skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds good. Let's just hope he doesn't mean to become the Sheikh of Iowa. In a democracy being like SA is not desirable.

Remember that SA is killing dissidents and subjugating women and minorities. It's basically an absolute monarchy.

They have also invaded neighboring Bahrain to subdue the democratic revolution there.

I'd choose my comparisons and metaphors more wisely.

Wind energy is fantastic as long as it doesn't kill birds (that depends on the way the wind turbines are built and where they stand).

It's strange how one of the richest men on the planet demands government subsidies though. Or is it just me?
The fact that AM doesn't have capture is a safety feature in this application.
what would be the sentence for organizing a physical DOS on the hospital? ie filling the emergency room up with protesters such that emergency care is impossible.
>> Won't this reduce the thermal output of your stove quite significantly?

Yes. You want to have the "cold" side indoors where the heat is going anyway. You might think it's all going outside in the end, but we dont want to create a new path for it to get there.

BTW a sterling engine running a generator seems like a good idea in this case.
And everyone is forgetting their unpaid hours they did for getting it off the ground.

You still need support for all of your users and actual sales. Which is also work.

Users can ask for a refund if your cloud goes down.

I would also rephrase "once you reach success" to "if you reach success"

The statement is also not valid for consultants, only for business owners with SAAS products/licenses.

TLDR; you're statement is largely false. Success != Luck
I suppose it is because we have not found an organizational strategy that does not quickly break down into corrupt hierarchy.
> In the USA there is no such thing.

That's not strictly true. There is a tax code provision that prohibits companies from counting executive compensation of over $1MM as an operating expense, the intention being to discourage high compensation by essentially putting an additional tax on the excess compensation. It's not very effective, particularly since "performance-based" compensation was exempt until a couple years ago.

There are also harder limits for executive (and other people's) compensation in government contracting. Somewhat more effective than the above, but still not great.
For data structures and algorithms, work through Introduction to Algorithms by CLRS and follow the video series from IIT Bombay, available here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7DC83C6B3312DF1E.

...or use any other book or lecture series. Stop worrying about choosing the "right" resource; just find a resource and start learning.
Released version 2 of my Video Hub App and made it open source too! Search, browse, and preview videos on your computer :)

https://videohubapp.com/

https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
For which there isn't an easy way to do so on any mainstream browser without a third-party extension (when available, so iOS is out), which is what they're relying on.

My understanding is that it's against the GDPR so hopefully in a century or so we might actually see some enforcement and fines.
BPA is, indeed, a building block for plastics. The media loves to misquote it as a plasticizer, but its not, it's one of the ingredients that produces the plastic. The BPA found in plastics that use it (not all do, or can) is actually unreacted BPA, BPA that did not polymerize into plastic.

BPA is a xenoestrogen, not the only one to be found in plastic manufacturing, not the worst one (many BPA alternatives have higher estrogenic activity), and is also not the only type of chemical to look out for; phthalates, for example, fuck with testosterone metabolism, and are often found in plastics, too.

So, yeah, there is definitive proof of it being a problem, and studies have been published in depth for quite some time. You kinda missed the boat on this by about a decade.
Our eyes have absolutely incredible colour correction, running all the time and so well that we just don’t notice it; except for some edge cases where it gets tricked (eg the whole dress saga, or optical illusions you can find).

Screens totally should be orange by default.
Surprised not to see ClickUp here. I use it to manage my personal life as well
Such is the allure of cheap goods and large consumer bases.
For example: descend and maintain flight level three two zero
Monsieur Lotito would like to have a word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito
That's not true. It also has old, deprecated crypto. It still works, but it has problems, and not all installations support the same things. I am not well versed enough to regurgitate what other cryptographers here and elsewhere have said about it, but there are lots of problems.
Apple’s New macOS Catalina Changes Will Cause Confusion
Ask HN: Have you ever spent a regular day without clock?
I spent a week without checking clocks or time while on a solo trip (I even jailbroke my phone to hide the iOS clocks). While not feasible to do all the time, I found it restorative: I went to sleep earlier, I ate when I was hungry, and I got lost visiting parts of the city that I truly cared about without feeling the need to rush to the next destination.
Tell HN: Happy New Years
It goes even beyond the combinations, no? The physical manifestation of the end material plays a key role in its properties, so you could just make a simple alloy of the above and not have this thermoelectric effect. Only when you apply them just so do you get this outcome. So crazy...
This is only really an issue for planes of highly disparate sizes and I've never heard of it causing issues (a crash or near miss) with a commercial airliner (edit: in good mechanical condition where the pilot does not make things worse from the get-go) sized craft being on the receiving end.
To be fair, Facebook is actually becoming like a country, ruled by the Supreme Leader Emperor Zuckerberg. The population is around 2 Billion users, about 1/5 of all living people in the world which has registered so called 'citizenship'. They have their own currency, world emergency services, internet service provider, movie service and a town square with global news and editorials which is doing pretty well as a accurate balanced news source.

The country is also extremely 'safe' because everything you say is recorded and reviewed by their higher-up moderators working around the clock to defeat 'hate' and ban the illegal users who are arrested on repeated suspicions of wrongthink.

The People's Republic of Facebook sounds like a great place to live if it were a country. But reminds me of a certain remote authoritarian country somewhere around the world which monitors every citizens move... /s
Most people don’t move around significantly. One way to find this is by detecting networks: if I’m plugged into Ethernet or connected to the same wifi, I’m probably at the same place. Please do not ask me for my location.
Unlike that article, the old internet didn’t have inline video ads, mandatory cookies, and social media bars at the bottom. Not to mention dynamic pages that can load 100 ads if you scroll long enough.

I swear my reading comprehension has been poisoned by the new internet.
I used to spend majority of my time on Twitter, and reading NYT. But it's too much to pay attention to; I couldn't care about anything happening in the world.

Now most of my time is spent reading local newspapers, newsletters from local publications, and issue-specific publications (climate change).

I'm choosing to care about fewer things and deferring to rest of the world to care about others.
I've recommended Toradex Tegra 2 modules to a customer (I got involved early enough to recommend hardware - a rare case) and they seem to be quite happy with it. Just a few euros more per module than i.MX6 from the same module vendor. The GPU is unsurprisingly (with nVidia making the whole SoC) pretty good. Most everything needed for software support except the user-space graphics driver is even open source. I am not an nVidia fan because of their desktop Linux driver shenanigans, but I strongly prefer Tegra 2 over i.MX6. By the way, i.MX6/6+/7 with the etnaviv driver might also be alright. I've just never used anything but the proprietary "gal3d" driver.

Regarding mainline Linux support, AFAIK you don't get mainline Linux support anyway with i.MX6 and the gal3d driver. You can only use mainline with etnaviv, which is semi-officially(?) supported by Pengutronix. I've heard others say good things about etnaviv.
Earliest Candidates of Auroral Observations in Assyrian Astrological Reports
If it ever comes up that you talk to them about it there are many sources of good information. But just to name one, https://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/ is pretty good, I think. (Not associated.) There is a book that I gave my kids.
Thanks for the encouragement! Great point about the search button / enter, I'll take another look at that
Developing personal protocols for mental health
I do pine for the days when the Undernet or Dalnet was bustling with activity. I'm always looking for a server worth hanging out on. I'm glad Freenode is doing good, but it's people working.

That said, this article was exactly what I'd expect for an article from Buzzfeed.
Electron? React Native?
Exactly. IRC and Usenet is still there, but people just prefer trolling on Twitter and Reddit.
I've only spent a few days of my life in the Netherlands, but my impression was that the secret ingredient that the Netherlands has and other places don't is nothing visible like infrastructure. It's that everyone generally understands how the system is supposed to work. I don't know if that's because of culture or formal education, but, in any case, it was really noteworthy. The etiquette was so clearly and consistently being followed by everyone that, even as a visitor, I was able to understand it well enough to not be in anyone's way (I think) within just an hour or two.

I mentioned way up above that I tend to avoid protected bike lanes in my city because pedestrians just walk into them without notice. The lanes in question do have a height difference. But, as far as I can tell, pedestrians aren't seeing the curb that separates the sidewalk from the bike lane and thinking, "Oh, the sidewalk ends here." They're looking a little bit further over, to the curb that separates the part of the street that's for cars from the part of the street that's for bikes, and thinking, "Oh, the street begins over there."
>Most of the predictions are decades away in the future, so the story can go on unchecked for decades. And so on.

It's not just the sea level rising stuff in the future though, now basically any adverse weather event is blamed on climate change. Powerful hurricane, big mudslide, wild fires, etc. I'm not saying climate change doesn't play a role in any of these, but the news media plays it a little loose with any of these events and citing them as being caused by/evidence of climate change with 0 proof. But again, if you question any of if then YOU are the one painted as being against science.
Till now I was wondering how the infinity range nuclear powered Russian missiles that Putin is developing is supposed to work. I know now. Can see the similarities. This also answers why USA hasn't come up with similar tech. It did. In the 60s. And didn't feel it needed it anymore.
I wish I had more options to consume less plastic.

I'm pretty sure most of the plastic I use doesn't get recycled for various reasons, although I can estimate 90% of it by weight I do put in the proper recycling can.

I also care enough to avoid plastic if given a reasonable alternative.

However for a bunch of consumer goods there is no reasonably priced alternative.

I wish I could vote with my wallet and spend a significant (but not prohibitive) percentage more for detergent or shampoo or whatever in another container.

I can't help but feel like policy could help here.
TAoCP is a terrible resource for a beginner.
The book was released today but you can still buy a used copy on Amazon. Were those pre-releases or something? Odd.
I am going to go out on a stretch and say that reason he fled is that he is guilty of what he is being suspected of and not because Japan has a "rigged" legal system. And his corrupt buddies back in Lebanon are helping him because he has got millions in ill gotten gains stashed away there.
So instead of using the native tooling provided by Julia, ML.NET, PyTorch, the solution is to somehow either emulate Linux on Windows, or being stuck with Ubuntu as distribution.
Much of it comes down to ease-of-use / accessibility. My 70 year old parents can use reddit. They could not use usenet.
If you don't mind revealing, how much Windows 95 swag/jewelry have you sold?
I guess by fake foods you refer to processed foods etc. but I'm not sure you are right.

As far as I understand organic fruits and vegetables growing exposed to air and rain would end up polluted a lot more than indoor farming products for example.

Eating local also depends on where you live. Apparently most of the microplastic that is around stems from car tires so that produce farmed near highways or cities will be more polluted with microplastic than the one they transport by plane from New Zealand.
It's easier than ever to rent your own servers, it's harder than ever to run your own servers.

There was a time when you could serve anything from a home ISP connection.
Project website: http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/starlink/
I'm so looking forward to that one comment that always appears "no acshually this is buzzfeednews and they are great and they've won 1337 pulitzer prizes"

Edit: oh there it is, hanging from my grandparent
Or you know, follow politics and meet with your elected representative and push for issues that you care about to make the world better for everyone.

Plenty of despots sent plenty of soldiers over cobblestones carefully set into the ground.

Though I do agree that following news reports over every gaff and tweet are pointless, even if they are entertaining. Understanding the pros and cons of something like the Trans Pacific Partnership is valuable though. Some people in our society need to be informed and there is a dearth of computer literate people in our political parties, at least here in Canada.
Do you have personal experience or knowledge of island country escapes on which you're basing this claim? Would you mind sharing your sources?
I guess everyone forgot the days before pop-up blocking was built into every browser? Sure, Javascript modals are disgusting, but by definition they have to be one at a time, not a giant stack of ads every time you browse a site. Also, lets not forget the joy of being nagged to install Flash and Real Player on every website.
I like Taleb and have read Black Swan and AntiFragile. My only complaint is I think these concepts could have been explained much more concisely, perhaps 100 pages vs 400. Other than that, good stuff.
There are caps for contributing to tax-advantaged savings and pension accounts in the UK too.

I wouldn't say that that 'disadvantages the poor and middle class'. It's the other way around - it disadvantages the upper-middle and wealthy because they hit the limit and have to find other ways to accumulate wealth.
This is so cool, thank you. I dabble informally and quite primitively with signal processing, so the idea of vibrational spectrums in a crystalline structure really resonates (hurrr). Now i have a whole new set of mental imagery to process when i pick up the pan with a handle that had the handle a little too close to the flame. Thanks!!
Wikipedia removing support for old browsers
Ask HN: Is there an API for (upcoming) API changes?
As shopify/wordpress/google/fb/twitter etc. change their APIs, is there a notification system or API for developers who develop on their platforms? Email is the current way to get these updates, but is there a consolidated way to get these updates in one place?
BuzzFeed News is not BuzzFeed. They've won many journalism awards as you can see on their Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuzzFeed_News

I do agree that reusing the name must surely do their image significant harm.
You could create a usenet client with all the accessibility features that you wanted.

Reddit might be accessible, but that's because they want it to be accessible. You rely on them doing you a favour.
I actually liked their psuedocode. It was always easy to translate to whatever language I was working with (the opposite can be said about TAoCP assembler).

Hence while it may be nice to see the Java code, I personally prefer pseudocode.
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28%28200+feet%29%5E2+...
Presumably they plugged it into the Pythagorean theorem.
The first article seems a rather long winded way of saying:

"He's not entirely wrong, there are lots of extremely ugly modernist buildings, especially those which are done on a budget or are uninspired. The earlier style buildings are usually of consistently good quality or at least non-offensive even when cheaply or formulaically done since they incorporate many elements are are inherently pleasing to human nature. But I disagree with the author's premise that Modernism was forced on society by its creators and believe it is simply an unconventional style originating from a war stricken period that became wildly popular with people seeking a novel architecture."

I still think Curl's point stands that Modernist architecture is founded on rather unnatural patterns and images. I mean unnatural in its most literal sense, not of nature or not incorporating naturally occurring patterns. The pre-modern style gravitates towards the natural and takes inspiration from it. It's no surprise that applying those rules instantly humanizes a structure.

It's the difference between a parking lot and a park. The former is a blank, utilitarian space optimized for storing cars, the latter a landscaped environment optimized for human occupation. Sure you can make a beautifully executed parking lot but it will never be as comfortable a place to be on a sunny day as even the most lack lustre park with a few shade trees and a carpet of grass.
Sorry, but you're comparing rotten apples and oranges. When RT criticizes Putin the way the Times criticizes Trump or BBC criticizes Johnson, lmk. Actually, I already know when that will happen - after Putin is out of office and the new boss wants to discredit him.

Al Jazeera is a high-quality news source.
News outlets like buzzfeed contributed to that. The old internet was an uncensored free for all and I really doubt that is what they are advocating for here.
By the nature of network effects, if no one else is using them, then no one will use them. (Personally, I do still use old-school forums and IRC, but less frequently then I used to, its just far too convenient to use something like Discord instead)
> this is an issue in, for example, Spain where the radio communication is often in Spanish and many pilots flying there don't understand Spanish

How does that happen? I was under the impression that all flight communication was supposed to be performed in English, even in countries where English is not very commonly spoken (e.g. Spain).
This is exactly right. I have worked for Japanese companies, do not underestimate the weight cultural pride had in how they prosecuted this case. It's not like the US at all.
How the intro vocal effects for Track 10 by Charli XCX were made using code
Got you covered buddy
I absolutely cannot believe that the top answer is "ignore the news and spend more time on Twitter".

This is "Live, Laugh, Love" levels of pseudo-enlightenment.

It is important to know what's happening in the world. It is important to know about decisions being made that affect the country you live in, and it is astonishingly ignorant to assume that politics and media are as bad where I live as you seem to think they are where you live.
It is ironic that when I loaded that page on my mobile device i could see those scare ads for old people and then more ads covered up the content.

Makes me think the back button is still the best thing since sliced bread and I wonder when Google is going to take it out of chrome.
> What proof is there these services were never rendered? Neither article you cited claims that

Both articles describe the transfers as misappropriations of funds. These transfers were a revelation not only to Nissan, but also to Renault. They prompted probes in both France and Japan (and likely will, at this point, in the United States), it fits a pattern of embezzlement.

Broadly speaking, if management finds their operational budget in their personal account without the Board's knowledge, that's fraud.

The Japanese criminal-justice system is deeply flawed. But allegations are made in multiple cases across multiple jurisdictions and describe seriously criminal behavior.
I just disable the trackpad in all my laptops, I find it much harder to use than a trackpoint.
"If you're 15 years into that research and you think there is a chance that you'll reach a breakthrough in 5 years, you're much more inclined to want...to pursue it for 5 more years rather than starting over."

How is that not sunk-cost fallacy?
I expected to flip through a find a bunch of vacuous answers, but this one really resonated.

Gratitude does wonders for your mental health!
The "old" internet was all static or lightly server-rendered pages, that can be developed and hosted at minimal cost today. Back in the day we didn't expect that "everyone" would sign up for whatever niche forum you were hosting, it was enough to have "everyone who's into that niche".

These services don't need "monetization", they can be kept up with minimal amounts of crowdfunding, while federating through well-known standards (ActivityPub, etc.) can help them achieve a network effect that might ultimately rival the big walled gardens and incent them to open up in turn.
> we gotta ban collecting & monetizing user info

anything that runs across a network can be monitored, and such data is valuable when you are able to merge it across several data sources. It's very unlikely tracking can even be banned or un-monitized.
Doing good for climate is a valid business strategy, not a philantropy.

Long-term investors should factor in their models that carbon heavy industries will be negatively hitted by regulations and taxes. Especially as climate change will get worse and younger generations already overwhelming support such meassures.

Leading world economists such as Jeremy Rifkin points out that carbon assests will likely be stranded and this may be the biggest bubble of our times.
Could you expand on that? How do the structures differ?
Get an accountant, keep it clean. You don't want fines and penalties. Have you been paying estimates throughout the year?

Most likely, you do have to pay state taxes in addition to federal and Delaware franchise. Them NY taxes are on the stiff side too
Heh. To me discord is far less convenient. It's a fancy webpage that takes ages to load and bifurcates my chat experience across another platform. YMMV I guess.

It's probably more convenient to someone that has never used a chat client before? I suppose this is how I end up siloed off with all the old fogies. :D
> some facts planted on purpose by the CIA, or what

A lot of them were Soviet disinformation campaigns; blaming the CIA was the SOP. Doesn't help that the CIA does do all sorts of weird shit, though...
It's not so much typing that Vim helps with, it's _editing_. It's definitely not about raw text entry - it's about thinking things like "hey I want to move these 3 lines up to this spot" and being able to do that with 3 or 4 keystrokes.

The reason folks talk about feeling crippled when they use a regular editor is that you get used to things like `f(` to take you to the front of some function's arg list, or `ci{` to quickly change some block of code.