skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I'm in total agreement - a lot of unicorns are just "normal companies" with VC cash behind them. But a lot of unicorns actually do something really cool. SpaceX, DJI, Ginkgo Bioworks, etc. Then there are a bunch that started great but went off course, like Vice and Reddit...

But Germany really perplexes me.

For the first five decades of the prize's existence, Germany literally had the majority (!) of the world's Nobel laureates. Germans invented the computer, modern telecommunication, the x-ray, the printing press... they discovered everything from testosterone to continental drift to nuclear fission!

It's not like innovation stopped since WW2 either (which I see people say occasionally) - just since the 80s they've discovered six (!) elements, created the first genetically modified animal, the SIM card, SMS, MP3, the scanning tunneling microscope...

They have money, they have an educated population - but in this new world of startups they don't seem to be getting anywhere. Why?
In the US.

In the EU local bankcards are used much more than CC and these are not mined.

In NL shops are prohibited to build customer profiles based on their purchase history.
Claim language such as "determining foo based on x, y, and y" is leaving the door open for a judge to interpret the limitation as requiring "x, y, AND z"

Better language (assuming it is how the thing works) is:
"determining foo based on one or more of x, y, or z"

The strange language in claims (and patents in general) is a response to litigation. Good patent prosecutors (the patent attorneys that draft patents) watch court cases and adjust their claim language accordingly.

Good patent litigators try to tear up or dissect the claim language (as well as everything else...). So patent prosecutors should draft with an eye toward litigation and include language that inoculates a patent from common or obvious attacks.
So, you don't use open("w"), do you ? You use the non magic open(os.O_WRONLY) of course.

Because magic strings are bad.
It's two things, maybe he has an enemy.

Or a slightly more likely he's a crazy old man who's got a few wrong orders. As you can tell by the fact his friend has as well.

Explains why no blacklist or why no police helping after 9 years.

There's no default value going on here. No one here ever wrote a web form or used a map? Try and understand the Appp map Las Vegas issue, don't just rote learn it.
> This includes things such as cross-border activity (logging in from a foreign ip) to using a VPN.

This is a thing? I don’t get the point of reporting cross border logins. Cross border transactions makes sense, but what’s so nefarious about me paying my water bill while in Mexico?
> Similarly, I've heard of HVAC systems that just use city water for cooling. It comes in cold, dump heat into it and let it run down the drain.

Whether or not that's wasteful really depends on where exactly it's happening. If the city water is being pumped out of a fossil aquifer, that's obviously a problem. If the water is coming out of a reservoir with abundant supply, the water being "used" is merely taking a slight detour from what it would otherwise do ("river→reservoir→hvac→river→ocean" rather than "river→ocean".) There could be some energy losses in the pumping and processing of the water, depending on where it's happening, but that's not the water itself being wasted.
I use your site!
We're using 50 year old UX paradigms. Nothing has significantly improved after Engelbart.
Why not incorporate somewhere that's not CA?
Yeah, but it looks ugly, too much space between the items.
People have, I gather, but have not been banned - but it could be she's a special case, her contention appears to be her account was being closely monitored -- I think she's pitching the idea that WeChat is so integrated with CCP that they even allow them access to your plaintext password.

I'm not sure we can determine the verity of it.
I find the lack of conversation deafening but it makes sense. The people most affected are underrepresented in tech.

1a: A police officer in Florida pulled my wife over for speeding. We were 100% cooperative but I guess the PO assumed I was an illegal. I was belittled and screamed at to follow conflicting orders while a gun was pointed at me and my family. That was the first interaction my 5 yo daughter had with a police officer too.

1b: A white peer in college said I should go back to work with my Mexican buddies at some factory.

... many many more

2: IMO, we probably live in the least racist environment ever and racism will never go away completely. It can’t be eradicated but racism on its own is not the main problem.

The main issue is the excessive use of force by law enforcement, usually towards POC, and their lack of accountability (If we can solve this LE problem, all that will be left are the annoying Karens and petty ignorant people. These encounters still hurt but we live)

So what’s fueling all the outrage?

- law enforcement. Brutality against POC and anyone who stands in their way.

- social media. Yeah, it’s making racism and police brutality more visible but it's not a bad thing.

- politics. you know who

- right-wing media

TBH, I don’t even think LE is disproportionately racist. They are about as racist as the normal population but rouge POs have a lot of power. A racist with a badge can cause a lot of damage and the gang-like attitude of PDs doesn’t help either.

It all starts with one officer who has a disproportionate level of animosity towards a certain neighborhood or group of people. Then his buddies come along and escalate the situation.

3: There is plenty we can do

Society:

- Education. Pay teachers more than POs.

- A renewed appreciation for the 2nd amendment by the left (it’s clear gun owners command a higher level of respect)

- Stop chastising POC for speaking out against injustices

Law Enforcement

- Respect for all humans

- mandatory licensing & college education

- malpractice insurance (or something like it)

- mandatory counseling and anger management

- allow the community to videotape all incidents

- public profiles for all POs that includes all their career history

- live streaming of all police encounters along with all footage being part of the public domain.

- Monthly town halls with the local PD

- End self-policing
Ycombinator allows its own companies (companies they invested in) to run these special submissions, via an internal tool I think, at no cost. Explained in "Can I post a job ad?", second paragraph in the FAQ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html It's been like this for years.
It can be viewed as a kind of affirmative action. It’s a contested area but I don’t see Uber convicted over it but even if they were, I wouldn’t call it straightforward, but rather unclear.
That's not what I meant to ask, just the visibilty of those artificial poles all around.

Regarding the fireflies. Not sure, think about 5 to 6 years ago maybe, and in about the same interval in the times before that. They are uncommon here, or have been on their path to extinction back from my early childhood.

Back to your question: There are ways to make them less polluting, by ensuring they only illuminate what should be illuminated, by using the right spectrum, by switching them on demand only, and so on.

I'm very aware of that aspect. But again, that's not what i meant to ask.
'Arbitration 2.0': Inside the secretive legal battle dividing Silicon Valley
You may be underestimating the make your own luck part of the equation.
I tried making a spectrogram: https://twitter.com/nibot/status/1269347206445756416

I tried using baudline[1] (a 20-year-old program!) but it didn't work out-of-the-box on my current Linux installation. Instead I found something called Sonic Visualizer[2], which, while not real-time, worked out of the box. Using Pulse Audio 'pavucontrol' it was easy to configure Sonic Visualizer to use as its input the 'monitor' channel, i.e. capturing the audio while the video played on Twitter.

I'd love to get baudline working again since it's able to run in realtime.

It looks like the main tone is at 440 Hz and tones at 400 and 480 Hz come and go. Not sure what to conclude from this. :-)

[1]: http://www.baudline.com/

[2]: https://www.sonicvisualiser.org/
Enjoyed this article from the same blog, about dropping out:

https://www.meta-nomad.net/category/collapse/
How Snowflake is challenging the cloud-native database giants
Please help me. Maybe this is the right place to ask regarding this: How can I send money to a debit or credit card?

Yes. I do not want to charge the card, not reimburse a charge, no, I want to send money to a credit card or debit card. I need this as a solution for a business.

It can't be so hard. If you ever got your VAT/Sales tax reimbursed in Europe (e.g. via this service provider: https://www.globalblue.com/ ) you know what I mean. It does not require you to have bought the goods with a credit card. They just send you the credit to your card that your provide.

How can I do this?
Source? His website certainly doesn't mention it. When I search for Shaye Marie Bear, the woman in the case you're talking about, Barnes does not show up.
Thank you!

Can someone please explain how is the dual license work? Should there be any differentiation in the product, for example, community edition vs enterprise edition?

Also, how is the sponsorship work? For example, OBS Studio has Facebook and Twitch as sponsors.
Yes, exactly, I simplified it a bit for the limited space here. Basically C ~ B * SINR where B is the amount of spectrum and C is capacity. The reason mm-wave yields such whopping throughputs is 1. space diversity, that is, each user gets a beam 2. the dedicated beam means that one site is not interfering with it's neighbor (co-channel interference) . So if you can control the RF into a tight beam, the SINR is greatly improved. So it boosts both B because not you are not sharing B you get all the B available to the carrier in your beam and SINR is greatly improved because your beam is not being interfered with by other cell sites.

You can not, unfortunately, modulate an infinite number of bits in practical implementations. The more QAM point require higher SINR to resolve. You can't have infinite SINR or Infinite Spectrum. Say you have 100Mhz of spectrum, in low band you are sharing it with others but also getting interfered by neighboring sites particularly at the cell edge.
CloudFlare does not charge for bandwidth? Their paid plans used to start somewhere around $2000.

Colocation providers charge hundreds of dollars to have an (allegedly) unmetered 100 Mbps network link.

AWS charges network usage per GB. It's the same flat number if you use half the capacity half the time or so.

What do all providers have in common? They charge enough to cover the costs of providing the service and make a profit.
Ha, it wasn't. It brings up an interesting point, though. Even though I'd scan and manipulate the original vows, I still feel that's a bit more special than simply re-writing them.
>"After the initial announcement and code drop last year, the Libra name has been dragged through the mud by the press due to the project’s complete disdain for compliance and their bizarre code drop."

Could someone who is familiar with this event say what was actually "bizarre" about the way the code was delivered?
I’ve heard of worse things happening to people
Brave’s browser has been autocompleting websites with referral codes
Law Enforcement’s “Warrior” Problem (2015)
I highly recommend looking at Fedora. I used Ubuntu for years and put up with obnoxious things. I took a job where the deployment target was RHEL so most devs used Fedora. There was a bit to learn (such as apt v. yum) but overall thinks pretty much "just work" if you are using Fedora Workstation. If you don't want Gnome there are spins available and most are pretty solid, but if you really want a "just works" go with the official Workstation.
Let me know if you're interested in having an East Coast facility!
From what I've seen, the former also seems to heavily spam Craigslist et al "buying locked phones and for parts phones" and "won't ask where you got them, imei reported lost stolen ok" and the latter quite commonly sells it to them for quick, below market, cash.
You mean the physical plastic cards? Some newer phone support https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESIM or a combination of SIM and eSIM. Lost is quickly moving the card from one device to another, or swapping when travelling.
That you should take a tuning fork to the bridge and listen for beats?
Is it free for merchants?
It's the astronaut's skin color in Kerbal Space Program.
[my standard unpopular answer]

CS is hard for everyone. There are no easy parts. Even for Knuth who has been writing The Art of Computer Programming for almost sixty years. It was started when everybody was self taught. It is still for self-teaching. Even for people with degrees. Even if that degree is a PhD.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying "don't use anything else." But TAoCP is the backbone of everything else. It's all the messy details and the messy details matter a big part of the time. It is good to be fearful of the messy details. It is bad to be afraid of them.

Good luck.
care to share those tips about investing?
If you were flagged, that was most likely by regular users, not moderators.

The issue with the comment above is that it was (a) a personal attack and (b) fulminating.
Great accomplishments often require certain sacrifices.
Someone posted: "why do we need this?" By the time I was done writing my reply, they deleted their comment and HN wouldn't let me reply. But here is my reply:

The demand comes from the fact that the vast majority of the world uses a cell phone as their primary computer. Paying for the Internet twice is a luxury they cannot afford. So it makes sense that the phone companies want to serve them. There is a fixed amount of spectrum available at lower frequencies that can travel longer distances, and we've used all that. So now the idea is to exploit higher frequencies where more bandwidth is available, but the trade-off is that the signals don't travel as far (attenuation by building surfaces, and even the air itself). So access points have to be closer together.

The reality is that WiFi has never worked very well. Bandwidth is allocated poorly, mostly by accident. (Claiming there are 11 channels at 2.4GHz was a big lie that cost us dearly. Bad defaults at 5GHz led people to believe it was attenuated by walls, which it really isn't -- APs just chose channels that they were only allowed to use at lower power than the 2.4GHz channels.) Any time you've seen WiFi working well involves careful site surveys and complicated software that coordinates access over a backhaul (usually wired for the ones that work, but dual radio APs that use wireless backhaul appear to work in the lab -- nobody that I know of is selling them though). 5G is basically that, but owned by the incumbent carriers instead of individuals. They can coordinate access and steer devices to the right AP, which is the #1 thing that makes short-haul radio links reliable. I agree that the circumstances suck, but funding hardware R&D has to be paid for by someone. If you want to start a company to make a peer-to-peer radio network, I say go for it. People are interested. The hardware exists. But I think you'll find that to make money, you're going to have to charge people for access, and probably provide some sort of fallback to 4G/3G for people that are out of your service area. Guess who can provide that? The incumbents. So that's why they're doing it.

It's not all bad, though. Someone has to provide backhaul for the APs, and they're often fiber. So fiber is not going away, and the technology will not stop being developed. It is likely that the fiber ISP that sells service to the cell phone companies will also be happy to sell it to you. It really comes down to how easy it is to lay the fiber to your location. In some cities, they built subways under every street for power and Internet (Manhattan has a huge network). In environments like that, it's easy for anyone to sell you a connection. I worked for an ISP that did exactly that, and it was great. The biggest barrier we had was buildings wanting to charge the ISP to provide service to the building. That isn't profitable for the ISP, so they simply say they can't serve you.

My TL;DR is: encourage your municipality to make it easy to provide fiber to your location, and someone will. You can buy the necessary equipment to start a fiber ISP with a credit card. I say go for it.
So disapointed this isn't about building a tall building at a super remote site on antarctica or something like that :(
Curated list, How to make sales for B2B startups
Governors, WTF?
I commented elsewhere about an East Coast presence... your comment above has me thinking about CBD infusion options, too.

Something I'm very familiar with for treating older woofs in pain, and spazzy "I hate the vet" woofs, haha! Hope to hear from you.
It is also possible that they generate the sound of the same frequency, but coming from multiple sources it can compound in some areas to be louder than elsewhere - and those areas could change with the direction of the wind.

This is purely speculation from my side of course, as I've never been there.
That's a false dichotomy because LINE does end-to-end encryption.
That’s amazing, thanks for the share! I’m one of today’s lucky 10,000.
Holy cow, this happened at -O1. This doesn't seem like the sort of optimization that should be possible at such a low level. I've run into plenty of trouble with higher level optimization flags in compilers before, but this is wild.
Golemiprague, you're shadowbanned, but you can watch the full 16 minutes of this video to get a feeling for the tip of the iceberg of this issue: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Byk2axDVNHE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_George_Floyd

This isn't just "police brutality".

> Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes while he was lying face down handcuffed on the street. Two other officers further restrained Floyd and a fourth officer prevented onlookers from intervening. Floyd, who was being arrested on suspicion of using a counterfeit bill at a nearby market, begged for his life, repeatedly telling officers "I can't breathe". During the final three minutes Floyd was motionless and had no pulse. While the onlookers repeatedly pleaded to let Floyd go, officers made no attempt to revive him, and Chauvin's knee remained on his neck even as emergency medical technicians attempted to treat him.

This is cold blooded murder by someone who thinks he should be untouchable. Just like the wanton brutality you see in the video above emanates from such people. Their pathology is one ingredient, the others are technology and special privileges.

If you consider yourself an intellectual, someone who values ideas over raw power and brutality, you must stand against it, simple as that. That's not "getting crazy", that's having a backbone as well as intellectual integrity. Unless you yourself would accept a boot to the neck as an argument against anything you might say in any situation someone else might dislike what you say, then you cannot be silent as others are treated this way. None of this should even need saying.
> why I’ve chosen to just stick with a standard, widely-used desktop OS..., and use almost all the default settings, adapting to the defaults over the years.

I strongly agree! It saves me time and decreases the number of incompatibilities I have to deal with. Not every program gets this treatment, but as much as possible i try not to change the defaults, especially with the OS.

A colleague also persuaded me that statically linking my binaries was the best long term approach. I started out thinking he was crazy but no, he was right.
I created https://markdownshare.com/ for the same purpose; but due to abuse I've retired it.

Shame really, because I liked the service and it was quick/simple to build.
Want to open an account at the central bank? I'll pass, thanks
Alas, the US seems to care little about the lives of people who live near the expressways.
I discovered a distant relative in Ireland because he signed up for job alerts with my email address. Fortunately one of them sent the offer that had his resume embedded in it, so I called him and we had a chat, five minutes later I'm speaking to his 81 year old Nan about her grandfather's brother who moved to Australia.

I've also received Amazon gift cards on the US Father's day. I emailed Amazon every time saying it's a mistake and they should refund it, but they refuse to because the recipient isn't allowed to refuse the gift card only the orderer can change the order.
You might slightly misunderstand what 5G is because all everybody talks is mm Waves.

5G spectrum covers low-band and-mid band spectrum from 1G through 4G LTE frequencies. Then there is this new high-band. First 5G installations are deployed into new high-band.

5G installations in countryside will be low band that is more efficient than 4G/LTE. You can have _less_ base stations than LTE, not more in the low-band. 5G NR is more efficient radio interface in all bandwidths.
There are two books. Only one is available in the print version. The other one may be available in print soon.

The one that is available in print just arrived in my mail but I have not read it.
yes but the difference if that you hear the sound a couple of times per day vs continuously
Right, but the end state of all that is "neuron fires" or "neuron doesn't fire", or at best "neuron fires n times per second" - a binary state.
The contrib directory is used as an unorganized (or, at best, lightly organized) bin of various useful things contributed by the community around the software, but which is not necessarily a good candidate for being a proper part of the software

I think this only works with the caveat that the core code is so well-designed that the user is capable of mixing contrib APIs with core APIs without requiring action on part of core developers.

For instance, TensorFlow v1 had a contrib directory that encouraged a lot of internal contributions and features to be added. This was initially quite nice due to the "batteries included" argument. However, the success of TF quickly resulted in a lot of bloat being added. There were competing ways to do the same thing within the default TF installation, and the worst part was that users expected contrib features to be interoperable with all other contrib features and core TF.