Also by the same author: Applied Category Theory 2020

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2019/12/23/applied-cate...
There's a prefessor at umich who studies this. I think I recall her saying that gender disparities in sentencing actually dwarfs the racial disparities that we hear about more often, but I can't find the link.
> Do you think that astroturfing will become more or less common after a ban on advertising.

A ban on advertising means the company can no longer tell the employee that their job is to astroturf, or fire them for not astroturfing, because that would be a admission that the company was engaging in advertising.
Show HN: Combinatorial Optimization in Modern Warfare Gunsmith
http://archive.md/CSGvd
Would like to see all three of your examples banned as well, because they're not statements of fact, they're opinions, of the kind you'd typically find in an ad today.

Useful listings of facts look like this:

- is carbonated (therefore acidic, refreshing, negatively impacting teeth)

- has x mg sugar per 100ml (therefore energizing to some extent, promoting weight gain)

- has x mg of caffeine per 100ml (therefore energizing to some extent)

- has Foobar taste (Foobar because I'm not sure if there's anything common with similar taste, so perhaps it's not even worth mentioning)

- it's intended to energize, refresh, help digest meals

"Will do X for you" statements are usually not true when taken at face value, and they're already manipulative. Statements of fact, lists of features, and descriptions of intended application is what I'd like to see instead.
The worst thing about this ‘feature’ argument is how it could be slightly tweaked into a CFAA violation.
I trained pretty heavily for a couple different endurance sports through college. I definitely felt that I was overall much calmer and less anxious when I was training hard. I was just too tired to be stressed out about anything. I recently picked up boxing (mainly for the workout, not doing many fights) and felt the same effect.
http://archive.md/51kkA
My mother's Austrian and I lived in Austria for a year, teaching English.

On one day (and only on one day over the whole year) the train was late (by 20 minutes). The sense of uproar among the passengers was palpable.
But does it work on windows?
There's been some research which has shown the reframing being effective, but they only studied whether considering eg. a trolley problem in any second language produced significantly different results compared to a native language.

Somewhat ironically in the context of wasted associations, the article is in Spanish. But this is one link: https://www.psicologosonline.cl/articulos/para-decidir-con-f...
The Indian city of Chennai banned billboard advertising completely; https://www.rapidtransition.org/stories/adblocking-the-globa...

Public advertising is company sponsored graffiti; http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/litter-on-a-stick/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21701065

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21232332
Yes, I would bet that there is no causal effect.
> I do want to mention that these articles always point out downloaded code size as a primary factor in the decision, but I rarely see any data showing how the reduction in code size translates into an improved user experience, based on the principles of human perception. In my experience, the really big gains come from techniques like background fetching.

Size is a huge factor when you're on a limited data plan. Maybe one website won't make a difference, but it adds up.
>Just convert the CO2 to fuel using renewable energy

That’s a nice idea but I haven’t seen a reaction that reduces CO2 anywhere, I’m not a professional chemist though so maybe I’m missing something?

EDIT: lol, yes I am [1]. I should just stick to software since I only mildly suck at that.

Also all that crazy tech sounds a bit like overkill; alkali hydroxides absorb CO2 and are pretty cheap to produce.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrochemical_reduction_of...
Class Action Settlements
At one of my recent employers, we wondered why some of our services consume whopping 200 MB when a normal service would run on 50 MB. A service requiring 1-2 GB would be considered a behemoth.

Unless your code is extremely complicated, or you are running a Jack-of-all-trades monolith, the only way to reasonably consume gobs of RAM is to keep an in-memory database / cache. This trades RAM consumption for speed. This is what e.g. IntelliJ does.

Running a heap larger than you need slows you down in the long term, because GC over a large heap consumes more time and CPU.