skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it? If everyone in a country used FOSS apps rather than paying (in money, data, or letting ads into their heads) for proprietary ones, wouldn't that country's people be better off?
And nobody's saying there can't be indian-made FOSS.

Unless you're talking about the government putting its own interests above the people's, which makes sense.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25163833
The only reason I'm tolerating the whole carbon craze is that most legislation is also helping with the real evil of pollution, that is killing here and now. And people are proposing to start whole new industries with their own pollutants just so we can keep dirty industries running longer? <insert expletive here>
> The argument underneath this comment

Keep in mind that the comments order changes in time and your comment may not stay above the comment you (tried to) point.
> outright ignoring recommendations

Have you ever wondered why it's not terribly controversial to "recommend" seat belts and airbags?

But when your "recommendation" is to join a large organization and funnel millions of dollars into it, or to levy massive taxes to prevent "the end of the world as we know it"? Pardon me, but I'm deeply skeptical.

Do you remember Solyndra? $500 million loan from the government. Went bankrupt.

I will not accept this straw man re-framing of the issue. Yes, "some people" say "but science isn't always right", and that is a poor argument indeed. But I am not.
Anil Arya – Group Karamchand
"Due to heavy traffic in this file, we are loading a read-only version"

Does that mean it was shared read-write?
This is the great part about Zigbee/BLE/433MHz devices, they do _not_ go on your wifi (and the internet), but instead talk to a dedicated gateway. As long as you find a way to talk to them, you can mix and match sensors from the shadiest of vendors.

You can ignore the gateways offered by each manufacturer and instead go with something (more) open like zigbee2mqtt or deConz.

Zigbee:
https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io
https://www.phoscon.de/en/conbee2/software

BLE:
RPi or ESP32
running https://esphome.io

433MHz:
https://sonoff.tech/product/accessories/433-rf-bridge
running https://esphome.io or https://tasmota.github.io

Of course, this way you lose the (more or less) polished apps that come with each system and need to set up something like Home Assistant or openHAB for control and automation.
I wish there was a way to completely avoid the app. I have a bunch of Aqara devices that are Zigbee and they never even talked to Xiaomi because I only connected them to my Conbee without ever installing any Xiaomi App or whatever.

I wonder how hard it is to add an ESP8266 to the lamps and just control via the ESP.
You make it sound like the companies who run this shit are penniless, they're not, they're making millions of dollars of actual cash. There's no charity going on here.
Probably just not English-as-a-first-language. GPT3 will typically have great grammar/spelling but nonsense meaning, but if you allow for slightly odd or near-correct word choice, the gp comment is pretty clear.
Videoconferencing: Breaking the Sound Barrier
Ultra-low latency technology allowed musicians to play Edvard Grieg's Holberg Suite perfectly in sync.
If only it were satire...
I hope they find a way to open them up again.

Moreover, I hope they get preserved and restored, not "modernized", because they are definitely an interesting piece of history.
> The world no longer provides much in the way of those intrinsic demarcations.

I have the same feeling about many other things nowadays. Daily life just a few years ago was more structured. In my country, shops were always closed on holidays (often of Christian origin) and on Sundays. The availability of things was restricted: If you needed something on Saturday evening you had to wait until Monday. If you wanted to rewatch your favorite TV series, you had to wait until a TV channel decided to rerun it. News programs were only broadcasted three times per day etc.

And now with COVID and working at home, even the difference between work time and free time is blurred.

I know that these restrictions were mostly artificial and I am happy that I have now more freedom to do things when I want to do them. But it also meant that there was a rhythm of life shared with your neighbors. You knew when your friends were at home and you knew when the kids at school or the colleagues at work would discuss the latest episode of some TV series (because it was always broadcasted on a specific day of the week).

As you said, we are now responsible for giving structure to our lives. Which is of course also a sign of maturity.
I agree, and I was confused regarding the comments about the colors of the rooms in Garfield's house. The last pane even sort of implies it's "realistic", in that there seem to be two walls that actually have those colors.

For comparison: in this Italian Donald Duck comic, what color is the wall? https://imgur.com/a/WamFxpG

And what color is the sky in this Monica's Gang comic?
https://imgur.com/a/ADvrozM
Making 8500 plants available to you
We made ~8500 plants available to you by importing the Plant For a Future dataset. You can use it now to create lists, guilds and help improving that data.

Also don't forget to plan your next garden season with it!
There's plenty of products based on FreeBSD, not just PlayStation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_based_on_Free...
Agree. BTW, I think there is at least one aspect which the "oil" analogy gets it correct - the flammability of data. Stockpiling private data without safeguards and regulations is dangerous, just like stockpiling oil and gas.
I don't get the downvotes. This is a perfectly logical position. Looking back, the fall of the Berlin wall may seem predictable, but who would have forecast it in 1988?
The USB host still has access to both the plaintext and key (once authenticated), so they both need to be fully trusted anyway.

This garbage just adds yet another link to the critical chain.

Oh, and now you have full plain text access over the (unencrypted and unauthenticated) USB bus. Hope you put as much effort into vetting your USB hubs!
I wonder what we can do to prevent a segregated internet?
Money + heat
> We don't need the two stimulus bills to confirm or deny either of those facts. I don't see how they are relevant.

There is a specific pair of bills available on the Internet. You can read them and determine how much scope they leave the Biden administration to implement bailouts that you disagree with. You could even lobby your Congressperson to improve that aspects and remove flexibility from the executive. Doesn't that seem extremely relevant?
Homemade recycling rig turns plastic waste into new products
I spent the last half of my 20s and the beginning of my 30s living in a carriage house of an old Tudor revival mansion in New England. The building itself was purchased in the 60s and used as a research institute. Loosely affiliated with the large university in town.

I worked at there as a software engineer by day, and took care of the property the rest of the time. There was no shortage of projects. My girlfriend moved in with me eventually. We returned there after our honeymoon, and our son was most likely conceived there. I miss it often.

I still work there, but covid has kept us away. This article reminds me of that time in my life. Thanks for sharing.
Ask HN: Fair Equity?
If you are at a small startup and one of the first employees, thus you have a small percent of ownership, but then you create a product (mostly by yourself) that is looking like it will bring in at least 50% of the company's revenue, what is good compensation for this? More equity, bonus, higher salary?
Math is pretty fundamental, it is the basis for a lot of what people do in modern society and provides a better basis for solving many problems than the alternatives.

Universal literacy is a relatively new concept that civilization went a very long time without. One can make the argument that it is not really necessary for communication or learning.

I don't really believe there is such a thing as not being 'wired for math' any more than there is such a thing as not being 'wired for reading'. Absent mental impairment it is something that can be learned, it's just that we generally do a terrible job of teaching it.
"Had we had more funding, we would have taken the time to rewrite our app in Haskell instead."

Salty...
How can an education system teach evaluating sources, and acceptable methods of evaluating facts, when those two things are at the heart of almost every disagreement in the areas we're talking about?

Fake news isn't just a meme, it's a belief system. So how does a public school system tackle that?

>Just so you don't think that we had enough time at school to teach you everything.

Is there literally one person (in the US) who leaves a basic 12th grade education believing that they learned everything there is to learn?
1930s Germany didn't hate the japanese, despite them being very different from them (appearance, culture). Instead, they hated the German/european jews, who were basically visually indistinguishable.
I'd like that as well, but my suspicion is that Linux is now "good enough" via things like io_uring that a highly visible comeback for *BSD is less likely.
accessibility link: https://archive.vn/HGkBb
Just curious, does cold affect people with disabilities more than people without, beyond the obvious non-linear difficulty increase for people with disabilities (ie something thats *2 difficulty increase for a person without disabilities is ^2 difficulty increase)? The only thing I can think of would be battery life of the mobility tools.
This means nothing when facts themselves are widely discredited.

Until, we curb massive disinformation campaigns and lack of fact-checking in media and political speech...

There will be always be politicians and government officials who will spread falsehoods and work to discredit the truth.

It’s not important for everyone to believe a lie. Corrupt, despots only need enough votes to obtain power and then subvert established norms and laws.
And they follow up with:

"Another way to look at it is that these new MacBooks (and presumably the Mac Mini) are roughly equivalent to a desktop that is around 4-5 years old. So if you have a PC from 2015 or 2016, be aware that these MacBooks likely won't be any faster."

Lots of hand waving at the end. Did this fictional PC also cost $4k 4-5 years ago?

I'm a fan of both PCs and Macs. Just way too much marketing and not enough substance here. Someone wanted their SEO juice from a blog article and they got it.

And you're right, it's not even native binaries. They really should've showed how fast image processing in Photoshop on the iPad was compared to Wintel.

It's just all marketing BS.
It’s a question of scale, if you want to actually make a difference you need to cut them down and store the wood underground, then grow new trees and repeat. Doing that takes real effort which then needs to be paid for.
I thought hn has an intelligent and well informed crowd. ok I get it that engineers are not scientist but judging from the responses here it's quite staggering to me how clueless some ppl are here.. do yourself a favour and maybe learn a bit about ml before forming an opinion. massaging JavaScript for a living is cool I guess but maybe there's a reason faang is paying 5-10x your salaries to ml researchers. maybe just maybe it's not just hype but billions and billions of dollars worth of innovation potential. it's quite clear to me that a lot of cs ppl are super bitter that they are not the top paid ppl anymore but supply and demand dictates these things and turns out inventing the latest transformer architecture is more valuable (and factors of magnitude less ppl can do it) than writing trivial front end or backend stuff..
This post was from 8 years ago. In 2016 I was definitely using a product like this from yet another party
Microservices based e-commerce system with gateway payment – open-source GitHub
The Curse of Ambition
Every time I buy cheap crap directly from China I regret it. Not waiting 30 days for shipping is easily worth paying 5€ for a product that sells for 2€ directly from China. You can often find the same Chinese stuff at a brick and mortar shop for a reasonable price (2x at most) but its sold under the budget store brand.

The high quality products from China are often branded by an American or European company. You can't buy them directly from China unless it is a knockoff and a lot of knockoffs are sold on Ebay locally. I don't even know why anyone would bother to get stuff directly from aliexpress at this point.
It's not just SNI that's the issue. Caddy also can't handle Host headers with trailing dots, where the spec explicitly states those should be handled.

So while the SNI error is clearly on browsers (and bugs have been already filed), the Host header issue is clearly on caddy (which caddy sees as wontfix)
Anandtech has benchmarked Rosetta2 at 70-80% of native in most of their tests.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...

Assuming 75% on average that would increase the M1 benchmarks about 33%, bringing them much closer to the Ryzen Systems tested.
you don't have a traffic problem if you can go 100km in one hour.

i live a similar distance from a larger city, and here it's quite the reverse. it takes one hour on the train, and two hours by car.
Of course — this paper talks about the mechanism which Racket explores to keep the boundary safe [1]. This
paper [2] elaborates on some of the performance challenges. 'Shallow typing' by Ben Greenman et al.
is available only by video [3] and slideshow form [4]. Finally, there's a really interesting paper which came out
this year which uses a verifier to remove the some of the runtime cost [5] of sound gradual typing.

[1] https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/oopsla12-stff.pdf

[2] https://www2.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/popl16-tfgnvf.pdf

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4AA8nweYAg

[4] https://www.ccs.neu.edu/~types/resources/talks/g-rcon-2020.p...

[5] https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12630
Dumb AC soldering irons don't have to be (unless you really care about temperature accuracy and ESD), portable gas soldering irons are also essentially glorified lighters.

However when you get into a DC soldering irons you do start getting into complexity that isn't as cheap to do safely.
How important is your heart?
I realize this is a joke, but regardless these days you basically need to spend ~25% of each year rewriting your app just to stay in security compliance.
Should of rewrote in Clojure.
I'll give a practical example. If you got to a gas station near me, you can get a CR2032 battery for say 2 USD. If you got to a certain home decor/equipment store a mile away, you'll get 4 of these batteries for 1 USD. That's what, 8x more expensive for a relatively common product? Gas stations and convenience stores in my country routinely charge 500-1000% more for common products because, and here's the gist of it I'm sure for most store/chain owners, "why not"?
It all started with great firewall of china, didn't it ? The segregation of internet for political purposes has been there for number of years. (aka. china blocks FB,Google and wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma... ). rest of the world is catching up to their playbook
Everyone knows that successful startups uses only Java or PHP
Justin’s cofounder here:

Example video that was completely generated by the bot:
https://video.recordonce.com/play/dBZ66RussA8
So this sums up as - post your ideas in specifically targeted subreddits.

What am I missing that makes this noteworthy?
Pretty sure it's 100% satire, but that doesn't mean it's not the story of 80% of startups.
Carbon capture seems to me similar to plastics recycling which was invented by the oil and plastics industry. They always knew that recycling wouldn’t be economically viable at scale but kept pushing it anyway. I can’t imagine how we could capture any meaningful amount of CO2 and store it in a safe and economical way. It just seems another smokescreen like “clean coal”.
I appreciate the need for caution, but these people are experts in what they do, any doubts we might have would have already been considered by them.
Nice one.

It will be interesting to see how this ends up comparing to DHH's "NEW MAGIC"[0] library for filling in the gaps between Turbolinks and StimulusJS for creating responsive feeling apps without making a SPA.

[0]: https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1330936785313132548
I mean if you need a satire tag to realize this is satire, I don't know what to say.
'...Our incredible journey...'

I hope they were thinking of https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ when they wrote this!
Readers familiar with Quillette may wonder why such a level-headed essay by a somewhat well-known author appears here and not on the website of a more respectable publication. This is why:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/10/lawrence...

It turns out that when people are kicked out, they don't just disappear. Dr. Krauss makes his point well; it's a shame the essay won't have the impact it should. But should he have that impact? I really don't know.
I use Adobe and 3D software in my work and I'm actually disgusted how poorly Creative Suite uses the power I'm providing it with.

So much of it is still single core constrained for no good reason, After Effects can't scrub the timeline smoothly or play without dropping audio anymore, I swear this didn't use to be an issue 10 years ago. Even more insulting because all of AE is deterministic so could be multithreaded if it had been built correctly or if they really wanted to put the effort in, but why put the effort in when everyone already has to pay you anyway.

Actually surprised the M1 isn't matching these systems (even under emulation) for the reasons I outline above. But my experience with the Adobe suite is really it spends more time choking over it's own incompetence rather than being limited by the hardware anymore, when you fire up some software like OctaneRender on the same workstation it's crazy seeing what your machine is actually capable of and makes you wonder what an AE or Photoshop built for modern hardware would look like.
Publishing this on Google Docs is so passe, clearly should be on Substack or Ghost
How do CCS actually capture carbon? The article doesn't explain the details.
Your shelf is so expensive, normally, because of physical laber.

While i agree that a hard drive cost can bottom out, i don't think we have bottomed out at the right price.

Why would it make sense, at all, to produce a 300gb drive in 2020? It doesn't. Are they using machines which are not able to create better plates in 3,5" sizes? If yes, they probably ride those machines for a long time. Should be paid of by now 10x
Ali express? C'mon.

If I could find my electronics elsewhere and for a reasonable price, I would choose that but I can't. Government butchered the manufacturing industry, imposed ridiculous taxes (even increased them during the pandemic), custom duties and all sort of red tape which makes education for young generation harder. How can individuals work on the next generation robots, electronics, whatever if you can't even get decent micro controllers and brushless motors in india?

And it's not like big indian companies aren't selling data back to china. Majority of unicorns in india are taking investment from China. Paytm is china funded. Why don't they ban any investment from China?
> And if all your discussions tend to span weeks or months before someone even signs-up you probably need to do one of these three things:

> You should increase your price, by a lot

I've seen this point written a few times by a handful of people, and it seems to be true enough, but it also seems unconventional to me.

What's the rationale behind this?
The article is from 2012. Neither of those laws existed.
Why did you say square miles? What an odd measurement to use.

That's 62 miles per gallon and 90 miles per gallon.

Why use area as a measurement and not distance?
Could a person with ML experience come up with this solution? Yes! Would his ML experience help him come up with this solution compared to someone who just learned numerical methods and automatic control theory? No. This isn't an ML solution.

Just because something is taught in an ML course doesn't mean that it is ML. It is pretty common for physics classes to teach maths and for chemistry classes to teach physics for example.

So if something is taught in ML class but also in statistics class then it is statistics and not ML. If something is taught in ML class but also in a numerical methods class then it is numerical methods and not ML.
> We pushed back the launch for two months to tweak our build system to perfection

That line got me
Dropshippers provide valuable service - I can get item in 2 days (on Amazon) versus 2-3 weeks or longer if I buy on Aliexpress. Express shipping (if available) on Aliexpress is often $100+ for item that cost a few dollars.

Also margins are getting squeezed on drop shipping. Several years ago the difference between price on Amazon and Aliexpress was very significant now it's often negligible and I just buy on Amazon.
Great satire. But I have seen teams of incredible engineers doing amazing things perfectly and still go out of business because its not how amazing your engineering is, it's how amazing your product or service is to people who are willing to pay (or someone is willing to pay you).
Yeah, you are partly right.

Prices depend on supply and demand.
Gold is scarce, thus supply is low, and is useful (beautiful, can conduct electricity), thus demand is high.

Bitcoin is scarce, yeah, as it requires a lot of energy to produce it. But it's not really useful for now, people buy it only for speculation. So demand exists, but it might fluctuate a lot.
Although it's nominally about C++, this book looks at the design issues for selecting among paradigms based on application characteristics. IE it generalizes to other languages capable of supporting multiple paradigms.

https://www.amazon.com/Multi-Paradigm-Design-C-James-Coplien...
>>Regarding the use of FreeBSD 12 As an operating system in PS5

https://tekdeeps.com/ps5-will-have-an-825gb-ssd-but-only-700...

They even asked Dev's from FreeBSD ;)
The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare
How exactly does a movers-n-packers/goods shipping company become prejudicial to the sovereignty and integrity of India let alone not be in the best interest of the citizens? Like did they conduct a poll to ban Lalamove?

Real baller move would be to ban anything with a China built SoC, if at all hatred for China is a reason to begin with.
> Right now there are people running around saying that COVID is as deadly as the flu, ...

Which is the current best estimation of the risk of getting covid-19 and dying?

Which is the current best estimation of the risk of getting flu and dying?
That's difficult. Living standards are much higher than they used to be. Should they be restored as actual usable apartments? If so you're going to think about the heating, cooling, the insulation etc. etc. etc.

Should they be restored as historical exhibit? OK, sure. But then the space isn't really being used. IMO these are interesting but they're not such an important part of history that they must be preserved exactly the way they are today.
If you look at the list of apps, pretty much all of them requires some kind of back-end. Even if its 100% FOSS, the back end will cost money. Therefore someone has to pay for it somehow and someone will profit.

Its obvious to their best interest that the one that profit is an Indian company, with ties to the government.
Everything about this screams satire, except it just doesn't have the typical humour element (to me at least), so I'm not even sure now.