skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good friend likes to say, “being right is worth nothing.”

In college a lecturer said, “would you rather be right, or get what you want?” He wasn’t a professor because he knew the steps required would make him unhappy. And completing them would only get him “prestige.” As he said, that’s what they give you when they don’t have anything valuable to offer.
Were you able to get some info on how to procure tools and wood etc?
Who said the FBI wasn't watching?
Half height seems very strange. In British English it’s half past eight normally.
Being murdered by a multi-racial group of law enforcement.
Imagine an open-source iPod that won't have access to iTunes. It likely would be a success, but not a replacement.

I see the power of Kindle in the ease of buying books. I see the device as a storefront to Amazon's e-book collection.

To be more massively successful, such a device should come with access to a sync service (or several), and access to e-book stores. IDK if Amazon has an API for buying books, but definitely some e-book sellers with APIs exist.

And yes, of course it should allow uploading DRM-free books of your choice, and maybe integrate nicely with Calibre.

The software part of the project looks much bugger and gnarlier than the hardware part.
I've included a Biblical quote concerning this matter to point out that this is an old human problem, not merely an industry problem.

> By this logic we should cut down on advanced education so people stay content in dull jobs.

This would indeed be the case, if corporate jobs were an inescapable necessity.
It's pretty hard to do good public transportation in a place like Houston. I've had forty-mile commutes in the past, and once you get that far out, you get that nasty superlinear expansion of area covered. The closest Houston could ever get is park-and-ride, i.e. re-locating the sea of asphalt, because buses are too dang slow. Not to mention walking is absolute misery due to weather from May to September.
I see you've conveniently left out the other arguments, probably because you know that what Apple is doing is NOT anti-competitive, and it's not a monopoly.

> They offer similar services, but do it in very different ways, and people have strong preferences one way or another.

Of course, it's a different product. People have strong preferences for the iPhone because of the curated experience, including the App Store. Remove that, and the phone becomes just another android. This destroys the product.

> Things the gmail web app can't do on iPhone: Use your phone's contacts, notifications, photo previews on send, use native gestures, and lastly, the native app is significantly faster and more responsive.

https://iphonebyte.com/sync-iphone-contacts-to-gmail/

There are multiple ways to sync contacts. You really just have no leg to stand on here.

I think what you're really saying, is you want an authoritarian utopia. We demand that all product is made how we all like it. Everything is the same, because if it isn't, it's "unfair."

No thanks. We have enough legislation. Going after one of America's premier tech companies because rich SV devs are mad their 99$ email app is failing is not something we should do.
Europe Will Have a Digital Tax, No Matter What, Says Breton
Relevant Kurzgesagt https://youtu.be/yS1ibDImAYU

The gist: we could trap ourselves on earth for generations with space debris.
Not necessarily. For logging/analytics, you could have customers upload their schema when configuring the service. I would think that doing so would allow for some powerful optimization opportunities, enabling your service to save quite a bit of CPU and maybe some bandwidth, too. It would probably also allow you to provide a better user experience, like making it easier to construct dashboards and such because you actually know how the data is structured.

For a document database, I don't agree at all. Some time back I spent more time than I'd like developing on Mongo, and boy did I wish I could actually tell it the schema of documents in each collection and have it enforce that (not to mention optimize based on it). A lot of developers actually use libraries on top of Mongo to define and enforce schemas.
Marketing is an umbrella term for spreading awareness. Less people that know about it then the less likely your product gets experimented with and then chosen. I don't think any recent serialization benchmarks include flexbuffers.

There's different ways to make people aware of alternatives. I chose to spread word of this product on HN :)
wisk.aero
Sure but that doesn't make backdooring the client easier.
Got a “stand with Tr*mp” ad on the page, among other ads. No thanks.
There is open RPi boot firmware here:

https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware/
The FAA has issued the Aeronautical Information Manual under that title since 1995, and as the Airman’s Information Manual from 1967 or earlier, decades before Quantum Computer Services (AOL’s predecessor) was founded.

I don’t know when ASA first published a book with “FAR/AIM” on the cover in large letters, but I suspect that this, too—a private reprinting of the AIM and selected Federal Aviation Regulations of interest to pilots—predates all things AOL.
Don't forget about cloud. Photos, notes, etc can be seen by anyone who knows credentials used on corporate devices.
Startups Can Build an MVP (Caveat: No Shortcuts)
In this case I think that you have never spoken with people from London with cockney accent..
This doesn't address GPs question about why, if local talent is plentiful, companies are willing to spend a lot of money and jump through several hoops to pay top dollar to immigrants when they could pay the same to a local and not have to spend extra money and effort.
That could be because of cheaper production costs or because Apple has seen iPad sales dropping and traded some of its margins to sell them at lower prices. As a for profit company with very good margins, it only makes sense that Apple would continue to maximize that and not let it slip a lot, even if the gains may seem minimal to an outsider. It’s also the same reason why Apple continues to sell Macs at the same price a at launch time even years later without any hardware updates, even though Macs are a small percentage of its total revenues.
Do the rules prohibit shipping the plane to someplace close to Australia, such as Papua New Guinea, and then flying from there to Australia?
The pressure comes from everywhere:

- Current employer: "Your salary is already good for someone without a bachelor's degree"

- Current employer: "We're sorry but this promotion requires a bachelor's degree"

- Future employer: "We're sorry but we hired someone with a bachelor's degree for this job"

- Date: "You don't have a bachelor's degree?"

- Friends: "You're the only one without a bachelor's degree"

- Meetup: "What did you study in college?"

- Country: "We can't grant you a work visa without a bachelor's degree"

- Family: "You will have more opportunities with a bachelor's degree. We'll even pay for it." (offer expired)

- School: "Here's a scholarship" (offer expired)

- 80,000 hours: "You basically don't exist"

- Brain: "Maybe I'm not a superstar coder and job security is important"

Perhaps some of these are hypothetical, but they feel the same as if they had been concretized.
TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sunk Trump Rally
I really don't understand how it helps against racism to purge language from certain words in contexts where they're not even applied to humans.
Melbourne, not to be outdone by our rivals, have the Montague St bridge which is frequently doing in trucks.

Even has its own Twitter account, because of course it does:

https://twitter.com/MontagueStBridg/status/12197515386602332...

https://twitter.com/MontagueStBridg/status/12068168482782535...

https://twitter.com/MontagueStBridg/status/11919444569053306...
I haven't kept track of FlatBuffers so I don't know what might have changed there, except that I imagine they support a lot more languages now (probably more than Cap'n Proto honestly). Cap'n Proto's serialization layer hasn't changed very much in those 5 years; development focus has been more on the RPC system.
Far too complicated for what it's supposed to do. Google's RecordIO basically just concatenates messages together, with a few additional provisions for compression and handling small messages. In contrast, Riegeli depends on three different compressors and Abseil, and its file format specification is quite elaborate: https://github.com/google/riegeli/blob/master/doc/riegeli_re.... This could explain its lack of market penetration (only 221 stars at the time of this writing). The authors apparently don't care that it's not popular, since they don't even provide a code example on how to use it. It also apparently uses HighwayHash for integrity checking, which is overkill - such things should use crc32c, for which most modern CPUs have a dedicated, fast instruction.
From the diffs:

master -> changed to main/parent (depending on context)

slave -> changed to child

blacklist -> changed to blocklist

black magic -> changed to magic

white space -> changed to whitespace/empty space (depending on context)

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/12089/files
It's "could have" or "could've".
Thank you for sharing this, I am generally interested in any tool that makes the creation of explorable explanations easier.

However, while I am passably competent as an educator/physicist/js dev, I have a hard time understanding what the use case for this library is. Is it a plotting library mainly? A plotting library with latex built in? An ODE solver? An UI-building toolkit? The showcase gallery does not make that clear and it is pretty difficult to find example snippets that go to the core of the library and how its creator imagines it being used. Could you elaborate on why I should use this instead of vanilla javascript + my favorite UI library + my favorite canvas library?

Edit: these slides seem to cover some of my questions.
A Black Man’s ‘Million-Dollar Save’ Jump-Started GM’s Long, Hard Diversity Push
I realize that.

I provided an example of how another distant island handles that to show what reasonable behavior is.
I think the response to the first and third point is the same -- it's up to YOU to decide what's an important part of your life, it's up to YOU to decide what's real and fake.

Or rather, actually -- first, you decide what's an absolutely important part of your life. Then you do THAT real thing -- not any fake thing peripheral to the real thing that you decided was important.

I think that trying to draw value judgments out of the article is a serious mistake. The author is not suggesting any values. The author is trying to suggest the best way to pursue your own values. The idea is not that success in public speaking or architecture is important. The idea is that success in your own goals is important. The idea is not that time not spent toward the goals the author endorses is wasted. The idea is that time not spent on the goals that you endorse is wasted.
I am an instrument rated private pilot. What your dad told you is true but is also mostly preventable. Sometimes there are accidents that you don't know ahead of time will happen: I've had a friend who died on a local flight trying to challenge himself with strong winds in a mountainous airport, had a heart attack and died. However, that kind of accidents, equipment failure accidents are in the minority. Most accidents are pilot error. That's been studied a lot in general aviation.
The conclusion is that most general aviation accidents are preventable. Pilot going into situations that a little planning and thought could prevent. [0]

As a private pilot it is mostly your choice what situation you put yourself through. To survive being a pilot you need a certain amount of humility and understanding your limitations. Also a lot of planning, including contingency plans on what to do if you get stuck somewhere or if the weather gets bad. You are not an airline, you do not have the equipment and resources they do and you should plan accordingly. This should be part of your training and it is up to you to maintain this as you fly.

If you are interested, a good book on the subject of general aviation accidents and as it relates to private pilots is The Killing Zone, Second Edition: How & Why Pilots Die by Paul Craig. Very readable book.

Additionally, aviation accidents are studied by many people in the industry and there are checklists to follow before and during the flight (IM SAFE [1], PAVE[2]. etc...) that should help you to determine if you even should make the flight. There are also automated tools that calculate based on your experience and the environmental conditions if its a go/no go [3] and if you stick to these things they would make you a very safe pilot. So I wouldn't let a fear of getting into an accident stop you from being a pilot but be smart and follow the rules, set yourself some conservative personal minimums, follow the checklists, and plan, plan, plan and you should be safe.

[0] The Nall Report, the gold standard: https://www.aopa.org/-/media/files/aopa/home/training-and-sa...
[1]https://www.thebalancecareers.com/the-i-m-safe-checklist-282...
[2] https://www.faa.gov/training_testing/training/fits/guidance/...
[3] AOPA used to have a go/no-go decision maker can't find the link.
Hey, I’m sorry. I disagree with you and looks like you disagree with a couple other folks on this thread, but I don’t think this conversation is going to help anyone.

I’m going to avoid these political / non-technical threads on HN going forward.
Singapore is really touchy too.

Seletar is the only airport in the world where I've seen every single little Cessna with new tires.
I remember telling people to read "The Python Tutorial" on python.org , if they wanted to write Python. It takes a few hours for an experienced programer, and a couple of days for a beginner. People had difficulty starting.
If your definition of working machine says that they were nearly impossible a few years ago, your standards are probably too high.

These machines have become very capable. If we don't move the goalposts, they can be working machines.
It improves the transfer of heat to the heat sink, cooling the CPU.
That's surprising. I was under the impression that landing outside of an airfield is only permitted in a few states and parts of Canada? In Europe it's generally forbidden (with the sailplane exception of course).
Feels good without effort. Meaningful progress takes enormous amounts of time and tireless efforts, comparatively speaking.

A pull request, many even, isn’t going to fix systemic injustices and inequalities at societal levels. Slavery continues to exist today in the 21st century [1]. I’m unsure how some feel this is the case, but the bluntness seems necessary.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century (The International Labour Organization estimates that, by their definitions, over 40 million people are in some form of slavery today.)
GA aircraft are fairly slow and reflexes usually aren't an issue (with a few VERY notable exceptions, such as cross controlled stalls). Most accidents start with bad judgement, such as flying overweight on hot days.
The most outrageous for me are still the heteronyms like lead the verb and lead the metal. To add insult to injury the past form of the verb is pronounced the same way as the metal even if they are written differently..
You kind of answered your own question -- it's not about the getting caught (in my opinion), it's about the ethics of the author getting compensated for their work.
Cetaceans are considered sentient, the way humans are sentient, by a wide scientific consensus, e.g. [1]. Some degree of sentience is also assumed by the scientific community to be present in a lot of other animals [2].

Still the successes in contacting these nonhuman sentient beings, even if they gladly support such contacts, like dolphins, is very limited at best. And those are our close relatives, fellow mammals, sharing the planet with us.

Now imagine an attempt to contact a sentient being which developed and lives in an environment totally alien to humans.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-17116882
[2]: http://www.animalcognition.org/2015/03/25/the-declaration-of...
I stopped my training after deciding that I wasn’t confident in myself to avoid such “simple” issues. I’m pretty distractible and even had trouble following checklists to some degree. I’m sure having a baby on the way contributed, but I’m still content with the decision today.
A commercial rating just lets you fly for hire, not run a commercial aviation business. Those are regulated separately.

Edit: I'd also suggest avoiding becoming a pilot if you're adverse to turbulence or sweat, as not many light aircraft have ACs.
Social progress leaves the trace by giving old words new meanings, regress - by hiding old meanings behind new words.
Taken to its ultimate end, we will have to have

Colors.Black == Colors.White

And, courtesy of Douglas Adams:

> "Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.”
Scholars are mapping the international precursors of Nazism (2018)
It's the rise of "radical political correctness".

IMHO things like this should be treated like the trolls they are; and not fed, lest important projects get overrun by this BS.
The big thing that changed was in regard to long range messages.

The biggest problem in the past was secure coordination. For example, the battle plans at the Battle of Antietam were discovered in cigars.

Thus, the calculus was that people could keep their stuff private, but if they were trying to coordinate with others, communications were able to be cracked.

However, now, people can do secure, encrypted communication easily with dozens of people worldwide. This changes the calculus of what they can accomplish. A person with a locked briefcase at home is pretty limited in what kind of stuff they can coordinate. A person securely communicating with dozens of people worldwide, can accomplish quite a lot without discovery.

This changes the calculus from the 1800s.
Because ultimately code is read by humans and some of them don't enjoy having to be reminded about slavery when reading code, and we can do without these inconsiderate metaphors.

I think at large, while some changes might be more performative than others, removing master/slave terminology seems pretty clear cut.
The world doesn't revolve around software, especially in Aviation, where the protocols haven't changed a ton since the 50's.
There is always some room for cooperation, even in the middle of a cold or s hot war, but it’s easier if sn enemy is defined as such.
You could still have a web browser with address bars and links and all that, just with “transrendered” responses. No need for css or JS.
Founders Agreement: 20 Points You Must Discuss
Giant sun ray reflector.
It doesn't. That's not the point. It never was.

"A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to." -Anthony Daniels
I’ve found the r/city subs i’ve been in has been great. Perhaps depends where you live...
Yes, but isn't interferometry only useful in increasing the angular resolution? It doesn't necessarily boost the signal.
One of the things I keep hearing from non-Americans is how dumb Americans are and then proceed to explaining the benefits of the metric system. I see this from random internet forums to Youtube comments, from news paper articles to talking to people in Europe. What people don't realize is that America is like a giant ship that has a ton of inertia to change. It is the world's largest economy with huge diversity of evolved shit that has piled up. It is difficult to clean it despite of the will. The US gov tried to convert America to the metric system unsuccessfully [1].

The US (NIST) in collaboration with international bodies lead the redefinition of SI units based on fundamental constants [2]. Furthermore, semiconductor industry, university labs, medical industry, etc. all use ISO standards and the metric system. The US semiconductor industry alone is larger than the GDP of Switzerland. I studied engineering in America and we used the metric system throughout with some problems in ANSI units for familiarization of the units - ultimately, the engineer needs to adapt to the company's unit system and not try to be a thorn.

I personally am tired of the rest of the world patronizingly explaining the advantages of the metric system to Americans - over and over. It is not that difficult of a concept and most technical people, engineers I know in the US already understand the benefits of the metric system. It is mildly annoying at best and condescending at worst. If we are in the unit system mess, there are a lot of things that still do not follow base-10 based units. For example, font type units (points) from Switzerland. Or the way we measure time. How come there aren't 10/100th units of a minute/hour commonly used around the world? A second is split into 1000 milliseconds but a minute is not split into 1000 seconds. Why this inconsistency? Why 360 degrees? If we didn't have 10 fingers, the entire decimal system is worse than base 12 or duodecimal system [3].

The problems faced by America are exactly the same type of problems if we want to convert the entire world to duodecimal system. It is next to impossible despite of clear advantages. Note that I am not defending the people that arrogantly want to stick to status quo - there are certainly people like that in the US.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Stat...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_redefinition_of_the_SI_ba...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal
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Thanks, looks like people have done well by him
how much of this curriculum is necessary for a FAANG job?

I’d love to go through all of them, but I’m constrained with work as well, so I’ll have to prioritize.
I'm happy to discuss facts but I agree that HN is probably the wrong place for politics and non-technical discussion.
IMO The community doesn't like politics and honestly I think thats one of the reason HN is such a great place.
Apple could license the VIA processors that are X86-X64 and Intel compatible.
This is very interesting, but how do you pronounce lead?
TypeScript monorepo with no extra modules
I thought you were joking... until I saw the video. It looks like a huge bright curtain with a 15-foot tall STOP sign unfurls in front of the driver! Whatever the cost, I'm sure it's paid for itself already.
+1 for Blink and a good VPS.

For testing big builds or anything you want some power for, a good way to go when you need portability.
I graduated with a degree in BioSciences a few years ago, and elected to not do grad school like my peers. I saw no point of losing thousands of dollars to do a master’s in Bioinformatics/Data just to get a jr level job. That summer after graduation from undergrad I attempted to learn CS and go through OSS Computer Science program and TeachYourSelfCS to break into the industry. The problem was a lot of it wasn’t job relevant and it felt very rigid, and sometimes even more complex than it needed to be. These University level courses aren’t really necessary. I like to view coding as a trade and skill, something that can be learned and applied right away rather than a mechanism for research, feel free to disagree with me. In any case, I just wanted to code and build software (sorry CS purists...). I slowly found myself less interested in CS theory and more in software engineering. Feeling disenchanted with CS, I decided to spend a few months learning web and software development fundamentals through online courses on Udemy and Frontend Masters. After that I did a certificate in fullstack development at my alma matter (cost me a couple thousand dollars, much cheaper than grad school). I will say I was pretty lucky that as soon as I finished the full stack program, I was hired by a small software shop.