skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> IN APRIL 2017, a man started hiking in a state park just north of New York City. He wanted to get away, maybe from something and maybe from everything.

> Everyone who goes into the woods is trying to get away from something.

> Everyone, at some point, has wanted to put their phone in a garbage can and head off with a fake name and a wad of cash.

Since you are here I want to mention how off-putting this rhetoric is to me, a person who likes being outdoors, who doesn't have problems around spend all day refreshing the NYT or twitter or instagram, a person who genuinely likes solitude. It's almost as if urbanity is now synonymous with a neurotic steady state of over-exposure and any act of finding a moment of peace in the outdoors is itself a futile act of desperation -- an attempt to flee modernity. It just doesn't ring true to me.
not even that is really true: the "s" at the end of a French word, do you pronounce it or not ? depends, and there's no real consistency. (Sorry to be picking on French, but I don't know Spanish, nor Italian)
I hate the direction Google is taking Android. They're on an appliance-ification quest trying to hide any exposed linux-ness of the OS, including trying to remove developer access to all file handles. They always claim it's in the name of security but my suspicion is that it's an effort to transition from Linux to Fuchsia.
> what do people use this for?

Emacs, org-mode, git and ssh. That's pretty much it, but allows me to have access to my org-mode files anywhere, just like on desktop.

But I'm also one of those weirdos who runs his own email server and sshes in to read mail in mutt.
The issue is, housing is not just houses. Maybe it was 100 years ago when it made no difference whether you live near a plain or a river (just easier access to water?). The problem is, housing become linked to economic opportunity in a particular region. For example, people who might have lived in Long Island might not have a much different life/income than those who lived in ElPaso. It was just different weather.

But the mighty Manhattan changed this. The people who were born to Long Island's households now have access to this city. This is an economic opportunity that is not available to anybody else's in the entire world. Would it be fair to incorporate this economic opportunity in the value of this home? I think so. The market thinks so.

This is a result of the winner take all economies will live in. Whether you are a person, a city or a country. The same logic still applies.
So what are you doing?
GitHub warns ban if you fork DMCA'd YouTube download tool, hint how to beat RIAA
While this is strictly true, 1. it's reduced by Android compat via anbox, 2. some version of that is always true; Android users don't get iOS-exclusive apps, iPhone users don't get Android exclusives, and neither of them can get some desktop apps (although Android can do VNC with termux or a chroot to get very very close, and iOS does have iSH, bringing us back to "if the compatibility layer is good enough..."). The question is whether the apps that each users wants are sufficiently available on the platform of their choice. And true, sometimes the answer is no; just as some people are stuck on NT because WINE doesn't work and they need a Windows app, so some people will be stuck on Android/iOS, but by the same token some of us are doing just fine on FOSS platforms.
Sounds like a great time for a backend rewrite!
Only, we're not paying $60 for 15 channels we want now. We're paying $60 for 1-2 shows each from 200 channels (most of which we don't want). Channels had themes, and what people meant by a la carte was being able to get the themes they wanted.

Personally, I'd prefer to see every service have access to (pretty much) all content and then compete on quality/price/etc... kind of like how music tends to work nowadays.
I find things like termux most useful with network connectivity, and a device you can't update should never be connected to a network.
I think they even called it Karma--back in the late 90's. I bet that's where the term originated.
This is what every build should be. If I can't build it locally and in CI using the same process, I consider it broken. I tend to use Makefile, but what your describing is what I consider best practice.
I think the price alone makes it revolutionary. Laptops aren't $100 brand new and if it were what would that screen look like? Most people who would benefit from this price probably have a TV they can connect it to.
thread-per core with userland coroutine scheduling is very much an erlang thing since... the late 1980s (though erlang is much, much more powerful than just that).
Been using name.com for many years without complaint.
Cloudflare is also good if you are already using their DNS and they support the TLD you want.
I was referring specifically to lambda-style "functions as a managed service", which might be a better term than serverless. Managed instance would be serverless by the economic definition.
Fox Cub Games | Remote | Short Term Contract or Permanent | Part-Time or Full-Time

Wanted: Emscripten / WebAssembly WASM / Webpack Expert (Mobile & Desktop)

We have a Cocos Creator game that exports to HTML5 (Facebook Instant Games).

We'd like to investigate compiling it to WebAssembly.

And/or optimizing the compiled javascript via Webpack, code stripping or splitting up files for smaller initial loads.

We a remote only team, working in the PST timezone. You don't need to work the same PST hours, but we would expect enough overlap so that you can get your questions answered and we can properly collaborate.

If interested, please email ian@foxcubgames.com
If your unit tests are breaking all the time, try testing less at the unit level and more at the integration level. There are a lot of dogmatists out there who preach that unit tests should have "X % coverage" no matter what, but that's a ridiculous claim. Different projects will require different mixes of testing strategy, and part of the engineering process is arriving at your verification and validation methods, codifying them, ensuring that they provide valid output, and making sure you're using your time efficiently. If most of your time is spent fixing tests, re-evaluate whether those tests are worth doing that way. Your time might be better spent testing at a higher level or even manually.
I also noticed this with their managed databases product and was the main reason why I went with AWS RDS - they don't have availability zones so if they have a data centre issue, all your database instances including your standby nodes could be affected.
To me this looks like the worst of both worlds. Poor UI choice, poor apps and loss of Linux hardware support. Sorry to be negative, but I just don't see where this fits.
Seems like CRV could be increased to get the target recycling rate desired by legislators pretty easily.

If each bottle was $0.50, many more people would separate and sort their recycling to take advantage of this.

Would probably have some free beneficial side effects, like less soda consumption and more use of re-usable water bottles.
> That only reduces the problem a bit though, it's not a sustainable solution.

Why not? We lived quite happily with a fraction of the plastic usage 60 years ago. It's possible to continue using plastic for critical use-cases like medicine, or engineering uses like aircraft or automobiles where there are no good substitutes, while phasing out consumer usage.

I'd happily take my refillable shampoo bottle, soy sauce bottle, and milk bottle to be filled at the store.
It's not that big of a deal. It can help you with investing back into your business, especially if you have a lot of hardware to buy to operate it, as well as easier to write off business travel, rent, etc. However those are all practical. Your individual income will still be taxed at the same rate. It really just makes your paperwork a bit easier than if you went with a sole proprietorship, there's not a huge difference in overall tax rate.
> Android security clampdowns mean termux can't see the SD card.

Not sure that's what's causing it; I can definitely scp files from my Android phone's SDCard to my servers. But I've not tried initiating the scp from the other machine to my phone.
What setup? I thought it was just `pkg i ffmpeg python && pip install --user youtube-dl`?
When people ascribe a motive to an organization nobody thinks that every single person in the organization has that motive. Rather what it means is that the organization's structure and members cause the organization to act in accordance with that motive.
Hi,

You can get access to your bank app via Aurora store, available on F-Droid. It is a front end to google play store and allows install/update of the apks. It also shows you the report on what trackers are known in each app.

Note that without google services, some app functionality that relies on it may not work, like notifications. The alarm app is bundled with AOSP so should work, weird.

Keepassdx works fine with Vanadium for me. Magickeyboard is amazing for auto type.

That being said maybe the pixel 4 builds aren't as mature. I am running on Pixel 3a and it has been smooth sailing. A phone experience I have long been waiting for.

Also the project is not as well resourced as big companies, so some bugs and rough edges are expected
. Support the project financially if you want a viable open source and secure mobile os.
I built a chatroom to talk about the election
nonetheless, the BEAM does do that, and only revokes actors from a core under certain conditions (power saving). Also it's important to note that the BEAM is not "the actor model" so it is not bound by the requirements thereof, it just "looks like an actor if you squint at it a little bit".
The early 20th century had an odd fascination with all things radioactive. I remember reading a Wall Street Journal article entitled "The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off" [1]. I can't find a WSJ reprint, but there are online copies available by searching the headline or a CNN article mentions it. [2]

Apparently Mr. Byers the maker and an avid drinker of the cola had to be buried in a lead-lined coffin. According to The New York Times [3], Mr. Byers' death triggered action from the FDA and brought an end to radioactive patent medicines.

From the CNN article:

Evans was an expert at measuring and mathematically modeling the human body's uptake and excretion of radioactivity. Based on Byers' self-reported RadiThor consumption, Evans' model had predicted that Byers' body would contain about 100,000 becquerel of radioactivity. ("Becquerel" is an international unit of radioactivity.) What he found was that Byers' skeletal remains actually had a total of 225,000 becquerel, suggesting that either Evans' model of radiation uptake was underestimating radium's affinity for bone, or alternatively, that Byers had actually understated his personal RadiThor consumption by a factor of at least two. It was not possible to determine which alternative accounted for the discrepancy.

For the sake of comparison, some water from the Fukushima disaster reads 200,000 becquerel, although different isotopes are involved and exposure limits vary by isotope, Mr. Byers was well beyond a reasonable limit by any measure. [4]

[1] http://lateralscience.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-radium-water-...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/10/health/energy-drinks-radioact...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/1932/04/02/archives/death-stirs-acti...

[4] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/water-6-700-times-more-ra...
You could try running the model in the browser with Tensorflow.js. I recently tried this for something like that and found the overall workflow much easier. TFJS tooling is pretty good.

Before I had tried using custom setups with Janus in the loop and it was slow going. AioRTC flat out never worked for me.
And there was food nearby.

On the other hand, on the show Alone a few seasons back the medical staff had to pull someone who had weeks worth of smoked fish saved up yet was risking serious organ damaging due to malnutrition. Even though he had plenty of food he was simply rationing too strictly and had lost over 20% of his bodyweight in a matter of weeks. Point being, it's possible to put oneself in danger despite having the resources to avoid the risks.
It technically should start shipping in November, but the preorder queue is so long that new orders have to wait for about 6 months.
In SF Bay Area, we have spent over 350 million dollars in just one year providing ‘outreach’ to homeless people. That’s just for one year. The money would have been well spent creating employment, building rehab, mental health facilities and groups homes/homes for the unhoused.
The police poster mentioned "was only able to hike 10 miles a day".

Makes me think it's health related, 10 mi / day is absolutely abysmal for a normal thru hiker. Most aim to do that amount by 10 in the morning...
Whistleblower site for tech workers who are worried about impact of big tech
Hi there - I'm wondering if tech workers here are feeling worried about the influence of big tech or whether you think the concern is overblown around disinformation.

I've launched this page so tech workers can share their concerns directly - I'd genuinely love any feedback (good or bad), advice on how to reach tech workers, what it would take for them to use this page.
Now if only the webpage could fly at 10 qps for 1 hour ...
Reminds me of the old joke...

Reagan was talking to Gorbachev, and told him "in the US, anyone can march into my office and yell 'I don't like the way you're running your country!'"

Gorbachev replied, "Same for us! In the Soviet Union, anyone can march into my office and yell 'I don't like the way Reagan is running his country!'"
Foraging in the wild for food or water can have deadly consequences. For example, McCandless ate the wrong kind of berries.[0] Or the time when three campers scooped up more than just water in their coffee pot.[1] And don't underestimate the effects of Giardia.[2] That ubiquitous parasite could easily weaken and lead to the demise of a solo-hiker.

[0]https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-chris-mccand...
[1]http://www.realclear.com/discovery/2014/06/27/tiny_newt_pois...
[2]https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/giardia/index.html
So You don't have the right to say you want to kill some Jews? Sure what a regression this is to a civilised society.
I find the same with TV/movies vs books and I don't really watch many TV shows or movies for that reason, but I find games different because they're interactive: because I have an impact on the story (at least in the story games I tend to play), so the outcome is so much more personal and impactfull than a movie can be.

I do think you're on to something in that having to visualise everything yourself when reading books does get me more invested, probably because I can better project onto the characters than if they're just given to me on a screen.

I recently played an interactive visual novel (think choose your own adventure only digital) and.. wow, it was not as I expected. By the time shit went down, I was already so invested in the characters that by the time shit hit the fan, I actually legitimately cared about what happened in a way that no movie or show ever has and only a few books and games have.

How do you feel about the highly interactive "all of your choices will impact the story" games, where few people will experience exactly the same thing you did? For example, Detroit: Become Human or Until Dawn, where any or all of the main characters can die without the story ending (quite early on in some cases too; but they can also survive), or the Life Is Strange games?
I've found it useful to occasionally ssh into my raspberry pi. But I don't think I could use it as a serious work tool unless I had a Bluetooth keyboard connected to my phone.
Not true. Whenever those companies want to somehow give those profits to a human, that is taxed (income tax, dividend tax, etc.). So requiring no corporate tax would not mean that no taxes are paid.
I see some reasons.

One is that foreign labor allows lower wages which can make american companies more competitive over foreign ones.

Second, allowing foreign workers encourages jobs to stay here in the US where at least the wages will be taxed and a large portion of those salaries will be spent here in the U.S., thus further stimulating the economy. Alternatively,if those same jobs move overseas, we see none of the tax revenue and none of it being spent here.
I'd like to note that Termux is totally amazeballs on a Cosmo Communicator: https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/cosmo-communicator

Having a proper fold-out QWERTY hardware keyboard makes for an eccentric Android experience, but Termux (or, alternatively, their dual-boot Linux solution) makes a huge difference.
constructive ai bot, reminds me of this xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/810/
Of the US population 80% lives in urban areas. While bubbles are relative to experience it is fair to say the higher percentage is the one more representative.
Ask HN: As a programmer, how close do you work with a UX team?
At our company we have no easy access to a UX team, thing that I am starting to strongly request.
Can you share your experiences, how involved is UX into development?
Curious how this compares to js_of_ocaml or Rescript that gives ocaml the JS ecosystem?
I'm sure that by new you meant obscure, but OCaml has been around for 24 years.
>Lean doesn't allow you to refer to `id` as an object, just an application of it to a known universe.

That's true, but I don't think you necessarily need a type for all universes (excluding itself), just some other way to denote that type is supposed to be universe polymorphic.

>Does that require forbidding full recursion, or can you still introduce non-computable objects?

I'm not sure what you mean exactly. The core type theory assumes that all functions are terminating. You can 'cheat in' full recursion by providing a non-computational termination proof, but the type checker would still be assuming that its actually terminating.

I think if that wasn't the case, it'd need to be restricted (unless you did something really weird like introducing infinite negative universe levels).
If we're going to be frank, the Venn-Diagram of people who build F# tooling and libraries and the people who work for Microsoft in some capacity on F# are nearly a circle. No one would ever use F# divorced from .NET, and it's kind of a red-haired stepchild there.

It's a fun language to work in, with some neat features, but C# is gobbling up every compelling advantage inexorably.
I'm not your target user so would never use this, but it definitely looks really cool and an easy way for people that aren't familiar with dev to add a CTA on the fly.
It's less that lobbyists are involved but that "why go through the effort of setting up municipal broadband when we (AT&T/Spectrum) are more than happy to work with you and come to an agreement about serving your area."

I'm not confident that municipal broadband will ever really take off in the US but I think local loop unbundling might have a chance since I'm sure companies are more than happy to unload all the expensive construction work to the local gov't.
"Could be done in parallel" is a very different space. As is painfully evident, sw inertia/ path dependency is huge and we get widespread big changes on timescale of decades.
Probably the best reason for an LLC in your case is to split up your finances and protect your personal property (house/cash/other assets) in case your business gets sued. I don't think the tax advantages are huge but the potential losses difference if sued can certainly be huge if you don't separate your assets. I'd be surprised if your accountant didn't bring that up though.
Do you have a resume you could email me dwayne (at) digitalogy dot co? Also, how much Elixir experience do you have?
I don’t think this is reasonable criticism. It’s more than fair for them to charge for egress traffic, and they’re doing it at a price point less than AWS.

Of course it would be nicer if things were free, but to claim this to be evidence of a march into irrelevance? For charging for egress traffic on a Docker registry? That’s a bit too much don’t you think? Especially considering how easy it is to set up some GitHub action and or another CI tool that constantly keeps hammering their registries without a lot of value. Docker (the company) clearly feels the pain of this a lot, and they just want to prevent this type of thing from happening.

If I were to guess the intended use case is to help you with deployments inside the DO cloud, and to actually reduce your ingress traffic when pulling from other, remote docker registries. It’s a win/win for these use cases, and to be honest, it’s not expensive.

Besides, DO’s pricing still is very much favorable compared to other cloud vendors.
> In 1950, three years after independence, Sikkim became a protectorate of the new republic. The kingdom had autonomy in domestic matters but India was responsible for defence, external affairs and communications.

That is an annexation playbook as old as time. The Romans did it, the British did it(for example the Princely states in India which were technically "independent"), and I am sure other Empires and great powers have done it was well.
Not necessarily. There's a site I use with a star based karma system. A bunch of years ago there was a glitch in the site that led to a bunch of random members getting ridiculous amounts of stars.

People still ask questions about it to this day as to why there's random members with this.
From what I can gather from public information, the loan volume is ~$300B/year and growing rapidly. If they have to hold a 3rd of that on their books, that’s a lot of capital they have come up with. And maintain a loss reserve. I guess, they are being asked to become a bank.
I agree 100%.

I've chosen a life of less work, less stuff and therefore less money. I spend a lot of my time alone on big trips around the world, and out in the wilderness. I'm immensely more happy than I was sitting at a desk watching my life go by without really being alive.

I get a lot of this attitude about how I must be "running from something" or I'm "throwing my life away".

I think it's a symptom of our modern "society" that it needs to put down anyone who chooses not to be drowning in it.

Which, of course, makes me want to distance myself from it even more.
> Do you really need to see everything?

It's not about seeing everything, it's about seeing what's good, and how that's scattered across a dozen or more services where it's buried under mostly mediocre/bad content.

Sure, sometimes there's an option to just rent/buy digitally, but often that ends up being way more expensive than just buying a physical blu-ray version.

Case in point: If I wanted to stream Battlestar Galactica (2004) in Germany then the first option for that would be Amazon Prime Video. Even tho I pay for a prime membership, buying all 4 seasons digitally in HD quality, would cost me 92€, there is no option to just rent them.

While ordering the blu-ray set for the whole show, on Amazon with delivery tomorrow, would cost me 48€, nearly half as much and I get a physical version I can use as often and wherever I want, even if the unthinkable happens and Amazon goes out of business.

Why does the clearly inferior version of a product cost that much more?
For me so far the worst thing Google did was disabling API for call recording. That makes new phones pretty much useless for me. I always record calls, so that I can go back to them if I forget something or that nobody can claim they said something when they didn't (most recently insurance salesperson told me I will have option X if I take their insurance and they once I bought it, there was no such option. Once I pulled the "I have recorded your salesman lying to me", I got a prompt refund and apologies).