skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the new businesses and associated jobs and growth that the Internet could have enabled have been made illegal, often by people too scared and short-sighted (or greedy) to envision a world very much different than the one before the internet.

Just look what happened with Uber, with that broadcast TV re-streaming service, with internet radio, with online banking and microlending, and especially with cryptocurrencies, for a few examples. Billions upon billions of opportunity and new wealth creation strangled in the crib. Pretty much wherever there is a big new opportunity, there are new heavy-duty restrictions on what you are allowed to do with this new communications tech.

People don’t give up wealth-creating income streams and associated power in society without a dirty fight.

Try starting an ISP or a telco to see how much of the promise of the future has been robbed from us by government overzealous to protect existing greedy and inefficient businesses.

Even the ones they thought safe to let roam free that wouldn’t affect them, social media, are now in danger of getting the hammer brought down on them because it turns out that anyone being able to talk to anyone is insanely powerful and disruptive, and they’re going to start regulating the kind of communications you are allowed to have there; either directly via public policy, or by veiled threats that cause the resulting winners (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter) to self-censor to be allowed to continue to exist.
In Russia torso MRI costs around $200-$300 too. Smaller exams on outdated machines could be found for as cheap as $80.

It is solely US thing that medical procedures have astronomical cost.
overflow: hidden/auto does not guarantee that children won't be painted outside of the element's bounds, even if it has a fixed width & height: https://codepen.io/vincentriemer/pen/WNvwpvQ

If you add contain: strict to the container in the above example you'll see that it then successfully clips the child div.
I have seen this so many times it isn't even funny. Talented people start off their career at a startup and then kind of camp there forever. The "Hate being the smartest person in the room" quote is classic as well. You end up being the best programmer you ever met because... well... you are at the top of your little mound. It's not even that you are necessarily the smartest or best in your group. But who is going to challenge you? It's a no go from the start.

Young (in experience) programmers need to move around a fair bit early in their careers, IMHO. It's good for getting perspective and seeing things from different points of view. But it isn't all roses and sunshine. It will be very challenging in a number of ways, but if you don't do it you will stagnate.

So what should you do? Get a job in an area and do your best. Don't try to do everything. Try to learn from others. Get to see their perspective. Do it wrong many, many times so that you can really understand why it is wrong. Or why (surprisingly) it is not.

But most important of all, don't try to do it all. I'm sorry to say this, but you are not a big fish in a small pond (yet). You are a fish that doesn't yet know what "big" means, or else you would have asked a very different question. What potential you have to grow will be determined by the attitude with which you take your next steps.
Looks like they both charge per min, not per kw/h. So you are at a disadvantage with a slow charging car?
I saw this product a couple of days ago:
https://sync-sign.com/eink-for-developers-turn-key-solution/...

I am not affiliated with that company in any way.
You may be able to limit usage of your own derivative works, but you can't just declare that everyone using a public domain image owes you royalties.
can the relevant antibodies be isolated?
Right, though I met a few people who made use of it for studying, so it's not super rare. It probably varies a lot from job to job.
Curv – A language for making art using mathematics
A Friend got a swathe of opioids for a cut in her thumb (in a US hospital), "Why?" she asked, turns out the hospital is sponsored by the producers. Buy hey! Nothing to see here! It's them Chiners!!
This noteworthy point can help our intuition.

πr² = area of circle
4πr² = surface area of sphere

Thus a 2,500 mile radius circle covers ~10% of Earth’s surface.
Thanks. I searched a bit further, and found http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/EW..., where Dijkstra critizises how line endings were stored in the 64 character set:

”Niklaus told a terrible story about CDC-software. With 10 six-bit characters (from an alphabet of 63) packed into one word, CDC used the 64th configuration to indicate "end of line"; when for compatibility reasons a 64th character had to be added, they invented the following convention for indicating the end of a line: two successive colons on positions 10k+8 and 10k+9 —a fixed position in the word!— is interpreted as "end of line". The argument was clearly that colons hardly ever occur, let alone two successive ones! Tony was severely shocked "How can one build reliable programs on top of a system with consciously built-in unreliability?". I shared his horror: he suggested that at the next International Conference on Software Reliability a speaker should just mention the above dirty trick and then let the audience think about its consequences for the rest of his time slice!”

I don’t think that
Ask HN: What is the best way to check if a user is online on your website?
Hi HN,

I am trying to check the online activity of a logged in user on my website. For now, I am checking (in every 5 minutes) if a user is online if she scrolls upto certain part of the webpage. Or, if she switch from page A to page B or vice versa.

But still these two methods are not working well.

Can somebody assist me the best way to check the online activity and mark a user online. I am looking for an easy way.

Please help.
Last time I looked into this, for a potential project, I found Waveshare seem to be the leaders for the hacker/hobby space.

They’ve got a nice 12.5” display (1304x984) @ $170, which is pricey but big enough for league tables.

https://www.waveshare.com/product/displays/12.48inch-e-paper...
How hard is it to transition out of Paddle?
It's called the VIX and it goes up for any choas not just pandemics.
It’s comical, but most people I see coughing or sneezing into their elbows, don’t even make a decent attempt at it.

Their elbow is about 5 inches away from their mouth, which doesn’t suppress the saliva and air molecules coming from their lungs anyways. It might catch some of the spittle, but I’m sure most of it becomes aerosolized anyways.

People, in general, are disgusting.
Your own cite says that surgical masks are ineffective but properly fitted N95 masks can be effective. I believe that they filter droplets well, e.g. from sneezing.

https://www.asahq.org/about-asa/governance-and-committees/as...
Mods can we get a [2016] in the title?
> Critical systems should be able to handle connection loss

When the whole point of the critical system is to connect things wirelessly... your point makes little sense. There are backups, of course, but why would you go out of your way to make things worse when there's no fix and people already know it's an issue? What about that is tempting? It's a fundamental technological limitation - there is no jam proof wireless communication system.
Awesome indeed. Thanks for the link.

The “other” hemisphere illustrates the strikingly vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean.
Why was the burden of proof on your client, and not on Getty images if they were the ones demanding that they owned the rights to the images?
No. The photos were placed into public domain, copyright free. Anyone can copy them # but it also means anyone can sell them.
Like blackmail people into paying a licensing fee with the threat of legal action?
They've also started growth hacking bullshit by A/B testing sending PM digests of subs they feel you haven't visited enough: https://www.reddit.com/r/beta/comments/dw7frl/community_remi...
My understanding is that it's the former. The classic "finders keepers losers weepers".
The Amiga build of Firefox did exactly that. All the platform specific stuff was in separate files (supposedly) so as to not trigger the per-file disclosure rules.

Now, "modern" Amiga is a horrible dumpster fire of a software development and community. It's a worked example of that saying about how people fight most fiercely over the smallest stakes, with no more than a few thousand users fighting over which of half a dozen ways forward "must" succeed and a long history of scams, etcetera.

But that's your example, such as it is.
Yes this exists, I've been in an ambulance that had a navigation system aware of the "illegal" things they could do. It for example automatically took bus lanes as faster routes.

Didn't ask them what system it was, had other priorities at the time.
him saying "I'm not an expert" , "I don't know anything about electronics", "I'm actually a psychologist", gave me Impostor Syndrome.
Let's take a concrete example: how about people swapping recipes for chemical weapons and discussing their efficient deployment against unknowing civilians? Or people discussing and developing (largely anonymously) the logistics of mass shootings, with a view to maximizing the body count?
My reading of this article is getty was claiming they own the rights to the photos, and requested payment from the photographer. Because they didn't have a record of her paying them... Despite the fact she didn't get it from them.
In 2017 big blue had decided enough is enough. Let's move to those hip new technologies like, php and MySQl. Let's do angular too!

It was a small simple application. It took no longer than a week to migrate to mysql. Unfortunately, we had a long term contract with Oracle. It didn't matter that we weren't using their db anymore, we still had 10 more years to go.

The strength of the Oracles and IBMs of the world is not in technology. It's in sales.
The syntax is rough mostly because of lifetime specifiers. struct MyStruct <'a> {...
It is unfair insofar as they are not unique examples of it.

Otherwise, I agree.
As a business model it makes perverse sense:

1. Use bots to vacuum up as many images as you can online, and claim ownership.

2. Use bots to search for infringement and automatically send claim letters against them.

3. For any pushback, have a team of lawyers and clerks of various grades to deal with situations as they escalate. Push or capitulate after sizing up the opponent.

Most people either just want it over, or don't have the means to fight back for any length of time. The money you make from such a scheme would far outweigh the legal costs due to the scale of the automated income.

It would only become problematic if someone else started a rival company, at which point they'd need to set up an oligopoly agreement to avoid destroying one another with their bots.
I've been getting stack overflow answers every blue moon to my node proxy settings question for nearly 10 years. Weird feeling, it's nice to know we exist after we look away.
> This mistake happens with all sorts of content available from multiple areas.

Sure, mistakes happen. But I think someone in the business of licensing should be held to a higher standard and that there should be a punishment for false demands/false presentation of copyright.

The fact that they can threaten someone for thousands of dollars and then just say "honest mistake. You get nothing for your troubles" might be legal, but I am not convinced it should be.
It really depends what the funds include. What it you fund manufacturers when preppers buy guns/ammunition? What if you fund companies buying out defaulted property during housing crisis just to flip it for more money in a few months?

It doesn't have to be all immoral, but some companies will be.
Is there any way to sandbox Apps on Android?
Datsville – a Lego-inspired city started in 1999 by LUGNET using the LDraw CAD
Oh sounds like everything is fine then!

Seriouy doesn‘t your hair stand up in horror when you re-read this?!

„You can always choose to die when you can‘t afford treatment“. WTF?!
A Brief Introduction to Ice-Penetrating Radar (2015)
> the patient doesn't have enough information or knowledge

You don't need one, all you need is brand and reputation. Customer doesn't know much about products in most markets: electronics, cars, software. It's never a problem when you have lasting brands/companies servicing many people with various level of knowledge.
Tesla and Volkswagen are already selling government subsidized electric cars and installing government subsidized chargers. Now they get the chargers for free. No one voted for this enormous wealth transfer from poor to rich. Nor a car ban in under 20 years.
AWS DeepComposer https://aws.amazon.com/deepcomposer/ and AWS Polly https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ with some autotune?
IIRC there's an "overflow: hidden" style on <body> or something like that. Delete it and the site seems to work fine.
Why download is disabled for the spreadsheet?
Reddit is blocked on the level of /etc/hosts on all of my machines... so... :)
I like this idea. Instead of:

"Add keyboard shortcuts",

The Todo item could be:

"Will keyboard shortcuts save time for the end users and result in [positive reviews from power users] that mention the shortcuts?"

Then, one sees that actually implementing the shortcuts is just one step among many.
Hard to define, but not important for this stat, because the ancient global population of proto-humans was so small that it's not even a rounding error in 107BN (the estimated total humans to ever have lived)
> Also republish them, charge money for it or limit usage

Of your copy or derivative work, not of the public domain one you copied. The fact that they tried to force their limits on other people using the public domain works is what is the issue here and is not fine.

> you might just get a jail free card because you can claim

That seems entirely the wrong way around. Getty knows it is public domain because that is where they got it from. The fact that they sue for damages despite this should put them in contempt of court and not me in a position where I have to defend myself.
> There was an Article "Are the BSDs dying"

I don't know, what does NetCraft say?

Does NetBSD run on Hot Grits yet?
Ironically, the people who are truly of the highest intelligence and skill level would never choose to work at a place like that. So it's fair to say that what they are actually selecting for are people who are smart, but not too smart. Just like cops, really.
Probably the outlet itself, not the power is the scarce resource, so that might be fair
I think the engagement and ad revenue is higher in the mobile app. fewer ad block and more places to put them.
This would be even more useful if it had after tax take home amount.
This will likely change once Africa becomes the most populous continent, which is expected to happen somewhere around 2100.
verifiably?
You can put them in some work profile:

https://f-droid.org/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/
[Thinking to themselves:] "Is this serf really the right kind of drone, the type who will fit neatly--much like an unthinking cog--into our organizational machinery?"

Maybe he accidentally let it slip that he thought the South should have won and Robert E. Lee had some good ideas.
My problem is with the corporate firewall that inhibits me from using dropbox/box/etc. to sync notes between my mobile phone and the work laptop. Just yesterday I tried to connect through Github (which I can access, for the time being), and running a "Working Copy" (an iphone app) webdav server that shares the github repo clone in the phone with Beorg.
It was completely unusable. Does anyone have an alternate suggestion, perchance?
How to Send an Email with SparkPost and Node.js
For me at the start even the tedious items are fun because they were mine.

Conversely after a few years in even the important interesting parts became tedious.
""It is becoming fairly rare to find a company whose software is not predominantly open-source software," he said. "Relying on the proprietary IP rights granted by your own authorship implies that you believe your contributions to be of such high value that the cost of maintaining a private fork of your non-shared contributions outstrips the ease of integration of the developments of all of your competitors and users who are collaborating in an open community.""

sure because windows, office, exchange, oracle and SAP are all open now.
I’m curious how does this compare to Odoo?
It's not. Tesla is ran by a pretty awesome guy. So are many other companies. Some visions happen to be compatible with ethics. When one's brand is backed by ethics, investors know what they are getting into. A lot of mountaineering companies and outback companies are actually like that.
Things don't have to be jam-proof, but the processes that depend on them should have a sensible failure mode. If anyone with a small backpack filled with fairly cheap jamming equipment can disrupt hundreds of systems in a busy area, then society (emergency services in particular) should know how this disruption can be prevented or mitigated, and also what the cost of such disruption would be (i.e., is it merely economical, or are human lives at stake?). Preferably before we become too dependant on such technology.
I suspect you eventually go to jail on fraud charges.

Getty can probably argue that they made a mistake when classifying the image. But this argument only works if you have rights to a lot of legitimate works.

(Disclaimer: I'm no lawyer)
Public health authorities like CDC don't recommend their use among people who are not infected:

CDC does not recommend that people who are well wear [a] facemask to protect themselves from respiratory viruses, including 2019-nCoV.
- https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/prevention-t...

Now, I'm not one to blindly trust a government agency, but most of the evidence seems inconclusive at this point, and one thing can't be ignored: in mainland China, use of masks in public spaces is near 100%, yet the virus is spreading rapidly. Outside mainland China, far fewer people are wearing masks, yet the virus is not spreading much at all.
Try Inkplate. Uses a good screen (recycled Kindle) and has a battery charger built in. Very cheap. Only just funded though: https://www.crowdsupply.com/e-radionica/inkplate-6
This is a terrible title.
I think I see what you're saying, but the context here was asking for cases where omitting semicolons causes non-obvious bugs. I mean:

if(x)
return
"foo"

clearly there's a bug there, but adding in semicolons wouldn't change the code's behavior. So it doesn't affect the "is it bad to omit semicolons?" debate either way.
Aussie in Sweden here. I had to wait 4 weeks to see a GP and then 4 more weeks for them to refer me each time they said "wait 4 weeks and come back if it's still an issue"

Public healthcare works way better in Australia, I went home and saw a doctor there, got to see a doctor straight away, got scans & referral etc within a week.

Other expats have told me I should go to Germany or the UK if I urgently need health care
China Offers to Build British HS2 in 5 Years at Significantly Lower Cost
> Enclosure doesn't look great.

Wow, that’s an understatement. It looks dirty and ragged.
> 'I can't stop judging you based off of the white board question nor do I know how to confirm that you can write a kernel despite lack of ability to solve very very basic programming questions.'

You phrased this as two parts, but in reality these two things are intricately linked. It's because you don't know how to judge person on their true ability--i.e. that you lack this skill--that you resort to useless trivialities like this whiteboard bullshit.

Combine survivorship bias (you were subjected to it and made it, so that validates the process) with heavy hive mind group think (We're All Real Smart People, Much Smarter Than Them Masses(TM))--both of which are always in abundance in intelligence-owned front 'companies' like Google, and of course you end up in your present mindset: arrogantly and naively selecting for people exactly like yourself; people who think just enough into things to think you possess a clue, while in reality, being totally oblivious to larger thoughts and concepts.

There are many in this world who just can't stop judging you based on your shortcomings and limitations. For example: your owners.
The fastest Beijing - Shanghai trains take 4:18 to travel 809 miles.

The maximum speed that trains operate at in regular commercial service is 350 km/h (217 mph), so average speeds of nearly 200 mph are possible nowadays.
It's an one off art project, not an actual product they're aiming to start selling. Of course it's a "gimmick", that's not the point.
A risk existing is not a reason to not start a business - nobody would start one if that was the case.

The risks taken by this solitaire company seem to have worked out. They got to earn solid revenue for several years and even with MS backing away from their ad platform, they are evidently not without other options.
> It could start with them releasing a MacBook Air with ARM as an option

I don't see this ever happening, it'll be all or nothing. Apple just doesn't differentiate its products on technical differences, it categorises them purely on what you can use them to do, as a branding/marketing strategy.

Despite developers and other people interested in the tech being a significant market for them, it's definitely not significant enough for them to change this.

Having a macbook that can't do things other macbooks can, with the tradeoff of different performance characteristics.. I just can't imagine it's something Apple would ever do.
Well, it's 3d printed, so, yeah, probably shitty because printed on the faster settings.
You're talking about something different now though: initially you were mentioning functions that are 1-3 lines in size, but now you're describing functions which do one thing, without talking about the size at all. I was very specifically criticizing tiny functions. There are two big issues with such functions:

* the overhead in LoC of declaring and defining the function is between 30-100% of the function body!

* like I previously said following even simple logic becomes an exercise in jumping around the code. Never mind the whole house, even a simple loop barely fits into a 1-3 lines function.
I forgot that the API doesn't allow thread affinity across processor group boundaries. It's been a couple of years since I last touched all of this. Revisiting it, it becomes clear that this limitation actually prevents transparent support for >64 hardware threads in the C++ STL or pthreads on Windows.
Sadly the current Ontario government is against this kind of thing.
I always wondered if prime numbers can be used as the basis of a compression algorithm.

Where you describe how to get your number, in relation to how it can be factored using prime numbers.

You cut up your data into chunks, and then find the prime factors of each chunk. Now you have a list of arithmetic descriptions to describe your data, and you can use Huffman to compress the descriptions.

Of course, this would be computationally intensive, for both the compressor, and the extractor, but it may save on the payload size, to allow for efficient data transfer.

And while we still use Huffman’s algorithm, I wonder if advanced aliens may have discovered this technique for data compression.

This is more of a sci-fi fantasy algorithm, than anything actually mathematically sound.
Trump Administration Considers Halting GE’s Engine Deliveries to China
Does anyone know if JVM, golang or .NET have autovectorization?
https://archive.is/TQ6tf