skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a "power user" I totally disdain the idea. I know what will appear in programs I use often and touch without waiting for the button to be drawn.
Brain Circuit That Links Declining Motivation to Learn with Aging
I can definitely recommend FreeAgent for a UK-based operation. It completely automates your taxes and with MTD (making tax digital) you don’t even have to deal with any papers or manual filing at all.
Beginner's guide on the forgotten Ubuntu Touch OS
No matter what speed they actually hit, I promise you it was faster than 150mph.
Tech illiterates are typically not geeky subcultures, and they say they value privacy when asked but in reality they prefer free and easy to use/access.
I bet there is a standard protocol H.323 and a lot of hardware available... but then the garden walls would be breached.
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Where are tech illiterates discussing Brave?
A good writeup, though it misses a couple pertinent points.

One of those points is that the boom here in Reno is less about manufacturing and more about warehousing/fulfillment and broader supply chain logistics. Yeah, manufacturing jobs are definitely growing (the Gigafactory being a notable example), but it's the storage and distribution of those manufactured goods that's attracting companies to Reno. The close proximity to Northern California is part of that, but just as critically is the proximity to the rest of the western US; a truck out of Reno can hit California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, or Arizona within 2 days, and likewise so can a package shipped out of Reno (or, correspondingly, a package out of Reno can cheaply be shipped to those states). Vegas has a disadvantage there in that - being so far south - any shipment to those northerly states (Oregon, Washington, etc.) sees an extra day of transit time and - correspondingly - added cost. The fact that the LA metro area is still a manufacturing and warehousing powerhouse, as the article mentions, sure doesn't help, either.

The other point worth mentioning here (and one that might hopefully give Vegas a more optimistic outlook) is that Nevada's got a trick up its sleeve: solar. This whole state's a big, dry, sunny desert. There's practically unlimited room for solar farms up the wazoo, especially since it ain't like there's much else to do with the land here (other than, you know, strip-mining it or blowing it up with weapons tests). Plus, there's geothermal; if you look at a map of the hot springs in the US (and thus the opportunities for geothermal energy), Nevada's a giant blob, waiting to be tapped. Nevada can very well be the green energy hub of the American West, giving Reno/Sparks, Las Vegas, and Elko one hell of an economic jumpstart (pun very much intended).
Would you be willing to share some easy improvements that could be made? How can a large amount of tests run so much faster?
Ask HN: Developers, why are we re-implementing the same wheels
Companies around the world are paying developers to build software solutions to problems that have been solved many many times already - web applications.

Most web applications include some subset of: user and api authentication, database interaction, remote api, user and/or api output, and performance features like caching, load balancing, proxying, etc. This is not an exhaustive list, but these are some of the primary, common elements. The total set of possible combinations of features, even including some special sub-features, is not excessively large.

Why are we still cobbling these elements together manually? After 30 years of building web applications, we have a pretty good idea of what's possible and how to solve it. Even with frameworks, we still are working far too low level. We should be choosing which features and which options we want and feeding that into a system that runs the solution or generates a deployment script for the solution.

The business specific details should be handled by plugins, and that customization is where we should be putting our time and creative energy. A well designed plugin system would also allow developers to use whatever language they prefer for each plugin, and developers could a language based on the special needs and ideally suited libraries. It would also free us from language lock-in.

Wordpress, while not initially intended to be such a system, is a partial example (even though it's a 15+ year old view on a solution to originally a different problem).

Why is there no modern answer to this problem? (Or if there is one, what is it and why don't we use it?)
Show HN: Smart running shoes with a built in voice assistant
how to kill zombie - kill their parents. repeat until no more parents are left.
“Isolines of sunrise on the globe” don’t exist/change with time of year. It’s more like there’s a “sunrise line” that runs around the globe, changing slowly with a one year period (ignoring lots of smaller effects)

If you really want to complicate things, a real “7 ‘o clock at local sunrise” clock should also be affected by local mountains.

If you really, really want to complicate things, include cloud cover, too, an require that sunrise must be observed (Muslims require that for the new moon to determine the end of Ramadan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan#Eid))
When the Bridge Between Hemispheres Is Lacking, the Brain Reorganizes
Blurring around the face edges and mismatched lighting still give them away. Time will tell if the machines can overcome a trained eye.
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>I'd be curious to know how many people actually degoogle their lives drastically after reading such discussions and articles

I did get a wake-up call a few years ago when while writing an email in gmail, I accidentally moved a folder with 200 icons, into the new email window, as an attachment (I thought the icons in the folder were zipped up, but they weren't). I realized my mistake almost immediately and closed the browser, but I still hit some internal trigger because my account was immediately suspended. As I frantically tried to find a human to call, the account unsuspended itself after a few minutes. Bullet dodged, lesson (almost) learned.

I am, slowly, figuring out a backup approach and these articles do push me to make those plans more concrete. It is a time-bomb.

I don't mind the automation and the inevitable false-positives, but the fact that there is zero transparency, and you can't get a human online to help you (even if you're a paying customer) is just terrible.
I mean, I guess that's something that you can do but it's likely to get you laughed out of the room and greatly encourage them to reverse engineer whatever you were trying to sell.
Audio deepfakes are getting better but they have a surprisingly long way to go still.

Here's an exploration of a deepfaked Jay-Z reading/rapping the Navy Seal copypasta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZzYoOdIXoQ
I'm running a test with paid zoho currently (been going for a few months) to see if they're dependable. I bought a test domain name, and signed with their $1 USD/month plan...so far, quite good. I'm somewhat sold...the only reason i haven't taken the plunge yet is i've been distracted at work, so haven't planned out my migration. (i have so much email that i want to plan this delicately.)
About 6 months ago I tried running FreeBSD on a network appliance, when I usually run Debian. Wow! I'm never going back. Everything about it made me really happy, from the smooth install (Debian often has issues with serial console installs), to being able to boot ZFS, to the sheer simplicity of configuring the OS.

One stark example of how clean the FreeBSD install is: there are something like 9 or 10 processes running after boot for a fresh FreeBSD install, compared to dozens for a fresh Debian or Ubuntu install.

Using jails is also a lot more pleasant than using docker.
Antitrust lawsuit seems like a joke. We're going after google for search? Which has literally the lowest switching costs out there and is offered for free - and this is what the govt is calling consumer harm?

Meanwhile, I can think of a BUNCH of things that result in actual consumer harm by google - this included. And no, I don't give to craps about other businesses making money or not - so that whole part of the anti-trust thing seems dumb to me - yes, spammers and auto-review websites are downranked I'm sure, and I don't care.

How is stuff like this at least a bit higher on the things to think about from a govt regulation standpoint.
Their stats are here:

https://stackexchange.com/performance

Their DB handles peak of 11,000 qps and peaks at only 15% CPU usage. That's after caching. There are also some ElasticSearch servers. Sure, their traffic is heavily read only, but it's also a site that exists purely for user-generated content. They could probably handle far higher write loads than they do, and they handle a lot of traffic as-is.

What specific complexities would be introduced by an even higher write load that AWS specifically would help them address?
DB/2
I still use FB and twitter, and trying to use Parler a bit more.. there isn't nearly the engagement on Parler. As to FB and Twitter, I'm on it FAR less than in the past.

They've just become toxic on so many levels. What I used to appreciate was actual discourse with those I don't always agree with and now everyone just got completely intolerant of any views not their own. I've had more unfriends/unfollows in the past year than the past 20 or so before that.

It's an echo chamber of insanity, and if you don't fit cleanly in it, it just feels like you want to drop in less. There are a few FB groups I check in on, and engage with, but now it's maybe half an hour a day across all social platforms where as a couple years ago, it might have been 2-3hrs a day.
Fair. There's a tendency in my circles to talk about temperate forests (with fungally dominated soils) as if they're the most important. It's what we see, and it's what most 1st world people who need to hear about environmental policy see, and it's where the most space for improvement exists, both in terms of restoration and carbon sunk per acre. Tropical rainforests are something else entirely.

In fungal soil, nutrient availability is a bit fuzzy, because if you're not in a symbiotic relationship with the soil fungi, or root fused to a sibling that is, you have a lot less access to minerals. Some people prefer to think of this as a benevolent relationship, but what's the line between exchange and extortion, especially when you can't ask either party how they feel about it? 'Codependent' might be the correct word.

I don't know if he still feels this way, but Paul Stamets has on at least one occasion accused the fungi of farming the forest and not the other way around. If the fungi maintain a situation that is unfavorable to a particular tree, then they are not interested in having that tree around (whether that ultimately proves to be self-inflicted harm is sorted out by natural selection).
Thanks, so it's really about drivers etc rather than the architecture, which makes a lot of sense. A bit surprising that there hasn't been more convergence in the Arm world.
Much of what Brave does out of the box can be achieved with an array of extensions which have existed for some time. One major appeal of Brave is that these features are built-in, on-by-default, and have no reliance upon Google to not break them moving forward (see Manifest v3 and uBlock Origin, and/or MetaMask being temporarily removed from Google's Web and Play Stores). With Brave, the type of privacy and control users expect is baked-in, and easy to use. Download, Run, and Done. The way it ought to be in 2020
systemd is like that non-lazy guy we were warned about:

I distinguish four types. There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next ones are stupid and lazy; they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the mental clarity and strength of nerve necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord
Is the full paper available online? I was not able to find it.
For what it's worth, I briefly looked into why we don't construct more above-grade track. There's actually quite a lot in the outer boroughs of New York (and of course one such mostly-freight track was converted in the High Line). It's cheaper to upkeep, and actually possibly cheaper to buy (compared to cost of drilling), and of course gets built much faster. The problem is essentially noise. Light is also a concern but not quite as large.

I wonder if anyone is working on making these trains more silent. It seems hard but might be quite valuable.
If you’re in Australia, no fallacy imo, government mandated data retention laws in place. I believe started that very few gov departments could see this data but has increased over time to the point I believe is accessible for some civil cases and to organisations [0], so please don’t dismiss VPN privacy use case as it is very applicable for some. I don’t use Brave and there are a lot of problematic VPN providers which makes it complicated for those who want to use them.

[0] https://www.crikey.com.au/2020/02/25/data-retention-scheme-a...
Are you blind at how stupid people are verifying even the basic things?
>Brave by default collects telemetry data. It is anonymized but any security researcher will tell you that metadata of this nature over time can be more revealing that is claimed.

So like Firefox?
this is the Google curse. every company will become like Google only if they can.

every of them. the only exception is Wikipedia and i donate monthly.

I remember how good Google was in the early days. most of the “alternatives” could become much worse when they reach 1/100 of Google scale.

I can’t trust “alternatives”.
It passed the Turing Test.
> Historically, it was somewhat common for men to say to each other here "You must be smart and competent because you have a lot of karma on HN."

Repeating parent... Do you have an example? Like a link.
AFAIK there have been very few reinfections. Humans have very diverse genes and over 47 million people have been infected. It's entirely normal that there will be outliers whose immune system doesn't produce a response that lasts as long. The rest is the media engaging in fearmongering.
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IANAL, but this is a reminder that something being in a TOS/EULA doesn't necessarily mean it's enforceable. There are contract laws and consumer protection laws that make certain conditions illegal and not enforceable. Sometimes companies include these things out of ignorance, and sometimes deliberately under the assumption that consumers don't know what their rights are. If you are suddenly surprised by terms you think are unfair and may cause you harm, then ask a lawyer.

Also, as some people of pointed out, this isn't actually part of Prezi's TOS, so I'm very doubtful that this would stand up in arbitration/court.
Is this mentioned? It's crazy complicated underground in large old American cities. Been putting pipes etc under there for a couple hundred years. A Seattle tunnel got stalled for months when they hit an old service main iron pipe that'd been put there a century before and forgotten.

My sister worked for a pump company, been in business for 150 years. Got calls all the time for replacement pumps that had failed after a century etc. One was 6 stories underground in NYC. Had to dig a tunnel down through a maze of services (electrical, tunnels, drains, water, gas) to get to it. Then had to have exactly the same pump to fit exactly into the geometry it used to have (no problem; they still had the drawing for the pump in a drawer and made an exact copy). Pulled the old one up, dropped the new one down, hooked it up and then buried it for maybe another century.
What does a journalist know about verifying video data?

And isn't a journalist going to bring their own side of the story to it? Hardly independent.
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That was half of the idea, WP doesn't let you edit from a VPN even with an account. :)
SQLAlchemy 1.4.0b1 Released
Even if you stripped systemd down to the "as-SysV-init replacement" part it still wouldn't run on FreeBSD, because systemd uses cgroups for that.
GitHub Misses on SSL Certificate Renewal
How and Why Social Media Affect Subjective Well-Being
Mmmm. Bowl of chocolate ice cream, tasty.
Probably just people getting radicalised with all sorts of ideas, maybe due to imperfect information, lots of misinformation, the topic being politicised, people being stressed because of the pandemic and its consequences. It's not only this topic, I've noticed it in any other less polarising ones as well.
One thing I do NOT like is their continued reliance on SDcards -- after a while of 'normal' use (maybe a couple of years?) I've found the SDcards in my RPis tend to go south. It seems to be it would have been so much better to just have one USB 3 slot dedicated for a USB3 Flash thumb drive, which could be slipped inside. Another small thing: it would be nice if the kbd had a ThinkPad 'stick' mouse --- which is much more convenient than having to have an external mouse. But, hey, nobody is stopping 'somebody' from doing that, eh?
If you don't think lego in an adult workplace is infantilizing then you should look up the definition of infantilizing.
Does comment include their paid email hosting plan/service? Because i've been testing them out for the last few months, and they've been great! But, if you have stats and/or info to share, I'd love to hear about before i take the plunge. Also, any alternative to zoho that you could recommend would be greatly appreciated! THanks!
You'd need some sort of drogue chute or fins to keep it pointed nose-down, otherwise it'd tumble like the Beetle in the Top Gear episode just posted.

Or maybe being a rear-engined car put the Beetle at a unique disadvantage, and the Camry would orient itself just fine.

Junkyards are easy, who's got a helicopter-pilot friend and some land?
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Raspberry Pi can run Squeak, which is a full-blown Smalltalk-80 environment, not unlike the one Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg taught kids to use in their Dynabook work. You could configure a Pi to boot directly into Squeak and it would be the spiritual successor to that kind of environment.

There are also other good educational alternatives that aren't entirely immersive but run well on the Pi (Scratch, Python's Turtle module, Mathematica and its interactive notebook (free on the Pi), etc.).
I was wondering if I missed some "next page" button somewhere
Helios: Hyperscale indexing for the cloud and edge (part II)
It's really impressive, but for some reason I was expecting a graphics-heavy animation video rather than a Powerpoint :P presentation.
Six 747s flew into a Dutch airport – but then couldn't leave
Wow, seems like I was misinformed, then. That seems unsustainable to me, but I guess time will tell.
If you can write code to drive hardware from pinouts I think you can click a button to enable Linux apps.
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I wonder how long it will take for Bay Area real estate to take a hit if the pandemic continues longer and/or remote working becomes significantly more common.