skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know it's not good spirit, but mounting torrents into the filesystem has been done a few times already, there are many projects that do that already.

Also, it's not really advertised, but S3 can act as a torrent node: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/S3Torrent.ht...
> I don't follow the logic here.

Developers who followed the guidelines and accepted the terms will lose if the terms are changed to benefit those who aren't in it. Apps have paid the 30% fee for years - now everyone gets a free pass? Very unfair.

> If Hey was funded by shovelware ads it would have been approved by Apple. Instead it's funded by a $99 subscription, which the developer refused to give $32 of to Apple, so it was rejected.

If you want to be listed on Amazon, you sell, you pay a fee. This is true of any storefront. You don't want to pay fees you can use CraigsList, and Hey can do some SEO and market in other ways.

It's unfair that Hey tries to work around the system that other apps have had to go through. The entitlement is absolutely insane.
Most people will happily scrutinize the spending habits of large corporations that get subsidies. That is a regular criticism on here.
Related, social dominance orientation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_dominance_orientation
>In the first couple of studies, participants read about Joe, who was described as having either a low- or high-paying job. They learned that Joe had won a $200 gift card which he spent on a flat screen TV. They then rated five statements which measured how “permissible” they thought his purchase was (e.g. “He made a responsible purchasing decision” and “He deserves to buy what he did”). Those who read that Joe had a low income rated his purchase as less permissible than those who read that he had a high income, or who were given no information about his income.

I have no right to make a value judgement on how Joe spends his money in this example. However that is what the study asked participants to do. claiming that people scrutinized low income families based on that part of the study is incorrect. They simply tended to look differently on a spending decision to buy a luxury item based on income. Something the study required them to do.

That said if a friend asked me for on advice on how to spend $200 my answer would depend on their financial position. If they had plenty to spend it doesn't really matter how they spend it. If they have very little I might recommend they spend it on a necessity rather than a luxury. That is not a judgement. It is simply the wiser choice. I suspect this could have been why people answered the way they did.
eBay Former PR Chief Is Said to Be ‘Executive 2’ in Indictment
Ah, our beta testers to the north...
The term you are looking for is "embodied energy" or "embodied carbon".

https://heetma.org/2015/04/09/embodied-energy-in-photovoltai...
Quebec's hydro plants aren't at the even the lowest latitudes of the Yukon Territory.. are they?
The haiku itself:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/decss-haiku.txt
Exactly this.

I grabbed a set of TLEs from celestrak (which I'm serving from my site), and then I propagate them forward with satellite-js [1] to the current date 6 times a second.

[1] https://github.com/shashwatak/satellite-js
Oh, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for your time and knowledge.
Not OP, but probably the fact that being woke implies the use of censorship. On their face they seem mutually exclusive
MacBooks and Samsung phones had fire problems just a few years ago. So you seem to be wrong.
Currently, we're making about 16k a month, and that's funding six people. The donations fund the seventh person.
Ask HN: What added value do academic publishers provide?
As per the title; this is something I've wondered about for quite a while, but the recent news about MIT and Elsevier (and UC a while ago, although it looks like negotiations have started anew there) reminded me. It seems to be to be the case that they don't, especially now that most journals/proceedings are published solely in digital format; there would seem to be literally zero cost or skill involved in watermarking a PDF and hosting it online, heck, the arXiv does this for free, and it seems that more and more this is all academic publishers are doing. If reviewers were being paid then that might be one explanation, but they aren't.

For textbooks, etc., I can see that there is some cost involved in providing proof reading services, but the cost of academic textbooks is clearly far too high if this is the only service being provided; the existence of freelance proof readers and well established print-on-demand services leaves me at a loss as to why academic publishers still exist at all. But since they do, and universities/institutions haven't banded into a cartel to run their own publishing, it would seem that there must be some reason that the publishers are still in business; it is just down to the corruption that seems to be rife at the very top ranks of academia (publishers giving kickbacks to chancellors), or is there a valid reason for this?
This example doesn't even show how it would place content inside the grid... and I suspect any attempt to do so with anything more than trivial text excerpts would result in the layout shattering, or the content clipping. And attempting to fit hexagonally-shaped content into the exact elements of the grid seems even less likely, here.
> - No responding from mobile devices. The poor response rate is just too high.

For me, the tendency of slack to let users write very short sentences/phrases is the issue. Etiquette for slack allows very IM like messages, whereas Emails are generally required to be more verbose.
Rediscovering the beauty of text on the internet
This is a highly cynical but great perspective. The person posting here, involved in the project, might not be completely anonymous, but no name associated with their HN handle and no names on the site are definitely a red flag. As are many other things you point out.

The concept is interesting but overall this is either a terrible execution, terrible idea, something more nefarious, or a combination of those things.
These kinds of comments are a strong signal that we haven't matured enough to actually target the real cause of waste, fraud, and abuse yet, because people are still stuck in R vs. D.

Both corporations have been looting the American taxpayer, and the best we can ever come up with is partisan hackery.

This will never get resolved.
SpaceX is still developing the user terminal, there might be a bit of optimism/pessimism in the degree to which they'll be able to make the user terminal target different angles (without bloating costs), though the person you're replying to definitely exaggerated the extent.
- Their year over year percentage growth is going to be astronomical.
I think the GP's post should be read as "He's not a romantic hero. He was just stupid, and he died because of it." That is, it's not addressed to McCandless himself, but to Jon Krakauer for painting him as having some kind of life lesson to teach. And to fans of the book who romanticize it.

McCandless didn't ask for any of that, and I concur that he was welcome to commit suicide his own way. But it was suicidal, and everybody knew it, so it is necessary to add the cautionary tale whenever he's brought up. It would be best, as you say, if we all just ignored him.
There is `linear-base`[1] for this.

[1] https://github.com/tweag/linear-base
Check out hyperdrive (https://github.com/hypercore-protocol/hyperdrive), specifically the daemon. Torrents are notorious for being read-only, but hyperdrive builds on bittorrent ideas and is making read/write shared spaces a breeze
You have to orbit around the center of gravity so these satellites won't just be over the arctic or anything. They have to orbit deep into the southern hemisphere to cover northern Canada so realistically there will probably global coverage at that point and this is just a pilot project of some sort.
> Poverty isn’t from lacking financial discipline it’s from lacking financial resources and opportunities.

¿Por qué no los dos?
No inner bones and no shell... In my opinion this speaks volumes, not so much about biology of this type of animals, as what you would expect in a scenery of Ocean Acidification. Would be my first candidate.

That could also explain the super-size (water intake by osmosis after losing the calcium layer).
Mozart’s Infinite Riches
It seems like you're using one metric to shit on the 1% (net worth) while you're using a different metric to discuss impact on the middle class (material conditions)

It's important to be consistent here. The 1% may have a lot of the wealth financially, but they don't have anywhere near 50% of the things that matter to Americans. Homes, cars, food, healthcare, etc. is much much more evenly distributed.

'Material conditions' and wealth aren't directly correlated.
I'm disappointed that the article doesn't take into account opportunity cost. One of the questions was "He made a responsible purchasing decision" when buying expensive or luxury goods. That's clearly going to have a different answer for low or high income people
I've heard that this is one of the reasons that obesity is a much bigger problem in the US vs. Europe.

The way it read was that European countries have much more homogenized cultures where people are more openly shamed for having an unhealthy lifestyle; due to the fact that the healthcare costs are more visibly distributed to everyone.
How many people here, ACTUALLY think cannabis is "completely not harmful" ?

I'm all about making your own choices and i've tried most drugs on the planet, probably more than you dear reader, and totally assume the potential risks. but still most people I know who do cannabis regularly either:

- Have scary memory problems.

- Have autodestructive or at least exagerated "passive" tendencies toward improving in any way you want to define it.

- Have similar friends who definetely drag them down and not up.

I literally know NO ONE i would admire that do it. And please don't say Elon Musk who's the most famously unbalanced CEO on the planet.

I don't understand the push of legal cannabis because i don't want my children to think it's risk-free to do it. The danger of drugs is always the frequencies you do them. Hopefully it stays contained to the US.
> Instead, he suggested that we all wait and purchase the book on the same day from Amazon. The strategy worked -- the book was #1 in its category that day.

In my instagram marketing last decade thats what we did.

While others were imagining that people "buy likes", or actually were dealing with bots, we were doing this for our clients.

Basically you get meme accounts to do a promotion of a profile that is currently private, and all the followers to a private profile get queued up, you can queue them up in the thousands or hundreds of thousands. when you unprivate the account, only like 100 of them get approved to follow you at once, so it adds up like a currency you can spend whenever you want. to mass approve you have to toggle private and unprivate over and over again, or approve the requests yourself or via API. either way you can only pull a list of 100 or so at a time, but you can keep them in the "requested" pool forever until convenient.

So you can grow an account with like a few hundred followers to a hundred thousand+ real followers very quickly.

But engagement is more important for the utility value of the account, and so you can also post an image with all the hashtags and location tags while the account is private, and let your new followers begin engaging with it. And then unprivate the account and even more new followers begin engaging with it, and then it becomes the TOP image in the hashtag.

In prior versions of instagram it would also be in the activity section in a large web of followers of followers.

For myself I have used one of the popular quickly and cheaply grown accounts to slide into the DMs of local women. In general on dating apps, women are funneling people to their instagram profile to ignore them. If you have a popular account its a night and day difference. I don't even attempt to match with them on the dating app, I just message them on IG straight away from the popular account (30K+ followers). Real dates and intimacy off of that, even in San Francisco. Skips the queue.
>The government constantly forces people to sponsor things they disagree with, quite literally with tax dollars. Do you believe that this is also objectionable, per your last paragraph?

No, I don't think it's objectionable, since the institutions that people are forced to sponsor are public, and subject to the public's review. If people were forced to sponsor a private organization, I would find that objectionable, since those institutions are not subject to public review. That is better left to shareholders.
"So they pay a flat fee to the theatre..." "In that sense, "we made a slight loss" on the movie, Mr Tabach said." Oh, so it's not a $0-budget movie.

I suppose they probably get at least that much value in free publicity from articles like these and us talking about them online. Now they can pitch their next project as coming from the brilliant minds of chart-topping filmmakers. Bravo to some guys that figured out how to game the system a little. I hope enough people rent the movie to get their fee back.
If you quitting would kill the company, then you have leverage. Use it.

Don't threaten, but be clear that the current situation is not viable and that changes are going to have to be made. Suggest the changes and see how they respond.

Then depending on the response, reassess the situation (both the company's and yours). Remember - when health is at risk always put your health first.
Posting this comment because I didn't see it mentioned in the article. This is a wonderful collection of old text files: http://textfiles.com/
> The content is not and will never be compelling to the audience that actually wants this tech.

You are not the arbiter of that.

One of the Google cardboard demos has you flying along with a bunch of seagulls. The first time I saw that I was extremely annoyed they didn’t just make it an endless loop of flying. It felt magical, if I could have put on some psybient music with it it would have been 10/10 relaxing.
I also showed the demo to my 60yr+ mom and she felt similar.

That is where the big money for VR would be, once polished, in the same way that mobile games went absolutely stratospheric and are worth more than 50% (in value) of the gaming market. You want to tap the mainstream.
Exactly, was just going to post this. More detail for people that might not remember:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/29/18644158/north-face-wikip...
You might link to the graphic on this page as a quick reference. Should be public domain as a government work if you want to host it.

https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/message_example.cfm

https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/images/astro_horizon.png
Of course, that's a major weakness; if the password trick is simple to remember it is likely simple to figure out for a motivated attacker! But when there are millions of password leaked and your mnemonic-password doesn't contain "chase" or "paypal" but "chicken5" and "pony6" and has otherwise enough entropy, will the attackers stand around a whiteboard and crack your code or just run their scripts and take what they can get automatically?

A password manager is probably very good, but it's a single point of failure and a huge target for the black hats; it's a program on a computer or on a smartphone that (potentially) sends data back and forth as it pleases.

So maybe the idea is to use a password manager for single-use entropy and then add some mnemonic manually before submitting the password. Then it's down to keyloggers and other sophisticated attack vectors?
I've looked into a bit more. It uses a crypto based on monero called Loki. Service servers are to be paid out for maintaining the network. It's also possible to mine the crypto. There seem to be software wallet apps available for iOS and Android.

LokiNet reminds me of a self-funding P2P decentralized anonymous analog with massively more functionality to Google Jigsaw[1] project called Outline[2], which runs shadowsocks[3] on Digital Ocean droplets or your own Linux infra.

[1] Jigsaw, formerly Google Ideas: https://jigsaw.google.com

[2] Outline: https://getoutline.org

[3] Shadowsocks: https://shadowsocks.org
The TRON Project is also a 1980-1990s project in Japan to develop IoT infrastructure.
They even made their own CPUs and developed 3 different flavours of Operating Systems:
- an embedded real-time kernel ITRON
- an soft real time single user desktop OS called BTRON
- CTRON a server operating systems with real time guarantees for packet/phone line switching

In addition they also developed an true international character encoding before Unicode. It wasn't ASCII backwards compatible which is why it wasn't picked by Unicode committee.

A good resource to learn about it is here:
http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/homepage.html
The glass frame business is ~25B, eyewear market is ~125B.

What is the minimum key value to take a chunk from Luxotica?
Photonics and its impact in (classical and quantum) computing, VR/AR/Lidar, telecoms, particle accelerators, etc.

There are some incredible advances being made in many areas of photonics, including in everything from how to perform computations on chip (which are marked improvements over how were trying to do this back in the 90s, to little success) [0] all the way to how to construct tiny, ultrafast on-chip lasers for Lidar [1], all the way to how to do in-vivo measurement of quantities of certain compounds (which is useful for things like diabetes monitoring among many, many other things) [2]. There are also the usual applications to AR/VR as we've recently also seen [3], and other medical uses like chip-sized particle accelerators for therapy [4]. The classic other use case, for further in the future, is as a quantum computational platform [5].

The problem is that, like many physics fields, photonics is really, really damned technical and unintuitive (and I say this as a mathematician who works in the field!), so it's very hard to simply take a glance at it and know the benefits. On the other hand, I think this is where a huge amount of innovations in the next 2-5-10 years will be coming from and it's really going to change how we view and interact with the world.

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Note: I've mixed in both papers and popular descriptions of much of the work, but either can be found for all of the things I've stated above!

[0] https://www.osapublishing.org/prj/abstract.cfm?uri=prj-1-1-1

[1] https://phys.org/news/2020-04-key-component-autonomous-cars....

[2] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7782291

[3] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200603151151.h...

[4] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3mgn5/scientists-built-a...

[5] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41578-018-0008-9?proof=true...
it's not really a glitch it's you're actual current balance.
AH?
I guess I overstated the case. AFAIU the intent was for the government to push for commercialization of its inventions using exclusive and non-exclusive licensing agreements. See, e.g.,

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/3710 (sister legislation to Bayh-Dole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenson-Wydler_Technology_In...)

https://www.doi.gov/techtransfer/patents

https://www.nist.gov/tpo/incentives-inventors

https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/01/f19/Licensin...

But I couldn't find much evidence that this is common. In fact, this 2017 accounting of royalty payments to federal employee inventors suggests it's not common at all: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/10-20-...

Perhaps federal employee inventions are typically for basic research and don't lend themselves to direct commercialization. And while use of those basic science patents might be necessary for actual commercial products, nobody in the government is policing infringement--which is probably a good thing. By contrast, even when a federal contractor is doing basic research, they have more financial incentive to aggressively file patents and subsequently enforce them.
There's a "Ask HN: What would you pay $10 per month for?" (or $100 or similar) question about once per week, usually few if any responses. Maybe the question is too broad or has simply been asked too often. The most traction recently was "Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23290536

Picasa equivalent: "Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19756110 might have hints.
The video shows 14x9 pixels, with 2 left over. There are 128 threads.
I think it really depends on the project size and the kind of work. If you're more in a waterfall model, where the specs are clear and you just got to do it, I can understand how being able to work uninterrupted is a nice-to-have.

But if you work very closely with the business and often run into things that could be done or understood in different ways, having to wait a day or more to get a clarifying response would not work. And this is know-how that can't be written down easily if at all, since a lot of decisions are purely based on experience and historical knowledge.

I used to have this illusionary vision of how everything should be neatly documented, but if you operate on a constantly changing code base, it's really hard to find a good balance. Documentation gets outdated every few weeks and sometimes days, plus most of the time, you don't even know that said documentation has been written. As such, you can't fully trust the documentation and you always have to check out at least part of the code.

What seems to work for me, is documentation that gives a broad overview of a topic and then gives certain pointers into the code. That way you capture the essence of functionality that is likely to remain for a longer time and the transition from documentation to code is made easier.

And finally, if someone is stuck or doesn't understand something, I find it problematic to have the expectation that nobody may be available to read your message for the next few hours or whole day. What is more efficient, someone spending a couple of minutes to provide assistance or someone googling/search Jira/wiki/Confluence for half a day and not making any progress?
Investing in yourself, your craft, your empathic capacity, critical thinking, integrity. And in relationships around us, family, friends, business partners, colleagues, clients...

I truly believe that these kind of things bring happiness and stability.
I've watched this kind of thing unfolding around where I am now - good to be given words for the somewhat uncomfortable feeling I was having. I'd realised that entrepreneurship was no longer some crazy people in a shed, but instead now an established industry - but I hadn't quite elucidated the precise identity and nature of the customer.

The most egregious example I'd seen was a clearly smart and talented guy ready to torch his budding medical career in order to launch a tourism related startup. Deeply ironic considering subsequent events.
Not sure why you're being downvoted for sharing an opinion/observaton, but in my experience, opinions are changing slowly from the parent comment to your comment.

Obviously, all of the following is a generalization, but I think it's fairly accurate...

There is/was a pervasive belief in the US that the wealthy pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and that they provide more value to the world. 1980s Wall St boom, Yuppies, etc. Up until perhaps 30 years ago, this might have even been accurate. It's only recently that economic mobility in the US has started to noticeably lag behind similar western nations.

However, starting with Gen-X and perhaps accelerating with Millenials, public opinion has started to shift. Three decades of failed Neo-liberal government (and GOP and Democratic leadership both largely fall into that category) has left the average person disgruntled and seemingly unable to find any bootstraps at all.