skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need this. I really like this idea and I think my city would benefit a lot as we still have trash being collected not from underground bins but from bags laid out on the street. One thing that I don't like: the incentized tax scheme Bergen uses. Environmentalist politicians tried that here (Netherlands) as well in some towns. However what happens is that poor residents will use trashbins in parks or will just leave it on the street. It might work in Bergen, which is the heart of Norway's oil industry and one of the richest places in Europe. But elsewhere it's unlikely to work.
Apologies for the mischaracterization
The new intolerance – ‘hostile to the rule of reason’
I'm 52 and have used microwave ovens since my parents bought one in 1981. It had a touchpad and every microwave I have ever used since then has had a touchpad. My experience is that except for the extremely low end of the countertop microwave market it was rare to see a microwave with knob controls until the last 10 years.
The first sentence reads as a personal attack. I don’t know if you meant it that way and I don’t mind, but that might explain why you are downvoted.

I don’t mind people knowing my location. But most people aren’t as tech/security savvy as the average HN user. I am worried for them.

And to second another commenter. OSINT is generally using public information in ways that you’re getting too much info about someone.

The coolest example of it are camera reflections or searching dns records about someone (IMO).
The exactly opposite idea of adjusting QM to directly work in geometry of strongly curved space-time is not pursued much.

You can do QM on curved backgrounds, see eg https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/AQFT+on+curved+spacetimes

That's not a theory of quantum gravity, though.
Japan never cleaned up the debt created by its banking system during the Lost decade. This enormous debt makes it harder for young people to own their own place, in effect tget rent from the bank through loans. This is despite that Japans population is shrinking and there should be more houses on the market. Free debt creation creates a generational ladder where older generations own their houses and younger rent due to high debt creation. Old could buy before the exponential growth of debt was created.

Lost decade
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decade_(Japan)

Demographic
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan
Show HN: Résumé Shell
hmmm... what is this leak from Webmasters?
All you need is a throwaway repo where you create all those commits to control the commit chart.

It doesn't hide your work at all (commit frequency is an awful metric of valuable work, some people do a lot of "fix typo" commits).
Hi HN, hope you're having a great day!

I'm currently looking for a remote position as an Embedded Engineer.
So I decided to make a shell like resume webpage instead of a classic personal website (since shells = love).

The project is version 0.00001 (lol), just wanted to ask you guys what you think of the idea and if you have any tips on what to improve :).

You'll probably quickly see there are a few bugs (on mobile prolly, etc.) please let me know in the comments. Also, the "help command" feature is not implemented yet, just "help".

I'm not usually into web programming so I used jQuery.

The repo is here:

https://github.com/feelqah/feelqah.github.io

Thanks in advance guys!
I wonder... If Jekyll worked better, wouldn't have been better to just invest some time in learning enough ruby to make jekyll fit their needs?
Because this is done very subtly, you would not even realize. It took me a very long time to find about this. Once my manager asked me if i was a vegetarian. My brahmin friend educated on this. The test is to ask if a person is a vegetarian. If no then ask if their family were a vegetarian. If no then don't proceed further. You now know he is a non-brahmin, else you now know he is a brahmin and you freely discuss about caste.

Whenever you are very surprised during promotions the reason is always the manager is a brahmin. No matter how friendly, i never want my manager to be brahmin, but it not possible always.
> and not when doing copyrighting work for a well known company

copywriting

> But if you recognize that somebody is talking you about something that is, really, a defect in your software, don’t do the error of reducing the interaction to a vile matter of money. You are doing work for free, they are risking their asses deploying what you wrote, you both care about quality.

In the end the fact you're there making time for any interaction requires some money to be entering the system somewhere, to pay the rent. If the guys deploying it have skin the game and you don't, your helping out encourages the dynamic that FOSS author time is worth less than paid dev time, that rather than send patches just complain and let the little people take care of those details. For free.
First, there's no money to fund that idiocy, so why even discuss various what-if's? If I could time travel...

To answer the stupid questions: everyone would be same creative. Some would have extra time to do more with their creativity. Great majority would simply waste the money because they got it for nothing in return.

On the whole, if you pay people to do nothing, more of them will do nothing.

We already know all that, and we also know that there's no money to even contemplate the idiotic idea. So why does it keep appearing on this site?

Here's why: because it's not really that money would have to come from somewhere. It would be created out of nothing and handed out in exchange for votes, in the process stealing from the savers and those who do work and create value. Free shit for everyone, as long as you vote correctly!
I received a high paying job offer to work at FB

How did you get an offer without going through their extensive interview process?
In my early 20s, I actually liked living with my parents and utterly hated that I had to move out when I had a job...man the food.
Kafka persists events locally, which when mishandled can cause synchronization issues. If an event-based system has to cold-restart, it becomes difficult if not impossible to determine which events must be carried out again in order to restart processes that were in progress when the system went down.

This is a characteristic with all event-based systems, but persistence-enabled event systems (such as Kafka) make it even harder because now there are events already "in flight" that have to be taken into account. Event-based systems that do not have persistence (and thus are simply message queues used as a transport mechanism) have a strong guarantee that _no_ events will be in-flight on a cold-start, and thus you have an easier time figuring out the current overall state of the system in order to make such decisions.

The only other way around this is to make every possible consumer of the event-based system strongly idempotent, which (in most of the problem spaces I've worked in) is a pipe dream; a large portion certainly can be idempotent, but it's very hard to have a completely idempotent system. Keep in mind, anything with the element of time tends not to be idempotent, and since event systems inherently have the element of time made available to them (queueing), idempotency becomes even harder with event based systems.

A rule of thumb when I am designing systems is that a data point should only have one point of persistence ("persistence" here means having a lifetime that extends beyond the uptime of the system itself). Perhaps you have multiple databases, but those databases should not have redundant (overlapping) points of information. This is the same spirit of "source of truth", but that term tends to imply a single source of truth, which isn't inherently necessary (though in many cases, very much desirable).

Kafka, and message queues or caches like it (e.g. Redis with persistence turned on), breaks this guarantee - if the persistence isn't perfectly synchronized, then you have, essentially, two points of persistence for the same piece of information, which can (and does) cause synchronization issues, leading you into the famously treaterous territory of cache invalidation problems.

As with most technologies, you can reduce your usage of them to a point that they will work for you with reasonable guarantees - at which point, however, you're probably better off using a simpler technology altogether.
> back it up to the cloud

The cloud is a volatile and ever changing place. There are no garuantees Google, Amazon, or Microsoft will still be around in 50 or 100 years.
Far from standard, but it's available, in case you're not aware: https://keeb.io/products/quefrency-rev-2-60-65-split-stagger...
Wow. So basic.

That reminds me about dishwashers - you put powder or a tablet in a little hatch and I always wondered what happened behind the hatch, does it inject water, disolve the powder, and then pump it around to the jets?

I recently realised. Nope. It just opens the hatch ten minutes into the cycle and the tablet/powder falls into the machine with a clunk.
Thanks for posting that. The smart doorbells part is especially terrifying...
I lived in a tower block in the UK few decades back (was built in the 60's) and it had a shoot system comparable to this. Was bad as you would get people putting oversized rubbish down it so would get stuck in the shaft. Would also collect `matter` so would have a smell in the summer that permeated up the tube and whilst good in principle, in practice - not suited or accommodating towards a recycle culture.

Making general waste easier to dispose of IMHO only distracts/dissuaded people from recycling based upon my observations. More so in building types I described, to recycle you have to walk down to the ground floor to access a locked bin area to place your recycling into separate bins. Or as many did - just dump it down the one shoot for all the rubbish.
“Industrial Society and Its Future” by Ted Kaczynski (1996)
Digital signage isn’t really about advertising. It might be used to eg show departures at an airport/bus station, or show schedules for different rooms at a conference or fair/exhibition/show. Other common uses are to show a few slides on a loop, eg in a reception area of a school showing the school’s achievements.
What a strange comment

if you don't like this thing we're talking about, why didn't you do anything to stop this other tangentially related thing that happened a long time ago?

I'm not even sure what you are describing makes sense. our supermarket sells hood brand milk, as well as their own private label milk. however the private label version is made at the hood factory using hood milk. in this case, I'm pretty sure the people at Hood don't care which one you buy since they get paid for making the "ripoff" brand.

your example would be fitting if Apple made their own clone of epic's app, but paid epic to do it
The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
> He has yet to come up with testable predictions. Let alone trying to test them. Only then there might be a point in listening to the rest.

He is not presenting this as a scientific theory. This is a keynote speech for NASA folks. Just like science fiction is not science, it may still inspire scientists and be worth listening to IMHO.
What Do People Get Wrong About Designers?
I'm speaking of personal experience, these days. Templates, macros, quote -- full of bugs. There is a very large number of open bugs, and I encounter them. I've been through the compiler code--a lot of low quality stuff, numerous bugs never reported.
Signaling bugs is as much work as it is to send a patch. Sometimes is even better work. For instance a bug report that is the fruit of a deep investigation is worth a lot more than a weak patch that is fixing the problem in the wrong way, often because of lack of understanding of the system. I don't agree there is a clear distinction of patches and bug reports in which one is work donated to the project and the other is not.

Thanks for the report of the typo, I fixed it and appreciated it even if you didn't send a patch to my post.
The first programmable device I had was a Texas TI-55 calculator. "Programmable" is a stretch, but it was "automatable". It had no conditional branching and the only unconditional jump it could make was for step 0 of the program. Still, I managed to make it solve 2nd degree equations within its 50 or so available steps. It took me a while to do it because the number of steps available was insufficient and I had to invert a sign and jump to 0 in order to give the second result. This was early 80's.

From then, I was hooked. I briefly had a Sinclair ZX-81 clone (all Brazilian computers were clones back then), and quickly moved to a very nice Apple II+ clone with a "programmable" keyboard.

I had some contact with mainframes - an IBM 4341 - and some Unix in college, but it wasn't until 2004 or so that I decided to move my main desktop to Linux. Linux has been my daily driver since then (even though my corporate-issue computers have been Macs for quite some time).
Strange. With your nickname I imagined you might possibly enjoy that :)

Seems like I've tokenized that wrong. cf. https://youtu.be/ZgI4DdINQLQ
You're trying to evade the question. If enforcing the rules is seen as a problem then the problem lies in the rules themselves and not in the whimsical and arbitrary application of them by a party that is already known for abusing them.
This is the only reason why I'm concerned about an overly optimistic 5G rollout. It's frustrating that all the nutso conspiratists have made it practically impossible to problematize this without coming off as either uneducated or a lunatic.
> I don't understand how pneumatic tubes may be used to reclaim memory.

Yep, I thought the same thing when I read the title.
Grindr doesn't require real email address...
Use Schottky diode instead of cutting power
> where were you when the supermarkets did this, literally decades ago?

This is whataboutism.

Many people around here were not old enough to be interested in politics "literally decades ago". And for those who were, the hindsight we have now is a good reason to start getting interested in the issue.

> It's a store, expect the store to take a cut and if you're too successful, compete with you.

The whole point of politics is to fix outstanding issues. "It's always been like that", "suck it" or "fuck you, got mine" rarely make for convincing political speech.
I don't own a microwave, but find routers to be one of the most frustrating machines to deal with. All communication is done via different lights either on/off or blinking, and none of it makes any sense. How much is a freaking display these days?
Elder.js for Svelte looks like a great "pure SSG" alternative for larger SEO sites:

https://github.com/Elderjs/elderjs
Is Jira hacked or testing got wrong?
For sure sure. My point is that you don't have to move out.
Narbonic got close http://narbonic.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/061...
What is the paradox? I don't see it.
Did you do the math on whether that's actually a smaller investment? Large autonomous vehicle fleets sound like a big investment even if one eventually gets developed. Plus it will cause road congestion. Which would cause the need for more infrastructure investment down the line. Not that these pipes aren't expensive but at least it's proven technology that's available on the market. According to the article, Nairobi, Kenya is going to use it. That's not a rich place. I think you therefore might be overestimating the cost.
Part of the distaste is the lack of control.

That a faceless, remote corporation can reach into your home and arbitrarily control a product you've purchased feels very invasive.

Companies like Samsung and LG have previously had cameras and microphones silently streaming unencrypted feeds. They've also been caught running network probes to search out, catalogue and report private media.

All that feels very creepy to some people such as myself.

You want to say no, don't do that ...but you can't.
Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel to learn advanced programming?
There are lots of channels that teach beginner level stuff. What about advanced programming concepts?
That the OSS writer cares and is often willing to fix code she writes for free, more than the other paid work she does.
Using gatsby is the worst choice I ever made, the build times are infuriatingly slow and GraphQL really is not a good fit for it.

The amount of time that you have to spend just fiddling with Gatsby is insane and then in the end it only barely works.

Their marketing keeps touting fast but I doubt there is something slower when you actually use it for something of consequence.
"Modern" is a term that should be reserved for improvement and progress. Are Gatsby users experiencing net gains from the alleged modern tooling?
I tried using their build tools to improve our build times but they didn't work and they never got back to me in a timely fashion so I gave up on it.
Amazon does it with their Kindle line. It’s not something unheard of.
>Would love to see a Svelte SSG (Sapper’s nice but no movement there either).

Check out Elder.js
Do you have concrete examples of how the GPL directly benefited the projects you mentioned?

> gcc

GCC is a very high quality free software compiler but there were occasions where it let free software ideology get in the way of technical excellence. Fearing proprietary extensions, they actively opposed a plugin system and stable intermediate representation. This led to the creation of LLVM.
He didn't, his friend created the account. It's usefull to have someone else, on a diffrent device, and IP block to create the account to confirm that it's possible to take over an account that you have no previous connection to.
> I don't believe I argued anything like that, just pointing out the fallacy of "if the law exists what are they gonna do?".

It's not a fallacy,it's the whole point of rule of law.

Arguing in favour of the virtues of a corrupt system just because you believe it benefits you personally is not only naive but also very dangerous, because as we see on a daily basis rules are bent to harm you, not to benefit you.

If you care anything about a free and just society, you don't argue fora corrupt system that arbitrarily picks which rules applies to you. It's this simple.
But software engineering has an even more special characteristic: easy and accurate tool duplication. That's why our tools are so much less personal than those of a historical blacksmith. Combined with liberal licensing this ease of duplication easily makes software engineers less connected with the tooling they use than any tool user before them. Sometimes (often?) we wouldn't even know the exact version of the tool we are using (no, "latest stable" isn't an exact version)
Microsoft forcing Edge browser webview on Outlook for Android app users
More or less by definition, this won't impact their yearly bottom line by more than 0.3% (at least to within first order). Which is quite a bit, but it still seems super minor. Just like 2 million. Isn't that peanuts for a stock exchange?
Humpback whales seize chance to sing in Alaska's cruise-free Covid summer
Old Samsung HDTVs were awesome, but that's changed in the last few years. They added features like in-menu ads to the low end models that seem to be trickling up their top end as well.

I also have a buggy 1.5 year old Samsung stove that has to be reset when I lean a pot lid against the back It causes the touch panel to trigger a random button and lock up.
I hate to break it to you but even this Fake Science project "succeeds", it can't scale (because there's no way to pay nearly everyone to watch Netflix).

I'm sure the conclusion will be how it worked very well ("65% of participants increased attendance in yoga classes, 85% switched to healthy diet") but it's unaffordable. In addition to the well-known fact that it doesn't make any sense.

Can someone explain to me why these projects can't be community-operated and funded on Patreon?

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Under normal circumstances in an unhampered market, firms are constantly seeking to increase worker productivity, which benefits individuals who actually show up to work.

However, the costs behind a UBI require depriving employers of the resources needed to increase capital accumulation, and thus increase worker productivity. As a result, potential workers receiving government aid are benefiting at the expense of other actual workers who lose opportunities to become more productive.

https://mises.org/wire/universal-basic-income-costs-more-you...
I hear you. Here in the UK we have an unelected consultant to the Prime Minister who is pushing for a loosening of data privacy laws. The right to privacy is politicised to suit the agendas of politicians and big tech alike.

Long term, I do hope laws and regulation will catch up. I know some incredible people in the space and their work and commitment is inspiring. It's unsatisfying though to think that the effects will only be reactive and recourse provided after years of ongoing privacy invasion at mass scale. To me, that's where technology comes in and we should advocate and use products and solutions that respect our privacy (e.g. Qwant).

For what it's worth, I'm one of the developers of Peergos - https://peergos.org - a secure storage solution that puts user privacy and control of data first. We're currently in alpha and looking for users to test it out and give feedback. If it interests you at all, I would really appreciate your views on the product and what we're trying to create.
Ok, I do see that. Somehow the title does not work for me, but that is o.k. I guess.

To get back to your point, I like to call it 'play' ( vs work ).
The “access your own data + your friends' data” API is exactly what Cambridge Analytica used to scrape everybody’s friends’ data
> You would be ok with different tax rates for different size corporations?

Absolutely. There is a cost to society when business is concentrated in a few large organisations. It descreases competition (which forms the bedrock of the capitalist system), and concentrates wealth (extracting it from local communities). It seems completely fair to make theae comapnies pay for that cost. If it means that they can't compete and get outcompeted by smaller companies then... good.