skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My family on both my mother and father's sides were farmers, including my parents for most of my early childhood. On the farm, women would work mainly during harvest season and a few other moments, but I remember quite vividly a conversation where my aunt got pregnant and other adults in the room we're angry that the birth might fall too close to harvest season so she wouldn't be able to help out. She said what was she supposed to do? To which her mother replied that you get pregnant at so and so season and that this is how it had been done for generations. At that moment I realized that most of their birthdays did fall out of harvest season (including mine!).

Your comment brought back those memories. I know an anecdote is not data but in my case (we're not American however) most women were expected to help out with the harvest and sowing. Children also helped out during harvest (some of my worst and best memories!). I also would say that at least in my region, some would help only seasonally in the farm. The rest of the year they're expected to be "managing the home" and any women that wanted to study would be met with very sexist attitudes and responses. Also worth mentioning that raising children does take a toll on you. If you think peasant women look bad because of hard work on a farm, it's probably not. Think hard work off the farm, combined with poverty, stress, anxiety, etc.
First thought being that the "Zigbee Alliance, an industry group that develops standards and certifies products to ensure multi-vendor interoperability" essentially certified something that after all does not allow "multi-vendor interoperability".

I can well understand how each vendor would try to create its own "walled garden", but the whole idea of such "standard" (actually most of the time "pseudo-standard") associations should be exactly that of contrasting the single firm attempt to cut out the other vendors in the same area.
Having lived in Arizona for 3 years, IMO, it is one of the worst places to live in the US
The absence of the significant additional support required for women to both have children and get tenure as a professor is not sexism. That support was never there in the first place and men don't get any support either, so there is no discrimination happening.
For the last 20 odd years I've developed on Linux, today I'm setting up the MacBook Pro (the new 16" so decent keyboard at least) work issued me, I had the choice of whatever I wanted but since the rest of the team Mac and I'm the senior I bit the bullet and switched.

Got juniors starting next week and they are issued iMac's so it'll just keep the headaches to a minimum.

Gonna miss the hell out of Fedora though.
Nope, sorry, I'm really never going back to inkjets. I've wasted far too much money on them in the past, but more to the point I've wasted too much energy and time on them.

Across several inkjets over 10+ years, they've all been horrible, and maintenance-heavy - especially when they know you really need to print something!
"Stuffed ears" is the main reason I don't want to upgrade from my normal AirPods to the Pros...
This is a very devious business model, yet it is something that HBR reading PHBs seem to be completely obsessed now:

People in the industry it "Product as a Service": you buy a widget, but you don't own it, and have to keep paying the seller for the right to use it.

Just google: instantInk and scam
Being prepared to change ones mind about the axioms you put your faith in is not related to this contention. A scientific argument for why a religious idea is wrong is equally as irrelevant as a theological argument for why a scientific idea is wrong. If you want to challenge a scientific axiom, you do it using the scientific method, if you want to challenge a religious axiom, then you do it using the relevant theological framework. The idea that one set of axioms is better than another though is quite easily falsifiable. Axioms are the unprovable assumptions on which all domains of knowledge are built, and all unprovable assumptions are equal in their unprovable-ness.

> These days, all the arguments have been made, and the only sensible course would be to agree to differ.

Perhaps, but I’d say we just understand enough today to know when different ideas are trying to answer different questions. If you generalise science to be a method of explaining the nature of the universe, as we observe it, then I don’t think it’s a contentious point to say that religion generally attempts to answer a completely different set of questions, ones that cannot be explained with science. A religious answer to a scientific questions is equally as irrelevant as a scientific answer to a religious one, and even when they’re in contention, the contention is really only superficial. If you believed the universe was created last Thursday, that wouldn’t necessarily have any impact at all on the nature of the universe we observe today.
Internet ise as a proxy for thinking that lessens the ability for deep work. Nice to see it confirmed by research.
I've never heard of you in the VR space but you seem to have a nice product.

Do you go to conferences? Let me know if you need some tips, I'll be happy to share.
You have to press Y while viewing a file, it will convert the URL to use the current SHA.
This reminded me of dead drops: https://deaddrops.com/
> there were many ideas from VMS, Smalltalk, the Genera operating system for Symbolics LISP machines, the classic Mac OS, BeOS, Plan 9, and other operating systems that we can learn from and that would be very useful to have today.

Since we're at it, I'd add: Amiga. And I'm not sure, but maybe AREXX also deserves a mention too.
It depends. DL models have legitimately achieved superhuman accuracy on many tasks. Part of this is because deep learning is incredibly effective for a certain class of problems. But part of this is because humans are remarkably bad at some problems. Humans tend to be surprisingly bad at context-stripped tasks like "identify what object this blurry image is", and "what sequence of syllables is this short audio file?". But we have countermeasures to correct for our inaccuracy. Most importantly, we understand and use context to sanity-check the hell out of our imperfect senses, and nobody has any idea how we're going to get AI to do that.
These are must-read and very relevant: https://cr.yp.to/export.html, https://www.eff.org/cases/bernstein-v-us-dept-justice, https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-estab...

Cryptographic software is protected under the 1st amendment.
Most curiosities should be gratified, and this isn't an unreasonable one.

They're an employee concerned about their company (and arguably more important, their job security). A public forum like HN is absolutely a way to highlight workplace discrimination, which this person did in a way that doesn't publicly accuse anyone yet allows someone with power ('raiyu in this case) to know who is doing it.

Also, they points out that 'raiyu is lying, or at minimum being misleading, to everyone on HN in his comments. That's valuable to the community.

There's no such thing as proprietary information, and I think most people on HN will agree with that statement. There are secrets, but proprietary information is a buzzword. That sounds like a defense contractor term.

It's also not "guesses as truths." That's a very curious way to describe "shared knowledge." The person seems to have gotten information from their coworkers, and they're talking about it in the context of that.

Sending a private message on another protocol/platform brings zero accountability while reducing the person's anonymity (which they're clearly worried about maintaining), while this at least leaves a mark that can't be deleted (by replying to it, you actually made it so it couldn't be deleted if the person wanted to within the deletion window. That's one of my favorite features of HN; it makes historically-relevant information stay there forever, essentially).

A public forum is an appropriate place to tell someone who has power over you that someone else who has power over you should be fired, especially given Digital Ocean's seeming lack of a way to do so with anonymity otherwise. Anonymous disclosure is necessary for power structures to function without serious abuse.
Seen several mentioned below but not https://www.nannybag.com/ they seem to have a very similar offering. What differentiates Bounce?
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So you need to leave the suitcase for extended periods like weeks or months?

That's very interesting, I'm sure more and more people will need this in the future.

How much would you expect to pay?
They don't consume more goods, they consume goods of much higher value (ex: luxury items and fine cuisine) and services so in the end they will pay much more taxes. What else do you think they spend the money on, if not goods and services?
I'm downvoted here <sigh>, but the point I wanted to make is to consider the likely states of the universe vs. the less likely. For macroscopic objects like our brains, a Boltzmann brain fluctuating into existence in the next moment is virtually impossible (very unlikely) relative to a human on earth being present/alive for this state of the universe and the next state. Consider all possible states of the universe, shouldn't we see more states with self-replicators and related probable objects vs. Boltzmann brains fluctuating into existence?

This wikipedia page has some references to the statistical mechanics which are helpful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluctuation_theorem

"...from a macroscopic point of view, it would describe complex processes running in reverse. For example, a jet engine running in reverse, taking in ambient heat and exhaust fumes to generate kerosene and oxygen. Nevertheless the size of such a system makes this observation almost impossible to occur. Such a process is possible to be observed microscopically because, as it has been stated above, the probability of observing a "reverse" trajectory depends on system size and is significant for molecular machines if an appropriate measurement instrument is available. This is the case with the development of new biophysical instruments such as the optical tweezers or the atomic force microscope. Crooks fluctuation theorem has been verified through RNA folding experiments.[7]"
What were the interesting ideas in AmigaOS? I don't have any experience with it, except that I played Harmony on it one day around 1990.
while TRUE; do { echo -e 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'; cat /path/to/thing; } | nc -l 8000; done

From: https://krypted.com/
> It would be the exact opposite of what the GP comment suggested.

Huh?

That comment suggested

> The problem is that under the current tax scheme in the US people are taxed on their total income and companies are taxed on their profits.

and

> I think if we could just get rid of the income tax somehow (like have a land tax instead) the country would be so much better off.

Replacing the income tax with a consumption tax follows directly from both of those points. As to the first, it replaces the system where companies are taxed on profits and people are taxed on revenue with a system where companies are taxed on profits and people are taxed on profits. As to the second, obviously, it gets rid of the income tax.

What were you thinking your GP comment said?
To be bluntly honest, the public transit system of Los Angeles is a failure!

They tell people to use public transit, but fail to recognize that it takes 2 to 3 hours to get anywhere useful with it.

They built light rail that nobody can use, because it doesn’t go to where people need to go. They squandered a huge opportunity to do it right, to dig subways and put the rail on a grade-separated medium. Instead they opt for light-rail that shares the same surface roads as cars, thereby ensuring that the system is a failure.

And to add insult, to even use the light rail, you must drive to the nearest light rail station!

They don’t have an express system to go from one major location to another, which means that you must stop at every location, which means the rails cannot go as fast, thus adding to the commute time.

They don’t even have rail service to connect the 4 major airports in the area! Absolutely none!

Quite frankly, the whole system is run by idiots. Their only success is in deflecting and making excuses. Billions squandered, and 50 years later, they have nothing to show for it.
Perhaps getting into no true ship of theseus territory, but you can redefine read/write to do anything but it's arguable if that's still the same philosophy. Like, why even have open()? You could start each process with "/" already open, and then open other files by writing "open /etc/passwd" and reading back a new fd.
> The creators of Plan 9 pushed "everything is a file" to its limits.

Isn't linux advancing in similar direction, except that everything is a file descriptor (even processes are now!) instead of a file bound to the directory tree? And technically, everything that is a file descriptor is also a file, thanks to procfs.
Same as with running water. Thankfully I don't have to dig my own well anymore, even worse: in some countries I'm not even allowed to, and I have to pay for the service!

This model is there for a very long time, and makes our lives much easier. And if it doesn't lock you in, is offered for quite cheap (we are talking about $3-5 per month, or even the free tier) I don't see the problem with it. As long as you have the freedom of choice (to switch vendors, or do it yourself), I don't see the problem.
I don't think people are quitting their jobs to save 3k in taxes. But when they are considering taking a job in California for 100k or in Texas for 85k it moves the needle in addition to cost of living.
GitLab engineer here, I'm curious what you're thinking of exactly. Right now you could commit your Dockerfile, use it in CI to generate an image, and push it to the registry where you can pull it from. Do you mean some convenience features to automate these steps without requiring an explicit CI setup?
Couldn't find any references to data sources. This would be much more serious and useful if sources were listed.

Of course, it would be even more useful if there was a "download all data" link...
Yes but that works for secrets too. I can understand not everyone knows about this but calling it a secret seems a stretch.
I've always wondered why someone hasn't started a company making expensive but fixable printers with ink reservoirs that can be refilled from bottles. You could charge 10x more than what HP and co charge for the hardware, and sell replacement parts and repair services to sustain the business. Surely you could carve out a niche of consumers disgruntled with the current ink cartel and it would look good in the modern age by cutting down on people buying new throwaway printers when they run out of ink.
You must be thinking of a different blog. For the past decade, Bill has steadfastly maintained that we're not headed into a recession any time soon.
Doubt true for compsci majors...
We all have to ask ourself which shape we want to give our feedback. You can factually say the same as the other guy, but send a very different message.

When you critizise someone for using unsafe blocks, there are many ways how you could go about this. This argument here is not about whether we are allowed to point out unsafe code blocks, it is about how we do it.

It is a tangible difference if your message is: "You are using unsafe there and it is not really needed, let me help" or rather: "You are using unsafe there without any reason, you idiot. Go away and never come back!"

And the thing is: only one of these messages will get you closer to safe code.
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This is a complete nonsense: it is mixing an economic model with a taxation, gets to social ideas that are anti-economic (why bother having an economy at all if you do redistribution?) and throw the magic word "equitable" in it, all without any supporting argument. It is amazing, better crafted than demo scene.
Or worse, overfitted - which means the solution will implode when faced with real data (RIP EH).
Looks interesting. Shame about the name, though. Sounds far too much like BitBucket.
Rich and healthy aren't the same thing. What's the American middle class fertility rate?

Of course, by this metric the successful countries are all in Africa. It will be an interesting future.
Why are you citing data from 2019 Q1 ? California is the largest economy in the US, has the highest GDP, and created the most number of jobs.

Anecdotal evidence is irrelevant to the macro reasons on why job growth happens. Dig deeper into what is a "cool city"
Would def love to connect. Let me know the best way to...

I haven’t plugged into many conferences in the space. We’ve been a very small team grinding daily.

Thanks for being such a power commenter on this thread btw!
Clickbait title. If you look inside, they are correlating internet addiction to lack of motivation to study.

This would be expected of any addiction, and so they had to jazz up the title.
Well that’s what I mean. Minifying css/js makes sense as it usually includes a concatenation stage.

Minifying HTML just makes your page source slightly harder to look at. Whitespace would be squashed into almost nothing with in-transit compression.

Probably something nobody ever needs to think of, but as a web dev it’s an argument I’ve had more than once!
Wow, this is seriously impressive, and rammed with features!

Do you have any plans to monetise, perhaps by providing a hosted version? (altho I guess that would be hard, given the free build time offered by the incumbents)
Looks compact, yes. I was more looking into something with feeder. (I scan a lot)

Also, this is monochrome.
Are they? I thought they were just subject to the same export rules for convenience - the ones for weapons were reusable to achieve the wanted goal.
A Google search while in Pamplona, I think. There are more than a couple of these startups, mostly using hostels for the storage as far as we could tell.
No, it's known as a Read-Eval-Print Loop, or REPL.

"Shell" is a kind of REPL for a kind of language, both being optimized to minimize typing required to execute commands and string them together in a pipe. It's good at its job, but it's poor general REPL. Proper programming REPLs are very powerful and very useful tools, to the point I'm pretty unhappy when I have to work in a language without one.
>I find this question really fun: "Am I a Boltzmann brain, or a real human?". If there exists both a human and a Boltzmann brain with your current mental state, then it doesn't make sense to try to answer this question with a single answer.

While probably not entirely in the spirit of your question, I would emphasize this part of the wiki article:

>Like any brain in such circumstances, it would almost immediately stop functioning and begin to deteriorate.

I think if you pause long enough to consider whether you're a Boltzmann brain, you've probably lasted longer than one and aren't one.
When I was on a student budget, I mostly asked my lab tutor kindly if I could help myself to the parts stocked by my university - the lab people were so happy someone actually wanted to build something that I was basically given free access to the parts bins.

Additionally, regional distributor ELFA had bins of 1000 1% 0805 resistors for ~$10/ea, so I just purchased a couple of bins at a time as I needed them until I had an E12-ish set.

If there is one nearby, I'd strongly suggest you visit a maker space - chances are they have SMT kits already.
Lucid dream research done in the 1970s had subjects signalling from within a dream using eye movement.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258201870_Lucid_dre...
It helps wasting resources; why save and pay it to the government when you can buy more than you need, producing more CO2 in the process and wasting limited resources? Long live the waste.
> The point is that the Shuttle's TTL chips were more advanced as far as performance, using Fairchild's FAST line.

This. The author points out the 54F00, seemingly distracted by the 54'00 part and similarities in TTL glue logic layout that the F part is completely dismissed without acknowledging that these chips had sub-4ns edge rates and were indeed fast while remaining compatible with older TTL families. Throw in high SMD density on a multi-layer controlled-impedance PCB designed to survive brutal operating environments when PCs and CAD were still in their infancy...even today, it's humbling to contemplate just how much work would have been required to qualify such a design.

> But it's interesting that the Shuttle was still using TTL...

These systems had super long lifecycles and were required to be extremely reliable. I'd be surprised if the contractor that was responsible for the design would have been allowed to integrate any IC that wasn't listed in a QML.
Lol - pointing out the elephant in the room really bugged someone
The book Permutation City explores a concept like this. I really recommend it.
To me the maintainer sounds more like the boy who brought everybody cake and then left the party when the other boys started nagging about how their mothers would make much better cake and how his cake is all wrong.
Nay, they just sell it at full unsubsidized price, it’s not cheap.
> Interesting that you refer Plan 9, but fail to mention Inferno, which was the final vision from the same researchers.

For the lazy like me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)
Show HN: KVS store and organize key-value data on your local file system
> go back and ask your teachers what they felt they owe people asking them to design things unpaid, in their free time

As an engineer, your first duty is to protect the public, then your client, then your employer. You have that duty to the public regardless of whether you're being paid by a client or not, because it comes from practicing engineering, not from remuneration.
I know someone in China can use pure herbal medicine to treat back pain very easily and thoroughly, myself indeed cured by it, its really amazing experience and I indeed helped some of my friends that have same issues, all cured without any side effects. If someone interested and can trust the foreign medicine, pm me.
So you think that if a father is just working (and essentially doing what he'd do if he didn't have a child) then that should be considered good parenting because he's providing resources? Might as well call every working man a good parent then even if they barely even interact with their kids.

There are very important emotional aspects to parenting that you people who constantly complain about feminism seem to completely ignore, I'd much rather have a father who's there and who I can spend time with than a father who's working two jobs because "more money earned == better parent".
Brasil has benefitted a lot from technology exchange with Saab.
For those of you who are not familiar with the concept, the idea ,(very simplified) is that Brasil buys a lot of Saab planes, and in return gets knowledge about latest Swedish advances in the field. And Sweden, while perhaps not best in class, builds decent military planes, and I assume at least some of the knowledge is transferable to civil applications as well.
Do we have any other indicators that it's actually progressing somewhere, besides screaming? Even such a triviality as "how do we recognize that we got there"? The research is still in very early phases, IMNSHO: impressive practical applications appear, but they're side effects of what appears as random flailing: "build it bigger, see if it helps. Build it sideways, see of it helps. Build it at full moon, see if it helps".

That suggests that the applications are the low-hanging fruit, with far more interesting results still to be discovered.
Try Basilisk, by the same people who made Pale Moon, but with less feature stripping.