skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Er...

That list of Open Source "Internet Good Guys" is a list of groups that Handshake decided to sponsor, not groups that endorse or have anything to do with Handshake.

The actual sponsors of Handshake include the dogpile of VCs and financiers that you'd expect would gamble on a blockchain project, confusingly (deliberately?) listed below the definitely-not-sponsors list.

Look, it's great that they want to support the open source community that they and everyone else relies on, but it looks to me like they're trying to trick careless readers into thinking that these well regarded open source / community organizations support the Handshake project. Even with the big disclaimer, that list is the biggest part of the page. It almost seems like they're trying to look good by association, when there isn't even any association... they just wrote a check using VC funds.

To me, this sends a strong negative signal. If anything, it makes them seem more overhyped, not less.
You might be interested in this other comment chain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24580446
And how many of those phones don't run Google Play Services?

Right now your choices are "Google doesn't spy on me" or "I can sideload apps or use alternative stores".
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=way.com
As someone working on a similar space (https://codehike.org) I really like what you are doing. I haven't tried any full course but I can imagine how the format improves the learning experience while also making the job easier for the instructor. Good luck!
Pigs aren't cute either.
Creating a Conscious Planet
this is the crux of the problem.
elsewhere here the following definition was posted[1]:

"The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation."

creating a globally agreed on well defined meaning for everything is impossible. sure it can be done and it is done for a very limited set of things, but i can't even agree on a meaning of something with my own self from 10 years ago.

i have yet to see any tagging system that worked consistently. take flickr for example. tags are all over the place.

i have been working on tagging my own photo collection, and it's the same problem, because tagging is so much work that i end up applying only the most important keywords in order to categorize an image, keywords that matter to me at the time.

and the semantic web wants to expand that to everything published? who is going to do sll that work? and how are we going to make sure it's consistent and well defined?

again, as someone else here said[2], the semantic web works in restricted, well defined areas of application. but not globally.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24584739

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24584504
Sentencing someone to death shouldn’t be easy.
Facebook is a pseudo-monopoly that does anything evil it can, whenever it can. There, now you're up to date.

Oh wait, actually it was the same 6 years ago as well.
Short everything this guy has ever touched.
Yeah, how dare someone grow and evolve!
Yes, that's obviously the preferred option, but in this particular case it seems like it didn't happen.
> Ravens are about the size as a 4 year old human.

Are we talking mass here? Our local ravens are much bigger than crows, but they don't look _that_ much bigger.
Who's gonna offer those doctors kickbacks to sell heroin baggies?

Ohh right probably pharma companies [1] [2] [3]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2622774/

[2] https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m409

[3] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/opioids-d...
> I don't like the idea that the government can force you to build things you don't want to build.

Oh but you do. Otherwise you'd choose to live in a country without a food code or electrical code or engineering standards for roads and bridges.
Yes, it will be almost exactly the same. The people leaving Google will be young users and techies. Google has plenty of smart employees, and they will eek out growth from the rest of the population.
Quoth the Raven, "Eat my shorts!"
Lots of things you might want to name have natural names starting with numbers. If you're writing, say, a TSP solver, some of your procedures may be called 2-opt or 3-opt, for example.
As an professional Engineer I would be.
> we do a 30 minute standup every morning

If you wouldn't feel comfortable standing with a coffee for the duration of the standup then it's too long.

30 minutes is far too long and is well into conventional status-meeting territory. Aim for 10.

Flip the premise of the meeting from "who's working on what" to "who's blocked by what". If there's no problem, say nothing. Not only does that save time, it is also more empowering for those with problems because they're not "swimming against the current" of those who are reporting their successes.
This really, really reeks of propaganda.

It's a random document posted on scribd. A few pages of messages with little context. Followed by the wild conclusion that there was no crime, based on the equivalent of 50 text messages in a case that surely has thousands of pages of evidence. I can't even tell what they're talking about in half the exchanges because theres no context.

Somebody here has an ax to grind, surprised it's getting upvoted.
The basis for it was reducing impact on health care systems, and to limit second, and future wave impact.

Doing the first saved a lot of people because treatment was available. Secondary saves were non covid patients who could get service because capacity remained more available.

Had we had better safety compliance, we would have reduced even more than we did and may have normalized things such that the wave upon us now would be much less.

Death rates are dead/recovered and that is driven by infections.

Lower infections means fewer entering the death equation. More health care available means more recovered and all of that means far fewer dead people.
A 4-year-old human is around 20kg and a meter tall. This seems very large for a bird.
Windows XP source code has leaked
Yeah I think it's just an acquired taste that American's don't acquire for lack of exposure.

I'm American but was so intrigued after finding it so unpalatable the first time I encountered the salmiak lakrids despite people clearly liking them. I was keen on finding out if it was just a matter of getting used to it.

Now I actually enjoy it and like it. I just still can't handle letting the stronger ones dissolve all the way. It's also very fun to give other Americans to try (I warn them) and see their reaction.
Calibre is 13 years old and widely used. There is no reason someone would want to not use it because of as trivial a reason as Python 2 to 3 except for some rationalized emotional nonsense about the Python 2 to 3 shift. Every time Python 2 vs 3 is discussed, there are a bunch of emotional people spewing vitriol about luddites or some nonsense like that. Easy for especially weakly socialized young people that many programmers are to get caught up in that.
It has been fixed now, apologies. It was a missing config setting!
LoRa is super interesting and this is an absolutely logical step for Amazon and for Google Home. Providing ubiquitous gateways for IoT devices could enable an entirely new markets. Not everyone wants to spend $150 for a LoRaWAN gateway, nor do they see the value in doing so. Devices that come pre-configured with LoRa and can connect to a network through an Echo / Nest / Home device will function right out of the box. The marginal cost of adding something like LoRa or BLE to existing Internet connections is essentially zero.
Software development just isn't mature enough yet. A bug-free, stable version of an IDE from 10 years ago would be much less pleasant to work with than the flaky version with all the features that have been invented in the intervening years.
Programming languages are software products like everything else in the industry, they either stagnate or evolve.
This has now been fixed. Thanks everyone.
I don't think you can pluck someone out of their historical context like this,

Could Newton get published today? I doubt it.

Could Picasso of the 1930s be as influential today? Probably not; the art world has changed.

Would Babe Ruth be a famous baseball player today? Stephen J. Gould makes the argument that (quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould#Cultural_evo... ):

> ... the disappearance of the 0.400 batting average in baseball is paradoxically due to the inclusion of better players in the league, rather than players becoming worse over time.

We have many "better players" in physics now than we did during Einstein's time.
Indeed, there would be no Bordeaux wine snobs if it were not for the New World grape.

Vinis vitifera has been cultivated exclusively (or, nearly so) on New World rootstocks, since the dawn of the 20th century.
This rings true.

There are always more JIRA tickets to grind, but if that's all you do, no matter your throughput, it's hard to move up.
> Vinland enjoyed more hours of daylight than Greenland: ‘In the depth of winter, the sun was aloft by mid-morning and still visible at mid-afternoon,’ information that places Vinland somewhere between New Jersey and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

> In 1960, the Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad and his wife, the archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad, set out to find these places

I'm imagining a kind of mashup where these Norwegian explorers end up in some kind of urban New Jersey setting along the lines of the Daniel Pinkwater books.
I still don’t get the rationale. It’s not like calibre somehow converts your ebooks to a proprietary format that you can’t use without calibre or that it modifies your ereader so that it won’t work without caliber either.
Dogs at Helsinki airport are trained to sniff out Covid-19
At least in california, cost plus world market sells some, or did last I was in there.

I actually enjoy the stuff, I just can't finish a whole piece.
https://youtu.be/x6cTDGqcUpA
Taswegian here, I buy it from iHerb

https://au.iherb.com/pr/natrol-melatonin-3-mg-60-tablets/246...
You paste the same comment everywhere. If you don’t want to trade crypto, don’t! This is the riskiest asset class around. Another benefit of our voluntary society - the freedom to use index funds.
If you set up calibre-server and use an e-reader app that can browse an OPDS catalog (I use Librera Pro on Android), you can get to your books in a variety of ways, including searching.
Pinterest beat back vaccine misinformation
Well, there’s always Helium I suppose...if they haven’t pivoted again by now.
Delphi, C++ Builder vs Visual C++.

Visual C++ 6.0 vs Visual.NET

Visual Studio 2010 vs Visual Studio 2015
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)
https://twitter.com/RoninDey/status/1309275918943301636

https://anonfiles.com/Ffn8u2Yaoa/Microsoft_leaked_source_cod...
All markets have losers - another trope from the uninformed left. Markets allow people to satisfy their needs in a voluntary way.
Pretty sure that's not allowed anymore
> If as a dev you know their code base will have issues

If as a dev one ~not know~, assumes that their code base will have issues because its python 2, then the dev has some issues.
Not to mention people who will refuse to get the vaccine, and those people are more likely to be carrying it anyway due to misbehavior.
Maybe he learned something about python 3, or he had one too many people ask him about it. Or the ghost of python past came in the night to warn him of the dangers of maintaining EOL resources.

I’m glad we can change our minds when we want to.
Yeah same with LISP and revival of functional and meta programming. History may not repeat but it sure rhyme.
Good that the author is mature enough to change his views rather than entrenching himself. I wish more people could do that.
Telepath is a new, kinder social network. But is the internet ready to be nice?
How to Control Systemd Services on Remote Linux Server
> The sellers cannot really move their 'brand' from one market to another. An opportunist could reserve their username on another market, and users know that anyone could be behind that new account. They don't trust the name, only the reviews you have on your particular market.

Sellers can move their brand across markets with a different username because they would still have the same PGP key. There's even a search engine to find the same vendor on multiple markets by looking them up by their PGP key.
Congrats!
I'm your competitor - except it's built-on top of Microsoft Word, and is still in an early state :)

For those interested: https://DocxManager.com

Edit: Sorry, I was wrong, I thought it's "ebook writer" software :P
Any plans to open source/make a fork of exaclidraw? I love the collaboration features of this.

A core reason I love excalidraw so much is because of the handwritten and cartoony ability. It's fantastic and makes everything look like a draft. If that could be added and ease of use a tad nicer, I'd totally use this over Excalidraw for my teaching scratchpad!
Still a better alternative than claiming the package...
SDP over sound seems pretty brilliant since it removes the weakest link of p2p connecting on a LAN. I'm excited to play with this - I think it could be a good solution for a VR use case I am going to be working on where you want to stream a computer screen to a VR headset with minimal friction.
My top four:

Behavior is hard to fix. People say they’ve learned but they underestimate how much of their previous mistake was caused by emotions that will return when faced with the same circumstances.

Being good at something doesn’t promise rewards. It doesn’t even promise a compliment. What’s rewarded in the world is scarcity, so what matters is what you can do that other people are bad at.

People learn when they’re surprised. Not when they read the right answer, or are told they’re doing it wrong, but when their jaw hits the floor.

Most fields have only a few laws. Lots of theories, hunches, observations, ideas, trends, and rules. But laws--things that are always true, all the time--are rare.
> after Linux, xBSD and the GNU stuff

Just after Linux IMO.
On the flip side, why bother spending time optimizing a process if nobody notices when it fails? Aren't there more important problems to be solving in at scenario?
That people have luddite attitudes regarding OS development doesn't make it better either.
It's a good "smell test" as a developer. It's one of the "secret skills" you earn as someone who knows how to build systems, even though it's anything but secret.

As a case study in open source development, I find it fascinating. In large closed source products, these discussions and their relative dissent is held behind closed doors. I wouldn't be surprised if large parts of YouTube remain Python 2 for a long period of time. But the product owners are aware of these tradeoffs and wouldn't allow public discussion on the subject.

Calibre, from what I've heard has had a historically "bad" codebase. I know nothing about it. But is it the truth?
SoniControl an Ultrasonic Firewall
But it would be a possible source of inspiration for Aztecs to make white dudes their gods in human form. Nevermind the fact that the Aztecs don't show up for another three centuries--internal consistency of these sorts of speculative theories isn't exactly a high priority, and especially if you can rely on ignorance to make the seams invisible.

Or you could just not mention the context of the evidence. It's not like most readers are going to bother following up checking it for themselves to see what it really says.
The Eyes Have It
We keep discovering that more and more animals are far more intelligent than we thought. It makes me question the very idea of eating meat.
I've had some magpie issues for years, and after trying various things I ended up shooting a couple because they were getting aggressive. It worked and the rest buggered off.

During the entire time a local couple of ravens watched the entire process from afar. Theyv'e never been an issue so I haven't paid attention to them, but to this day, I swear that those two ravens come by with every chick they hatch, watching when I practice shoot teaching their kids to stay away from me if I have my rifle. Otherwise, they mostly ignore me.
The author may have been thinking along similar lines to Shaw's aphorism, which goes something like: The reasonable man changes himself to fit the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to change the world to fit himself; therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Try to implement malloc/free in freestanding C, or soft floating point for that matter.

Inline Assembly doesn't count as C, isn't part of ISO C and any language can have such extensions, including Go.
Are you implying he didn't commit suicide?
https://archive.vn/TiNNC
Now its Java is relatively fast thanks to ART (AOT) meanwhile Safari need to JIT compile JS (and dynamic lang). Java can also utilize multithreads.

I agree that iPhone SE is steal cheap for chip performance.
That ... Doesn't seem likely? How big is your team? Any chance the person who evaluated TPUs made an error when setting up their test? I'm just a little skeptical that Google would have gone to all the trouble to design the things and that so many organizations would be spending so much money to use them if they weren't better than GPUs in some way.
> Just make all drugs legal and regulate them like anything else.

When those regulations are broken, should we just decriminalize that? I bring this up because "enforcement is a waste of resources," consistently applied, quickly approaches anarchy. We need other reasons for deciding whether a behavior should be criminal.
Are you implying he didn't commit suicide[§]?

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§ http://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2017/07/12/dark-web-le-quebecois-...

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§ http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/alphabay-suspected-cof...

§ https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/massive-blow-to-...

§ https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/alphabay-largest-online-dark-...
This is really commendable, way to go. The post raises some terrific discussion points around the stability, security, and portability of a development toolkit.
Anyone who met a crow knows this. MFs are sneaky smart and get up to anything and everything. Like if you gave a group 16 boys wings.
20 x 500mg tables $0.70 at Coles.

Two packs will end the average teen, formanent liver failure takes about 5 days though, quite uncomfortable I'm told.

The antidote is n-acytel-cysteine, available from most sport supplement type places, I always keep 100g or so around cos early / immediate oral treatment can make the difference until medical intervention arrives, where they give the n-acytel-cysteine intravenously.
Chlorhexidine mouthwash is sold OTC in the UK (under the brand name Corsodyl), and marketed for daily use.
> At best

At best you don't use high quality 1080p on a bus. That's 3.5x the max bitrate twitch uses.
> funded via Patreon

he was only funded via Patreon relatively recently
Pocketbook (Android) plays very nicely with Calibre server as well.
I mean you’re tying value to cost which is weird for art (which is the majority of e-books, novels)

This is like complaining a painting is too expensive because the canvas and paint only cost 100 dollars.

The major value of a book, to a consumer, is the words it contains not the paper it’s printed on.
Yes! I always remember the name of the books but almost never remember the name of the author.
Gizmodo's baking metaphor is really really awful.
Fair point. My notion was mainly stemming from the looks of the shell scripts in the article.
Commercialising quantum computers Today’s small machines may have business uses
That would be a great movie.
I'm surprised to see NSHipster included in your criticism, can you elaborate or point to some articles for comparison?
The main developer of Calibre has had a long history of arrogant statements like that. Most famously illustrated in this bug report thread
https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/885027

It's like...how many times do security researchers have to exploit your code (and your many "fixes") before you change your program's mounting architecture?

I read this bug report when I want to feel something.
I recommend this site to people a lot, it's nice. What's not nice is people not being aware that Git comes with a graphical history viewer for your actual repositories, gitk, which should really be people's default go-to. (There's also log --graph if you want ASCII art, but an actual GUI is quite a bit better. There's also other GUIs that display the information gitk does, of course.)

Git is truly the Dark Souls of version control systems - that is, it's wonderful and masterfully crafted but it has attracted this misguided cult following which spreads misinformation about how intractable and hardcore it supposedly is. Dark Souls doesn't have forge sites deliberately (?) adding to the confusion (maybe all those youtubers...), though.
I used it mostly to try out games, and then because I didn’t have enough disk space due to freaking warzone. But yeah the rest never bothered me.
Duration and frequency of outages. We switch to GSuite two years ago, because it did’t really make sense for us to continue maintaining a Zimbra installation, it cost to much time. GMail has been unavailable at least four times since switching, making it at least twice as unreliable as our old on-premise self-managed mail server.
Trump administration takes aim at international students again
>I don't see how the government restricting how people can gather is constitutional

None of the rights in the bill of rights are absolute. For better or for worse, the courts have decided that pretty much every right you have can be limited in the name of public safety.

If I'm in jail, the warden has no obligation to let me out if I want to go to my best friend's birthday party. If I try to stage an unpermitted protest in the middle of the street, I will eventually be removed
Agreed. It is easy to forget the human elements of your job. More so when you are very technically focussed.
Interesting stance, I still generally disagree with it as not everyone agrees on what is and isn't indoctrination. It's very easy for unconscious biases to slip in when deciding what is and isn't allowed.

I very much favor the platforms that allow an open exchange of ideas and allow participants to make up their own mind. I've generally learned much more from those that disagree with me than those that agree.
Ex-Nikola CEO mysteriously vanishes from social media after abrupt resignation
Considering that /dev/null always reports success on read and write, I'd imagine that http(s) should give a 200 with no payload.
After my cochlear implant operation I volunteered to participate in an in-depth research study to collect data on post-op outcomes for cochlear implant recipients (coincidentally at the Eye & Ear hospital in Melbourne where the multi-channel cochlear implant was invented and first implanted in 1978 by Graeme Clark).

I did a whole raft of audiology tests and for the speech comprehension tests in particular I scored 90%+ compared to people with normal hearing. (They're tough tests too, trying to pick out a sentence from a lot of background noise which is a worst-case scenario for hard of hearing people.)

I was told that my outcome was better than average, but I was a younger than average adult recipient given than I was in my early 40's, compared to most (in Australia at least) who are 60+.

And yes I can now distinguish all notes on a piano.
The idea is that you close suddenly stealing whatever money you can at the moment.

I don't find idea of black market operator stealing shocking nor unbelievable.