skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who loves the built environment but went into software, do you have any resources to explore architecture fundamentals? Any path to follow to grow on those fundamentals? I have a Arch 101 in from college under my belt.
Since they effectively banned you from Chase service, what other retaliations were you worried about?

Since it's a financial institution and the accounts were closed by the bank, I wouldn't be surprised if this dinged his credit report in some serious way.
I suspect more apps like this will pop up. While iNaturalist is great for general organism identification, the specialized communities will fill the gap where generalist AI is less capable.
If it's important then having support and an SLA is essential. You're not getting either of those for $0.12/month.
I cannot “make my own Uber”. I don’t have a bottomless pit of Saudi Oil money to throw into this unprofitable space.

The only people that have the money to compete have no desire to put workers first. They are just trying to establish a monopoly and drive existing, successful, more efficient and sustainable forms of transit out of business.
Not long ago I worked at a big name tech company and with someone who interacted with folks who reported security concerns.

Half the time the security team was scrambling to prevent various people from sending legal on a crusade to attack the latest researcher who responsibly told them about a security issue. It only got better after legal was educated enough to not just shoot from the hip with threats... but really they were just acting like a firewall for much of the management team who saw any such disclosure as some sort of attack.

And this was a tech company, everything they did was technology, located in the valley... they still didn't get it.

Even just getting these researchers token recognition (many asked for almost nothing) was an uphill battle.

One of the challenges was that the folks on the security team were really passionate about doing the right thing and they didn't want to break relationships they had with researchers / the community. They were prone to leave companies who were bad at handling those relationships ... leaving bad companies with fewer such people and accordingly things would fester.

The security industry is full of straight up charlatans and legit people. The legit people are super sensitive about being associated with charlatans and thus the charlatans are often left to their own devices after the legit folks run for cover (elsewhere).

For the record this is my perception from working with security minded folks, and not actually working in that industry myself.
Now that is super-cool. I also had an Amiga 500 but never got to play anything that supported connecting computers together with a null modem cable. I didn't get my Amiga until 1990 but multi-machine multiplayer would have been absolutely living the dream for me at that time.
Sedate yourself citizen.
So fix the underlying issue instead of going after private companies.
I take issue with several of his statements:

At 1:16 he says

> it takes 20 times as much effort as it should to do anything on the web ... there's this culture of people not spending most of their time actually working

At around 2:15 he says

> what web programmers spend most of their time doing is useless busywork that is not actually objectively necessary to create the functionality. It's just dealing with a bunch of weird conventions by some other software that they're trying to use...

Let's assume he knows he's exaggerating with 20x, regardless, where does he get this number? Let's assume by "people not spending most of their time actually working" he doesn't mean people are screwing around and are undisciplined. Instead let's assume he's saying a similar thing to what he says later, that "web programmers spend most of their time doing busywork." But again I'd ask where does he get this statistic? Again let's assume he's exaggerating, still, where does he gets this info?

So being generous, let's interpret him to say it takes more effort than it should to do things on the web, and that web programmers have to spend some of their time doing work that isn't directly related to what they're trying to achieve. I can agree with that, but statements like "20 times" and "most" are outlandish imo. And these more reasonable statements should not lead him or anyone to conclude "web programming is collapsing in like 10 years".
So when can I expect them to legalize "personal use" amounts of machine guns and explosive devices?

The point I'm trying to make is that people tend to have "personal freedom" blind spots that encompass everything they don't personally care about.
I would consider it a personal problem if a bay area native dislikes hearing that some people don't like the bay area. Is it unreasonable to expect adults to have the emotional maturity to handle such things?
Apologies, I think my comment was unclear so I just edited it. What I meant was it's unclear to me why it's a good thing that corporations look out for their best interests instead of the best interests of society/customers/people.

If an individual does it, their known for being selfish, egotistical, maybe even narcissistic. There's a natural push back from society to this behavior.

Corporations should be disincentivized from doing this as well. Society would benefit as a whole. The fact that people expect selfishness out of corporations and see it as a good thing is concerning.
Not being from San Francisco what conclusion am I meant to draw from this?
I don't understand why it is madness. Care to explain?

I see violent people on the street. They are a danger to me. I want safe streets. House arrest costs taxpayers very little.

If there was an angry bear on the streets threatening people it would probably be relocated, tagged, and confined to the forests as well. Not much different.
I hate bright nights because of city lights, but I imagine cities are much safer when they’re not too dark. It’s a shitty trade off, but if that’s the trade, it’s an easy one to make.
Agreed. I do not agree with decriminalising the trade in drugs, but criminalising their possession for personal use is a really important practical step in fighting the trade in hard drugs and reducing addiction rates for many reasons.

It decouples the interests of drug traffickers from those of users making users more likely to cooperate with law enforcement, frees up social workers and medical professionals from the risk of criminal liability for associating with drug users in possession of or using drugs. It also makes it easier to address incidental associated health issue such as infections from dirty needles. Treating it as a health issue destigmatises it making it easier for users to talk about it and seek help.

This is not theoretical, this is from actual findings from countries like Portugal the Netherlands and Norway where trading in hard drugs is still illegal but possession and use are treated as public health issues. This is a policy that works.
Pot will definitely fuck you up if you're on the wrong end of the response curve.

That said, criminalising drugs has absolutely made the situations around and with them worse for more people. Those with the greatest gain in the current situation are the warlords in South America, the commercial jails and politicians stoking fear of drug use.

A great number of people can and have used a wide range of drugs successfully, peacefully, creatively, introspectively and with joy for 1000s of years. The current predominant legislation doesn't seem to reflect the will of a huge number of people. I don't have stats to say "a majority", but it wouldn't surprise me, especially if you include alcohol.

The problems exist. Better methods need to be sought to deal with them than criminalisation.
Fix wings are amazing for some applications. The problem with them starts when you want to carry heavier payloads. Taking-off and landing gets more and more complicated as they scale-up, while you only need 10 sq. meters to take-off HYBRiX drone. In the end, the different drone types are suitable for different purposes.
Matrix.org: How We Fixed Synapses Scalability
You would need to be local to see the Map from the blog post. However, you can use FlightAware to zoom into Denver to see whats overhead.
The best code is the code you don't write.

I'll sometimes spend a couple of hours on a method, removing unnecessary code.

It does NOT always end up with more performant code (sometimes, the opposite), but it does reduce the "I don't wanna remove all that code" surface, and it usually* makes the code easier to understand.

* I write Swift. Sometimes, less code is more obscure code, and I often have to go back and put code I removed back in, to make it more understandable.
Sure. In the absence of governmental provided health insurance, this vote will mean that Uber/Lyft drivers won't get benefits.
Show HN: BoatThing, Data for Racing Sailboats
what's the pricing? I recall signing up for sunsama last year and it looked great, but the price was hard to justify for personal use
It's nice to see tutorials like this one, especially since FlightAware is community powered. The cost for most of the materials is relatively small, but what seems to be a somewhat problem is the availability and price of properly supported RTL-SDR USB sticks.
Europe already does a lot more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
I'm not opposed to some dude at home drinking cheap vodka.

I am opposed to some dude getting drunk and roaming the streets waving around a steel bar threatening to hit people, which I have witnessed (in LA).

Being drunk in public is a safety hazard to others and should be at least a misdemeanor, IMO, unless you are on your way home or to medical help.
Because you want to be on record as having notified an attorney and law enforcement of the problem

You're almost right. You have your attorney notify law enforcement. That's what he's for. He'll keep all the records and act as a buffer between you an any misunderstanding with the police.
IIRC, The internal storage thing is a limitation of the system-on-chip they use. They only have access to a single pci lane, so they decided it's better for the form factor and education use-case to connect the lane to a hardwired pair of usb3 ports than a potentially more flexible pci-e port, which would allow nvme storage.

FWIW, the new compute module does have built-in access to the pci lane, which gives you the option to use nvme in addition to the onboard flash storage.
This reminds me of when I tried to write HTML code in bash.

<html> hi </html> a

This code when run as a bash script reads from a file with name "html" and writes to file "hi".
It also reads from file "html" (in the root directory) and writes to a file called "a".
The "a" in the end is just to avoid bash errors about unexpected newline.

When I played with this a few years ago I actually discovered a bug in bash.
If I had a bash alias with the same name as one of the filenames, bash would do alias expansion on the filename.
This bug was triggered by executing a line with two redirection operators before any command.

So if you follow these steps:

$ alias a='abc xyz'

$ </ >a

you would get the error (in addition to a file created with name "abc"):

bash: xyz: command not found

This happened because bash expanded the second line to:

$ </ >abc xyz

and therefore treated "xyz" as a command (and "abc" and the root directory as filenames).
This bug doesn't work anymore in new versions of bash because it has been fixed.
Big polluter because it's a giant country. Per capita it's quite low, and there is no reason a big country should be punished why a smaller country that does significantly worse shouldn't. According to that logic if they would split into lots of smaller countries it suddenly isn't an issue anymore.
In the city, rich tech workers (predominant population in Marina and Fidi areas) voted for it and pretty much every other population voted against.
A small inheritance/dowry is still an inheritance/dowry. Also the transaction of a woman providing a man with children, in exchange for economic and physical security, is as old as civilization.
He was also a vampire hunter too, right?
>I highly doubt a commercial company can argue for authority and sovereignty of a whole planet.

It doesn't seem like SpaceX is claiming Mars, just establishing that Mars isn't governed by an Earth country, which was already established by the Outer Space Treaty.
Maybe things have progressed in the intervening years, but I found dune/jbuilder to be complicated and poorly documented. I've forgotten many of the issues I had with it, but IIRC there were a couple of different configuration formats (S-expressions and something else?) and the examples online never worked out of the box.

As for foundational libraries, I agree that there were too many choices, but IMO fragmentation in the standard library is a bad thing (you need to know how to interop between them as you integrate third party libraries that use different standard libraries). Never mind the confusion that creates for newbies.

Moreover, for newbies, getting editor integration working well, understanding the unfamiliar (to put it nicely) syntax, and a myriad of other challenges without good documentation are other significant obstacles.

These are pretty significant downsides, and as much as I like the upside of a nice type system, I don't need it to build a product, but I need good tooling and a good ecosystem and a healthy supply of developers. I can ship a product with Go or Python (languages with impoverished type systems)--there might be more bugs but finding and fixing bugs is manageable--but OCaml presents significant challenges.
>How is it necessarily a health issue? Not all drug users are addicts.

1. If you are a drug user, not even necessarily an addict (in which your need to consume the drug gets in the way of other life functions), then society is already accepting. Cocaine use, for example, is far less stigmatized in the US and UK.

2. If you step back from your biases and view addiction as a "sickness", then throwing addicts in prison makes as much sense as throwing someone in prison for a broken leg. Sure sometimes it might work, but it's clearly not the most optimal solution. Other countries that have taken this approach have far fewer recidivism rates - which is the metric that should be judged.

Finally to answer your point "summary offense with a punishment of education on rehab options create more crime" is not at all what happens in the US today. Drug use & possession carries prision term, in which cutting cold turkey (or, likely more commonly sneaking drugs into prison) is the only option. After which, you are likely to lose your job and turn to more crime to make a living once released from prison. A more realistic counter to your point however is that the current American criminal justice system has little flexibility for nuance, and without major police reform, leaving this issue to police simply does not produce the intended results.
Do any US taxpayers earn $1 billion annually?

Even if you use a more realistic number and want to focus on the top 0.0000003%, that's very different than taxing people who earn income as a linear function of their hours worked.
It’s a rhetorical question. There’s no good reason not to do it.

The main reason is cost and hardware complexity, which would be negligible if the camera asic simply had an “I am on”
pin to drive an LED. Laptop manufacturers clearly don’t care about this issue enough to insist that camera and audio hardware manufacturers include such a pin on future models.
For most people in most societies it always was. It just used to be surplus value extraction from the wife for the husband and clan, and later the capitalist employing the husband. With the increase in bargaining power of women in society extraction of surplus value bacame more two-way and the capitalist class was able to extract surplus value directly from the women instead of roundabout through the men. Hence both partners need to work to have the same living standard as before with just one partner working.
Sunsama is $20/user/month if paid monthly, $16 if paid yearly. Thanks for giving it a shot so early on!
The cable guy had problems debugging the box until he realized my tape blocking the status LED. When I explained (a bit uncomfortably) that I usually cover them on appliances, he said "we see that a lot."
crazy idea maybe people that are more online are slightly more antisocial and are louder with their opinions/have less of a filter
you're right! but i think under normal circumstances it's fair to assume that the function actually uses all of its arguments. and i mean "uses" in a general handwavy sense, e.g. that it doesn't do `any f xs = length (fmap f xs)`, where `f` is technically used, but the results of applying `f` are instantly dropped.
Counterpoint: I find the go standard libraries (which are quite extensive) incredibly readable.
It is unlikely, given that B cells are already differentiated. This means that they are unable to change into another cell type.
the robot as seen in the video makes zero sense, a railing camera on the ceiling or top of the opposite shelf would do the same in a fraction of the time because it doesn't have to be slow to avoid injuring people and will have greater accuracy due the fixed nature of the shelfs spatial relationships, moreover it doesn't have to come with complex navigation software and hardware.

research is fine and all, but this is quite far from something that could have resulted in a production run.
> There is no clear scientific evidence that increased outdoor lighting deters crimes. It may make us feel safer, but has not been shown to make us safer.

https://www.darksky.org/light-pollution/lighting-crime-and-s...
We just found a source for one of the most mysterious phenomena in astronomy
> HN is now the same as every other online community: trash.

A trash community where you're posting over 10 times a day...

Seriously, if you hate this community so much, why not find somewhere else where you don't get so angry?
This seems like it's in the vein of Superhuman -- it's just 10x better, but you pay for the privilege.

I found this review of how it can slot into someone's workflow -- https://amontalenti.com/2019/11/04/work-is-a-queue-of-queues .

Seems like you're making at least one person very happy!
If developers are afraid, they will be tempted to program a solution for censorship-resistant hosting of open source software that additionally allows to contribute anonymously (not just pseudonymously).
I was referring to clarity about what one's argument is on HN, not information on a job search.
Did you even read what I wrote?

I want to criminalize alcohol abuse, not alcohol.
A hybrid drone like HYBRiX has power redundancy. If the engine stops for some reason, it still has some minutes of endurance in electric-only mode, for an emergency landing. With an unmanned helicopter, if the engine fails, the crash is mostly warranted, even with the autorotation function.

Besides, the mechanics are simpler and therefore more reliable. And the propellers are smaller than a helicopter rotor, which is safer. Multirotors are also much simpler to operate than a helicopter. Most industrial customers do not want to operate unmanned helicopters because of their complexity.
If you really want to go barebones, just mmap /dev/fb0 and do a memset 0 on the region of screen that you want black. Key/pointer events are a matter of reading files from /dev/input.
True! But more like finding a new efficient frontier for talent.
https://www.mbaskool.com/business-concepts/operations-logist...
I am now surprised one of the tech giants hasn’t tried this with SAT prep.
From August.
Just better documentation, tutorials and samples would improve the situation 100x! The current ones are hard even for veteran native programmers.

Next thing I'd love to see would be a simplified API to allow smaller developers to also use it. As it is, only giant companies can afford handling accessibility.

A personal wish would be to have an immediate mode imperative API for accessibility that abstracts the Automation Tree. Similar to how Dear ImGui does. Something like: BeginFrame, TextInput, Checkbox, EndFrame, etc... plus some commands to "ask" if the Automation API wants to do something, like moving to the next control. Maybe a Dear ImAccessibility?

This would work perfectly for Video Games and would allow accessibility to added even to games that didn't predict it. Games are pretty simple, and don't require too much variety. I worked in an Adventure Game in the past and it would be 100% playable using A11y with something like that. I would love to make a 100% accessible game in the future.

This of course could be a simple multi-platform wrapper instead of something from your team.
Check the Flightradar24 app (https://www.flightradar24.com), I use it all the time to determine the helicopter or airplane nearby.
I don't understand the question. I wouldn't say having a GC is the most important facet--I'd rather have good tooling and ecosystem. Of the mainstream languages without GCs, Rust is the only one with good tooling and ecosystem (or arguable C/C++ have "good ecosystem" but the tooling makes it prohibitively difficult to integrate well). Further, the other GC-less languages have a lot of other issues, such as poor error messages and bad ergonomics. Basically success correlates with having a GC, but this is a classic case of correlation != causation.
Yeah, that's a rather large type definition We used to have some issues in the compiler in processing records that are 250 or more labels large, and can process ones with 1000 labels or more. But it's still a pain point, especially if it's generated, since those can get large pretty easily.

The issue you're describing sounds more like a compiler/core tooling issue than a Rider issue though. Would you mind filing an issue here? https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp

We collaborate with the Rider folks quite a lot and so they'll see this if it is indeed a Rider issue.
First read the abstract, if it doesn't confirm your preconceptions, try conclusions. If that doesn't confirm your preconceptions try results. If that too failed, then find a nitpick in methods. If even that fails, then move from the denial to anger stage of grief. If you are unable to eventually make it through all 5 stages, then refer to the quip about science advancing one funeral at a time.
Your comment here actually did make me happy, so thanks for that!
I added public intox to the list just to show how many ways we already have of going after intoxicated people that are behaving badly. I think it's actually another example of an unjust law. the simple act of being drunk in public doesn't hurt anyone either.

> some dude getting drunk and roaming the streets waving around a steel bar threatening to hit people

this is already clear cut assault. why do we need yet another charge to pile on?
ScaleGrid Launches Google Cloud Platform Support for Managed Database Hosting
Of course Microsoft (the company behind Github) will not give up respecting DMCA and copyright infringement.

The question rather is: how much will developers continue to respect Microsoft?
I was a victim of school bullying and it haunts me in my adulthood. I cannot shake of the feeling of helplessness and seething anger. I have become a person who lashes out at my workplace and home when things become unbearable.

Is there a way to deal with this?
Nates model calls the individual electors in maine and nebraska.

As we saw in 2016, trying to predict vote share is actually a bad idea for a presidential model, and predicting states is more useful.