skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the government is corrupt, I interpret that as they're there for money and power(often in the form of how to spend the money), why is it is easier to get rid of the reason to be in a corrupt government than to change some of the members of said government? Feels like it'd be of comparable difficulty.
The only interesting thing about Crypto space is that it keeps going up. Everything else is kinda interesting for a few people.
I wouldn't suggest using hdparm for benchmarking, have a look at fio, it's easy to use and revised very detailed and accurate information - https://smcleod.net/tech/2016/04/29/benchmarking-io/
In my opinion, a promising avenue for programming would be DSLs with restricted semantics + SAT/SMT solving to deliver lightweight formal methods.

So, instead of programming in Turing-complete languages, one creates many specialized DSLs with just enough expressiveness. And, in parallel, some automated formal methods. The combination of a DSL and SAT/SMT makes this feasible, which contrasts with automated theorem proving on Turing-complete languages.

Racket seems like a good platform to do this.
Hard drives are being price gouged. The prices on the low-end have stayed the same since pre-flood and the $/tb hasn't improved in a long time. Also the fact that the almost identical( and sometimes exactly identical down to serial number) externals often cost half as much as the internals( with only some extra warranty to cover the difference). It's a broken market.
I read a lot of old donald duck comics as a kid. The European ones made by Italian Disney and Egmont. The strips from the 70s were absolutely wild in their colouring, with objects changing colour throughout the story and with a palette would fit right in with an acid trip. Only half of the pages were coloured to save money.

So in my experience you're right. It's a very normal thing for comics.
It's about battery life and size/weight.

The faster a chip is, per watt, the fewer watts it needs to draw for the same amount of performance.
Dot comment?
Understandable but I'd argue that it's quite an important attribute - as it's known that post orgasm people's sexual drive/interest is/can be greatly reduced - and therefore what is stimulating will be different. I'd highly recommend having that additional field (that isn't personally identifying data either which is where I assume the concern is) if you run this experiment again - which I hope you do with better load times, things like different torso sizes - as proportion of breasts to torso size has an impact, etc. Still kudos to you for the work.
You're completely right, I admit I was mainly thinking about schools before university, given my kids are still very young.

University will be their choice but - assuming I'll be the one to fork out money for uni - I will set a budget.
As soon as we recognize plain old regression as machine learning, then we start to see "averages" as models of systems and how practically useful could that be?
You can check if stdout is a tty: if it's not, you output raw text. GNU ls does this: by default it outputs in a multiple column layout, but when piped, it outputs one file per line.
I drive a 2007 station wagon like a grandpa. Average diesel consumption? 4.0l/100km. For those less into SI units, that's over 200 megabarleycorn per rundlet! [0]

Back on topic, PHEV's often get preferential tax treatment. My old car gets punished, barred even from some cities. That makes sense only if completely disregarding actual usage.

I can't possibly justify the ecological expense of selling a car that sees under 5000 km/year of usage, but misaligned government incentives increasingly push me to.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_units#Length
[1] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
It should be noted that in Germany if you are employed, half of those 14% is paid for by your employer, so you only pay 7% of your gross salary yourself. And there are no deductibles. I think the closest thing to a deductible is having to pay for ambulance (about 20 euro for the trip, probably free if you can't afford it) and for hospital stays (10 euro per day, up to a maximum of 280 per year).
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Comcast will start charging Xfinity customers fees for exceeding their usage cap
Is it only appearance though ? When using free open-source software, the license always disclaim any warranty or liability related to the use of the software (the famous THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS"... paragraph).

When buying the same software from a vendor, the contract may include not only warranty & support but also some level of liability in the event of a software/security/design flaw.
Right :-). Things were both fun and simpler then before big boys with big money mucked it all up.
That is a very good reason to think twice before using Carplay, it is not a valid reason to restrict what the user can do.
The "ultra-bright" color palette used for those online strips looks to me like the standard one that came with the original Paintbrush[1] in Windows 3.11 (and, probably, in other graphic tools of that time).

I bet that this palette was chosen around that time, and it simply remained in place due to either consistency or lazyness (aka "if it's not broke, don't fix it").

[1] https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-2b893e004a57aa11221c4a...
The problem I see is that you need to have a feedback loop with your company on what the outcome of your effort is while keeping in mind what the company's expectations are.

If the company is trying to grow by pushing out a product ASAP, it's definitely not the right strategy to be taking the time to write the most correct, accessible, documented and maintainable code. That's the kind of time you need to be taking in tech debt for speed and pushing something that's mostly correct, brings in revenue and has tangible results. Iterative improvement is key as long as it's visible to the people who actually control it (your bosses/managers) and those who actually use it (customers).

Remember that when you start something new, the expectations are not high. It's a completely different thing if, for instance, you're Amazon and you're releasing the next managed software solution. That would be something like a core competency, be supported by several teams and to an extent already be expected to have certain results.
I wasn't following the Python 2-to-3 transition that closely, but I don't think Python ever forced anyone to use UTF-16. On Unix platforms (the only place I've used Python for 10 years) the strings are UTF-8 internally. On Windows maybe it's UTF-16, I don't know, but most programmers don't need to know or care. They just bytes(my_string, 'utf-8') to encode it as bytes.
Left a comment on the article with similar thoughts https://www.troyhunt.com/iot-unravelled-part-2-ip-addresses-...

Pi-hole instead of Unifi's DNS, hostnames either come from the client provided hostname or from a override file mapping MACs to hostnames.
How Can We Fix the Way Math Is Taught
Baader-Meinhof phenomenon ?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Fre...
I worked for one the largest global companies at both local and remote roles, but they localize pay regardless of you are remote or local resource - you get local pay as long as your your home address is Istanbul. On this regard, smaller companies could be more flexible
Ask HN: Why is Chrome a better browser than Firefox?
There seems to be common acknowledgment throughout HN discussions that Chrome is a better browser than Firefox. Why?

I segregate different parts of my online activity into different browsers (work, personal, side projects, etc) and use Chrome, Firefox, and Brave all daily. With the exception of learning some of the UI differences, and the built-in privacy features of Brave, I use all the browsers interchangeably and without any issues (I manually add uBlock Origin to Chrome and FF).

Without focusing too much on the personal subjective elements, what are the definitive features that makes Chrome a better browser?
How to use Reddit to get your first users
JSON[0]. Here is the export I did for my employer, Hyperledger.

[0]: https://github.com/hyperledger-archives/slack-archive
Aren’t taxes quite low in Switzerland? Or at least in some Cantons?
I agree. Vanilla OO/functional Scala, focused on immutability and functional idioms, but without effect systems and type classes, can be a really beautiful, simple, expressive, highly productive way to develop software. I'm neck deep in FP Scala now (the cats ecosystem with cats-effect) and hoping I eventually come to feel the same way about it.

I'm very sad about the Java OO extremists and the Scala functional extremists finding common cause in denying the possibility of moderate, limited use of Scala's power. Programming that way is head and shoulders above Java, and I've yet to see FP Scala match it for productivity (again, hoping and working, so fingers crossed.)
Using what funds, exactly?
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This reads like marriage advice to be honest.
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The "borrowing" is not without some side effects which might be hard or impossible to revert in the future.

It's like driving accelerating train without the breaks and hoping that someone builds tracks fast enough that we won't derail
JSON: https://github.com/hyperledger-archives/slack-archive
This is a 14A issue, not a 2A issue.

Restricting CCWs in a manner that would absolutely not fly for free speech, voting, or some other right isn't the issue. The issue is that some states have set up discretionary license issuing schemes that in practice violate the 14th amendment.
Note that the JetBrains "Individual Use" licenses are less than half the price of the "Organization Use" licenses: you're still allowed to use an individual license whilst working for a company, as long as you only use it yourself and pay for it yourself (without being reimbursed) [1].

An individual use license for PyCharm Professional is only $89 for the first year (then $71 for the second year, then $53/year thereafter).

[1]: https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207241075-What...
Not a coincidence, really. The NE corridor is the only area in the US that has Europe-like population density.
Guessing that was to suit 16 color EGA?
I think you mixing up cause and effect. Rich states tend to vote Democratic. It’s not that Democratic states lead to wealth.

California was a red state until 1992.
It's really not. We are going to pay very high price for this.
Cheapest ssd $/tb is x2-3 that of the cheapest hdd. That's still significant.
The Original Selfie Craze Was the Mirror
From the names, it looks most of these are Chinese Apps. I find no issue in banning apps for national security interests.
Just off the top of my head, haven't given this much thought.

Could you salt the hash with something way less predictable that gets discarded when the next one is generated? Assuming you only kept logs for a day for example you could regenerate it daily and store $salt somewhere only the most senior of senior techs can access it (if anyone at all)
absolutely, but at least there is some valuable information to be extracted.
The same author wrote this wonderful article on Garfield.

http://wondermark.com/the-comic-strip-doctor-garfield/
Indeed. It puzzles me why in our society numeracy doesn't seem to be as important as literacy. If kids struggle with learning to read we won't give up until they get it. If they struggle with fractions we often shrug and say their brains aren’t wired for mathematics. Sad.
> I just wish there were more wired product options out there. Love to hear recommendations.

RS485 + Modbus

There are some hardlimits (like length, number of devices though)
Imagine all the people conscientious about climate change choose not to have children in order to minimize their environmental impact. Does that seem like a strategy sustainable over a few generations?
I disagree with fifth comment, because certain large cap spending items are even more expensive than Brooklyn,such as cars, fuel, international travel, all electronics (check iPhone prices, the new bigmac index) When moving from New York, you should feel the upgrade so keeping same income level will make you feel way better.
> but we will need to expend more energy later to put the extra carbon back where it belongs

Is this actually a given? I mean trying to make gasoline from the atmosphere would certainly require more energy than you get by burning it, a lot more.

But I thought sensible capture proposals ran on different chemistry, possibly relying on a wet/dry cycle under which the affinity for carbon is different in the two halves. And letting evaporation (i.e. solar energy) move you from wet to dry. It's not obvious that these must use more energy than you got by burning the coal in the first place.
I think jn6118's explanation is closer.
It's almost quaint how this December 2019 article talks about "the concern surrounding the creation of large swaths of Tether in 2017", when about $2.5 billion of Tether was issued.

In the time since it was published, when Tether had issued about $4.5 billion total, there have been over $14 billion additional Tether, a 4X expansion of the total supply, or 7.5X what was described as "large swaths of Tether" in this article.
Animats, who you're replying to, is John Nagle of Nagle's algorithm.
Looming end to student loan payment moratorium raises fears among borrowers
Serendipity?
I have been successfully using screen flow recordings. Short videos. Some people still don't watch but it helps me avoid answering same question twice.
Hasura Data Dictionary: An open source project to understand your data graph
Not nice to me. I like to be able to see what the link is before I click it.
The intent is different.

If you do this to get everyone into health insurance that has a different base than if you do it because you want it for your own gain.
A perfect example of Econ 101 reasoning gone awry. It is funny how often people will deny things sitting right in front of them because "that wouldn't happen".
Show HN: NotePlan 3 – Native (Mac/iOS) note-taking based on local Markdown files
U6 includes underemployment. It's definitely not what most people think of as unemployment. It doesn't adjust for participation rate. Participation can be misleading because while there are definitely discouraged workers the size of the workforce varies naturally as people retire, become disabled or take time off for families. U3 helps track demand for employment and anyone outside the labor force isn't demanding work.

That being said, the closest single metric to follow isn't any of the indices. Try prime age employment-population ratio.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=y51M
Quite cool, and even the existing Assembly instructions are richer than what I was expecting, well done.
Hi HackerNews

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NotePlan is a 100% native app written in Swift. This means: a beautiful, clean design, super-fast, and highly integrated into Apple's ecosystem (iOS included). It also syncs with iCloud calendar and reminders.

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Can tell you from experience in healthcare, the difference between a regular usb stick and one that has a verifiable security level is that if you lose track of a stick with a research data set on it, it's the difference between doing local incident response, and individually notifying 1m+ people their health information has been breached.

If it's on a USB stick, you've already lost control, but there was a case at a hospital where they avoided that cost because the lost device was encrypted.
Having it increase the cost of electricity only makes sense if you see it as part of the electricity production process.

Otherwise it just increases the energy demand of the process, this makes the process more expensive, not energy. Perhaps it could drive up energy prices if it ended up being an immensely profitable use of energy, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
The NE Corridor is actually profitable for Amtrak (in normal times). The problem is that Amtrak then proceeds to lose its NE Corridor profits on pretty much every other train route in the country.
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A Visual History of Interpretable Machine Learning
I like Beetle Bailey, and I am not even an American, I've
just liked to roam local cheap stores where I live and
they had newspapes strips compiled into a comic book, it
was cool.
There was one based on a married couple with tons of
typical issues, I can't remember it's name.
Duplicate of this other submission, which has lots more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25194796
That depends on the tax rate. The >$4/gallon price delta between most of the EU and the US is entirely taxes. That's quite a bit more significant than pennies on the gallon...
Show HN: Pyinfer – A tool to benchmark inference statistics for any ML model
The Wikipedia page "Free and open-source software" agrees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software#...

"Netscape's act prompted Raymond and others to look into how to bring the FSF's Free software ideas and perceived benefits to the commercial software industry. They concluded that FSF's social activism was not appealing to companies like Netscape, and looked for a way to rebrand the Free software movement to emphasize the business potential of sharing and collaborating on software source code. The new name they chose was "Open-source", and quickly Bruce Perens, publisher Tim O'Reilly, Linus Torvalds, and others signed on to the rebranding. The Open Source Initiative was founded in February 1998 to encourage the use of the new term and evangelize open-source principles."

It states this as a source: https://opensource.org/history
Well, you almost need to be claiming that. If you claim otherwise the energy requirements are truly stupendous. That doesn't event mention that the energy must be green by necessity.

Another commenters on this site (can't find the link) put it like this:

You'd have to drive every mile ever ridden on fossil fuels in reverse. Every single ICE in boats and planes too. All gas, coal and oil plants too. The energy requirements are incomprehensible, truly. We're having trouble going carbon neutral already, but this scheme requires we go neutral and _then some_.
It's a stupid idea because humans breath out CO2.
What did you mean by this one?
I think this could be quite the surprise for some bandwidth-limited contracts (which are still a big thing outside of SF / the US). And it is a bit funny to see how they clearly bent over backwards in their announcement e-mail to wrestle with the wording until they'd managed to come up with some form of why the force-opted-in user may possibly need or want this. Just when we'd started to tell people (who already had very little trust) that Amazon isn't always listening, they do that sort of thing and just take co-ownership of the uplink and share it with others. I get the concept of a virtual interface, but that is beside the point. It also allows Amazon (I'd think) to map out your neighbours, who may not be as interested in sharing location details, as you and your IP are.
Nice. Can you also promote Foss apps while you are at it instead of pushing for more proprietary hacks in exchange of foreign proprietary hacks? Money will flow on its own.
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I wonder how much natural sources emit. Could we extract and sequester sources like Lake Nyon for example?
It seems like a mobility scooter or electric trike could handle that kind of case?
I might have to implement a SUBLEQ version of this...
The Year's Best Science Fiction and really all the collections edited by Gardner Dozois are fantastic. Sadly he died but there are years and years and years of great selections.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25194795
Any open-source alternatives?

I am looking for:
- Voice/video chat with PTT integrated
- An okayish chat with search feature

I would like to be a part (developer) of such project.

Spartial channel structure (like in spartial.chat) is a welcome thing — I would like to make some sort of distributed hackspace with that.
Yes! There is some work being done in this space already; by the incredible people at North-Eastern. One of the more interesting parts of this problem is what you do at the /boundaries/ of the different languages with differing semantics such that you don't accidentally introduce bad lemmas.

There are a few published papers which study the boundary between dynamic and static type-systems, but the hope was to extend it into gradual-typing between different type-systems .
Because its not so important to survival.

You will derive more pleasure in your life knowing how to pickup chicks (or guys), or caring to your family, than having any pain thinking the earth is flat. No pain at all. Ignorance is bliss.

Science is interesting but interesting does not make it fundamental for you as an animal.
Have a drink with them.
Specific illiteracy is positively omnipresent.

Try talking to an accountant about Renaissance art. Try talking to a butcher about linguistic theory. To a neurosurgeon about Egyptian architecture.

Specialisation is what our society mandates, and you don’t improve your lot by having knowledge which is extraneous to your specialisation - unless you have a lot of extraneous knowledge, in which case, congratulations, you’re an undesirable generalist.

We live in a world built with the scientific method, however, which means that scientific illiteracy has greater scope for making poorly informed impactful decisions. Likely nobody will die if you don’t know a finial from a pilaster.

So - rather than viewing this as a problem of scientific illiteracy, I view this as a problem of overspecialisation. We are taught, from early on, to focus on that which interests us, and to hone in on a tiny slice of information to pursue a specialised career.

Crack that, make being a generalist desirable, and you have your scientific literacy - but doing so is incompatible with our current economies.
I wonder how long it will be until every country just has its own segregated internet. Will it happen on its own for economic reasons or will it take a real war that involves massive hacking attacks from both sides?
Indian Govt bans 43 Chinese apps
Haha, this was great. I arrived at an article about “John Frum” which did sound like a secret, and was quite the rabbit hole [1].

It got me worried about history. The whole story sounds like 90s zine fiction, which I think it is - there is no record I could find beyond the original story from 1995 on Harper’s Magazine [2], yet it is now in Wikipedia, stated as a fact.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frum

[2] https://skeptichume.weebly.com/the-gospel-according-to-prum....