skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but with just-in-time approvals for a specific time window, for a specific customer, with approval coming from management. Anything else is asking for abuse.
Ongoing online MIT Course on Programming with Categories
Some Backlog items still remaining, planned for next sprint.
I thought the poster was implying that the USPS was enforcing ownership even though they didn’t create or provide the content, so making your own mailbox wouldn’t help at all.
Maybe! It’s more than just having the talent tho — you need to have a talented leader. Johnny Ive was at Apple for 5 years before Jobs showed up, without too much to show for it.
San Francisco also has survivable winter temperatures, many shelters and other infrastructure to help the homeless, etc.

I remember being in Penn Station in NYC on many nights when homeless people slept in the waiting rooms. Police would routinely come by and kick them out. When this happened during the winters in sub-zero temperatures this meant a very real risk of death for the homeless who were forced to sleep outside.

I wonder if it's the same in other parts of the nation, and if the reason there are only 25 homeless per 10,000 nationwide is that the rest have died of exposure during their winters (or from other types of neglect).
Dash Open 15: The Virtues and Pitfalls of Contributor License Agreements
It's not that easy to qualify USPS as a money loser but a popular point that is repeated a lot. Usually the ones that promote that argument have an interest to privatize USPS and allow one of their rich donors (the ones able to acquire USPS) a license to print money.
July 1974?! That was over 45 years ago. Those medical records were discarded forever long before the year 2000. What period of time would make you comfortable?
This might be an education gap. That is, people really like the cameras and the way they work/ease of use, but they may not be aware of how non-private the recordings are. If they were, their opinion might be very different.
Many previous threads for the curious:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I look at it this way, if it is a waste of time to mow it then you have too much of it. I have nearly 12k sq feet and I still push mow it. Using an electric mower I find the time both relaxing and I can always use the exercise. plus I use the time to see what I need to fix, tweak, or just change out.
The benefit of their upcoming outside cameras is that it will run on battery, and you plug it in only to recharge them.

That's a good idea, I had not thought about that, adding an IR bulb outside. I'm thinking of getting Wyze bulbs for outside though, I'm sick of coming home to complete darkness, just bought the home and there's no smart lights outside yet.

I do need to worry about weather mainly because I do live in Florida, and hurricanes do come through now and then. I will be sure to mount it securely though.
Gonna go back up my cloud stuff real quick!
there is already enough housing for everybody

This is not true because you aren't counting the vast number of people who want to relocate to the Bay Area.

The article also ignores the fact that you will always have some % of empty homes. People move out and it takes time to find new tenants. People want to remodel. New buildings take time to fill up. People have second homes. Overall vacancy rates in SF and the Bay Area in general are TINY.

https://sf.curbed.com/2019/3/21/18276227/vacancy-rate-san-jo...

The idea that 0% vacancy is achievable (or even desirable) is wrong.
No, I just cannot read, sorry!
Google's MXes are notoriously strict and drop or permanently delay emails all the time for reasons beyond your control as a recipient

an example from 5 minutes ago from one of my MX'es (which only forwards, after heavy greylisting and spam filtering):

Jan 9 18:05:59 mail postfix/smtp[26197]: to=<ABC@gmail.com>, orig_to=<XYZ>, relay=alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[209.85.233.26]:25, delay=25000, delays=25000/0.01/1.6/0.16, dsn=4.7.0, status=deferred (host alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[209.85.233.26] said: 421-4.7.0 Our system has detected that this message is 421-4.7.0 suspicious due to the very low reputation of the sending domain. To 421-4.7.0 best protect our users from spam, the message has been blocked. 421-4.7.0 Please visit 421 4.7.0 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/188131 for more information. ABC - gsmtp (in reply to end of DATA command))

that's not my reputation (which is high), that's the reputation of the sender's From address

and it doesn't send it to the spam folder, it just delays the email forever until my MX gives up
How does that kill their case? They just seems to be claiming his is a derivative work of the original map.
> a series of case studies where the process of the law was admittedly abused

This is exactly the point. The way the law is written gives prosecutors too much leeway to convict, and if you become a problem in the eyes of the powerful, they can "throw the book at you".

> The other anecdote in that link is the story of Joseph P. Nacchio, a CEO who was convicted for cashing out over $50 million in stock when the price was around $40, only for the price to drop all the way to $2 a year later. The NSA involvement was a failed bid by his defense to make it seem like his trading was legitimate.

You left out how the government canceled their contracts with Qwest after Nacchio refused to give them access to phone records, which impacted the company's health. There were certainly other problems at Qwest, of course, but given the lax prosecution of many others involved in such scandals, it certainly feels like this is an example of this process in action.
Can I patronize another MTA -- or start one - if I don't like the policies of this one?

No?

Then they're either state employees, or private actors wearing the colors of state authority. Which one of those is true is not interesting or relevant.
> We can still figure out how to drive faster than the fastest land mammal

Sure, that's how we got one of the most polluting industry of the last 100 years, see, all balanced. We took one thing, transport, and made it a priority while ignoring every other aspect, and now we're all breathing polluted air.

Roads are bendy because they follow the topography of the terrain, cars aren't faster because we'll still get fucked by drag no matter how smart we'll get https://i.stack.imgur.com/PKkDf.jpg but we're getting off topic.
Wait till you see what Props 50 and 68 do.

Prop 50: pass your current tax rate on to your children.

Prop 68: pass your current tax rate on to your grandchildren.
"For most purposes"

Care to elaborate? That's a pretty vague argument.
from the CNN article: One possibility being considered is that an Iranian missile unit saw something on their radar, thought they were under attack and fired.

This is one danger of brinksmanship, which is that people's fingers are hovering a little too close to the trigger. If that is indeed what happened here, we can only hope that the powers that be realize that their saber-rattling was a cause of these deaths.
First of all Be was purchased by Palm several years before webOS ever came out. WebOS didn't even exist in the same company. After Palm split into palmSource(software) and palmOne(hardware), the BeOs stuff(along side the old PalmOS stuff) went with palmSource. Later palmOne bought the rights to the full Palm name from palmSource and became Palm again and that Palm came out with webOS.
Remote iPhone Exploitation Part 1: Poking Memory via iMessage and CVE-2019-8641
How I would summarize the article is that mutation should be confined to internal objects that have not been published yet or are temporaries that are thrown away.

Theoretically, you can make every API mutate data. If the user didn't want to mutate data, they can explicitly make a copy first. Whereas if there only exists an immutable API to return new objects, then it's hard or impossible to get the benefits of mutating in place.

As far as I know, only Rust, C++, and C give support at the type-checking level to denote which functions will modify the interior of their arguments. This way, you can distinguish behaviors easily - for example in Rust:

impl Vector {
// The method reads this current vector and returns a new one.
pub fn normalize(&self) -> Vector { ... }

// The method reads and modifies this current vector in place.
pub fn normalize(&mut self) { ... }
}

The article gave this subtly flawed example in Python:

def normalize_in_place(array: numpy.ndarray):
low = array.min()
high = array.max()
array -= low
array /= high - low

def visualize(array: numpy.ndarray):
normalize_in_place(array)
plot_graph(array)

data = generate_data()
if DEBUG_MODE:
visualize(data)
do_something(data)

In Rust, it would be a type error because visualize() takes a reference but normalize_in_place() takes a mutable reference:

fn normalize_in_place(array: &mut numpy::ndarray) {
let low = array.min();
let high = array.max();
array -= low;
array /= high - low;
}

fn visualize(array: &numpy::ndarray) {
normalize_in_place(array); // ERROR
plot_graph(array);
}

let data: numpy::ndarray = generate_data();
if DEBUG_MODE {
visualize(&data);
}
do_something(&data);
Agreed that SB50 will not fix the immediate homelessness problem; though I disagree with their belief you can't pass SB50 until it also has affordable housing units.

You can have multiple bills, we shouldn't shoot ourselves in the foot just because we have only a solution to one part of the problem.
When we're discussing relatively small changes in temperature over very long periods of time, I wonder how confident we are in those measurements? I mean a very regular trend like this is a pretty strong signal that you're at least not overwhelmed by random noise, but: I find it very hard to believe that our ability to manufacture very precise and accurate thermometers has been so consistently good (measuring hundredths of degrees) for the order of decades. Am I wrong? I often wonder how much this impacts climate change studies as well. Ocean acidification just "feels" like much sounder science to me because the effects are so much more visible, but I'm not certain about our ability to measure pH so precisely for decades either.
love this, hope you get a lot of downloads!
Hopefully we'll soon live in a world with solar powered electronics that use foldable e-ink displays.
There's some serious doubt on Wikipedia FWIW... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoestrogen#Males

It is unclear if phytoestrogens have any effect on male sexuality, with conflicting results about the potential effects of isoflavones originating from soy. A 2010 meta-analysis of fifteen placebo-controlled studies said that "neither soy foods nor isoflavone supplements alter measures of bioavailable testosterone concentrations in men."[31] Some studies showed that isoflavone supplementation had no effect on sperm concentration, count, or motility, and had no effects on testicular or ejaculate volume.[32][33] Sperm count decline and increasing rate of testicular cancers in the West may be linked to a higher presence of isoflavone phytoestrogens in the diet, but such a link has not been definitively proven.[34] Furthermore, there is some evidence that phytoestrogens may affect male fertility, but "further investigation is needed before a firm conclusion can be drawn"
The article includes multiple links to the related underlying research papers, for people who need more substance.
Forfeiting a bond usually means you have to pay the full amount.
$100k in his case.
Yep! In fact, the U.S. Supreme Court decided a landmark copyright case that involved them, although tangentially. In Feist, the Court held that entries in a phone book were not, by themselves, copyrightable. The Court acknowledged that "[f]our of [the listings] were fictitious listings that Rural had inserted into its directory to detect copying," but didn't discuss the importance of those beyond that statement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R....

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Feist_Publications_v._Rural_T...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry
What's a good cloudless setup? I've got a couple zwave devices, and have been looking into OpenHab. Win10 compatibility would be a bonus, as well as the ability to run my own OpenCV video analysis and voice recognition stacks...
I don't believe we've been served well by defining the term "Open Source" to also necessarily mean "Free". This definition and the accompanying zealotry mainly serves big tech and the cloud providers. Everyone else would be better off if we as an industry also make room for software that is Open (in the sense that the code is freely available), but not Free (you must pay or obtain permission to run it yourself, re-distribute it, or run it for others).

Open is almost universally good. Open means self-hosting, auditability, ability to patch/submit patches for problems yourself, and not being up shit creek if the provider folds.

But Free? Free might not always be bad, but it has a lot of problems. Free = a race to the bottom. Free = ads. Free = selling user data. Free = no one cares enough to maintain it. Free = no one cares enough to promote it. Free = no one can afford to hire a UX designer. Free = ripped off by AWS. Free = bait and switch when the VC gets impatient.

For all these reasons, you should demand access to the code, yes, but you should also be willing to pay the people who write the crucial software you rely on. It's far more sustainable and healthier for our industry.
Light is not a wave. Photons are particles. Light as a wave is a convenient abstraction that explains a lot of light's behaviors, but not all of them. I recommend Feynman's QED lectures (or the book), where he explains this.
Some countries in Asia have restrictions regarding ownership by non-citizens. If you’re not a citizen it basically has to belong to a local —could be a spouse.

On the other hand that can be detrimental to the economy depending on how something like that is implemented.
Again, this implies that Army spent 6.5 trillion, and I quote "there were no ledger entries or receipts to back up how that $6.5 trillion supposedly was spent".

Army has received far less than that in total money in their entire history, which is very easy to check.

So which is incorrect? The article? Or every other place you can check historical US federal budgets?

>no, I don't care to.

I suspected as much. It's trivial to check this number is nonsense.
Tuition for public medical schools in Texas is close to ~$18,000 a year but they still get paid very well. Doctor's get paid well because there is a shortage due to restrictive licensing, not because it's expensive to become a doctor.

You're right that it is politically difficult. I just meant it was easy in that the solutions are obvious and don't require hard trade offs.
Tenant rights are so strong in CA that I prefer to leave my home vacant when I travel for half the year, despite having locals asking if their friends can rent it for that duration.

It would only take a single deadbeat choosing to not pay rent, trash the place, and refuse to leave to make it all not worth my trouble.

In another state where tenant rights are weaker I'd collect rent and kick the tenant out on their ass the same month they stop paying rent.

CA is a great state to be a tenant, not so great for being a landlord.

Developments like Airbnb also change the game drastically. Now you can get rental income without even taking the risks of tenants rights by keeping the terms short enough.

Are Airbnb rentals considered "empty" by these metrics?
To be fair, starvation was a much more pressing problem than obesity for most of human history, so cheap and efficient delivery of calories is a pretty monumental achievement of industrialized agriculture.

To paraphrase Harvey Dent, the big food companies have stuck around long enough to see themselves become the villains.
In reddit's defense, they don't have much choice. They get far too many requests to authenticate and verify them. And the law says that if they do not act quickly on each request, they would lose their protection as a platform.

So their only choice is to remove each piece of content and then let you challenge the removal.

The real problem is the law itself, which provides no consequences for false claims. If congress would just add a false claims consequence, it would solve a lot of issues with the DMCA.
Ubiquiti’s offerings can all run 100% locally. I have my entire setup using PoE so each only needs a single cable.
I worked in a pretty rough Tier-1 call center environment for IT for about half a year.

- We had to be in Avail status at the exact start of our shift or be counted late. For example, if I was scheduled to be in at 10am, I had to be in Avail at 10am. Meaning I had to take care of booting up computer, etc. before then.

- We had to check in with a workload manager via Teams and get approval before moving to Break or Lunch aux. Often during a call.

- We could move to an aux to take restroom breaks, and were encouraged to do so only when no calls were waiting, but the total time taken couldn't be more than 10 minutes a day.

- We also had to notify the WLM if we were going into callback aux, for example, if the line dropped. We were questioned and sometimes moved to Avail automatically if we were too long in callback.

- When I started, we had 30 seconds ACW but then they moved to zero ACW. We could move to ACW aux for a max of one minute unless cleared with WLM. You had to be quick if you had things to do on your ticket after the call otherwise often you'd get thrown into another call immediately. WLM would move you to Avail automatically if you went over and they were paying attention.

- Getting a "Roll Over No Answer" was really bad.

Definitely a rough environment, but it wasn't as bad as it sounded, and I was able to work from home for a month before I found a much better job. It was interesting to see if I could survive under that level of discipline but I'm glad I left when I did.
Doing a search of "transit maps" yields lots of similar looking maps. Maybe there was an originator of the style, but it certainly wasn't the MTA
Before the eMac, the iPod made Apple cool again, AFAIK
Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How’s that again? I missed something.

Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let’s play that over again, too. Who decides?
— Robert Heinlein

EDIT: found the original text, rather than my somewhat botched memory of it.
https://fiftythree.studio/products/new-york-city-subway-map-...
Please don't post generic flamebait to HN. It leads to generic flamewars, which are predictable and boring.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
beos demos never fail to make me weep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggCODBIfWKY
> You do understand that people advertise apartments available for rent before the previous tenant has moved out...

True, but sometimes people just leave without giving warning, or the next person can't move in immediately. Sometimes, in a limited supply market, the landlord will wait for someone willing to pay a specific price since they know there's no other options.

In San Francisco, that's the case for roughly 5% of the units at any given time.
their IO dies are still fabbed on 12nm, that's a big chunk of their obligation with GF.

Also, since console production is booked through AMD that that might count as well.
The advantage of smallness is that you can be faster than the big guys. You also can go into smaller niches.

The advantages of bigness are that you can use scale to make the same thing less expensive, and that you can make at least one mistake without it killing you, and that you can chase more than one "next big things" at once.
Anti-Autonomy. My two years working for a large company I felt micro-managed. Even as a Creative Director. My last straw was being chastised for leaving five minutes before 5pm and how it's bad "optics" – anyway, I believe the #1 thing in life is to control your schedule. From there everything else flows; health, family, social, true travel etc.

This doesn't necessary mean being an entrepreneur, but having a certain level of autonomy. Once you taste it, it's nearly impossible to go back to such controlled, desk-equated productivity environments.
Post without link get a penalization here and it's more difficult that they reach the front page. It's generally better to write a blog post, or link to the crowdfunding page and add a comment here.

Also, please don't use URL shorteners like bit.ly.
But the MTA does not seem to be monetizing their maps.
> the powers that be

So Khamenei and Trump.

I wouldn't count on it.
This is exactly what I'm looking for ... but as an open source tool. I'm currently doing something quite hacky with Hugo, Graphviz and some Python.

I don't begrudge a hosted or commercial product, but does anyone know of related open source projects?
No, Tesla Is Not the Largest US Automaker Ever – CleanTechnica
How a Pitch Deck Is Sent to Investors
There was no shift from nuclear to coal in Germany. Throwing numbers around while ignoring the political reality around coal in Germany is bad science.

The is a huge coal lobby and coal in underdeveloped regions being the only employer are right now the main reasons why coal is being kept alive while support for renewables is being kept low.

Not a single coal reactor or mine would have been shut down if nuclear would have still be there.
If you're still using Facebook in 2020, you're complicit. You've had the better part of a decade, knowing that Facebook is a problem, to do something about it, or at least about your complicity in it. If you still haven't, that's on you. No more excuses.
I’m using the IBM PxPlus font at https://mmontag.github.io/chip-player-js/browse. It works great :)
I think that point is that everything is covered by copyright, by default. This is true for all entities - corporations, individuals or government. It's automatic.

The works of the federal government are a well known exception. And while I'm sure there are some state/county/city governments that also place their works in the public domain that's not the default.

It's a pretty fair generalization to say that if something wasn't produced by the federal government that it is most likely covered by copyright.
Sorry didn’t see this.

-“Biocentric Worldview” by Ludwig Klages

-“Can life Prevail” by Pentti Linkola

-“This Spoke Zarathustra” and “The Antichrist” by Nietzsche

If you want some spirituality the “On Being Pagan” by Alain De Benoit

Mostly about loving Life as opposed to just loving humans. Nietzsche and Klages see Christianity (and Abrahamic religions in general) as contributing to that change of worldview in Europeans.
Genuinely, I have no idea what you're trying to say. Without scientific sources "high quality organic milk does x" might as well say snake oil. Unless I'm misreading your post, and you're not espousing snake oil.
Ask HN: Best Gandi.net Alternative for Managing Domains?
I currently manage a bunch of my domains on Gandi.net, but in light of their response to recent events (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22001822) I'm looking to transfer my domains to a different provider.

Does anyone here have any specific recommendations?
Working from Home: The Essential Beginner’s Guide