skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You tell me "it's not about riches" then say I should invest for a speculative 50x-100x return. I don't think it's dangerous, I think it's dumb. I think gambling on it paid off, and gamblers think that's proof they were smart

Gambling can be smart, when the expected value is greater than the cost of the ticket - or when ticket price itself is insignificant, like the 10 coins as suggested in 2010.

That's what I meant with my suggestion to waste $500 - you won't miss them much, and even if it won't make you rich, it will have clear upsides for you, like a new car. And I'm sure it's a safe bet for someone reading HN.

But apparently, you are extremely risk averse. I think that's another defining features of a lot of the geeks here.

This is the only way I can frame that, as I just don't understand a refusal to take such a simple action.

If it's not too much to ask, can you better explain me your reasons? Is $500 a large amount of money for your budget? Or is it more about the risks of regrets of taking an action that's greater that then risk of of regret of not-taking an action?

> I never got the "hacker" spirit of "eat ramen, build a startup, sell it for billions".

Exactly what I thought! The hacker spirit is a taste for risk and fun, as understanding things allows you gain more control of your destiny ; it's a bit like "work hard play hard", along with a hefty disdain of the mainstream.

> In twelve years, nobody has come up with a killer app, or even a mildly compelling app

I see fully self managed payment and saving as game changing, you don't. We have very different takes, maybe due to our different preferences: personally, I don't want to ever depend on a payment provider that I don't fully control. "be your own bank" is the killer app for me.

> For someone gloating about being superior and retired, you still end up in the same HN thread as me, with a massive chip on your shoulder and an inferiority complex.

Superior? Gloating? No, I only find it sad.

Because as you correctly noticed, I feel I can't relate to the other hackers anymore. I still help a few projects, and share interesting nuggets, but I feel like I'm in another world now, due to a profound difference in values and understanding. (I seriously wonder about the $500 - which is why I asked you)

After the 50x happens in about 30x years, you may not remember this conversation but I will remember how yet again I was unable to make someone take a clear beneficial action.

It's like a reverse Chicken Little syndrome forcing me to watch as other hackers pass opportunities.
Thanks for replying and all your amazing work :) !

What I see or meant as a sign of "dead" is that there will be no new features that Mapbox GL JS has but that are critical for future applications. Like proper or inbuilt vector tiles support.
I know the drivers are working hard, and have been a big part of keeping the US functional during the pandemic.
Run your own: https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim

You can find many other open source projects that utilize OSM (and support autocomplete and other features).
Oxford Covid vaccine 'safe and effective' study shows
I've dug into headphone forums and bought audiophile style headphones that are generally liked by the community.

- Sennheiser HD650s

- Schiit DAC

- Schiit Amp

They sound good (price ~$500, more after the DAC/Amp), but the build quality of the HD650s is poor, they feel like plastic crap. The Schiit devices are really nice and I like them.

Sennheiser also differentiates one of their lower models simply by stuffing a piece of foam into the ear cup to make it sound worse and then sells it cheaper than a more expensive model with the same driver. I find this to be a pretty disgraceful way to differentiate.

I think these Apple headphones are probably a better overall product at a cheaper price point. They've improved the beats products and the build quality is better than Sennheiser.

Audio stuff has a lot of snake oil around it and (ironically) a lot of extreme anti-brand tribleness that I'd argue is more irrational than what the parent comments suggests about buying Apple stuff. (Hatred for bose for example).

I think it's more about signaling some sort of in-group status than about the products themselves.

All of that Sennheiser stuff is currently in a cabinet, because it's a hassle to use and Airpods/Beats studio work better day to day.
The organization profile page has been updated with a Sponsoring tab, but only two of the launch partners appear to have active sponsorships. Maybe there's a setting they need to toggle to make them public?

https://github.com/orgs/stripe/sponsoring

https://github.com/orgs/cognitect/sponsoring
> Why would you say GTK isn't a good option for non-Linux use? And would you say that it is a good option for Linux?

You need something like MSYS2 to even use GTK on Windows, and I've looked at what it takes to package and distribute GTK applications to Windows users without MSYS2, and it's headache inducing.

When it comes to Linux, it's pretty good. Getting its GObject Introspection dependencies compiled is another story, though. I've always had to rely on my distribution's package manager to install them.
Sure, but no open-source project wants contributions by contributors who do not legally own the code because in that case the actual owner of the code can petition the court to issue an injuction on the project preventing further distribution of the code till the offending code is removed from the project. (They can also sue any user of the project for damages.)

Wikipedia has to worry about the same thing, BTW: contributors who upload text whose copyright is owned by some entity who never consented to the upload, and they have policies in procedures in place to correct it when it happens.

It's not like CLA's are the only obstacle to employees contributing to the open-source projects. In fact, you might say that the main purpose of a CLA is to surface copyright-ownership problems early, when the cost of correcting them is lower.
The original sin of SQL is that it begins without memory.

The original sin of Kafka is that it begins with only memory.

To me the right middle way is relational temporal tables[0]. You get both the memoryless query/update convenience and the ability to travel through time.

[0] SQL:2011 introduced temporal data, but in a slightly janky just-so-happens-to-fit-Oracle's-preference kind of way.
First off, very cool. I'm a big Hashicorp fan, and have been following Nomad for a while, so it's exciting you hit 1.0!

It seems to me one of the advantages K8s has is that there are multiple "Kubernetes as a Service" services out there, such as EKS on AWS, Google Cloud's offering, even Digital Ocean.

Are there any plans to make Nomad Enterprise more accessible? It seems a managed Nomad hits the sweet spot of simple scheduling, which removes a lot of the K8s bloat for many people.
Dan's comment about gatekeeping in STEM and dismissing the problem as "some people just can't hack it" rings very true to me.

I remember tutoring undergrad math back in the day; it was a walk-in thing where students would tutor other students and the only qualification required to be a tutor was that you passed the class yourself with a 3.5 or whatever. I recall distinctly one evening helping a group of sophomores with their intro linear algebra homework. It was early in the semester, the deadline for dropping classes was a week or two away, and they just weren't getting it. More than likely they were going to just wash out.

As we were plugging away through an example exercise in the textbook, I said something like "so this is a vector and this is a matrix, so to multiply them you need to do this" and one of them said in exasperation, "well how'd you even know that's what they were??" and it finally clicked that no one had explained to them basic notational conventions. They didn't know that the bold and italic variables in the textbook actually meant something. This was compounded by professors using different notations on the blackboard during lectures - typically lowercase letters with overbars for vectors and poorly-rendered double-struck capital letters for matrices.

It took 5 minutes of listening to understand what the real problem was, and 5 minutes to fix it, but really it just took empathy. I don't know if those students ended up dropping the class - statistically they very well could have. But if they did I hope it was because they found something else to be passionate and curious about, and not because they were bullied out of it.
Yes, I think it is much different.
That is definitely true, but the link seems to be from September and talks about refusing a vaccine in general, not this particular at this time.

50% is insane. 5% I'd be able to understand, but not 50%.
.. but the version of Tor which does not raise alarms on every corporate firewall/IDS system
Is there a paywall bypass that works for New Yorker articles now?
How do you deal with side effects outside of the Kafka cluster?
I was speaking about _local_ notifications, not push: some clock / reminder apps never fire notifications or way too late. I think it's because the OS aggressively shutdown apps running in background.
> Cops have absolutely zero legal obligation to enforce the law.

Was surprised to learn this is true.

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-po...
The biggest problem with these types of issues is that they make it a false dichotomy. We don't need to decide between space exploration and ocean exploration. We can do both. Space exploration is a paltry fraction of a percentage of our total spending as a species.

Not to mention that innovations derived from space exploration do end up in applications here on earth.
> I'm starting to understand what "the right" has been talking about free speech-wise...will the tech overlords grant me permission to share my view...?

You created a new account specifically for this comment. Is HN, in your eyes, allowed to gate the publication of your comment on passing some moderation queue within reasonable time?
You can read about the reasoning behind subgraph ownership here: https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/244
A tour through melonDS's JIT recompiler Part 1
GitHub uses Camo [1] to serve assets like images and SVG files. It removes any "dangerous" code like JS from the file before serving it from a GitHub CDN.

1. https://github.com/atmos/camo
Can you give extra context? It's unclear to me how Zephyr relates other than being an operating system. It doesn't on initial look seem to be designed with the same goals as Fuchsia.
I wish they would undo the new ui entirely
Neural nets emulate sorting algorithms from images of their execution traces
I have a friend who works in a UPS Store. He has been working 10+-hour days for the last two weeks, on top of a bicycle commute (which will sometimes turn into an hour-long walk if the winds are bad), picking up groceries, etc.. They have as many employees as they are allowed to have (given the store size), and right now the work is never-ending.

> I would love to try this one day as long as the Benny Hill song can play in the background as I make trips from my van into a retail UPS store.

Please don't do this, or even joke about it.
On every single operating system it is possible for this kind of improvement to be installed as a system-wide replacement for the local resolver, whether by a direct plugin or by running a resolver on localhost. This is how these upgrades can be deployed if you don't want to wait for the OS.

The problem is that browsers and other applications are just unwilling to let the user see how their products work or decide anything for themselves--or even just architect their installers to involve dependencies on a shared resolver upgrade--and so we end up in this hell of applications actively hiding their traffic from you.

And like, "great": now we have a new version of DoH and have to wait for everyone to upgrade their apps that upgraded to DoH before? This is ridiculous bullshit... this should be a single app on your device you now upgrade. Hell: Cloudflare even develops that app for a number of platforms! They aren't even the problem... it is everyone who jumps on "embedding" this behavior :/ :/ :/.

(For a more technically-comprehensive rant about this, read my comment from a year ago:)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21701808
Watch SpaceX fly a prototype of its Starship rocket to its highest altitude yet
I'm not bothered -- I like it.
I would like it even more if they acted upon the claim.
Here’s where SVG with prefers-color-scheme would be useful.
The 'historical quirk' per my understanding is pretty much IPv4 NAT.

At least, I couldn't figure out how to do it with IPv6 (no (need for) NAT) - I ended up dropping them if not destined for my desired DNS instead.

(NAT lets you Translate Addresses, usually to save IPv4 space, but here to redirect to a different DNS. IPv6 fixes the address space problem with more addresses, so the hack is done away with, and everything on the network can 'route itself' to everything else without any translation, as pre-NAT and as always intended.)
At the very least support videos. That would make a lot of people happy, from being able to pause and fast forward demos in READMEs to issue filers that record the issue with a screen recorder.
Man born without a hand gets Metal Gear Solid 3D-printed bionic arm
I absolutely will not forget this, if not for the actual tragedy of it, then for the sheer engineering laziness/ineptitude/corruption that occurred here. Boeing is tarnished and will remain so in my book.
I think that's a big part of what Apple sells. And I think it also helps explain how pretty much any Apple product announcement is contentious on here. Most people buying status goods won't say, "I buy it so people think I'm more interesting and important." They instead justify purchases in conventional terms like quality. That makes objective discussion of quality fraught because they create feelings of status threat and cognitive dissonance.
I'm sure it has. It's an additional hurdle that developers have to clear before they get their code included upstream -- it would be extremely surprising if there weren't some number of developers who gave up at that point.

(It doesn't help that the FSF's processes for copyright assignment are incredibly clunky. It was a big deal when they started accepting scanned papers in 2012, for example.)
Only one datapoint, but I have refrained from contributing to GNU partly[1] because of the copyright assignment requirement, while having committed to many other open-source projects I use.

1: TBH it's hard to tease apart the cultural aspects from the legal. Most GNU projects were roughly "We'll post a tarball once in a while and not have public CVS" when I first started getting involved in OSS; projects with public CVS it was a lot easier to tell if someone was already was working on something, particularly for people as shy as I was back then; I got the impression that the "proper" thing to do would be to introduce yourself on the mailing list, propose the idea, &c. and then start working on a patch.

My particular combination of low-confidence and misanthropy steered me away from such projects.
The world isn’t black and white. One can be anti China for most things and still agree with them for some things. Similarly one can be pro “west” and still disagree with the US.

I find it problematic that anything in support of China or against the US in the context of US vs China is labeled being an apologist or Chinese propaganda. It’s a good way to shut down all discussion, much like the whole “that’s heresy” from ages past.
I thought this was a neat overview of how this specific JIT recompiler works. It also starts with why an emulator would want to opt for JIT'ing instructions instead of direct interpretation, which I was unaware of.
Kind of strange they're an Amazon with slower shipping and less customer service.
Sorry, I'm not a musician so I can't comment as anything more than a listener, but I enjoyed listening to it. Thanks for posting.
"Hypoxic radiosensitization: Adored and Ignored"

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c26b/4d3156b0c526d16c891ce7...

>"three of the four most cited papers in the journals deal with hypoxia [...] yet its routine clinical use is very limited."
Totally agree! Are there concrete steps or examples to achieve this?
Not bothered in the least.
Have you heard of OpenSuse.
Apple will remove apps that track users without permission
If you are asking about stereo pairing, here is the official link: https://support.apple.com/guide/homepod/set-up-stereo-pairin...

I use a pair with my TV and the effects are really awesome.
Out of curiosity, what's the difference vs Apple's first party "Apple Configurator"? Do you like the GUI better, or does it expose more options?
I have a few different sets of headphones ranging from cheap workout bluetooth ones to the over ear I use for work. None of them have the issues you imply.

They all happily switch from phone to laptop to other device, going in and out of range, etc
Same with Darwin and MacOs.

Is there even a functioning darwin build for Big Sur??
I disagree but I am up voting so other people can see your link.
What’s the mechanism?

Eg A road is accessible from 5am to 8pm. Outside those times traffic conditions change. Humans setup cones and control the flow of traffic. 2 lanes becomes 1 lane for all traffic. And traffic is managed so that depending on what direction you’re going, your driving against the normal flow of traffic.

This is a real scenario in a moderately busy area. Times may be wrong. The road is not blocked. But you have to take direction from a person. In fact this sort of temporary traffic change is fairly common especially due to road works.
>I want to put them on and they need to make noise.

>I'm not dealing with connectivity issues, battery issues, etc.

>Battery, I need to be able to easily and quickly know what the status is and I need to know that if I plugged them in before I go to bed I'll be good to go all day, the next day and I don't have to think about charging.

>Connectivity. When I go to use them I need them to connect and work. No fiddling around with loss of connection or not connecting in the first place.

Wired headphones tick all these boxes. If not for Jony Ive's quest for a legacy and absurd fetish for thinner phones we wouldn't have to live the dongle life to have every feature you listed.
> The Mapbox Geocoding API does two things: forward geocoding and reverse geocoding. Forward geocoding converts location text into geographic coordinates, turning 2 Lincoln Memorial Circle NW into -77.050,38.889.

https://www.mapbox.com/place-search

I think "location text" is the part they are not parsing well.

The screenshots all over that page show someone entering a couple of letters and getting the resulting POI with address.

Unfortunately, we could not get reliable results using their web place search so maybe they just have better mobile sdks that are adding more filter data to the requests automatically ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It sounds like this would have made a better proof of concept than an commitment to the architecture.

The idea on the face of it is not per se a bad one, quite interesting, but the implementations are perhaps not there yet to back such an idea.

It's important to know as an architect when your vision for the architecture is outpacing reality, to know your time horizon, and match the vision with the tools that help you implement the actual use cases you have in your hand right now.

It sounds like this person might have had an interesting idea but not a working system. In another light, this could have been a good idea if all the technology was in place to support it.. but the timing and implementation doesn't sound like it was right, perhaps.

The old saying "use the right tool for the job" comes to mind, but that can be hard to see when the tools are changing so fast, and there is a risk to going too far onto the bleeding edge. Perhaps the saying should have been, "use the rightest tool you can find at the time, that gives you some room to grow, for the job"...
Huh, I’m reading Ministry for the Future (cli-fi) and just stopped last night as people were arriving at a camouflaged Swiss military bunker. Very cool to see images of real-life ones today.
Google Quantum AI
Giex.tn
It may be trite, and I have no idea if it applies to AirPods specifically. But it's certainly a true pattern with other goods. Just look at the amount of marketing that works to create the impression that all the cool or important people are using a product.
Because I don't have Google's services on my phone, I have two always-visible notifications that never go away:

"Telegram" / "Push service: tap to learn more" (tapping opens https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/mas...)

"Signal" / "Background connection enabled"

Both are serving the same purpose, for different apps. Even before we get to network connections and servers (the things that might make sense to be proprietary), without Google's ecosystem the local side has a bad UX and requires hacks.
That's almost true for any project getting acquired. The big EvilCorp will always have it's overbearing corporatey corporateness crush the things that made the project so cool it attracted their attention to it. There are very few projects that actually improved from being acquired.
> regular updates about our progress, AMAs with our API team, questions so we can better understand your API needs and wants, and more

You're alright haha, I'll keep an eye on HN for when it's released

> so we can better understand your API needs and wants

Zapier/IFTTT/Integromat integration - Dealer's choice, I can make it work from there
Arturia V Collection 8 available now
If we've learned nothing else the last 4 years (last few decades really, but the last 4 years really hits home), it's that so much of what we take for granted about the US being supposedly safer or having a saner, more hands-off government is based far more on norms of behavior than actual legal protections for anyone, or legal guardrails that prevent whoever's in charge from abusing their power.

So you've got a point, but nowadays it's like you're comparing the risk of crossing a street blindfolded on a highway during the day vs. a 4-lane expressway in the middle of the night. One is a lot safer than the other but let's not pretend that either one is rational or advisable.
I am following Tommi Jakkola in this space too. Also would recommended Ameet Talwalkar's group, esp the papers with Gregory Plumb like MAPLE [1].

[1] [PDF] https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2018/file/b495ce63ede0f4efc9eec...
> Who cares if two people are fighting over the last item?

The two people, at least. Customers tend to be a bit underwhelmed by "well, the CAP theorem..." as a customer service script.
A year ago you could get the full $250 back (barring some issues like weather, or shipping during the holiday blackout period from Cyber Monday to Christmas).

Right now the estimates they give you have always been tied to the guarantee. I'm not sure if they'll ever start showing guarantees based on actual delivery; one thing is the carriers tend to operate in lockstep. There are a handful of companies in our space that are trying to provide additional insight, but as alluded to, they have more data points than any of us do.
They signal you have enough disposable income to buy them. It's like a Rolex you wear on your head.

Edit: I'm not being facetious, this is an excellent move for Apple to make as it continues to pursue dominance in the luxury tech-wearables market.