skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was wondering about this too - when I saw the title I assumed it was a molecular dynamics study.
SFTP Chroot server. lftp client using mirror subsystem + sftp. It is multi-threaded, even for a single file and supports rsync like behavior even in sftp chroot. I can max out any internet link using lftp (client) + sftp (protocol).
Ask the people who bought the stock. In the end, this is still their bet and many of them believe Tesla stock is undervalued, and they put their money where their mouth is.

They do have more than just the cars. Tesla says they expect their energy to business to eventually surpass the EV one. They have also an insurance company.

I don't have any Tesla stock.
You can say the same about Facebook and Google in China...You can sideload or use VPN. Some do. Most don't. Blocking FB & Google ecosystems allowed for China to grow their own competitors.
“nova” is Latin though.
How much mechanical difference is there between (designed as) 5400rpm and 7200rpm drives nowadays? I'm somewhat surprised that they seem to be faking the performance characteristics rather than changing the rotation speed?
Does anyone know of a way to do "fullscreen" where the screen is the window? It bugs me that to watch a streaming video my options are: box inside their ui which takes up a significant portion of my window real estate, or full screen on my entire monitor.

can't I just have "fill window"?
Yes, a Finn usually wouldn't make that kind of typo (or, you know, they would just copy the original headline)

But a feature to bring the <title> from the site upon URL submission would be useful.
Algorithms Who Art in Apps, Hallowed Be Thy Code
Structuring the labeling process for supervised learning
This characteristic of Chinese culture, IMO, serves to understand why the whole Intellectual Property debacle has been so contentious.

As I see it this is the main point behind the USA-China "trade war"

I think the USA only defends IP because of the economic implications. I think the Chinese have the better idea regarding "IP".

But I have no doubt that were the roles reversed (China "owns" most IP and USA just manufactures it) the Chinese government would be staunchly defending IP.
If we just had a good translation of the Aeneid. Fitzgerald's is okay. CS Lewis's book one is wonderful. But Virgil's poetry carries the Latin in a way that the subject matter really struggles to do without.

I am, however, incredibly happy that we have Clive James's translation of the Divine Comedy.
Hi, I'm a grad student who works on language documentation. At least one prominent field linguist has agreed with your position[0], but most in the field disagree with him. Let me make some point-by-point responses:

> People create languages to communicate on an as-needed basis.

So there's an assumption that languages exist only because they are "needed". Maybe this is true for pidgins, but where's the necessity in e.g. speakers of Proto-Polynesian moving to different islands, losing contact with each other, and having their languages diverge into Hawaiian, Samoan, Tuvaluan, etc.? For the most part, the creation of something we recognize as a distinct language is an unconscious process and is guided by incidental facts like physical location and resulting contact patterns with other language-communities.

> And languages that aren't needed anymore [...] fall away.

I think this is a strange way to put things, and that it could distort some facts about why people lose their ancestral languages. Often languages _do_ cease to be spoken because of, say, economic and bureaucratic reasons, but when this happens it'd be simplistic to look on and say that this is the natural order of things. Many American Indian languages ceased to be spoken in the 19th century because the United States tore Indian children from their parents and put them many miles away in English-only Christian boarding schools where they were physically punished if they ever spoke a word of their mother tongue[1]. It is an odd kind of necessity here that drove American Indians from their languages.

> I'll be thrilled if every language in the world disappears except for one, and we all communicate in it. I don't care which one, although ideally it'll be a simple or logical one, like Indonesian/Malay, with a writing system like Hangul.

Even if we snapped our fingers and everyone in the world suddenly spoke Malay written in a perfectly regular writing system, there's a lot of reason to think that the global language would quickly fragment into many languages again. This would be due to many forces, but two big ones among them would be plain old isolation from the rest of the world (e.g. in the highlands of Papua New Guinea) and the fact that changing the way you speak is a very powerful way of signaling your identity and ideological alignments[2].

More generally, as others have pointed out, people who believe in the value of documenting endangered languages do so most commonly because they believe in the general anthropological value of such data, the specific linguistic value of the data as another data point we can use to investigate the nature of language in general, and last but not least, the value of giving the communities who speak these languages the ability to draw on these records should they ever desire to develop their language.

[0]: https://www.jstor.org/stable/416854

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_boarding_schoo...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation_(linguistics)
Ha, spot on.

When you find a flaw, do you fix the system or game the system?
well we have had shake charging flashlights for some time and LED lighting makes them much more useful so I can see power a game machine this way too
The problem is deeper than that.

For EVs to truly take over people need to be able to charge at work and at home. This immediately rules out any resident without parking options.

It doesn't matter for ICE vehicles - fill up times are short and gas stations are ubiquitous. But neither of these are true for EVs. Even if they were ubiquitous, they still take time.
I really wish that someone would come up with a solution to the public transportation issue in the US. Every time I read an article like this, I just want to throw my hands up and scream "so what do you suggest we do about it?"

I'm all for using public transportation, but I do have to actually go places, and arrive on time, and sometimes I have to bring stuff with me.

And now with COVID, I really don't want to spend any amount of time on a bus.
The only reason I got through highschool is that I realized that nothing would happen if I skipped classes. From then on, I would wake up in the morning, pretend I would go to class, go to the Virgin megastore instead and read manga all day. Of course I would still go to exams, and of course they ended up calling my parents a number of times, but it worked out in the end. I passed the exams, and I went to uni.
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Seems like a good setup! Let us know if you ever make it open source. I would like to try it
Couldn’t find a breakdown of the science or nutritional profile on their site other than “sorta like yeast”. Is their tech secret?
The Pinnacle of Looting Apologia
Videos of the lectures from last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUBEB9QlNCM
Partly because I would consider the result the same person

Do you consider identical twins the same person? Do you consider Abby and Brittany Hensel[1] the same person - they share the same body so they must have shared the same life experiences?

> I think more broadly that the difference between "I live on" and "a clone of me lives on" is unimportant.

Do you think the difference between "I live on" and "my child lives on" is unimportant? What about the difference between "I live on" and "someone else lives on"? The clone is a different body in a different place, it's the same situation as "I live on" vs "any other human lives on", except for what you believe about the other person.

> If this happened and were detected immediately, both copies of me would freely volunteer to kill themselves in favor of keeping the other one.

Then why don't you suicide right now, if continuity of experience is that casually irrelevant to you and all you need is a belief that some other body in the universe shares the same ideas you do? There are a lot of people on the planet right now, are you not convinced that someone, somewhere, shares enough of the important ideas with you already? Why not? Is your memory of a dentist's visit in third grade, or your particular grandmother's generic apple pie really that special?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKrvtq5vDmk
Warren Buffett and the $300k Haircut
As someone who always means to learn a bit of Latin and Ancient Greek, this is a very cool looking site -- the inflection tables and diagrams are an especially nice touch. One addition that I'd love to see (if technically feasible) would be some sort of drilling or practice mechanism, e.g. a cloze-completion generator (a la Clozemaster or Lingvist, or the I think quasi-defunct Readlang).

By the way, if you're ever considering classical languages further east, I'd call your attention to ctext.org -- it doesn't do anything particularly fancy with its UI, but it has a lot of classical / premodern Chinese texts, and classic English translations (largely Legge) of some of the major ones.
Even mcedit shows matching braces, that's not tree editing :) That would be editor showing a formula in graphic form and allowing you to jump around on it and add/move around nested parts of it with shortcuts.
Through advertising? How would that be any better than what we have now.
Did you even read the study? Risk of depression was not affected and suicide wasn't even a factor that was considered.

> Compared to pre-pandemic, there was an overall decrease in risk of anxiety, and an increase in wellbeing but no large change in risk of depression

https://sphr.nihr.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Young-Peo...

Also, for all of the extremely attentive readers like pwinnski out there, I'm sure they've already come across research on increased rates of suicide due to economic despair https://wellbeingtrust.org/areas-of-focus/policy-and-advocac...
For category three I feel that goal-seeking (or the appearance of such) is sufficient for the anthropomorphism to kick in. The braitenberg vehicles thought experiment is a good example of this.

Quoting from wikipedia "For the simplest vehicles, the motion of the vehicle is directly controlled by some sensors (for example photo cells). Yet the resulting behaviour may appear complex or even intelligent."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braitenberg_vehicle
The supercomputer nodes cost far more, per node, than AWS machines- 15% or more of the budget was spent on interconnect. SUpercomputers don't partition CPUs like that, because interference causes small performance degradation. Unfortunately, CPU is not perfectly compressible- in particular, the cache is shared by all processes that run on the CPU, so if you run another job on the same node, you will see slower performance due to higher cache replacement (this is measured using Cycles Per Instruction).
You're basically describing a virtual machine. Compile to bytecode and the runtime JITs (or AOTs) it on the host. It is an idea decades old.
Running Linux on Windows
Towards practical autonomous deep-space navigation using X-Ray pulsar timing
"We will assume no background knowledge on behalf of the student, starting from scratch on both the programming and mathematics."

This is a fantastic "side effect" of the fact that category theory isn't built on any other mathematical knowledge. You don't even need even any arithmetics for that.
In my experience, Monad, Applicable, and Monoid are probably the only ones I'd use in Haskell, and maybe none of them in languages without good inference and general support.

Pretty wild ideas, though. Fair chance they'd be more confusing than using more specifically named instances, but solid ideas where the class instance documents that you're using the pattern, instead of describing the preferred interface.
A (now sold out) example: https://shop.specialprojects.jp/products/kissa-by-kissa
I think my sarcasm tag had some kind of issue and it wasn't visible.
Is your company actually using Arc?

I wouldn't be shocked if most of the people well versed in non-mainstream tech don't bother advertising themselves as being such.
Yes but can it kill viruses and bacteria in vivo?
How to theme FusionAuth's advanced registration forms
Yep, always use Python virtual environments to manage dependencies. Here are my notes around that: https://ketanvijayvargiya.com/notes/39-python-setup/
I love how gravity is so strong on a neutron star that time runs 1.4-1.7x slower there.
I'm generally against property being taken in association with crimes. Particularly by police without supporting paperwork and oversight. But in this case:

"She was in the passenger seat when a state trooper clocked her car at 118 miles per hour on I-94 in St. Paul.
When the driver ... refused a breathalyzer, he was arrested on suspicion of DWI..."

She was able to buy the car back. Drunk drivers cause many injuries and deaths. What happened to this country is that we decided that thousands of drunks on the road was not acceptable. MADD was founded in 1980 to get that fixed. Whatever it takes.
Intellectual Control by George Fairbanks (2020)
The accidental notary: Apple approves notorious malware to run on Macs
If I made a list of the programs people should not be using online, some dinky data format validator would probably be among the last priorities on it, probably somewhere just above an online converter between l/100km and mpg, or an online egg timer. Pick your battles and all that.
Perhaps, if you feel strongly you could express your own opposition rather than make very vague statements alluding to...I have no idea, to be honest.
> There's a presumed ~2W difference in power consumption between 5.4K and 7.2K drives.

Is that purely extra friction due to higher speed? Or is it spin up from sleep needing more power?
I remember those! A friend had one, in high school. He got it used. Neat machine. This was probably 1990 or 91.
I'm surprised it's only 10%. Just dealing with credit card fees is going to cost them ~2%, and probably more since they take so many tiny donations. Then they have to deal with chargebacks, customer support (both for patrons and creators), and the overhead of building out the business.

A nonprofit isn't all it's cracked up to be. It must means that it doesn't have shareholders who own the company. It can still pay employees, sometimes very well. It gets tax benefits in exchange for limiting the kind of business it does to something for the public good, but Patreon doesn't really fit those existing categories very well. It looks more like a payment processor, the kind of service you hire like a web page developer or carpenter.

I suppose there's room for somebody to try to squeeze them out by charging even less, perhaps by dogfooding their own service. But if they're charging only ten cents on the dollar, there's not an enormous amount of room for competition, and you'd need to start by raising a ton of money from people purely for charity.
I am downloading the Qt dependencies, and will try a build from source on macOS using: export NYXT_RENDERER=qt
I genuinely do not understand the sentiment behind your first sentence after reading your last.
I appreciate the sentiment of having more domestic alternatives and competition but there's an insignificant amount of work here. Indie developers and studios won't start making apps and games for India unless they can sustain themselves. That is hard. I expect bigger companies such as jio to take lion's share and have a default monopoly at this point.

> India has emerged as the fastest growing app market in the world with 19 billion apps downloaded in 2019, up from 6.55 billion in 2016, according to data from analytics and market intelligence firm App Annie’s State of Mobile 2020 report published last week.

> Indians have spent only $120 million on mobile apps whereas China dominates mobile spending with $48 billion, which is 40% of total revenue generated through mobile apps.

> In-app subscriptions contributed to 96% of spend in top non-gaming apps.

https://entrackr.com/2020/01/india-is-fastest-growing-market...

Some background:

> PM Narendra Modi on Sunday urged startups and entrepreneurs to develop innovative “toys and games, for India and of India” to meet domestic demand and increase its share in the global toy business, estimated at Rs 7 lakh crore. He also called upon people to support indigenously developed apps which could replace the ones currently in vogue and are controlled by foreign companies.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/...
Enabling the static CPU scheduler policy currently requires setting a Kubelet flag, and that puts it out of reach of most people running managed Kubernetes distributions.
I suppose this seems to make sense if you believe that higher education costs are a true market that has found some kind of equilibrium. But it's not.

College graduate parents are going to try very hard to send their kids to college, and today, the vast majority of students at 4 year colleges come from families with college graduate parents. When tuitions were low, this did not require much sacrifice for those parents. When prices went up, those parents continued to send their kids to college, making greater sacrifices, but often without taking out a loan (at least for public universities). Today, 42% of undergraduates at public universities have no debt.[0]

No doubt loans also had an effect -- among other things, they made it easier for state politicians to reduce support for public universities. But since 40% of students at public universities have no debt, and costs increased more than 5 fold, it is hard to argue that loans were the major factor driving up the cost. To support the loan driving argument, it would be useful to see relationship between the fraction of students with loans and college costs. Simply saying that costs went up when loans became more available ignores many other changes in education finance.

[0] https://www.aplu.org/projects-and-initiatives/college-costs-...
Even classically, the spinning would pull apart the equator, but the poles would fall. You could get a disk of nuclear matter (add electrons and that's a galaxy) or a buzzing cloud where everything just misses the black hole as it orbits (like the stars in the galactic core), but if it's a solid mass with a continuous velocity field, the poles will fall in.
It's a prototype (and thus exceptionally rough) but it is remarkably similar to the original Gameboy IMO.
Modi has nationalist agenda but I doubt this one falls under it. Given the consistent Chinese aggression, I guess any other political party would have done the same.
cant say im surprised honestly. as sad as it is, Messing with Putin himself rarely leads to a positive outcome.
The founders of modern democracy already questioned the quality of the average citizen and whether they could be trusted with policy making. Hence the US was founded as a representative democracy. Citizens didn't make judgements on war and industry, they made judgements on politicians that would do so on their behalf.
Always wondered about these Free VPNs, how are they free? Are they actually free? Is that why you used "Free" in quotes? Must be a valid model behind it since the bandwith must be insane.
oops, fixed. Yes I originally copied the title then decided all caps was probably too much for HN.
> phyphox

Well, there goes my productivity for the day.

(edit: fixed typo)
You don’t want to be on a vpn for a competitive game if they’re blocking the fortnite server
Running business requires people. Accounting, support, marketing, hr, security, procurement teams, lawyers, fraud teams, etc, etc. To build tech company you require more than just engineers.
Ask HN: Home security cameras that don't have terrible data policies
I just bought a house and everyone keeps telling me to get a Ring camera but I have some major issues with it that I probably don't need to get into here.

I've been looking into the Unifi cameras from ubiquiti but I've heard mixed things. I'm looking to set up a couple cameras outside my home (front door and back door). One feature of the Ring camera that is really nice is that it can recognize people and alert you when a person is at your door. Are there any other camera options that have features like this?

I'm open to hacking something together if need be. It doesn't need to be a completely out of the box solution.

Thanks.
Tests typically have short time and there is pressure.

Tests are not place for individual problem solving nor for figuring stuff out, they are for when you already learned that stuff and is proving to others that you did.
Chinese apps have always been a security risk. Mostly youth will be annoyed by lack of their favourite time-waster apps, but there are alternatives.
I realized a long time ago that school is really organized babysitting so that Adults can go over their day without worrying about their kids.

High school was hell for me. I guess a point can be made that it makes you learn life the hard way.
Attackers abuse Google DNS over HTTPS to download malware
There are huge problems with locking an age cohort with wildly different interests, talents, abilities, and personalities into a room and expecting them to go through puberty together while also learning... something.

Even if you select for ability along some axis, you still get different interests and learning styles - and personalities.

Learning is basically industrial, uselessly abstracted [1] and commodified, when it could be individualised. A lot of talent is wasted because high school stunts the really bright kids. And given how brutal it is, it seems to damage everyone emotionally.

[1] Virtually none of the math you learn at school really makes any sense unless you're one of the small number of people who go into STEM - which is where you finally discover what it's for. Things are a bit better than they used to be, but basic financial math as a specific competence is far more useful to most of the population than even the most basic algebra and trig.
Is there an "upper" limit on the mass of a black hole?

I would guess "no" but then again I'm not a physicist, maybe there's a surprise down the road.