skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used C, and also FUSE.

I wrote utilities to mount and access old Disk Operating Systems from 8-bit computers of the 1980s. (Floppy filesystem, and hard disk filesystem).

You also need a good working knowledge of the file format, whether you obtain that from documentation, or by disassembling working utilities that know that file format, or just plain old digging and trial and error.

That's valid whether you're looking at just a single file's format, or whether you're talking about the workings of a complete filesystem.
Yes, there's no suitable spectrum available to towers due to topography, etc..

I might have to build towers at both ends to run in a licensed range, eg: 11Ghz, and even there there's not good access. So I might still have to pay 20-60k to get access on top of the 5-10k for radios and registration of the licensed link. That easily builds 1-1.5 miles of fiber, and since I was just over 2 miles away from it, it became easier to just do that and have something reliable.
>On the morning of September 8, 2020, Nikola announced a strategic manufacturing partnership with General Motors, sending shares of both companies sharply higher.

Interesting that GM seems to be making a lot of moves at once.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/03/gm-and-honda-to-estabish-str...
emergency is becomingly unfortunately normalized with regards to wild fires in the western part of the country. also, “living your life” infers a generalized comparison and if that’s the case you must consider the destructive impact (homes/businesses) of the fire that lives on well beyond the actual event. - bad air quality from pollution isn’t destructive in that manner
Hindenburg Research is a well known short seller.
> Curious, what's the ancap version of something like CPS?

I think this is the best question I have been asked in this thread.

As you might imagine, ancaps are very into this topic and have done a pretty good job of thinking through all the little details. The answer to almost all these questions is something like, "It would work just like it does now, but you would voluntarily choose who to pay for the service, instead of a government having a monopoly on it, so you could fire them if you weren't satisfied".

CPS seems like a genuinely difficult problem though. For that matter, it's a tough problem in the current system.

If you ran a rights enforcement agency, what would be the fall-out for you for interceding in a child abuse situation? Or for having one reported, but choosing to not intercede? What kind of liability would interceding expose you to? If you heard that in real 2020 America, Uber had directed its drivers not to report suspected child abuse, and Lyft had the opposite policy, would that influence who you hired?

Great question.
First: Thanks for contributing to Caddy! I have not used it in production, but it has been nice for some small projects where I needed something fast and easy.

But, I do feel like in a discussion where you are making a direct comparison between a project you are a part of and a competing project, it is the fair thing to do to disclose that you are a project member.

I know you're not trying to hide it - I see you making comments elsewhere in here that reference it - but not everyone will necessarily see those, and people would probably like to know if they are reading a comparison written by someone who has a vested interest in the things being compared.
Oh snap Harvard about to get banned from facebook and YouTube. The only possible treatment is vaccines made by corporations with questionable ethics and safety records. Period. Harvard is pushing conspiracy theories that cost astra zeneca to make less money for investers. We only want Fauci science all other science is useless to me.
>you can target them on Quora, Reddit etc as well.

This is one of the reasons I stopped giving out my primary email address for user signups. I use a service called Blur which allows for unlimited "masked" emails to be created, allowing me to give companies read-only email addresses. In the four years I've had it I have created 378 email addresses. If I'm including the email addresses that I've already deleted, the list gets to 400.

Marketing and the 3000 spam messages I get per month made me do this. It does not have to be this way, but as long as corporations can play fast and loose with my email address I will make sure they never get a real one to begin with.

Edit: Want to add here that I am not in any way sponsored by that company, I've just been using them for years now and think their prices are reasonable.
3.5 °C in 2100? [pdf]
I can't tell if this is a very elaborate grammar joke that I don't know enough to understand or a troll.
> how does Nim know that `=>` is infix?

I expect it's the `

Haskell works the same way.
Do you recommend that book?
Sorry but I have tried wayland multiple times (most recent ~12mo ago) and this has never been true in my experience. At least on my nvidia card. And the wayland people have been saying stuff like "oh we know better performance is possible, we just need to implement x, y, and z" for many years.
http://500years.royalmailgroup.com/gallery/delivery-frequenc...

In the UK it was up to 12 times / day in cities!
Most of the VR graphics code & engine integration AFAIK is implemented within Steam, not on the headset. So beyond just getting some basic positional tracking you're not really going to be able to access any content without something else.
To be fair : they explicity state their position ( they are indeed short ) at the end of the article.
I find the audacity of the fraud hilarious.

They pulled a truck up a hill and let it roll down unpowered, using it in a video demonstrating their new EV technology when nothing worked. Who does that.
I actually think I tried this one yesterday, and from memory it spammed my traybar with about 12 different icons. The UI isn't just cluttered, it's odd!

Still, it's a nice demonstration of what you can do with DDC, and just about anything is better than the crappy physical controls on monitors.
I don't user a terminal-based editor very often, but my vim syntax highlighting uses the basic 16 colors and it works just fine for me. Personally I think a lot of syntax highlighting is noise anyway. But again, I don't really have a problem with more colors being an option. There are few things that I love more than tweaking and customizing my editor. I just want the out of the box configuration to be dead simple. Any number of options is fine, but your application damn well better display correctly regardless of my color settings, which is so much more likely if you stick to using the 16 colors I get to manage myself.
GitHub: Ensure the Future of Your Work
Kind of surprising to hear this on a website that largely talks about software.

Has any software ever been "right" the first time? I'm not sure.
Style aside, these results are way way better quality than the typical curated Twitter feed.

> BlueSpaceCanaryTwitter
"malloc" comes from the Latin "mal", meaning "bad" or "evil", and the abbreviation "LOC", meaning "lines of code.”
And yet, both government-mandated and private dress codes (Which governments have found to be perfectly binding), ranging from the length of your shirt's sleeves (At a government-ran school), to the requirement to wear shoes to receive service, to the requirement to wear a particular color of clothing to work (Work dress codes), or to receive service, to the requirement to wear protective gear to work, to the requirement to not wear particular items of clothing in certain contexts (face veils) are all completely enforceable, even when they have nothing to do with obscenity.

It's a entirely unprincipled double-standard when a high school can censure a girl for wearing a halter top with straps that are narrower then three finger widths, but apparently can't enforce a mask mandate.
> Police are beholden to government leaders, who are elected.

That is a platitude that doesn't really reflect reality.
It’s not random. The distribution of words obeys the Zipf’s law. A random generated structure would not look like an written real language.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6085/has-it-bee...
Social media bias hawk eyed as next FCC commissioner
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Same reason I cringe when people use “as per” where a single “as” or “per” will do (per means as), “thusly” instead of “thus”, and, my personal anti-favorite, “individual” to mean “person”.

It’s a special kind of pretentious language that people use to make them seem more authoritative or accurate/deliberate. It’s manipulative.
Is smoke not considered a pollutant? The list is just a ranking of current PM2.5 AQI levels.
Thanks for such a thoughtful response. On #5, it appears to be based on police reports, interviews, and corresponding docs (arrests, hospital admissions). The arrests and hospital visit counts seem objective and the authors don't appear to have an agenda.

I don't have any particular expertise or strong opinions about this topic. My interest is that the threshold/evidence requirement for telling people to avoid a certain resource should be set pretty high.

Separately, the data confirms your #1: https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpp15.pdf (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23467379). The numerator is absolutely massive -- 53 million people per year. Roughly half of those are traffic stops, but even excluding those, it's still big. Citizens were asked the level of escalation of their most recent police-initiated contact or traffic accident and 0.3% said that a gun was pointed (page 17). That 0.3% is from citizens, not police, so it's probably an upper bound. For comparison, about 3% of people's most recent contact included any use of force, mostly handcuffs (1.8%) and push/grab/hit/kick (0.7%).
It's also about tolerance for stupidity.

The use of E-mail addresses as user IDs is not just inconvenient and annoying, but it's a piss-poor practice from a security standpoint.

You can assume that a large portion of the public does not understand that they don't have to use their E-mail password on sites that force them to use their E-mail address to sign up. This puts the security of their entire E-mail account in the hands of dozens or hundreds of random Web sites' administrators and employees, which means it puts the security of their identities in those hands.

Not to mention that everyone's E-mail address is on thousands of spammers' lists. When you test the top 100 passwords against millions of E-mail addresses, you're going to get a shitload of compromised accounts.

Nobody should be forcing people to use an E-mail address as a user ID.
And they're short selling this position because they have good reason to believe the stock price is severely overinflated due to fraud. If what they're saying is true (and they provide lots of evidence) then this company is basically worthless.
I’m not big on trading individual stocks, but I own a bunch of long puts on Nikola. I don’t know any other company that seems as likely to go to zero (other than companies like Hertz, where everyone knows so the options are priced appropriately).
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> eventually a bad actor will come along and misuse the technology

Isn’t that is the entire concept behind separation of power. If we can’t trust democratic principles how can we trust any power or technology? The potential for misuse can apply to all power, big and small.
It looks like McAfee has listed it as a parked domain:

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Like with any layer of abstraction, you can't mention the complexity it adds without also mentioning the complexity it removes.

It has encouraged people to move to a more immutable architecture, which makes many types of common problems easier to solve.
> The machine that this is all running on will need a much more recent version of its OS.

Does anyone have any info on this problem? I have letsencrypt running just about everywhere (including my ubiquity edge router). It seems to "just work". However, I use the letsencrypt-nginx plugin to handle the certificates for me.
JSON is the best interchange format ever invented. I don't understand why anyone would want to change it. It's:

- Simple

- Human and machine readable

- Compatible

- Searchable

- Debuggable

- Relatively fast encoding/decoding

- Small size

I think Protocol Buffers is yet another misguided attempt to reinvent the wheel. If you did a pros and cons analysis on Protocol Buffers, you'd quickly realize that you lose in simplicity, lose on human readability, lose on compatibility (since it can introduce a reliance on specific type systems which different services will have to agree with), it's less searchable, less debuggable... The only benefit of Protocol Buffers over JSON is that in some languages it's a bit faster to encode and decode... In some environments the speed difference is negligible.

I can't think of any use case where ProtoBuf would be superior. I still don't understand how it could have become so popular. I guess it has Google's name behind it; that must be why.
Content blockers work really well too. They should be integrated into browsers. That ought to reduce the conversion rates and get companies to stop spamming us with noise.
Musk has also had some interesting/uneasy relationship history with the truth. This guy does seem to be taking it quite a bit farther and leaving a lot more daylight visible between his statements and the truth.
Please stop reposting this story to hacker news.
What would you be able to do with the headset aside from connect it to Steam? They could add support for OpenXR but OpenXR is just starting to get traction and that's on the application developer side. I don't know how widespread the adoption of the HMD agnostic bits of OpenXR are.
I constantly give estimates that are about 1/2 ~ 1/5 of the actual because I am overly optimistic (and the thing about unknown unknowns). I have done this for 20 years, so you'd think that I would get over it, but apparently I am a dumb-ass.

But apparently, this is in the opposite direction of what you are talking about. That said! If I were to pad my guesstimates, then it could legitimately look like sand-bagging. I don't know that there are any easy answers. I am trying to become more accurate (if for no other reason than not having to work over Christmas holidays to keep up with my promises), but estimation is hard!
For comparison, the same file 10 years ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20100502082201/http://data.iana....

There were only 279 TLDs back then, or 32 TLDs if you excluded all the country code TLDs. Now there are 1508 TLDs, or 1260 excluding country code TLDs.
I don’t know how universal this is, but at least in my mind there is a clear semantic difference between 123 and "123". 123 is a number in the mathematical sense, maybe counting or measuring something. It probably makes sense to do arithmetic on it (addition, multiplication, etc.). "123" is a number in the other sense: some kind of identifier that happens to consist of numerical digits; something like a phone number, zip code, serial number, etc. It doesn’t make sense to perform arithmetic with it. And if it happens to begin with a "+" or a "0" then it’s not ok to just drop that character.
This story is so darn timely amidst the news of the post office lately. I had zero doubt postmasters would do this, postal workers seem to be the easiest folks to get along with. It'd be cool to do something for all 50 states (territories, too), but at this point, I doubt it'd work anymore.
I've been staring at a screen for decades, but only fairly recently found out about the harm of blue light, and am using f.lux with the "soft light" effect.

Aside from blue light, is it bad for your eyes just because of the brightness level? Is there any kind of objective measure of how bright is "safe"? And if so, is there any way of knowing how many nits a monitor is emitting?
Just watched the whole video, amazing, nostalgic but also subtly wrong in a number of annoying ways!
since the responses have mostly been literal (no pun intended) perhaps i should clarify, i meant "case" in general
It's the same for me when someone says, or writes, "as of late" instead of "lately". Sometimes people think that more words make their writing more professional, but it's usually the opposite. Sentences that are more polished and concise are the hallmark of professional writers.
They said that they would release a report on a well known company but this is a little disappointing. I think everyone knew that Nikola was pretty shady to begin with. After all, it’s not everyday when the company sells merch that revolves around their trading symbol
For me "leverage" instead of "use" is like nails on a chalkboard.
During my research I learned there's a Bridal Veil, Oregon which is a ghost town except for a post office, which folks like to use to send their wedding invitations.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/why-brides-grooms-are-f...
Neo-Colonialism and Modern Economic Institutions
ah, completely unrelated!
Rapid Evolution of Plastic-Degrading Enzymes Prevalent in the Global Ocean
Articles like this are exactly what short-selling is supposed to be for: encouraging people to do deep research and find overvalued stocks.
I was tracking, I just don’t think the two points are completely uncoupled. If individual companies and by extension the market are long-term focused, there shouldn’t be that much incentive for trading now vs trading 1 sec from now.

Unless I suppose you think those who trade companies and those who run companies aren’t intertwined. I do v think there’s some evidence of short term bias. E.g., taking on debt to fund dividends to give the illusion everything is fine
Musk has actually delivered ground breaking tech in multiple fields though. He talks big but he usually (eventually) backs it up. No other company has managed to send rockets to space and then land them again. No other company has managed to sell fully electric cars en-masse like Tesla has done.
"This too shall pass."

Sure, it's kind of cheesy. But it has so many meanings. The bad and sad times will eventually pass, so take it in stride. The good times will pass too, so enjoy them while they're here. You won't always be the person you are now, and neither will others.

It seems to give some additional perspective when applied to any situation.
"You must beware of shadows."

page 109 of The Little Schemer
GNU Terry
Be careful with those puts. It’s entirely possible to be right and still not be able to close out your position because the underlying is halted/delisted.
It is sad they felt the need to do this. This step is not hard, but censuring it because of hypothetical legal issues speaks a lot about the state of affairs on computing.

I miss the good old times where knowledge were freely published without fear.
I asked why it would be unfair, not what the legality was.
Does anyone have a contrary spurce of positive evidence that Nikola honestly does have valuable working technology? I have not made any effort to dig, but what little I had seen of Nikola so far seemed more hype than substance so the accusations here seem pretty believable.
Check this one: “ elaborate ruse—Nikola had the truck towed to the top of a hill on a remote stretch of road and simply filmed it rolling down the hill.”
I agree with this, don't exclude extremes because a blog post or comment said it was bad, they can still be useful sometimes.

For general purpose web development response times, I like to refer to p99 and p95 for general healthiness. P50 doesn't do much more than make me feel better. Max has its uses, it can be a good timeout gauge as the commenter above me pointed out. If the RATE at which max values occur changes, you may have something worth investigating.
just want to float an idea that occurred to me that might explain the disappointment/confusion from HN:

the LTSE in its current form is a Minimal Viable Product.

It is maximally compatible with existing exchanges in order to encourage trading, listing and adoption from day 1. Eric picked the governance angle to start with, but it's probably not the final vision. He believes it is high leverage; reasonable people might disagree.

but it is perfectly explainable to have v1 of the LTSE be a little disappointing, given that this is the same guy that coined the MVP.
Ah yes, we were missing out on so much without TLDs like KERRYLOGISTICS, LPLFINANCIAL, or SANDVIKCOROMANT!
> No other company has managed to send rockets to space and then land them again.

* orbit
thanks for this. but c.f., javascript vs python syntax
I've heard it called the foot-in-the-door phenomenon.

https://www.simplypsychology.org/compliance.html
> Although it's possible, I promise you professional photographers shooting in RAW are setting their white balance well ahead of importing the files into any photo editing software. You're not going to set up studio strobes, or go do some landscape photography in the evening and just completely ignore your image settings. That's a terribly inefficient workflow. If you want to get a preview of what your image actually looks like in camera, that's just part of the process.

Of course, but when issues arise, you can always change it in post. Also, you can batch set Auto WB in pretty much any competent image editor. But yes, in the vast majority of cases one would set a given WB.

> Bonus points: some photographers actually shoot in jpeg purposely to better emulate the experience of shooting color slide film. Is it a flex? Most likely. Are they demanding from themselves that photography remain a skill? Yeah! It's a skill. People take pictures, not cameras... and contrary to that statement I'm a firm believer that better cameras take better pictures.

I totaly understand that too, whenever I can I try to use vintage glass because it brings something enjoyable to the experience. But the photographers that shoot in JPEG typically do it in places where a missed shot isn't that big of a deal.

FWIW, every photojouranlist I've known shoots RAW+JPEG all the time or whenever the light gets fucky for this exact reason. And as someone who shoots multiple hundreds to a thousand images relatively often in a single day, it doesn't really add much issues to my workflow - I'm not going to be doing much anything with all but a few dozen images, and I'm going to be editing all of them even if it takes me two hours or so to make sure I'm getting the most out of my pictures. So if someday I forget to set my white balance, it doesn't make that huge of an issue to my workflow, main problem is that I'm not going to get as good af an impression of what they'll end up looking like when I press the shutter.

That said, in this particular situation, you'd be changing the WB in post.
This is a weirdly specific edge case and it really depends on what type of application is using the syntax highlighting.

For example if it's designed to be a generic `cat` or `man` type utility then I'd suggest sticking with 16 colours. However if it's intending to be a fully featured TUI IDE then something like that would expect the user to configure the application before using it in any significant way and thus using 256 or true colours is more reasonable.

As it happens, I have actually implemented syntax highlighting into one of my open source projects and I stuck with the 16-colour palette. There's only so many unique colours you'd want to use before the screen becomes a mess anyway.
Wireshark does support TLS decryption if you provide a "key log file": https://wiki.wireshark.org/TLS#TLS_Decryption

Perhaps OP's technique could be used to generate such a file.

EDIT: I see you have already investigated such methods after looking at your github link.