skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Switzerland is a country that banned minarets nation-wide in a federal referendum. It's all very democratic, but still an abuse of power.
I don't see how that's the case. There are corporations that use the GPL'd version of my software without issue. They use my software internally and also extend it with custom functionality for their own business purposes and have absolutely no issue doing so. There are also corporations that use the commercial license of my software in situations where they wish to release software commercially to other parties.

I also do the same myself. Internally within my company I use Linux and MySQL, both of which are GPL'd software and I am a very happy user of both software products and never felt like I was restricted in how I can use them.

If I wish to incorporate MySQL into commercial software, then I'd need to pay Oracle for a license, but I have no need to do that.

In what way is any of this incredibly restrictive?

At any rate, I don't know that we're going to change one another's minds on this issue, all I can say is that there seems to be a fairly substantial group of users who do not feel restricted in how they use very popular GPL software such as Ad Block, Wordpress, Git, Linux, MySQL.

I use all of those and never once felt like they restricted my usage.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding but it seems you’re totally in agreement!
Consider doing your refactoring while working on your feature, then it can't be bumped.
You could fly a drone right now in and out of your property and no one will stop you. It’s an uphill battle to say deliveries are not allowed. That means personal flights are not allowed. Like really what the fuck are you gonna do? You’re not the FAA (not saying you personally, you as in general).
What is an IEM?

Can you share URLs to some recommended vendors of the products you're talking about?
>maybe look at the pieces through some sharpened glass, like a bunch of chimpanzees smashing apart a thousand dollar wrist watch.

Or worse yet, find a way to exploit that destruction for profit.

>maybe a little bit sad

Personally I find it devastating. Taking a 20,000 foot view of our species and the impact of its presence on this planet is bleak at best.
How much of the excess renewable energy is being wasted rather than stored? Maybe fuel generation like hydrogen or ethanol, or kinetic can help make nuclear less crucial?
The problem with Unikernels is legacy software. In order to effectively run Unikernels you have to program for them.

I think the big jump in unikernels will come when someone can build Linux as a safe Unikernel and create a tool that converts docker images into Unikernel images. It's doable, but incredibly hard.

Disclaimer:

I'm sure there are lots of instances for folks where programming for Unikernels makes sense, but obviously legacy software will be around for a while.
It's not a critisism on the possibility of doing this in Word. It's the critisism that at least three people (the document creator and two interns) did not use it, either due to ignorance or because Word has frequent problems with automatic lists. Either way, this is a problem with Word.

For me, Word and LaTeX are on par. Styles, referencing, formula, macros, auto-layout are possible in both. However real-world use is different because Word is the lowest common denominator and thus mostly only the basic features actually get used. Because everybody experienced the horror of automatic features at least once.
IBM is all about expensive support contracts. We cannot afford RHEL. So we went with CentOS 7 and recently CentOS 8. I migrated some machines from 7 to 8. Turns out I did that for one year. My boss wasted precious money there, and it isn't getting us closer to RHEL. My take is its getting us closer to Debian Stable instead. Which is RedHat's loss because a migration to RHEL is then more out of the picture. They know this. They thought of the above. And they are fine with it. That is not a technical decision, as you said. It is a business decision.
Congratulations, you are 1 of just 5-10% (I couldn't find an exact number) of Americans who live in a walkable neighborhood.
The website uses the basic render, that is just a start to make it easy to create a page quickly. But ideally, you create a custom render, that will not depend on the order.
It is not about what you like

It is about what feels better on the eyes

Dark theme, and at night you want to reduce eyestrain by reducing the blue light

This dark theme is full of blueish tone, wich goes against the need of dark theme
It seems like drones will mainly be delivering stuff that's locally available anyway, since otherwise it will be at least an overnight lead time and so the package might as well be delivered via truck that's cheaper to operate. If you have to go to a convenient centralized location to pick up a locally available item, you might as well just go to the store and buy the item without involving a drone.

Maybe if you have drones with a large enough service radius, you can centralize warehouses enough to have a much better selection than convenience stores. If you're still delivering to centralized lockers, though, it seems like packages could be batched in trucks as they currently are. I suspect sparsely filled trucks would still be cheaper to operate than drones, even with similar delivery times.

The value of drone based delivery really seems to me to be in getting packages exactly where they are needed faster and cheaper than sending it via direct courier.
I've been teaching myself about Zig this year, and while it's probably a bit late to achieve my 2020 New Year's Resolution of having something to show for it, I'll probably make it part of 2021's (assuming we're alive by then, of course :) ).
Australia: Facebook, Google forced to pay for news content under new media laws
The key issue is that currently, any warehoused shipments will INCREASE ultimate required throughput rather than decrease it, because most holiday shipments need to arrive before 12/25, and the curve of shipments is increasing not decreasing.

So if you had some buffer, you'd be buffering into more constrained capacity rather than less. Buffering works better if you buffer into a quieter period. That's not this sitution. So yeah, backpressure needs to flow to shippers in terms of pricing etc.
Right now it's cheaper to deploy fossil fuels than using one of the more expensive storage technologies. Hopefully with time the price will come down though. Trends are quite promising.
Senate Confirms Nathan Simington as FCC Commissioner
That isn't the question though. 8 hours may not be harmful but does that mean 16 hours is also not harmful? What about 24 hours? Where is the line? Is there one?
HTML is a markup/description language
JSON is a markup/description language

Cool, but why?
Staff Engineering (Ft. Will Larson, CTO of Calm) [audio]
And Arrival - https://www.engadget.com/2020-01-29-ups-arrival-electric-tru...
> Bullet-proof pairing, keeping a connection, audio quality†, and sound cancelling†. †(AirPods Pro, for these.)

Guess we are ignoring the fact that this bullet proof pairing and keeping connection etc work only with Macs and iphones. Anyone here care to list how these perform if you have an android phone/tablet, a windows PC, a kindle etc etc. Or do I have to buy another pair of headphones to use with those devices?
I’ve had the same problem at my company (a FAANG), which recently extended the replacement cycle for most laptops to 3 years from 2, mostly issues machines that are too slow to both video call and program, and is very stingy about replacement (e.g. for failing MacBook keyboards). I think it’s probably a sign that execs are worried about the economic climate and looking to cut costs.
This is a Chrome extension - they're supposed to be sandboxed, and unable to pull such tricks. If it really couldn't be uninstalled from the installed extensions list in Chrome, I'd love to know how they did it.
XM4 can. https://helpguide.sony.net/mdr/wh1000xm4/v1/en/contents/TP00...
For those who're curious, the tool to build the database diagrams is dbdiagram.io
That isn't really the whole picture though. In my area (SoCal) Lime and its competitors were game changing and made me willing to use our garbage public transit. The reason no one uses them anymore is because, as usual, the bicyclists and environmentalists shrieked until enough legislation had been passed to hobble something they viewed as a threat. Since then I've just returned to driving since the unhindered scooters were the only thing making the last mile worth enduring the shitshow of crazies and crassness that is a bus ride in any of our major cities.
Light changes over the day. It's impossible to leave it dialed in.
Simple boiled potatoes, especially fresh ones, are delicious, with a little piece of butter. They have delicate flavor. However, nobody likes them in the US... potatos have to be at least deep fried and better yet dipped into some crap. Reminds me of when I was in Munich with some American friends and they thought pork (and potatoes etc.) were flavorless... it just had the flavor of pork :)

I feel like the worst parts of the US diet are not the staples or the meats or anything like that, it's all the additions - too much butter, ketchup, dressings, syrups, sauces, cheeses, added bread (crusts, buns and crumbs) etc. on everything. When your taste buds are nuked by this stuff all the time it's hard to appreciate subtle flavors.
Drones tend to have a discordance and dimensionality to the sound that lawn equipment lacks.
There is a typo on y'all's front page:

> FedEx and UPS both have very complicated contracts. We break down all your current costs, zones, weights and highlight WERE we see savings potentials with our own proprietary software.
I have a pair of HE-400 headphones that I love - the sound quality is outstanding. But dang if they aren’t the heaviest and least comfortable things around (Compare to something like a nice pair of those seinheisers that everybody owns - those feel like you’re wearing a cloud and still sound 85% as good). To me the HE400s are very much “special occasions” headphones that I bust out for when I’m really sitting down to just listen to music. For everything else I need something a bit more... usable.
Hi atonse. Believe it or not, this was a use case that I was considering when developing the service. Speaking with folks at various conferences I've been at, there seem to be more than a few industries where it's necessary to quickly identify the physically closest employee that can be dispatched to resolve an issue. If you'd like to chat about it some more, send me an email [arash at zood dot xyz].

I think a private instance of the service might even be the most useful solution for you.
haven’t heard of Sufa but it sure sounds a lot like a workflow engine, particularly a BPM style workflow engine
To some extent I agree with this sentiment. Not so much the Javascript aspect, although I've always viewed JS with the "less is more" mentality myself. I understand that it's become a critical part of the web, so that's not really where I agree with you.

I agree with you more on the "breaking things that used to work perfectly fine." To me this has nothing to do with "accessibility." If I recall correctly, a couple years ago the header was white, then they changed it to grey.

While I feel like giving users more theme options and more control over their UI is the right direction to go in and one that adds value, I can't help but think that this is just the design team keeping themselves busy/valid.

I followed their design team on social media for a brief period until I realized that all they do is hold senseless confs with the same people over and over again to discuss the same things over and over again. None of them have real code in their repos, just markdown and HTML and stylesheets. None of them contribute to 3rd party projects. Then they iterate something nobody was complaining about. I just feel like these are resources that would be better spent elsewhere.
I think that solar/wind + battery (e.g. Tesla Megapack) will make fusion irrelevant.
I can see it. Some houses are designed around chimneys. Designing a similar orifice might make sense. The gif presented by the author seems a bit fantastical since you'd release way too much heat/cold air. Just ask anyone who's left the door open for 10 seconds in the winter.

Would be interesting to see what drones look like in 10 years. Birds' wings are near-silent rotating airfoils.
IANASecurityExpert. Claiming that an adversary is a state actor seems as much about magnifying the threat as a genuine finding. A high school kid exploiting their weaknesses will obviously leave them red faced. Seems like an natural position to take for anyone hacked.

Not saying it didn't happen, but it looks like it has become the goto defense in recent times.
There's a fuzziness to the concept of monopoly. It doesn't have to mean the absolute version where no alternatives exist at all. It can (and legally does) mean that a business is so dominant that it can effectively dictate the terms of the market.

Google has a search monopoly effective enough that they can solely make or break anyone who relies on search. They have enough dominance in the market that if they were to choose to delete something from search results, it could utterly devastate all sorts of players in the market who cannot at all get by on the tiny fraction of traffic they get from other sources.

This is not the case for all areas of search, but it's the case for enough of them that the concerns about Google's monopoly are valid.
I have proposed MapLibre as a new home, unaffiliated with any existing project, but at the same time inviting maintainers from everywhere, including OpenMapTiles (I'm a big contributor there), as well as other entities. So far a lot of positive response on twitter, hopefully it will pick up. See original post at https://twitter.com/nyuriks/status/1336493514646052864 (includes a nice reply from MapBox CEO)
In a language with Haskell's guarantees, you can mechanically get from the standard "bind" function to prove that "m (m a)" can be converted to "m a" [1]. That function is called "join", and is a lesser-well known way to write monad implementations which is equivalent to the more famous bind function.

(IMHO, join is a better way to understand the typeclass intuitively. The standard bind is better to program with in general use, but much harder to grok.)

So, in Haskell, it's more than just "the APIs would tend to encourage not nesting the types"... having a valid monad implementation means they really are equivalent.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3382210/monad-join-funct...
Most of the comments seem to be doubting that the attack was as advanced as FireEye claim. IE not that they got hacked, but rather that it wouldn't necessarily have taken a nation-state to do it. And therefore that just about any nation-state who did want to could have.
99.9% of Matthews-in-accounting use Microsoft Excel on Windows. Full stop.
I mean if all you need is a watch with a customisable watch face sure, but you are clearly overlooking several things like inbuilt eeg, lte connectivity etc of you dont need them its okay, but pebbles are no way near apple watch.
Please reframe your question in a specific context. I’ll make a guess.

There is no bidirectional trust with corporations: assume you could get fucked at every moment.

When trying to convince a corporation (aka a group of people) to give me money I want to be evaluated on and compensated for my objective impact. Subjective evaluations (which can include bias, even the trendy intentional but liberally acceptable race and gender bias) are toxic and can be gamed.

I was in a rough situation and took it on the chin. I didn’t beg for money, I begged for the chance to work. Very different and represents opposing work ethics.
Many succesful restaurants have never delivered.
> Data are limited to assess the effect of the vaccine against transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from individuals who are infected despite vaccination. Demonstrated high efficacy against symptomatic COVID-19 may translate to overall prevention of transmission in populations with high enough vaccine uptake, though it is possible that if efficacy against asymptomatic infection were lower than efficacy against symptomatic infection, asymptomatic cases in combination with reduced mask-wearing and social distancing could result in significant continued transmission. Additional evaluations including data from clinical trials and from vaccine use post-authorization will be needed to assess the effect of the vaccine in preventing virus shedding and transmission, in particular in individuals with asymptomatic infection.

What they are saying is that it is technically possible for their vaccine which is highly effective at preventing symptomatic COVID to be somehow ineffective at preventing asymptomatic COVID.

https://www.fda.gov/media/144245/download
I can think of a few...

- The CFO doesn't understand why we need separate server infrastructure (and the associated licensing and maintenance costs) for accounting and engineering.

- Software vendors can't answer the most basic questions about how their software communicates to allow network ops to build reasonable access control lists for network segmentation.

- The network gear doesn't have sufficient horsepower to do wire-speed stateful packet filtering because, apparently, that's still an exciting new idea in 2020, and we can't slow everybody's access down.

- Individual departments have end-run IT by using "cloud" offerings that effectively bridge different segments of the network together at layer 7.

- Everybody has to be able to open their email and click random links on any PC.
Ask HN: What's the best Codebase you've read in 2020?
That is not at all what adverse possession is.
That is not a general fact. UPS visits our street probably closer to 5 times per day. Then there’s FedEx, USPS, and Prime all also visiting multiple times per day. Thankfully they are not as loud as the landscape care outfits that run the gas powered blowers n’ mowers.
> Compiling it needs a C++20 compiler

There have been discussions here about modern C++ example code. Lots of projects that use C++11, C++14 and a few C++17 codebases are suggested, but I've not seen a recommendation for a C++20 codebase to study - this might be one.
Pretty irrelevant. They can get money from Matthew over the phone or even snail mail without ever using a computer.
I’m really glad to hear you made it! Respect.
Open Source NoSQL GUI Application
Won't batteries run into the Lithium problem? I heard somewhere that the global Lithium reserves allow us to convert the entire car fleet of humanity to electric, but not anything beyond that, certainly not allowing large scale battery deployments that would make a dent.
Wish you would have seen this first?
my new site running an AI bot -SEC filings of new hedge fund positions/large trades. www.sizingup.co
Get the information before the robinhood crowd can react. Good idea or not?
Nah, I was in early on both Swift and nullable dart - at the end of the day, Dart is preferable because it's using flow analysis to know when operations are safe, avoiding the noise of if...let and guard... (Yes, those are nice too, Dart is better! It feels much more ObjC-y)
I'm confused, as you don't seem to be replying to any point I've made...

> ~1.5x reed solomon is the default these days, again, unless you need read throughput performance

I'm not surprised that Reed-Solomon is the "default these days" given that it exists since the 1960's, and that the most widely available and deployed open-source distributed filesystem is HDFS (which uses Reed-Solomon). However I don't see how that is to be taken as a blind endorsement for it, especially given that the paper in reference explicitly compares itself to Reed-Solomon based systems, including concerns regarding reconstruction costs, performance, and reliability.

> Also, these days the storage of the data doesn't have to be at the same machine that processes the data

Even though what you said here is correct, I don't see how that's relevant to the referenced paper, nor do I think I implied that I hold a contrary belief in any way from what I said.

> Also2, this is completely independent of consistency guarantees

My comment about consistency referred only to the fact that you cannot "simply" spin up more replicas to increase read throughput, because consistent reads often have to aqcuire a lock on systems that enforce stronger consistency, so your comments regarding throughput are not universally true, given that there are many systems where reads cannot be made faster this way, as they are bottle-necked by design.

> Properly done Reed-Solomon has the same durability guarantees as plain old replicated setup

This is not true unless the fragments themselves are being replicated across failure domains, which you seem to address with your next comment with "you need geographic replication if your data cannot be accidentally lost without serious consequences". All of this, however, is directly addressed in the paper as well:

> The advantage of erasure coding over simple replication is that it can achieve much higher reliability with the same storage, or it requires much lower storage for the same reliability. The existing systems, however, do not explore alternative erasure coding designs other than Reed-Solomon codes. In this work, we show that, under the same reliability requirement, LRC allows a much more efficient cost and performance tradeoff than Reed-Solomon.
This is my exact perspective too.
Depending on your neighbors, though they may not be the FAA: yeah, FAA could shut it down rather quick. The broad rules are fairly restrictive: https://www.faa.gov/uas/recreational_fliers/

In particular, 5: Keep your drone within your visual line of sight, ... and 8: Never fly over any person or moving vehicle. are a bit hard to achieve in residential areas, unless it stays within your yard.
Not really, Google and Bing will read the page correctly with Javascript. Check the page insight: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...

But it would be even better if they could get the information directly on JSON. So much carbon saved ;)
>I have little idea why reaching a dead, likely lifeless, planet is more exciting than the ocean.

I agree with your sentiment but as best I understand, the race to get to Mars is

i) to provide redundancy for the species should things turn further to shit here, by our own hand or not

ii) we are in somewhat of a race against time to escape our own solar system before our sun burns out, and Mars is a milestone in that venture
The Moderna vaccine, for example, “is highly effective in preventing symptomatic COVID.”

They only did PCR testing on trial participants who reported symptoms. They did not PCR test the entire study population.

Incidence of symptomatic COVID was dramatically halted by about Day 14 after the first dose:

https://twitter.com/wgibson/status/1336298050315313158?s=21
appreciate the comments on the message and maybe the alert service too.
> it was a resounding no according to Linus' very public rant at a Debconf a few years back

This one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaKIZ7gJlRU&t=241
This is more like "Fusion physicists rally around plan to improve message asking for more money". It's not like there's a serious plan to build a power plant.

Except at Lockheed's Skunk Works, which is quietly plugging away on their own.