skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It used to be that an MPH or two under the speed limit would get one halfway across Denver without stopping for a light. That was a long time ago, though.

I don't drive much these days. In Washington the traffic levels can be such that the best timing in the world won't set up a green wave. On the other hand, I do manage now an then to make it half a mile or so as a pedestrian without stopping for a light. (On 16th St. NW from U to Scott Circle, a saunter will hit all the lights green; a fast walk might do the same, but I seldom bother to try that.)
Most people in the US live near a large town or city. The coverage metric that's interesting is people, not area.

When I last lived in a rural area, the UPS guy would leave packages inside my unlocked car.
Japan Is Building a Giant Gundam Robot That Can Walk
A near 100% drop-in replacement for Exchange server is kind of the holy grail of messaging/collaboration. I was looking at something that claimed to be that (or close) many, many years ago when I was doing consulting, so I could try to save my clients some money. But nothing had all of the features they wanted or was as seamless as they wanted it to be. I don't remember what the software was called, but it pre-dated Zimbra (which I think I've installed once to dink around with). I think this is more difficult now, with the move to cloud services like O365 and Google Suite. But having a self-hosted, Outlook compatible, Exchange substitute would be great.
Yea, perplexity is ~exp(entropy)
These systems are apparently too complex for us to make good predictions.

I don't know if that is true so much that good predictions are rejected for political reasons. See also climate change.
> Eg if you build your own binaries from the open source license, you can't distribute them without a commercial or distribution license.

Given it is a known open-source license, (L)GPL, this restriction is obviously impossible.
Ideally, never. Tying an open platform into features that exist only in one SaaS offering from an advertising company isn't a good way to keep it open.
Rules derived from where? Could you give us an example of what the new structure allows that couldn't be done before?
I had an old laptop with a broken hinge. I ended up flipping the screen all the way around, velcroing it to the keyboard side, loading a bunch of personal pictures into a slide show screen saver and then mounted it on the wall in a picture frame.

I have an old iPhone with an app that uses the camera to watch for motion. If something happens, it takes a bunch of still pictures and stitches them together into a herky-jerky video and stores it for later.

I keep it on top of the kitchen cabinet to make sure the lady I pay to feed and play with my cats when I'm away does both things. So far, so good. It's hard to get people to actually play with pets when you're away, no matter how much you pay them.

I think the app is called "GorillaCam." I don't think it's on the app store anymore. But it reminds me that when the iPhone first came out, it didn't have the horsepower to do video. But not too long after the App Store came out there were third-party apps that would use the phone's still camera to make poor quality videos.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say, but the parent comment said

> they recently announced that the UI is web component based - which means that using Servo for the window chrome is in the realm of possibility

IMO some of the key words there are "web component" and "Servo":

1. IIRC you can't render XUL strictly with web components or anything that would be called "web", since that usually refers to web standards or something you would use from a webpage but not included as a standard (non-standardized extensions, flash, silverlight and so on).

2. Regarding the Servo part, I don't think that Servo ever included XUL support at all. Servo isn't used wholesale as the rendering engine in firefox, but the parent comment talks about the possibility to use it and web standards for the browser chrome.

I feel like you are responding to a comment that never was and then responding to a comment on that comment by saying the original comment was something you thought it was, but it wasn't.
Night panel and the funky pop-out drink holder were EVERYTHING!
This is a very good channel if you're looking for explanation of topics within music theory with examples from popular music. I've found David's videos explaining key changes, time signature shifts, and modes very helpful.
The ocean has always been highly acidic,

Can you clarify what you mean here? The ocean is slightly basic.
"why would you characterize their stance that way?" Because it's the publicly stated intentions of the current government there. We should take their statement at face value.
> Can't demand others to do it you won't do it first.

Saving the environment is not about individual choice, it's about fixing an unsustainable system. It's unsustainable because negative externalities are not effectively taxed/banned. Bad behaviour is rewarded financially which further drives change in the wrong direction.

Making it about individual choice, and therefore subject to "hypocrisy" is an effective way of preventing change. Divide and conquer. It's undeniably the pervasive narative in the media (but again this can be explained by systemic effects - where does the money come from? Who stands to benefit?).

You can demand new rules that come in for everyone at the same time. That's how tax rates change, how universal healthcare systems are established, how slavery is ended.

Societies are ultimately shaped by what people believe is possible.

Edit: Your comment has changed, but you're still expressing the conviction that everyone has to do things voluntarily. That's not true - only enough power has to come together to make and enforce laws. A high bar, but not as insurmountable.
Python 3.9.0a3 now available for testing
> Apple is just gatekeeping access to their API to developers who buy one of their otherwise unrelated products

I don't know how that's news for anyone, Apple has been doing this forever and they explicitly chase that goal as far as I know.

If you're saying "yeah, I want to support iOS/Sign in with Apple/AirDrop/Screenshare/Any other Apple feature" then you're entering the need of having more things to do with Apple. That's the cost of joining and leaving the ecosystem they created for themselves.
Not true. If you use any other social media signing, you must also support Sign In With Apple. You can, however, continue to use good old email alone.
Low light is an excellent point.

Regarding skills; while yes I could learn it — getting to a passable level is entirely possible. It’s just that I don’t really care that much.
Neat. I really like exploring demo data like this.

One thing to note is that you have the following the countries:

Czech Republic

Slovakia

Czechoslovakia

If people are from Czechoslovakia does that mean the immigrated to the US before the end of the Cold War?
I set up an old iPad as a picture frame that shuffles through all my photos. It's been wonderful reliving memories and vacations! I did have to buy a third party app to do the shuffle since Apple removed it a few OS versions ago though.
Perhaps the closest comparison is to throw in a 5K screen making it (say) $2500 with the Hackintosh and compare with an iMac (Non-Pro) with 64Gb non-ECC. It’s around half the cost, plus you get to keep the screen.
I mean, many people have the right idea but for now we have no choice but to emulate the right parallelism approaches on top of the wrong hardware architecture. Maybe this will change one day.

As for FP... I remember a guy saying "imperative/OOP shows you how it does stuff, while FP shows you what is it doing". It was a very eye-opening statement for me.
This has been sorely needed for a long time. Thank you for building it!
> I was looking at something that claimed to be that (or close) many, many years ago when I was doing consulting, so I could try to save my clients some money. But nothing had all of the features they wanted or was as seamless as they wanted it to be. I don't remember what the software was called, but it pre-dated Zimbra

Ximian's Evolution?
I think the point was more that your statement: "It is quite unlikely that they can claim that much precision." is non-obvious enough that it requires support.
Clearview AI is struggling to address complaints as its legal issues mount
[joker voice]
I have given a name to my pain...and it is millennial whoop.

Seriously, though - this is interesting and I'm glad I know have an additional, identifiable reason why modern pop sucks so bad.

I saw one of the YT commenters said they call it the millennial yodel instead. I think I like that better.
I switched back to mutt recently. I've tried to use and like Thunderbird, but I just can't make it work consistently across platforms. I really think mutt is the ideal mail user agent. If TB would just become a GUI for mutt, it may be useful to me, but otherwise, it's just not stable nor consistent.
>You can still use your iMac as a monitor -- just plug your computer into the Mini DisplayPort connector.

I believe that this only works on iMacs made before 2014. New ones don't support Target Display mode (https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-an-imac-as-a-di...)
If you mean the environmentalists and nuclear power, I agree. Nuclear power really is the only serious answer to climate change.

It's hard to know if climate change would even be an issue if protesters of the 70s, 80s, and 90s wouldn't have made any investment into nuclear power so difficult.
I shared some more details in a different reply!
This is very common even in higher density suburbs. Unless an area is known to have a crime issue, it's standard practice in the U.S. to leave the package on the front steps. I've lived in the burbs for the vast majority of my life and have never had a package stolen. Despite common media portrayals, the U.S. is mostly a very nice place to live.
It’s somewhat problematic to determine the exact dose of psilocybin you’re getting when ingesting raw material. 1.5g of dried material might give you a range for the upper bound of psilocybin content, but it’s difficult to say. And dose is VERY important in planning what kind of experience you want to have.
Growth is what the shareholders care about, and capital always rules, even at the expense of anything else.
"a lot" relative to what, ocean volume?
I think this is part of the SDK initialization which is needed regardless of auth (unfortunately)
Second to this, they should probably work on their own first class mail and calendar server as at least open core, and probably as SaaS as well. As much as I like some of the mail hosts out there, for some, the ability to self-host is big. The various pieces and software you have to cobble together are cumbersome, and even then, you don't get anything close to what Exchange+Outlook gives you.

I would love for someone to do this, so we could have a nice, self-hosted store for our vital data but still access that data from all our devices, over VPN, etc.

The problem, as always with these things, is who that someone would be. While many HN readers might appreciate the potential advantages, I fear the target market for such a product is significantly smaller than for Thunderbird, which for better or worse is itself aiming at a relatively small minority of users in the era of Google Mail and friends.

For anything it's worth, I'd contribute financially to such a project personally and so would my businesses, since it would be a significant benefit in each case.
I use an old Ipad (retina screen) with Dakboard free edition stuck to the refrigerator as a family calendar and photo frame. It works really well with open weather and google photos, google calendar integration.
You're assuming preventing death is a priority of the China government.
> power over ethernet

This is a non-starter for me since none of the places I would want to put a camera have an Ethernet jack available.
They are currently blocking all these APIs for everyone who does not do a 30k-100k security audit
GNU coreutils' wc (which is the reference) does not seem to be using threads, no.

At least not at all obviously. No obvious header included and no mention of threads. I only checked the code [1] very quickly, though.

[1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;...
Show HN: ExpDealsHotel Reveal Secret Hotel Name from Priceline's Express Deals
I think it's a way of thinking - I was an OS hack - Unix device drivers/etc early in my career, I could think about interrupt races/etc but it was hard, I took a detour into designing chips for a decade where EVERYTHING is parallel, by the time I got back to kernel work (Linux was around by then) I found that stuff that had been hard was now obvious.

In short if it's not a good fit for your brain, change your brain!
I wonder what they'd say now about Terry Winograd works on SHRDLU and the accepted conclusion...
Actually, the key point is that they aren't using perplexity. They built a chatbot that aims to maximize "SSA" (Sensibleness and Specificity Average), and then found that SSA is correlated with perplexity.
You're not wrong, though it does sadly preclude me from the more interesting compsci/math research positions (stuff involving type theory and compilers and whatnot); most universities and research teams (understandably) have a firm minimum requirement of a masters degrees, preferring a PhD.

I totally understand why they do this...if you're dedicated enough to get a PhD in a field then you're almost-inherently going to be a decent researcher, so I can't blame whomever is in charge of hiring at places like MS Research for having these criteria. It's just a bit sad that this means, at minimum, even if I were an otherwise perfect candidate, I probably couldn't get a job doing real research for at least another seven years (3 to finish the bachelors, and 4 to get the PhD if I'm being very generous).

EDIT: To those wondering if this is contradictory to my previous comment, I will clarify; I do work for one of the big brand name compsci research companies, but (sadly) not doing research. When I worked for a big university, my title was technically "research scientist", but my actual job could have been more-accurately described as "code-monkey", and that's putting it generously.
Stablecoins Might Be the Only Real Chance for Crypto to Hit Mainstream Finance
I like the Ubiquiti cameras because unifi handles the webrtc handshake so you can run your cameras local and see them from anywhere while keeping data on-prem.

It's a little annoying Protect doesn't have a software install but the legacy unifi video still work fine. I put in ~5 cameras over the last few weeks and been really happy with them.
That's not quite accurate. Thunderbird develops its software with the tip-of-trunk Firefox code at all times. It only makes releases much less frequently than Firefox.
Makes sense, since pdfs are designed to be printed, not read on a screen...
It's surely an engineering tradeoff resulting from weighing the different pros/cons. If you had dedicated cache per core at 1/Nth the size, much of it would be wasted when you're running less than full tilt -- eg, if you're using 2/4 cores then half of the cache is artificially unavailable instead of doubling the cache available to those 2 cores.
>If I'm not in I expect another delivery attempt or for the package to be taken to the secure local* depot where I can pick it up.

It's not the lack of localness that's the problem for me in the UK, it's more that most depots are only open 9-5 when people are at work. If you have anything resembling a long commute (particularly by public transport) then you can get really screwed over, especially if you can't drive for whatever reason you pretty much have to take half a day off to collect your package in many cases.
This repo seems unmaintained. This project is more active: https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks
Yes, that's what i read also... so hopefully in a few months all apps that have 3th party logins like Google and FB are required to add SiwA and we will see a spike in popularity too...
>I bet that's not enough for them to start to notice.

I got blocked on very first attempt to scrap from cloud. Literally request #1.

...with code that worked fine on residential IP five mins earlier (where I coded it).

I'm sure it can be circumvented, but that experience led me to believe it's better to just save the time and pay for a res proxy (as sketchy as that concept is)
Lack of soil accumulation does not mean the soil evaporates into thin air; it is taken up by the watershed and redistributed downstream. The same carbon cycle is in effect; accumulation in any particular terrain has really nothing to do with it.
Self-XSS
No it's not dubious at all. It's hilariously beneficial considering how far north we are, where I honestly thought it would be very borderline, and probably not worth it at all.

We just about eliminated the electricity component of the typical UK supply of electricity and gas for heating. That's not net zero, or creative accounting, that's actually eliminate use of grid electric for nine or ten months, with a little use in winter. That only because of switching water heating to the panels, that was previously on gas. We're in N Cumbria.
Ask HN: How would you start Machine Learning consultancy?
If you were to start consulting as Machine Learning expert, how would you go about doing that? Assuming you have enough knowledge.

I have some background in ML and I can catch up quickly when given opportunity. Right now, I work for a major company but I would like the freedom of consultant, to be able to work on smaller projects and gain a lot of exposure to various ML/AI areas.
Japanese Master Teaches How to Make Senko Hanabi Fireworks
Xanadu sounds like a first class example of Raymond's Cathedral and Bazaar, with Ted as high priest. Perhaps if he'd gotten his hands dirtier earlier, he'd have better appreciated the impractical demerits of all such grand designs.

Surely once the number of hyperlinks grew past the thousand mark (in 1991?), their further exponential growth made it clear that the manual curation of link semantics of any kind was hopelessly infeasible. Some 30 years hence, I'm surprised such windmills are still tilted at.
Just to note and call out that not everyone has enlightening experiences with heroic doses.

I've had horrible experiences with a very large dose. I essentially passed out and when I awoke I genuinely thought I had died and was roaming as an invisible spirit. It wasn't until a friend interacted with me I realized I was still alive and began to come down.

I really think anyone should take care when experimenting with powerful hallucinogens. They aren't for everyone and have been known to trigger psychosis and other adverse reactions if one has a family history of mental illness.
> The crash data is needed for debugging.

Not by me. I'm not going to debug the app; I'm just going to kill it and restart it. If the developer of the app wants my data to help his debugging, he needs to ask.

> if an action you took on the client causes a crash on my server I'm not going to ask you for permission to look at my crash logs.

Of course not, but your crash logs aren't coming from my phone. If you want to look at data from my phone, you need to ask.
That's slightly dishonest, as iOS has a ~50% market share in the US. Ignoring half of the US market seems a poor choice.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-sta...
Hi Jeff, Project Vesta is making great progress building out our scientific team and deployment plan! We have an update coming out very soon, our last poster in December was featured in the SF Chronicle under the titled "Could putting pebbles on beaches help solve climate change?" ->
https://www.sfchronicle.com/environment/article/Could-puttin...
I think you may be reading the GP's implication in a different direction to me. While it's not completely controversial to observe that not all anti-Zionists are also anti-Semites (although I do hear some who would hold that view) it's more believable that anti-Semites would pretty much automatically also be anti-Zionists.
Cat Organ
In discussions about low income families I often see somebody comment along the lines of blaming the parents for making bad choices and choosing to have children they couldn't afford/care for/want. This is used as a reason not to provide any social support to those families as they see it as rewarding bad behaviour. But these children didn't make those choices and they now exist in their circumstances through no fault of their own.

We're consistently condemning the children for the sins of their parents to appease this view and severely reducing these children's potential, and in doing so reducing the potential of the country. As this article shows, the cost to a country's society and economy of poverty and low standards of living is very large and over a long time span. Our governments should be doing more to tackle child poverty as whilst it's not as bad as it used to be, we can certainly do better.
epub support will be implemented in Q1 '20 finally
Haha, great article! too bad the video is unavailable :-(
> Sun was working on its early multi core workstations

This article is from 1995, and they were out a bit earlier than that. Sun had been shipping 4-core workstations with thread support since 1993.

The SPARCstation 10 came out in 1992 and had two MBus slots. Each slot could take a CPU card with 1 or 2 CPUs on it.

Although SunOS 4.x had very limited multi-CPU support, SunOS 5.x had support for multiple CPUs. SunOS 5.1 (Solaris 2.1) came out in 1992 and supported SMP, and SunOS 5.2 (Solaris 2.2) came out in 1993 and introduced a thread API.

By 1995, they had also introduced the SPARCstation 20 and the 64-bit Ultra 2.

They also had some server systems (like the SPARCcenter 2000) that had a backplane with several boards that could themselves have CPU cards. I don't know the maximum number of CPUs, probably something like 20.

Info from my memory and:

http://mbus.sunhelp.org/index.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation_10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(operating_system)
> turns 10 this year. It runs the latest compatible version of Cyanogenmod. Despite the obvious security drawbacks

Anecdote:

6 months ago I got a OnePlus 7 Pro and installed LineageOS (continuation of CyanogenMod) on it. The 7 Pro has very small screen borders and no notch (iPhone) / punch hole (Samsung); instead a motor makes the selfie camera pop up & retract from the top of the phone. I also never updated LineageOS because it went from an unofficial build to officially supported so updating would require a complete reset.

About two months ago I noticed that the camera would pop up every once in a while for seemingly no reason.

I could only conclude that it was hacked; worse, I would have never noticed on a 'normal' phone without a pop-up camera. Was my phone also recording me the entire time?

I don't know what the vulnerability was - it could have been a remote exploit in Android itself that's also exploitable on your phone, or it could have been from an app that I had installed (the only apps I had with network usage + camera permissions were Firefox, and the latest version of WhatsApp from when I bought the phone (no updates since I don't have Google software on it, I just downloaded the WhatsApp APK when I set it up)).

You've said that you don't have any sensitive data on your phone, but still be careful.

I updated LineageOS and since then the issue has disappeared. I update the OS about every week now to hopefully prevent this from happening again.