skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why professional users don't complain? I unfortunately need to keep Windows machine for pro tools I use and it took me some time to remove any telemetry plus I can still see with Glasswire some apps are sending traffic. Usually I send an email to the software provider and ask what they send. Unfortunately some don't even reply and there is no OSS alternative, so there you go. I wish pirates went a step further and instead of hacking DRM also removed calls home and telemetry. Should mods should be legal if you have a full version and I would pay for such mods.
> 10€ is given to the project edition.

Do you know where this payment goes to? e.g. is it to their OpenCollective or LFX donation accounts?
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Lithium-based batteries (and associated tech) are to the 21st century what the internal combustion engine was to the 20th century and what the steam engine was to the 19th century.

There’s a ~90% chance you’re using a device powered by a lithium chemistry battery to read this right now (laptop or tablet or phone). The smartphone alone (enabled by lithium based batteries) has transformed the world. Lithium-based batteries have impacted public health & healthcare (e-cigs vs conventional, medical devices like insulin pump, etc), micromobility (e-scooters, e-bikes, electric wheelchairs, etc), countless accessories (smart watches, smart speakers, wireless earbuds), grid storage, electric cars, electric buses, electric trucks, electric ferries, electric rocket pumps (RocketLab), satellites, submarines, civil drones (like Zipline), and a whole bunch of things that have not yet been invented and perhaps require improved chemistry like lithium metal anode or lithium sulfur or eventually lithium-air (enabling long-haul electric flight, even supersonic flight).

For things like this article described, it will enable more expansion of form factors and reduce costs. Jet suits have been done before but equivalently-specked electric motors are much cheaper than the small, micro turbines used for projects like this. And micro turbines have such atrocious efficiency (about 4.4% for hobby turbine engines... meaning their fuel supply only has a useful specific energy of about 1.9MJ/kg or 525Wh/kg, compared to 0.5 MJ/kg for high-C-rate LiPo, 1MJ/kg for really good production Li-ion and 2MJ/kg for low C rate lithium metal anode cells and lithium sulfur) that after another few decades of battery chemistry improvement, electric microturbines not only will have punchier power but also longer duration.

There’s a ton of undeveloped opportunities out there that will be enabled by the efficiency, convenience, low-cost, high reliability, and oxygen-independence of lithium chemistry batteries.
Why would you need anything more than a sed oneliner in your shell rc?

utf8-debom() {local SED=gsed; $SED -i '1s/^\xEF\xBB\xBF//' $@}
Text-Speec-Recognition AI. KIT recently made a breakthrough with 1 sec. delay between speech and output and 5% error-rate.
Can somebody explain to me what the problem in the US is? I mean here I choose food, I order it, pay it and it gets delivered in less than 30 minutes (usually). It does not require not exhibit magical thinking to do so. What step does not work in the US? Do people call pizza delivery and before it comes sacrifice some small animals? :-)
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Eventually the bureaucrats become the senior leadership and then they protect themselves.

This grows like a cancer: it starts from the bottom of the pool with people with no much skills, but looking for promotions while people with skills are looking for work results. In some very large companies I worked in (or with), techies focus on work while less competent people become managers; techies regard managers initially as admins that do work techies don't want to, but then the managers take over the organization and make it rot. This is initially far from senior leadership's sight, when it becomes visible it means most of the organization is already affected and it is too late. In most cases HR is helping with this because HR is completely disconnected and not understanding techies and the power dynamics ("those geeks nobody understands") and side with the bureaucrats because HR is also a form of bureaucracy (you don't get in HR is you are a brilliant STEM graduate).
I mostly agree. However, it'll be interesting to see how well new competitors can fair in an industry like social media where the product (i.e. us) is already near monopolized on a few large platforms.

Personally, I like Parler's interface, and don't mind that it's kind of a conservative bent, but I've heard from other conservatives that the interface isn't as good as Twitters. And it's smaller audience is already keeping some big-names away from it, even people who would theoretically really like the platform, like Ben Shapiro or Scott Adams. They've both created accounts there, but have both signaled that it's just too small of a platform and is a waste of their time to post there, so they stick with Twitter.
I think social media will split along political lines just like traditional media is split along political lines.

Parler already has some big names on its platform and I think the big fish, mr. Donald Trump, will leave Twitter shortly for this platform and bring with him millions of new users.

Big monopoly social media have succesfully prevented being split up by capturing regulators, ironic if this is how the monopolies finally are broken.
What a refreshingly honest answer from such a rigorous article: “We don’t know”
Not sure why you're down voted. It's a good example. The whole "Saddam was buying yellowcake" was completely false, yet the only evidence was a gov't statement saying it was true.

If someone said "that's a lie", it would likely have been viewed as disinformation, but it would have been the truth.
This appears to provide an additional 5 minutes of boost to traditional wingsuits [1], a specialized form of skydiving.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingsuit_flying
Hi! What is the state of running regular Android apps on Plasma? I heard of Anbox, but does this actually work? I'm interested in running my bank's app on PinePhone.
How Can India Trump China in Higher Education Reforms for AI
It would be great if Plasma Mobile would look into supporting JetPack Compose which has been ported to Linux Desktop by JetBrains.

Even if I want to learn QML there is only so many things I could do in a day even if I want to. Plus JetPack Compose brings huge developer base to Plasma Mobile.

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/compose/
^ I have a hard time being down when I’m helping others. The opportunity is all around us. Thanks for posting flightless!
What about Hollywood and athletic endorsements? Would those be in-kind?
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> It doesn't allow you to run all the other services like DynamoDB, SNS, S3, etc. locally.

Sounds like you're mixing up how a test pyramid works.

AWS SAM supports running unit tests locally. Your remarks refer to integration tests. Integration tests are expected to be performed on environments that mimic either subsets of the production environment, or the whole production environment.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/serverless-ar...
Microsoft's documentation is by and large far superior. My old boss used to say that Apple wasn't a developer company and I would scoff but I think it's true when you compare them to Microsoft.
I see it as the opposite: this may be how a technical network is supposed to work, but it's not how a society is supposed to work.

The internet has created the ability for any given subculture to discover instant validation and reinforce their beliefs into a tribe, which further solidifies and extremifies those beliefs.

It's a psychological power almost equivalent to a nuclear reaction: beliefs and ideas that might have naturally died out pre-internet are instead amplified and spread, and dug deeper into peoples' minds.

This is a critical time to be in tech, but not for the growth: for the need to design solutions to that problem. Censorship is a primitive attempt at stopping this psychological nuclear reaction; people are finding ways around it. We need a bigger, better solution to the reaction, lest society destroy itself through unfettered tribalism.
Probably something to be on a lookout for future releases: it would be better for a regular user if all core applications were named by their function, e.g. Megapixels -> Camera, Kalidori -> Calendar, Angelfish -> Web Browser, etc.
> If you ever dealt with cloudformation you’d know it’s absolutely enormous PITA.

Is it? For me it's working fine.

What problems are you facing when writing CloudFormation templates and what better alternative to declare infrastructure do you suggest?

Most problems I see are people being not aware of the possible attributes of resources or doing indentation mistakes when it's a YAML template. Most of these problems can be avoided by using cfn-lint [1] to ensure the template is valid.

[1]: https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/cfn-python-lint
Came here to post the same. Does anyone know what this costs, and/or has anyone bought one and can speak to the experience?
This lecture series by Frederic Schuller is pretty amazing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbqA9Xn_iM0&list=PLPH7f_7Zlz...

Notably, it treats QM with much more rigor than is usual in introductory courses, so having a nontrivial mathematical background is not an obstacle.
Ask HN: Legal aspects of cloning a board game?
Hello there,

Are there any legal aspects that need to be heeded when cloning a board game in open source?
For example, Gnome's four-in-a-row is a clone of connect four, was changing the name enough to avoid legal issues? Same thing with tetris and others.

I'm not looking for legal advice, just wanted to know if anybody had experience in this.

Thanks!
All I'm saying is that lookup.dog was originally going to contain a Shaun of the Dead GIF and nothing else, in the same vein as butt.holdings or cheese.singles. The DNS part came later.
I tend to straddle the line between Republican and libertarian, so I consider myself more conservative than liberal. But I have to agree with you. I recently tried out Voat. Holy hell, what a dumpster fire.
That isn’t the thesis of her book. It focuses on irreversible damage to entire friend groups of children who spontaneously decide together that they want to change their gender. The school is required to support them in this without informing the parents, and as young as 13 in some states, they can get hormone therapy and undergo gender reassignment procedures without parental consent and without any visits to a therapist. Call me old fashioned, but if my 13 year old girl thinks getting permanently sterilized and getting a double mastectomy is a reasonable thing to decide to do along with her group of friends, and schools and surgeons will do it without anybody telling me, I’m going to be very upset.

Unsurprisingly, kids often regret this later, and nothing can be done. And worst of all, this _increases_ suicide rates.

Nobody is trying to “cancel trans folks”.
Your comment will forever be under rated due to how spot on it is. It's a fundamental issue in tech that people don't appreciate. While yes, some problems are universal and general tech can solve them without industry experience, I'm pretty sure most people agree that those problems are either solved or there's an army of devs already on it. These days it's not really enough to just be a dev or data sci. You need to know a field and apply your tech knowledge in better ways than the uninitiated would never imagine.
Not really, just a thought experiment.

Truth is I can still see both sides of the political argument, possibly even more so the libratarian point of view, which is a fairly safe place to be ATM.

I believe for bad or worse though that many people have gotten caught up in the frenzy a bit too much during this election cycle and have made morality comprimising decisions on both sides. Maybe it's the Rona driving it, after all so many people have died from it, and the US went to war over 911. Rona is literally exponentially worse as far as the death toll goes, so IDK what is to come but emotions are raw for sure.

I have tried to stay out of the discussions, (taken Dang's advice and waited for things to cool down) then a hit job story about another platform comes out like this one and tries to politicize Parler. So unfortunately I got sucked into the politics too and foolishly weighed in.
An electric ducted fan (EDF) is highly inefficient, had they put similar wattage through a gearbox to say a folding prop, efficiency may have doubled (albeit an admittedly more onerous form factor). This is just the beginning of electric assist single passenger flight!

Reference: plenty of experience pushing 8KW+ through 2KG RC gliders (F5B) and far slower EDF models.
I noticed the same a few years back. Now I only interact with Reddit through Apollo (iOS app) which allows me to add heavy filters, removing most subreddits and removing posts containing certain keywords. Anytime I see any FUD content on a subreddit I block it, which includes all political subreddits and almost all big subreddits. In addition I have a time limit set on my phone to avoid looking at it too frequently, and because of all the filters almost all FUD content is blocked and what remains is mostly hobbyist stuff and cute animal pictures. I have blocked it on my laptop using the hosts file to avoid even opening it there.

It's a sad state but I feel that heavy filters are essentially required for healthy social media/internet consumption nowadays. The amount of FUD is out of control, and directly responsible for a ton of social unrest and depression in many people.
Still not up to King of the Rocket Men standard. I think take off has to be included in these 'first flights'.
I can’t get behind this vision of the government as something that’s fundamentally above the rest of us. I’d argue that every company should be considered an equal partner in a conversation like this, to the greatest extent feasible. (And I’d argue the EU official here seems to agree - he mentions in the article that he wants to “hear and listen to everybody”.)
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> If you knew Ruby and not the Python, the whole scenario would have been flipped.

That's why popularity matters. The odds that any random kid already has experience with Python are far greater than him knowing Ruby.
Separate question but if a Google account is banned can the username be reallocated?
Our ceiling lamps and mini-split air conditioners are all IR remote controlled, so I just got a couple of IR blasters and set them up with Homebridge, so I can control the aircon/lights/TV with my iPhone or Apple Watch. If the smart stuff breaks down, I can just throw away the IR blasters and everything returns to how it was before. The only negative is since IR is one-way, you can't see the current status of things after you've manipulated it with a manual control.
I don't understand.. drivers licenses dob and all of this info is already public record in many states. Why is this so alarmist? Most states have searchable court records, so if you ever so much as had a speeding ticket it will usually have DL, license plate #, name, address, violation details, and a ton of other info as part of public record.
Why does it take a lot of data? Afaik you can select lower quality in youtube-dl but you don't even need video do you?
Well, there are 4-5 accounts named "Devin Nunes Cow" or some variation thereof. There's no way to tell which one is the "real" Devin Cow. One that I clicked on had the following content:

I have a confession... my boss, @devinnunes is a closet computer geek. He just bought his first domain!

www.loser.com

Not really the most stellar example of insightful and meaningful content, but it's not been censored, at least not yet in the past three days. It doesn't violate the terms of service, though it's hardly content that most Parler users would be interested in. Maybe on Twitter they find it worthwhile.
Is there any integration with Plasma desktop, e.g. Calendar or Notes sync, or notifications display on desktop when phone is connected to PC?
I think you've hit the nail on the head. It's a big part of the cognitive dissonance felt by much of America, I think.
I thought GPS signal is scrambled (artificial noise added) for national security purposes.
Great to see that, congratulations to everybody involved.

Is the hardware of Pinephone considered stable?

How is the development on such platform, the same a on Desktop GNU/Linux? Do we have a permission system similar to Android? Can we launch easily background application and awake the phone when needed (for notifications)? Is there a documentation on the packaging system?

How long can the battery last at the moment (with mostly idle phone)?

Thanks!
Which historians? I read quite a loud of American history lately and this is first time I see this claim.
So do you scrap videos from youtube with subtitles to collect data?
Bad timing and the GC
Hi! Do the Plasma Mobile developers also provide a distro for the Phone? Is it KDE Neon (Ubuntu) based?

What kind of collaboration is there between the various developers for the PinePhone? There seem to be a lot of Kernels with different patches for HW acceleration, IC power management, modem operation etc [1]. Do you apply these to your kernel?

[1] https://xnux.eu/log/#020
The first 256-color game on the IBM PC (2017)
This is exactly it. The instant communication has created instant reinforcement for the tribe. It's something our minds aren't really ready to handle.

I agree there may not be a solution, given the technology we now have and the minds we'll never improve upon in our lifetimes.

But I think we have to try...
Billion Dollar Startup Ideas [video]
I always find it fascinating to browse AV Herald. I never thought that there would be this many aircraft incidents, like engine failures mid flight or other serious events. Thinking of the overall amount of flights that take place every day I guess it makes sense though, statistically speaking.

http://avherald.com/
I'm replying to myself in an effort to reply generally to everyone who replied to me, thanks for your use cases.

I can see some of the reasons and benefits and to me, no offence meant, the seem pretty trivial, especially when you take into account the privacy issues.

I have dumb timers for lights I want on at certain times, dumb movement sensors for outside lights that only turn on at night, my boiler has a timer which I manually set if needed, and I've yet to see any actual benefit to a smart meter. I can read and calculate my usage.

My point is everything I need can be accomplished without network connectivity or providing multi-national tech companies with all my data. I don't need a digital assistant and don't want to talk to my lightbulbs.

As one of the other commenters said, you get all the problems of IT infrastructure for light bulbs and sensors. Hell if I wanted some automated stuff I'd look at a raspberry pi or Arduino and roll my own version (half joking, I'd definitely attempt it).
How do you see this develop in the future, especially concerning the convergence aspect of it - the ability to hook it up to a monitor and use it as a real desktop computer. Please provide your own personal and unofficial opinion.
Some food for thought is that it takes time for a new business to achieve market penetration and that span of time is irrespective of and orthogonal to economic health.
The Scandinavian way to tackle winter
This experiment reminds me of a rant from Ryan Dahl on software a few years back:

> In the past year I think I have finally come to understand the ideals of Unix: file descriptors and processes orchestrated with C. It's a beautiful idea.

We just keep moving up the stack, it seems :)

Source: https://gist.github.com/cookrn/4015437

(edit: formatting)
Lets say manufactoring is solved. What can you do with Graphene you cannot do with other things?
If you fart with your nose while laughing...

That's generally because it joyful...

Mwell, don't be so sick about our situation...

There is minimum 95% of ppl on the planet being in the same position...

The ~ 5% doesn't live in the same world they are autonomous and rich...

Don't be egoïst :D
No, there's not. This is the point. The people driving these conspiracies are applying statistical techniques poorly and then parroting their claims on social media.
Lithium ion cannot output enough (low C) to make this feasible (yet). Much more likely using Li-Po cells, which are far more adept at emptying themselves at high load—but thermal runaway (eg insanely hot fires) is all too real with Li-Po, though less so today than say 6 years ago!
> For those who don't have Hue, one nice feature of the design is that if the power to the bulb goes off and then back on the bulbs default to 'on'.

After a recent update this is now also configurable. You can still have them default to full brightness, but also off or any other mode.
> They can't do that AND profess to support free speech within their club.

Sorry, but they can and do.

This is a group of people that will happily shut down your speech while proclaiming themselves to be the defenders of free speech and liberty.

They will happily insult you, but are quick to play victim and complain about being oppressed and harassed and insulted.
If you are so inclined to answer, I’d live to know why lithium batteries and not some other form of battery? That is, do other elements not have the right properties? Are they too rare? Are they dangerous? You sort of answer a bit in your last paragraph.

Why did it take until now to get to lithium batteries? Why way NiCad the thing before? Will lithium continue to dominate, or are there other competitive solutions just one breakthrough away? What about hydrogen cells?
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I don't know your situation.

But one of the things you get from a normal job is a regular schedule.

If you start working from home you can all of sudden let go of that schedule. Working at odd hours, only being tied down by a few online meetings.

The trick is of course recognising what has happened and then find of way of recreating the missing bits: I.e. forcing a 9-5 schedule on your work even if you don't have to.
I'm happy enough with banning things you have to ban legally and banning pointless comments. But banning anyone supporting antifa is a pretty clear breach. The parody ban (especially the selective application) is another clear breach of free speech.

I'd be content enough if they were upfront and said this is a place for "Conservative opinions only" rather than "free speech". I'd even agree that's their right and that they might get more open and productive discussion that way at least in some cases. But it's just not free speech.

I think that's what frustrates me about this: it's the hypocrisy.

I actually hold a few Conservative opinions myself. But i wouldn't ban people from disagreeing with me AND claim to support free speech...
Let's agree to disagree here. There is no ambiguity, btw.

'About 60 percent of travelers on direct flights from China in February were not American citizens, according to the most recently available government data. Most of the flights were operated by Chinese airlines after American carriers halted theirs.' [2]

See also the graph from FlightRadar [4].

[0] https://apnews.com/article/68a9e1b91de4ffc166acd6012d82c2f9

[1] https://www.routesonline.com/news/tagged/8446/covid19-1h20-f...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20200404140004/https://www.nytim...

[3] https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6889758/R46354-1....

[4] https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/0...