skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's cool. If NASA and CNSA can work the details out, they can share comms; it's always good to have more redundant comms solutions in orbit.
The article talks to this.

"A second supposed advantage is that speech is better in the dark – that, as Levelt put it, gesture is ‘functionally dead during, on average, 12 hours a day’. This is probably overstated. As Emmorey points out, modern signers get by without much problem, even in dim lighting, and can use tactile forms of signing – that is, signing in contact with another’s skin – in a pinch. Our prehistoric ancestors likely didn’t spend many waking hours in pitch-black. Rather, they would have used fires for warmth, cooking, illumination and protection from predators. And, whether or not there’s anything to Hewes’s palmar depigmentation story, hand movements can certainly be seen by firelight.

"Another advantage of speech, it has been argued, is that it frees the hands for other activities. But, here again, this is likely too swift. Signers don’t seem to have much of a problem with this, using one-handed signs when necessary. And though most of what we think of as gesture takes place in the hands, critical visual signals can also be produced with the head and face – pointing, affirming, questioning. The list of putative advantages of speech goes still further. But this kind of ‘rear-view mirror’ reasoning is inherently shaky: we know the outcome and are motivated to explain it."
> Why not just dump it into linear files?

I guess because they want to query them, but in this case I would prefer the ELK stack (Elasticsearch + Logstash + Kibana).
No problem.
This article might be of some interest:
https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/
There are, of course, political challenges in persuading researchers to share data, primarily the fear of other researchers using those data for their own papers or to secure funding, depriving the originator of the work of the chance to do the same. I hear this at conferences quite often.
The part I'm working on is at attempt to catalogue the places were research data may be stored and the requirements various journals and repositories impose on researchers who want to deposit data there. Gathering this information, curating it and making it easily accessible is not trivial, and relies upon a lot of manual curation by specialist "knowledge engineers".
Does this device have any security features? It opens garage doors, acts as a 2FA key, etc, etc. I wouldn't put any of my own data on this thing unless I could lock it somehow, but it doesn't look like it's designed for that.

Other than that it looks really fun!
For the most part, city riding is pretty well served by Google maps IMO.

A few years ago, following Google maps cycling directions me and a couple of friends on road bikes were led through muddy forest trails, old rail road tracks and green lanes on a London -> Paris <24hr attempt (we took 26hrs).

The difficulty with cycling directions is that there's not a 1 size fits all solution, a roadie needs smooth road but would prefer it quiet and scenic, a mountain biker would rather those trails we found and a commuter/hybrid would be fine on those in short bursts but probably prefer the speeds of the roads.

If I'm doing something of an "epic" route these days I'll spend a bit of time trying to find a suitable GPX that I can sync to my watch for directions - usually that'll come from Movescount, OS maps, Garmin or just someone's blog of a route. For most other things, Google maps works fine.
...running at 451°Fahrenheit, and then the machine stops.
The article confirms a couple of principles that survived largely intact from my youth.

I'm most efficient when I'm 1) in service to someone and 2) prioritizing their needs.

This applies to pretty much any interaction with people - but especially to personal relationships like family and parenting.
How to Pretend You Are Smart
> It's been pretty standard for over ten years.

It's unheard of in the US.
Because you've already paid the licensing cost for the SQL database and have salaried DBAs taking care of it. And building an alternative solution (including HA, backups etc.) would cost more than $0.
It is actually not intentionally offline nor are the servers overloaded.

I am guessing there is configuration limit somewhere that triggered it, but I am looking into it now.

Thank you for letting me know and for the screenshot!
It seems to be the same as the retool pro version with audit logs.
For those who have trouble with the link:

https://archive.is/l6uNK
Or make the month of January 19 days. Absorb the remaining 12 days and February to a new biggest month, Trumpruary (40-41 days). Since there's no 20th of January, there's no end to his term. Dates can keep working and progressing, just with a Roman emperor-style month change added in.
That an opposite term exists does not mean that abandonment or a shift away from the original term mandates a shift to the opposite. If my computer stops "running very fast," that doesn't mean that it is now "running very slow."

In this way, "uncontrolled" is not a fair term; rather it seems to be used for a specific, possibly unfair purpose by a specific side in this argument. The fact is, IA had specific, qualitatively-controlling controls on their lending, and anyone who checked out one of the books could see exactly what that meant. Nuances are important here.
That's basically a DAG - directed acyclical graph. Data is transformed from inputs to outputs with no state or branching on the macro level of the transform. Lots of programs have parts that map to this very well. The cracks show when someone realizes this and thinks it is a silver bullet to build an architecture that ONLY does this. Then the parts that inevitably do need branching, state, and complex loops become a big problem. Combined with resource management (which can be thought of as mixing in branching and state) and the simplistic approach that seemed like a silver bullet turns into a nightmare once the realities of real software set in.
Show HN: Making explainability algorithms more robust with GANs
The old explanation that "dog bites man" is not news, but "man bites dog" is. I do wonder what the effect is when the news on a topic is all "man bites dog". Does an appreciable percentage of readers begin thinking that "man bites dog" is so incredibly common now that something must be done and that "dog bites man" is just a myth?
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/what-are-productive-assets-2...
> Stop watching ABC/NBC/CNN/FOX/NPR and Democracy Now?

I'm sorry, are you suggesting that NPR has lots of shouting? Have you ever listened to NPR before?
Wow! Thanks you very much for this insightful comment. It's very interesting.

Honestly, I've created Revolv for my own needs, as a "full-stack" developer.

I've often found myself wanting something like this: "A Terraform with Heroku-like features".

We've planned to target users that have low to medium cloud experience, so we need to show clearly how cloud architecture creation is easier by using Revolv.

The pricing is something we've been thinking about for a while. Currently, I don't have enough data to make a decision.

It's very difficult because it's not something that have been done yet.
Kafka Sizing Calculator: Launch the right cluster
I actually like making this kinda mistake, because it means I can get some easy performance gains in a bugfix release!
I've used Google Docs a lot for taking notes on managing my "home computer lab." It fell down when I tried to copy commands I typed into a command shell and then copied/pasted into a Google document and then pasted back into the command shell. There was invisible reformatting that broke this in non-obvious ways. .Two consecutive spaces were converted to something that looked like spaces in the terminal but were not interpreted as such by the shell

I've been using Mkdocs since which uses Markdown and that preserves text perfectly. The formatting is lacking a bit but I can put up with that for the benefit of knowing when I copy a command from a document to a command shell (and often running as root) it is going to be exactly the same as what I originally typed.

The major downside to me is lack of standardization. Things don;t always look the same depending on which Markdown renderer I'm using (editor built in, Github, Makocs etc.)
> How exactly is this designed for urban "parcel" delivery?

It doesn't look that much bigger than a UPS truck - and plenty of shops in urban areas receive deliveries on 7.5 tonne trucks.

The real thing that makes this designed for urban delivery is the 100-mile range and 56 mph maximum speed which mean it ain't designed for much else :)
The pricing model is a little strange to me. I would like to see a minimal free tier and then a micro pay-as-you-go query cost than a large set monthly cost.
The rovers are very advanced. And they are coming back!! That's a major plus.
But even then, normal files work great with (all non-Microsoft) software that is actually intended to work with this type of data at this scale.

You could do it on one machine with Pandas DataFrames or on multiple machines with Spark DataFrames. You could keep warm logs in standard log files and put everything else in Parquet. You could use a parallel database. Heck, you could use any of the cloud offerings to do it.

And you could use ElasticSearch. ElasticSearch would be fine for this.
Note that national accounting growth rate reporting conventions are local. In the US, official GDP comes from bea.gov, which annualizes the quarter-on-quarter growth by default. In the UK it's done by ons.gov.uk, which reports (seasonal-adjusted) quarter-on-quarter without annualizing. In China, www.stats.gov.cn used to report quarter-on-quarter in the past, but they changed to year-over-year rates (which is different from annualized quarter-on-quarter) a few years ago.
This is corporate mindset 101. Questions like "why don't you do X" make no sense to a corporation. The question is always "why should I do X". Every decision has a cost and a benefit, and things happen when benefits outweight the costs proportionally to the implicit risk.

Companies have been successfully working with ARM for a loooong time. It's a massive, well supported, ecosystem that works quite well (no customer complains about delayed/cancelled products related to ARM's performance). What does RISC-V offer that's worth jumping into the void?

That's startup territory, you won't see big companies betting big on RISC-V for a while, if ever.
What makes them different apart from the subject? People saying anthropogenic climate change isn't real are ignoring overwhelming historical evidence, as with Holocaust deniers.
I am not sure what you are trying to imply.
There is a little thing called COVID. All my main payment cards are contactless now. I am not an Apple card customer.
The author has been weirdly reluctant to support new OS features, but I've been using Day-O[1] for years, it has a customizable time format[2] that could easily do 8601

[1] https://shauninman.com/archive/2016/10/20/day_o_2_mac_menu_b...
[2] https://shauninman.com/day-o/datetime.html
Where is that response? I think if the EU regulators said that and pay for the redaction (the same as we pay for FOIAs) then that's fine but otherwise looking for "big question" OR "not good for us" OR "shut down" is a dragnet.

Happy to revise position if you have a source for that response.
Bad is Where You Start (a few thoughts on starting something new)
> Carbon taxes unquestionably fall hardest on the poor, as do consumption taxes generally. Everything from the products purchased by the poor to their modes of transport are more carbon-intensive than the rich.

That's exactly why we would want to link it with a transfer like UBI. If UBI requires too much cashflow for your taste, we could always use an expansion of EITC instead. If tax incidence on unemployed is too worrisome, then we can start shifting the EITC more towards a regular NIT.

And with due respect for your best friend, the consensus is overwhelming among prominent economists that a carbon tax is fundamentally a good idea:

- http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/carbon-tax/

- http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/carbon-taxes-ii/
The article talks about this and then goes on to point out some of the advantages of signing.

The article convincingly argues there's more to this than just your list of problems with hand gestures and the article
> wasn't being "rude" about it.

If we look at your statement, was there anything constructive?

> Um it's shouldn't really be down when you show it to people

If you say yes, then you are implying that the OP is stupid and didn't realize his website should be up when sharing it.

If you say no, then why did you say it?

A neutral statement devoid of feelings would be, "It looks like your site got the hug of death"

A kinder way to phrase it would be "Congrats on the launch! Looks like it wasn't able to handle the HN hug."

But you phrased it in a negative way, and that IS rude.

>Thank you.

You are welcome.
My credit union cards still have the old-style credit card number on the front (but no raised digits for the ker-chunk machine). My Chase card has the numbers in small type on the back in a non-contrasty color. It's not possible to read in non-ideal lighting conditions.
By media-constrained I'm referring to the fact that, as far as I could tell, once you checked out one of these books, there was no way to grab a PDF and run. There was no way to grab an EPUB and bob's your uncle, you're in Kindle or iBooks and reading your text. This constitutes an easily validated, qualitative, experiential difference from what parties to the case are implying. If this isn't the case, let me know.
If SV companies genuinely embrace the idea of working with much cheaper remote developers I don't think you'll have a choice.
It's hard to build a coalition to end police brutality if you basically ignore the majority of cases in favor of focusing on the relative differences across races wrt population size (even ignoring the frequency of crimes in those populations).
Thanks, I appreciate that feedback. That was definitely a jargony phrase. Mostly I'm wishing for a term to discuss these policies at the level of abstraction where UBI is situated, and I don't see one in conventional discourse at the moment.
I always write the docs. I point to the docs when I get questions. Most people skim over the once and then just ask questions later when they forget. I don't like being a human encyclopedia.
It would be nice if in addition to free, it mentioned whether or not the app was FOSS.

When I was searching a couple of years ago, there were no open source bike tracking android apps, and most of the "free" ones were trialware that popped up a subscription screen as soon as you tried to do anything complicated.

Also, I love the use of the <table> tag in this article.
Which licensee uses ARM branding?

You can use examples from any product in any market segment.

The Acorn RISC PC doesn’t count because they don’t make that anymore. It has to be a product on the market today.

I thought the entire point of ARM is that you license the ISA, add in your own special sauce to make your own thing and then sell it as your own thing.

There are ARM architecture systems in the machine room at work. They’re ThunderX2 not “ARM”.
Writers are free to make their work public domain if they want. The question is for all the author who have not decided to do that, but prefer to get paid for their work.

> Plenty of writers have been "insane enough" to write and publish without a business model for as long as written language has existed.

Only in the case of independently wealthy authors, which historically typically means nobility. Most non-wealthy authors have been depending on patronage, which means some other wealthy person decide what you write.

Copyright was revolutionary because it meant an author could exist without catering to rich or powerful patrons.
That despite Trump making noise, the US Federal govt would at still kick in and do it’s thing in an emergency. That confidence has been deeply shaken, and it’s hard to have faith in the US as a stable country moving forward.
Some, perhaps. Others would likely choose different careers, or would adapt.

FWIW, and I didn't clarify this enough in my post -- I meant this as an example solution of something that would change the incentives rather than the culture, not necessarily as my own full-throated endorsement; I do personally think that steps in this direction would be for the best, but it's not as though there wouldn't be downsides that would need to be managed/mitigated.
Tutorial on creating production-grade Python application
My first instinct was also that this is an intentional distraction from the bleak economic news, plus John Lewis' funeral, plus Herman Cain's death from covid19, plus the expiration of disaster relief funds for workers.

It may be a distraction, but that doesn't mean it's not also an attempt to shift the Overton window.
Whoa. A XTreePro clone!!
You'd think that employers would be all over UBI then because it means that they can instantly cut the wages of their workers by the amount of the UBI and that more people will have money to purchase their goods and services.
Interesting tool!

When I first saw this, the term "GOMP" made me thing of gnu gcc "GOMP" --> gnu open multi processing.
All: don't miss that there are multiple pages of comments in this thread. That's what the "More" link at the bottom of the page points to. Or click these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23993259&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23993259&p=3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23993259&p=4

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23993259&p=5

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23993259&p=6
So "aircraft" is narrowed to the subset powered + heavier-than-air aircraft. But there too I would argue with NASA. NASA itself has already flown a heavier than air powered aircraft on mars! They landed the Curiosity rover using a rocket-powered "sky crane". That device was a powered aircraft. It controlled the decent of the rover, delivered it gently onto the ground, and executed an escape maneuver. That was a heavier-than-air, powered, aircraft flying/navigating/performing tasks, over Mars, in 2012.

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/3...

At most, I'll give NASA that this is the first extraterrestrial rotary winged aircraft, the first helicopter.
I don't think I disagree with you (is that the same as agreeing?). I wasn't describing what I think would realistically happen, I was describing what I think would be best.

I just wish we could find a way to give people money with no judgement of any kind, political or otherwise. That's probably asking too much....
You only need to send something optimized to pick something up and launch it. You don't need to send the digging gear/packaging gear that this Rover was going to use anyway
This is actually a really nice site, and I think I'm going to be replacing my Google News tab with it.

Really great work!
I found the description of the cryptocurrency-space as a religion well-written and interesting.

Of course, comparisons such as that are relatively common and has been made many times for the free software movement as well for example.

However, his criticisms of cryptocurrencies are quite off IMO.

> However cryptocurrency companies do not produce anything, instead they offer synthetic financial products which are marketing to the generic public as investments

MakerDAO is basically a decentralized lending facility (i.e. "banks") and Compound is a decentralized money market.

These are actual financial products, they serve real purposes that can also be found in the legacy financial system.

Cryptocurrency engineers are building an alternative, decentralized financial system that cuts out middle men and allows anyone access to financial services (such as accepting money from anywhere in the world, or being able to lend out your capital) that were previously only available to select people.

In one month, July 2020, the Federal Reserve printed more money than the first 200 years of the existence of the USA.

There are serious problems with the legacy financial system, and it's good that people are building systems in parallel.
A Dart/Flutter Implementation of the Signal Protocol from Mixin Messenger
While IA has temporarily lifted the restriction on number of copies (but not others like lending time), the complaint also goes against CDL in general, making it very dangerous. See for e.g. paragraph 8 and 10.

"IA’s self-serving assertion and promotion of “Controlled Digital Lending” as both an actual legal doctrine and a justification for its infringement affronts the most basic realities of the law and the markets it propels. As a matter of markets, IA’s one-to-one conflation of print and ebooks is fundamentally flawed. Digital books are inherently different from physical books. They can fly around the world in a second; they do not degrade over time as physical books do; and they require devices to read them."

https://publishers.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Filed-Comp...
This reads like the most Microsoft or most legacy-on-prem problem ever. Why on earth would you do this, and even then not take the opportunity to do it right while you are migrating anyway? Are you mad?

Well, that was my first reaction anyway. It seems to me that this is more of a 'when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail' to me; if you are a vendor shop (i.e. Microsoft-only) and you are a DBA and specifically just for MSSQL, then this is probably the best way you could come up with, based on the skills, experience and tools at hand. It does make me wonder if at any point someone thought to ask for help instead of keeping this going.
I think people miss the wait part of await and hence forget they can separate the creation and consumption of a promise. Should have been called waitFor!
I know you probably mean road cyclists, but I haven't seen Trailforks mentioned. Nothing beats it for singletrack route planning.

Komoot is good too, but at least in my area of NA the elevation calculation is off by quite a bit. When I've used it for longer routes, I've ended up putting in at least 1,000 ft more of climbing than it has told me would be on the route. Trailforks doesn't have that problem.

If you have a local IMBA chapter, most of them have accurate trail profiles as well.

For road cycling routes, I use Strava. If you want detailed routes that are popular with local cycling clubs, Trek stores usually have surprisingly good handouts on local routes.
I'm not an Apple card customer either, but I use Apple pay with my cards usually on my watch, although once in a while it doesn't work at a terminal and I have to pull out my phone (which is annoying since facial recognition doesn't work with a mask on). I understand similar things exist for Android.
NASA's Perseverance Rover Launched on Mission to Mars
>storing traffic logs in an SQL database is a very bad idea, especially if you have 40TB of it

I get this question asked a lot of times in the interview.

Why is it a bad idea to store logs in a SQL database? It has the ACID properties baked in and it is pretty reliable. What is the better alternative? I guess I have never worked on anything that would require keeping track of 40TB of data because of which the drawbacks aren't really obvious to me.
Curious - did anyone look at the first example and not immediately see that the requests would occur in series? IMO the “await” actually makes this much more explicit.
It's funny, I remember looking at Quorum's anonymity layer Constellation and thinking to myself how odd it was they wrote it in Haskell; generally a sign there are no adults in the room when coming from a JPMC tier company where actual money will be piped through it. It turned out they had to rewrite it in Java to get it to function reliably.

I have no opinion on Cardano,but obviously something from the ML family is useful if you want to build smart contracts.