skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Sleeps 35", not "35 rooms" - I'm talking about a "lodge", where there are usually multiple bedrooms with multiple beds per room. It's not a hotel situation but it's roughly analogous to the OBX beach houses that I've experienced in the past in that context.

Also, granted, I live in this area and have personal contacts I can reach out to. The listed prices are going to be much higher than that - but last year I reached out to the owners of a couple of these places personally to see about booking something in the offseason, and that was the lowest price I got.

For someone not local and able to negotiate face-to-face, I'd say $500-$700 / night is about what I'd expect. Even so... when you consider the cost of travel and the cost of more "traditional" locations, the difference is pretty much insignificant.
Amazon Web Services launches a dedicated aerospace and satellite business
I want you to know that your code is a real inspiration to me. Redis is a beautiful C artifact and an excellent reminder of how joyful it can be to create and read code.

Also, congratulations to moving off of Redis. In open source, there is a thing where people look at retiring from a project as some sort of failure of either the project or the maintainer, but I think the opposite is true.

We all have a finite amount of time on Earth, and everything has its natural beginning and end. Moving on to something else means creating the opportunity for yourself to find the next big project for you. And for the project itself, it means bringing in new eyes and perspectives.

Change is scary, but healthy.
I can highly recommend you watching this talk:
https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...

It explains very well why is something being easy shouldn't be the main metric, when choosing some technology.

In this case you are advocating to pull in webpack (28MB, 348 packages from 210 contributors), @babel/core (12MB, 54 packages from 60 contributors), typescript (53MB, 11 packages, 4 contributors), to just mention the most obvious and necessary dependencies, not even mentioning the different plugins for integrating them with each other, test frameworks, linters, IDEs (syntax highlighting and auto-formatting) and of course the mountains of type definition boiler-plate.

100MB+ of dependencies which are all a responsibility to learn, teach, configure and upgrade.

Versus this ~12000 bytes: https://unpkg.com/hyperapp

It's like 6 pages of code on a 2K iMac monitor and none of the above...

I'm not saying that there are circumstances when you might want to put up with all that cost, but have you consciously considered, whether it really worth the overhead? What's missing from hyperapp, which is only present in the 100MB+ deps? Maybe `htm` (1MB, 11 packages, 4 contributors) is a better compromise between bloat and ease of development?

And if you are willing to take on the extra dependencies, wouldn't ClojureScript provide a lot lot lot more benefits? It's also based on the super mature Google Closure Compiler, which supports extremely sophisticated optimization techniques and DCE... Just to mention some recent optimization surprise: https://twitter.com/roman01la/status/1277148232276234240
Perhaps experience. In my experience, hackers are most frequently Russian, but of course as you suggested, they could be of any ethnicity.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I find that Pocket is unable to detect duplicate copies of the same article and prevent them from being added to my list unless they were added from Firefox's landing page, i.e. the "Sponsored by Firefox" and "Recommended by Pocket" sections.

Is there something I can do to make Pocket prevent duplicates from being added on the basis of the article's URL alone?
Making the Fennel compiler self-hosting with another compiler
To note, bankrupting IA doesn't make digital copies of these books go away. It'll just accelerate Library Genesis [1] while burning down a cultural archive.

The Internet Archive needs to be reasonable, as they operate within US jurisdiction. Other projects need not (LibGen, SciHub, etc). If operating outside of the US (and other countries that are a party to the Berne Convention) is required due to publishers continuing to embrace overly restrictive copyright law, that is what will be done by those interested in this sort of work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis ("As of 28 July 2019, Library Genesis claims to have more than 2.4 million non-fiction books, 80 million science magazine articles, 2 million comics files, 2.2 million fiction books, and 0.4 million magazine issues.")

contrast with IA's OpenLibrary corpus (with Controlled Lending):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Library ("In total, the Open Library offers over 1.4 million books for digital lending.")
I think your missing the point, a money drop is about transportation/distribution and not anonymity. Transporting money is the hard part and bitcoin has changes this area more than anything. Being anonymous is easily circumvented by various other techniques, some new, some old.
> the funding relationship between the Mozilla Foundation and Firefox isn't clear

It's not really an unknown. Donations to Mozilla Foundation do not and cannot fund Firefox development.

> if Google's funding were to become insufficient, then the Foundation would step in to fund it if they have the funds

There are two assumptions here that are off. One is that the Foundation could come up with the kind of money that the Corporation spends on Firefox. The other is that the Corporation is somehow in a tight situation financially. Reality is opposite to both.

First, the Corporation is not strapped for cash. It brings in a lot of money. Like, in-the-neighborhood-of-half-a-billion-dollars-a-year a lot. It spent something like 29MM acquiring Pocket (which is still as closed source now as it was 3 years ago), and it manages to spend 50MM on its marketing campaigns that most people aren't even aware exist. Under the current arrangement the Corporation funds the Foundation, paying a percentage of its revenues to allow the Corporation to trade on Mozilla's name. (If that sounds like a weird way to put it, consider revisiting your other assumptions about Mozilla and Firefox.)
> We call this ambient computing.

Wow, it sounds like "IoT" is getting a makeover. Will this become the new more palatable vogue term for total immersion in corporate-owned wireless electronics?
>I think that they are making the point that they actually are free of charge.

That's right.

An "on-us" transaction, one that simply requires RBC to update its database by debiting funds from RBC customer A and crediting them to RBC customer B, is free. (If your bank is charging you for that, switch banks!).

A wire transfer is more complex than an "on-us" transfer because it involves two bank database. RBC has to debit its database, and Bank of Montreal has to credit its database, and the central bank is usually involved as an intermediary. This often involves a wire transfer fee.
I have been watching this chart for as long as it has been on the internet -- it's great for finding vehicles which are cheap on insurance.

That being said, I see obvious self-selection issues show up in that chart all the time. Looking at the extremes usually points it out -- 'old man' sports cars usually have very low accident rates. Vehicles sold with deep discounts or aggressive financing deals usually have high accident rates. These are likely bought by very different buyers with very different life circumstances who use their cars very differently.
> The vast majority of global economic activity now happens in Asia

For production, yes. For consumption, no.

Take away American consumption, and lots of countries will fall into decline very quickly.

Sadly I might be proven correct in the next 12-24 months.
Sorry you don't like the new design. Personally, I found it really jarring at first, but by now I don't notice it unless I consciously look for it.

Hope you enjoy your unpatched security issues.
Would be nice if both of these work (they don't):

curl https://ec2.shop -H 'Accept: application/json'

curl https://ec2.shop?json
Development paused when Brad had a kid in 2018.

It probably needs someone new to adopt it.
Haha...I posted the wrong link. :facepalm:
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Here is the site: https://24hourhomepage.com

FWIW, the yc link posted is from the project account I set up for this. I figure it'll be better to just use my user account. :)
Thanks! I posted about it in my blog [1] at a very high level.

To summarise, I used a Python library called Spotipy to request track information from Spotify and then stored a big list of artists based on who has collaborated with Kanye and built that web outwards.

[1] https://blog.sunnyamrat.com/six-degrees-of-kanye-west/
Indeed. And there's still no way to actually remove Pocket. I'll never understand why this isn't shipped as a plugin.
You had to show up in person to their store in Vancouver to actually buy them didn't you?

IIRC the price point was on the right side of a pay-day impulse buy, but Im not going to spend the money to get to vancouver to spend that money.
Omnibox? What is this (other than the chrome address bar)?
Ok, cool.

Why is there no tagging or other organization (besides per author)? Skimming through the frontpage I either have no idea what an article is about or it appears to be some lowest-common-denominator politics article. With reddit I can go read my niche subreddits with topics I actually care about (yeah, I know you don't have enough users to replace this quite yet, but still). With no other hooks for following my interests I feel like this is still abusable with clickbait titles.

Could you have like moderator-written abstracts for the AOTDs, at least? Even better would be an abstract for every article (not sure how you would accomplish this)
byenorth

https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
The team didn't become maintenance people. Basically the architecture astronaut did the first 6 months of 2-3 year projects. And everyone knew that they were geniuses, maybe there was a little grumbling but people got on board.
It could happen if parasites like Trump hijacks both parties against their will, and the 3rd party is one of the hijacked parties establishment candidate. E.g. Bernie, Trump, and Romney. The summed status quo Globalist vote might outweigh Bernie and Trump splitting the Nationalist vote along party lines.

From another perspective, if the DNC lost its mind and for some reason put together a Klobuchar/Clinton ticket to run against a Palin/MarjorieGreene, would someone like Michelle Obama be able to be more likable than either other grouping?

As both tickets grow more silly, and more extreme, it leaves more space for an establishment player to step into the middle and look sane. Bloomberg thought he was that person, and obviously didn't get his closet skeletons in order.
That's what I was talking about - even if they aren't charging fees, they're involved.

There's plenty of cases in technology where "but we don't do anything with your data!" is not a good enough excuse. Many of us still argue for decentralization or federation or user controlled data, etc. Similar concerns I have for visa.
So ? I know there is still slavery. There are still people who die, should I stop using the phrase "the server is dead" because I might offend you since you lost your grandma ?
Lessons from the Chinese AI Industry’s Fight Against Covid-19
> The reason you dont have buses to do that in the US is because people can afford single occupancy cabs.

It's much more complicated than that, though.

Public transport is looked down upon in the US—not just in the same classist way it is looked down upon in many places, "that's for the plebes", but like many public institutions, it is viewed by many to be inherently worse than private solutions, both ideologically and practically.

To a large extent, it is a victim of the deliberate practice of the American right wing, over the course of at least the last several decades, of reducing funding for public services (because Big Government Bad), then decrying their ineffectiveness (well, duh, they're not doing great because you took away half their budget), and pushing for them to be privatized.
Manhattan is certainly an extreme case. Though I'd argue that, in the US, there are a small number of cities where you can live carless without any real compromises. Of course, my definition of compromise may be different from yours; if I lived in the Bay Area I'd be regularly going to mountains/ocean/etc. on weekends. Even a couple I know who live in SF without a car are regularly doing short-term and long-term car rentals in addition to walking, Muni, and Uber. I'm not sure they really are in a car less than they would be if they owned one.
Yeah, I remember when they acquired that impressive autocorrect startup (they had something about context awareness and closest letter misspells)... Android's gboard autocorrect still sucks :/
This is truly sad. Cirque is one of those organizations that creates magic. Every single thing they do (on stage) has clearly been obsessed over, refined to perfection, and rehearsed beyond any possible doubt. Part of the joy of their shows is beholding a group of people who care that much about their work.

On the other hand... later on in this article, it points out that Cirque du Soleil is $1 billion in debt. That probably didn't happen in the past three months. Perhaps Cirque is yet another swimmer who's being exposed when the tide goes out, as Hertz was.
Nice work, man. I was doing microbenchmarks where I among other things measure the 90ns (JIT) and 120ns (Regular) function call overhead of Lua. My benchmarks was compared to my own scripting backend where the call overhead is 4ns, and it always feels a little bit like cheating when you have a gigantic headstart with each test.

I'm not surprised the JIT isn't that good, but this is crazy almost! Did you compare against the latest version of Lua?

https://gist.github.com/fwsGonzo/f874ba58f2bab1bf502cad47a9b...

In my microbenchmarks LuaJIT was always faster than Lua, but not so much that I wouldn't stop using Lua. In my mind once you stop developing a language it stops being interesting, because you are always looking for ways to simplify and remove whole classes of bugs.

EDIT: I just built lua5.4 from sources and ran my benchmarks again, and it's markedly worse than LuaJIT still, but it's better than before for sure. My conclusion is that Lua5.4 is the fastest PUC-Lua yet.

https://gist.github.com/fwsGonzo/2f4518b66b147ee657d64496811...
By "perform better" I assume you mean time/memory performance and not accuracy
I enjoyed your message, and it reminded me of a completely unrelated fallacy.

If 1 women can produce a baby in 9 months, then 9 women can produce a baby in 1 month.
The hard bit is checking that all the dependencies you're about to delete are not used anywhere else.
I do not get it. How are black, white, and western offensive? https://github.com/e-neuman/madhash/blob/master/offensive.tx...

Anyway, this is kinda similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP_word_list
I get the impression you don't think much of me. That's ok, but why did you feel the need to tell me?
Google Creates a New Source of Traffic with Keen
Hololens 2 is decent display but the software development is atrocious. Can't believe MSFT engineers would ship this. They seem to almost require Unity to do anything in 3D/world space.
many companies did targeted advertising in the pre-web days and made a profit. you can advertise without knowing anything about a consumer - except that they like reading this kind of article. so there is no tradeoff between privacy and profitable advertising; both are possible at the same time.
In some cases, absolutely. Having to completely disassemble the door to repair a failing lock module is seriously annoying, as is making it impossible to remove the engine mount while the engine is in the car (seriously complicates timing belt changes on VW mk4 cars, because the belt loops around the engine mount).

But on the GTI (2009 in my case), they did something rather ingenious: instead of welding the outer door skin on, they bolted it on with about 25 short bolts. Taking those off takes about one minute with an impact driver, and you have full access to the door lock module and window regulator, as well as making rust or dent repairs almost trivial. Why can't everything be like that?
> This has already been shipped in Chrome (and Chrome only) for some time.

It's possible that this is a major selling point of the Portal element.
"That will lead to some combination of better wages for the driver, cheaper delivery, or more profit for the furniture company."

Realistically: the driver will be paid close to minimum wage because he doesn't have any rare skills, and the customer will be charged as much as possible. The owners of the company will probably get decent return on their capital, though.
It's certainly not a message of love.
> mostly smoke and mirrors

In fairness isn't that how this tech works
This is the most confusing article I've seen from danluu. What data was used?

The glaring incongruity for me arose from the details on Tesla.

"For example, on the driver-side small overlap test, Tesla had one model with a relevant score and it scored Acceptable (below Good, but above Poor and Marginal) "

Note the words "above poor." But in the bullet points danluu uses a different scale that doesn't match this prose, and slots Tesla into "poor."

I'm sensing an agenda. But I'd rather keep an open mind, and look at the raw data myself.

The other odd thing is that the article mentions both 2012 and 2018 data, but doesn't provide a specific link to the data that was used. What raw data was used?

A clue lies in the other prose about Tesla in the article, which refers to a 2017 article about Tesla's pushing back. (The points about this being predictable as a PR move seem valid. However what's more interesting is the timeline.) 2017 is prior to 2018. Which points to the data being relied on here being the 2012 data, not the 2018 data.

The problem with using very old data is that the cars have evolved significantly since 2012. I mean, 2012 was the very first production year for Model 2. We're talking almost a hand crafted (though semi robotic) assembly line back at that point. And yet the article talks about this as though the data represents Tesla in general. We are eight years along into the future now — almost a decade — with that many years of improvements and two (correction, three) new models, if you don't even count the vast updates to the Model S. This should be disclosed in a way that is glaringly clear, not glossed over or minimized.

In short, I would take everything here with a grain of salt. The research question, though, seems like a very good one. I would look forward to hearing an update where the data is provided, the sources are examined, the funding for the lab tests is disclosed, and current car models are covered.
Systemctl does option-command not command-option?
I don't know if systemctl is fundamentally better under the hood, but the CLI is mystifying. You can't autocomplete a verb on the command line without the noun for context, or to put it another way, you can't autocomplete the options for a command if you don't have the command already specified for context.

So if I do systemctl <checkstatus> <myservice>

the command line can't autocomplete the verb/option "checkstatus" since it has no idea what service (the noun/command) I'm doing.

What is the possible justification for systemctl <option> <command>? In terms of very very basic CLI culture, even for complex CLI commands with subcommands it is always <command> <subcommand> <options/args>.

And it's basically too late to fix it.
Management Company Warns Memphis Officials of Housing Crisis
Most people will use stablecoins such as Dai or USDC. Bitcoin is just an example here.
My grandfather (russian) talks about getting his tonsils removed when he was a kid in the army. He said the doctor was digging around his throat with a hot spoon and periodically telling him to spit.
I agree, it’s well documented that private capital loves fascism and totalitarianism. I’m speaking of socialist central planning though. The idea that free-marketism provides the ideal environment for human freedom and societal development is just demonstrably false in so many ways.
How can you call a pile of open source code with no marketing "vaporware"?
How is this better than a plain old filesystem with bitrot compensation? What does this have that my btrfs or ZFS filesystem (with parity) doesn't?
Good point that perhaps "regulation" is not a good thing, and that the most free, common payment method is the decentralized one: cash.

People laugh about bitcoin, and the implementation surely has its drawbacks, but the idea of a decentralized digital payment system is alluring.
Kuma Donated to CNCF
I guess they're waiting until they improve their lock-in stuff. Can't have something open now, Google is big, they can flex their muscle. Just like Facebook and the Oculus products :/
> Already forced the family to uninstall it and its gone forever.

Honestly you’d be better off educating them and telling them it’s a good idea than forcing them to jettison an app they probably love. Tons of apps do this (as discovered in iOS 14) and I highly suggest not doing a crusade against one when a lot more do it. See: https://youtu.be/pRSWdtoUAjo
Another attempt that doesn't address the real issues: rent is too high and/or wages are too low. In-demand locations are always going to be expensive.

The minute you start providing "special" apartments to a certain group of people you introduce tons of other (negative) issues. That person is basically locked into that apartment and can never move. Any issues with quality or landlord disagreements will be tilted towards the owner, because they know the renter will never leave. The whole thing is a mess.
The biggest thing for me is canonical URLs.

If I'm trying to BUILD an audience, I'm going to write content for free. If I already have a website I post content on, you bet I'm going to keep posting my free content there. Why am I competing with Substack on SEO for my own free content? That's just stupid.

Eventually, if I actually get an audience that's willing to pay, I would use Substack to offer that walled garden. Just like Youtube creators offer their free content on Youtube, and paid content through other means like Patreon.

Even Medium supports canonical URLs. I'm not sure why Substack isn't satisfied with being the distributor of my content, but also wants to be the home for it.
If you're comparing FreeBSD to Linux then I think that says a lot about the merits of BDFLs, really.
It's definitely already happened [1] (5 years ago at that). It usually involves some kind of ransom as well.

[1] https://www.infoworld.com/article/2608076/murder-in-the-amaz...
> Apple just announced that they’re dropping them in basically the next 5 years

That's a big PR hit, but in terms of sales - Apple isn't really significant customer of x86. But, if it'd trigger Microsoft to double down on Windows on ARM, that could then become a threat. But MS is playing with ARMs for years, and nothing significant came out of it yet.
My disappointment is immeasurable that I can't put in a Madhash and get the SHA-256 back ;)
How TS compiler API helps us use web workers while staying type-safe and modular
An article I just published on how Obvibase uses TS compiler to make it easy to massively use web workers with no detriment to type safety and project structure
Thanks! That’s really a great source. I am so glad I asked. Highlights:

- Fishing seems to be quite dangerous!!??

- Swimming is less dangerous than living (all other causes)!
Just checked for myself on FF77 on Gnome and on FF78 on Windows. I don't see a change of font size on either.

Is there something you need to opt in to?