skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting a book like that is possible, but for me a huge chunk of the value of my collection is the journey to getting it. Finding it randomly in a tiny bookshop while on a trip is way more memorable than buying it on amazon. It’s the same with buying records for me. Sure I could buy most of the long out of print records I’d want to own... but the search is most of the fun.
I think for Mattix to truly make a dent in the world,it will need libraries in popular languages.

I should be able to spin up a client or server in python, JavaScript, rust, c, etc with minimal effort.
>We can debate the merits of this sense of corporate responsibility. The fact remains, though, that Musk's operation is not hampered by this galaxy of moving parts. By keeping many of these functions in-house, Tesla can innovate 24/7 and implement a new technology tomorrow, not in 2025.

There is a quote I'm fond of; to paraphrase: To go fast, go alone, to go far, go together.

I while I think that TSLA is doing a great job at innovation, it does seem to be leaving a lot of jobs in uncertainty.

On one hand, those people can be find new, innovative problems to solve now that (theoretically) the problem their job was working on is now solved.

On the other, most people in those positions aren't really in a position to find and pull resources to solve a new problem. Here in the US, there isn't much of a safety net to support them while they're just trying to put food on the table.

Love the progress of Tesla, but I think there needs to be a solution to the jobs that are going to be made obsolete by reducing the number of suppliers and jobs. Don't know if this is a policy issue or a market issue to solve.
> But it's not like splitting the feature into 100 patches of 250 lines each would make it any quicker to review. Or merging code that was known not to work, as it was only a fraction of what was needed for the functionality.

That would also be rejected, because the kernel maintainers aren't idiots and their standards aren't the stupid arbitrary rules you construe them to be. They generally want big changes to be broken up into logical, sensible chunks that each leave the tree in a usable state, so that git-bisect still works.
Those on the scene certainly thought this was the case, which is basically the only reason they use that drug in the first place in the context of an arrest. I don't claim to know one way or another whether they were right, but I would note that dying of a heart attack is inconsistent with ketamine as the cause.

Maybe they gave him too much, but the article leaves one to conclude that this was somehow related to his death even though it never actually says so.
Does anyone have any insights regarding licensing?

Is MS opening a big wallet or is it the other way around where these companies want their newest planes in these type of games?
In the video you see "unbeatable fuel efficieny" and I remember seeing Iberia on one of the boeings in the launch trailer, seems like adverts to me.
In this case, there's the additional irony of ignoring science in the name of doing science.

On another note, I can't be the only person who finds this kind of bragging to just fail to register, or even to backfire. Am I meant to be impressed by how poorly they've arranged their weekly routine in terms of work/life balance?
Another four plaintext letters published from encrypted CIA Kryptos sculpture
The vast majority of people don't use the same e-mail address for their entire lives.
The sender could obtain that material from the message itself and could verify the veracity of the material against the keys stored in the DNS by the domain owner.
Yes, he did. The NREFs page was an Overview, which contained links to a lecture, background on the study, and and about thirty bibliography links. I suggest his opinions, at the very least, have asterisks and links to specific study as to how he arrived at his opinions.

http://www.nrefs.org/publications/
What to Submit
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Solo founder for 5+ years. The above message is right on point.

One things that I realized is that what happens to your business tells more about what _market_ you are in, that it tells about yourself as a founder.
A great entrepreneur in a bad market will still have a bad outcome, and vice versa. Like a program is not about the programmer, a business is not "about" its founding member(s).

So a good advice you don't hear often could be "start in an easy market".
Make Python-style classes from not much JavaScript
Biometrics are unrevokable. If yours are compromised through some other way then you can’t trust biometric authentication for the rest of your life.
So are a you scraping (data acquisition) engine, an AI engine, a catalogue as a service engine, a recommendation engine, or all of the above? No info on your model capabilities, data scope (brands/retailers/SKUs)? It seems like you are vectorizing SKUs, which is a well-understood problem. How does your platform compare to markable.ai (look beyond the Visual AI, these guys have a robust vectorization pipeline, and they are scraping continuously which takes a team of engineers) or visenze.com (massive platform of most of of e-commerce, almost a billion SKUs, styles, occasions, lots of AI). You guys seem knowledgeable but it looks like a multiple products al in one and a fairly small team. Good luck, regardless!
The last paragraph is a conclusion I've arrived at independently as well. However, I'd argue that HN should be filtered as well.
I was actually in the Puok district outside Siem Reap for the 3 weeks. Mostly stayed in the rural side living with locals. I also visited the city for the weekends and it seemed like a great place to settle.

I also don't tend to go out of my way to meet peers in my local city. I guess I just prefer larger conferences for networking.

Thanks for the input! Maybe one day I'll also get acqui-hired and move there :)
That was what I was referring to. They sent an update and wrote a blog post when it happened: https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-joins-zoom

"Ultimately Keybase's future is in Zoom's hands, and we'll see where that takes us. Of course, if anything changes about Keybase’s availability, our users will get plenty of notice."

No update since. Keybase still works (and I use it constantly), but will it be around in two years?
There’s a reason they call it “disk destroyer”.
It's a catch-all term to describe people who have likely overdosed on various stimulants. To argue that it's non-specific is to argue that the police have no way of knowing what medical conditions underlie the problem.

That's why they summon medical professionals, as was done here and in other similar cases.
Have anybody discussed how this[0] could complicate things?
The developer of the popular tracker, Opentracker, has built in a feature where it throws in bogus but real IPs when you ask for seeders.

It reduces efficiency for people who are trying to download from seeders that don't exist, but also introduces deniability because if you ask the tracker for a list of seeders your IP being on that list could reasonably explained as it being one of the bogus IPs.

To verify that your IP is actually seeding you have to connect and try to download from it, but does the act of downloading from a peer change the situation so it is actually some kind of entrapment or at least commiting to have done a crime as part of the investigation?

[0]: http://opentracker.blog.h3q.com/2007/02/12/perfect-deniabili...
And after decades of experience myself I've seen the vast majority of plans become useless the further out they try to predict the future. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree about the value of learning by actually starting to build the new thing that no one has ever built before. Plan away if that suits you. I'll be building and learning about the domain in the meantime.
Unfortunately this is typical "All you need is..." fallacy.

Even assuming for a moment that yes, all you need to do is dial in the numbers...

Have you ever tried to run tech support over a dodgy phone connection to someone who's never touched technology before? Where one wrong button push turns off all of that automation? Where there's no chance to go "Ooops, undo that!"? Where it's a very high stress situation, involving a huge number of acronyms?

Even just managing radios could be a major problem - you may quickly find yourself out of range of the controllers, and if you haven't figured out how to ask for and change frequency, well you're now not talking to anyone.
I'm not so sure. A couple times I've shown WTFpython [0] to a co-worker, who after spending a bit of time skimming through it mentions that they finally understand a bug they had when they were learning python. And which entry it is is usually different between them.

[0] https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython
Show HN: DrugSheet – Keep up with the clinical trials on Covid-19
Hi HN! I created DrugSheet to follow all the coronavirus clinical trials. It has a simpler interface than clinicaltrials.gov and it aggregates metrics by search filter.

For example, Gates Foundation is in 12 trials: 3 with Azithromycin, 1 with Colchicine, 1 with Lopinavir, etc. It's mostly drugs/biologics, but there is 1 device: the COVSurf drug delivery system.
Except they didn't say that. They sent it by accident. And there's decades of case law siding with banks against "bank error in your favor" situations.
He only knew how to use the radio because he'd had the pilot show him before take off. He described the King Air as being so different from the plane he'd learned on that it might as well be the space shuttle.

One of the controllers who helped get him down realized she had to simplify the plane for him. He had been struggling with the autopilot and she got him to turn it off and fly it manually. He was fortunate to have some great controllers to help him and a clear day with no wind.

After the incident, he started flying again and went on to become a rescue pilot.
I would be interested to know how much the Book Off model depends on the fact that manga is a huge market in Japan. Every time I've been into a Book Off, there's always been a huge manga section and it's always packed with people because (a) manga is really popular and (b) they don't shrinkwrap the manga to prevent people reading them in the shop the way a lot of places do. In a market like the UK or US where (comics being more niche than manga) there isn't that huge part of the store that's driving footfall and turnover, would the same model but working primarily with books do as well ?
You can maybe give higher doses or look really carefully for early signs of something being wrong? But I guess you can't do it as accurately as accelerated aging tests in eg. mechanics.
Or simply any job that requires checking IDs. Bouncer, bartender, cashier in a store that sells alcohol/cigarettes, etc.
Citigroup is the only party responsible for paying the bill. They do not themselves owe the money, but any legitimate payment would come from them. So, as the lender, what's the difference?
We're probably unlikely to come to an agreement here, I think because we have fundamentally different opinions on what constitutes a hobbyist (and, I think, also a video game). I really fail to see the difference between someone playing Mario Odyssey on a Switch on the train every day vs. someone playing Candy Crush every day on the train.

If you chose to bike to work every day, I would call you a biker. If you watched a movie every single day, I would say watching movies is a hobby of yours. If you went to a rock climbing gym every day, I would call you a climber.

Driving, and some other fields like cooking, are quite different. You're not choosing to engage in that behavior - it's a requirement for your life. Same with cooking food. You need to get to work, you need to eat. You don't need to play Candy Crush on the train - and obviously, many people don't.

> And my general opinion: don't worry about identifying yourself as a gamer because of some stigma.

I don't mean to be a negative ned, but I'm not talking about the "neckbeard loser" stigma. If you're not sure what I'm talking about, that's probably for the best.
Sounds like he has the blessing of owning his own store, so he has no rent burden - the real killer as gentification ruins many places via rent increases.
Unless you're familiar with Bad Apple, that is. Sort of a meme, not exactly sure why, I guess the visuals, as far as the song goes I think it's one of the lesser Touhou tracks.
> Except they didn't say that. They sent it by accident.

You're half right. They sent it by accident.
I'm torn when I read articles like this. On the one hand, I've spent many happy hours browsing round second-hand bookshops (a particular favourite memory was discovering the unabridged Gulag Archipelago while on a trip to NYC). On the other, the democratising effect of publishing leads to things like this - https://www.theguardian.com/focus/2020/aug/16/literary-world... - which, while potentially problematic on the surface, means that a much larger number of people can be published, no matter what their social status or connections. I've recently been reading Bruno Schulz - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Schulz - and if it wasn't for the intercession of someone powerful in the Polish literary world we would never have read his work (and, thanks to the Nazis, unfortunately we had even less than we might have had). What gems by marginalised authors might we not have read without this "excess" of publishing? Personally, I think this abundance of new published writing (including really interesting examples of self-publishing like Your Name Here by Helen Dewitt) is part of what makes second-hand bookshops less attractive. There is simply so much great stuff being written now by people who would never previously have had an audience, as well as unjustly-neglected authors being rediscovered. I used to feel like I knew most fiction authors' names in second-hand bookshops, even if only by reputation, but I'm not sure that would be the case any more. On balance I think I'd rather have a broader set of voices than a limited selection of second-hand books. And when you also have access to older titles that you might be interested in on abebooks, you can follow your own literary path rather than be guided by someone else's opinions about what's "important".

Edit: Thinking about this more, maybe it's because I'm in my late 40s now, but I get a lot of good recommendations from friends who have been reading all their lives, so I don't feel the need for anyone else to recommend things. My "to read" pile is huge as it is! I guess one thing second-hand shops were good for was suggesting things to me that I might not have read otherwise. But personally I think the internet, particularly Wikipedia and niche blogs, gives me a really good route to the next thing I want to read. After reading Bruno Schulz I've started delving into Polish fiction, and it feels like I've struck yet another goldmine.
HN already has a "favorites" feature, in which users can indicate which stories or comments they really like. Users' "favorites" lists are public, so if you think highly of a particular user, you can click on their profile and see what their favorite stories or comments are.

Also, using HN's search feature, you can search comments and sort the results by popularity (number of points). For example, if you're interested in highly ranked comments on functional programming:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

(Start by typing something into the "Search" box at the bottom of the page.)
The difference between our points is the subtle difference between alarm and surprise. I’d contend that one can be alarmed even if they’re not surprised; although even I am inclined to admit that this is pretty low value pedantry on my part.
That was probably the first things that attracted me to Docker.

If I started a new job or new project, it was the same story every time. “Do these five things and then you should be able to run the code” after half a day of back and forth I’d have a list of ten things, and the next new person would discover it is actually 12.

Docker doesn’t just change your experience, it forces the author to actually capture most of their prerequisites. To the point where even if you don’t use docker, you benefit from a project having at least tried to use it.
You should edit the questions and answers that are outdated so other googlers can see it.
It's a SaaS WYSIWYG site builder, the page is 300 requests and 20MB with aggressive adblocking turned on, and over a thousand requests with adblock turned off.

Almost every element is hard-positioned with absolute onto the page, or misusing flexbox in weird, overlapping, z-indexed ways
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ckCeE_HUs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAxWIAjz6S4

(ESP32 + Ikea FREKVENS)
How about node/es?
Yeah there are some weird quirks relating to scope and mutable default arguments, but overall I think there are still way less WAT issues than with javascript.
Yeah, I thought this article was decent in some respects, but the larger issue was that it completely ignored human nature when it comes to risk assessment. Does he honestly think it would have worked to tell those living near Fukushima, "Don't worry, on average you'll only lose about 3 weeks of life, so don't worry about it!" Of course, very few people are hit by the "average": most people have no I'll effects while others develop cancer and die soon. Taking a purely mathematical approach to risk assessment, and using that assessment alone to guide public policy, is unwise.
I was just thinking that the natural path for an intelligent species is downward into their own planet. We could be living on top of a civilization without knowing it.
Are you looking for something like this?

https://github.com/canonical-debate-lab/paper/blob/master/RE...
Fair enough I guess but America isn't just A.N Other country, not does it behave like it is. It's almost an ism.
Ask HN: Is having a network mandatory in launching a successful startup in 2020?
I've been watching people like @steveschoger and @levelsio launching their products to their followers with great success. The product in itself is nothing special (a job board) and it's clear that if someone without a large reach built a similar product it would flop.

There is no shortage of people on imdie hackers making decent products but falling short on the getting their product out there.

So if the primary problem people are facing is marketing their product and a network makes it considerably easier to promote your business...

Is building a network the most important factor in your business's success?
The different styles of programmers need each other! Checks and balances :)
Have never heard of Yeager before but after quick reading of Wikipedia ... OMG, what an amazing man and amazing life.
IIRC there is no protection of “reasonable suspicion” that CBP needs to follow.
SPARK is a formal proving system for Ada. Formal correctness is what they focus on, that Ada can safely prove mathematically how a function will behave, and how a body of functions will behave.

If you're using Ada without SPARK, it will try and enforce these same guarantees, but generally with a runtime contract system, rather than compile time.
I encouraged my girlfriend to get a separate cellphone. As a kindergarten teacher it doesn't seem obvious, it is incredible how much they plan and discuss after hours. Now she switches off her phone and enjoys her leisure.
At some point the video became the standard thing to show on weird displays. We mostly have Marcan to thank for that [1], I think.

Kind of like porting Doom to prove that you have code execution on something that you never were meant to have code execution in the first place, but instead to prove you can display full motion video on something that was never meant to display full motion video.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSL0FDcsVJE
> Searching someone's phone or laptop isn't just done to determine their immigration status. So if a person shows their U.S passport, would BP still be allowed to search their electronics?

Sorry, “immigration status” was not quite what I should have said, it's to determine border violations, both immigration and contraband related. As warrantless electronics searches are for “digital cobtraband”, they would seem likely to have the same status in the border zone (to the extent it is valid) as at the border, where manual checks with no specific basis and forensic checks with “reasonable suspicion” have been upheld, IIRC.
And at $0.50 a book would take 18000 sales to just recoup assuming 100% profit. Starting to understand why they don’t.
Truetone?
2FA that can't be bypassed with a password reset?
Not generally, but perhaps it is for their use case.
I agree - I have to consciously choose what I want to feed my brain. It's so easy to choose things that don't align with my goals, whether that be family, personal or business goals.

Do I find the non-stop inexplicable US politics fascinating? Yes. Is it helpful to my business? Nope.

Every week i have to revisit my goals, decide whats important, and remind myself that I don't need to learn everything, be all things to all people. It's okay to choose and to say 'no' to distractions, information sources and people.
https://news.ycombinator.com/best

https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments
Given how Blender came into being (acquired a product facing an economic dead end), never say never. There could be other products out there barely breaking even for companies that could be rescued by foundations.
And this is why I use the built-in reboot functionality on my (Asus) router: getting a new IP address every day helps improve privacy. I use Safari as my daily browser and have cookies blocked by default, allowing them only when I need to log into a site (e.g., posting a comment on HN or Reddit, banking stuff).

If anyone wants to track me they have to do browser fingerprinting or talk to my ISP about getting the PPPoE login logs for the IP in question.
pretty strange slow pace and large landscape with a imposing sense of death coming
There's a Youtube channel with a former US submarine sonarman. Here's his channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9bMgCQyFNaMPsK9GtzM5dQ Watching him play in a submarine video game as an Astute SSN is interesting as he tries to dodge torpedoes using noise makers and obstacles is interesting due his commentary and tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHnt_uJqTUA
That, and: I forgot to mention that not using the super builtin can also lead to unintentionally calling a method twice or more for the same base class in a diamond situation (note that with new-style classes, all multiple inheritance has at least one "diamond" class, often object, but people normally do not delegate to object for obvious reasons; you can imagine a base class Z in this example that A and B inherit from instead, if you wish). So, not using the super builtin can result in both delegating to a superclass' implementation too much, and not at all! This is a problem with multiple inheritance that Python actually solves; virtual inheritance doesn't touch it.

Note that `object` being the root of the class hierarchy implies that you must have careful coordination between all classes in a multiple inheritance hierarchy to determine, for a particular method, when subclasses may/must delegate to super, what the arguments to the method are, and even what the argument names are in some cases! You can't just go glomming classes together and expect it to go well unless you know the classes either don't use the same method names or agree very carefully on what the delgatable interfaces are.