skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate this thought process with the same burning passion you hate self checkout, probably more in fact.

You dutifully wander through the aisles gathering your goods, You slide your card, operate the pin pad, carry your own goods to your car. These are all goal directed activities you completed for YOURSELF in order that you could consume or use the products you have so acquired. There is no fundamental difference between scanning your own goods and sliding a card.

You aren't paying for someone to scan eggs and put it in a little bag you are paying for someone to manage every step between where the hen laid the egg and making it conveniently available on a shelf 1/2 a mile from where you live.

You aren't getting paid for doing it yourself like you aren't getting paid for carrying your own goods to your car instead you are benefiting from a price point enabled by the degree of automation and self service that the store engages in. Its ironic that people simultaneously flock to stores that have even slightly lower prices while complaining about lack of help. Simultaneously driving and bemoaning the same trend.

Your anecdote about bringing back the cashiers for the worst of both worlds sounds like a buggy whip manufacturer gleefully cackling at the unreliability of early cars. I believe we both know how THAT turned out. Given that Walmart was doing inventory on all its socks by walking past the socks with a wireless reader 10 years ago I'm pretty sure even your can of baked beans will have a chip in the label before long and your self checkout experience will be literally consist of solely being asked to pay for the goods in your cart. At this point paying an entire body to baby site each transaction would be wasteful and silly as 99% of them will consist of you touching a button on your phone or on store hardware to pay.

You say that self checkout is "ageist" in an era where even people turning 60 years old today probably saw a computer by the time they were 30. In 10 years this will be true of our 70 year olds. Are we just supposed to pretend that people who didn't have a phone shoved in their hand at 5 can't learn? That would seem in itself to be ageist. The reality is that old machines sucked pretty badly and older people don't like change and have taken their impression from older machines. This isn't the same thing as being incapable. For those that truly do have difficulties it ought to be sufficient to have staff on hand to help.

There is fundamentally no difference between waiting in line 2 minutes patiently in line and standing at a self checkout while the attendant helps others there for the same duration but people don't seem to react the same at all. In fact properly regarded what having 4 self checkouts with one attendant instead of 1 cashier with one computer is the probability of waiting far less.

Would you rather wait behind 3 other people or would you rather checkout out immediately and wait 30 seconds if you need help with the machine?
Al Franken got cancelled so that must be an old list.
After the whole FISA/Steel Report/FBI affair we are now supposed to trust the government with our secrets?
I work with fpgas, but from LabVIEW. NI have put some effort into making the same language work for everything including fpgas, and a graphical language is great for this kind of work.

It's so easy that it's quite common to see people pass off work onto the fpga if it involves some slightly heavier data processing, which is exactly how it should be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_representation
It seems strange to loan a digital copy of ... someone else's book.

As for the lawsuit going on after they stopped lending, well yeah the legal matter wasn't settled, so it can go on.
Hi 2020 Self,

You're in the middle of the pandemic, but don't worry. The vaccine will put everything back to normal by New Years.

And don't sweat the recession. It'll be a short one. In about 2 years, everything will be heating up again.

You will work through your bitterness at your parents. It's not a problem for me now. It was worth the effort and therapy ($$$).

That other relative is still mistreating people. People change very slowly, and only if they want to. You can help yourself by limiting your exposure to them.

You will finally get your daily habits: meditation, exercise, & sleep schedule. It doesn't happen until after the pandemic so don't stress about it now. Short term, try all those things you've been putting off. They will help: auto-shutoff on the TV & monitor & lights, clean and tidy the floor more often, and make those little habit reminders.

It's ok to dip into your savings. You'll fill it back up to 10x what it was.

You know those projects you've been thinking about and started but haven't made any progress on because social isolation has gotten you down? Well, you'll finally make progress on them. Three of them won't go anywhere, but one will be a big success! You're asking, "Which one!?" You have to find out for yourself. :)

By 2030, the pandemic and recession are just bad memories. You will have some hard times in the next 10 years, but nothing like 2020. 2021 will be full of hope. You will have so much fun in 2022. And you'll have some really great times every year after that. You will make several new friends of the highest quality. You will enjoy hundreds of board game nights and 30 trips over the next 10 years. The 2024 backpacking trip will be the best. We're planning another one and J&fam are coming since their kids are finally big enough to hike. :)

Relax. Everything's going to be fine.

-2030 Self
Oil based stain is the only way to go for sure. And cedar is definitely part of the problem. We purchased and refinished a Rainbow playset for my kid a couple years ago. We sanded out all the rot and old stain and used a very nice oil based stain. It held up much better but the cedar parts till needed constant maintenance.

The redwood posts and beams it came with however looked new after a light sanding and staining and there was never an issue with them.
I would imagine Apple had themselves protected before the SoftBank acquisition.
Thanks kanobo
Not the person to whom you're replying, but I believe they meant that Archive.org only loans out as many copies of a book as they have access to physically.

Mr. Kahle is now claiming that they kept that up during the emergency period, but expanding the pool of physical books to include those being held my libraries around the country. That doesn't seem to quite line up with what I remember, which was the term "unlimited," but we'll see how that shakes out in court.
You're missing the fact that Russia has been militarizing space longer than the US has... Russia is not responding to the US, the US is responding to Russia.
Further, the melting point of water can readily be reproduced with astonishing precision, which is often sufficient for the calibration of temperature sensors.
A doctor once said in some interview that if there really was a pill or treatment to enlarge your penis, you wouldn't need to market it through email, because everybody would know about it. I think crime prediction would follow the same rule.
Many machines are no longer using the scale. For example walmart and home depots both work like this while most grocery stores still do.
Same one I'd send to myself in 2010. "In any tough decision, playing it safe is easy to do and no one will blame you for doing it. People will even applaud you for it. Except you. 10 years later."
I think they specifically wanted to compare themselves to queue systems that use the database as the storage for queued jobs.
Buy on Google is now open and commission-free
Foundations matter, so legally this is a raw emotion debate and only changes the course of the IA (pivot while the forgiveness/permission quote still applies).

Maybe proposing an annual charity drive for "published" material to fill these new "shared resource" vacuums that you`ve uncovered will satisfy the hybrid-capitalism model that you desire.

Making teaching resources HC compatible (with permission windows or indefinitely) may make compromise-it-forward a movement that is uniquely yours.

Even though Nielsen and the music charts have not figured out how to accurately count digital figures, the tax deduction angle looks promising as part of a formal model.
I think the idea is: the library has 5 physical copies. IA loans 5 digital copies while the physical ones are locked up.

The number of library copies of the work in circulation is net zero.
thanks, this looks really nice and condensed.
Why not before? We've already established a system where most of the population is not engaging in productive work anyway.
I hate the concept of intellectual property as much as anyone but this was obviously illegal from the get-go. They lent out copies of books they didn't possess. Now they've put the entire legally-grey concept of copying physical books for digital lending in the judicial cross-hairs.
You are right, that is the central point. We have not been able to scale the small scale interactions our species evolved with to include thousands, let alone millions of people. Perhaps its impossible to do this, with brains such as ours. Nevertheless, the toxic result we get when we do try to do it is incredibly engaging, which is all that is required for the brokers to make money. This is not very different from a drug addiction. In both cases the victims are compelled, despite themselves, to engage in something that is harmful while the drug-dealers have absolutely no incentive to reduce or eliminate the damage.
Tim Bray: The Amazon Critic Who Saw Its Power from the Inside
Yeah, I don't think they're going to win this one, either.

Their best bet is probably to shame the publishers into dropping the suit, since they won't actually win if it comes down to it.

I assume that's what this is meant to do: shame the publishers.
oh, this looks like a fun book!
Apparently I should have said that I was ridiculing the people who constantly say that.

I have ridden many bart trains. Every now and then I'd smell pee - and the bart station bathrooms are biohazards for sure, but I've never seen needles or poop on a bart train before lol.
Poison pill them. polonium.io is now AWS Polonium. Then get the hell out of dodge.

Another thing you can do is just dump all your problems on them. Send all your freaks to interview there, and file every workplace complaint they can.

Best not to provoke people. Walk away from it eventually. Work for a dollar a year. If you don't they crush you. They crush you anyways, more so if you're a punk.
I've got a Fenix 5x, and I'm kind of old school about it. I don't use bluetooth, since my phone is typically off when I'm backcountry hiking. I load up all my traces and map layers over USB, have been for 12 years across a bunch of my Garmin devices
TypeScript Generics – The Easy Way
Why would you think you're paying the same price? Is grocery shopping not a competitive, low margin market?
They say that now, but man I only remember them announcing that the limits were off whole hog.

Not sure what the legal standing is loaning ebooks based on "well someone else isn't using their book".
Not just DOS, Windows as well. The WMF (Windows Metafile), EMF (Enhanced Metafile) and EMF+ formats are exactly that, except that primitives correspond to GDI or GDI+ calls. And they're still fully supported. Even MSPaint in Win10 can still open them, although it's not listed among supported extensions when you do File -> Open.
> Pretty sure they were heading that way even without US sanctions. Steal the IP, then make a competing product while paying zero licensing fees to ARM.

Huawei would be in a better long-term position if they chose RISC-V versus IP theft.
The title is compelling, but I can't read it because of Medium's obnoxious paywall ransom (https://i.imgur.com/sJWoFM8.png). Out of curiosity -- as an author, is this how you hope that Medium would treat your content? I don't know much about how people try to monetize their blogs, but the folks I've talked to who want to monetize their content seem to prefer something like Substack, which has a much more honest business model (in that they're up front about it all).

Anyways, sorry for the first comment on your submission to be a complaint about Medium, but it's really annoying to discover another domain pointed to their paywall.
Wait till we have the first moon bases and there will never be a new moon again.
Buy Destroy All Software's recording booth
My impression (based on a talk with both Simon Seegars - ARM CEO - and Jeff Williams - Apple COO - onstage) is that the relationship is pretty close.

You'd expect that ARM would be pretty responsive to the needs of one of its highest profile customers especially given the history and there is no reason why that would change with any sale.
Hopefully they can just settle it in a way that IA goes on, but maybe with some better guidance at the top of IA.
> But let's be clear, people very seldom 'create' knowledge, they extend existing knowledge.

That's semantics, you can just as easily frame that as "creating knowledge that will be added to the wealth of human knowledge".

The point is that IA's idea about unlimited parallel lending (that is, essentially, a free download portal) is a problem unless there's a different way to compensate the authors & publishers. I don't think they suggested a different way and are trying to make it about "knowledge itself", and not their unilateral abandonment of laws & contracts.
Actual models are already unrealistically attractive and fit so I'm a little bit worried about generated models are going to make people feel about themselves.
I recall when GCHQ forced The Guardian to destroy hard drives containing materials leaked by Snowden: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/31/footage-rele....

Giving intelligence agencies more power over the media and speech is an alarming idea.
> It's hard to imagine AI/virtual models being able to satisfy the high-end fashion industry's love for traditional pomp and pageantry.

That will be covered by the top 100 models of the time. Those are the ones that have millions of IG followers.

The next tiers down will absolutely be replaced. The model interviewed about it has the exact same opinion because she actually lives that industry.
Maybe... RISC-V might be up-and-coming, but current-day ARM designs are battle tested already and will continue to be very useful for the foreseeable future. Stealing the IP now allows them to produce great CPU's today with far less cost.

It's not trivial to build a CPU. Particularly if there is no existing industry with expertise in this field within your country.
Stable kernels 5.7.10, 5.4.53, 4.19.134, 4.14.189, 4.9.231, 4.4.231 released
Medvedev would have been better. He seemed to understand capitalism and how it could help Russians, but it seems the echo of the drunk fool[1] who sold Russia out was impossible to drown out, so mr Putin comes in on his white horse.

[1]The guy who pretty much let let any manoeuverer leach off the state bringing about the beginnings of its plunder by later oligarchs.
> Do you think that the free internet won't be slowly strangled until there's none?

In places like China, maybe! In places like the US, definitely not. After all, US Supreme Court literally allowed neo-nazis to march in public defending their freedom of speech[1].

> People will find so many reasons to kill privacy

They might, but they will always have to play catch up with the technical solutions (cryptocurrencies, strong encryption) etc. As long the fundamental protocol remains open, you can recreate your own stack.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_Am...
Typically fabless CPU/MCU companies design and implement netlists to these CPU designs. It includes all of the logic to implement the CPU. This netlist/VHDL/Verilog design is the protected IP they sell, as well as the rights to re-use, etc.

The IP itself can be placed into semiconductor fabric and combined with many other parts such as peripherals, flash memory, sram, etc.
There’s a new release about to drop which is Rails 6.1 that covers some interesting developments.

GitHub took all of their code associated with running “web scale” applications that need to talk to multiple databases at the same time and put that into a dead simple native Rails framework.

Basecamp have spent the last couple of years (I think?) working in secret on what they claim is an entirely new way of doing all things front end. There isn’t a LOT of details on that at the moment and it’s kind of built up as a big surprise. But everyone who has had a behind the scenes look seems unusually excited.

There’s a kind of interesting web based interface for describing and developing all kinds of boilerplate parts of your application that could really speed up development time https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/35489

Some cool security stuff like this https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1268236728134889475?s=21 and promoting things like WebAuthn to be first class citizens.

But basically at this stage you have 3 major contributors of Shopify, Basecamp / Hey and Github extracting huge parts of their internal systems and rewriting them as mini Rails frameworks with famously simple APIs for people to use.

That’s obviously in addition to everyone / everything else. I think the future looks bright.
> >If you can be traced across the web, then your real name can now be attached to all your activity.

> But that's not how tor works. It's not like a VPN where all your traffic comes out of one node. So if even if you logged into facebook using tor browser, it won't be able to correlate your other tor browsing activities. Even third party cookies won't work because tor browser has third party isolation enabled.

Except that the OP discussed a technique that exposed an attribute of the user's setup that (when combined with other such techniques) allows unique (albeit pseudonymous) identification of the user across requests and sessions (this is called fingerprinting). Add in correlation of the pseud identifier with a real-world identity via use of FB, and the user would be totally hosed.
What about the seller?
They definitely do.

But anyway, that's only a single example, one women was banned for posting a screenshot of a racist message she received.
I'm generally of the opinion that the tradition of never discussing salary is entirely pushed by management to prevent underpaid workers from asking for more.

If nobody knows how much they could be making, they can never really be sure of what they are worth.

At a company that size, it probably saves Corporate billions, while serving the average employee not at all.
You Don’t Need Profits Anymore
Depends on the legal requirements of that rollback
This frankly doesn't match my experience and I have to say I find it unlikely.

Before going into our AWS production S3 buckets, looking at our databases for customer lists AWS seems to be pretty careful to get an OK.

Now we are being told that production customer data was normal to trawl? How in the HELL are they passing all their certs with all production data so wide open. I do customer managed keys - I mean, this is a HUGE backdoor.

Either Amazon is lying about AWS security (and has fooled a bunch of others) or routinely trawling AWS customer production workloads for data is a false statement.
I live on the beach. Like actually I wake up and there it is staring at me in bed, my porch is covered in corrosion and salt air persists everywhere.

It may be an invention but a few years into living here damned if it isn't one of the few things that resists hedonic adaptation. I feel way more relaxed here, granted I was coming from a major metro but I sometimes things that get hyped up actually are great!
Of course they’re reading the new startup descriptions. That’s the sort of market research due diligence that’s expected of any PM.

They fly in startups for presentations to get a glimpse into their inner workings, you think they aren’t taking the time to read about what everyone’s doing first?
Citation needed!

The global employment rate is about 60%, for reference... So nearly all of the employed would have to have such a demoralizing job to make an absolute majority.

I think many relatively low income workers still have things meaningful social relationships at work, or perform jobs frequently rated as meaningful like nursing/farming, which can make up for some of it.

In nearly all western countries people could get all the things you mentioned even as unemployed, but most people choose to work, frequently because they like luxuries and status.
It makes sense to phrase it like that when politics worldwilde neglected the issue presumably hoping for best case scenarios.

Constantly banging the drum of the worst case scenario has lead to doom fatigue. That is the only explanation for the current apathy.
F-15 Eagle Seen Loaded with Loyal Wingman Drone for Previously Unknown Tests
It has been this way since MacOS 10.7 (Lion) released in 2011. I recommend keeping up with current events.
Military use of space != "militarization [of space]."

of course. in newspeak
Hey this looks great!

Can I use it alongside Big Sur on my MBP? dual-boot is an option?
Sounds great. Is the hardware available for international teams or just US?
I have MSI 450 MITX board and a Ryzen 3600 that is doing NAS/homeserver duty and it refused to POST without a GPU plugged in. Given its MITX and it only has a single slot needing it for PCI-E is a real pain, I intended to use it for SATA ports so it hurt my plans quite a bit.

Its motherboard dependent but its definitely something to check with AMD Ryzen motherboards.
RetroPsychokinesis Experiments Online--Influence an RNG in the past (1996)
It’s no problem, he has some regexs you can put in your DPI system to catch the connections instead. Regex is cheap right? Especially when it is long and complex.
More precisely their technique is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism.

That is you respond to any criticism in the form, "What about X". And now the tables are turned on your attacker.
No. We're not hurting, but we are not by any means financially independent.

You're kind of proving my point on "fears are typically unfounded". Missing a rent payment one month does not usually lead to immediately losing your home. Also, I would wager that a lot of people have friends and family through which they can get assistance if it goes longer than that. It's going to be extremely stressful, but it's not usually going to mean the person is suddenly homeless.

This is what I'm advocating: being more realistic about the worst case scenario. You're probably not actually going to get fired, and you're probably not going to end up homeless if you do.

If your personal, intersectional position is much more precarious, by all means, proceed with more caution. I'm just some dude on the internet. I don't know you. But I'm not writing specifically to you, I'm writing to the aggregate. It doesn't negate that most people have more fear than they need to about getting fired.
This is actually a good point that I didn't consider.
Show HN: Rust (PyO3) deserializer callable from Python
Cool name. What is it? This entire website only has those two inspirational sentences and a mission statement.
Can connect the watch to a computer using the charger cable and then grab the file from there.
Why? I stoped my donations when this started, because I could see the writing on the wall. I have better uses for my charitable dollars than paying legal fees and judgement for a lawsuit they are clearly going to lose.
Google has done this and worse. Some of you may remember this one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566929