skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth about 220BC, he was out by <50 miles on the modern accepted value.

He pre-dated Copernicus by a mere 1500 years.

Educated people have known for a long time that the earth is spherical is what I'm getting at, For many hundreds/thousands of years what the educated class knew and what the rest of society knew was often wildly divergent - as you'd expect in a society with no formal education system where only the wealthy or the sons of the wealthy could afford to spend the time educating themselves/tinkering.
Rockets are dangerous and this was entirely too predictable. I think it's worse if he wasn't a flat-earther because he used misinformation to promote and enrich himself.
All of the cars in my country are rated in KW in the documents.

But frankly it’s hard to tell how much power the car is immediately using right now.
Ridiculously bad article. No organism consumes CO2 for energy.

Organisms consume CO2 to get the C for material to grow the organism.
> Please evaluate carefully before choosing one or the other.

Please evaluate carefully before choosing any Go web framework.
> It is not hard to imagine your Web-enabled microwave oven consulting the frozen-food manufacturer's Web site for optimal cooking parameters.

This is Berners-Lee being visionary about the potential of a world-wide network of computers. The problem is not just the terrible technical implementation, it's also that the vision behind all this semantic web stuff was one of soulless dorks who saw the world's population spend their days semantically marking up All The Things to get the most of their web-enabled microwaves.

Everything I have seen Berners-Lee prominently involved in sucks at every level from micro to macro. Take urls: url query strings separators conflict with html escaping, the port syntax conflicts with the IPv6 syntax (which came first) and finally urls are not even self delimiting, so Tim hatched the aesthetically compelling workaround to write them as <URL:http://example.com>.
The idea that a government could benefit sounds weird to me. I think of benefiting as requiring a subjective personal experience.

When you fix your car, does your car benefit? When you remodel your house, does your house benefit?

In my mind, government functions, and ideally it functions in service of the people.
You can compile to byte code that is platform-independent as far as I know.

On top of that Dune has some cross-compilation features.

https://dune.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cross-compilation.html
In my years on HN I have never seen it on the front page. Ever.
This assumes that there is always a clearly best candidate. Fwiw actual quotas are illegal for this reason, but are you saying that all else equal, hire the less well represented person is discriminatory in a negative fashion?
How is that different from any OEM bundling then?

And also, how would a link to the store track and analyse you?
I don't remember the source but I've heard anecdotes of women at companies with strong diversity pushes feeling that they get taken even less seriously because others assume they're "just a diversity hire". A lot more needs to be changed culturally than that single hire/no hire decision. An employee's peers and superiors are constantly making decisions that will impact that employee's career trajectory and each decision may only have a small even unconscious bias but cumulatively become extremely impactful. Between employee A and B, maybe A gets slightly more impactful project assignments, gets taken slightly more seriously, gets told more details about the goals of senior management, is given a bit more of a break when they miss deadlines, is mentored a little better by peers etc. If B is losing these little coin tosses even 10% more of the time, the effects add up. For some minorities the same process has been occurring their whole life and plays a big role in why the diversity is so low already at the career entry stage to begin with.
Which makes the hypocrisy even more blatant.
Speaking of email in particular, I'd be keen to chat to you lot about the JMAP protocol, which is hoping to provide some of the "modern data model" around email (and we're now working on Calendars)
On one job I worked myself to the point of having panic attacks from a mere push notification. Took a few months to recover. Trying not to have anything work related on my phone ever since unless I’m confident it won’t be overused.
I find this super interesting but unfortunately don't have enough background in Deep Learning to recognise what this would be used for. To train a model that knows how to sort stuff (probably not)? Would someone have mercy and ELI5?
This is very little to do with privacy matters if you look at the comments here.
AI Will Always Be Slaves, Not Equals
Sorry but what happens when i grant access to a company? It will collect the data i granted access to and then resell them to other companies and buy data from other firms too so my data will be spread around exactly as now so even if i like the idea, what's the advantage? Am i missing something?
What kind of latency was achieved on the detection side? Could you use this for real-time applications?
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In Germany this is called "Spalierobst" and is still widely practiced. As far as I know certain fruits like apples are also produced on plantations with trees that are forced into specific shapes for easier harvesting.
Commit activity suggests it's been in maintenance mode for approx 2 years.

Adoption was probably low, despite it receiving some initial hype, particularly inside the Go community.
This probably won't solve all fairness problems but having such a library is a good step in the right direction, great they're making this available for free!
This is not true. Norwegian investigations concluded that there were no technical defects involved in this incident, discharging Navantia.

Quoting your source: The watertight condition of the ship was guaranteed by the 13 watertight bulkheads. Seven compartments were damaged as a result of the collision but initially the ship remained afloat. No one intervened to break the chain of errors.

See also: https://www.aibn.no/About-us/News-archive/Status-of-the-inve...
>I wonder if anybody is actually a flat Earther.

I suspect they're an extreme form of "contrarian" that craves disagreeing with conventional beliefs to the point where it becomes part of their self-image/identity. Like other conspiracy theorists, they're obsessed with intricate rhetoric and arguments, but they rarely take the extra step of trying to prove something without obfuscation and without ulterior motivations.

This guy strapped himself onto a homemade rocket and lit a fuse. There are easier ways to prove/disprove the Earth is flat-- even if you don't buy the shadow-measurment and clock experiments. One could, for example, mount an expedition of to reach the edge of the Earth and take pictures. But that hasn't happened, ever. Or perhaps it did happen, and the effect was merely to quietly convert the very chagrined expedition team members from flat-earthers into round-earthers?
> How do you define "best"? That's the issue.

That's very simple with the example in the article. Who can pay back the loan best? You just fear the answer and rather twist up your reasoning.
How Acceptance of School Management System Is Generating Business Opportunities?
Windows stuff is not stored in ROM.
No, this is rather what our way of dealing with the situation seems to imply. Or how do you explain sending all those people back to work just like that? It's like you want things to get worse.
It's like we got a head start to prepare for the situation except we didn't.
that's why i wrote https://gist.github.com/thehesiod/524a1f005d0f3fb61a8952f272...
Thanks for sharing,
Personally, I don't find myself using it if I do e-comerrce stuff,but It is really good head-start for someone who want to learn how things work in real.
And best of luck for any future work.
seems pretty normal, what's so bad about it?
https://stratechery.com/2015/xiaomis-ambition/

>And, I might add, from my perspective it’s not a big moral problem either: the truth is the United States ran just as roughshod over intellectual property during its rise to power as China does today, and I’m more than sympathetic to the developing world’s position that the West is attempting to pull up the ladder behind it: no one was holding Europe or American to task for pollution or intellectual property or workers’ rights the way the West does the rest of the world. That doesn’t make it “right,” it just makes “right” a whole lot more gray than “Xiaomi-are-copycats” complainers are apt to admit.
I wonder what he was really thinking:

a) "I believe the distance is smaller and that we'll be able to get there no problem (as much as a trip like that could be ""no problem"")"

b) "distance is bigger but there might be something in between, etc, and I like adventures"

c) "distance is (or might be) bigger and this will be a very boring trip but we'll eventually get there but might have to wing it.
> Isn’t that great for the middle and upper classes? Instead of having to compete in one single fair competition they have all the advantages of more money, a greater professional network and more cultural capital.

Yes, this is why it's so common for the children of Chinese politicians to go to American universities.
And apparently most of the countries use the SI unit instead of the HP. From Wikipedia:

Most countries now use the SI unit watt for measurement of power. With the implementation of the EU Directive 80/181/EEC on January 1, 2010, the use of horsepower in the EU is permitted only as a supplementary unit.
By making the point that Microsoft is a follower in this regard, yet the community complains about them as if Apple and Google eco-systems were some kind of angels.
Well for one your data lives in a place where you can govern it. Nowadays your data lives in all places you use (Facebook, Gmail, Twitter). Ever tried taking stock of your data lately? It can take weeks to do it for all services and importing the exports into a self hosted alternative is nigh impossible.

Still one risk I am seeing is that services might still want to intern you once you have given than access to your data. EG: a Foto app needs access to your photos which you grant but also introduces social commenting features which don’t trickle back into your pod. So you as a consumer are still incentivized to use the proprietary service.
Web Giants 1
Solid 0

EDIT: I am still supporting the idea of getting SOLID out to the masses though!
Did they mount /dev/shm as well? Otherwise I’m kind of surprised that works.
Opening the window in your home will not flush out the chemicals in the air
Two days ago I discovered that Node-based server that I wrote converts user money balance from a number to the string somewhere completely silently, and after that money added to it is treated like string concatenation instead of integer addition. Made me shiver when I realized what was happening, good thing we're not live yet.

(It's not real money, I'm a game developer, and would obviously never use JS's floats for real currency. But it still would be a product-killing bug).
Alternate submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22396314

I can't read the article here, the details are "below the fold" and it won't scroll. In case others are in a similar situation, the submission above is another source for the story.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22395528

I can't read the article there, the details are "below the fold" and it won't scroll. In case others are in a similar situation, this submission is another source for the story.
Social Media Marketing Types to Grow Your Business
let me guess - the people in those circles work for either already-profitable companies or companies flush with venture capital, rather than a company trying to get off the ground before it runs out of money?
Yeah nobody uses credit cards because of these fees. However, I have never heard of a 1% fee on regular bank card transactions. I know there used to be a 25 cents fee for consumers when they wanted to pay small amounts by cards, but nowadays shops promote payments for this as well and it’s free everywhere. I think it’s a few cents per transaction for the seller.
And for those who have no idea what it smells like, it’s a mix of fart and wet dog. I don't understand how they can market it.
The Zone and Interruptions (2016)
My bad, I was just commenting on it because it seems like a very primitive model of physics developed by islanders. It makes me wonder why people are still debating about these things even if they are facts. Maybe it's because most people can hardly math. You can blame half the bullshit on conspiracy mongers.

Damn though, engineering mishaps are bad :/
But the same situation exists at numerous companies that don't sponsor visas.
Yes, I've also seen it done in apartment buildings in the heart of Copenhagen, with tomatoes, grapes and avocados.
it's macOS only.
You are correct. “Build something people want” should be followed by “don’t die” and “find an audience”. In that order.
But only because there are a hundred times more "commercial brethren", some of whom "won" and apparently get to do whatever. It's still a choice that people make, except it's a "tragedy of the commons" situation. Which is what I wanted to point out in my probably somewhat too harshly worded comment.
begs for it: https://imgflip.com/i/3q1evo
Original paper here:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00128...
This company was fortunate enough to have sufficient talent to build such a system. If they were forced to use shopify, they would have had another 11 months out of the year to do something productive with their time. This system may be the v2 that was created following a shopify v1.

Grumble grumble costs grumble profits. Talented people don't stick around to maintain shopify workflow. Management needs to give people incentives to work, beyond a paycheck. Go ahead and refuse to recognize the fundamental needs of talented people. It's a great way for talent to reallocate itself to a place where it is more appreciated and supported.
With today's pollution this is no longer healthy. Fruits will absorb pollutants and the acid rains will stick to their skin slowly penetrate as well. That's why we have currently trees that are very resilient against cities harsh conditions, like Linden Birch Beech and Poplar (Populus).
Congratulations, well done. Out of curiosity, which database and language/framework did you use to build WeKeep especially in the backend? It seems as if you are using react virtualized as your grid component. That's interesting, as I developed such a grid component from scratch in my previous job, as there haven't been any satisfactory libraries at that time. Additionally, we had to support IE9, which was a real problem for any performance optimization. Especially rendering performance with a lot of data has always been a problem for us. Does react-virtualized solve this problem for you with the virtual rendering approach? And did you investigate the available spreadsheet libraries like "Handsontable" or "agGrid"?
Hi Nadim,

I have a system where I record payments in Excel and send out invoices via a Word template.

What reason would someone like me have to switch to your service? Besides a slight ease of use, how is your service better for a solo founder on a budget (one of your target markets, I assume)?
Models are supposed to have a purpose. They give you a way to better understand, visualise, stimulate etc. I don't think an isolated tribe would really have any need to create models in this way. And the curiousities of creation can be explained using myths and legends. Those kind of stories are more compelling and apparently useful than a mundane physical understanding or reality. Particularly when those people already have an intimate understanding of the physical world ingrained.
I understand data is not moving but if data structures are different there has to be some kinda merge or cloning of the data.

So basically I am at Wikipedia and Superwiki's mercy for interoperability.

What is the value of having(hosting my own data) if I cannot move.

"unilaterally imitate the other's data model" sounds good at the beginning, but what will happen when superwiki is constantly evolving its data structure, and wikipedia also at the same time developing features. And now imagine this with N Actors instead of 2.

Regulations maybe can help on basic data , but for extended data there will be a lot of conflict. (ex: I can move my friend list, but can't move let's say special data I assigned to them in one app)
My Rip Van Winkle Moment as a Programmer
Note that Solid certainly doesn't dictate you should keep all your data together. For example, it is perfectly possible to have e.g. a 'work' Pod and a 'personal' Pod. Additionally, data within a single Pod need not necessarily be physically stored together.

But yes, Solid doesn't solve all problems, and I don't think it even solves (or will solve) one problem by itself. But I certainly believe it can be part of a solution, and I believe even more strongly that we desperately need one, which is why I'm happy we're at least trying.

(Disclosure: I also work for Inrupt, but views are my own.)
I am inclined to be skeptical of semweb technologies as well, and certainly I think there are many in the Solid community that look at it as a sort-of second chance for it.

However, I do think many of the reasons I think it failed the first time around might not apply in the case of Solid, where it's used for modeling just personal data stored in a place under the user's control - which comes with its own unique challenges for which it might actually be a good match. I'm on a phone with bad WiFi now, but happy to dive into that more later if anyone's interested.

(Disclosure: I also work for Inrupt, but views are my own.)
IMO: don’t force your users to load fonts. On slow connections they’ll read part of the page until suddenly the font loads and everything gets rearranged. Worse is what google does: hide the text with JavaScript until the font loads so the whole page takes eons before you can read it.

If there’s a font with identical metrics that most people have installed then fine, otherwise don’t be a dick to people on bad connections.
d) I will open up a new commercial route starting directly from western Europe to reach India without the hassle of crossing the whole Europe on ground.
Png has poor screen reader support, though it can be amended via an alt tag, I suppose. [ed: but breaks copy and paste, which might be bad for an about page listing address and contact information - personally I'd much prefer fallback font to a png].

It's a shame there are no "bandwidth" queries in css, like there are @media queries - the client should be able to say - just content and essential downloads, please.
There's an unfortunate lack of what I consider "real" news (I realize the definition is subjective), such as NYT, WP, Guardian, BBC, Al Jazeera, RT etc. I'd never pay for a subscription of "news" that doesn't cover my basic need of actual news.

And just to cover my bases here, by "real" news I don't mean that they are "unbiased". I just mean sources that will give me actual, interesting reports about things happening in the world. As long as there is a baseline, I'm happy to filter what I believe on my own as long as the sender is clear.

I'm also skeptical as to why a paid service selling news would include things like The Onion. I appreciate them as much as anyone but I don't want it in my "news" feed.
It's an efficient way to get rid of old aristocracy and give space for new aristocracy to raise. Russia and China are sweet cases. French revolution was somewhat similar too.
Yeah, I have seen that remark when XP came out, then it was Vista, followed up by how Windows 7 would drive everyone into Linux, then was how Windows 8 would do it, ....

Somehow there is a pattern here, meanwhile Steam Hardware survey still shows GNU/Linux desktops at 1% on average.
> extremely beneficial to both consumers

What "extreme benefits" do I derive from being filmed and analyzed by stores I happen to walk past?
Such a cloud provider could be the one that hosts your Pods...

(Disclosure: I also work for Inrupt, but views are my own.)
Portal Rádios – Soluções para Emissoras de Rádio e TV
Should be free to receive SMS while roaming.
Google’s own pages don’t do that, they intentionally hide the text until the font loads to prevent a “flash of unstylised content.” (It’s quite a bit longer than a flash on many connections, plenty long enough to start reading.)
No good deed shall go unpunished
This is completely wrong. Many catalysts work at room temperature and pressure and in many cases we understand very well how they work.
Sad to read this. He is one of the few eathers trying to prove the earth is flat rather than to disprove that the earth is sphere. He would have failed in the end, but he chased for an answer.
Give us the link dammit
Renting in a 5-minute walk distance from the office have been, by far, best investment I've made in my life.

Even though it's a small studio apartment, saving two hours of stress per day is heaven-sent for someone with low energy and chronic depression like me. It's like life switched to easy mode all of a sudden. The only downside is, I can't manage to schedule a time to read books – subways and trains were ideal for it.
When did Japan artificially limit wealth of their billionaires?

I'm sure their economical issues of 90s and 00s did hit their wealthy quite a bit though. But that's not exactly artificial limitation.
Which should make it hotter, right?
If you whitelist [*.]scroll.com in Chrome for example, Scroll should work. Important to note it doesn't get you past paywalls. The economics would make the price insanely high for that.
I especially like to compare with complete solutions like this repo. Because sometimes I'm stuck in a rut and looking in the wrong layer.

Even if I don't end up using their solution reading through an open source project is, for me, a great way to think about the problem without all the pre-conceived notions I have regarding my existing code base.
Securify v2.0
A few years ago I was looking for space themed games where you control a ship and are allowed to trade. Think of Escape Velocity, Star Sonata 1/2, Space Rangers, Freelancer, X3, etc. For some reason a lot of forum posts were about Mass Effect when it comes to space games. When I actually played Mass Effect 2 I realized that it was just a generic cover shooter like Mafia 2 or Sleeping Dogs. Oh and it was so glitched I fell off the map multiple times and often got stuck on top of random objects like tables. It was an absolutely awful experience.
Because what they work on is the world's most important job /s
> All providers putting their own meta-extensions will make my pod trash

This is the way the world is now except that you don't even have the data. Otherwise you bring up some good points. I imagine the answer is that sites will be incentived to cooperate with each other creating informal mini standards along the way. Sites that disagree with the standards can build their own data structures but won't be able to leverage existing networks, so it better be worth it. Eventually you could have different flocks of semi-interrelated apps that each act on various parts of the shared data structure.