skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought these were all extinct, since before the dinosaurs. How did I miss this?
>Typical grad stipends outside of top-5 schools are closer to $20K.

I am doing a PhD in Germany and get 54k €

The wage is regulated, everyone who has worked full-time at the university for a few years will earn the same. Although most grad students will earn much less, because most only have a part time position, and finish their thesis sooner.

In the first year without a full-time position, I was getting 20k €

>Yeah but then you subtract child care and someone might as well stay home because it's literally costing them money to work.

In Germany, child care costs between nothing and 500€/month depending on the city (e.g. in Hamburg it is free for 30h/week)
I don't have a horse in this race, but I've become curious. Can you identify the cases and jurisdictions that provide this strong precedent? I.e. who has successfully cancelled a permanent irrevocable license, even having provided it gratuitously? If true, your claim would seem to make some of the principles open source licenses are based on untenable. I would think I would already be aware of that.
completely false?

I can see how it is marginally false, say with a blue-themed dark mode.

Or maybe marginally false, with a cheap LED screen with a terrible contrast ratio.

Or completely not-false, with a non-blue-themed OLED dark mode.

Or mostly non-false possibly with local dimming.

but calling it completely false is completely psuedodoxical.

:)
This is not something I'm familiar with. What's the beloved lost update and what transactions are you using that suffer from it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacia_Duster

This thing is definitely not internet connected. The basic trim does not even feature a radio at all, only standard space to fit a 1-DIN radio yourself. It has manual (roll down) rear windows.

I don't know about the US, but I would be surprised if you can't buy an F150 that has no internet connection?
The "not saving" part is because if your house appreciates in taxable value - no matter, house tax or whole person worth tax - you have to pay more, and if all you have is the house itself (plus something which generated enough value to pay tax when house was cheaper) then your expense grows without your income. Even if you would comparatively pay less tax than your neighbor.
I don't think that we need to apply a value to neurogenesis and I do not think the authors do either except that it seems to be correlated with other quote good behaviors like exercise.

Presumably neurogenesis is occurring all the time and is restricted to a small set of regions in the brain and the new neurons form in just those very strict set of regions. Those neurons are not moving to the neocortex, just a few millimeters within the dentate gyrus. That is to say even robust neurogenesis is not likely to change your mind, cognitive experience, personality or intelligence in any measurable way.
Some larger companies are concerned that they will be 'caught' by the Open Source licences and either be forced to release their proprietary code or face a legal challenge. As a result, some companies have a blanket rule that any code has to either be written in house, or come with a clear purchased licence granting them the right to use it.

I can't recall who it was now, but I remember reading about an open source project that makes considerable money from selling these licences, even though they weren't necessary (the licence was MIT). The licence even had an explanation around it stating (paraphrasing) "Hey, this isn't required, but if it makes you feel better, you can pay for it".
Maybe kill your own culture. You can’t go about killing other people’s culture.
Absolutely love this movie + the soundtrack. Takes me back to being a teenager.
I’m curious, why should you not use 2? I use Privacy Badger and ublock and haven’t had any problems that I know of.
> There seems to be some unwritten rule that you're only allowed to say good things about people when they die.

It seems to always happen in forums, as here, where some people complain that it's somehow 'too soon' to mention something negative, but it doesn't happen in obituaries, which commonly don't just stick to superficial 'good' aspects of someone's life or career.

In the case of Connery, for example, all of the following, and more, refer to his statements on slapping/abuse:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/31/sir-sean-conner...

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/sean-connery-dead-james-b...

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/featu...

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2020-10-31/sean-con...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/sean-connery-...
I’d pay double for anything but one of the major telcos. Comcast will (hopefully permanently) be in my past in 2021. Can’t wait.
But your fridge is not the only thing you own. Presumably you would do this for all your appliances.

Keep in mind, that $20 a month for 40 years at 4% interest is $23000. If you add in more appliances this scheme can add up to be surprisingly expensive.
Couldn't stand his accent :)
In the long term this will cause EU auto makers to get their self driving tech from US companies (either through licensing or partnerships). VW has already partnered with Ford. Most of the other european auto makers are getting their tech from Aptiv. When it comes to self driving, none of the EU car manufacturers can compete with Waymo, GM (Cruise), or Tesla. Even when they manage to build really cool stuff, it gets shut down by regulators.[1]

1. https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/audi-bmw-others-frust...
1. It’s not the stopping that’s a problem, it’s the starting. You have to track up to three other vehicles to ensure they have the same perception and are following the same rules as you are. Either of my alternatives significantly reduces this problem.

2. The choice of priority road, once made, makes it not arbitrary. The point is to reduce the complexity of the intersection, by giving one road priority. For the purposes of my argument, it doesn’t matter which one.

3. Relying on the assumption that everyone knows how to act in a situation that requires evaluation of up to three other people’s perception and intention is dangerous and unnecessary.
800% of 10 jobs is 80 jobs.
Also ad hoc in-production debugging/observability is kinda easy. ssh to your server, add a log statement to code. Done.

I can't do that with a node app by default without restarting it, killing all connections, etc.
In retrospect it's kinda sad/funny that our "mortal enemy" at the time were using a clone of our landline phones.

This was the same era when Sweden spent an insane amount of the national economy (like 5%) to develop and build a very large number of Draken and Viggen aircraft in order to defend Sweden in case the Soviets decided to invade.

Do you recognize this ring sound?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If7x1qj-cYE
Heavily? It's actually heavily inspired by ML (SML/OCaml), not Haskell. Most of its functional programming attributes originated in SML, and has avoided most of the things that make Haskell unique. Really it is just type classes that came from Haskell.
A "number of companies" have asked to have the instruction set degraded because they have code that fails to use it?

Ignorance, or corruption?
1) Yes, 'Russian Empire' is different than 'Russia' is different than 'USSR' - but in 1910 it was 'The Russian Empire' so I used that as a basis of comparison.

2) It doesn't matter that much if 'Russia version X' share of world economy was 'growing' for some range of a few decades if it's literally 1/10th the per capita economic power of those other nations. It's still a 'way behind'.

In fact, the 'further behind' the quicker growth should be. Most of the 'very poor' nations of the world today are growing very quickly.

'Russia Version X' has always been quite far behind, it's been that way for centuries, since the dawn of what we might even call 'Russia'.
In the sense that it's detection of an object that's hard to detect, of which few are known, and that exists under unusual conditions, it's cool indeed.

But from the point of view of people who find planets interesting primarily for their potential to harbor life, I would suspect that rogue planets are particularly inhospitable and thus not all that interesting.
Keep Daylight Saving Time, ditch Standard Time.
I love windows xp. always have and still find it eaiser and more intuitive than windows 10. I encourage everyone to donate and support reactOS. It's our only hope for a sane open source OS.
Ok, but Winston Churchill committed a genocide by starvation of 3 million Indians: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/winst...
You're correct that the motive is important in assessing the act, but so is the willingness to correct the issue when notified of it, and the manner in which one responds. "Immaturity" rapidly loses any cachet of innocence when it persists in the face of experience.
Show HN: IRC like chat platform with 4chan like reply system
Hello HN,

I want to share something that I worked on for quite a while as my side project - www.heahy.com an IRC like chat where you can share various media and even record yourself (using web MediaRecorder api).
Here is a thread with short explanation on how it works: https://www.heahy.com/channel/homepage/thread/3900adb9e441a09abc757461

I am looking for any feedback and if you have any ideas, advice or questions I am eager to hear it here or on heahy!
No need to pay if you know somebody. May be a bottle of good vodka/cognac to smooth introduction to the friend of the friend :). I grew up on a Navy base, and back in 90ies visiting my hometown we'd drink and enjoy sauna on a big active service Navy ship with my childhood friends who served there at the time (as officers of course). Of course if you're an "American spy" nobody would let you even come into the town, and an unknown person trying to pay money out of the cold to for example get some photos/etc. is a sure way to get branded as one :)
Johnson locks down England as UK covid-19 cases pass 1 million
1) There's definitely not 179 countries recognizing US copyright.

2) The Berne convention is a farce, it doesn't define what's supposed to be enforced or how. It's up to each European country to do their own thing.

You really can't say that copyright is anything settled or mutually recognized across the world. It's quite a mess and it's really complicated.
Why does Brexit wipe out your customers?
>>"And the people eating the 1913 harvest didn't start a revolution. The empire fell apart after years of war [..]"

I don't think it's so simple. We have to account for the revolution in 1905. The Wikipedia article is a good one (1) and I think it shows the zeitgeist. In my view is the pressure of the system in the peasants and in the proletariat what creates the conditions for 1917, even if the wars were the trigger.

(1) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905_Russian_Revolution
Many other FSD companies are doing testing with professional safety drivers, sometimes on closed courses or in specific cities with well-understood road systems. Presumably Teslas has done the same thing, and they have data from that? If they don't have such data, that means they're trying to develop this data using amateur Tesla owners on public streets all over the country, which seems quite a bit less safe.
As a young pup back in the 80s I worked at a research lab that was obsessed with the Typhoon submarine. My first assignment was to test torpedos that could hit the same spot on a submarine. Why? Because the double-hulls of the Typhoon were made of titanium. A Mark 46 could hit it and I doubt the crew would even notice (exaggeration, of course, but you get my point).

My second assignment was to write programs that processed data from a towed sonar array. We were looking for ways to find Typhoon submarines hiding in underwater canyons.

It is funny to me now to see a Typhoon mothballed with tourists crawling all over it. We were honestly scared of this thing.
The toilet is a very critical device in a sub. It is said that a german sub /sank/ because of that.
If a project is licensed under the AGPL, does that mean contributions to it are also licensed under the AGPL?

Hypothetically if all the contributions were public domain code included in an AGPL project, then wouldn't the maintainer be within their rights to include those contributions in a closed-source version of the project?
I would be a lot more okay with them removing FSD from cars being sold if the FSD transferred to the next Tesla you bought, like a license to have the feature.

That isn't the case, though. I paid for FSD on my model 3. If I trade it in for a Model Y, I don't get to transfer my purchase, but you know that they're going to charge someone else to enable FSD on that vehicle. It's double-dipping.
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.pcntl-exec.php
Well, I own a Tesla Model X when I'm with my family I don't engage self driving car mode, nobody force bus to do it. And when I do it is normal situations like 101 Highway
The Browser – WorldWideWeb NeXT Application
This got me thinking. Is it ultimately better for people to be battling it out online, on social media, rather than actually fighting in the streets? Everyone will get to have their fair share of outrage and stress release(after amassing it online in the first place), but no one get's hurt. On the other hand, like you suggest, none of their struggles will produce anything real. Which got me thinking, was it better back then, when people actually had to fight it out in real life? Then there would be some kind of result, and people would be able to make changes to the society that they see fit. It was often bloody though, and one side losing meant actual death(s). But from that, there was progress - good and bad. The way things are now, reminds me of all the bureaucracies in the world that prevent things from getting done - good and bad. Maybe people are drawn to fighting it out online, because they subconsciously know there's nothing they can do in real life anymore. They are well aware of how little influence they actually have on the real world and the only outlet for fighting for their ideals is online, which mostly result in nothing but mental stress and pain. Another thing, I have this idea that after two sides fight in real life, sometimes they can gain an understanding or appreciation of each other. They see each other face to face, as real people, and both understand that they are fighting for what they believe in. Whereas online, there's none of that. You could be fighting against a bot, or someone across the seas who was paid to just start shit. And online, if you lose, you just move on to a new thread or a different forum. You never have to live with the consequences of losing.
Methodology for building SaaS apps that scale
Many of our governments are liberal democracies. It sounds less positive when you rephrase it like that; ie: "Bitcoin is a threat to liberal democracy"

I don't want some drug lord to pump/dump/coerce/tax-evade their way into being the richest person on my continent, and then hire an army to take my nation over. That is easier with crypto currency than it is with fiat.

The tech community dropped the ball in the '90s by being panglossian about the potential problems with the web. It would be nice if, this time, we could get ahead of the ball with crypto currencies.
> A lot of people are freaking out because the head is up

This is very very cool. Not only is the internal shell of the spirula [0] a wonderful link between the nautilus shell [1] and the cuttlefish's cuttlebone [2] but the orientation at depth is backwards from what is observed at the surface in aquariums.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirula#Shell

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus#Shell

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuttlebone
It seems outrageously wrong to me to summarize that Lancet article by saying "We have lots of RCTs on mask wearing (mostly in healthcare professionals) and they struggle to find a benefit." or "I've read the actual studies. They don't show benefits".

The Lancet article looks at dozens of studies of the relationship between mask-wearing and infection with coronaviruses. (Some SARS, some MERS, some COVID-19.) Those studies fall, without exception, into the three following categories.

1. A few saw no cases of infection with or without masks, and therefore tell us nothing about whether masks help and how much.

2. One saw no cases of infection with masks and just two without masks (in a fairly small sample). It somehow manages to report a relative risk of 1.03 for wearing masks (!), which I can only assume is the result of some statistical adjustment that doesn't quite make sense in this case. (The real conclusion from this one is: "This study doesn't provide enough data to draw any conclusions.")

3. In every single one of the others, wearing a mask was associated with lower probability of infection. Some of the studies weren't powerful enough for the difference to be (on its own) statistically significant, but all of them pointed in the same direction and the underpowered ones had relative risk point-estimates similar to those of the not-underpowered ones.

Sure, they report this as "low certainty" because, e.g., none of these studies was a proper randomized controlled trial. Sure, we would do well to get more data. But I see no possible way to characterize what it says in the ways you have.

They don't "struggle to find a benefit". They readily find a very considerable benefit. They don't "not show benefits". They absolutely do show benefits. There are issues: we don't have e.g. nice big RCTs where someone has somehow contrived to have two otherwise identical large populations of the general public make different mask-wearing choices, and that means that there is inevitably some uncertainty in applying the results to the question of what benefit there is from getting the public to wear masks. But it 's pure grade-A bullshit to say that the studies "don't show benefits".
You mean CTRL+ESH
Jaywalking is against the law whether there are cars in the road or not.
Buy having an account where that's one of the options. This may not be the default type of account advertised by your bank to the average person.
It literally is science in any possible definition you can come up for the word. Your anecdotes don't really matter.
Very much so. If we could quantitatively characterize every little effect, we might be able to model complex systems accurately, but it isn't always possible (exceptions exist, like meteorological modeling). For the longest time in biology, the modeling approach has tended to be more qualitative than quantitative, though this is changing.

Yes, identifying root-causes from the outcomes is a model inversion problem (here's the data, find the generating model), and model inversion problems tend to be ill-conditioned. In complex systems, there's so many possible combinations of causes that could have led to a single outcome that characterizing the entire set is difficult.
If I'm not mistaken, that was research in mice. Mice are nocturnal and do not likely have the same entrainment patterns with respect to blue (sky) light.

There are still valuable things that can be learned from that kind of research, but the popular coverage really missed the mark by directly extrapolating from research in mice to human circadian rhythms.
So should people feel inferior about their culture and heritage?
Original authors have natural non revocable ownership of their intellectual work. Now IANAL, but the original author can always - assuming they didn’t sign away all exploitation rights (because that’s all you can give away) - take their ball and walk away.

Anyone is free to continue with the last GPL drop, but from that point on they’re on their own
Seriously?

Because it provides order-of magnitude speed improvements for numerous algorithms. Because it is the basis for integer log-base-2.

If you don't know what popcount is good for, or badly miss it where it is lacking, your education has suffered. That is remediable.
But Tesla is bound by the Magnuson Moss Act. They can't reduce the functionality of a product after the fact.

The charger should be designed to withstand abuse and vandalism. It certainly should be handle a short in a charging system.
Elevators. Automatic doors. Fly-by-wire. Airplane autopilot.

Heck, modern cars are full of things that control aspects of driving for you: Cruise control. Automatic emergency braking. Brake assist. Antilock brakes. Traction control. Many of these features are so beneficial to safety that they are mandatory for new cars.
I know plenty of Europeans that are entrepreneurs who do well for themselves. The American attitude of the European system being incapable of producing anything meaningful because it doesn’t capitulate completely to corporate interests is overplayed. Just look at Arm and the U.K. for example.
people are leaving so number of untaken seats is increasing
You seem to be asking "why not do something harder instead of something easier." If that's not what you mean, try rephrasing? If it is what you mean, the answer should be obvious.
Nuclear submarines like this have prevented the world from going to war because some crazy idiot could think he had first strike advantage. Not a bad waste of engineering, especially if not used. In terms of warfare, this is the optimal result.
Agreed. If anything, the technologically interesting parts compare better to the titanium submarine example, as the RD-170 engine that powered the Energia rocket that lifted the Buran was at least in some ways more sophisticated than anything Americans had at the time, and in particular, used an oxygen-rich staged combustion fuel cycle that American engineers had considered but dismissed as being impossible. Aerojet engineers didn't actually believe the Russians had even built such an engine until they were able to examine one in person after the end of the Cold War.
You probably can buy one with no network connection, that the user can use, but that doesn't mean that it isn't connected for other purposes.
Vertical farming: hope or hype?
Fair enough. What I mean is: a balanced (differential) shielded cable is a reasonable way to transmit an analog audio signal — common mode noise can be rejected pretty well, as can currents that might be induced in the shield due to a ground loop.

With RCA, you have none of these benefits. Heck, with RCA stereo, unless one end is isolated or you cut one of the shields, you cannot avoid a ground loop — the stereo connection by itself contains a ground loop.
you can go buy a brand new Honda Civic today that has no cellular modem.
Best of luck finding them! I think they're long out of print but maybe there are copies on eBay or electronic versions.
> My only frustration is that they're pretending that it isn't AGPL code and refusing to respect the contributors whose code they're using.

But what I don't get is: how do you even know this with such confidence? How do you know they don't have some legal agreement with those people? How do you even know they didn't contact those contributors? How do you know the other contributors' contributions weren't trivial enough (for all I know they could've even just been formatting/indentation) and not warranting any action? How do you know the contributors aren't fine with it?

And how does everyone somehow know other contributors want them to seek some sort of justice on their behalf?
My understanding is that such relicensing rapidly becomes impossible once there are more than a very few significant contributors. Most proponents of Open Source licenses would consider this a feature, not a bug. In any event, this is one of the reasons that maintainers of major projects (including GNU, IIRC) frequently require copyright assignment as a requirement for copyrightable contributions.