skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" it depends on the ambient temperature and how much stuff is in said freezer."

It also depends very much on the isolation of the freezer.

And to what temperature it was set.

And of course, how often you open it.
I don't follow what distinction you're making here. Stallman said Please do not distribute my speech in any other format. That means he's not ok with you distributing his speech using, say, H264.
What's a good way to judge people?
Toshiba shuts the lid on laptops after 35 years
Does "bloody conquest" sound better?

Colonialism is a specific institution, it distinct and separate. It does not mean that mongoles were better, but they dealt with subjugated countries differently. They did not redraw borders of countries, or forbid people from mining their own salt.

"After his morning bhajan, Gandhi waded in to the sea shore and picked up a handful of salt, proclaiming that with the handful of salt he was proclaiming the end of the British Empire. The police arrived and arrested thousands of national leaders including Gandhi. Gandhi's bold defiance of the salt law encouraged other Indians to break the law as well"
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I'm just a single generation away from poverty to the point of - on one side of my family - actual infant malnutrition. Why am I supposed to feel responsible for the actions of people that were geographically and ethnically distinct from my ancestors, simply because they happened to share the same skin colour and kingdom? Not many people in industrial Wales seemed to share in the benefits of colonialism. Many of the British elite were/are Norman: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2479271/1-000-years...
It is, if you choose average fabrics like the department store. You can choose the highest end fabrics and you can easily spend thousands on a suit. Retail margins on clothing are outrageously high and obviously use average quality fabrics. However, after their costs of running the store, discounting/liquidating rack items haven’t moved, their operating profit isn’t very high. Custom menswear operations don’t have this waste hitting their bottom line.
> and that users’ data “have been encrypted by the MD5 algorithm”

Literal head-desk. They ought to be sued. There is so much wrong with that one statement.
Good point, actually. At least for me, reveals a blind spot. Out of sight, out of mind.
AMD Files Patent for Big.LITTLE-Esque Hybrid Computing Technique
It makes more sense to have this oath for all tech workers, not just software engineers. Software Engineers may have less visibility on matters that determine ethics.

Managers handle the context of application of a software.
I've been having trouble sleeping lately, because, you know... the World.

I've decided to channel some of this anxiety into making more things for other people. This might be art. I'm not sure.

It's more likely marketing, if I'm being honest. Sign up for my Newsletter™

Enjoy and ping me if you are real or not please. I desperately need to know.
> How would you stop them entering cities?

I do not know but this is besides the point. I still do not see why we should protect the insects that are in the city as they do not bring us any benefit.

> Anything non-invasive? Anything not causing a serious public health risk?

Let me rephrase it, which bugs should one avoid killing because they benefit us directly or indirectly? Only bees come to my mind at this moment.

> which birds should you avoid killing?

The ones that benefit humans directly or indirectly.

> Which big cats are OK to shoot?

Big cats tend to not come to the cities so they do not really pose any danger to humans.

> Is it because they're so numerous?

In general they are gross, numerous, invasive, and they carry diseases.
USSR made an incompatible "clone" of Apple-II, called AGAT with better graphics. Also 8086 clone VM86 AFAIK was significantly reingennered. Some PDP-11 clones were also designed from the scratch.
>The MCAS is an optional component that reduces certification and training costs

No. The MCAS was a "necessary" component for pitch stability - without it, a 737 MAX in a pitch-up attitude would, in the absence of correcting inputs, pitch up further and further until it stalled. Without it, the airframe is uncertifiable, full stop.
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I created an API to generate PageSpeed score of a website in animated svg format with multiple options like strategy and category. This svg can be added to your README (of website)

Try this here: https://github.com/ankurparihar/readme-pagespeed-insights

Example for github.com: https://pagespeed-insights.herokuapp.com/?url=https://github.com
Tech Confronts Its Use of the Labels Master and Slave
With proper precautions in an outdoor format, risk seems manageable. There's nothing about grilling that really requires close physical proximity.
Crocodile tears, and a lot of cheap virtue signaling.

I have some friends who have worked at MSFT for a long time, about 20 years or so. There was a time when they used to talk about open source as if it was cancer (~2011). When MSFT started embracing the cancer, they didn't really up and leave. Now they are all talking about how great this open source thing is.

But even funnier was when they used to complain about Google's rampant user tracking. And then one day they added targeted ads into Windows 10. Did these people suddenly decide "enough is enough" and go and join the EFF? You already know the answer to that.
A lot of thanks giving is done at the lower level.
My country of residency is not part of the European Union. But you are correct, that there are sadly always problems in most human made systems due to its inclusion of the problematic element it self. Us.
I don’t think this is true in America. Doctors are limited on what will benefit the system monetarily. Healthcare administrators will decline suggested procedures from doctors due to expense.
I’m laughing a bit thinking of the absurdity going on in my brain. While reading the parent comment there were two parallel streams going on in my brain:

“That is so awesome that the community rallied together like that”

“What the duck are they doing having a large gathering in their yard?! Surely they could have figured out a safer way to do that! If someone got COVID during a hurricane with no power that could be really bad!”
>(You should read up a bit on this; it’s obvious you have not since you call it “copy written” when the term is “copyright” and a work can therefore be “copyrighted”. The term is about who has the right to copy a given work, and has nothing to do with “writing”.)

Perhaps the parent comment was from some country where things are different, like the language.
Äh? Raumzeitwellenbündel? I can haz Zeitkristalle with that?
Related question: Does anyone have a working SHRDLU to play with? The original code has been posted but it's Maclisp, so it probably needs porting or emulation and a little packaging. Also, I think the (blocks world) visualization layer is somewhere else?

https://github.com/stuartpb/shrdlu
>"Initially the battery was reporting itself dead, as you would expect for a 23 year old battery. On a whim I tried the “briefly near-short the battery with a continuity tester in both directions and see if it will take a charge” thing while I was probing to see if it showed any potential (it did, around 6v) – I got lucky, not only did it not catch fire, the original battery now charges to “full” and holds a nontrivial charge, it claims an hour or two in the battery meter which isn’t far from original claimed endurance."

Interesting! A technique for reviving (well, enough to boot and run!) apparently dead laptop batteries... I did not know this was possible!
The great American sci-fi utopia or dystopia? (Kim Stanley Robinson)
No, he's not. But it sounds like he would tolerate H.264 plus Theora, if the Theora version was always provided to people that the H.264 version was provided to.
Right, because there was no Democrat president before.
I am assuming, based on the fact that it's a project by an American company, that this is largely being done by functionally monolingual English speakers. I wouldn't want them to attempt to speak for other cultures. And I wouldn't want to shame them for not attempting to speak for others.

It's a bit unfortunate that they use the word "human" so expansively when the scope is so limited, it's true. But it's a new project, so let's give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that that's meant to reflect the project's aspirations. Even if the reality, after only a few short months, doesn't quite achieve it. Tech culture is supposed to value iteration, and accept that things won't necessarily get it all right on the very first try.

A more constructive way to make sure other cultures are reflected would be to say, "Hey, this is a great idea. But looks like you're only covering Anglophone sources right now. Can we help by contributing additional sources?"
People run Java in production without issues, but we know today that languages shouldn't have nullable-by-default pointers. Software is infinitely malleable: that you can make something work is no argument that it's the right thing.
Vine imploded under their own steam and were shut down by Twitter, and FB never had a directly competing product?
Interesting point I'd never considered until this thread...

Why not tip the freezer / fridge onto its back? So that doors open "up"?

Aware they're typically not perfectly flat on the rear face, but close enough you could support it with minimal work. And if it's unpowered, there's no need for clearance back there.
If you're going to the trouble of doing solar it might be better to just do a small system with batteries to power other things as well like this:

https://fridge0.branchable.com/

Or go a bit higher end and put a larger solar and battery instalation with an inverter that can power the whole house. As solar panels and lithium batteries come down in cost that's becoming increasingly attractive for rural areas where the grid is flaky the best of times.
Being Dutch, I think this can be attributed more to the feeling of 'having been really big in the past' than what actually happened during that period. The Dutch, I mean, suffering from a Calimero complex as we are.
I disgree. The max value is what, 24%? You really want a chart with 75% unused blank space at the top, with all the data compressed into the bottom quarter of the area?
Jumpstarting an EV
You are conflating income stability with process stability.

Income stability benefits workers, because when their income is stable (same amount in each paycheck, paychecks in regular intervals) it is much easier to make a budget. There is less worry about, "Will I get enough hours this week to pay my rent?"

Process stability often benefits employers over workers, but sometimes it doesn't benefit either employers or workers. Flexible schedules are generally an acknowledgment by employers that they're not losing much (and may even see productivity gains) by allowing workers to have some wiggle room in their hours -- but workers gain a lot from this flexibility.
Ask HN: Low latency minimalist FaaS provider. Thoughts?
I’m frustrated with the high latency and complexity of the larger hosting providers. The smaller providers I’ve seen restrict language choice or have high latency themselves. I’d love to provide minimalist low latency language agnostic pseudo-FAAS hosting. Something along the lines of “give us an Alpine Linux binary and supporting files and we'll run it in a managed container with some RAM and low latency disk space”.

Thoughts? In particular, am I nuts to bemoan 200ms+ (and highly variable) server-side latencies? Sometimes I feel like an old man shouting into the wind...
Stupid bullshit, we need a Hippocratic Oath for CEOs if ANY OF THIS COLOSSAL MESS IS EXPECTED TO IMPROVE!
If you are able to factor out all the despise you have for Uber, I think the article has a lot of good points.

There is no great option in between full employment and a contractor. There is a trade-off for both employers and employees in both agreements. Different people want different degree of benefits. It seems to me that everybody would win if there was more flexibility here, and this is what the article seem to be suggesting. Seems reasonable.
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"Dyslexics of the world, untie!"
When I bought my apartment I was at the notary, with the previous owners, a bank representantive and me. The bank person gave me a paper payment for which she had filled already and I had to sign it.

Here in Estonia, or northern europe.. or even eastern europe, nobody uses cheques, nobody has ever seen one I guess.

I haven't bought a car yet, but I guess I would just get the payment details for the car and go to a bank office, give them the seller's bank account information and tell them to transfer the money.

Big purchases won't be helped by instant transactions or mobile banking because there are daily limits on your account, for your protection, so that when someone somehow manages to get into your account (though it should be impossible.. they would need to get my mobile phone, and get my 2 pin numbers that I have memorised. Maybe when someone is forced to go to their internet bank by threat of violence? and transfer money then), then they couldn't take all the money in the account in one day.
Right on, Jeff8.

And when Teddyh says "simple numbers like a dollar amount can’t be copyrighted" he's ignoring the fact that google isn't just copying dollar amounts. Google's copying a data set which establishes a dollar amount as a net worth of a particular person. That's a database.

The only difficulty for CNW will be coming up with the money, time, and emotional energy to achieve a result in court over as many years as it takes Google to exhaust all legal possibilities, of which there are as many as the defendant has dollars.

The problem is, we don't have a justice system, we have a legal system.
If you've never encountered anyone with absolute pitch, the experience is much like colour vision. When (non colour-blind) people look at something, they can immediately say "green", "red", "purple", whatever. There is no lag whatsoever. Same with people with absolute pitch. Play a note, and they can tell you its name without lag.
Bill Gates Calls Microsoft's Acquisition of Tik Tok a Poisoned Chalice
We need an Ethics Oath to be required by law for anyone in the C-Suite or Corporate Board. That's where this needs to begin.
Oh don't start me on elitebook and HP's 'trackpoints'... So disappointing. Maybe it's the drivers, maybe it's some kind of placebo effect but the thinkpad one is and always has been so much better...
Yeah, what a fool I am for discussing the topic at hand. You are the one polluting this thread with ad hominem attacks and overly defensive windmill fighting against imaginary anti-maskers. Again, read the thread before you decide to jump into a conversation next time.
> Short answer: because we said so.

what is this bs?
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Stretching may have cardiovascular benefits
I am so confused by Uber's financials.

I do not understand what they spend well over 8.5 billion on.

Their software for riders and drivers is quite good and certainly tons of engineer-hours have been poured into the front and back ends.

Are they paying their drivers more than they're charging riders? Or have all the billions gone into their moonshot projects like self-driving cars? Both?

Because otherwise, to me it's almost like, how do you not turn a profit on rides? Once they've got their app and infrastructure going (again, no small expense) then any rides they arrange should be profit.

Clearly, I am misunderstanding something about their business to an astronomical degree but I don't think I'm alone.
>Evidence for improved systemic and local vascular function after long‐term passive static stretching training of the musculoskeletal system

https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1113/JP27...
No, this is true in general. Maybe there’s been some bugs (I would be surprised, can you link these multiple examples?) but Google respects robot.txt files
It’s a colossal waste of time. An obvious failure mode.

But I think you already know that.

The reality is, as a programmer, you’re never going to convince your non-programmer cofounder to stop wasting time and money on dumb shit.

At least it’s just $10k on a lawyer. Some people blow $100k on branding. Other $60k on executive recruiting. Wait until you get bigger and these people are booking $240k a year in expenses, putting their wives and girlfriends on payroll, renting offices and apartments downtown...
That's the most wonderful thing of GPL'ed software - enforcing the no-selfishness rule.
exactly, and one don't even need to comment on HN, but can just open an issue or even better a pull request ;)
Why does everything have to be about money? This view is really prevalent on HN and it's actually really tiring to read week after week.

It boils down to this: some people prioritise other endeavours. And if your response to that is 'but they could be doing the same thing AND getting paid £££' then I guess they just don't care as much as you might do.
And more worrying: Java, the language.
> unplugged Google Home

So he talked to it and play that it responds? Similarly to how many kids play that they talk on the phone?
I think the first problem is you are talking about Wells Fargo. One of the worst banking options imaginable in the US.

While limits might not be much different from other banks, at the very least it's not Wells Fucking Fargo.
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No, we are merely the technical hands of our management's will. AS IF WE HAVE A CHOICE WHAT WE DEVELOP! This is an asinine attempt to blame those not in control. The managers and the owners and the corporate board need to have this Ethics Oath, and it needs to be enforced by law.
The webpage is weird. For these interested, it seems to be about:

https://github.com/DanielBMarkham/OnePageChess
A throwaway joke
I think a hippocratic oath for CXO's and other managers are more needed.
If its not small enough, they do their best to crank up the water and tie weights to the government.
A New Realme Smartphone with a 5000 Mah Battery Gets FCC Approval
he heheh, I guess that's is a good an application as anything else.

Last month there was a conference on applied category theory https://act2020.mit.edu and as part of it there were some excellent introductory tutorials, which I highly recommend for anyone interested in CT:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCOXjXDLt3pYPE63bVbsV...

It's the first time I watch lectures on CT and I actually understand something ;)
How to protect your business from inside attacks?
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I think what parent is saying is that buying that much food "just in case" and then having to buy generator backup because you now have such an investment in that food is expensive insurance. Personally, I did buy some extra frozen food early on when grocery stores were pretty wiped out but nothing remotely like that.

What makes me periodically think about a generator is a sustained outage in freezing temperatures in winter. Given that more or less the worst that can happen in summer is I have to throw out a bunch of food, I'm not sure the generator makes sense.
Threats that come from the inside are more frequent than most of us even realize. Best practices can help to protect your company’s data security.
But the government already has all the data about you. Just in lots of places and kind of disorganised I guess.

I see that having an ID number for everyone would better help to organise the data and let the government offer better services. Like.. when one deparment has asked for my address then it stores it somewhere, and when some other department needs it, then it gets it from the database, and doesn't have to ask for it again, and again and again on every interaction.
> both build on top of language environments from mainframes

They also had virtual machines and five nines before it was cool.
There's really not much you can do. If you take it out and throw it away, the stench will just waft back into the house because the windows are open because there's no A/C. You'll also get curious critters at night and if they knock it over and drag it across the yard, well, now you have bigger problems.

Trash doesn't run because trees and lines are down, btw.
Ouch, right - basically, "dumping": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)
What Is Better? Experience Replay or Parametric Model – Reinforcement Learning
I suppose in the future, anything is possible—but I don't see it. You're asking the local device to do Z translations of a 3D scene when all it has is an already-rendered 2D image.

And the local device will just have a 2D image. Even within a single, local PC, multi-GPU rendering is basically dead for video games because no one has been able to get them working reliably. And that is with the full bandwidth and latency of PCIe.
How did you arrive on that pricing?
No, we need no such thing. Any such "Hippocratic Oath" would just become a statement of loyalty to the politics of the people in charge of drafting and administering the oath. The recent and still-raw experience of activists in tech companies damaging their coworkers and their company under the guise of "ethics" should tell us that this word is just a sneaky disguise for politics.
The proposed European supergrid is also very interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_super_grid
Advertising is expensive and probably invested money in new ventures.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jul/08/uber-to-l...
(MiSTer is an open-source FPGA-based retro emulator)

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/MiSTer
What? Pearl Harbor? Morally, the entire bombing campaign against Japanese cities, including both conventional and nuclear bombing, was justified by deliberate extermination of Chinese civilian population (estimated 2.7 million civilian deaths in North China for years 1940-1942).

> In a study published in 1996, historian Mitsuyoshi Himeta claims that the Three Alls Policy, sanctioned by Emperor Hirohito himself, was both directly and indirectly responsible for the deaths of "more than 2.7 million" Chinese civilians.

Sankō Sakusen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Alls_Policy

(That "justification" doesn't look valid in my eyes, don't take me wrong. Eye for an eye, civilian for a civilian?...)

Alas, it certainly looks like US had already decided that they indiscriminately target Japanese civilians long before they had nuclear weapons. The single most devastating conventional raid on Tokyo on 10 March 1945 claimed 90-100 thousand deaths (it's slightly more than Hiroshima).
Is it for designers only?
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Absolutely. This is an example of the poor design of the C language. Other languages that were around at the time C was created choose `:=` as assignment and `=` for equality tests, making this type of typo quite impossible.

Common Lisp makes the Hamming distance even larger; equality tests are written as `(eq foo bar)`, while changing a value is `(setf foo bar)`. Common Lisp may have features which are undesirable in an OS kernel (garbage collection), but it does make the code wonderfully clear and easy to read.
n-GP wrote: > From an evolutionary perspective, what could possibly be the reason for this?

and my point is “there need not be one at all, perhaps absolute pitch is a spandrel.”