skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you talking in terms of album prices being reduced (have they??) or the ability to buy individual songs and essentially only pay for the parts of a musicians work you like? Encouraging publishers to use their influence over the content creators to focus on churning out the type of music they know works (that pays the most); the same thing everyone else is creating. And leaving those other songs, those that the artist might actually want to make and the reason they do what they do, a financial dead-end. I don't think this is a good long-term plan and I am not happy that this is happening. I'd be equally unhappy if it happened to news, although maybe it's too late.
That's because of the voting system.
In the current political (capitalistic) climate, a project like this would only be pursued if there was a vested financial interest; they're pursuing visiting asteroids mainly to see if there's a lot of rare / valuable materials in them (e.g. platinum), and making getting into orbit cheaper for financial gains as well (decreasing costs, increasing volume; also, space tourism).
Agree. Totally overrated. I ran away from it every time. Plenty of far better options.
Crypto trading garnered everyone’s attention when Bitcoin kept rising upto $20k and there was a huge FOMO.

During that time, there were a lot of Get Rich Quickly scams around Crypto trading.
Coupled with 24x7 online trading, a lot of people were losing a lot of money. Taxation (for those who made money) around Crypto weren’t clear either.

An exchange ran away with the money. There was also the money laundering aspect. The Govt also wanted to curtail cash usage (Demonetisation happened) and track the transaction trails.

Not saying if they are right but some of these reasons were triggers for the original ban by RBI.

Casinos are banned in majority of Indian land and i’m wondering if the reasons are the same. Would be interested to know what the Supreme Court thinks about that in the current world.
I've never really liked material design. I don't care about your pretty icons, fancy text above (or inside) a box. Save me from your megabytes of CSS and scripts, and just give me the content. That's what I'm here for.

To author: Stop having XHR to load your images. Just load them. If I don't want them, I won't load them.
> As in you can compile Clang on sparc (using GCC / binutils as the system compiler), or as in you can actually build Debian for sparc64 using Clang?

Initially, we were building Clang only. But we're also now building Clang using itself, i.e. a stage2 compiler.

There are issues though when building Clang with Clang with Gold as the linker. It works fine with BFD though.

We are not building the whole archive with Clang though. But all Rust packages are built on sparc64 as well which uses the LLVM backend.

Thanks for the links. I'll look into them. Maybe we find some more bugs than can be fixed on SPARC in LLVM/Clang.

Edit: From your first link:

> "Contemporary GCC does not build and there is currently no indication that anyone is going to address these issues."

That's odd. We're building all GCC versions on Debian/sparc64. It's still a maintained backend in GCC, after all.
Easy ordering for web based app
We are looking to integrate easy ordering of ingredients into our web based application. The problem we are facing is that we need to be able to place the orders and have them delivered to the correct user as opposed to filling the users own cart to pay for the items themselves (the functionality provided by all of the public APIs we have found).

Does anyone know of an API that could do this or have any other ideas for how to solve this problem?
Important nuance in your comment why microservices are useful:

3:00-3:30 in your timezone ;)
Apparently the original extension has Google Analytics embedded in it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22482333
I think a better plan would be to just make public transportation free. Now you eliminate the problem of trying to prevent people without tickets altogether. Decrease pollution & congestion, reduce friction in travel, and make the economically disadvantaged more equal.
>The problem with the question “How did software get so reliable without proof?” is that it’s asking the wrong question. It’s not that software got so reliable without proof: it’s that systems that include software got so reliable without proof.

No. This person isn't sounding smart enough. The real question isn't how systems that include software got reliable without proof but instead the reverse: how did software that includes systems get so reliable without proof? That's how you should conclude an article with some hand wavy technical jargon.
Getting my sci-fi hat on here but, it would in theory be easier for them to pool their money together and buy / build their own spaceship. Of course, this assumes that each ship is its own political entity; in practice, we'll probably see the equivalent of countries and states but in space, spanning territories and jurisdictions that span multiple habitats.
I rather like Cypher, easy to get into with the (node)-[edge]->(node) construction, difficult in the middle (until you realise that WITH is very different to SQL's), then a delight. Gremlin, so they let Java's horrible camelCase leak into their syntax? Oh my ...
> “You and I are quantum systems. The particles in our body obey quantum physics. But, if you try to compute what happens with all of the atoms in our body, you cannot do it on a regular computer,” Nichol says. “A quantum computer could easily do this.”­­­

That sounds too good to be true.
> Contagion implies the user has no control once "infected"

No, it doesn't. Regular physical contagions leave the victim agency in treatments, lifestyle habits that improve/worsen prognosis, etc., much as you describe for the proposed emotional contagion. And are often worse in practice than they would be in a world of ideal people because people make suboptimal use of their agency, just as you describe is the case for the proposed emotional contagion.

So, I'd say the metaphor is reasonable.
so, if any junior software engineer is looking at this comment : the rule is that users aren't stupid. Your software most likely is, and that's probably because you made the wrong assumptions about human beings.
I see, thanks. I know the NetBSD guys are still working on their sparc64 port.
> Soon I’m going to have to say enough is enough, and push the coronavirus into a corner of my mind so I can have room to think about other things again.

I'm in the same boat. I'm not particularly worried about the coronavirus, but I spent too many hours discussing and looking for information.
We have one project under a don't touch policy. Sure it is probably the most stable project because no features are getting added but it is also becoming a maintenance nightmare the longer we accumulate interest on our technical debt. There is a version 2 planned that will add a lot more features and I'm sure we will spend the first weeks on upgrading the libraries it is using because they are a major version or two behind.
The allure of startup culture has always been the chance to get rich like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos - "changing the world" is just hype. Most startups are just schemes to make the founders as rich as possible as fast as possible, with no real intent of ever delivering a product or service to market that actually makes a profit.
We have 2 levels of prices:

-- per project, no matter how many teammates involved into documenting stuff

-- per user, if you're quite big org and have lot's of colleagues and lots of repos/projects.

If your entire team saves at least one hour per month searching for information or finding answers in knowledge bases, then this costs more than your expenses on Nots.

We're a self-funding startup and not going to sell your data to G or Microsoft. We're working hard on new integrations and new plugins. Especially for vim, as I'm also a vim user since early 2000s.

But if GSuite+GitHub+ZenHub entirely fit your needs, you can quickly find documentation for the code you're working on right now, and they give you the document relevance info, then I'm the first person who will advise you use this stack. Because our main goal is to make engineers more productive, probably with our tool. And certainly to keep documentation up-to-date :-)
Those jobs didn't come back onshore
Risking everything: where the EU’s white paper on AI falls short
> How did software get so reliable without proof?

Because most software is just moving data from one place to another, combined with some very simple business logic.
I had a great-grandmother from rural Moldova. She spoke Vlach, Bulgarian and Russian.

Speaking three languages is not a big deal when you live in a village where everyone else speaks them.
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I’m pretty sure they hate the ads even more than you do. But margins in publishing are thin, and often negative. Nobody is earning money in that business, yet people are inventing this scenario of exploitation to have something to point to when they need to justify their acts to others or themselves.

Google ran a trial to let you opt out of ads and pay the difference, exactly what people in these online discussions have always proclaimed to be waiting for.

They got around a hundred takers. Turns out, nobody is willing to pay what it actually costs to produce the content they want to read.

Local journalism is already dead in many regions, and there’s a study out there showing that corruption tends to increase in these cities, costing several times as much as the local paper ever did, not even including the non-monetary damages of the hollowing out of society.
> Also, the ability to do rolling restarts and no downtime upgrades by running multiple versions in parallel adds a lot of work and complexity.

You don't need (micro)services to do upgrades without downtime. You just need a couple of load-balanced servers instead of one, and some planning to be sure that the two versions can coexists for some time.

This can be a bit tricky until you get used to it, but depending on the company and the customers it can be even easier than organizing a maintenance window.
It's only a matter of time I think before subreddits and / or moderators are replaced by sales / marketing representatives. It's probably already the case in e.g. the political subreddits.

Always investigate who is behind a statement that advises you one way or another.
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>People incentivised by karma systems seem to create better information sources than when they’re incentivised by money.

People are incentivized by karma to create popular advice. Sometimes this overlaps with good or better advice but not always.

Anyone who's got in depth knowledge of any particular field has probably seen this in action when that field comes up.

In my observation detail/nuance and ability to accurately handle non-typical situations tend to promptly go out the window when you try to start making advice on anything complex popular.
What is the water above? A thick cloud? I see, so the clouds dissipated and revealed the sun, moon, day and night with it. Is that correct?
Why is there only one up-vote to give? Being a Solo-founder myself, you are so right.

My, and as soon as the business can sustain another person our, goal is helathy growth to a sustainable levelwhere we can oneday employ an handfull of people so we don't have to do everything our selves. So one of the most important metrics is cash flow. Success is positive cash flow, profits and happy customers. If you ask me, that might very well be easier to achieve without VC money as you can aim lower with a smaler chance of missing.

Agree on the anxiety and pressure part, it is still there. And since your entire runway depends on yourself maybe even more. But that you don't have a board nd investors pushing you on a course to hypergrowth.

One of the main reasons I started the company was to not have a boss anymore. So I won't replace a boss with an external investor if I can help it.

EDIT: Taking guys like Gary and people considering sleeping on factory floors to be a good idea as role models is a problem. In the first case bacause Gary is making a living of selling his message and merch online. In the second case because it indicates grave mistakes happened a long time ago.
Can you list some of those better options? Just curious what you use.
> he's not a believer in social mobility in Korea

> it's impossible for basement dwellers to make it to nice mansions

Did we watch the same movie? The contrast between two families depicted on screen, their woth ethic and simple human morals is so stark that it seems even more right-wing than I am. I don't believe that there's a social justice to be achieved in society as a whole, but as you watch the movie (especially the later part), I can't imagine how could you possibly sympathize with the poor family.
How can 20k euros buy a phone? I doesn't make any sense, unless it already exists and this is "only" a branding effort. The kickstarter mentions Gigaset, do they have a ready Ubuntu Phone already?
It really affects me every year. My grades went down after the switch.

As long as we are not just able to gradually transition I prefer to get rid of it and I'm quite happy that it's going to happen.

Nonetheless if sun goes down at 4 instead of 5 I wouldn't feel any issue with it. Winter is dark I leave in dark and go home at dark.
New categories of software are created every single day. Things like databases, compilers, filesystems that belong to the well known categories are all rock solid compared to your average iPhone or Android app whose app stores have existed for slightly more than a decade.
It's more like storage isn't the driving factor of the costs. At low end, you'll have some fixed per-user costs; as you go from mid to high end, you may enjoy some economies of scale yourself, and you may want to pass some of those savings on to your customers.
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You can see group consensus even when it doesn't exist. Reddit's upvote/downvote system does a very good job of fudging consensus on issues where you've got 49.9 one way and 50.1 the other.
/r/wallstreetbets is to finance as Gwyneth Paltrow and Goop are to professional, rigorously scientific medical advice.
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> Always investigate who is behind a statement that advises you one way or another.

What would you do here, specifically?
There is a right approach for everything, That is the "Warehouse/Workshop Model" commonly used in industry.
Enable software to be produced like integrated circuits.

https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow
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>ADHD is present from birth and cannot develop as the result of trauma.

How do you test a newborn for ADHD?

If you can’t, how can you say it is present from birth?
> If I take a photo outside and you happen to be in it then thats legal.

In the U.S. Other countries, however, have decided that private individuals should not be subjected to having their face stored in a permanent record without their consent. Thus the photographer is required to take the extra step of anonymizing the photo (e.g. by blurring faces) before publishing.
I'm struggling to reconcile "Linux-ready" in the title and this blurb in the article body:

MediaTek Helio P24 SoC is not one of the
most easily hackable, and its Taiwanese
manufacturer is not exactly famous for
releasing kernel sources.
It only takes one bit flip or a single typo to break your program. It only takes a single incorrectly wired transistor in your CPU and it all comes crashing down. Yet somehow it keeps working. The answer is that making decently reliable software is easier than you think.
The Gig Economy Has Never Been Tested by a Pandemic
Blaming engineers for what is essentially a political issue will not solve the problem. There will always be smart people willing to work for either a lot of money or in the name of national defense.

If you want a change, work on and fix the political system. Get laws passed that will prevent this, and get oversight put in place that would prevent the under-the-table surveillance that seems to be more and more previlant.
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Oh the number of applications which had (and still have) a File menu when they don't really do anything with files...
I've noticed that when creating a large, dynamic, multi-tab form, the labels and help texts can get in the way of actually viewing the actual entered information in the form. It's actually pretty tricky to come up with technical solutions where the labels are initially very clear up front, when people are adding data, but disappear in the background when most of the information has been entered so the actual contents can get most of the visual focus.

It's easy to show in detail how a big, friendly and accessible label makes a field more usable, but in the context of a large, complex form, the overview of the form structure and completeness of the data already entered are also important. Too prominent labels and too much help text can distract significantly, also for those who are visually impaired or are relying on screen readers.

My conclusion is that some form of two-phase, view/edit approach seems to work best for large forms. Labels and help are minimal by default, but the parts or "blocks" the user is actively editing gets more help and meta information added while it has the focus.
I had the same thinking. It feels like a desperate attempt to draw more money into the campaign with a "success story"

I wish them good luck though, I wouldn't want them to fail.
Just one clarification about this: As stated before in these comments, JPEG XL includes brunsli, so JPEG XL allows for byte exact transport of the original JPEG file (with -22 % in size). This can be practical for example for file system replication or for long term storage of a lot of original JPEGs. The other, non-brunsli JPEG XL modes can do pixel exact, but byte exact can be more appealing for some use cases.
Would you say that a typical web-browser (a complicated piece of software) always sees the same kind of input?
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I think the point here is as soon as any “guru” is brought out of his / her superior and acknowledged niche expertise, the universal, human frailty prevails and coronavirus is the plague of today. Keep well, folks (and every man for himself).
Quite a diverse range of topics for pg from politics to epidemiology. Interesting to see that juxtaposition between his ultra-capitalist viewpoints with his isolationist stance on coronavirus. The latter comes across to me as a little out of touch with both the disease and his risk factors compared to the general population. To me the wealthy retired have a responsibility to be educated yet critical on current events such as coronavirus.
We put a kitchen Aid blender on our wedding list almost 4 years ago. It's costly but rock solid, near if not industrial grade. I only wish I'd bought one years ago instead of buying and disposing of cheaper brands that don't last. (Penny-wise pound foolish I was.)
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"We have already invested in a prototype community port of Sailfish OS and Ubuntu Touch"
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It looks to be like rebranded Gigaset GS290... They put their logo on the case and install some other OS for you and sell it for 50€ more than the original one...
Used it several times, it's reliable.
It is technically false. Quantum computers do not add computing capabilities, they are still a Turing machine.

However, in practice, they could solve some problems that would take too long for a electronic computer. That is, if we manage to build a universal quantum computer with a big enough working set, which for the moment we don't and we aren't near that point either.
A text field following the Material Design specification.

If you don't know what it is, you probably aren't going to accidentally use them, and aren't a target of the advice, since you would probably have to either read the spec or adopt a library that waves around being an implementation of the spec to do it.

The term is well-known and understood by the intended audience.
I thought "the other half" was the rich! I guess this is looking at things in reverse
Any information around the code: short text or link on what code does. The bigger technical specification in markdown. PDFs/images/GDocs that describe why code looks the way it looks.

You're using some non-standard language feature -- document! Choosing a library over its competitor -- leave a note! Re-writing or re-implementing a module, making some tradeoffs in code, dropping an existing feature -- all this should be saved in docs. For the future-you, for your colleagues, for the newcomers, for teammates who work remotely.

We make this internal "tribal knowledge" to be accessible for anybody in the team in a couple of clicks.
I suppose you learned about category theory through Haskell? I did, and I was wondering the same question as you. After doing some investigation and looking what others say, it turned out that "real" category theory is only loosely related to Haskell, and isn't necessary to understand it to work in Haskell. I then didn't go deeper down that rabbit hole :D.

But, from my experience, already learning Haskell would improve ones programming skills, especially if you haven't been exposed to the functional programming before. It is really a mind-changer and equips you with new perspectives which you can use in other programming languages as well.

So I would definitely recommend investigating Haskell, and maybe after some time you can then also go into the actual Category Theory and see how it connects to your Haskell knowledge.
I'm sceptical.

From my knowledge of the phone industry, and one of out past client's venture into it, the minimal viable budget for a cellphone project is $1M these days on the low side.

- MOQs of all truly essential assemblies are huge: high-end PCBs, custom made camera modules, custom cut LCD/OLED cells, antenna-body integrated assemblies

- RnD is long and torturous, even without Android atrocity: RF-tuning for high perf wireless, tiny high density PCBs development, lots of prototyping for bodywork and LCD assemblies

- SCM challenges are monumental even for factories in South China: constant shortages and high lead times of speciality passives, time spent waiting for parts, while burning money, logistics to and from module integrators...

Smartphones are becoming like jet engines: while parts count in general go down per unit of functionality, and they become simpler for non-IC parts of the design, very few can make them competitively as the supply chain gets longer, and 3rd parties are now taking bigger and bigger cuts with each year.
The description says "referer set to Google", meaning it's just disguising you as someone who clicked on a Google search result.

This begs the question if altering your browser's User-Agent is theft since some sites actually alter their prices depending on which browser or OS you use it on. Like, if a Mac/Safari user is expected to pay $99, but your Windows/Chrome User-Agent gets you a $89 deal, are you stealing $10?
I can’t help but question what he’s actually learned when his links don’t actually explain a topic. He says he learned about mega backdoor IRAs, but then links to a thread about regular backdoor IRAs. I’m not sure he does know what differentiates a “mega” from a regular backdoor.
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Please don't use code blocks to quote text, it's very hard to read on mobile and narrow viewports.
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