skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really sad that philosophy isn't a core part of the US curriculum and I can't figure out why that's the case. We were required to read plenty of novels that attempt to be philosophical, but analyzing them was always a nightmare because it's completely subjective. Is this paragraph literal? Symbolic? Metaphorical? Nothing at all? In many cases the author never explains, so there's no way to know. Everyone is free to project their own opinions onto everything.

I still remember being extremely frustrated when our teacher kept telling us it was "ironic" that the most physically fit character drowned in Stephen Crane's The Open Boat (sorry for the spoiler). It wasn't ironic at all because he was foolish, and foolish people get themselves killed all the time!
Sounds somewhat like the Transitive Grace Period Public License, where derivative works must be open sourced a year after deployment
The war on open source continues..
The very people who benefited and have built large companies on the backs of open source platforms, clearly have an issue with the model, The Open source model itself does not have an issue.
hidden 14-pin connector https://www.macrumors.com/2018/02/12/homepod-teardown-ifixit...
> Mocking people for believing in FET is cruel and unhelpful

I’m sorry but if someone is an adult (who doesn’t have some kind of mental problem) and that person believes the earth flat, you best believe I’m going to make fun of them. Maybe it’s a bit cruel but it is what it is.
In college I worked as an inspector at a plant that made aerospace boards.

Each board was tested multiple times, there were inspectors after almost every step, to the point that each board was inspected at least 4 times during assembly, and then 2 separate full tests were done on every board. No sampling, each and every board was tested. Speaking to the engineers, our projected defect rate was <1%, and we achieved that. However, for rough numbers, this 1.6K board would likely cost >10K to achieve that level of reliability.
RISC OS Pico boots straight into BBC Basic:

https://web.archive.org/web/20181109020203/https://www.risco...

(IA link as it's been removed from the site, but the installer is still available via IA).
Yeah, I did mean "every" rather than "all", as you put it. Though both would be interesting.
That's exactly my perception of Wish.
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You're stretching your interpretation of the rules. This isn't flamebait, it is a valid concern. In the United States using this site is going to be a legal quagmire, which the comment is pointing out. That's valid criticism and 'something genuinely new to say'. Please argue in good faith and don't dismiss the opinions and critiques of others just because you feel differently than they do. That's how platforms become an echo chamber.
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>We need a new standardized, zero cost, cross language interop format functions on the ABI/memory level

I don't think that's doable unless the underlying language already has the same ownership and lifetime guarantees as Rust does, otherwise these bindings have to protect against memory issues by effectively taking ownership of the data to garantee its lifetime, which is not zero cost.

I simply don't think that you can auto-generate zero-cost safe C or C++ bindings automatically.
This is the "copyright cop" model of software development. The idea is you make something attractive and then rely on social control mechanisms to punish people if they touch in ways you don't like. This business model is identical to proprietary models, and requires lawyers and all that, as you note, because you've created a system that incentivizes erstwhile customers to step outside the model that makes you money.

Another model is to make something attractive, give it away, and sell something else that goes well with it. Now customer interests are more aligned with yours.

RH sold for 11 digits doing the second.
Predators will attack anywhere that children gather. Children gather in Roblox, and predators targeted Roblox.

The features that make something more or less safe are the controls put around preventing that from happening, minimising the risk, being very clear to parents about what's expected of them, having excellent moderation, and having excellent reporting.

The PC version of roblox fails all of these somewhat.

Many parents today are simply a bit too trusting of products aimed at children. This thing isn't going to expose my children to predators; my kids aren't going to learn about gang rape from this game; this toy isn't going to record audio or video; etc.

I don't necessarily think parents need to ban Roblox, because that means you can't teach children about how to keep themselves safe or what to do if they're not enjoying something happening online. But I do think parents need to be aware of what happens.
If people keep doing it anyway, there's no problem to be fixed.

Otherwise, government funding: it's infrastructure! Something like universal software engineer basic income. It keeps them off the streets.
> The academic usage of the word cult is quite different than the common usage, the common usage is the one that has relatively recently acquired a deragatory meaning.

Words used for non-Abrahamic Religions: Myth, Legend, Cult, Folklore, Pagan, Heathen, Infidel, Idolator, Disbeliever/Non-believer.

All of these words inherently have a derogatory, racist meaning. This should be classified as racism and is as bad as, or worse than Nazism[1][2] but since 2/3rd of the population follows one of the Abrahamic Religions it is given a pass.

1. Read up on Goan Inquisition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_Inquisition#Persecution_of...

2. Mughal India ~ The Biggest Holocaust in World History: https://www.sikhnet.com/news/islamic-india-biggest-holocaust...
Yeah, I had PG&E in mind too when I said "How could you trust anyone in corporate America" -- look at their record even before their equipment burned down 10 million acres in California with the San Bruno explosion since they decided to ignore their own engineers' recommendations on maintenance intervals.
This is a statistically significant manel (panel of all men) which would now be generally frowned upon in most business contexts, probably including the tech industry.

I don't think this is totally unrelated: rejecting business norms has a lot of negative consequences as well as the positive.
I think for the purposes of this question, "IPO whose S-1 gets posted to HN" is a good definition. No need to overthink it.
Fiberglass batts are 4x cheaper for the R value and can be DIY. Spray foam cannot be easily added to an existing home without a professional coming out. (except for the cans used for air sealing gaps.

It's essentially a waste of money except for limited applications, which is why you won't find any builders at any price point using spray foam as a primary source of insulation.

Spray foam is also a pain if you need to get into wall/ceiling cavities for HVAC/plumbing/electrical repairs/additions.
and in the last 5 years we went from about 5% to 18% renewables.

The renewables industry in the US wasn't given any special dispensation so it had to compete pretty much without subsidy with natgas and coal which it could only really start to do about 5 years ago (it's cost competitive with coal only this year).

In fact, arguably the US subsidies oil and gas more than renewables.

Nuclear would require massive subsidies to grow beyond 20%. Renewables won't.
If the flaw is in open source software, it would be the responsibility of the commercial company that shipped the open source software, for not auditing the code they shipped.

You can always disclaim your code if you want to take no responsibility for damages, as in the MIT license.
qt supports mobile

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/supported-platforms.html
> Why is that worse than the risk of potentially (without knowing any probabilities obviously) developing autoimmune conditions as a result of taking the vaccine?

Well, in the 20,000 dosages in the pfizer vaccines, I believe there was no autoimmune conditions found. I think Moderna was the same. If that's your concern, maybe steer clear of the AstraZeneca/ChAdOx1 vaccine.

There are two main components to the vaccine, the RNA itself, and the proteins it causes the cell to make. Both naturally break down and are removed from the body very quickly--in hours to days from my understanding, so one could use that to conjecture that longer term effects are perhaps less likely in this case and something like that would show up sooner.

We're not really comparing flu stats vs. covid stats. I'd argue these things are not good whether they come from a severe flu or covid, so that seems like a red herring? Here our choice is "what is more likely to mess me up badly, a vaccine designed, tested and peer reviewed with a do-no-harm mindset, or the virus behind a pandemic that has killed more than a million people worldwide."
I'm quite bearish on VR as a mass-market product, and to get my point across I usually replace the term "virtual reality" with "Nintendo 3DS strapped to your face". I think you've kind of touched on my point well.
We have recorded the sound of a single electron clapping
A famous zen koan tells how a young disciple, inspired by his Master, achieved the enlightenment after meditating on the sound of a single hand clapping. It looks that, knowing the consequences of quantum mechanics and thinking of electrons instead of hands, the monk would never encounter the paradox, No paradox, no enlightement.

Thanks to the work of the team of my coworkers and my collaborators at Italian CNR, we have observed the quantum of sound produced by a single electron, when moving across the quantum state made available by a single atom encapsulated in the channel of a silicon nanotransistor, called dopant. Dopants are usually implanted in silicon for creating contacts. In a lucky commercial transistor we investigated, one dopant atom randomly escaped from a contact to the middle of the channel during thermal annealing. A single dopant diffused far in the channel is totally irrelevant for room temperature purposes, but it becomes a nanolab by cooling the device to 4.2K. Thanks to the sensitivity of the equipment including a cryogenic amplifier working at 4.2 kelvin, we could measure the emission of single quanta of sound, called phonons, when the electron moves across the state of the dopant atom. Despite noise is usually considered something bad to kill, the novel point of this measurement is that instead of measuring the current across the transistor as usually, we recorded its electronic noise to perform the ultra-sensible spectroscopy of the quantum states. The electron, while passing across the quantum state carried by the dopant atom, emits a quantum of sound, i.e. an elementary vibration of the silicon crystal. In other words, thanks to the quantum state of this single atom, we could record the sound of a single electron clapping.

The research has been published by Applied Physics Express: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.35848/1882-0786/abc7cf...
(Free PDF preprint is available at: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.06462.pdf )
This [0] has numbers from 2015, which are older, and it doesn't have a full breakdown, but it says that 200 grams (or around 7 oz) would cost $2.67 as the cheapest option through China Post. The next option is 500 grams which is 17 oz, at $6.67. 13 oz would probably be somewhere in the middle. And of course US prices have gone up since 2015.

[0] https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/document-library...
Yeah, I would use whatever is shorter
Yeah RPi is a great toy but you should treat it like a chemistry set. Use it as a tool for learning but don’t build a product with it. The difference between a $24 board and a $200 board is often the level of support you get. The boards I’ve used in the past all have manuals down to the chip and I won’t touch anything that doesn’t.
Yes, I'm moving them where they should be.
So personally, I tend to size fonts so that I can fit two editor windows of 100-ish lines + editor fluff side by side. This usually lands in the 14-18 point range, though if coding on my work MBP directly I have to sacrifice having the file tree visible to get a comfortable font size.

I used to as a teenager coding on a 1366x768 laptop use a 8px font size, as that was the only way to get 2 editor panes side by side. I'm in my late 20s now, so not an old age issue, but would not describe such a font size as comfortable these days. Part of that is monitors today are higher DPI, and part of it is that I now sit reasonable ergonomic distances from my monitors.
How Airbnb's CEO succumbed to an IPO he resisted
Nice work! How do you pass complex objects between actors in Lunatic? Do you have to pass a byte array, or is there a more sophisticated approach where you don't have to serialize and deserialize each message?
Am I missing something? I mean, I know you said "we're still small", but:

>The total gross revenue during Q3 was $16,134, which after transaction fees is $14,972.
>The monthly revenue from all subscriptions is, accounting for credit card fees and amortizing yearly payments, is $5,952.
>SourceHut has $13,858 in cash at the time of writing.

Those figures are tiny! SourceHut doesn't make enough money to pay a typical full-time software developer. That doesn't feel like a viable open source business model to me.
Or it could be the seed.
The two systems are in different buildings on campus. Each system (with 140) drives is a single unit, with 60-drive JBODs running on SAS-external connections.

If you want to span a pool across multiple regions, you'll want a distributed file system on top of your ZFS to manage that. Something like Lustre or Ceph. It would still be very challenging, though.
Principia Discordia (2004) [pdf]
You're totally right, they want more money. I agree they don't have a perfect monopoly either. There are lots of other options.

The reality is, most of their customers aren't going anywhere. Consider all the times you use Youtube. Trying to find a music video, watching sports highlights, videos from your favourite creators. Can you switch to DailyMotion for all of that now? Are all of your creators posting their videos on Facebook? Even if they are, are the videos as easy to find and discover as they are on Youtube? For content creators, is there anywhere else they can share and expect to find the same kind of audience? Not really.

This is what I'm talking about when I say monopoly. It's true, there's other options. A creator can post their videos on Vimeo and host their own website to monetize, just like someone could have taken a horse and buggy instead of the new railroad. No one is forced to go by train, but doing it the old way is inefficient and expensive. n both cases they won't get the same bang for their buck.
The Unicode arrow is most likely throwing an error in the linter or compiler and is underlined with a red line.
The ANE is certainly impressive, and delivering considerable capabilities Apple is now giving phenomenal compute power for both gaming and non gaming applications.
However the new streaming type of gaming like Stadia and Luna seems to be more likely the future evolution of processors in hardware consoles. A Streaming type of gaming makes much more sense in the long run..
Apple One subscription only re-enforces this direction.
I don't know what Vale's "USP" is, and I think you're right to point out that it doesn't really sell itself on its front page. But you're being a massive dick about the marketing of a language which is clearly a work-in-progress, and hasn't even hit v0.1. You know you can give advice and be nice about it, right?
> One would think that after Fukuyama’s end of history nonsense, we’d have learned this lesson, but apparently not.

Sadly, I wonder if Fukuyama's "end of history nonsense" as you put it was merely a symptom, not the cause.
Isn't that basically what the noImplicitAny flag does?
Black Farmers Robbed of Land: New Bill Give Them a “Quantum Leap” Toward Justice
Creating a Static Widget for iOS 14
and Dollar General is one of the most successful retailers, even today. So a Wish IPO definitely makes sense.
NHS planning to start covid vaccination of under 50s by end of January
How about Electron-based chat apps like Slack and Teams? We know it's possible to implement this kind of functionality in <40MB of RAM, rather than the 300MB used by Slack and Teams. [0] If these apps are going to be running constantly, it essentially means you've paid for 260MB of RAM more than you're able to use, on account of Slack putting their developer convenience before your computational resources. This seems especially silly to me as many companies pay good money for the privilege.

For comparison, the Playstation 3 has 256MB of system RAM, and manages to run GTA V.

[0] See the Ripcord application, discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23163960
At first glance it looked to me as though his sweatshirt said ENVY. Wouldn't that have been appropriate.
Keep down-voting: it matches the idea that Open Source is for "playboys", people who aren't immediately dependent on or motivated by earning an income (i.e. in general it's for independently wealthy, white men).

If so, that group of people won't have such a business motive.
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The button hover and the text selection issues are one line CSS changes.
> How do you check the security of _any_ device (e.g. Android, laptop, TV, watch, etc. basically anything that contains software that communicates with external servers) that you purchase?

I generally try first to buy hardware I can install myself the OS, that removes the temptation of the manufacturer to use the product as a data gathering tool.

> Even with open source projects, it'd be a Herculean task to confirm that your purchased devices actually contain the same source code that's published (e.g. imagine trying to confirm that the firmware on your wifi card is actually what it says it is).

When it's open source, there are always more eyeballs on the system, it's not perfect but it's always a better guarantee of security and privacy.
The long term covid effects are exactly what worries me about this vaccine. If a vaccine is an inactive or reduced version of the real thing, why wouldn't they have similar effects?
The Pi OS comes with Python installed, the pygame libraries, a bunch of games written in Python and of course the source code so you can modify them and create your own.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/usage/python/READM...

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/usage/python-games...
I think we'd agree that term "bricked" is somewhat relative. Different people can define it - slightly or not - differently, which of course makes communications more difficult, yet for now that's where we are. The point was that the original nitpick can be questioned.
Has this study included corruption as one of the key points of raising costs?
"I want to make a massive user generated MMO" doesn't get blank stares because of market fit.

Its the video game equivalent of "I have a million dollar app idea!"
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I'm a middle school teacher. I try to create engaging, interesting lessons for a clear path for why things are worthwhile. I also only teach what many students consider "fun stuff": robotics, "How to Make Almost Anything," etc. My programs and classes have done pretty well in the past on metrics of engagement, learning, student satisfaction, etc-- partially because of the cheat code of having material that's pretty intrinsically interesting.

There is still a pretty big subset of students that without the threat of enforcement or bad grades leading to parental action, will do almost nothing. It's especially visible now with some of my students being remote-- it's a constant battle to avoid previously engaged, excited, and interested students from just popping a Fortnite window open and escaping the class discussion.

I can make 75% of my class time fun; I can make it pretty obvious why the skills we practice are extremely valuable stuff in both the near term and the long term whether or not they decide to be an engineer one day. But I can't make every minute of class time more immediately rewarding than playing Fortnite.
Obsolete. How does UEFI achieve the same thing, booting?
He succumbed to it, eh. A tragedy.

Sorry, but it's kind of horrible how comfortable founders are with sitting on their employees' equity for decades+ now, compounded by them granting options with 90-day expiry. Founders can get liquidity any number of ways, it isn't a problem for them.
Show HN: A tool that generates math worksheets that you don't need to print
I made this tool that creates math worksheets that need not be printed. The students can simply answer online. It takes care of the "right to left" ordering of text inputs as well.

I created this for my brother's daughter's school because I was tired of printing her math assignments. The teachers can see all the answers in one place against the original sheet so it makes life easy for them rather than scanning the answers sent by parents via email. If you know teachers/parents please send this to them.

I could add more features like annotating answers etc but I want to know if this is useful.

The link: https://mathsheetmaker.com/
https://utteranc.es/ is a project that allows you to add comments to a page using GitHub issues.

Andrej Bauer's blog also uses GitHub issues for comments: http://math.andrej.com/
> This explains the cost, but why are they supposed to be more buggy? Should you have time to test those individually if there's just a small number of them?

I had to set my user agent to Windows/Edge to make it work in Firefox. However, I can't remember if the audio/video worked.
never even looked at the credit for the article. "this guy" was just a generic reference to random person I don't know. kind of like Canadians refer to anyone as buddy.
Sure there is a place for nuance, but there is also a place for bold writing without all the pussyfooting. Exclusively using either style makes it boring for the reader. We need the sweet with the sour ;)

>You can celebrate something you like without having to make the alternative a disease, sheesh.

You can, but would you be equally successful at it?
Shopify is a service provider, it's not a platform because it doesn't control the relationship with the consumer. Wish is an aggregator on both sides and that's why it's a platform.
I think we can hold multi-billion dollar venture-backed companies to a different standard than we do indie developers working on side projects.
This might be an useful source if you need packages for EXWM: https://emacs.zeef.com