skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is Allchemy open source? I could not tell, but it does not look like it and a quick Google search does not reveal that it is. In the spirit of open, reproducible research I would encourage the authors of the software to open source the program.
To add some context to the purchasing power of the minimum wage and of the exchange rate:

https://www.economist.com/news/2020/07/15/the-big-mac-index

https://www.statista.com/statistics/274326/big-mac-index-glo...
Interferometry still only acts as a comparison (to a reference mirror). So there's still the 3 plate method at the heart of it, although I expect most commercially produced surface plates are just machine-ground and then measured against a master, rather than hand-made three at a time.

Edit to elaborate -- to make those ultraflat mirrors, you can also use an interferometric variant of the 3-plate method when, instead of granite or cast iron surface plates, you're making optical flats. Instead of looking at contact patterns with dye, you can observe the interference bands that show up between two optically flat, smooth surfaces to compare them, which is generally more sensitive. But it's still a comparison process. You still proceed by lapping the high spots and checking again...
If you mean their first years of a hybrid engine era, then yes, they were pretty awful. But their early years in the 80s as an engine supplier were very very succesful.
> Anti-poaching agreements are bad, but they aren't nearly as bad as non-competes.

Anti-poaching agreements are non-competes, just between firms rather than a firm and their employees.

> Anti-poaching agreements mean one company won't cold contact employees at another

No, that's not all they mean. The most trivial anti-poaching agreement might restrain itself that way, but anti-poaching agreements can and regularly have included agreements not to employ workers from the other firm, not merely to avoid certain active recruitment/solicitation steps.
They could make the drivers more modular, however --- those are probably the best examples of pieces that someone definitely needs, but certainly not everyone who uses the kernel; and they also make up the bulk of the source tree.
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I should clarify that there was universal agreement in regards to personal property rights, rather than private property rights. Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Hamilton, and Adams were adamant supporters of the idea of private property rights as a social construct. This is in contrast to the misinformation you were parroting which implied that property as a whole was intended to be protected absolutely by society - you seem to even agree that it is not, despite your original quotes implying the opposite.

However, I'm decontextualizing their quotes to support my view despite more precise context being included in the quotes I provided? The meaning of the second quote was not decontextualized and your emphasized component is addressed more precisely by "except the Savage's temporary Cabin, his Bow, his Matchcoat, and other little Acquisitions, absolutely necessary for his Subsistence" which was included in my comment: your analysis does not really add additional nuance where I was supposedly lacking, you're just repeating your original misinformation while bringing up their (related but tangential) ideas on government.

Even in this reply you seem not to delineate the nuance they were intending with their comments on social constructs vs natural rights - just additional context about how they intended to structure government around these ideas.

And next time should you want to spread misinformation without the decontextualizing the meaning of primary sources, include some links to the full text of the parroted quotes. There was certainly much more context provided in my instance that yours - which reeks of someone trying to misconstrue something for their viewpoint. Was Madison """impure""" because he didn't support your opinion exactly as you expected?
This was the best post I’ve ever read on HN. I hope you write more!
> It wasn't until people wanted to port it to the DEC Alpha architecture in 1995 that the changes that they proposed ended up removing a lot of the X86 dependencies.

The m68k port started in 1993 when people wanted to run Linux on their Amiga computers, and Linux/m68k was under lively development in 1994, supporting Amiga and Atari computers.
That's the ideal. But the reality is that good schools can only exist in areas where parents value education and are able to provide safe, stable environments for their children. Unfortunately that situation doesn't exist in much of the US and public schools can't solve the fundamental problems.
One entrance exam idea I like is to have a lottery for N slots where the top test scorers have 90% chance of admission, but that decays by some curve until the people in 3Nth place have 0% chance of admission. Adjust the curve to your liking.

This might do a good job of fending off the parents that want to make their overachieving kids study a lot for the entrance exam, because it might all be for nothing.
A similar process can also get you a master square, although there are other ways to do it (such as via circle division).

You start with a surface plate and three "pretty good" squares. Then put the squares against each other, and look at the contact pattern, and so on...

Also, IIRC, Whitworth improved the method by introducing scraping to the process, which makes it much faster, but did not invent it; the same fundamental technique was already being done in Maudslay's workshop using lapping when he started working there.
Office Snapshots was my side project while I was a history teacher and has been my full-time job for maybe 8 years now.

https://officesnapshots.com
Of course I haven't, I'd install microG if anything (but haven't yet). I don't use web notifications at all though so I haven't even thought about testing that - but as far as I know, Anbox doesn't have any way to push notifications out of the Android container into host system so far (but it shouldn't be hard to implement; plus I guess you could even just install KDE Connect inside Anbox and synchronize notifications that way as a lazy hack).
Exactly correct. I tried to explain this to a public official from an east cost town who was flying back from the Bay Area trying to "learn the secrets" of creating an innovation hub. When I explained this situation (non-competes are illegal, stuff you do at home is yours) to him he literally said "That's crazy! Why would anyone hire anyone if they knew they could walk out the door to a competitor, or even to start a competitor? We would never allow that in our town."

I tried to explain that it puts the onus on the company to adequately reward their employees with equity so that they want this company to be successful, not the possible other company. And it encourages management to be a better place to work than their competitors. Both things lead to better employee engagement and better results. But they couldn't get past the fact that there was no issue with leaving a company and going into competition with it.

Ultimately I believe (but cannot back it up with any sort of data) that non-technical folks don't appreciate how much crappy work is involved in starting from a blank sheet and coming up to being competitive with an already up and running company. But what ever the reason, the unwillingness to "go there" with this sort of protection time and time again has killed innovation. Even when an example that it works, and works well, has decades of history demonstrating that it does.
> companies that don't do so will always be at a profit disadvantage

I would be really curious as to how data collected from a Sonos speaker (without the ability to directly monetize that data themselves for advertising, as nobody would be buying speakers that insert ads) can be worth anything more than a rounding error of their current revenue.
Yes, inoreader, I even paid for it.

This thing is packed with features, yet simple to use. Not only is it the best RSS reader I've ever used, it's up there in the top 10 of all software, of any kind, I've ever used.
IMO F1 is a testing ground for engineers firstly, and a medium for displaying driver skill second.
Do you charge for job placements or is it via ads?
While not F1, I did get to check out the garage of a Nascar team and was blown away by the technology and engineering. The car has a ton of sensors recording all kinds of data, and they have a rig that can use that data to essentially put the car into the physical condition at any millisecond of a previous race, i.e. wheel and tire position, precise suspension loads, etc.. so they can physically examine the car/tires/etc.. at any moment in reply of the whole race. Extremely cool stuff!
I'm certain as long as they have Marc they will continue to make their money back.
What's your experience been like with WebRTC? I've been playing games and watching shows with Jitsi and Discord with friends. The lower latency is fantastic.

I've been looking for a self hosted (or p2p) solution for streaming to a large audience e.g. Twitch but with WebRTC instead of HLS/DASH/rtmp. Are you aware of anything like that?
If this works, it’s a total game changer for me.
We usually see the UN human development index cited for this. Which ranks countries based on life expectancy, education, as well as income. For the wealthy, my assumption is that you can buy your way to better education and life expectancy in the US. But for the middle class, you have no option but to slog through with services that lag many other developed countries [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_D...
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This is not a good way to look at it, frankly.

The problem with "bipolar disorder is caused by diet" is that it's wrong. There's no evidence of it, plenty pointing in other directions, it's just a non-starter.

Which sucks, because if bipolar was caused by, I dunno, seed oils, great news! Just don't eat seed oils!

And if someone goes to the doctor and says "I'm bloated and gassy all the time and I feel terrible" and the doctor says "yeah you're lactose intolerant, avoid dairy and take these pills when you eat it", that's not blaming the person either.

I'm sure that there are people in your life who blame you for being the way that you are. I don't see this as a case of that. They probably read some woo-woo nutritional site with bad advice, and thought they were helping.
Switching hands doesn't make a difference.

Although loosening might help you place heart rate monitor at a different place or avoid direct contact with skin; in my(our) experience switching off HR produced definitive results immediately.

The reason for why HR does this is speculative(I've covered in my blog), as long as the consumers demand strong action from the manufacturers we're not going to find the reason.
Old Photo Restoration in PyTorch
Pretty impressive work by Microsoft researchers.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.07047v1.pdf

Google Colab with test code: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1NEm6AsybIiC5TwTU_4D...
Thank you for this link!

The part starting here is particularly interesting to me:

https://youtu.be/DovunOxlY1k?t=507

Why is that?

Well, because a long time ago, I built an extremely low-power battery operated DC Tesla Coil.

It worked, but the one thing I could not figure out was why the coil with the small number of turns, the coil that typically encircles the long coil with the many turns, why this coil with smaller turns -- had to be positioned a slight distance up the many turns coil, and not either directly at its end, nor at its middle.

Well, this video, at the point I've noted, explains the answer why.

It also explains the relationship between frequency, length of resonator, and ability to create larger amplitude waves via additive superposition, that is, the ability of one wave, travelling in one direction, has the ability to add to the amplitude/crests of another wave travelling in the other direction BUT IF AND ONLY IF THEY ARE IN PROPER ALIGNMENT!

Which, incidentally, is the principle behind how a laser works (in addition to a Tesla Coil!).

Also, there's the knowledge here that we can change the frequency to match the resonating coil/cavity/resonator length/etc., OR we can change the resonator length/coil length (in a Tesla Coil this is accomplished by moving the smaller outer coil with less turns on it) to match the frequency.

So we can choose one to adjust to match what's needed by the other.

Now, if say, a Tesla Coil is storing energy when in operation by additive/constructive interference / wavefronts adding and increasing amplitude in antinode positions, then it makes me wonder if the phenomena of electronic capacitance (i.e., a capacitor, or inversely, an inductor, which is really just another form of coil) works via waves (of some sort) adding up...

Unfortunately, at this point in time, I have neither the equipment nor the knowledge nor the experience as to how to undertake such an experiment...

So, I'll leave that question for scientists or future scientists -- and/or myself in the far future (disclaimer: I am not an official "scientist" <g>) -- to answer!
It's an advertisement for a company's product on their corporate blog.
> Which is why Silicon Valley is in California, and why attempts to create a startup culture elsewhere have mostly failed.

Except Apple and Google both hate it when it's done to them which is why they illegally colluded and agreed to not poach from one another and why they lost a lawsuit for $415M:

https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-google-others-settle-anti-po...
The brutal truth is that shelling out that kind of money for test prep might actually result in academically better prepared students.

In other words, if the test prep leads to learning the material more thoroughly, it may still be a good predictor of who is going to thrive in an advanced educational environment.

It’s not clear that any system that accurately predicts future student success, cannot be games by parents throwing money at it.
Software was a lot less complex back then. Try running gcc on a brand new kernel nowadays - it will probably be a year's worth of work!
When you're talking about individuals, sure.

But when you're talking about a whole team, it's a little different. Original employer A went to a lot of expensive effort to find a very particular set of qualified engineers that could work together at the same time -- where the sum is much more than the parts.

If employer B hires the team already put together perfectly qualified for a similar task roughly all at once... they're not just taking advantage of employees' freedom (which is fine) but literally essentially "stealing" the massive work employer A did to assemble the team piece by piece.

I'm not saying it should be illegal, because I don't see how you'd write any effective law against it. But when you take a whole team at once, I think the word "poaching" is apt.
Which can also be a very good predictor for success in college.

My understanding is that SAT + grades is a better predictor of college graduation than grades alone.
> But “murder of crows,” and the like—the ones that people giggle over despite no actual instance of anyone using the term to refer to a flock of crows maybe ever in history—those need to go.

I dunno, crows are known to attack people. And in groups they seem to egg each other on - there were two a few months ago that took turns dive-bombing my head (I only dodged them because of the angle of the sun, I could see their shadow approach).

Their name seems appropriate.
well so is this haha, yea functionally its basically the same app right now, but like I said though I do want to expand it a lot, this was very much a POC for me.
FastCGI transmits the headers via its protocol socket and doesn't rely on environment variable mechanisms to transmit them.

Some fcgi libraries may convert the headers into Env Vars to make it "easier" for code, but it is not strictly necessary.
Long after neither of them were startups anymore, yes.
Yes, they fall short of being cryptographically secure hash functions, but the examples given in Python do force each byte to mix with all the other bytes. As long as you have to increase the size of the output (as the table gets bigger), you (eventually) have to increase the number of elementary operations in the hash function.
3000£ sounds like a bargain for you. Suppose he decides to play hardball and just stop working. Your agreement was 50/50 and he can just keep it.

The amount is also there so he will release himself of any claim against your company in the future.
It's a question of Ferrari selling them an engine because they want the money, or Renault selling them an engine because the FIA dictates it.

I'm not sure I can see the logic in Mercedes selling RBR an engine, since they're such a fearsome competitor, and I really doubt they want to break with Williams. Williams is a perfect customer for them: they aren't a real competitor, but they can serve as a place to park drivers from the Mercedes junior program.
So it's Bluestacks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlueStacks) for GNU/Linux?
> Ubuntu has a cloud offering for this: https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-introduces-anbox-cloud-sca...

This isn't quite correct. From Simon Fels [0], we see that

"Despite the nature of Anbox, Anbox Cloud is not open source and a commercial product. It is based on the same underlying ideas of Anbox but is a completely separate code base."

> It is a valiant effort (lead by u/mrmorph) even if the open source version is limited and runs Android 7.

I really hope that all distributions of Anbox for PureOS, postmarketOS, etc. will soon start distributing a newer system image. Nothing prevents this and it would make Anbox actually useful.

[0] https://mm.gravedo.de/blog/posts/2020-01-21-taking-the-anbox...
is this uses torrents, does that mean there's a possibility i might get a notice for uploading illegal content if i watch like a marvel movie i uploaded with just a couple of my friends?
Students need to be clustered according to their abilities and interests. Not doing so is impractical at best and wasteful at worst.

Different subsets of students require different amounts of attention, different specialties, different classes, etc. Go too fast and the bad students fall behind. Go too slow and good students will get bored and act out. One of my top students failed my class for missing too many lectures -- because attendance was written into the student contract to motivate the lower-performing students.
I think the overall Strong Towns message doesn’t only speak about infrastructure. It’s generally an argument against spending large amounts of money today on projects that benefit the town of the future that will of course never stop growing; or that this fancy, expensive new project will stimulate the growth we need to pay for it later.

Milwaukee in the 50s and 60s is an example of this. They built a lot of amenities and expanded infrastructure with public funds.

The growth stopped or reversed and there is no money to maintain the same level of services and amenities today. Thus underfunded parks, roads, pipes and museums. Aka, not a strong town but one struggling along.
> Also German law doesn't make easy allowances for employee ownership / stock options.

Airbnb gave me plenty of RSUs while I worked in Berlin. No problem.

The Berlin startups with their shit together also know how to use UK (now Irish) Limited companies, which have no issues with offering options to employees.
Full-service emergency response APIs
> Then if someone is acting up, it's only a matter of figuring out which unrelated laws they are already breaking.

Rand was writing about this in 1957:

"Did you really think we want those laws observed? ... We want them to be broken. ... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt."
Basically...

You don't like people who own property. You don't think people should be able to own property that they don't live in. You don't think banks should be able to foreclose. And when push comes to shove, you want property owners and banks to lose money first.

And you falsely believe that owning property puts you into the top 1%.

I think that about sums it up?

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Nearly half of landlords are what is called "mom and pop" landlords. Just normal people who happen to own rental property, a duplex, or a small apartment complex. These aren't rich people. They aren't 1%ers. I genuinely think you need to venture out into the world more and meet some different people. Meet some of these evil people that need to pay.

https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr-edge-frm-asst-sec...
what about like indeed or linkedin or dropbox hosted pdf?
> It would be much more practical - that is, useful for actually communicating empirical information - to define a planet as a planemo, Luna, Ceres and Eris included.

I remember actual excitement among the layperson upon the announcement of discovering a 10th planet.

Now with "dwarf planets" no one cares.
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> Madison may have been impure, but that is distinct from his thoughts on property being a right instead of a "function or construct of society, rather than a natural right in itself".

To be clear for anyone else reading, Madison viewed personal property as a right, but private property as a social construct - there is no vagueness in his views.

Additional context provided
here: https://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/CPP/FP_PS02w.pdf

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/taxation/publications/aba...