skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
um walking why on earth did you jump to the conclusion,

How do busses ambulances etc move through a city that has narrow streets crammed with cars.

Of course with European city's with wide boulevards might not be as bad - though of course those wide streets are designed to stop barricades and to allow for the use of grape shot to stop the rioting presents.
I was wondering that, too. My guess is that he's using this as a (large) set of test data to test his "recipes" and has to do that a lot. Having to run many nine-hour trials serially is painful.

Not sure I'd have bothered, but it's a defensible choice. And produced this interesting example of comparable implementations.
One could ask why the US and european countries are allies. I think it is because both are technologically advanced, both are rich, both are societies with human rights, both are democratic. (Relatively speaking, at least.) These things can change. Now that I name four factors it may sounds like a lot would need to change. But the first two as well as the second two are closely related. And at some point the former two are also related to the latter two. If China wants to keeps developing it will at some point need to improve its human rights situation as well.
Though git's interface is highly flawed, I do think a good VCS needs to expose more of its storage model to the user (or at least a model isomorphic to it) than most apps.

In vi and Word, you're not worried about state changes outside of saving the current state and, possibly, undoing some number of steps. In a VCS, you might need to check out, merge, or compare arbitrary states from the history, and doing this inherently requires a deeper understanding of how the history is stored. A good VCS should expose these internals in a clear way. In my experience, working with even 1 teammate immediately requires you to have some mental model of how your VCS deals with merging different histories.

That said, it's up to the VCS's interface to make these things clear. Git's mental model is simple enough, and the porcelain can do some of this stuff very well, but CLI is arcane; I end up storing extremely common functions as shortcuts because I'd never remember them or want to type them even though I use them dozens of times a day.
I generally don't want anyone's bodily fluids near me, regardless of gender.
Weight training, aerobic exercise and obesity: Pooled analysis of 1.7M Americans
Are you guys working in a 1960s commune? While I applaud your idealistic idea, it will be a disaster in a modern workplace.
I'm curious how MRR is $3.4K in december but actual 'revenue' is $2.2K?
Bandcamp has an awfully out of date UI, no recommendation engine of any kind, overall ridiculously simplistic, plus their monetization model is closer to an indie label one. This is altoegther a different model and a different niche compared to SoundCloud.
How so?

For one thing, Swedes are less and less excited by the stream of Middle Eastern migrants caused by American adventures there.
I would read a short article on how to read/translate complex mathematical formulas into plain English. Bonus points if you include a glossary for all the arcane symbols different sub-fields use in their formulas.
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Auto breaking technology deployed in japan has already started affecting insurance because so many vehicles have it that the accident rate has fallen significantly. This is one facet of autonomous decision making.
I don't really buy into the premise that it's based on materials and technology advancements. Look at the first chart - it's a direct match with the start of historically low interest rates creating an unprecedented easy money environment for investors. To me it's pretty clear this is more of a financially induced situation than a technologically induced one.
This so much. During the winter, I've had the option to work from home, and taken it just to wear lined sweatpants and sit by my personal heater in my home office rather than in an open office with a door one row open.
It was also an old school way of phreaking and getting free calls in a phone box.
Since when is $4k MRR a lot of money? They are off to a great start, but that is far from making it.
That only works if you can assume that everybody using the system you're desiging has access to the underlying technology. Sure, if you're desiging some new system (like an autonomous vehicle on a closed loop, controlled system / system purpose built to perform digit recognition as it is written on it, but why wouldn't you just have the user directly input on a keypad) then you'll get a better result, but in the general, real world, case (autonomous vehicle on city streets with other vehicles / recognizing digits from scanned input without the stroke data) then your special case optimization are impossible and for all general practical purposes do not apply, so appealing to their assistance in increasing accuracy doesn't actually do anything to help the system perform better.
It's just JavaScript. It's absolutely portable. The APIs that run atop us use the Standard Library registry, you can think of it like a package manager / proxy of sorts. But if all you're doing is writing logic to connect things, you could conceivably host it on your own after you prototype with us -- you'll just lose some of the goodies we provide like automatic webhook signing.

Also, our gateway / schema specification is open source and portable as well:

https://github.com/FunctionScript/FunctionScript
You have to start somewhere. Your own startup has a ton of financial upside that a 9-5 job doesn't have (as well as downside). If you could flip the switch and be at $100k ARR your first month, everyone would be running their own business.
It has a compelling premise but the reviews for it are not too kind so it remains on my to read list.
Ask HN: Coolest/most useful tools implemented in browser?
I am a front end developer, and with the browser becoming more and more powerful over the years (JS standardization, emscripten, wasm, webgpu), I'm curious to look at some of the powerful tools that people are building in the browser.

I tried searching on Github (language: js) and Google, but the vast majority of the results are for node.js projects - I am having a hard time filtering out the 'purely front end' projects.

Could you please share some of your favorites?
Yeah, reception to your in-car receiver was ridiculous. We switched over to internet-only for $8 a month and stream to our phones. I swear the bitrate is higher, too.
I had a Blackberry Pearl candybar back in the day, and it remains one of my favorite phones ever.

The half-qwerty thing was fantastic, and the little trackball was nice too. The magnetic case was super cool. I could type way faster on it than I've ever been able to do on any soft keyboard. The full multicolor notification LED was cool too.

When that phone was current, it was easily at feature parity with anything else on the market (except maybe in screen size). Everything about it was just as polished as hell. I always thought it was a shame that Blackberry could never really figure out how to keep their lead. Apple and Google ate their lunch bigtime.

I think where Apple really beat Blackberry was iTunes and the web-browser. Back in the iPhone classic days, it didn't have any kind of app-store or anything. But the web-browser and iTunes were big draws onto the platform. And once iOS had enough users to support an app-store ecosystem, it was all over for Blackberry. Google came along for the ride too of course, but IMO Android wouldn't be where it is if Apple hadn't figured out how to market smartphones.

Of course - the last real nail in Blackberry's coffin was Outlook support on iOS and Android. That basically broke Blackberry's stranglehold on corporate devices, and it turned out that the platform wasn't strong enough to stand without that.

Also it was stupid as hell that Blackberry forced its users onto specialized phone plans with a Blackberry addon feature.
I've also heard the case of a survivorship bias where most startup founders are men, since men are more risk taking in general (or at least the standard deviation on risk taking is a lot larger), and that these companies start looking less risky when they are already fairly successful
That's because everyone wants to live there, it's unique. If a vibrant downtown existed in all NA cities it would take the pressure off Manhattan.
In Chicago, is the link between crime and lack of access to decent produce one way, or the other? Nobody wants to put grocery stores (or most stores) in high-crime areas.
Connections was- and probably still is- my favorite show I've ever seen. I watched it when I was very young and it really shaped my view on the world and helped me learn to love history and the stories in it.

Also made me realize that originality and ownership of ideas is way more complicated than i'd thought.
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Most of these are not really low code tools, just revamped tools we've had forever using the low code marketing term.

How are PayPal and Google sheets low code?
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Ah. That could've been made more clear in the link title
I wonder if you could build a (admittedly thick) coin with some sensing/actuation going on in order to make it land on an arbitrary side.
> Then you need two domain name servers to serve your domain.

If you are a mega-corp and have multiple country-specific domains that redirect (apple.ca/ -> apple.com/ca/) then having most of your DNS be "static" and your scripts only talk to one 'canonical' (sub-)domain (e.g., dnsauth.apple.com) may be less hassle: instead of dealing with scripting n>1 domains, you only have to deal with n=1.
When tickets last that long unfixed, the dev working on it now isn't hurt ;)
I once helped setting an article in tex (originally written in word) and made the mistake of not noticing that rich text 10^20 got converted to 1020 in plain text. We only noticed post print but nobody else seem to have stumbled on it even though it was at the core of the articles thesis.
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>MY favorite times would be at night and manually adjusting the AM reception and picking up stations from all over the world. Trying to discern their location based on the commercials.

I recently got into this as a hobby! Bought a cheap portable shortwave radio and every night this week I've sat outside or near the window to see how far away I could pick stuff up from. So far I've confirmed broadcasts from Romania, South Korea, Cuba, and a few across the US. It's usually just preachers or state propaganda, but just the hunt for new stations is half the fun!
Nor will pissing off USA, which presumably is why they timed the issue carefully when any failure in trade will make the biggest mark on the public view of post-Brexit trade potential.

Like 'you know how your mobile phone system works quite well, let us help ruin that for you by messing with it politically', great.
I did a blog post[0] recently comparing a few options for getting off Google Analytics. I've been very happy with GoatCounter[1] (open source and has a free tier), but Simple Analytics likely would have been my second choice.

[0] https://anderspitman.net/20/#get-off-google-analytics

[1] https://www.goatcounter.com/
> Why should a credit card company get a 15-30% return on their investment each year?

That is simply not correct. Credit card companies get much, much more return on their investment. They get free money from collecting merchant fees from every transaction, and from credit card annual fees.

If we regard the "investment" as the marginal cost of setting up yet another new merchant or credit card user, the return rate is just ridiculous.

You issue a cheap, little plastic card to someone, and get $100 per year from them, plus several percent on everything they buy. And that's if they always pay their bills on time.

(They give you that $100 willingly because out of that several percent take, you kick something back to them, which ends up adding up to more than $100 over a year.)
Soundcloud should have been the Patreon for indie musicians. You get artists making money on it and they will double down. They need exponential growth, and for a consumer facing company that means community led growth.

They can still do it. There isn't much competition there, Bandcamp and Gumroad aren't dominating.
I totally understand your pain about iteration in bash. That was one of the main reasons I ended up writing my own shell and scripting language.
Write to the spec and forget about it.
> If you're an indie producer, you don't necessarily have the money to keep paying for hosting indefinitely

You don't have to pay for SoundCloud just "for storage". You can throw some MP3s up on S3 and call it a day. Paying the nominal $12/month for SoundCloud pro is storage, distribution, collections, analytics, embedding... on and on.
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Yeah it is in Orlando :)

It's a great place to live, tons of parks around, literally everything I need within walking or biking distance. We even have a 30 mile bike trail that starts from here.

I was just using my area as an example of how this model can work if designed well.
I wouldn't say your 'e' is at tin-foil hat level. But your assertion that since Trump is president any attempt to establish that Huawei is flawed from a security perspective is some 'corrupt' plot by Trump to benefit him financially is pure political imagination. Go ahead and take issues with Trump, his policies, his words, his actions, I don't care, but please do not pretend like just because Trump is president that magically the PRC and companies which are essentially controlled by its government are some kind of benign actors. Trump and has taken a hard-line against anything China since he ran in 2015, his anti-Huawei is very much in line with that stance. Also, Trump was pretty clear he wanted an American first economic policy, which makes it obvious he would be anti-expansion of any Chinese technological products.

TR;DL Trump being president has not a thing to do with whether or not Huawei and the PRC are attempting to infiltrate the network and data infrastructure of the world at large.
What you think about the coming revolution of Artificial Intelligence?
LKRG sounds brilliant, why not integrate such features directly into the kernel?
Ha, this is my brother. He's a digital nomad large part of the year. Plenty of "vacations"...

He's a hard worker though. Props to you, brother! :-)
Reminds me of recently open sourced and revived CDE[1]. They should move to GitHub or GitLab though, for a better visibility.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv
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Or that part of the brain is adapted for other uses. We cannot imagine what it's like to be congenitally blind... the world would be extremely different.
> Can you name such a "someone"?

How about anyone on the list that's supported by the lexicon utility:

> Lexicon provides a way to manipulate DNS records on multiple DNS providers in a standardized way. Lexicon has a CLI but it can also be used as a python library.

* https://github.com/AnalogJ/lexicon

Doing a quick count, they support 60 APIs.
A certain issue involving priests and children is controversial today. Would you say that this can be understood if you consider that historically powerful men have been doing whatever they wanted and gotten away with it and organized religion has been a safe haven for them?
Do you have outstanding issues/bugs/feature requests? I remember using it, like, 15 years ago and it was largely feature-complete and mostly bug free.
Most of my automation so far has just been CICD and automated testing, which I feel is pretty standard. I'm looking into automatically pulling in FreshBooks information and generating some publicly available live dashboard for profitability, expenses, revenue, etc based on time tracking information, pricing from Digital ocean, etc
Wow, impressive that they got their hands on stdlib.com
That's not "exactly like this". You're comparing apples and oranges.
Autopilot is not a misleading name actually. You, the press and others just have ingrained a false definition of the word. "An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of an aircraft, marine craft or spacecraft without constant manual control by a human operator being required. Autopilots do not replace human operators, but instead they assist them in controlling the vehicle."
Except we don’t have perfect information. Schizophrenia is misdiagnosed fairly frequently. I couldn’t find stats on undiagnosed schizophrenia, or schizophrenia diagnosed without visual hallucinations (which is probably the more relevant metric)
Examples have some extra scrollbars on Firefox, is that intentional?
imo bad software stacks are just a symptom of mismanagement not any real indicator of malaise.

after all if your platform is popular enough you'll have devs willing to learn whatever arcane mess of a stack they have to in order to make money on it
While Signal client app source is open, the server side isn't and the global system (and Moxie in particular) is notoriously hostile to federation or any sort of free interoperability. For a communication network, this reduces the benefits of openness to almost nothing, and, at least from my PoV, do not bring any kind of freedom or security to the users.
While I can imagine a free ecosystem being somehow centralized, I firmly believe that Signal is on the contrary an illustration of centralization imposed against user freedom which suggest that these properties may not be so orthogonal.
I did one and was completely angry the entire afternoon after.

I think I relaxed so much my body had to rebound to my normal state of frustration and anxiety.
I think this line, and in fact the entire essay, isn't meant for general people, rather fellow academics. In the very next sentences author writes- "The Art of War’s brevity and malleability will ensure it remains a popular and frequently quoted classic in the West. But for those seeking deeper insight into the evolution of Chinese strategic thinking, it remains an important but insufficient means to that end."
That's right, it's only rendering and layout library.
They started it! Perhaps if they presented some substance people would have more to go on. Do you think anything about USA appears trustable at the moment to those outside?
This is golden, it reminds the time when Let's encrypt started. Something that is challenging and can change a lot the direction of the internet.
I have pretty good mastery of Python2, and in my hands, a few lines of Python would blow up into a page of Go. This really frustrated me and was one of the reasons I bounced off of it.

Other reasons: no fork(), poor make integration, weird source dir structure, and I once caught one of the go tools trying to write system files in /usr/lib or something (which fortunately failed on permissions). Can't recall the specifics of that last, and perhaps it was somehow misconfigured.

Python2 has a good feature set, and one of the downsides of Python3 is that it greatly enlarges what you need to know without much expanding what you can do. It's a real problem, and it would be a shame if it ended up where C++ is these days. ("Poor Joe--a C++ spec fell off a high shelf and killed him...")
Fac is based in London, but it’s two main subsidiaries, formerly fiat and Chrysler, are still based in Italy and Detroit respectively
One alternate method is to have a startup script that loads your custom kernel module, then uses

sysctl -w "kernel.modules_disabled=1"

which can not be unset without a reboot.
I thought the same thing until I interviewed there in 2017 and got a look into what they were doing behind the scenes. At the time, they were definitely not struggling. They were working on transitioning their core competency toward streaming services, but their satellite radio business was still alive and well. (I took another offer, which I regret in retrospect, because I ended up working on a Perl 5 stack...)
It used to be that Sirius and XM were two separate companies providing competing services. Unfortunately in 2008 the US DoJ allowed them to merge on the basis that FM & internet radio were sufficient competition.
> Men don't have the same issues of unpractical clothing and being judged on their appearance

You missed the incessant satire of Trump's appearance then?
ICANN seems to be a corrupt organization.
Taking the article title and the author's own recommendation, it's best to gather information first and then develop an informed opinion - then once you're ready you take action if required.

That's what the FTC will do; their responsibility is to determine whether consumers are being protected against unfair or misleading practices, as stated in their about page[0].

Once no harm has been done and information has been collected for a sufficient period of time, then they might need to enforce laws against the tech companies involved - or they might not - depending on the investigation's outcome.

[0] - https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/what-we-do
The addiction thing was what got me.

I got into a bullshit mobile game, I didn't think it was a big deal to just leave it open all day while I worked.

Checking in between every email, and every commit, to make sure I was perfectly optimizing my in game economy. Eventually I became one of the top players in the world and was spending 4.5 hours a day just to keep my spot in the top 100.
I wonder how much effort has been made to avoid these systems blacklisting people for protected traits (sex, age, race, etc) or disabilities.

Probably very little.