skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is how to turn car-value into cash. You have a car worth $10003 and your current needs can be filled by converting $3 per hour.

chii is suggesting you sell the car. That converts the entire car at once. Then you don't have to spend any hours! As an optimization on top of that, they suggest you store the value in a bond, and pull $3 per hour out of the bond instead.

The real problem with this idea is that selling the car leaves you with no car.

Your objection that "you need the cash now" is based on a misunderstanding of chii's idea. chii's idea does get you all the cash now. It gets you the cash far far faster than $3 per hour. It gets you the cash so fast that you could actually invest almost all of it and pull out $3 per hour and do things you actually want to do during those hours.

It's not "buy a bond, have no money today, have more money tomorrow".

It's "buy a bond, drain the bond for $3 an hour today, have more money tomorrow".

Compared to having 10k under your mattress, the bond has no downside.

The bond is not the problem with the idea.

The problem is that you have no car.
possibly the younger generation of developers is less dogmatic about POSIX and 'portability'.

another theory is that people realized that you can use a different shell for interactive use than for scripting.

the popularity of python, perl and other languages for scripting may have helped with that.

i am looking forward to see more.
fish only scratched the surface.
They're right, it was unprofessional... but since the maintainer is not being paid this is not a professional project. It's a personal project. And this seems like a perfectly personal thing to do with something that's preventing happiness.
Typologies of New York City: A Crowdsourced Hyperlapse [video]
I'm still amazed that they can afford either of the two projects. I understand their reasoning for wanting autonomous vehicles, it's basically needed for their business to make sense. From the investors point of view however: why not drop the current taxi business, which is just a money burning pit, and then solely invest in the autonomous vehicles?
In the remarks section: "IFR flt are not permitted to tkof fr Rwy 15 or apch and ldg on Rwy 33."
So depending on the wind they might not had the option to land IFR.
Open source maintainers have a hard time - especially when they're under criticism and receive zero positive vibes. Author mentions it, here's the excerpt:

Be a maintainer of large open source project is not a fun task. You alway face with rude and hate, everyone knows better how to build software, nobody wants to do home work and read docs and think a bit and very few provide any help.

This a big problem with open source - I, as a programmer, like when someone commends me. It might be childish, but if I invest a few days into code and someone finds it useful - I would love to hear it, it would make the day for me. Instead, I had similar experience like the author of actix - hatred, rudeness and a lot of people who don't read the docs, they merely expect everything to work if they drop the library into their project.

Sadly, we're way too negative and don't appreciate OSS maintainers. This trend should change. It's sad to see yet another project go because author was mentally drained due to negativity. We should take care of our own "brothers in arms" (we all write code or deal with tech, don't we?).

I haven't used Actix-web, but I can sympathize with the author. Keep your head up, recharge your batteries and remain creative. Good luck with your future products!
Off the top companies that were acquired after their first round:

eBuilder | raised $8.4m -> sold $500m

Chewy.com | raised $450m -> IPO $8.7b

BelugaCDN | undisclosed acquired by SSL provider Comodo

Willing.com | raised $7.1m -> acquired by Life Insurance provider MetLife

Octopi | undisclosed acquired by CargoTec (logistics company)

LiveNinja | raised $3m -> acquired by Net2Phone

If we go by funding round/private valuation:

Magic Leap (I saw the founder pre ML @ local meetups)

REEF technologies (saw them as a competitor for years on a side project before SoftBank dumped $100m in)

Papa (met the founder a few times pre YC)

OnSwipe (saw it before Yuri Milner invested after the company moved to NY)

There’s not a lot of them BUT they are super easy to get to & write checks into if you’re here. Email is in my profile if you want access to a few that are still easy access / low valuation.
Ben Horowitz Was Wrong – Culture Does Not Eat Strategy for Breakfast
A far more streamlined implementation would be to simply apply a fee at resource extraction time on everything combustible taken out of the ground. It would do a little collateral taxation on carbon that ends up as unburnt plastics, but that's not necessarily a bad thing (if you want maximum accuracy, pay some back for non-degradable carbon upon reaching a landfill, the only form of sequestering that is used at scale)

Unfortunately I can't imagine how diplomacy could achieve something like that, given the extremely uneven distribution of resource extraction industries. Despite that it wouldn't even hurt the big oil nations, considering that they would not have a lot of difficulties passing on the cost to their buyers (assuming full global enforcement). The biggest logical opponents would not be oil/gas states like Saudi Arabia or Russia but those whose only domestic geological energy sources is carbon-inefficient coal.

(Edit: cleared up some illegible grammar and editing clutter)
I've always assumed that, at some point, I must have fumbled and pressed "set as default" one time when it asked me. I regularly drop my phone, and fumbles that get me into settings I don't want happen occasionally. But it definitely used to ask me every time.
Show HN: Polarized HD Video Recording Camera Sunglasses
>can most airplane windshield wipers clean a thick layer of dead, crushed locusts off the windscreen?

Pretty much any rubber bladed windshield wiper will not be able to clear them after they dry out and at several hundred miles an hour with equatorial air temperatures that will happen very quickly.
What is the collected tax spent on, and who spends it? The "lets everyone pay" solution usually ends up with misappropriation, corruption, theft.

Carbon tax will not solve climate change, it'll only be another money grab.
Theoretically - can civil aviation pilots land in "dark room" conditions, when there is zero visibility from windows at all times? I know that they can approach at least, but can they actually land in the "dark"?
It's hard to tell that to a very anxious person, but all you need is patience.

You are just a few years in the industry and is already thinking you are going to be the very best, or that CRUD applications is an easy task or whatever. Maybe quit reading HN as the community here gives a very distorted picture of the dev community.

I've been coding for 20 years(16 paid) and I'm 31 and it takes literally ages to get really good. I still work glueing APIs and it is just fine.

Take your time to finish your disciplines, don't try to do too much at the same time. It is fine if you don't end up being those top people, industry has plenty of space for people with all skill levels.

Again, take your time.
> The problem isn't data (i.e. lack of "privacy"). The problem is abuse of this data

A.k.a. the “Guns don’t kill people” argument.
> Although Call Gates are the somewhat official way of implementing system calls in the absence of the more modern alternatives discussed below, I’m aware of no use except by malware.

I think 386BSD and early FreeBSD used call gates for syscalls.
Nothing from that list is sane i386 syscall mechanism :).

(Which given the fact that the list contains undocumented and obscure 0xf1 icebp and not documented 0xcc int3 seems to be the intention)
Nice idea, it might be good to add a filter for estimated time to complete all stages for each
What Is the Future of Journalism?
Service Mesh Architecture with Istio
Amazing! I'll give it a try!
No. It's focused to use as a command line and for automation not inside a webapp. You can see usage examples in github
Appeal by Astronomers
Cyberpunk 2077 Dev Team Will Work Extra Long Hours After Latest Delay
The maintainer can choose whatever style they damn well please, if you don't like it don't use it.

What is hard about this?
ERP in Your Opportunity
Brilliant. Interesting to see you used svelte! Anyone else has experience with it?
China Embraces Battery-Swapping System for Electric Vehicles
It's not only passive funds. From the article: "The announcement by BlackRock, the world’s largest fund manager, that it will dump more than half a billion dollars in thermal coal shares from all of its actively managed portfolios".
I find it funny how "privacy" is a key issue, but other personal freedoms like ownership (say of weapons) or freedom of speech is not.

Privacy is even more detrimental to police capacity to investigate and freedom of speech for you to critize and spread information about any of this, yet most people on HN hand waive these rights away because they are not trendy and there is hostility against them in the media.
There are not a lot of wars that have turned out to be "just" in retrospect; the American entry into WW2 as a defensive war is one of the bigger exceptions. Pretty much all of the wars of choice after that have been disasters.
Don't do machines, they are really not that good for most uses. The fringe usability I can think of - competition bodybuilders, training around injury of professional athletes. That's probably it. Anything else ain't worth it.

People often do max 1 specific muscle with them, ie biceps or chest to impress and fight low self-esteem, but that's generally not a good way either.

As mentioned, muscles work in complex groups, and having 1 part way stronger than the rest will lead to injuries in real world usage. And injuries mean you will lose it all, and possibly worse.
This is what I have been needing a long!! Thanks for making it.
Now due to that comment actix maintainer has disabled issue too. I don't know why people show such attitude as if they are paying him to do opensource.
:) I would like to clarify that I didn't pursue using it for learning, so that's why. I believe the app was probably worth time investment if that's what you are looking for.
Engineering Sales Incentives
> if NASA wanted to send control signals like transmit on and off, they’d need to run a whole parallel set of wires, which would be expensive. So, they came up with a solution: use the same lines for control signals as well!

It really seems that in earlier years, when resources were limited, people really used their ingenuity far better than today.

Maybe I have rose tinted glasses, but the level of creativity and cleverness seen in old solutions to problems/challenges just blows my mind all the time.
Awesome. What you gonna build with this?
Rocket Report
That would be a heat pump and say it worked at a COP of 3 which is typical you would need 1 watt of power to move 3 watts of heat to somewhere, probably deep underground.

Nuclear power is what maybe 40% efficient so 60% of the nuclear energy is waste heat, so for every watt of energy 1.5 watts of heat released.

So now your only netting 1.5 watts for every watt. To make a difference the numbers would be staggering as the earth receives on the order 170,000 terawatts of solar energy.

Solar power rather than nuclear would make more sense but again the scale to make a difference is staggering.

I think more "realistic" would be using energy to split CO2 back into C and O2 and sequestering the carbon in the ground which is basically what plants do through photosynthesis. If we could make machines that do that more efficiently on a large scale from solar power we might make a difference.
Were you lied to about anything even halfway connected to the environmental impact of satellites?

If you were lied to about something unrelated, then using that as justification to complain here counts as 'grasping at anything to criticize'.
That marketing babble is there for the same reason the majority of YouTube videos are >10 minutes and filled with the same filler: Google's ranking algorithm.

For YouTube videos it's mean watch time. Filler babble pumps up those numbers.

For Google, it's mean read time. Filler babble also pumps up this number. However, it also ranks higher directly because it's considered a "long form" piece instead of a soundbite, and because it's more unique than similar pages (f.e compare all news outlets covering the same story -- it's all relatively the same).

Blame Google, for its algorithms that are directly shaping our communications and culture. Hell, blame all tech companies that use algorithms to determine culture (see: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Quora, and yes, HN). Whether this is good or bad, is someone else's argument to write.

Mozilla, and every other website owner, must play the game in order to drive organic traffic to its pages through search engine optimization. Otherwise, you might not be reading this article right now, and it would be solely shared by word-of-mouth from people who check the site or are on a newsletter.
The World Wide Web is not the internet, but your point is taken.
This is really cool. I’d love some info on how he did it
The l4 variants think so. Unfortunately Spectre was sort of a pain and now they have to switch page table roots a bunch.
The article says they saved the only grove of them in their natural habitat in a secret location, so I assume that means they're growing in botanic gardens in other parts of Australia. But since they were only discovered in 1994 it's likely we're dependent on these groves.
No, normally we need at least 550m RVR (runway visual range) for a Cat I instrument approach. You need to see the runway (or lights) to be allowed to descend below 200ft and land, if you don't see it at that point you abort the landing.

The visibility can be lower with special procedures, extra training, and things like a HUD. But it will not go down to zero.

To land in zero visibility you need "autoland" which requires an aircraft certified to do that (multiple autopilot computers etc), crew certified and current (having done it recently) and special procedures at the airport. In that case the autopilot will control the aircraft all the way to rollout.
Out of curiosity, are there any more ethical alternatives to AirBnB? My partner travels a lot for work and doesn't like staying in hotels. He's fine with staying in rooms vs. whole apartments (which seems to be the biggest strike on AirBnB's model) but it's pretty tough to dig up credible renters for each place he visits. Is there a Craigslist-like option or are hotels the best bet if we decide to drop AirBnB?
Apex Legends fanatic hijacks airport screen to play before his flight
Maybe they should have climbed to 40,000 feet until the whole thing freezes over. Not an expert of adhesive properties of grasshoppers though.
Well, it's easy to get confused when you look at the professional looking website with a well crafted logo, a promo list of features and a copyright notice from the "The Actix Team". The community page even says "We're a welcoming community so don't be afraid to engage.". Ouch!
Sounds like you turned on the tab queue option, try turning that back off.
On a CAT III Instrument Landing System equipped runway, of which there a very few globally, sure.

Like in this video where the plane lands itself at Amsterdam : https://youtu.be/Q0BNpgphL7s

You can hear the autopilot disconnecting at 1:38, almost 25 seconds after touchdown.
People should really learn to ignore the emotional channel of the comments they receive. Just try to figure out if the message contains any useful information with a quick glance, extract it if it does and ignore the rest. People have to shit - that's physiologically inevitable, and there are people who do it in the streets and there are people who shit in comments/messages. Why take them serious?
It makes me wonder whether Google is now "too big to fall" in regards to search.

I switched to DDG a few months ago, and quite frankly I can probably count the number of times I've needed to switch to Google on one hand, and nearly every time it's been related to looking up directions via web search and expecting Google Maps to open up. DDG and Bing are largely good enough already for standard web search. The standard has probably been there for a while, so I would argue that web search is largely down to experience right now - and DDG/Bing have Google beat here.

With that being said, I doubt the average person has even heard of DDG, and probably never uses Bing unless it's set up by default. If there was ever a time to market Bing and DDG as viable Google alternatives to the public, it's now.
Show HN: A password manager for the command line
I'd make the argument that houses, and by extension structures and towns, form dynamic systems. Parts of a structure may decay over time, but any structure in active use is going to undergo a continuous process of repair and improvement, based on the needs of it's inhabitants.

Sure, if a building falls into disuse it may die, but is that not true of people too?
I'm the author of mypass. First of all, I'm very sorry to drop support (temporarily at least) for macOS and Windows with the latest release. It was a necessity for adopting SQLCipher (without available bindings for Python 3). But I reached the point where rolling (and encrypting) my own data structures is no longer a reasonable option (in particular with added support for multi-context credentials). On the other hand, the latest release adds support for FreeBSD (in addition to Linux).

Unlike most Show HN posts this isn't a new software, but one that I initially created back in 2014, and ended up spending a fair amount of time on recently, leading to its 2.0 version which I released today. In the beginning it was just a hack scratching a personal itch of mine. But I think mypass has matured a lot since then, and I'd love to get some feedback from other potential users.
Hmm, I'm talking more about projects I'm working on, or things I want to work on the next day. I'm at a point in my life where I look at this as a good thing, not something that needs correcting.
In my experience, any project with excessive automation and such rules quickly turns into a game of "find how to pass the checks" and you spend the majority of the time fighting the bureaucracy rather than doing useful work.
>People doing the right thing for the wrong reasons is just fine.

It's not laudable though.
L4 is all about removing all of those concerns from at least a variant of IPC, FWIW.
How so? I loved the layout and the collections rather than book marks
Of course, that's what instrument rating requires.

Is it hard? Yes, and more dangerous, but entirely doable.

Most airplanes can also land automatically on most airports.
Is it a community run project or not? The website seems to imply that the community is welcome to participate: "We're a welcoming community so don't be afraid to engage."
I've exited an aircraft at 220kts a few times. It's very hard and feels almost like hitting a wall.
I'll quote myself after the first time when it knocked me for a loop:

> That wind made me it's bitch.
Why not use a local spell checker instead?
if the issues are so bad and the author doesn't want to fix them, just fork it and avoid all the arguments that won't lead anywhere.
Interview with a Smalltalk Evangelist
I typically follow that with a warning that the wheel that squeaks too much or too loudly gets replaced. A personal lesson on appeasement or the value of conformity, I suppose.

And in Japanese there are a plenitude of idioms about not standing out. The high post gets hammered down, the tall flower gets pruned, and the speeding car gets stopped are others I've encountered.
I'm going to use this to send my new subscriber alerts to my telegram. Then I'm going to replace my custom APIs to get data from Google sheets and link preview. Its like now I don't need to code for mundane stuff anymore, just setup the service and it's ready. Really good Job mate!
Here's Dearlove on Brexit: https://briefingsforbrexit.com/jeremy-corbyn-and-national-se... ; he's retired, which allows him to speak on the subject.

The security services are supposed to be both secret and impartial, which makes it difficult to directly find out what they want, but campaigning against ECHR has been a common theme of Home Secretaries for years and Brexit is a necessary precondition for leaving ECHR.

And of course, what people wanted from Brexit and what they're going to get are two almost completely unrelated things.
More than the computational aspects of neurons (which might be abstracted computationally), the learning process is something that seems it's still more of a mystery.

The brain doesn't backpropagate. So how do you do it?
The easy way to tell is to remember if you're paying them or not.
I am by no means a libertarian pry-from-my-cold-dead-hands type, but it's ludicrous to me that this is being legislated. There are way bigger problems to solve, EU. Quite honestly who gives a shit what connector phones use? Most users will stick with the same brand from device to device; I've been using the same chargers since 2013 or so.

Ironically, this change would instantly produce a ton of tech waste and user inconvenience when apple customers throw away their old lightning cables.
EU Commission considers facial recognition ban in AI ‘white paper’
I'm often dumbfounded when I see building with cast cement only to be broken down with cranes later. Is it stupid (unstable) to make cement blocks and build by stacking most of them (maybe keep pillars and floors cast). So you can reuse them.
Apples to oranges
and no i won't be using Firefox when Chrome, Brave and Edge still support the "ancient 2014 android version"
You can pretend !g to your search and DDG will forward you to Google search. Just FYI
You can circle to land if the approach is only one direction. Basically shoot the approach to minimums. Tower will say, circle to land north/south and you fly a normalish pattern, lower to the other end of the runway.
It is possible, but not legal. And you cannot really flare based on just the glideslope.

As an absolute last resort in a small piston you can try to do what we learned to do in case of a night landing where all lighting etc fails: Fly it slightly nose up, no flaps, with a 100 ft/min descend and wait until you hit the runway. You will basically fly it into the runway at a speed that doesn't break anything. Only works for small planes on a big runway.
In addition to not supporting addons, preview also does not let you bypass warnings to access sites with self-signed certificates, and I need to do that.
Think Rorschach from Blindsight.
Easy to say, not so easy to do.
Weird. Everybody that I know seems to be using ESLint in some way or another, which has rules for whatever you can think of.
Makes sense. Certainly not dissing your approach!
Fair enough I guess, that just seems... like a convoluted way of going about it.
Towards Decentralized Code Collaboration
> These kind of entitled attitude

If you offer code to the public – and present it as an active, dependable project – professional behavior is exactly what you implicitly promise and signed up for. If you can’t offer that (at any time, and for any reason), then you should immediately make that clear, front-and-center, to any current and future users.

It isn’t “entitlement” on part of the users – the users are making reasonable expectations based on promises implicitly made by the the project as it is presented.
I use Firefox for Android for one reason: the ability to not load images on cell data. I'm surprised other browsers don't have that, but it's huge for me since I pay by the megabyte (Google Fi). It saves me $10/month easily.

edit: oh, it looks like that's missing, too. Nooooo....
"If you’re on an older version of Android (pre-5), you will won’t be able to download Firefox for Android."

I wonder if it will or won't.
It's highly likely to be a private equity fund. i.e. You can't invest