skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this jetpack story unlikely. I would imagine anyone with the means and knowledge to use a jet pack would know to respect the airspace near an airport (even if just for their own safety!).
I did IT work in a big law firm in 1989. The company had a fleet of HP LaserJet Series II printers (that having been introduced in 1987). They worked fine, same as anything today, with regard to jams and whatever. (Mostly, they were used for cranking out documents written in WordPerfect.) Though modern printers are more affordable and capable, the basic physical user experience is about the same. Modern printers don't even look all that different: vanilla boxes with some slanted aperture on top where paper comes out; drawer for blank paper. If I walked into, say, an insurance agency or whatever and they had a HP LJ II from 1989 sitting on a counter in a corner, I probably wouldn't even notice the antique. :)
Didn't know that, thanks for the info.
I'm with you. I would love to plow investment dollars into SpaceX or Planetary Resources, but it seems like most of the real innovative companies are either still private or got acquired by companies I don't want to invest in.
Ask HN: How do I release a domain name stuck with a bankrupt domain registrar?
Net4India is an old Indian domain registrar - with around 80,000 domain names registered.

Sometime during the covid lockdown Net4India went bankrupt. A bankruptcy tribunal took over the case and some legal proceedings are going on.

Users are complaining on twitter that despite paying for domain renewal, the domains are expiring.

Net4 also has always had a dodgy reputation about releasing domains.

I have a domain expiring on 18-oct-2020. I have started the transfer process on 13-oct-2020 - but it is still stuck in the "pending transfer" stage 48 hours later. I am worried that the domain will expire before the transfer actually goes through.

Do you have any experience or thoughts about this predicament.
Is that Elon Musk working on his jetpack personal transporter? <grin>

More seriously, if you are so inclined to build your own, here are instructions: https://timwylie.com/files/jetpack/building.pdf

I tried but quickly decided that I wasn't sufficiently motivated.
That should be an easy category to weed out - one time purchases.

Their algorithms aren't even aware of what the products are, its just "find last 3 things purchased and suggest those."
Hello! Compared to Otto there are some major simplifications we made:

* Waypoint does not own/manage any infrastructure, Otto attempted to manage the infrastructure. With Waypoint, you have to bring this yourself.

* Waypoint has pluggable components for build/deploy/release. Otto focused in on our tools (mainly because we had to manage the infra, point 1). This makes it much easier to slide into existing ecosystems.

On your question of abstractions: this same argument can be made for Terraform so I think my answer there would be the same but for applications. The idea is that Waypoint can give you a consistent workflow to use different tools, and additional value add features such as deployment URLs, exec, logs, etc. that work across platforms.
> There are testable, comprehensive physical principles that govern whether any of these engineered products function in their most fundamentally-intended ways.

These are statistical engineering tests of the probability of failure under certain conditions. That is not at all what Dijkstra would consider to be "correctness". Dijkstra is talking about mathematical proof. In mathematics, one does not say "1 + 2 = 3 plus or minus 0.1 with a safety factor of 2".
Adapting Maslow’s Hierarchy for a Remote World
You are all over this thread trying to protect Apple by hook or by crook, jumping into any statement and twisting and forcing your interpretations. Sagaarjha’s statement is still essentially saying the same as mine, so it's absolute nonsense to claim that it's not what Apple is saying, but then agreeing with Sagaarjha’s statement, which fundamentally says the same thing. Your zealousness in this thread exposes your unbearable bias.
I love Linux, but it's still got a long ways to go before becoming an reliable desktop OS. For most people they could easily use it. However the moment they gotta hop in terminal kills it for them. Linux is great if you know how to fix your problem or look in the right direction.

My main beef with it is driver support. It's far better than it was 10 years ago but nobody wants to be dealing with that. It's annoying. I can deal with program crashes or some minor feature not working right. I can't deal with being hindered due to no drivers.

Linux will always just be a tool to me and nothing more. It's a great fleshed out fully customizable tool. But it is hardly what it needs to be before widespread adoption will occur.
Nope, mine was certainly a bug in Apple’s tooling (and perhaps a beta OS release, I think?) and this prevented me from running tests for some platforms. I actually wrote it all up here, if you’re interested: https://saagarjha.com/blog/2019/01/11/mocking-capabilities-i...
I've long avoided "switchable graphics", for this reason. The complexity breeds issues. Be happy with just intel graphics, or go for an AMD/radeon, to improve your chances of not running into bugs/incompatibilities. Modern graphics are just such a monster of complexity, change, variety, secrecy, etc.

(I'm going to venture a guess that the "kernel update [can] render the system unbootable" is due to nvidia binary-blob driver needing some glue code to both update and recompile for new kernel versions ... it can work fine, usually, but for best experience, skip the hassle of nvidia on linux, or keep it as simple and vanilla as possible with a distro that takes care of it for you I guess.)
100% this.

Also we need a right to install our own OS. The right level for intervention is at the level of forcing Apple to provide a Bootcamp for iOS.

This is far more important than a right to repair, since many many iOS devices continue to be useful for many years after Apple stops supporting them.
Show HN: WebCatalog – turn websites into desktop apps
Have you seen what Nvidia is doing with Maxine? The compression is so good we might not need fiber to do 4k or VR conferencing.
I feel like this will be combined with new UWB features in iDevices, maybe with airtags when they come out, and the private and anonymized "crowdsourced" location data of iDevices. There could be some killer indoor mapping, locating and AR features on the horizon. Exciting.
Yeah and consistently there seems to be a bad Windows Update that breaks a whole bunch of stuff... Not sure if people are just used to Windows being a piece of shit, or if we are holding the Linux desktop to a higher standard.
What is the the relationship between "had to change the way FaceTime work[s]" and "never opening it"?
Not: put a gun to people in other countries heads to force them to sign contracts that are very favorable to the US

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunboat_diplomacy
Dragon Computers
I completely agree. Additionally, as someone in the thread pointed out, this decision really doesn't make sense by Dropbox. You have a series of problems that I can't see a solution for.

1) If we have Dropbox Studios, who dictates the frequency of those visits? If a manager dictates, there will be resentment of some sorts. If its a democratic vote, what about the people that can't make that date?

2) Assuming the dates have been finalized, the people that cannot make that date are at a disadvantage. They might not be in driving distance to a hub or for other reasons. That would mean information again has to be propagated back virtually for all members.

3) If a date is set and all the necessary people have come together, is it essentially a company day off? If the goal is to meet and talk to people without doing solo-work, I would assume its filled with meetings or events. If this is true, this doesn't make sense to do it too frequently. If done infrequently, it defeats the purposes of these studios.

All of the thoughts so far don't even go through the cliques / groups that would form that can be gatekeepers of information for true remote workers that can't meetup.
not sure what that has to do with my response. the claim was that “small” companies can multiply their valuation more easily.
What if I don't want any desktop environment, but just want to run the i3 window manager?
"The only way to win is not to play."
I’m failing to see the distinction you’re drawing between a changelog and release notes?
It's difficult for me to answer how other people should learn these things, since I personally just... tried to figure things out? It's been so long since I found basic networking mystifying that I'm not sure how to explain it to someone who doesn't have the same intuition. If you have something that's very specific, maybe make a guess on how it could be generalized and then test that guess. Try to build a mental model, and test that model.

I don't like using systems that are complete black boxes, so whenever I use something, I try gain a reasonable understanding of how it works under the hood. If a system claims to make X easy, I want to know at least what is involved in accomplishing that, even if the implementation details aren't relevant knowledge. I don't often need to dig into the nitty-gritty of how the Linux TCP stack works, but even having a broad idea of how the TCP protocol works is pretty useful, and especially how it relates to other networking protocols.

I guess for practical networking, it helps to first focus on IP addressing and routing; ie. how does a packet sent from your computer actually get through all the switches and routers to the destination computer? The short answer is that every node (including your computer) makes a routing decision on where to send the packet, and then it's sent forward. This happens at each "hop" until it appears at the end (or gets dropped by a firewall).

And from this simple logic and some fancy tools to help you make dynamic routing decisions in response to changes in network topology (router went down? update local route information and send the packet to the other router that's still up), you can build the internet in a fault-tolerant manner.
You've never understood why parents protect children from things that they will eventually be exposed to as adults? If your goal is to give your children unfiltered access to "reality," parents are entirely unnecessary after birth.
In the early days of Dropbox, engineers went to really loud bars late in the night, and them settled their designs in the bar with god-knows how much drink. This culture made it really hard for engineers with a family, or for those like me who simply hate, I mean really hate, noisy place or excessive drinking.

Well, I guess this WFH policy would help leveling the playground. Bar culture sucks.
In 2016, I wrote a scathing, negative Glassdoor review about a company that truly was a developer sweatshop. It had only 1 review at the time. The review got close to 50 upvotes and was one of the top Google search results for the company name. A second negative review came up not too long after that. Within weeks, the company had at least 20 5 star reviews added to this. The entirety of the company was no more than 30 employees, leading me to conclude that someone was directing employees to write positive reviews.

This seemed to violate Glassdoor's rules on "incentivized reviews", but when contacting Glassdoor, the response I got was that they investigated the situation and determined that there was no violation of the rules. I stopped taking the site seriously after that.
For a non-American, it is amusing to see Americans believing that their Congress are the people's servants.

Unlike other developed democracies, the U.S. is a country where bribing the Congress is actually legalized, in the form of campaign donations. In fact, the main work of most congresspeople is to run after money to finance their next campaign. Therefore they will serve primarily the ones that pay them, not the ones that elect them.

When open source bribes politicians then they'll pay attention.
It's possible. I could see that being true with folks who aren't tech savvy and/or have never written an algorithm.
LOL this comment now feels like something of a RickRoll— I'm scrolling through the comments, happily consuming, and then BOOM!

I've posted it here several times myself :)
I definitely agree on the cancel culture aspect. I'm just out of college, and for people my age and younger, there is such a desperate and helpless anger towards the people in power.

There is absolutely nothing concrete that I can do on a day-to-day basis to protect my world, my friends, my family from people that I watch lie, cheat, and steal on national television. It's absolutely sickening.

I vote, and I canvass, and I donate. But man, when I see someone on twitter talking about how they think gay people should be shot like animals or something equally insane, it feels like there's one small right thing I could do, which is to make that person feel like shit. I don't, mostly -- it's just a toxic cycle for my personal wellbeing -- but I see the attraction. Yelling at people online (and to a further extent, excluding them from your world) feels like the only thing you can do sometimes.
> Lock-ins have been our biggest concern here at Canonic. We wanted to ensure that if the user wanted to move/integrate with different services, that experience be as seamless as possible...

Now THAT is worth me paying for! I'm now really looking forward to learning about your pricing, as I'm quite interested in using your platform. All the best!
Big time.

In the 00's I was part of an effort to merely get the State government to consider OSS.

The lobby was powerful and effective.

Despite broad bipartisan support (we did a great job educating legislators on open software and open data and how that resonates with the work of the public) our house speaker blocked it solid.

Had there been a vote, it would have passed.

Tons of people lobbied that speaker for literally months. Fax, phone calls, visits to her office, the works.

4 guys in expensive, black suits, and some number of zeroes to the right of a donation got it done.

For what it's worth, the same group was successful in part of removing that speaker from office.

The damage had been done. It was hard to even bring the matter up in committee going forward.
The rise and fall of history’s first empire [video]
This is how the web's re-incarnation could begin. Imagine:

• 2020: Websites are too complex. The security implications are too high. Let's run all of that code remotely, and send only draw commands to the user.

• 2025: Hey, developers, want your website to be faster and more efficient? Here's an API for performing certain operations directly on the user's machine. Don't worry, we've implemented everything in a limited and security-conscious way. Pinky promise the standard won't grow out of control over time.

• 2040: Neo-websites are too complex. Let's run all of that code remotely...

I'm not sure if I actually believe this will happen. But, consider how we got here: websites originally relied on server-side rendering, and gradually shifted to client-side rendering over time. Now, Cloudflare is offering a way to force all of that code back on to a server...
> Most of the mediocrely talented but very successful people I know get by with high charisma. Or putting in many more hours than others.

I think I do both! I'm extremely charismatic but imo not that bright so coast on personality but sometimes fall back on working lots of hours.

My charisma story is that I was very naturally attractive but then had an accident and gained a large % of bodyweight while bedridden for over six months. When I came back into the real world I sort of got forced to improve my personality because I could no longer coast on looks!
what does that have to do with my response?
Follow up. Twitter has come out saying they blocked this because of personal identifying information.

Not because it's false, fake, or a conspiracy.
Someone could make a website about this single concept. domainwashing.com?
What's also becoming very apparent is how many people use work as a means to escape an unhappy home life.

Things like an unhappy marriage can be dealt with by being at the office a lot, or working at home in a big enough home that you can remain isolated. The current situation forces a lot of these issues to come to a boil.

Even if you're just unhappy with who you are and what 'home' means for you, being forced to deal with it can be rough. Work is to many workaholics the same way a bar is to alcoholics. It's a place where a coping mechanism becomes not just a way to deal, but a sign of success.
You can torture language all you want to fit your ideology, but just be clear that is what you're doing. If you argue everything is political, then nothing is political. It is now a meaningless term that conveys no information because hey, that candy bar I just ate? Political! That dog walk I did? Political!

How about we commonly understood concepts to convey ideas? How does that sound to you?
Classic bait-and-switch. This essentially happens with every review site after they build up enough brand awareness to pull it off. I guess it happens because from the perspective of the company it makes total sense to try. Why earn pennies on the dollar from e.g. ad clicks when you can get huge lumpy (and possibly regular) payouts for much less work in much less time
> To become a PR company that is based on the memory of a community/purpose.

This sounds like the angst-beat poetry of our current future.
Critiques without concrete alternatives are usually useless because you haven’t ascertained whether a better solution is even possible.
This is wonderful! Very simple, minimal and useful tool!

I don't Js, but I am thinking of a fork that has a log of generated sounds. It is fun to mash the button 10 times to see what the sound space is. Or, could let it run and then hit pause when it finds something you like.

On a hardware side, I am thinking an ESP32 based device with midi and TTL in that can run the SFX, be able to update the FX over a rest call.

Then use those generated FX as the population for a GA, or train a GAN to generate FX.

I could see these SFX being something like a font or palette, similar points in a design space.

I realized you are the same person behind the Noa [1] Voxel Engine.

[1] http://andyhall.github.io/noa-lt/
High quality what? Spacy doesn't has autocompletion and it's the 21st century, only a python package can achieve such prodigy
Yes, I agree with you - I just don't see that as a failure of flame charts.

You still need to understand how the data was gathered and what it really means. It is also true that flame charts are more useful on projects that are not yet heavily optimized; they clearly show the parts that are very slow compared to others. And when you don't see anything else that can be optimized, it doesn't mean that everything is optimal - the limit is imagination (and knowledge), not the problem space.
I'm running Windows now after trying to switch my primary device to Ubuntu periodically for the last 5 years... I've been experimenting with Ubuntu since 2007 and none of my devices have been able to run it well. If you've got a basic setup or don't want a graphical environment, things are fine, but I think I tend to push the limit a bit too much

In my case I also need KVM etc. On Windows I just use Hyper-V when I need a VM (many years ago I'd use Virtual PC). Hyper-V has never rendered my device unusable, even when pushing the limits with things like GPU pass through. I think my 2018 attempt failed when trying to update Ubuntu kernel after setting up KVM for a Windows VM; I had restarted between getting KVM set up and doing the Ubuntu update.

I haven't documented anything - I wanted to but I never really found the solutions I was looking for. I'm not making this up; I'd really love to be typing this from Ubuntu right now.

edit: I reviewed and made changes for a more constructive tone.
Hope they don't copy any APIs for comparability because that'd be copyright infringement.
Its pretty easy to detect whether something was removed with a chisel (thus purposely) through marks that are left. Theres also textual evidence supporting the reasoning.
And I'll add Idaho National Lab [5] to that list - particularly the MOOSE multiphysics finite element code [6] is a largish project with significant momentum/funding:

[5] https://github.com/idaholab/

[6] https://github.com/idaholab/moose
> "Joe Biden must be given an opportunity to restore trust in truth, in evidence, in science and in other institutions of democracy, heal a divided nation, and begin the urgent task of rebuilding the United States’ reputation in the world."

Straight political propaganda in a top scientific journal? Isn't that a tad over the top?

On the other hand, Iran won't bomb itself, so it's all-hands-on-deck to get that "seven countries in five years" plan back on track.

On the gripping hand, such blatant propaganda might have the opposite effect on the silent majority. We'll see soon enough.
>you will most likely immediately need it

What is that based on? The vast majority of iPhone buyers are existing iPhone users and will not need the brick. I have 4 bricks and cables in a drawer right now and I don't need them at all because I have a Qi wireless charger on my nightstand.

Most people will not need the brick.
My guess is that companies dumping have an advantage over legit companies, and they're growing much quicker when nobody is spending on normal companies anymore.
That experiment is still ongoing and it's unclear what the ultimate result will be. They've very much not reached steady state yet.
Sure, but there is no reward for research departments to produce high quality code. Their job is to experiment and publish, maintainable bug free(unless it effects their code) doesn't get rewarded.

With that being said there are tons of high quality open source scientific computing projects e.g. lammps, abinit, dakota, Deal.II which are open source, ran by people at government research labs and universities and funded by e.g. NSF which work really nicely and are (I assume) quality software products. I will note that the Europeans seem to be better and producing these kinds of works than the Yankees.
Don't most of these companies stand to benefit enormously from long term changes people think the pandemic will bring?

Telsa benefits from any environmentally stimulus.

Peloton benefits if we all move to more rural areas than downtowns and instead use them over a gym.

Moderna is a vaccine company. You are betting on them getting a big payout.
what I wrote so horribly wrong that deserves all these downvotes?

There's a newish rule on HN that we're not supposed to complain about the look of the linked web sites.

I don't mind when people point out that a site is unusable, because then I don't bother clicking through to it. But it's their site, so their rules.
the cost is anonymity - inside their bubble you're uniqueness is guaranteed and the value of the ads just went up! hooray!
That’s an overly simplistic and reductive view of free speech rights. Can my internet service provider shut off my access if I spend too much time reading “misinformation”? Can they give the government a list of all the people reading “misinformation”? Can they require I attend a reeducation program before restoring my access?
You are correct for complex CPUs with actual ROB with hundreds of entries. For those micro-architecture, LDM is not particularly stressful. I was focused on the micro-controller case, with much simpler pipelines. LDM is one of the instructions causing the pipeline a lot more headaches than it's worth.