skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is what many scholars and scientists have done throughout history.

Unfortunately, the church has spent most of its 2000 years of existence censoring, harassing and even murdering scholars and scientists. Hypatia of Alexandria, Galileo Galilei and countless others. Some of them were probably murdered before becoming famous and have been erased from history. And many smart people were deterred to try anything scientific because the church made it too risky.

If it wasn't for the church, today you would be probably living in a Mars colony.
Basically nobody is selling recycled iPhones as if they were new. Apple has an impressive amount of control over their retail channels and buyers aren't idiots.

The problem for Apple isn't that people would think their refurb iPhones were new, it's that Apple simply doesn't want poor people to have them because it might hurt their sale of 700$ computer wheels if they don't seem like a luxury brand. As a bonus, if they destroy all the broken devices, repair shops have no access to replacement parts and so there's nobody to challenge them when they tell you to buy a new 1000$ phone because yours has an "irreparable" bent flex cable pin.
Yeah, a certain Linus should not have tried to invent the wheel.
Yes and the running costs are lower and you can pack in two or three showings in an evening. We plan to keep tickets relatively cheap but make a big profit on confectionary. Unfortunately there's no interval, so we'll make everyone walk past the confectionary on their way in ...
> I visited a former Eastern Block country this past summer. New roads, infrastructure and buildings everywhere. Built to a much higher standard too.

To be slightly simplistic, that’s probably more of a reflection on the generosity of Western European taxpayers than an inherent standard of the country you visited
Title should have said "scheme".
It kinda makes it more amazing doesn't it? Before I read that i just had this totally false view of tiny-biology as this cold, organised place. But I really like the truth that it's chaotic and messy and powerful.
The big issue I see here is that where I live, and I think in many more rural areas, federal infrastructure constitutes a significant portion of the total infrastructure. A generous portion of the major city streets, for example, are US highways, and flood control was almost entirely built federally (and maintenance must now be funded by the local flood control district). This no doubt varies by region, but the portion of infrastructure which is federally funded is not small.
The article is garbage. It’s by someone who either doesn’t understand how networked devices function, or does but wants to write a slanderous hatchet job.

Of course it needs your bloody Spotify username, it streams
Spotify for you, and the control protocol runs through a cloud service so that you can control it universally. Complaining about that seems like idiocy, frankly.
There's one thing in that story that most people who think to themselves I could do that miss. You have to make 100 sales calls to place a single machine. Also they don't say what percentage of machines don't work out. If the revenue is too low, then you have to make another 100 sales calls!
Does anyone who is bi-polar feel that they are able to navigate their down time well enough that it is not crippling? For myself, I believe it was more inline with seasonal depression, and after 30+ years of living in the northeast, where winters are longgggg and exgtremely cold, I moved to a place that this wasn't the case. I don't know if I have it, but when I am feeling down, I tend to read more, and just try to focus on the fact that I will come out of it and feel better shortly.
You need to pass a color-blindness test to get a driving license in my home country and I can't tell you how much I struggled with it 15 years ago. The reason is exactly this -- I can work out traffic lights very easily although I'm r/g colorblind, however the test was about showing a number of different colors and asking you to name them. I failed, obviously, but the instructor did a favor and marked me as passed.

I still have no idea what practicality that test provides in driving.
I can see where you're coming from, as it does work as a close metaphor and people are generally more familiar with HTTP. I think the disconnect is that while that is a good way to relate it, seems like teaching the correct terminology along with the basic idea is generally better as it also gives them the tools (eg. as search criteria) to research it more themselves.
Conspiracy perspective: beauty filters are affecting their ML training.
If only there were some technology that could verify whether a DNS query/response had been spoofed, without interfering with caching and proxying, and without the privacy and centralization-of-control problems of DoH. If only such a technology had already been widely deployed in the dns root and many caches and resolvers.
Yes the example in the article and parent comments ought to be referred to as escaping, not quoting.
Most of the time, quoting with single quotes leads to something far easier on the eyes.

Here's an example function for quoting from stdin:

function bashquotesingle() {
printf "'";
sed "s/'/'\\\\''/g";
printf "'";
}

Though it does have a bug, at least on macOS, where sed adds a trailing newline. (See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13325138/why-does-sed-ad...)
Engineers and technicians are a minority group. Your positive experience of that group doesn't necessarily invalidate Vonnegut's observation about people in general.
> ... working on this project for a while now (3+ months)

> ... retain the full 100% ...

> ... the offer he made me (3000£) is way above ...

Well what do you want to give him?

3000 is way below salary. A 3000 payment is a very unfair offer (unfair in your favor, not his).

Start ups that can't afford to pay salary compensate with equity. Given the "high statistical risk of failure", the equity may be close to worthless anyway.
> That is the aim of the format.

That doesn't matter at all. The author's aims will be ignored if this format is used for anything even vaguely important. Eventually it'll need tooling to both read and write it.

DevOps pipelines, applications with GUIs, or something will need to both parse and generate this format in a consistent way.

There is no such thing as a human-write-only format in widespread use.

Even programming languages are regularly generated by tools such as RPC API codegen tools, LINQ-to-SQL and the like.
No we just need to Microfilm it - --- also fork it into an MJPEG exporter.
This is analogous to point out that ‘guns don’t kill people, people do’

It is true, but there is a point at which giving it out like candy might change the stakes.
See also World Englishes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Englishes

English is my first language but I definitely speak different versions based on who I'm speaking to. I live in Scandinavia but work for a multi-national where English is the working language. I'm constantly trying to work out people's version of English (not really level) and adapting to match. It's a relief when I talk to someone who's lived in the UK as no translation is necessary, and we can each swear as much as we normally would.
We’ve aimed to make Parima simple and open and without any hidden layers.
Services like Netlify often offer a free tier (their loss leader), but adding extra functionality beyond the basics often requires upgrading to paid plans, with the full feature set not being available unless you’re paying a significant monthly amount. While this may make sense in some situations, it’s nice to have an option that allows you full control over the individual cloud products you want to use.
> Too many tasks, no time for tech stuff

Its possible that this part will not change.
The number I recall is 25,000.

Notable is that nobody at Dow was arrested.
Actually preventing a flood of evictions could avoid a permanent and drastic reduction in rent rates and preserve long term revenue from rent. The government is the only market actor that can prevent an irrational firesale that leaves everyone worse off.

Your argument focuses on long term building of new units. But a systematic reduction of rent by 20% would be a bigger disincentive than even 100% effective vacancy rate that is temporary and can be planned for (Further, it is likely that evictions would produce mass vacancy anyway).

For example, right now in NYC, landlords are offering 6 month free rent rather than dropping rent. They don’t want to lock in a permanent reduction of revenue by sending market signals of rent reductions.

The government could also ban mortgage foreclosures for the landlords or offer some assistance but given the balance sheets of many large Landord and property managers they probably don’t need it.

The thing is, why do landlords think evictions are the solution. Who are they going to rent to when they flood the market all at the same time?

As far as this measure being a taking, it almost certainly is not a taking that would require compensation. First, the government has broad discretion to use its police powers to protect citizens, especially from a pandemic. So even if they burned down the building or seized them permanently there is probably little the 5th amendment would require. Second, even if this isn’t an exercise of police powers, this measure is temporary not a permanent seizure of the property. Owners still retain equity in the building and land and further still have a legal claim to unpaid rent. Only one right to enforcement is delayed.
Not currently, but I've thought about opening a blog to talk about it. However, since my chances of opening a real movie theatre are pretty low, I'd ideally like to commercialize this at some point. It probably requires a rewrite in a language I can compile to protect the source.
Gimp Starts Offering Nightly Gimp 3.0 Pre-Release Builds, but Only for Windows
How did DOS machines connect to the Unix box at that time? Or were they not connected, and you did it offline?
Nice speech but in the end: why should they host those people?

If you come into my house and start insulting the other guests, why shouldn't I escort you out?

And please...a few of "The Donald"? Who do you want to fool here? The whole thing was toxic as hell. Every single time I looked into the comments of posts, I didn't find anything that would qualify as "merely conservative" voices. It was a massive circlejerk of hate and the pure joy of doing that.

Sure things like impersonating someone are bad but there is no reason/facts to assume that this is happening regularly or even happened one more time.

On the other hand what Donalds did all over the platform was the norm. It was approved by those who subscribed and participated even when they didn't themselves.

As an outsider I find it quite funny that people say "they're just Hillary fans" or something along those lines when your whole political spectrum consist of just two strongly polarized sides when in fact and day to day business not being on Donalds side doesn't make them automatically Hillary fans.

Also: how is it the "Hillary sides" fault when the other side behave like mad and armed children? It's just some poor attempt at victim blaming.
you don't know much about Kurt Vonnegut's background.
An example of useless filters: today I spent like 15 minutes searching for my teapot on my kitchen bench.

I did not find it.

Later I walked in my kitchen and immediately spotted the teapot. It was standing next to the kettle in the middle of the kitchen bench, the same place where it has been standing for the last 2 years...
Ask HN: Do you own a Handshake TLD? Why that particular one?
I'm interested in what drives people to choose particular TLDs to register.

Common nouns, verbs, adjectives, suffixes, contractions, abbreviations, acronyms, etc. all seem to be fair game, but there is always an opportunity cost to choosing this over that, so I am wondering: how do people decide which TLD they are going for?
Most Libertarian State in the US
Well they did say 3-8. A petite short person won't be able to drink as much as a tall heavy person, all else being equal.

Tbh one or two beers is all I drink these days, but six or seven is what it takes for me to be 'properly drunk' (which I don't enjoy.)
You can easily find it on a public website if you know what you're looking for. It's only meant to deter people who click the "Scan" button on their equipment.
Sorry, where is the evidence Sonos is selling any of this data?
> Any model that depends on intentional evil at every level is likely wrong.

This is unfounded (do you have any sort of backing for this ridiculously bold claim?), historically inaccurate (in nearly every generation, there's at least one mass-murdering regime born), and isn't actually relevant to the question (evil at every level discounts those who aren't involved, those that are victims, and those that are powerless to stop the evil).

The rest of your comment is spot on. The unfortunate truth is that people who are elected have the skills required to be elected, not the skills required to lead. Our legislative system is designed to encourage childish bickering, which is attractive to people with old faces and childish personalities. The system is built around the idea that the president will be the "adult in the room" and apply a considered direction to the children to mediate their bickering; it seems that doesn't work well.
This entire article and every comment can be summed up with the following sentence:

"Women need to have more babies because our entire economic model is built on growth and doesn't function without it and one of the best ways to grow is increase the population so you increase the taxable base."

You can slice it up however you want. You can bitch and moan about feminism if you're a woman, you can bitch and moan about men's rights if you're a man, but the bottom line is we need a lot more people to pay for all the tab we've run up.
> The Kolmogorov complexity of the universe turns out to be very small. That is not consistent with an intelligent agent pushing changes to a simulation in real time.

It's absolutely consistent if the intelligent agent is pushing such changes with Kolmogorov complexity as part of the criterion for selecting which changes to push.

Well, unless by “in real time” you specifically mean “while respecting the subjective experience and record of time for entities within the construct”; if you don't assume consistent laws on some level, nothing stops changes pushed fromm rewriting apparent history within the simulation to be consistent with the new model. If you assume you have an accurate unmodified record of the past observations—you are already assuming consistent laws.
Inalienable truths as a venture backed startup founder
Usually users on HN are conscientious and civil, until they are out of their comfort zone or world view, then it becomes like any other trashy forum with insults like "hippie nonsense".

Science and data are some of the best tools humans have ever found, but they are not the sole arbiters of truth and efficacy.
>Neither FreeRTOS nor ThreadX/Azure RTOS can really accept random patches.

BS, both have certified "edition" but the "normal" version is not, you can start today send patches for RTOS in.

https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS-Kernel
Dan isn’t a bot, and this isn’t reddit. Dan does a great job of posting useful tidbits like this. There are some pretty interesting stories at those links.
Successes like these feel so satisfying. Cool stuff.
~700,000 cars were crushed.

~170,000,000 new cars have been sold in the meantime (so assume tens of millions of used car transactions related to that).

It was a blip. It's more likely that other factors are driving the change in the market.
> he fled immediately to Russia

He did not flee to Russia. He got stuck there on transit to Ecuador because his passport was allegedly cancelled. He came from Hong Kong. Read his book.
Those networks had all strong alternatives.

I see none for reddit atm.
Yes please to the API bit.
I'm maintaining the "unofficial Sonos controller for Linux" and it'd help a great deal if I didn't have to Wireshark the protocol all the time.

https://github.com/pascalopitz/unoffical-sonos-controller-fo...
VMware Fusion 12.0 macOS Guest Metal Renderer Support
This is one of the effects I most fear from the pandemic induced recession. Large and delivery based companies will have the capacity to survive, whilst smaller companies don't. I see small companies & stores as proving some of the variety & creativity which drive innovation. Larger companies can be creative but often have uniformity in their approaches.

But I'm trying to be positive as some large companies are under pressure to adapt and in the recovery there may be new opportunities which smaller businesses are best placed to fill. At least until they're bought up by the big companies.
Was a geeky kid, so I got sent on an "IT summer camp" where the organizers were coincidentally linux afficinados, and there I saw the power of the command line, shell scripting and subsequently programming for the first time, and it absolutely blew my little 12-year old mind. So I installed Linux on my home computer (with my parent's permission, of course), and started to learn C++, and the rest is history :) I'm now a full-time software developer, and worked on everything from research software to military GIS stuff.

Bottom line: Encouraging kids works!
I run Snapcast across my house connected to MPD running on a local Linux box, and have been pretty happy with it. I've had to do very little maintenance to keep things running.

The main thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to have multiple Snapcast streams and control which room listens to what. I don't actually think it's possible to do.. (though I could be wrong?)
Indeed, while i was reading the blog post i had in my mind Wirth's Project Oberon which is also about implementing a custom CPU on FPGA and then a complete OS with its own compiler, tools, GUI, etc on it.
Why do people even engage with this guy. Lol
I don't understand what a bunch of engineers at one of Musk's companies, or the ease of generating bunch of very good painters in Firenze in the 15/1600s have to do with the problem of improving/fixing city/local governance.
To be fair, in many cases the point of building the infrastructure is not to have the infrastructure in the end, but rather to give that EU money to the ruling elite.

Routing it through a company that pours a bunch of concrete is just the cost of keeping Brussels off your back and thus keeping the tap open.
These are SDEs. Mathematica doesn’t solve them. In the end I needed a way for a computer to solve them faster, as an analytical solution wasn’t really possible. Mathematica wi never provide such insights. Maybe one day it will?
Wow, that's seemed unnecessarily discriminatory!

As a kid I always wanted to be a pilot, but to get a license you can't be colour-blind. I guess because light colours on runways and such confer meaning, or something like that.

I had no idea there were countries demanding this for a driving test though - I mean, it's not like they randomise the order of traffic lights!
The survival of any language is only dependent on having a population that speaks it. In that sense Euro English potentially has a larger speakership than US or British English.

The reason Euro English exists is because it's more convenient or natural for Europeans to speak it, so it lives on. English is a promiscuous language, so it's likely that unusual ("incorrect") forms will one day become a part of standard usage, given Europe's cultural and economic influence.
GM, Ford Need Electric-Car Batteries, but Take Different Paths to Get Them
I've got a couple branded ones from amazon IT -- a big one and a tiny one. Currently they're giving out some other one, but I think you can bring your own too
In my very limited experience, CLAs require the assignment of copyright to the company (or foundation).

An alternative would be to instead allow the author to keep copyright but require dual licensing (e.g. both GPL and MIT||BSD) for patches to be accepted into the main branch. The patch meets the GPL requirements, and the company can use the other license when distributing the patch with their own proprietary releases. Does that occur?

Is your main objection to CLAs copyright assignment, or that you prefer licensing to be pure GPL, or something else?

Edit: Rack say “To accept a contribution, all authors of the contribution need to: declare the patch under the CC0 license, or complete a copyright reassignment form, or perform the work under a paid agreement.”
One of the last classes I ever took was nonlinear dynamical systems. It should have been one of the first after basic calc/vector calc!

The typical progression is to start with systems you can solve by hand and then move to ones you can’t usually solve, but can still usefully describe, teaching how to analyze them.

It should be the other way around! Start with generally useful tools that apply broadly and then teach the special cases you happen to be able to solve analytically. General tools like basins of attraction and nondimensionalization, should be considered more rudimentary than perfect closed form solutions.
The Clocklike Regularity of Major Life Changes
Two things that come to mind for me:

1. I have had some meaningful conversations while WFH, but only with direct team-members, and only people I knew while in the office. I used to sit next to a guy in another org who was really interesting, and since WFH started I don't see/hear him at all.

2. My large company had a relatively successful transition to full WFH, but as time goes on and we hire new people, I foresee a lot of trouble in maintaining healthy team dynamics. It seems like a lot of the success in the transition was based on the presence of already existing, successful teams. I wonder if teams would develop and mature with the same success if they began in a full WFH setting.
Everything you've just started is wrong.

I do this for a living. I know how tax penalties and tax crimes work better than you do.
The Digital Silk Road: Expanding China's Digital Footprint
honestly I felt like spelling out that JP is an alt-right dog whistle would be more inflammatory than simply telling that person I don't share their political views.
>What we're really talking about is taking a neighborhood of $50,000 homes and making them $55,000 homes. That's a solid 10% increase in the tax base.

This is just such a fundamental misunderstanding of how the world works. Land doesn't pay tax. People do. And they pay it out of the things that they produce. Planting trees or painting crosswalks doesn't increase their productivity and therefore does not grow the tax base. Increased property values simply represent an increase in the tax rate. You can get this same "return" by cutting out the beautification and simply raising the millage.

Sure, if you make your city more attractive rich people from other areas may move there. But nationally that is a zero sum game. If a rich person moving to the beautified city from an ugly one the net change is 0 as the ugly city loses as much as the rich one gains. The only way for cities to actually get richer is to increase the productivity of their citizens. This means spending on education, infrastructure, and public health.
> It's pretty clear what he is saying; which is that humanity will have little if no impact on the Earth.

> He is not talking about climate change and the people panicking about possible 25m sea level increase.

> Read the full transcript;

> https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/2019/08/22/george-carlin-savin...

"The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself cause that’s what it does."

Pretty sure he's stating that humans are a destructive force to the Earth and ourselves, but that only we will cease to exist because of it.
The company that sold the first generally available "Personal Computer" started as a club that got into telemetry rigs for model rockets.