skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are they any machines that aren't?
Ask HN: Teaching kids how to think?
There is a lot of material out there for teens and older kids.

I am curious what material or activities you use for kids ages 6-8 for helping them to learn to think on their own.
Counbase's approach here is fairly on-the-nose. That's unlikely to be the lasting/widespread one.

OTOH, if the trend continues towards employees and/or management demanding more political positioning from their companies... some sort of "on board or out" dynamic is inevitable. Maybe "on board or shut up," in reality.

No position, including neutrality, will be comfortable for everyone and no company wants political factioning in their ranks.

Ultimately though, I think employee opinions are less operative than some of these reports would have us think.
I think you're underestimating how many people live in a world of either very expensive cellular connections, or 56k modems.
> The view you just described is active support for the status quo.

A passive stance is, by definition, not active support for anything.

Coinbase is actively working on financial infrastructure. That's what they "actively" do.

> Saying "I'll keep my views private" means I'm giving an okay to what's happening now.

No, it means that what's happening now is, while certainly important to many employees as people, not a part of or in any way related to the company's business.
The "grid" example shows a similar effect, but the difference is even more stark. With Low Cut Frequency at 0%, slowly move the High Cut Frequency between 7% and 9%, on the "Modulus view" you should see the white dots which represent vertical bands in the "Inverse transform" get cut out, so the "Inverse transform" switches from a fuzzy grid to just horizontal bands.
Is this actually a radio (as in receives terrestrial broadcasts), or just a BT speaker?
It's a given by the person who mentioned 999,998 doors. I think you're missing the point, but I won't pursue this further.
This is awesome. I found Gitter super handy because of it's close tie to repos, but being able to reach it from Element would be really nice.
Being apolitical at work is not active support for the status quo. It’s simply not using your role as an employee for your company as a vehicle to advance your political agenda. An agenda which is most likely irrelevant to the mission of your company.

You can be apolitical at work while still opposing the so called status quo with your vote. Or you can oppose the status quo in an explicitly political organization outside of your job.
How real-time stream processing works – a visual guide
I don’t think this is the type of thing that affects broad consumer decision making on product replacement.

Maybe a slight impact if it was the only story in the news right now and the cable networks ran it regularly? Still a stretch.
Perhaps:

https://neocities.org/supporter (Paid) or
https://surge.sh/
A lot of this comes about, not because of "free," but because of that ol' "solved problem" canard.

As I have stated before, if I had a dollar for every time I've been told "XXX is a solved problem," I'd be rich. Since this phrase is usually bundled into a package, denigrating my own choice to "roll my own," in some effort, I get just a wee bit peeved, when I hear it. I know that I can come across as a cranky bastard that don't trust anyone (possibly because I am), but that doesn't make me wrong. Sometimes, it does mean that I ignore some very good solutions, because I can't bring myself to trust them.

Finding a dependency that does most of what we want, isn't hard. Vetting that dependency; especially in regards to embedded dependencies, is not as easy. This can be made more difficult by downstream dependencies burying ToS statements by upstream dependencies; requiring anyone that includes the dependencies to recurse the chain, studying each ToS.

Nowadays, data is currency. Every application seems to be some form of PID miner. This is why I get a solitaire app that requires me to sign up for an account.

I think there's a lot of legitimately well-done, truly free stuff. A lot of it isn't popular or flashy. Maybe there's an opportunity for someone to create a dependency index that rates things like privacy of dependencies, and unwinds dependency hierarchies, sort of like GitHub does with security issues.
> How can they truly be neutral on all of these issues that are directly relevant to the business they do?

These are issues with consumers and state not the business.
I think this brings up a problem though. By raising the cost of labor, you're more incentivized to try to make sure that labor is used efficiently. This is why, pre-Uber, it was hard to impossible to get taxis in some small towns, suburbs, or less-active parts of the city. If you're paying someone minimum wage whether they're actively driving someone for a fare or not, you can't afford to have someone on the clock out in the middle of nowhere where there's a low chance they will ever get a ride.

One of the benefits of the current system is that being available to start a ride is essentially "free", both for the driver and the passenger. I've had times where I called a Lyft, and had it be someone who literally was living in the same apartment building I was in, and walked down to their car, drove out to the street, and picked me up. Presumably they were just at home, but still active in the app to take rides. This helps to expand coverage for pickups to areas where it wouldn't make sense to have a car just actively circling. Drivers have a reason to be searching for a ride near them, even if there's a low chance of it popping up.

How do you solve this? We see this issue in other industries as well - food deserts are a similar issue. It's expensive to run a full grocery store, so you can only afford to put them in places where they'll see enough traffic to warrant it. But as a general culture, there's value in services that aren't economically viable on their own. Optimally, some of this would be solved with public transit or such, but that can't just be done overnight, or to everywhere it's needed, so what's the in-between?
Everyone predicts doom and gloom when Seattle enacts a progressive policy. Seattle’s economy is still doing well. I view this as essentially fixing a loop hole around their existing minimum wage laws.
While I really like the idea of presenting the subject of privacy and big data in a simple and intuitive way, and while I think that there is merit to the global warming metaphor, I'm worried that it might distract from the message.

Sadly, climate change has now become politicized, and it would be a shame if the same happened here.
The problem with compiler and standard lib bugs is it's the last thing you suspect. You're always going to look at your own code first, because 99/100 it's you and not them. You're never going to immediately think "compiler bug", your first port of call is gonna be "I must be using the API wrong".

I discovered a bug in the Swift standard lib once, and it took ages before I got to the point where I decided to strip out my own code, just to make sure it was me. And it wasn't, there was genuinely something wrong in the lib that other people on SO were also able to reproduce.

Good on him for finding a bug in secp256 too. When it comes to cryptography code, it can be very hard to know what the right answer is. I always find some examples on the internet and put them in a unit test to make sure I'm not misusing the API, because if you do your answer looks the same: bunch of numbers in a byte array. To know that your numbers are wrong, you need to be sure you are testing them correctly. Which you can't be if you don't know if you're using the API correctly.
> Rendering large tracts of land uninhabitable is extremely expensive

Have you ever been near a coal ash pond? You probably haven't because it is an extreme health hazard to get anywhere near it, as it is full of mercury, arsenic, heavy metals and occasionally radioactive slurry.

There about a thousand of these ponds in the US alone totaling maybe 100,000 acres. Meanwhile all the nuclear power plant waste ever produced could fit into a single large hangar...
...this is starting to feel like a major screwup on Apple’s part, is there a reason to think otherwise?
BTW what is a good free CMS now? I looked and Wordpress/Joomla /Drupal were most popular. What year is it?
CKA Exam tricks
> The idea that people would pay money, do a bunch of extra work and make their device slower just to change the appearance of their home screen because a handful of people on social media popularize it blows my mind.

I'm surprised you find that surprising because customisation isn't exactly a new phenomenon. I mean is it really any different to techies slapping stickers on their laptop? Or car enthusiasts modding their vehical? Or home owners decorating their house? Maybe you consider this different because it is software rather than physical stuff; but people do also change their ring tones and wallpaper images too, people customise their avatars on MMO games and profile pictures on social networks. Heck, I even have an alternative coloured border on HN. So while this particular workaround will undoubtedly be more work than most people are willing to take I do still get why some people might want to customise their home screen.
If remote hiring is an option, and you are okay with a big time zone difference, Eastern Europe has plenty of great software developers who will gladly work for the sort of wages you are describing. Of course, remote hiring is incredibly difficult. However, if you do some thorough googling on the right way to hire remotely, and you're extremely careful, you might be able to find some hungry developers.
That'd totally suck if you were to hear him say it here and now. In the context of the Roman empire and the period Cicero wrote this it would probably not register much, except for with a few 'activist' types like Spartacus.

Take the way things are done currently which you more or less accept as normal, e.g. the state demands part of your income with the threat of force if you don't comply. Fast-forward to a new age when taxes have been abolished since the invention and perfection of the matter compiler (think 'Diamond Age') and imagine reading about how the government enslaved the populace. You need to interpret written words in the context of the place and time they ware written, if you try to literally apply them to the current situation things go south pretty quickly.
So because someone else was also offering a solution, Starlink is the stunt? Is literally everything in life a stunt if someone has done it before you?
If we actually care about climate change then shouldn't we be thinking like this though?
If prints don't work... Christ, I don't know what I'd do. Great post.
wait until you see what happens to the standard of living if we don't!

All IPCC targets assume getting to 0 emissions relatively soon. If we can't take economic hits to get there, then we'll take a fantastically more wild economic hit once we miss those goals.

I suggest you spend some time researching a bit what happens with each degree C we get to. It's far worse then just rising sea-levels.
Aside from tiny places like nauru, is there any reason using a proportion is bad?
> nothing to do with the original point.

Agree, but my point is that the Monty puzzle is a bad example to use educational if not careful.
And/or raise prices on consumers who are using the drivers who have to be paid more. That seems like a component of any solution to the issue.
I would edit your statement to maybe very remote areas around the world, usually you can just drag a cable or place a cell tower and you get much cheaper internet and telecommunication.
Do they have enough cash to pay for this service and to keep this a viable business proposition? I'm still hoping this will be a great alternative to locations that are more densely packed, but only have 1 option for broadband. Need to keep the Comcasts and Verizons of the world in check.
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> It is a reasonable perspective to have that if black Americans engage in more violence, it is because they have been subjected to more violence and deprived of opportunity. And that, ultimately, is in many cases, the responsibility of white Americans.

I disagree that this is a reasonable perspective at all. Adult people are wholy responsible for their actions. This fundemental fact underpins our whole society.

I would say that this statistic is primarily used to explain disproportionate encounters with (and subsequently death at the hands of) police. It's important to note that black people are also massively overrepresented as victims of violent crime. This suggests that black communities are generally more violent and therefore more likely to be policed. This fact along with others (like the behaviours of majority black police departments) can be used to construct in good faith a strong argument that there is no epidemic of police racism. This argument is not very popular, so it seems to get censored.
Yeah it's an FM radio. It's all over the page. They even have an ambient drone that's sounds like it's time stretched samples from the FM radio.

> have you ever wished you could instantly rewind when listening to the radio, to hear the title of the
song just played?

> 72 hrs listening how about normal radio listening for a week without charging?

> if you skip the traditional inputs like line in, bluetooth and FM radio
You don't need to turn it into a book. You can turn it into an online resource.

I help people settle in Berlin. I got tired of repeating myself, so I put my answers on a website and linked to it. Now it's my main source of income, and a well-known resource for expats.

I don't think any topic can be monetized with such ease, but it doesn't hurt to try. Even if you completely fail, you'll still help thousands of people who are googling their problems.
Also FM radio.
Hm. Maybe. Maybe capitalism in its current form is bad nonetheless? Or an exploiting sham? How do you explain companies like BlackRock, Inc. and similar being on the boards of almost any important corporation? Isn't that a conflict of interest?

Or to put it another way, they are implementing communism by other means, with the same bad outcomes for the masses.

What difference is "Strategische Konzernentwicklung/corporate development/group development" to a Soviet 5-year plan, aggravated by quarterly reviews and HFT?

Gennadiy Gosplanovich would approve with a hysteric laugh.

I know. Been in several of them. Fortunately got out :)

edit: Of course you could call me a stoned hippie leftover from the 70ies, but that really was before my time. I'd counter that with management is on coke, crack or other medications which influence empathy in a bad way. Simple as that.

(Now playing "Ka-Ching!" with a pitchfork on the karmic harp)
It's endlessly looping at least. BTW whole 2 hours is unheard of even for specialized music looping equipment, most I've seen is about 30 mins.
How a university stole a Twitter account it didn’t like
Gitter Is Moving to Element
I don't agree. Opponents of the status quo can get an advantage by defecting from an apolitical equilibrium, by bringing politics into spaces where people who disagree with them aren't willing to. But when everyone starts being political, opponents of the status quo lose, because almost by definition their views are less popular.
Your observations about socioeconomic status echo deeper than you might think.

Towards black Americans, European xenophobia doesn't translate into microaggressions intertwined with poverty, like being suspected of stealing while in any shop or being mistaken as working there because that context doesn’t exist. Where that sentiment exists, it seems reserved for another group like Romanians or Romanian minorities.

Towards anybody, there is no possibility of the police being called on you while strolling through any random neighborhood and no possibility of that escalating into danger if they were. There is no need to rationalize perpetual danger with “but look at the violent crime stats, LE has to assume everyone that looks like that has a dangerous weapon”, and the lack of collective punishment absolves almost all of the strife. More likely you’ll wind up in a society where everyone ignores each other by default anyway and that’s great, leaving only the endearing things to experience.
The people who choose iPhones don't know that they pay almost 50% extra per purchase since Apple doesn't allow apps to show it.
Why no DAB radio?
>> Coordinating all these programmed traffic lights to keep vehicles moving is a problem.

Is that the goal of traffic light timings? I'm not sure. I think timings are more often used specifically to slow traffic (ie "traffic calming") or to prioritize one form or direction of movement over another.

I remember watching a BBC doc about traffic control in london. The operators all talked about helping vehicles move through the cities, but the policy makers spoke only of reducing traffic by essentially making travel more painful: "The easiest trip to manage is the one that doesn't happen."
The smaller and "good" agencies generally focus on customer service, while the bigger ones focus on customer acquisition through brand name and probably do not care about customer retention.
A low-bandwidth starlink service for IoT
Like every 6 months something impossible happens on my visual studio. For example the program enters an if it shouldnt. It evaulates to false but still enters.

This happens because somehow it uses old cached intermediate files that are no longer valid. No matter what i do it refuses to build it correctly. Even clean and rebuild does not work, it forces me the delete project files and recreate them

It probably an err on our side, especially aince clean dowsnt work. But it is quite annoying when it happens and gets hard to figure out what is going on
I think we're conflating certain actions with certain messages. The words of that speech struck a nerve with people because of its universal appeal to humanity. It's oft quoted line of "...judged by content of their character, not the color of their skin" is still universally praised because of that.

Compare this to today's thoughtless and abrasive slogans or the writings of today's favored thought leaders on this and how divisive now only are the ideas but the tactics being used to coerce people into compliance.

So yeah, people at the time may have had a distaste for some of the tactics but the messaging was very popular. The riots that took place later on in the decade were a disaster and led to a new, mainstream form of conservatism led by Nixon.
Pro tip: Ctrl+Alt+R in firefox :-)
I really need to build https://github.com/Codeux-Software/Textual for Element. The web UI is so slow

There is https://github.com/neilalexander/seaglass but it is very incomplete
They literally set it up at the one place in town that already had working Internet access and power. On top of the generator of the entity already providing such. Yes, that's a stunt.
> This appeal to employment is disconcerting, as ride sharing apps are doing their workers no favors by paying them so poorly (including the lack of benefits).

Except that they do, because they provide a level of flexibility not available at most other jobs.

If you're a college student and you have two hours and fifteen minutes between classes, you can drive for two hours and fifteen minutes. If you're a school bus driver who drives kids to school in the morning and drives them back in the afternoon but has nothing to do in the meantime, you can get in your own car and drive passengers at that time and make some extra money. If you have a part time job working three days a week with an inconsistent schedule set by your employer, you can drive another two days a week, even if it's a different two days every week.

There is value in that, or why is anybody doing it rather than working at Walmart or Starbucks where that isn't available?

But if you make the drivers employees then the company has no reason not to schedule their hours inflexibly, because the flexibility was only needed to attract workers at the lower level of compensation.

In practice what you're doing is disallowing employers from offering employees terms of employment that provide the employee with working conditions of greater non-monetary value than ordinary jobs in exchange for less money. There is no reason to think that this is never advantageous for the employee, and the workers who don't find those terms advantageous remain free to work for any other employer.

> When talking about jobs, especially in the US where so many benefits are tied to employment, a job with pay so low and no benefits should not be considered a good thing.

Then do something about all the benefits tied to employment. All of that exists only as a direct result of government policy.
Stack-Driven Program Generation of WebAssembly [pdf]
Cataline did have an army, and was looking to take over Rome for himself. As far as I can remember, we don’t have much information on the conspiracy.
My point is your parent is right and you are wrong.

Artificially extending what's seen as political to excess is a pointless exercise that removes all meaning and usefulness from the concept.

That's bad because a shared understanding of some political sphere (which comes into existence through its boundaries) is really important for democratic discourse.
Meaningful numbers?

There are billion of human beings, and then a fraction of these people with internet connection, and fraction that speak of the same language. The internet allow people to organize communities that would otherwise be impossible on a local level, giving to rise to possibly hundred of thousand or million of people who believe that the Earth is flat.

Is that 'meaningful' amount of people? I like to think it is enough to form movements, even if they can never get anywhere.
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Seattle doesn’t have this problem at all. You solve this problem by not enacting these rules where they don’t make sense.

Seattle does have a ton of Uber drivers that work 60+ hours a week and are barely making ends meet.
The financial infrastructure that Coinbase is working on brushes up against the lines drawn by the law in many countries. Working with Bitcoin could be seen as a somewhat political act in itself.
Also, doesn't this incentivize drivers to intentionally be "on the clock" in places and at times where they won't get rides? I can't just decide that Starbucks has to pay me to be behind the counter from 2-5 AM every day, but right now, I can decide to be available on Lyft then.

Presumably this will lead to some sort of tighter geofencing, or caps on how many drivers can be active at a given time?

This is before you get into weird things around locality. If I live outside of Seattle, but drive into Seattle to do some Lyft driving, does this apply to me? What if I take a ride that starts outside of Seattle, but ends up in the city? Or if I pick up someone in Portland and drive them to Seattle?
Food production is heavily dependent on fossil fuels. We have used fossil fuels to prop up the carrying capacity of humans on the planet quite a bit.

This is why it is really important to ask questions about what we really need, and if we're at all interested in human survival in the future, we need make serious decision to scale down the economy soon.

Of course I'm not very optimistic that this will happen.
> For many of us, some of these combinations are not very readable. That is why 4.5:1 is a minimal contrast ratio.

Having a thin stroke (the space font face) and small character size (18 px, which is a 12 pt equivalent) for your typeface typically means that you need to increase the contrast to compensate.

In other words, 7.5:1 is insufficient given the design choices. Even if it's "legal".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endless_tape_cartridge

I wonder which teenagers they target :-)