skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now THAT would hurt, but I feel like it would lead to a similar lawsuit to the Epic Games Vs. Apple.
Yeah, investigate all those pictures of Trump partying with Epstein and Maxwell.
>Because the only things that the for-profit company can do with it's profit are reinvest it, or give it to the non-for-profit.

It can also pay it's Cxx's nice salaries and hefty golden parachutes, which makes it a for profit for them...
Why do you even want to know, or judge, anyone's donations ? Do you ask store clerks who did they donate today ? Their manager ? Private life and personal decisions should be left personal.
Same thing with health insurance.
For simple image manipulation, I still use a very old copy of paint shop pro (pre corel)

It starts instantly without the irritating delay of even great utilities like gimp.

I wish there was a modern gimp light that reduced the features and start times.
> the leadership communicates and appreciates as such.

What does this mean, especially the latter?
Tweek & https://octopus.do is the same team
> Is it a cost thing or a capability thing? i.e. is it possible for Starlink to have what they want without interfering with terrestrial astronomy or are we really choosing one or the other? Quite sympathetic to astronomers if it is cost thing, but undecided (maybe slightly leaning Starlink) if it is capability thing.

I think it's a bit of both; right now SpaceX is trying to get the brightness of their starlink sats down to ~7th mag (they're at 5th mag now, they have an experimental coating that should bring this down to ~6th mag), and it sounds like if they can do this the problems will be far more manageable (for LSST specifically this amounts to a few extra months of observing time, however the impact even with these mitigations is strongly dependent on the specific science case).

However, this work should be done before approval. What happens when SpaceX realizes that getting things down to 7th mag is too difficult and costly and time-intensive? Without regulations in place, I would expect they shrug their shoulders, do some PR to frame the problem as "us vs those pesky astronomers" and launch what they want to launch. We have virtually no leverage. But from the standpoint of people that operate in space pretty regularly, what we're asking is pretty basic. Astronomy of course isn't going to be thrilled with the amount of satellites growing by a factor of 10-100x, but we live in the real world. But something that monumental needs to be done thoughtfully and carefully and with respect to the billions of dollars of R&D already paid for that will be impacted.

> Assuming that within 20 years we can have sufficiently cheap space launch systems that there are sufficient geosynchronous telescopes for amateur use would that solve this problem?

Again, space delivery costs are only one factor. Not to say this wouldn't enable new kinds of instruments or make some new things possible, but it would not solve the problem, no. There are too many things that can't realistically be done from space.
No offense, but I can see that you don't work in a college or university, or for that matter have experience with Gresham's Law.
Why the J-core open processor is cool
British Computer Society Open Source Specialists

Presented by Rob Landley

The patents on the bestselling processor of the 1990’s finally expired, and it’s been cloned as open hardware. J-core scales from running SMP Linux down to fitting in a tiny 5000 cell ICE-40 FPGA, and we just uploaded a new open source GPS receiver built around it to github.

Rob Landley maintains the J-core Board Support Package, used to maintain busybox, maintains toybox (the command line utilities used by Android), and used to be the linux kernel documentation maintainer.
That's true, but GP is making a distinction between diploma mills that have some underlying substance, vs. ones that are completely fake and invented for purpose.

From the POV of a student entering a job market, anthropology or international studies may be completely useless. But the student gained real knowledge that is useful for some jobs (even if they're not pursuing them). And it can be useful in their life. To use a CS analogy, I never needed calculus or control theory during my $dayjobs, but I use them for myself, to better understand the world and occasionally on hardware hobby projects.

Meanwhile, those fake degrees are literally scams. I.e. students (and their families) are being scammed for their money. The topics are self-referential (invented to be taught), and exist in order to justify spending few years on them, so that the degree rewards putting in work - which makes that degree valuable for employers in the first place. And during the course of that degree, various entities - universities, textbook publishers, etc. - are bleeding students dry. It's not just a degree mill, it's a money printer. The degree becomes purely proof of work, and on top of wasted years of your life, you also have to pay for it.
> easiest solution was to simply turn off the alarms

This is so common... it's like the holy trinity of "Seconds from Disaster"
Nvidia Built Most Powerful Industrial Computer in the U.S. in Three Weeks
>Oh come on, let's stop it with the CEO bashing. Especially around he salary. You need a CEO

Citation needed.

>But you do need that person leading the company. And you need to retain them.

I don't even need / want a company. I want the non-profit organization I was promised, with community leading, and perhaps 1-2 BDFLs to make the final decisions.

Linux did well without a CEO...
Yeah, I narrowly escaped a burning building. Freaky stuff.
I was paying in excess of $112 US a month for the priviledge of DSL that had about a 60% uptime on fair weather days, and 0% uptime on rainy days.

I also forgot to mentiom how my DSL speeds got that low; one section of telephone wire on my rural street had literally no usable pairs left (they had all corroded into nothing). the linesman had to reroute our phone line about 1.5miles out of the way in the opposite direction of the CO to get us reconnected. after that, if you picked up the phone, all you'd hear was a ghostly whistling instead of a dial-tone. the only reason I still had a 'working' DSL connection was from modifying the firmware on my D-Link DSL modem to do horrifying things. :|
If there's a bug between the specifications and Chrome, what incentive is there for Chrome to change? How do you check/verify the specifications if there is only one implementation?

Given a single implementation, what incentive is there to develop open standards?

How do you innovate (in standards, JavaScript performance, rendering, etc.) if there is only one group working on them?

Case in point: Firefox is the only major browser to provide MathML support. Where is the incentive to get that implemented in the other browsers, especially given MathJax?

Where is the competition to innovate in things like web tools (layout analysis -- esp. for flexbox, etc., accessibility property (WCAG, WAI-ARIA) navigation/investigation) given a single implementation?
Vit-D and COVID19 update: big review (Benskin) peer reviewed; tide turning?
For months I updated my review of evidence that low D worsens C19. Is the tide starting to turn? (As it did for masks.) Hopeful signs lately. And time to go back to other things. So here's a sign-off update:

Benskin's great review: www.researchgate.net/publication/342976453_A_Basic_Review_of_the_Preliminary_Evidence_that_Covid-19_Risk_and_Severity_is_Increased_in_Vitamin_D_Deficiency
is I'm told peer reviewed & accepted. Been in review a while so some stuff out-of-date: Shouldn't include withdrawn Indonesian study & Jun-16 cut-off misses important Israel study & others, but author gets criticism of bad studies right, notes the mistake in setting RDA & has great comprehensive review of early mechanism papers & group-level association studies.

There's been suspicion the D+C19 relationship is explicitly suppressed by various forces. I'm not going to dig into that. I hope someone does someday. Will those on the correct side be rewarded & naysayers/suppressors judged by history?

Despite antipathy, recent weeks have seen many more mechanism papers & other reviews plus a change in media tone. Eg "There has been a clear shift in recent weeks towards putting a greater emphasis on the role of vitamin D in public health messaging."
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/vitamin-d-keep-you-safe-18690173

Vit D now the top trending clinical topic on Medscape: reference.medscape.com/viewarticle/933781

I've been updating my review & 1pager as studies come out but will now stop paying close attention to get back to work on aging bio. No idea if I've helped with D/C19, but mostly out of my hands now. Happy to make updates to my 1pager agingbiotech.info/vitamindcovid19facts
for important items if contacted.

Aging is an even bigger risk factor for C19 than low D, just less easily modified but not immutable. More in my Tweet'ed version of this message:
twitter.com/KarlPfleger/status/1293679019716558848
This article mentions the wifi reason.

https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/accusations-emerg...
Oslo! I'm looking for a job, there. Think it's doable without speaking Norwegian?
Cell companies are also the last people you want to get your "main internet" from. Bandwidth caps, throttling, accounts shut down because actually what they meant is that "unlimited" means "200 GB/month".
The sun is actually not much of a factor in there. What makes this happen is that the mulch rots which is an exothermic process and it insulates very good as well. So the core temperature of pile will slowly creep up until you reach the ignition point. The same will happen to bales of hay that are taken from the field too wet.
German here. I am using DKB since forever. Not as hip as N26 but pretty solid online bank with free VISA and free cash withdrawals. Unfortunately I have learned that they also invest in funds that ultimately fund weapons manufacturers.

A few years ago I have gotten a joint account with my wife over at GLS. Not as Internet savvy company but finally Apple Pay for their credit cards. They are investing in a lot of green tech, small businesses. Probably they have invest in some esoteric shenanigans but as a customer of that bank you can actually choose where your Money gets invested.
Android tablets and Windows notebooks (w/ controllers for one of them)
Advancing Safety and Privacy for Trustworthy AI Inference Systems
What about code reengineering and working with legacy code. It is not just maintaining old code but also knowing how to add and remove components well, without breaking downstream and/or upstream systems. And if you do have to break it, managing expectations and communicating those ahead of time.
Competence is as much state as fitness is, i.e. people loose it if their job does not allow them to be competent and they are unable to switch.

I have seen really competent people become incompetent overtime in soul crushing paper pushing jobs. You work long enough in a such job, you become the exact kind of person you despised when you started.

It is especially acute in governmental jobs which have lesser scope for role changes etc.
I worked in the fertilizer business and my company sold ammonium nitrate to farmers, mostly for use on potatoes. You need to use extreme care with this fertilizer.

No one could purchase it (even before Oklahoma City) without us knowing them. After Oklahoma City some TV stations in Grand Rapids sent reporters undercover trying to make purchases and they failed.

You need either dynamite or a substantial amount of heat to cause ammonium nitrate to explode. My boss tried to create a farm pond with it and his initial attempt failed. He failed to use enough dynamite ;<).

Personally I'd nominate the Beirut Port Authority for a Darwin award. Without the fireworks being stored in the building the welders sparks wouldn't have caused the explosion.
Reeder 4 – free native news reader for macOS and iOS with various sync services
The reason we don't use space observatories as much anymore is because we have adaptive optics now and don't need them. The concerns of astronomers are real. It's not for Starlink to ruin our ability to observe the sky for all of humanity. Incredible entitlement.
The author fails to mention the only truly-abusive us of this: working around readonly variables:

struct Location {
public readonly float x;
public readonly float y;
public Location(float ax, float ay) {
x = ax;
y = ay;
}
public float X {
get { return x; }
set { this = new Location(value, y); }
}
}
Normally you could assign an innocuous reason for this, but given the other actions the new postmaster has taken, it's pretty clear that (a) this is part of a plan to reduce mail-in voting, and (b) this is part of a plan to force the privatization of mail delivery services.

The new postmaster is major Trump donor/supporter and has a large amount of stock in private mail delivery services. Among other things, he has ordered the removal of most mail-sorting machines and begun requiring that work to be done by hand, while at the same time banning overtime necessary to handle the increased manual work required.

This week, he also ordered the press office to tell the states that there was no way the USPS could timely deliver ballots within the normal absentee voting periods or guarantee delivery before Nov 7...even though in many states the period for mailing in an absentee ballot is longer than 4 weeks. For point of reference, prior to the new postmaster, the USPS was regularly able to handle volumes of mail far in excess of what the predicted mail-in vote will be for 2020.
[EDIT: link: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/u-s-postal-se...]
In addition to what the other comments are saying, it's not at all clear that maintaining a suitable fork of Chromium would be less work than maintaining a completely different browser implementation. Google is clearly trying to drive the web into an unsavoury direction so the divergence burden of such a fork might increase with time.

Also, it's never a bad idea to implement the same thing twice, from scratch. Working with an existing codebase necessarily puts you into a certain mindset with its own trade-offs and constraints where moving in a certain direction might be much harder than if you are starting from scratch. Would we ever see innovations that Servo brought forth if all we had were Chromium forks? It's hard to say, but it's definitely not obvious.
Ok you got me with "overlooking the ocean". I will admit, I was a little bit envious. But then I recalled the great Terry Pratchett quote that you are living on a continent where pretty much every animal, except for maybe some sheep, is equipped with some venom and actively trying to kill you. Plus some of the plants. So I guess it's fair play.
GNOME Shell
The worst people are the ones who work at auto wrecking yards. You can go in and tell them you're here to spend money, and buy parts, and do the fucking work yourself, and they'll still treat you like shit. Like you interrupted the show they were watching and they had to stop and reach for the phone... You can't even call them up on the phone and get a "Hello?" You just get a pissed-off "What do you want?"

I finally found a yard with cool people in it, and interesting cars. But pretty much all the local yards in my area are gone now, and the only one left is the Pick-n-Pull chain...
I'm not spending 20-30 hours on your interview ;)
"QR codes haven’t had a killer app yet"

When I lived in China, scanning QR codes was how we initiated payments for restaurants, groceries, couriers and other offline goods/services. It was also how we added people to WeChat.

I would guess at least 20 million QR codes are scanned per day in Beijing.
What are the limits on immigration you are talking about? As far as my research shows, the paths for highly educated immigrants through h1b visa, f1 visa, opt training programs and green cards is largely unchanged and have been constant or increased in recent years.

The United States is still the top destination for immigrants throughout the world. The United States still accepts over 1 million new permanent residents a year. Anything done by executive action by the current administration will be undone.

If you are talking about the recent halts due to the pandemic, I'm assuming those will all be temporary.

I will gladly read your reply if you have a different perspective on this.
They have about 4-8 orders of magnitude more capacitance per unit area than film or typical electrolytic capacitors.
I wouldn't call POSIX a tiny subset of Linux features. POSIX makes up the vast majority of the kernel interfaces that applications actually use. Stuff like epoll and io_uring are the exception, not the rule.
sorry, but this is wildly out of touch. going to a local university while living at home is not infantilizing anyone. it is a very financially smart and sensible plan that meets the needs for many people's goals in life. balancing classes, extracurriculars, a job, and other college activities that don't depend on your living situation is more than enough of sampling what "adulting" is like

not everyone needs to, or can, move across the country for school living in their own place right out of high school
Tell me about this inexpensive, accurate test. I actually don’t know about the latest developments in test technology.
Surely immediately after a layoff is one of the better times to get a glowing recommendation? Some recruiters (and certainly plenty of hiring managers) read HN :)
In a rural area where the local telco was granted a legal monopoly, their "high speed" comes in a 5/0.5mbps on a good day. The area is now blanketed in T-Mobile 5G coverage, but questions asking T-Mobile about a 5G hotspot with a wired LAN port have gone unanswered. I'd love to use a 5G hotspot as the house's modem, but WiFi-only just won't work. Do any 5G devices with a SIM slot and a wired LAN port exist?
You're cherry picking examples to suit your narrative.

For every person working at a FAANG you can probably find 1,000 working in a place with the same shitty working conditions most people are subjected to.

As a counter example cops can make $200k a year doing detail work (standing around) and retire with a pension after 20 years. There are similar situations (with lesser pay) for a lot of city and state level civil service.

There are shit jobs that will wear you down in every field. They're the jobs most people are working.
Check out widemesh.com. It does a lot of what you described.
I think it's a tricky question, because the provided link seems to distinguish liberal arts schools from other non-technology, non-business schools, and I don't know how that distinction is being made. It could be that their subjects are largely similar, but the schools being explicitly marked as "liberal arts" schools are of an elitist class separated by grades and/or family privilege. And that these aspects of the student rather than the content of the degree are what account for the return. Certainly some liberal arts degrees are warranted by the market, but if what's happening is that all the ones from a second rank of colleges are simply not being considered as liberal arts, then that kind of misrepresents what's going on.
Is there an android app for qr code reading that doesn't want all my information???
in this case FB is fighting for the consumer to get all the money, which is a fight worth having regardless of what the cynic might say

> Hosts will be able to collect the full ticket price from Facebook users who attend their online events via the web or Android. Facebook says it is using its own payment system on Android and letting developers keep all the money.
Zhen Ding to set up PCB assembly lines in India
> There are a couple ones.

Name and shame seems appropriate here, no?.
I don't know if rural folks may realize how well-armed we are in the cities. Nearly everyone I know has a gun, and none of us is the crowd you'd normally associate with gun owners in cities.
"I have some serious concerns about Starlink..."

Curious, what kind?
> It's unfortunate that internet service quality is so varied from location to location, but utilities tend to form natural monopolies.

You're missing the crucial difference. Public utilities are supervised by the public.
That's fine. Those students are more than welcome to make choices for themselves. We don't need let them decide for everyone.
ArchWiki[1] is a counterexample to the notion that the community cannot write good technical documentation. It is actually much better written and more thorough than MDN, but it's also concerning a topic that attracts many hobbyists. To be fair, web dev is not something many people do without being paid, as opposed to tinkering with Linux, so the talent pool may be smaller.

Also, the W3C and ECMA standards documents are all free and are more authoritative references than any wiki. It would be interesting to see if a language model e.g. GPT-3 could translate the standardese into something more readable to laymen.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/
Dust is pretty much ideal from a reactive surface point of view, it is even better than a fluid because it readily mixes with air and is immediately explosive in that combination, the activation energy required to set it off is next to nothing.
Have you read the article? FB is not taking any cut from these events and giving it all over to event organizers.
> Other browsers have to put in significant effort just to play catch up and can't really offer any new renderer/js feature without Chrome's blessing.

Microsoft still runs the dominant operating system! They have a huge opportunity here to complete. The same way Chrome advertises on Google.com, Microsoft can provide the default fucking browser that is HUGE.

> Plus, we have a decade's worth of evidence that Chromium

Chrome is 12 years old. It's been super popular for less than a decade.

Its multiprocess architecture, by far its most long term scalable feature, was behind Internet Explorer's (they started multiproc trend with, iirc, IE8).

> Even if we set aside the problems with market share the Chromium team has consistently put out a faster engine than Firefox or IE.

Acquire Servo, do better? That's my entire point.
> Could this strategy hurt me in the long way

No one can know for sure.

Kingdom Rush (tower defense) started out as a free web-based game. Later they released on google and apple stores. Didn't seem to hurt them. Probably wouldn't have been a successful game without that initial free version. The free web game hooked me at least.
I've traveled through some pretty remote places in both hemispheres, and the US has nothing on isolation compared to the mountains in Central Asia. Remoteness won't really protect people here, not like it would there.
Filecoin builders getting ready to launch
An odd thing that spelling, "Nitroprill," as Orica's commercial prilled AN specifically for coal mining is spelled "Nitropril," with a single "l."

Although Nitropril has stabilizers for resistance to breakdown in storage it has no quieting agents for its actual explosive effect as does most fertilizer-grade AN.
Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom – Ted Chiang
I'd rather they get more curious about the spontaneous crystallization, and get inspired to look deeply into what's really going on when that happens.
BMW will make parts for damn near ever. I can still get new parts for my '81 R100RS, which is damn incredible!