skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are beautiful - well done. Ridgeline plots are very common in EEG and ECoG (electrophysiology). The lead singer of joy division had epilepsy - the band's logo is a plot of a siezure. If you are interested, this work might be very interesting if you trained on brain waves (different spectrum). There are publicly available datasets:
https://github.com/openlists/ElectrophysiologyData
Wikipedia's definition includes those who "wield the most political power", so I don't think it's non-standard, per se. Although, I have complained elsewhere in this thread that the language we use to describe class and power obscures the existence of "elites" who hold the most influence.

Because elite power is hidden, it becomes unaccountable. You can scapegoat the "upper class" asshole with a Lamborghini and infinity pool, but that's obscuring the massive influence of figures like the Koch Brothers and Sheldon Adelson.

I completely agree with you that protection under the law, healthcare, etc, are important and should be rectified. But the people who are ultimately deciding that are the ultra wealthy elites [1]. So taxing multi-millionaires is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, rather than addressing inequality in a meaningful way.

To do this, elite power must be held accountable. To be held accountable, it must be seen, and not made invisible by "word games".

[1] https://journalistsresource.org/studies/politics/finance-lob...
We simply have food stamps if you find yourself too poor to afford food. That's a fine system, in my opinion. I, of course, already pay for my lifetime supply of food with a portion of my earnings, which I hand over to the grocery store.
Ah you're right, I read the wrong line in the wolfram alpha output. That does make it seem less crazy. It would still be a crazy project but not "entire GDP of the US" crazy.
Might not count as the great plains, but Mark Sheppard's New Forest Farm in Wisconsin is a good demonstration of a similar approach in a different context.

https://newforestfarm.us/about/
Note that I can’t see the article because of the paywall.

> The proposal here is about people with 8+ figures in personal wealth. That's not the typical small family business.

Depending on how it’s set up, “personal wealth” includes the business’s assets. I don’t know what your conception of a “small family business” is exactly, but there are definitely cases where a long-running business has a lot more “wealth” than it generates.

I don’t have an easy way to verify this handy, but I’m familiar enough with farming to assert with reasonable certainty that many family farms have several million dollars in assets while generating <$200k in yearly income. For a multi-generational farm, land value becomes a bigger and bigger issue.

For instance, my grandparents owned what most would probably consider a “hobby farm” in central Arkansas. I believe their parents purchased the land originally in the mid-1800s, when it was a rural area. It’s now very much in the middle of a small city and the land is worth many multiples of what it’s being used for today. My grandmother on that side passed a couple of years ago and to be honest I’m not sure who actually owns the land now - I know it’s still in the family because one of my aunts still lives in the original home on the property.

I don’t have a direct interest in this (I see no way I’d ever end up “inheriting the farm”), but I would very much be opposed to the state essentially confiscating the land that my family has owned for five generations. The land alone has likely increased in value in the past two centuries that its fair market value is more than $10m - but as far as I know my family has no interest in selling it, and as far as I know no one in my family has the means to pay taxes on that much value.
Cool, but the title should contain a heads up that this is a special effects demonstration and NOT from Boston Dynamics as is clearly suggested. (and yes I know they intentionally mis-spelled Boston in the watermark)

It is a very cool video and as it goes on it becomes clear but initially I think many could be forgiven for thinking that they legitimately weaponized their product
Navigating Status and Power as a Consultant
And even in that case it predates all the other languages except Python by almost a year (Python 1.0 came out in January 1994).
CloudFlare responds to fraud claims and legal action.
This article doesn't say anything worth hearing. It can be summarized as, "Google has not done visibly big consumer innovation." Which is not that true either. Their "cluttered" search is adding a lot of value. Their main innovation has also been in AI, mobile and the cloud.
Oh my god you ordered food in the mail. Did you put it inside your body? Are you okay?
Pound sterling as unstable as developing country currency due to Brexit
Foxes announce plan to investigate threats to henhouse. Film at 11.
I haven't spent much time with it, just opened a Swift project, and also a SwiftUI project. If you install the Big Sur beta, definitely also update to the XCode 12 beta.

The layout is more spaced out (lots more blank areas) whit is similar to macOS Big Sur's UI design.
TV Test Pattern History
Now if only we could get the externalities of burning all that bunker fuel shipping the bauxite paid for up front...
I call it an unavoidable cost of making sure people have food on the table. There is no way on this planet that you can design a supply chain that you produce the same amount of food that is consumed. This isn't parts that get put in some widget, people have different tastes at different times. I'm honestly surprised its only 30% given the fickle taste of people.

The CO2 production will reduce as we steadily change from diesel to electric. Ocean going vessels are just environmental problems that treaties seem to ignore.
TCL, but 7.x code may have flaws.
This goes against everything that makes Fulfilled by Amazon successful/dominant. Not expecting anything to change.
Are there any plants you can replace the brush with that do well in the environment, fit what you want better, and stop at an acceptable height?
> It’s one thing to say that the giant company should come with a 15% tax passed on to an heir; it’s quite another to say that the family business should. In many cases, the family business simply doesn’t have enough capital on hand to absorb those taxes, and the only resort the heir has is to liquidate all or some of the business to pay them. This means that small, well-run, multi-generational businesses are damaged or even lost completely.

This is a great point.

But, this seems like a problem that can be routed around in any number of ways without just throwing up your hands and allowing generation wealth accumulation at worst or lifelong unproductive consumption at best. And, on a startup board, it goes without saying that this is a problem that we should solve throughout the tax code and not just in case of the death tax.

And I still think inheriting controlling interest in a private (or public) firm is nepotism.
Didn't happen on Safari Version 14.0. What browser you using?
This sounds litigation ready!
So when the Terminal is not running, how long does it take to start on your machine (e.g. to the first output from the shell is printed)?

The boot time (to the first app running) is likely due to Nvidia blob, but who knows?
Shouldn't that be:

my $foo = 2;

?
Wow... I haven't read an article that made me more upset than that one in weeks. The "Diablo 3" we got had no business calling itself Diablo anything imo. We didn't dodge a bullet, we were robbed.
Eh, simple C code with X11/Motif will compile fine under Unix too.
Speed. I moved mostly to Ruby years ago, but when doing lots of text processing, a trivial script in Perl runs a lot faster than a similar trivial script in Ruby.
IME, Instant Apps are currently aimed at more of a "try our app" scenario, so I've never really seen them promoted in the wild, only through links I've tapped. I don't think there's much that would need to change to enable the types of scenarios Apple has been promoting.
> Apple didn't sell iOS

Strictly speaking, Apple sold iOS for a while. iOS 2 was a $10 paid upgrade for iPod touch users.
I have used Perl since the Perl 4 days.

One can write bad Perl, and I've written a lot.

One can write good Perl, and I've written some. It has saved me and others quite a lot of time on assorted projects.

These days I tend to use Python where once I'd have used Perl. This is mostly because I find that the young are far more likely to know Python than to know Perl. I will be retiring one of these days, after all.
Perl 6 with parrot VM was expecting release in 2004, we had some portion of our code in perl. other portions were in php4. chose ruby due to rails announcement in 2004.

will wait for actual release will try on some pet project
This is right. The list started with a handful of sites that were (almost) text-only, such as the NOS, CNN and NPR news sites, but as submissions came in it expanded with not quite text-only sites that still espoused many of the same values.

I intend to further curate the list soon and give proper text only sites a more prominent place. Retro, minimal, and text-only sites aren't quite the same.
Click “Let me read it first” to see the article without subscribing. It’s a pretty nice flow for a newsletter site.

> According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook found that the misinformation about climate models was an "opinion" and, therefore, not eligible for fact-checking.

> Now, the CO2 Coalition has announced its intention to exploit this loophole to spread climate misinformation on Facebook.
I wish Apple would enable this at the OS level, though in the long run it won't matter. People will proxy requests and find all sorts of ways around it. It's an arms race with billions of dollars on one side and a vague sense of "privacy would be nice" on the other.
That would contradict a claim about 2005 machine being snappy with Linux. 2005 machine probably does not have an SSD.
The (Electron and Chromium) App Sandbox
Aside: when did Apple start putting out polished PR pages like this to "market" features to developers? I feel like this year is the first time I'm seeing them.

There definitely wasn't anything like this push for when Core Data or Ubiquity came along, even though they both would have greatly benefited from it. The only pages for individual features I recall pure consumer-focused "explainers" of the benefits+implications of things like Gatekeeper, iCloud, or Time Machine.

Is this just because this year's WWDC is online? Were they doing this sort of "hey, pay attention, this exists now, you should try building with it" PR in person before?
Interesting. Just curious, what do you do on your iPad Pro that you wouldn't have been able to do as well as on the iPad Air 2?

I've been eyeing the iPad Pros for a while now but have never been able to pull the trigger. Just curious what use cases would push me over the edge.

I spend most of my time on the iPad on consumption activities like Twitter, Youtube, Prime Video, etc. My iPad is my travel device -- I don't even own a personal laptop anymore.

My content creation activities include writing stuff on Google Docs, editing photos synced from my iPhone, light 720p video editing on iMovie and of course drawing architecture diagrams on Sketches.
> After the quiet decision by Facebook, the coalition says it and other groups that attack consensus climate science can share content that climate scientists have labeled as misleading because Facebook will consider it "opinion" and therefore immune to fact-checking.

Is this like some news organization recently argued in court that it's actually "entertainment" so it doesn't have to be factual?
For anybody interested in this, you should also check out Path of Diablo https://pathofdiablo.com/. It's a popular mod with a lot of QoL improvements and which borrows Path of Exile's robust endgame mapping system for replayability.
I think you've completely missed my point. None of this is about what Facebook has the right to do.

I will try to reiterate as clearly as I can.

1) Facebook is criticized for the content it hosts

2) Facebook claims that it is simply a platform, and that it does not want to moderate, editorialize, or otherwise modify the content as such, erring on allowing content

3) Facebook actively modifies content in terms of how it is displayed, which makes (2) seem like a really stupid argument

Again, none of this is about what they are obligated to do, it's just about the hypocrisy of trying to say you're a content agnostic platform while actively grooming your content. It's made worse by the issue of that grooming prioritizing engagement, which almost always means that the most controversial content is what you see.
Kosovo President Thaci indicted for war crimes
I understand where you are coming from but it's more like, "standby while I share something my team and I have been working really hard on that is relevant to the news and who are interested in MDM".
It sounds like we have already moved from this is an impossible request to this is a difficult and impractical request. Setting up a government competition with a prize to solve a hard problem seems reasonable.
I feel this is one of those articles where lots of important information is missing.

Do they have any expectations on how expensive this process will be? Is there a chance that it's cheaper than existing processes or will it cost more? Is this plant they plan to build subsidized? Do they have plans to enforce this technology?

Ultimately for every green technology there's a simple truth: It's only going to be successful if a) it's cheaper than existing technology or b) it's going to be required or incentivized by law.

I've been seeing too many articles about fancy new green technologies that promise so much. The problem is: Most of them never happen at scale. Because they're usually more expensive and there's no political will to enforce them.
That's a bad response when any comment could easily link to a relevant white paper. GP, MIT+INL had a nice report in 2006[1] covering a lot about that and the resource potential. The GeoVision[2] report and data from DOE is also a good and more recent project.

[1] https://energy.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/MITEI-The-...

[2] https://www.energy.gov/eere/geothermal/geovision
There are other forms of carbon-neutral electricity—hydroelectric, solar, wind, tidal, nuclear; you can even capture carbon emissions from natural gas plants if there was a hard requirement to. Since we have to solve that problem anyway it’s a separate problem.

Also, aluminum and bauxite can be shipped to/from where it makes the most sense to process it.
Really fun fact time:

This functionality still works to the day...and with even works with a USB adapter for iOS. You can write something out, plug it into an iPhone and have it “print” to the screen.

It also can act like a USB keyboard and can be filled used as such in iOS. The support us incredible. I have both a Dana and an Alphasmart 3, I prefer the Bondi Blue 3.
Right, I'm not a lawyer but even if you have a copy of those items that drive and phone... if it was found from a different source, would it still be inadmissable?
Here is one (plus the story of a defective product lawsuit behind it).

A water slide. The type that bolts down into concrete for use with pools. If the first thing in your mind is...isn’t that something from the 70’s/80’s...yes it is.

So the counterfeiter must have molded the entire slide (complete with the company logo that was embossed into the slide itself) thing is that company was dissolved back in the 80’s.

So purchaser’s kid cuts their leg open on the slide and they sue for defective product. Of course the investigation leads to suing this Dissolved manufacturer. As I recall the dissolved entity actually defended (sort of rare from a dissolved Corp that dissolved so long ago) and it was only during expensive phase of discovery they learned they didn’t manufacture the slide In question, and that it was completely counterfeited.

One day Amazon is going to get smacked with such a lawsuit resulting in billions in punitive damages, then and only then will you see real effort on their part to curb this behavior.
I have an iPhone 8 Plus. Still runs like its brand new. Perhaps a battery replacement or system restore would remedy your issues.
Ah, I am glad the name change happened. I got side tracked before it came to a conclusion. I'm guessing if it didn't happen then, it surely would have to be changed now because of this new version, which looks like far less of a fork in the road.

I know some people aren't fans of Perl5, but it's what I learned and I wasn't all that excited to have to toss everything I knew (and my reference books) just because of a new version number. If Perl6 turns out to be complementary as people were saying/hoping, maybe Perl7 is where we get to see the interplay.
I've had to write some Perl in my latest project. Coming back to a language 20 years later at 37 years old was very interesting. I'm not a fan of the language but I can see why people like it.

The largest issue I've had is that even though the ecosystem gives you the ability to write code resembling best practices, I don't see a lot of Perl programmers that do it. Coming onto a project it didn't make sense to catch a whole team up on 20 years of best practices. So I went about writing code that would never be accepted on most of my other teams.
I tend to replace my car when it starts to show signs of future problems, not when I'm up to my eyeballs in repairs.

We shouldn't really be treating software differently. The liability for a mission critical system that works but cannot be repaired climbs over time.

Just because it works doesn't mean it isn't broken.
> The text translated here, written in 2008, has nothing to do with Zhang’s academic work, but instead reflects changing attitudes among younger Chinese intellectuals concerning the value of Western ideas and the experience of studying abroad.

> Zhang is surely right that doing an advanced degree in a foreign language is a challenge involving at times a loss of autonomy and a loss of status. More interesting is the overall tone of the text, which comes close to saying that the experience is a waste of time. This is not only because study abroad involves rote learning of someone else’s knowledge, but because China is the place to be. As Zhang puts it:

> “If you live abroad for a long time, you will miss many theoretically interesting things happening in China. Society in the West has been settled for hundreds of years, and not that much that is really new occurs. But China is entering a new era, full of potential.”

...

Valid points, for sure, but not everyone is reaping that new era full of potential. China is a great place to be if you've got the right connections, but no so great if you're gay, muslim, tibetan, or like to have opinions. Plus the great explosion of growth of China is now slowing down. Still many developments to come, for sure, but those may not play out in ways we expect.

Also think it's hilarious that he's bashing the U of C's "rote learning" when that's a huge part of China's entrance exams, or how foreign Uni's will limit your thought -- cuz the CCP tells Tsinghua "teach what you want", right?
Kindleberry: A Portable Outdoor Hackstation
> Or, you could sell the business to the person most qualified to run it well instead of installing the boss's kid as the new boss.

What's your incentive to do that if the government is only going to take the money you got from selling it too?

In fact, nepotism is what you get when you require that, because nepotism is an alternative way of transferring wealth to your children instead of inheritance.
A surfeit of technical solutions and a lack of social and political solutions define our age.
nos custodimus quod lingus
> AFAIK GTK4 will be Wayland-only and out in a few months

I think this is incorrect. See the following, X11 backend is listed among supported backends. https://developer.gnome.org/gtk4/stable/extra-configuration-...
Interesting, I hadn't come across Kusto. Looks like a competitor to Snowflake, perhaps with stronger analysis capabilities. Do you know if there's an academic paper? I found a white paper: https://azure.microsoft.com/mediahandler/files/resourcefiles...
This is just restating the article that was already discussed here, except with a tonne more annoying ads on the page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23612140
Anti-racism self-ed resource surging past 12k users, launched less than 1 week
Launched last friday. 200 users this time yesterday. Over 12k now.
Messagebird user here, on enterprise level: we're happy with their services, both in terms of delivery and reliability. The fact that they (just like almost all other SMS/SIP providers to be fair) asks lower prices than Twilio certainly does not hurt.
Please don't be a jerk in Show HN threads—or any HN threads, but Show HNs have special rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

Sharing your work puts you in a vulnerable position, especially in a community like this one where projects are often at an early stage. It's important that people be able to do that without being mocked or put down.
> many sites I use on a daily basis have almost unusable bugs on FF (I have to hack CSS because token auth popup from my bank is broken, a game related website has half of the scrolling on the page broken, in general so many sites have broken scrolling on FF)

You can report sites that are broken in Firefox at https://webcompat.com/. Mozilla engineers will debug the broken site and try to contact the site's developers. Firefox also ships some site-specific workarounds (such as spoofing Chrome's User-Agent string or tweaking some CSS). You can see the current list of site workarounds in Firefox's about:compat page.
If mod_perl had been designed more like mod_php Perl's web frameworks (Catalyst, HTML::Mason, Dancer & Mojolicious) might have had a chance of competing with PHP and Rails. PSGI could have helped Perl compete with Ruby/Rails but PSGI came too late.
That's what I was hoping Alphabet would be, but it seems like this bit is still a sticking point:

> or not high volume enough

Kind of a let-down
The problem is the only way this is trustworthy is if you require signoff from either 4 or all 5 of the permanent members of the UN Security council. That's the only existing agency I would trust to be sufficiently adversarial to ensure reasonable privacy.
Yes, I initially thought so as well, and shifted my buying accordingly. However, I bought an HDMI dongle from one of Target's supposedly vetted partners and when I got it it was clearly open-box. When I tried to get Target to replace or refund they weren't able to help me via normal channels and told me I had to call some other number. Given the time cost was non-trivial, and the item was, I just decided to never order electronics from Target again. I'm down to BH at this point.
> Starbucks, founded 1971, fifty years old next year. Caterpillar Inc., founded 1925. Ford, 1903. 3M, 1902. Kroger, 1883. Campbell Soup, 1869. Pfizer, 1849. Proctor & Gamble, 1837. Colgate-Palmolive, 1806.

Choosing a handful of successful winners in comparison to "most firms only last about 10 years" is a selection bias.

All of the original members of the DOW Jones industrial average have declared bankruptcy or been absorbed into other companies -- except General Electric! Oh wait, they were just removed from the index
I have worked for a few years at Google and have a decent insight into all the processes that go into keeping user data secure. It's perfectly fine to have your reservations but so far as I am concerned, I sleep well.

I don't share the same confidence for all my data that is floating around carelessly in some government spreadsheet somewhere, though.