skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another one of those non-sense landing pages. What is this? A new credit card? What has Patreon to do with this. Why is this cheaper, cheaper than what actually? Also, no info about the company other than a link to a company register in Cyprus, which does not look to trustworthy.

What's the product here, and who is the target audience?
How do you propose solving problems like "buy a house" and "buy a car" without debt? The average person who needs to drive to work has no way to buy a car in cash, at least not early on. If you drop all your savings on a new car and suddenly end up with a hospital bill, that car isn't going to pay for it.

I say this as someone who had enough saved to buy a car in cash: Buying it via a loan was the right choice. It boosted my credit rating and more importantly when emergencies came up I had that cash on hand.
> persuade more people to abandon checks

What's the problem with US payment system? People still use checks?

I have seen those only in movies. I think they were out in the 80s in Finland.
I love this kind of Hacker News!
I come here to learn about solving the problems of the world, not learning about the new Intel chips.

Yay Hacker News!
A p-zombie doesn’t experience pain, color, dreams, etc. If you do have those experiences, then you’re not a p-zombie.

You might counter that your brain is tricking you into thinking you have those experiences, when you don’t. It’s an illusion.

Bit ask yourself this. What would it even mean for the experience of pain or color to be an illusion? An illusion is itself a conscious experience!
“The Information”: Maybe Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free
There also were decades of lobbying and mismanagement that made the fear mongering possible. Nuclear has a bad reputation because it deserves one.
The patent is likely invalid.

First of all, based on my understanding of Mycroft architecture, voice recognition is done on the device itself, as well as application selection.

Hence, the voice command AND the command logic is done on the mobile device, and DO NOT access a remote computer.

Also, the prior art is likely very strong as evidenced in the patent itself:

"from a mobile device to remotely access and control a
computer are known in the art. However, such prior art
systems are application-specific, meaning they are configured to allow the person to use voice commands from a
mobile device to remotely access and control a specific
application at a computer. Therefore, the prior art systems 25
require the person to have multiple mobile devices and/or
systems to remotely access and control the different applications at a computer. Additionally, the prior art systems
limit the audible and visible feedback the person can receive
from a computer while using voice commands from a 30
mobile device to remotely access and control the computer. "

So the patent admits that prior art exists for sending commands to specific applications, but not for general application? , I fail to see the difference.

All voice commands are sent for a specific application.

Hence, since any voice command is for a specific applications, I fail to see how Mycroft violated the current claim.

If you want an example of the prior art, here is a very famous system (from 2006)

http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/letsgo/

In general, the patent shows its age, such that it confines itself to a simple client-server architecture, where the mobile device gets the audio, and the remote computer (the server) does speech recognition and command selection.

However, if you do the speech recognition on the mobile device, as well as the app selection, I think that the patent is no longer valid.
I think it is more than that. The soundwaves you hear are directly there on the record. Get a magnifying glas and you can even see them.

This direct connection (and the big covers) is what is part of the appeal.
The thing is- this could work without intervention - and without the intention of keeping humans alive for years, thus creating a ecosystem over time. Somewhere in the middle of nowhere- watering cacti, then hardened other plants, reclaiming the moisture they loose, until bushes and trees take over these functions.

Its hard describing this fascination with self-contained or only slowly expanding pockets of life.. imagine a glass bubble , filled with small plants, beatles and life, thriving in the midst of a frozzen over wasteland like mars or a dessert like the death valley.

Its like a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottle_garden but without the surrounding walls..
The few I know (and it's "few") there's TheShifters group (a team of ~volunteers helping the Shift Project).

They've been trying social efforts for quite a while now.

Are there other similar groups that try to educate and motivate the rest of the population ?

With enough of these groups, I believe most people will feel motivated, they just need a headstart to follow (we're too social).
Pain is an experience, not a physiological description. When you stub your toe, you feel pain, not a description of the biological mechanism.
The vast but little-known fund of the Mormon Church
His channel is awful. The parents alone are cringe worthy. Our boys don’t get to watch him anymore.
I’m already here
I'm sure the people in charge were aware of these problems but what did you expect them to do? Shut it down before anything goes wrong? (didn't happen) Shut everything down after something goes wrong? (did happen) It's not like you can just do `npm update` on your nuclear plant and get the latest version for free.
The case for the Workstations are produced by them so I don't think we learn anything from the Laptops.
This is a virtual card and account that allows collecting money for your goals. I tested and it works well, they work directly with banks.
Dragon Quest X is a MMORPG, so the ability to patch things is also quite useful.
As for developers building projects, you might like:
https://www.derrickreimer.com/
Quarts watches use 32.768kHz(1/2 * 65536 Hz) crystal, means its output through binary counters easily produce clocks at base 10 fractions of seconds. That could be then fed to decoders to LCD, so no need for uC.
If we knew the answer to that, there would be no hard problem of consciousness.
Debt is like medicine: useful to cure certain conditions but nothing to be burdened with your entire life. Once the condition is cured the medicine is no longer needed.

It is also like medicine in that it has a tendency of ending up being worse than the condition it was meant to cure when taken irresponsibly or in too large a dose.

There's another way in which debt resembles medicine: those who sell it are wont to sell it as widely and at as high a price as possible, no matter whether it is the right medicine for the condition at hand.

When used responsibly debt can be a net positive. When allowed to run amok it is a burden upon society. Maybe debt, like medicine, should only be allowed to be taken with a prescription?
Some of us are lucky - my first websites are not available anywhere, including the web archive. All that is left are some lingering sigs in a few usenet posts from 1998ish still archived on google.
Don’t give your kid unfettered access to YT. A video here and there is fine but the stuff that comes up even on YT kids if you just let them click around is toxic and creepy.
File search seems to have steadily declined with each version at least since XP. The underlying pattern seems to be the combination of more features with a simpler interface. The inevitable result is less transparency for the user. Microsoft's search features have demonstrated repeatedly that this is a bad idea, and what's most puzzling is why they keep doing it.

Google maps is another product where useful features are regularly broken by 'improvements'.
Perhaps there's a shortcut in Quick Launch? (A Windows 95 feature they decided to get rid of but never quite managed to completely remove.)
Like pretty much every bank in Europe? Maybe you meant something else?

Revolut is interesting in many ways, but they get the interchange just like any other debit card issuer.
Storm Ciara – EU Windstorm
Even the most insane Start menu shouldn't have enough items that you couldn't just put all the items it contains in an in-memory list and do a dumb startsWith search, and be lightning fast and more reliable than whatever insanity it is doing out of the box these days.
Giant box telling me “ Browser compatibility
To ensure the proper operation of the web clock application, please use the most recent version of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Safari, with JavaScript enabled.”

Viewing using latest version of mobile safari, JavaScript enabled.

Not sure if they aren’t detecting browser, aren’t detecting JavaScript, or are just letting everyone know this even if they have the right browser.

I suppose I should be lucky that it’s not twice the size and in French as well.
There's no middle man taking a "cut" with a check. For large $ transactions, it's worth the hassle.
They really use checks. The first time I ever used a check was after I had moved to the US.
Nothing fancy but the content is really good. https://talktechnical.net/
They're still commonly used to pay bills for stuff like rent, though it's less common now than say a decade ago. For things like electric bills the provider is typically big enough to automatically deduct from your account, but there aren't really commonly available systems to do stuff like that with a private landlord. If you're renting from a big company they may have an electronic rent payment system and it probably charges you a fee to use it.

I currently pay my rent via wire transfer, which is I guess better than a check because it's electronic but is also worse because there's a fee. When I first moved away from home for a job I had to pay rent with cashier's checks (which meant going to the bank and paying a fee first to get the check).
> 2008 is coming again soon

I have no idea why people __LOVE__ making these statements. 2008 was something that affected mostly the US and while it affected the rest of the world to a certain degree, overall very little changed.

Before jumping on my throat, hear me out: There have been several significant financial events since then: the European debt crisis, then Portugal(which is relatively small on a global scale), same with Ukraine and Venezuela, Russia(still going 5 years later), Brazil and those are just off the top of my head. What I'm trying to say is that financial crisis occur almost every year. Keeping your finances tidy is a good life advise but prophecies shouldn't be the motivation for it.
I guessed you might like it!
Lol yes.
“Debt helps you grow faster; debt helps you die faster.”

- someone said this to me early in my career and it has stuck with me.
> I tested and it works well

By which you mean you've been trying to get this business off the ground since 2018, so now you're desperate enough to use underhanded measures to promote it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18316984
well yes. quickest way to verify my claim is to check LinkedIn for who works at DarkMatter:

https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?facetCurrent...

This is a good read too:

https://theintercept.com/2016/10/24/darkmatter-united-arab-e...

Since they started they have become more careful about compartmentalization and making efforts to conceil their activities by shell'ing out (pun intended) by using new companies/structures for sensitive ops that can effect how they are perceived on the market. As an American who works there once told me: "we have a good thing going here." (this was just a few weeks after this happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19308430)

I don't want to sound snarky but I would have assumed from your many excellent / on-point comments here over the years that you're well read and informed on them ;)

Edit: it's very hard to say no to 0 income tax.
I've owned five or six thinkpads over the years and in my opinion the only reason people feel the trackpoint is acceptable is because the trackpads on those machines are so awful. I used to prefer the trackpoint too, until I used a laptop with a trackpad that wasn't hot garbage.

For example the trackpoint on my T70 actually drifts backwards in the opposite direction after you let go, and this is typical for trackpoints in my experience. It's just not a very good pointing device.
>>I have no idea why people __LOVE__ making these statements. 2008 was something that affected mostly the US and while it affected the rest of the world to a certain degree, overall very little changed.

US is back on top. How's Italy, Greece, Spain etc doing?
Ask HN: Have you worked for a company with a great codebase?
I'm interested in finding out which companies are known for having a solid, well-designed codebase.
Radiosynthesis (Metabolism)
Is Having an RSS Feed Just Giving Content Away for Free?
> Do they get special rates?

I'd suspect so, the sticker price is for the little guy who cannot guarantee them a large volume of organic search queries. With a large volume of course you negotiate.

The most interesting thing here is Startpage. Apparently Google doesn't give access to general Search API (as opposed to custom search limited to some sites) for over a decade now. I idly wonder if folks at Startpage have to maintain an extremely plain and not terribly well marketed site lest they be evicted from their deal, presumably a very very old one. According to Wikipedia they probably use Google since the early 2000s at least.
https://kyletruong.com

I recently quit my job to become a solo dev and just started blogging about the process. If my content is of any value, please consider visiting.
Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features
A Designer's Guide to Scraping Data from HTML Pages with Artoo
I worked on design. Yeah, but they did the pivot around 7 months ago, after M&A. Formerly they worked on another stuff.
A power supply isn't inside a laptop.
It's a thing of strange beauty, tremendous nostalgia.
Agree with you - although the part about boosting your credit rating, although true, is a scam.
The home page might be more informative: http://www.lasersaur.com/
Ask HN: Interesting Climate (Change) Datasets
Hi HN,

For a university data visualisation course I need to create insightful visualisation designs for climate (change) data.
Apart from the usual meteorological office/world bank etc. data that is easy to find, does anyone have knowledge of interesting datasets that relate to the topic? This could also be datasets that measure second-order effects over a long time, that viewed with other resources paint an interesting picture, etc.

Many times I've found interesting links in HN comments, so I thought I'd ask and perhaps hit a great source here - thanks!
Having gone through this a number of times, and its never about the validity of the patent. These patents are often acquired from defunct companies anyway. If they don’t acquire, they have revshare deals for enforcing.

Patent trolls typically have almost no overhead, just a small office in a cheap venue (Marshall Texas) and time.

Its simple math, 1) it’s cheaper to settle out then litigate (by far) so boards usually want to settle, and 2) its too expensive to litigate, ie you don't have 1-2 million to fully fight a patent troll.

Good for you for fighting. Ultimately thats what we've done and its the only way to stop the Trolls. (Shout out to Lee Cheng formerly from NewEgg)

There are some patent defense consortiums that you can join that will share the burden if you are sued by a troll making you a much less appealing target.

Good Luck!
Debt financing would be wonderful (note to non-business-savvy readers: this is not even remotely the same kind of thing as personal credit card debt or whatever other completely unrelated thing is making you sanctimoniously kneejerk that "debt is bad". Can we please have an informed discussion of debt as a part of a business capital structure?) for software businesses, which have very predictable capex costs.

The issue was always that bankers don't want to lend for, basically, cultural reasons. When it actually starts becoming possible and there start being standard diligence scripts, etc., it will be much more favorable than equity financing for basically anyone who can get it.
How many hours to build a PC?

Are you turning down paid work to free up time to build a PC?
Can anyone say what it might cost to build one? Where do you buy the laser?
While I used to use this years ago managing servers I recently pulled up the old version again helping some admins in my org debug why the 2factor Authenticator apps weren’t working for signon.

Both server and client must have synced time.

I validated my phone and desktop’s time using time.gov when the admins claimed that their server was right and my clients were off.

I thought it was kind of funny they would claim their time was accurate without checking it. Also funny that their server and local ntp would be off.

But time.gov saved the day by providing an always available, easy to use standard.
Become a Better Developer by Reading Source Code
It’s guaranteed to cause more logging, and the problem caused is not smaller.

Don’t straw man. Steel man if you are serious about debating this.
I use playlists too much probably. One of my semi-resolutions is to get back to listening to albums more.

But, as with photographic film, while I have a certain nostalgia for vinyl records, I don't really miss the scratches and the warping and need to flip the record or put a new one on every 20 minutes or so.
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Especially if there is a decent support package.

There isn't. No next day on-site like you get with a major OEM.
On paper it would be possible but at the very least the graphics drivers are going to get in your way (on purpose, for robustness and other reasons) so you'd need to be running like... a custom kernel module or custom graphics driver to do this. It's not safe to let a regular user-mode application do what a PS4 game can do. (The PS4 does security at a hypervisor level instead, and generally your game is not about to steal credit card numbers from another user-mode process on the console like it could on a desktop PC)
Yes, non-streamable music has a specific flavor to it nowadays. But I appreciate that YouTube is now putting a lot of old obscure stuff on "Topic" channels en masse, good quality as well. But it's probably still limited to whatever is owned by big labels.
So why are middle men taking a cut in the US that other countries don't have?

Why electronic payment costs money in the US? That's the cheapest way to pay and process payments. In Finland that cost's nothing and it's the default for paying large bills and payments.
Short answer: Different databases.

We have PII, analytics, catalog, transaction etc databases. We only let people clone non-sensitive databases. Others are cloned only at schema level and data is left out.

This also allows us to move and scale independently across different applications. But that's just a symptom of this design.

There are some complications with this approach but it's a trade off and we try to come on top using foreign-data-wrapper approach and using a database application router for read and writes. We have open sourced a Django db router which routes queries on the basis of tags/app name/table name etc
At the moment, yes.
Wow, no. I have no idea what folder a lot of my files are in, because I can find them with Search. And that extra click before accessing settings would be a huge downgrade for me. I am a fan of Windows search, it's one of the biggest improvements to usability they've ever made. Even if it worked better in Windows 7.
My partner is currently in Taiwan. Can you share with me, where do you get reliable local news about the virus? Can be in Mandarin.
https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/ solves this problems for W10.
Show HN: Dksnap – Docker Snapshots for Dev and Test Data
I dont know why this is downvoted - the EU implemented austerity and it took a gigantic chunk out of its economy in the last ten years - why is this controversial?

Spain's growth rate has been what, 0%?
Greece is totally screwed, and there's a strong set of evidence to say Brexit was a direct result of the 2008 crisis (because they pushed back so hard on austerity.)
Self-Driving Vehicle Gets Green Light from Federal Highway Safety Agency
Book Review: From Third World to First
It's also fun to experiment with Markov chains with Snakes and Ladders.
The OP system76 does. And if you want to upgrade to more then the price premium skyrockets.
Different for different users then: https://imgur.com/a/548crWn
So how do we use this information? Personal cooling vests? Or are they advocating an IR21 genetic inhibitor protocol?
The way the memory interface works seems like a big barrier. Some games probably don't lean on its true power - the ones I've worked on do not - but a PS4 game can do some truly wild stuff involving GPU/CPU memory sharing, control over memory caching, etc that you can't really do on a desktop PC for various reasons. You can get closer with modern APIs like Vulkan, at least, but I suspect there will always be some subset of PS4 titles that literally cannot function in a typical desktop PC user-mode environment without some truly devious hacks and workarounds.

As far as compute goes though the PS4 is basically just a 64-bit x86 machine with a strong integrated GPU, so the workloads can be adapted to run on desktop hardware.
I'm equally perplexed as to why people always seem to think a big downturn is right around the corner. Maybe there are always enough warning signs that someone with a sufficient penchant for confirmation bias will latch on to.

Regardless, nobody can tell the future - there are simply too many unknowns to consider. We will certainly have more good times and bad times. As to when they come, predict all you want, but historically analyst predictions have an awful track record (historically, expert predictions are wrong most of the time https://www.cxoadvisory.com/gurus/ ). The occasional person who guessed right previously (there will always be some) are then raised up as oracles.
The Spaghetti Detective – AI-based 3D printer remote trouble monitoring
As a materials scientist, it is sad to see athletics ban technology improvements.

Similar to how automakers are able to test new technology with luxury buyers, and how the technology eventually reaches the masses; it would be great to consider elite (luxury) athletics a human+technology element.

There are a lot of technologies that companies are unwilling to try if there is not a mass market. You need the elite performers to create a mass market and be a testing ground for performance/health enhancement.
Yes, I had. They all have easy unrestricted access to a variety of 'old' (of the oldest supported OS versions) phones lying on a special shelf in our office.
the fees for credit cards are like a tenth in the EU vs US. It's not free though.

EDIT: "for credit cards"
A hard drive? It's cheaper and easier to buy and pop in a new hard drive or ssd than it is to get on the phone with tech support.