skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks a ton for the support, @scootklein!
can you share that post? im of the former camp as of right now
This reminds me of what Japan does (or in some cases around the Bay Area). People buy plots not for the house, but for the land. Then they built a new house/building in place of the old one - usually for better efficiency, amenities, and longevity.

I would argue it's a good thing because it reduces sprawl and uses present land more efficiently.

It's better than bulldozing hectares of land to build new developments in these isolated pockets.

Generally, buyers would rather have something new where they don't have to worry about the repairs/maintenance/annoyance that comes from owning older houses, where it ends up being a money pit for future value (not including historical/charming old homes). It's like choosing: would you rather drive a 1990 or 2018 Toyota sedan?

IDK, maybe this is an opportunity for a "home rebuilding" tax credit incentive or some kind of higher tax on developing new land instead of current land?

As someone who moved to the US, I think one realization why this has not really taken effect is that there is just so much land, there is seemingly always more to build on. Thinking about smaller, denser nations, that is just not a feasible strategy.
Yes! We're super pumped about the embeds, @mfkp. We're also seeing a ton of user traction on them. Excited to make them free today!
Why is this one on HN? I'm not used to see popculture and media really talked about here, especially things like the cancelation of a Netflix show.
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With Zoom (as long as Zoom has focus) you can hold down spacebar to temporarily unmute yourself. It's been a real lifesaver
Thanks, @cowboyvc. Onward and upward!
“ within those milliseconds, they can discharge as much power as hundreds of millions of Suns.”

Didn’t know that
The new Service APIs were supposed to solve it, but it's delayed I guess - https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/service-apis/spec/
Japan has an IPv4-like block system: a typical address is
Prefecture City District 1-2-3-45, with 1-2-3 representing increasingly small divisions and the (optional) 4th element representing the apartment number.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system
Kinda like you're cosmic lego .. you make something (a life), play a while, then all the pieces go back in the toy-box ready to make something else next time.
>That said, the latter part does make this a non-starter, although the same is true of most means of identity verification, which lock out anyone with inadequate identity paperwork.

I get the reasoning of "voter id laws are bad because they disproportionately disenfranchise poor people", but "code signing certificates are bad because they disproportionately disenfranchise poor programmers" doesn't really make any sense. If you know how to program, and you can pony up $300 for the code signing certificate, chances are you probably already have the requisite identity paperwork. On the off chance that you don't, it's no big deal because lots of prominent software aren't signed (eg. 7zip, notepad++), so it's not like you're sticking out by not doing so.
If you're doing incident response or on-call people don't contact you based on your availability, you guarantee your availability so people can contact you.
> What other examples of laws outside of finance

Your example still sits within finance.
> With "only" 3.2k lines of code for a NFS implementation I was indeed surprised that it was so easy.

Not criticizing the projet here, which is very cool. But don't get too hasty.

This is an _untested_ (per the docs), _unoptimized_, _read only_, _server only_, NFS v3 only, implementation.
So to sum that up, Johnny Won't Upgrade because like as not, the writers of the updates are The Enemy.
"The thing about movies is that they're also part of societal culture - in The West at least."

This is an interesting point. Moral correctness aside...

The content industries try as hard as possible to make their stuff "socially mandatory" via marketing. If they could make it law to consume their product they would.

So, socially:
For as long as there is such a social pressure, there will be people who try to fulfill that pressure at least expense.

And financially:
In a world where you have increasing financial inequality, the balance of people for whom it is "worth their time" to find a cheaper way becomes greater.

So I don't think piracy is going anywhere, until the motivations are gone. For that, "all digital copies are free" is technically feasible.(Again, moral correctness aside.)

But I don't know what the commercial world would look like to allow that to happen.
Are they kinda like Brex?

PS: funny both banks use the same color for their branding
XTulator is an x86 PC emulator supporting the 80186 instruction set
It does sound a bit too good to be true. But I’d love it to be true!
Definitely intentional. Design is subjective, I like it.
> A03 V12 piston engine

there's why it is cheaper! turbines are expensive, pistons are cheap.
The path going forward is to split L7 layer proxies and L3/L4 layer - https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/service-apis/spec/ "Ingress" is too broad of a term and it does too much and too little depending on your use case
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Somebody sneak into this guy's office and move his 'debug run' key from F5 to F9.
You are still free to contract with the seller, they are just unable to deliver to you.
Amazon's ending support for Synology support for cloud drive
In response to your question, about exactly where to come down on billionaires, I'm not sure but there are some great points on here, and for the folks questioning why so many techies question having billionaires and lean more toward socialism, here are my views. And I’d love to hear yours, pro or against.

If you’re in the US or Europe, you live in countries that are capitalist, but that have a huge helping of socialism so that we can take care of our citizens.

At the turn of the 20th century, we had more “real” capitalism with the social safety net. The result is that J.P. Morgan literally worked his starving employees to death, which was called “morganization.” Andrew Carnegie was able to get away with having union demonstrators shot to death by the Pinkerton police, and there certainly weren’t criminal charges filed against him. Rockefeller found his oil deposits had an explosive component called gasoline, and he had no idea what to do with it; so his company’s scientists created the internal combustion engine we still drive today.

From FDR’s reforms including 'social' security to the FDIC to protect our bank deposits, we enjoy the benefits of the socialist aspect, and it is not a dirty word here.

We used to not have the socialism of free public education for our children, and the addition vastly improved society including economic mobility. Today, one doesn't have to be a land owner enjoying hand-me-down wealth to have economic opportunities. Even law had to deal with this, with the passage of negligence laws, and preventing inter-generational wealth. (See the rule against perpetutities https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/rule_against_perpetuities, the question you're always told to skip on the Bar exam.)

Unbridled capitalism without the social component is not a place most people would want to dwell in. On the other hand, the socialist component, yang to the ying of capitalism, and I am a capitalist myself, has been an enormous feature of civil society.

In short, if you like the life that you have, and you live in the democracies, you live in and enjoy socialism as much as capitalism.

As someone older than I guess the average age of most hackers, the fact that these techy folks have these views, question whether we should even have billionaires, and 'socialism' is not a dirty word for them, makes me think makes we will have a brighter future.
It’s interesting that Apple is taking steps that are tough on Ad networks and tracking. From Apples perspective, why are they waging this war? Sure, user experience in the Apple ecosystem is improved, but there has to be more to the story.

At first, I thought it was a long-game strategy of chipping away at Google + Facebook while developing a walled-off user base that only Apple (and their affiliates/partners) can monetize. But there has to be something more substantial.

Assuming it costs $X to develop these adtech walls, Apple must require $Y in return... where is this $Y going to come from?
I don't know about anybody else, but I know I have a huge motivation cliff when it comes to continuing to pay the consequences for old mistakes that I have already sacrificed to make amends for?

How do I sell my coworkers on making a change that's the Right Thing to Do when we all know damned well that we're still going to have to support the Wrong Way for another four years? I might as well grow thick callouses, learn to Embrace the Suck, or self-select out of this project.

If we could make such large changes while preserving the old behavior, I think we'd get away with it, but there are limits to how much you can refactor, and people like to hitch their agenda to something with momentum, like a rider on the Farm Bill, and the architects of the change might have ulterior motives of their own.
Because for the most cases it is just a friggin' tool and routine the user had accustomed to. I do not want to hunt for the same item in a different place. Think of it as if your screwdriver used daily will have suddenly started to change shape every once in a while.
I'm working on a product to help with this exact type of use.

I would love to find anyone interested in trying out a tool for this -- contact me at carss.w@gmail.com or drop a name/email into the form at https://heysync.chat if that's you! I will have a simple version ready to try within a few weeks.

The idea is make asynchronous audio chat easy, in a context similar to slack. You can send audio easily in place of text and whoever you sent it to can listen to it live or later. Then they can get back to you the same way. Imagine a chat room with 5 people talking, where you can replay the whole thing and chime in later if you were busy. It's chat across time.

Again, if you're interested, please reach out!
You're right, a deep dive does involve more than a single google search. Read multiple stories, dig up references, find what google's filter bubble isn't showing you, figure out what people on "both" (but usually several) sides are saying; maybe hunt down some podcasts if you're into that.

And, y'know, reading past the first comma in somebody's comment to notice that multiple topics were listed. I'd love to hear what you consider to be unmined topics.
I wanted to love the value prop here as a founder that just had our first professional design refresh. It's a great price for a lot of inspiration but too busy to use. Quirkiness impresses first but then starts to distract.

As a technical person, I've always wanted a design 101 best practices guide that could help me make better decisions on the fly. I'd definitely pay for an hour course/chapter that solved this problem and I was excited at first when I thought this was going that way!
No, that sounds inefficient for one of the parties - the provider. The provider isn't using the software to get work done, and doesn't incur training costs, etc. The provider's pet efficiencies cost the users real money (in the "a million here, a million there, and pretty soon you're talking real money" sense).
When a new UI trashes my workflow-- particularly when the new UI is slower / lacks keyboard shortcuts / causes my old workflow to do something different and unexpected-- I feel exceedingly disrespected by the programmer. I'm the user. I matter. Without users your software means nothing. Don't be a jerk to your users.
I don’t use keyboard shortcuts TBH.
What in the world would be gained from this? Is Lysol behind it? Big Charmin pulling all the strings? The Purell mafia doing bio research?
I don’t read medium.com blogs anymore, I got annoyed by the reminders to login or lose access. Maybe I’m alone in that feeling, but I suspect not.
Cool! A while ago I was experimenting with something like this but using CSS text-shadow instead: https://codepen.io/enhdless/pen/NYMpEw
Presumably, gp has forgotten.

> I wish I could give that author the credit they deserved.
There's a limit to how many campaigns you can be a part of as well since one could display an arbitrary set of campaigns to you and understand who they targeted once again. In any case "show this guy an ad" like you quote, won't leave signs or campaign IDs in the apple framework unless there's a way to track that user explicitly. And tagging people that viewed ads is not anywhere in the scheme for apple. As an aside, attribution of online ads is vastly more sophisticated than you paint it and it involve statistical and causal models. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2020408.2020453 https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/eaa4/875ae2376d681e156dcc3b... https://research.netflix.com/business-area/marketing-and-gro...
> I don’t understand why people are so precious about their UI and workflow.

We develop such strong preferences with workflows because for these programs, we are using the computer not to be amazed and dazzled with the device itself (like we are with blu-ray movies, PC games, the Mystery screensaver), but to get things done. From programming, to CAD, to video editing, to writing, to budgeting and more.

Would you like it if your car buttons moved around on the dashboard for no reason? Rebuttal: Tesla has most stuff in dashboard, controls move around. Counter-rebuttal: that guy who crashed his car trying to figure out how to turn on the wipers.

Would you like it if your thermostat settings were not remembered? Rebuttal: updates don't necessarily mean that settings are lost. Counter-rebuttal: I concede that, but often them being lost is the case.

Would you like it if you learned to play a musical instrument and one day you picked it up to find out it had added/removed/multiplied/moved valves/strings/keys/reeds?
It sounds like a pretty seriously amazing plane. Even allowing for a positive spin this seems like a pretty big deal for the market it's in.
Yeah it's pretty breathless.
Maybe even more so the sequel Syndicate Wars

https://youtu.be/ECHmCzXMFb8
If your purposely extreme example wasn't enough to convince, why do you think your hypothetical "more extreme" example will?
Most countries once EV's are cheaper than gasoline and diesel cars are going to outright ban gasoline and diesel cars so they don't have to import oil and pay for it in dollars.
I have a Kobo. This is correct -- it won't let you do anything before you connect it to Wifi.

However, there is a trivial hack to get around this where you connect it to your computer via USB and manually edit a sqlite database to put in some blank entries on the registration. There are lots of posts on how to do this online. After you've done this, it works offline just fine.
Look, I get that you want your article to have a respectable looking length, but please don’t make me wade through 3 paragraphs pointlessly recapping the history of software distribution from circuit boards.

The internet. We get it. We’re on the damn internet and anyone reading an article about upgrading software knows what the internet is.
I would love to know, actually. Mine are all annoyingly loud, especially the HP. The worst part is that there is no operator control over the fan speed what so fucking ever, and it automatically goes up much more than necessary just because a PCI card has been added or some such (even an HP-branded PCI card).

You can probably do a lot better by building a custom one, but that is going to be a lot more expensive. I would love to hear from anyone with experience in this actually, as I'm kind of starting to get fed up with it.

Aside from aggressively controlling the fans, I find the HP and Dell firmwares to be entirely useless, as they all apparently require a web browser with an ancient version of Java. In one case, Java 6. Yeah... this was a terrible decision even 10 years ago.

Another annoyance is that they will mostly come with some kind of hardware RAID card that doesn't passthrough raw disks. Often, a completely worthless one that must be replaced. Even if it's a less terrible one, it will require reflashing if you want to use it in JBOD mode (for ZFS or software RAID).

All that being said, considering that I paid $140 shipped for this HP server 3 years ago, I'm not sure how much I can complain. Setup was a pain in the ass, but once I got it done, it's been working mostly flawlessly since. The only ongoing pain points for me are the lack of USB3, and the fan noise. (I could add a USB3 PCI card, perhaps, but I'm sure that would increase the fan noise even more!)
I have several charts on my development list that I have been planning to use D3 for - this new release is perfect timing.
> Yeah the DNT header didn't work due in large part to middle men (like routers or anti-virus tools) flipping that bit without asking the user in automatic

A privacy option that's not allowed to be turned on by default based on user data and likely preferences isn't a real privacy option. Advertisers are the kings of trying to guess what users want, did they really think that browsers wouldn't be allowed to do the same with request headers?

This argument comes up a lot, and I'd debate it, but I also think behind the surface-level objections, the heart of the argument basically boils down to, "we didn't realize that people were going to use this thing."

The advertising industry was happy to have an opt-out as long as not too many people used it. Once it started getting turned on by default (because of course a user who's installing antivirus or privacy tools wants DNT to be enabled), Microsoft just became an excuse to abandon the whole thing.

If Microsoft had never turned DNT on by default, but the majority of users had sought out the option and turned it on, then advertisers would have come up with an excuse. Their participation with DNT was a compromise: "you can have a few of these users that probably run adblockers anyway, and in exchange, we want you to get off of our back about everything else."

For these people, respecting DNT always depended on it not being adopted. And that's why trusting them to talk about "responsible ads" or "consumer choice" is a waste of time. They know what they want the consumer choice on privacy to be, and they will only offer that choice as long as the average consumer chooses what they think the 'right' option is. If advertisers discover that the average consumer doesn't want to be tracked, then all of their talk about sitting down and having a dialog is going to go away.
The idea of being stuck in a plane for hours with no windows is...odd.
A domain name costs less than a dollar. A DBA or real-life identity cost significantly more. In addition, if I'm getting my software over the internet (99.99% of the cases), I'm already verifying the domain name via the browser (via tls), so it's not adding any additional security. If the server was hacked, the attacker can mint himself a new certificate and you won't be able to tell.
Easily Load Non-Python Data Files from a Python Package with importlib.resources
I've been reading Seneca's Letters to Lucilious. He says

> For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands.

I suppose I also meditate on christ's suffering. It seems to say that while the end is never pretty for the one who is enduring it, it is intrinsically meaningful and sacred.
The UI is a physical interface between human and computer. It's a representation of tools. A direct analogy here is to physical tools. Imagine you were a carpenter, on a tight schedule and with commitments to deliver. Every few months, you walk into your workshop, and not only have your tools been rearranged, some have been swapped out for different sizes, and some even removed outright. How is "automate it" a good response here?

Also, what automation would you propose that handles these changes without introducing its own update requirements? If it's a macro tool separate from the application, the macro targets may well have changed, had additional parameters added or removed, etc. You'll have to run through them all to ensure they still work, with test cases ready ahead of time, or else you've lost just as much time. And if it's automation in the program itself, like a scripting language, said automation may just as easily be broken or removed by the updates.
Bronx Zoo apologizes for caging kidnapped Congolese man
There’s already a solution, air rights. E.g. these NYC condo owners who paid the $11 million to buy out their neighbors’ building not to build any higher. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/nyregion/manhattan-real-e...

In most cases this really isn’t a problem though. The fantasy of “big tall buildings” being slapped everywhere is just that. NIMBYs are fully mobilized just to stop stuff like duplexes, townhomes, or the neighbor putting a pop-up 4th story on their existing row house, not imaginary 100-story skyscrapers going up in the middle of a suburb.
There's a current lobsters thread on language rationales[1], and HN thread on Racket's new website[2].

[1] https://lobste.rs/s/6bphbw/fennel_programming_language_ratio... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24285767
"A A Rav"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw
Sort of. Yes yes development costs.

They are claiming the plane is also cheaper to fly dramatically, and having a similar airspeed to modern jets. That's not easy.

Modern jetliners use "turbo-fans" which are just jets powering giant fans. This allows them to be -incredibly- efficient.

The complexity of the piston based engine is in the superchargers and how they get air into the engine at high speeds.

You can read about it from the highly famous WWII engine the Rolls-Royce Merlin _- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Merlin#Supercharge...
If epic wins companies that make gaming consoles will immediately be subject to the same ruling, so it will be interesting to see which companies provide support to which sides.
String Theory Out of Equilibrium
Most people aren’t really complaining the new UIs are worse - they just don’t like any change at all. It’s silly stubbornness.
How would this compare to websocketd ?
I've seen similar concepts that cover the walls with hi-res lcd to simulate sky & landscape
I'm a somewhat sophisticated user and have come to loathe upgrading: I never know what's going to break. Apple keeps nagging me to update to Catalina, and that I know is going to break the last freestanding version of Lightroom. What else will it break? I don't know for sure yet.

I update machines less quickly than I used to: Migration Assistant is finicky and has cost me at least a day, if not more, of various kinds of work in the past.
.net is cross platform now. it has the same "run anywhere" philosophy as the JVM. I haven't used windows in over 10 years.
Some of Twombly's work is aesthetically pleasing and well composed, but some of them could have easily been a page of doodles ripped out of any middle schooler's notebook, like the $800,000 "Murder of Olefernes".

Overall I think he's far worse than Pollack and unless he had some kind of mental illness that deluded him into thinking the work he produced took any amount of effort whatsoever he was obviously a troll or a con man.

https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/NYR/2018_NYR_15...

Then again maybe the picture above was indeed just some scribblings that he never intended for anyone to see. I'm not overly familiar with his history.
There's a rendering further down showing windows. It may just be the prototype lacking them.
Back in my day we called that, push-to-talk. Everything old is new again.