skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for taking the time to bring my attention to it.
Ask HN: Google Engineering residency transition time?
I was wondering if anyone knows how early in the Residency would you be able to transition from fixed term to full time? I know it’s a 12-month program but I’ve heard that people could transition in 6 months. I wanted to know if that’s true. It’d help a lot with my immigration situation if I was able to transition sooner
https://timeshift.xkozn.co/

This allows you change the start time of a Strava (Garmin, etc.) activity. Useful for WFH situations where you really just want a nice midday run or bike, but don't want to deal with the potential judgement from coworkers who follow you. Might be overthinking things, but oh well :)
There's a scene like that in the 2003 version of Zatoichi. But it's with manual construction equipment, so the musicality is rhythmic rather than harmonic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk4oGCPGXz4
Another thing that's undocumented is that comments can be "detached" from a post. The comment isn't deleted, but is removed from view, so the participants can continue having a conversation but that thread is no longer discoverable from the post that spawned the discussion.
Scala missed its chance for hegemony when it changed to Java 8-only bytecode and couldn't be used on Android for several years. Then Kotlin came along and took that niche, eventually growing beyond it.
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That's a good question... the last couple of LLCs that I've formed have been for businesses that are clearly operating in CA (one was for real estate here and the other for a local service company) and thus require the LLC there. Since I'm selling to the whole US here, maybe it is a better option... I will look into it.
HN is a very lean operation and there is significant ongoing overhead cost to open sourcing software that often isn't fully appreciated, it isn't free. They may simply be directing limited resources to higher priorities.

I know many cases of software that was not made open source solely because it would require a substantial resource investment as a practical matter.
Thanks for posting this. I've been an avid reader of HN for years (with a few modest/minor submissions). I had no idea about a substantial amount of this... I wonder how much is commonly known in the community?
And you can always use user.css to adjust per site CSS to your preference. I use it for a few sites; there are addons that facilitate it, but I've never bothered.
But it isn't methane either, mostly. And we're talking about very small amounts.
Blunt is somewhere between direct and bullish. When you're a bit too eager to be direct, a bit too happy to give someone your unsalted opinion, like to step on or over peoples comfort zones perhaps a bit too much, a bit too proud of yourself for not being sensitive at all.

It can be subtle, it can be clear as day, but the pattern is 'I'm telling it like it is' attitude without considering anything else. Turns our you very often can consider something else while being direct.
It's up to you, you can use Flux if you're at the stage where you want to create a CD pipeline. Failing that - yes you can generate YAML with arkade and have that generated in a CI stage.
Where besides the US do you see gang violence making cities deadlier than a warzone? The militarization of police seems to be a function of adapting to the job they're responsible for.
and companies, all very techy, and none of it is free market

Whoa - sorry but that just isn’t true. Other than Huawei which is a Trojan horse for Chinese intelligence services, none of the dynamism in the Chinese economy is happening in state owned companies. NONE! Look at Tencent or Alibaba or Xiaomi or DJI or any of the big Chinese tech leaders. Or look at SMIC - they guys ASML we’re going to make that big sale to! NONE of these are state owned firms. If you seriously think that any of what’s happening now in China is any kind of a counterpoint to the abject failure of the planned economy, I can’t help you.

Maybe Gaia-X will be a success - but it is as I said - making a successful venture is always against the odds. But private industry will realize that sooner and waste less capital on failures. Public funding takes years past clear failure to turn off the money spigot. Good luck!
Not sure if that is a compliment or an insult ;)
A History of Merchant Acquiring
I've learned a lot from 1-off tutorials I saw on HN first.

Could that reflect survivor bias (among all tutorials)?
Ah, so it's an absolute beast of a machine! I thought your response might have been pointing to additional efficiency in new hardware, but it's more that you have more powerful hardware.
Wow. I went online and found an audio recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=12&v=CPUs2KnAyhU...

Yup, the tone at 0:08 is pretty much the exact tone I heard. Mind-blowing. Never would have imagined that's what a fog horn sounded like. I expected them to all be much deeper tones like the ones that come a few seconds later. I guess there must be weird acoustic qualities that make only the higher toned ones carry into Nob Hill.
I get woken up once a week by a sound similar to the one the Golden Gate Bridge is making. It starts around 4am, except it comes in short pulses. I recently figured out it was the breaks on the garbage truck that services my neighbourhood. They make a really loud high pitch hum every time it stops, and when the truck isn’t particularly close by, you can’t hear the rest of the truck sounds, but you can hear that hum very loudly.

The local council didn’t really care when I told them. It doesn’t bother me too much because I get up quite early anyhow, but I imagine this truck would manage to bother a rather large number of people every week. I wonder if the sound will go away next time it’s serviced.
At the moment I'm buying #10 cans (which are like 3 quarts I believe), though obviously I'll try to scale that up if sales merit it.
Irrelevant nitpick: I believe the saying you’re after is ”going the way of the dodo”, referring to the fact that dodo birds are extinct. Cuckoos are still extant.

Although you can also ”go cuckoo”, as in crazy.
Absolutely. I discourage cyclic, but dag is ok. It can be hard to write a downstream chapter (and keep the plot consistent) when there are two upstream paths, so we don't do it a lot, but we have a few examples. I think in our current story of about 110 chapters, we have three crosslinks, and two of them have a major impact on the story. I wrote a pretty snazzy react/cytoscape thing to visualize and explore the maps.
Why don't big companies lobby for better patent laws then?
I appreciate the offer, but I think I am quite a ways away from that at this point :)
How Police Unions Became Such Powerful Opponents to Reform Efforts
Better approach is to educate people. You're never going to stop the momentum of the free market.
I think mfg usually stands for manufacturing. So it seems he's talking about manufacturingers. Not sure what the difference is between that and manufacturer though.
There is a PR that fixes it for 3.7, it needs review: https://github.com/saitoha/PySixel/pull/5
Is there a way to make Chrome ask permission before allowing a site to utilize WebRTC?

Similar to how you can make it prompt to store Cookies, provide Location, use the Camera/Mic, etc.
Oh hey, I get it. That wasn't the point of the parent to which I was responding, though. I was merely trying to share that snaps are just as useful for server as for desktop, that's all.
>The mm-wave signal is safer than wifi.

This is completely not true, and the foregoing article ignores numerous aspects of the potential health concerns of millimeter wave radiation in the 95Ghz area of the spectrum.

1) 95Ghz millimeter wave provably and without question has the potential for adverse affects on human tissue. Active Denial Systems (https://jnlwp.defense.gov/About/Frequently-Asked-Questions/A... for example) use 95Mhz directed energy for so-called Non Lethal Weapons technology. This is not complex.

2) Based on poor signal propagation and inability to permeate through common materials used in most building construction, 95Ghz picocells are being deployed every couple hundred feet in areas with large buildings and superstructures. This is not something that can be opted out of, especially in densely populated urban areas.

3) The adverse effects of electromagnetic fields on biological tissue was extensively researched by Dr. Robert Becker and documented in his published scientific research as well as his book The Body Electric. All of this information was suppressed by academia and big pharma, he proved exponentially increased cellular mitosis rates, damage to DNA, and a host of other ill effects from EM fields at powers significantly less than today's mobile telephones and WiFi access points. There is a massive profit motive associated with mobile telephony, the Federal Communication Commission is one of the only, if not the only, self-funded government agencies in the U.S. and if you've ever consulted for them it shows. Armani suits, 7 Series in the parking lot, the FCC has loads of cash from spectrum allocation auctions where they receive billions of dollars for each chunk of the spectrum they auction off for use by mobile carriers.

Millimeter wave 5G should be completely stopped in its tracks until conclusive studies have been conducted. Hundreds if not thousands of scientists at this point have signed public letters to this effect, I am really surprised this is even a 5G positive topic of discussion on YC.
I just don't feel like I'm nearly educated enough on CBD in dogs to start using that as an ingredient. I know it's become very common very quickly, but I'd have to read all the research before I could consider it.
Well... size matters. The tip of a wind turbine blade moves much faster (~25m/s, up to 80m/s in the biggest ones) than the tip of a silent computer fan (~5-6m/s, up to ~10m/s in the faster ones). You can make the blades more silent but there's a limit to what you can do when your blades move that fast and are up to 75m long. And any solution that reduces efficiency is probably a no go for manufacturers and operators.

From your links you can see that a 140mm computer fan at 1000RPM is noisier than a 120mm fan at 1200RPM. Even if the motor is quieter at the lower RPM, increasing the blade size is more than able to compensate and make it overall noisier, even with dimples and owl-wing tricks.

And it's not only the decibels that are the issue necessarily but also the frequencies which can propagate quite far and by all accounts are pretty disturbing. That low frequency hum that the blades produce by simply displacing air while they move is not a problem with a computer fan's tiny blades. And turbines come in farms.
It's not like Bill's in the lab making the vaccine himself. He's just adding funding to an existing org to improve the time to market.

I downvoted you for likely alluding to silly conspiracy theories. I'd get the shot, assuming it passes the requisite trials.
I mean, I'm literally sitting about 0.5m away from my WiFi router which supposedly can transmit at like 1.9Gbps, and that has never been any discussion. Like the author said - these waves are just so weak they aren't doing anything to your body, not now, not in a 100 years. It's not exactly rocket science.

Edit: I do agree that I literally don't see any point at all. 4G is fast enough for absolutely everything even including 4K streaming, and doesn't require a tower built on top of my house
It's much easier than that. Hardware random number generators are often based on something like a reverse-biased diode. Electrons migrate across and it's entirely random when it happens. Amplify and count them and you get a great source of entropy.
Mexico comes in mind. Interestingly it turned into a war zone after guns from the US started to show up.
There should be an app for this.

To get direction and location, you need acoustic samples from multiple widely-spaced locations, all synchronized. Human ears are not wide enough apart to directionalize low frequencies, but with a baseline of tens or hundreds of meters from separate cell phones, it's not hard. Run a correlator, line up the samples, compute the hyperbolas of constant time offset, (like GPS and LORAN) and find the target.

This needs an app with timing accurate to a millisecond or so. Can you get that from cell phones? The built-in clock synchronization isn't that good. The GPS receiver has more accurate time, but you may not be able to get at that.
Titles could actually make things worse.

Right now, if you buy a phone and it ends up on the blacklist after the return period, you can find a service that changes the IMEI or figure it out yourself if you can stand to wade through forum FUD. Since a significant number of blacklisted phones are from broken finance contracts, a phone simply being in the blacklist does not imply that it was stolen - a broken finance contract is a civil matter purely between the carrier and the original owner. Therefore, rewriting the IMEI on such a phone is completely legal, at least in the US.

Whereas if phones had titles, then a financed phone could have a legal encumbrance recorded on that title after you thought you'd bought it outright, and changing the IMEI to get out from that would be illegal. Phones are not incorporeal, immovable, expensive, or dangerous devices. Lacking all of the usual justifications for existing title systems, heading away from draconian registration makes more sense than heading towards it.
> Software isn't special.

The difference is that software is special compared to electronics, chemistry etc etc
You can't be vague in those fields but in software implementations you can as much as you want. Maybe we should start issuing patents in hairdressing as well.
Are you sure it will trigger a lot of new sales?

The average person keeps their phone for 3 years or less anyway, and 5G is being deployed over a much longer timescale.
down w/ canonical
It's the common abbreviation, but I wasn't sure as to its origin myself; the closest to a straight answer I can find is from https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=639390:

> mfg came from manufacturing; its existence meant that some people started using it for manufacturer as well; but having a g in the abbreviation without one in the word bothered people, so they added an r to make it mfgr.

This leads me to wish there was a well-researched blog for abbreviation/initialism/acronym etymologies, the way https://grammarphobia.com/ is for English word etmologies. But I guess there aren't that many of these that are in need of explanation; usually they're pretty obvious.
Experiment! How Does An Owl Fly So Silently?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_FEaFgJyfA
You might as well go straight to a CBDC run by the Federal Reserve (but even then the Fed doesn't want to upset existing banks).
A major problem I see is the idea of only one kind of social adjustment role: the uniformed police officer.

There are situations where the warrior mindset are needed. We do need people who can deal with extremely dangerous situations involving lethal force.

However, many, many situations need social workers more than they need warriors. If anything the warrior could back up their unarmed counterpart.

Why aren’t there other roles with different capabilities that work in concert with warriors?

I’m not sure it makes sense to only seek to retrain when probably a great share of existing police officers could be replaced with more effective counterparts with some of the same powers but completely different skills and assignments.

It is teams of skilled specialists that solve difficult problems, why do we have only one person to mend so much of society’s challenging circumstances?
mint is a great option, or debian imo. I've switched between debian, mint, and slackware for years now and its been a lot less overhead recently.
No, it's a fight fire with fire mentality that causes militarization. From a European perspective the lack of preventative measures could seem laughable if it wasn't so serious. Mental health for starters. Gun availability obviously too. Police here (OK, not all Police traditions do this here either) take deescalation training far more than gun training. There's a few case studies on French-Dutch comparisons in that regard that should be enlightening.

You don't need to win in a gunfight in order to win.
> it would be a lot of work to do that, and then a lot of ongoing work to maintain it and respond to requests

You could open source the code, say in a public repository that was read-only, without accepting pull requests or doing any maintenance beyond pushing to the repo whenever it seemed advisable.
The problem, as I see it, is it more or less makes Google the arbiter of the internet, and when their purpose is to provide internet advertising then I see a conflict of interest. Especially when things like "supporting AMP" will likely impact your score.

While unfortunately many businesses have to care about Google SEO due to their complete monopoly status in the search field (one that is of course growing increasingly unhealthy), I'd prefer to not let Google be an ML-driven judge, jury and executioner when it comes to being visible on the net.
I mean, the were actively asking how to better integrate it before it had gotten to the point of displaying graphics, with some mainline kernel devs questioning if it should be integrated with the graphics stack at all, and be pushed back into the hyperv side of things.

It's very clearly an RFC with an eye for "how can we better collaborate and who should we collaborate with?"

I think they need to better document and support a more opensource stack on the user side of things (maybe a vulkan or mesa targeting the WDDM ioctl interface rather than on the dx12 UAPI), but those are surmountable issues, and makes it look like the amdgpu side of the house.
To expand on this, it's tempting to dismiss those warning of doom and gloom when you start to notice a pattern of the doom never materializing.

But we should also be aware of the possibility that those warning of doom and gloom activate people's minds to severity and risk of the problem. Because more people are aware and paying attention, we collectively take action to mitigate the risk and the worst case never happens.

A great example is our response to a pandemic. The response that creates the least amount of damage might look like a major over-reaction and people will start to question those who raised alarm with such intensity.

How do we deal with this meta problem?
Culture is _the_ problem, everything stems from the culture.

Also qualified immunity only applies to civil liability, it does nothing to protect police from criminal prosecution (which still doesn't happen, because culture).
Lattice Drops EULA Clause Forbidding FPGA Bitstream Reverse Engineering
Platforms, Publishers, and Presidents [Section 230]
I've had this happen. Our boat has a separate battery for the generator, so normally if you accidentally drain the main and engine batteries, you can recharge via the generator. But during maintenance someone reset a switch that connected the generator battery to the mains without realizing it. We were in the proverbial middle of no-where - I had a 1+ hour row in my dingy to a remote camp to find someone to rescue us (jump-start the generator).

Now I never leave the dock without one of those portable car-starting batteries, completely disconnected from everything.
On the flip side, the cultural change will be very slow if police keep feeling pressured or entitled to break laws because of the warrior mentality, horribly injure or kill someone, and then get severely punished. I think that qualified immunity might be more important (because a change to that will force departments to change how they police) but it's a bit much to say that the article misses the point, especially when it was written in 2015 specifically about the "warrior mindset" not "how to end police brutality."
It's a well intentioned, although poorly thought out, way of "muting" oneself online to show solidarity with the BLM movement and to let black voices share their experiences and vital info. Instead it actually drowns them out, obfuscates useful information and turns your various timelines into endless black nothingness. Although I can see the value in hijacking social media for a moment to amplify a single message, some BLM leaders would rather it not occur for the aforementioned reasons[0].

[0] - https://twitter.com/BlairImani/status/1267706347753213955
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iirc Dwm doesn't have a "taskbar", at least by default, there's a patch for that.
What would you estimate that is? Is it the kind of thing that could be paid for with an extra $50 a phone? Ideally along with some human rights enforcement.
Why are you posting this here, where there's a high chance we wouldn't see it, instead of sending it to hn@ycombinator.com as the site guidelines ask? It seems to me that if you cared primarily about the user, as opposed to stirring up meta drama, you would do the thing that actually could help them.
Good bye HN!

Dang (HN’s mod) just asked me to be identifiable and given that’s not a good fit for me, this will be my last post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23441542
You will also never be able to educate someone who doesn't want to be educated.
“hyper-indivisualist” (atomization) surely refers to this part of the article:

> The project of atomization is the great illusory emancipatory freedom layered over an ever-constraining normality, atomization allows only for greater normality to be imposed on an individual level, away from families, groups and communes which will potentially have a sturdy and stable enough leader to disrupt the process of modernity.

Noe that I think about it, I seem to agree with you: it does seem suspect that the solutions to problems induced by atomization would not involve collaboration.
Bidi Brackets for Dummies
Spending the night hanging out with people from Syria I think they might disagree with your depiction of US cities. Measurements in mm are different than those in lbs.
...and who could forget about Milo Aukerman, of Descendents fame?
Once I received a payment via PayPal, of a few hundred dollars.

Luckily, before I needed to do anything or call PayPal, the payee realized her mistake and PayPal took the money out - they notified me. I can only imagine how freaked out the payee must have been.. ;)
They were ostensibly just getting Libra started and open to feedback from the consortium but a lot of work had already been done on the code. This is often a sign of openwashing.
Nomad is open source (or, at least, a significant subset of it is). Anyone is able to continue to improve it, even if Hashicorp is no longer paying people to work on it.
Do this worldwide and you indeed have disruption.
A blog post fills the same purpose for starting discussions except it requires a higher level of commitment by the author. Hacker News is not really a micro-blogging platform in the traditional sense, and because other alternatives exist, the higher bar appears to have some logical rationale. It creates a space somewhere between StackOverflow and Reddit for "I want to talk about X" threads. People who really want to talk about X can write a blog and submit it to HN if Reddit isn't good enough.
Who uses Venmo outside the US?
weird you picked that one, since on that wiki is the link to the wave organ in SF. Its pretty close to the Golden Gate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_Organ
If Bilgex(Bill Gates) can be trusted, why didn't he rescue Achaogen, for instance? He apparently doesn't know what's needed. Also, vaccines can only make sense if the target doesn't change all the time and the benefit is orders of magnitude higher than the possible damage.