skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never got the point of math exams that required punching in numbers into a constrained calculator interface. And while I was at school nobody enjoyed that either. (FWIW in the 90s I used a PIM database that looked like a calculator and allowed me to store formulas I was too lazy to memorize ;)) At university math no calculator is required anyways and everything can be done on paper. And when going to the supermarket with a constrained budget, you definitely don't want to stand in front of the products and summing up the items using a calculator (or smartphone for that matter) but rather use your hopefully developed numeric intuition to stay within your budget
NASA's Juno Spacecraft Updates Quarter-Century Jupiter Mystery
An unfortunate extension of this is that sometimes, a speed limit will be set very low for no apparent reason, and almost everyone will exceed it significantly if it's not visibly being enforced. This puts a driver who wants to be both safe and legal in a no-win situation.

Personally, I liked the idea put forward by one of the UK driver advocacy groups a long time ago. Speed enforcement measures should prioritise places with a dangerous hazard, and there should be prominent warning signs on approach in a standard format that show (a) the speed camera sign, (b) the current speed limit and (c) the nature of the hazard, so drivers understand why the limit is there and enforcement is visible and clearly justified.

Somehow, I suspect that if drivers had more trust that speed limits were being set appropriately and expected that they would actually be enforced where they most matter, they would become largely self-policing anyway. Then the actual road police could spend more time dealing with other problems like using a phone behind the wheel or drinking and driving, which are potentially more dangerous than most speeding but much more difficult to enforce without human intervention.
> Sadly modern day web browsers have such less support for it that they even dropped the media device targets from the CSS spec, which I think is morally wrong.

'Morally wrong'? This is an interesting phrase to use - are you able to explain more on this?
Seeking Alpha doesn't "disagree", they host literally every market view.
Several details of this story stuck out to me:

An engineer who lives across the street from the CEO and carpools with him. Not so common anymore, though I seem to recall that Java started with an engineer who played hockey with Scott McNealy.

The CEO having a consulting company do a market survey and the deciding "ah, whatever, I want one of these, let's go ahead".

I think especially the latter story seems typical for Hewlett, in that he was neither a by-the-book corporate drone, nor an utterly reckless damn-the-torpedoes type, but somebody who was willing to trust his instincts and take calculated risks at times.
Physicists Prove Anyons Exist, a Third Type of Particle in the Universe
As long as you don’t piss off a billionaire.
Keystone: Google’s Malware
Space Invaders – Alex Harsányi
In a maybe-parallel, an empire's language has gone on to live as a lingua franca long after the empire that spawned it collapsed:

* https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/748390958

* https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/133/133183/the-last-lingua-f...

* https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/dec/04/last-lingua-fr...

The Romans spoke (Koine) Greek even though they had the empire at the time and Alexander the Great was long-dead.
I also grew up with a TI-83, though in college I learned about HP calculators and RPN and ended up buying a HP-48S on eBay; those were the cheapest non-financial HP calculators I could find on eBay at the time. I love RPN, but I liked my TI-83's ease of use.

Another factor that could have led to the demise of HP calculators was Texas Instruments' partnerships with textbook companies. When I was in high school, many textbooks had TI-83 examples and exercises. My impression is that HP's calculators were marketed to college students and engineers, while TI marketed its calculators to the much more lucrative middle and high school market. Thus turned out to be a winning strategy for Texas Instruments.

As a computer scientist/software engineer, I seldom use handheld calculators anymore. I use the Unix dc command whenever I need to make quick calculations, and I have LibreOffice Calc, GNU Octane, and REPLs available (such as Python and Common Lisp) whenever I need to perform more complex calculations. If I must calculate something away from my computer, I can use my iPhone's calculator app. I would imagine that this killed the traditional market for HP calculators; why spend the money on a bespoke handheld calculator when most engineers have access to computers and smartphones?

However, in a classroom setting I wouldn't be allowed to use my iPhone. Texas Instruments did a good job courting the classroom and standardized test markets. HP might have figured that it didn't want to compete against TI in this market.

With that being said, I wish I didn't miss out on the HP-15c special edition that was on sale briefly in 2011; I didn't hear any announcements until it was already sold out.
Amazon acquired Goodreads because it was forced to: when still independent, Goodreads made its money through affiliate links to various online bookshops. Soon Amazon's dominance in this sector was so entrenched that most purchases from GR were being made through Amazon.com and not the other sites like Barnes & Noble that GR linked to. It got to the point where Amazon was paying GR so much money in referral fees every month, that it struck Amazon as cheaper just to buy the site outright.
Ugh, once again I am missing the discussion community at Groklaw to help unpack things like this.
> ... uploads speed and license plate data to a database and the appropriate fine is then mailed to the car's registered owner.

Somewhat raises the stakes on deciding whether to lend one's car to a casual friend.
AWS has a service for that, it's called [personalize](https://aws.amazon.com/personalize/)
> Please note that MicroPython is different from the Python that runs on a computer.

I once considered embedding MicroPython into a (software) product myself, but was dissuaded by the number of people who didn’t like being limited to a subset of Python.

Instead I used Lua, which is much less widely-known but is small enough to embed the whole language.

It’s interesting that Casio made the opposite decision. There’s definitely a trade-off between embedding MicroPython (“it’s the language you already know, but you need to learn which bits are missing”) and Lua (“you need to learn the language, but it’s the same everywhere”).
http://osv.io/benchmarks
What to Do If You’re a Startup CEO and You Don’t Know How to Sell
Good point, one of the reasons I find the 'well lets stop the story and imagine what she might have done' thing doesn't work is because she is not very real.
But strangely enough, I never made a microtransaction in a game, despite I played such titles quite a bit.
Functional Programming Is Not What Makes Haskell Great
Correct me if I am wrong, but I can federate with both Gab and "official" Mastodon if I want to, while there's no way to do that between Signal and WhatsApp (at least without third party hacks) ?
So one of the things that bugs the crap out of me is hearing programmers complain about features or bugs in open source software while doing nothing.

Like, I know it's a lot of work to jump into a codebase and make a change and that some projects are a pain to work with, etc etc, but still. This is what OSS is supposed to fix, and we're exactly the demographic who is supposed to be able to contribute.

Obviously, the above is even a bigger lift, but at the same time -- if a community of online hackers, many skilled, many experienced, many damn near independently wealthy from decades at FAAMGs, can't build an Internet 3.0 to fix the Internet 2.0 we all got rich building on top of Internet 1.0, who is supposed to?
Solid-state relays provide isolation between the control circuit and the load, which makes it easy to deal with voltage differences between those circuits, which happens frequently when there is some distance between them. Those relays can be built with MOSFETS or other doped semiconductor switches.
An architectural approach to building layered business processes
For any "calculations" I definitely prefer a real calculator. The keyboard and screen layout and the fact most of functions have dedicated buttons are simply superior compared to software.

For rediculous things like running/writing Python on calculator here, I would like to use a real computer though.
Ah, I had no idea!

Makes me think there’s a different reason for closing the API, because Amazon could run the service for close to nothing on AWS.
There's no rule that when the number of parameters is small deep learning shouldn't be used. The one time where deep learning maybe shouldn't be attempted at all is when the number of samples is very limited. While it excels with high dimensional hierarchical data it can do well on other problems as well. It differentiates from problem to problem and usually multiple solutions are tried and compared, starting with EDA and linear regression.
Ask HN: Should managers participate in team building games (fun plays)?
Is it a good idea to play with your employees on such fun games? Or should manager stay away from such fun activities with team members?
Accessible Color Picker for React
This site always works well for me to broaden my literary horizon:

https://www.literature-map.com

I found some of my all time favorite authors this way.
That sounds suspiciously like PRC anti-Taiwan propaganda and I have never heard of the practice (having heavy involvement with Taiwan and China).

I.e. not to be rude but I do not at all believe your second hand source.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25400618
Yes, but you haven't answered my question. Is he or not considered as an essential thinker in the political/legal domains (in the sense that he is mandatory teaching in some professions)?
Over time the words 'teaching' and 'programming' will converge and at some point you likely won't be able to tell the difference between the two anymore (in a computer context).

Deep learning isn't programming per-se, but it definitely creates results that are of the same kind that programming would be able to create as well (in principle, at least, in many cases).
You seem to want me to defend Azure, but you're the one that brought it up. I have no prescriptive views on how to host things.

The only thing I can really offer you is that in the spirit of this article, when I did some work that would run on AWS lambda it was very handy not to have to think about any of the infrastructure that was around the business logic I needed to code.

I fully expect that code will spend its entire useful lifetime running in AWS Lambda with no need for it to escape the vendor or technology behind it. It's even possible no one will think about it until it breaks and stops sending events.

If it costs the company £50/hour for me to look into something, me being able to complete a task quickly and then never look into it again is almost certainly going to save more money than writing a dedicated process and running it on a physical server that I then need to maintain.
I wonder if there’s a gap in the market, or perhaps there’s no market for book recommendations?
Sadly, the Goodreads importer appears broken - a fresh export just now of my Goodreads data (<100k) is failing to import with a generic "oops it failed" error almost immediately. :(

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/review/import (export)

[2] https://openlibrary.org/account/import/goodreads
Not particularly - I last read about them when I was a bio undergrad, and they weren't brand new then. The key words I'd use in google scholar are 'adenovirus vector mRNA', but be sure to restrict the timeline to pre-2020.
Yes. Plenty. Also not many people pay $100. There’s a thriving second hand market for much less.

When the TI83 was the calculator I’d actually buy 100 or so for low price at start of summer (large surplus), spend two weeks clean and refurb and then sell them again for 3x the amount at the end (high demand)
This is a serious, non-sarcastic response: honestly, sincerely, in my experience as a HN reader off and on for years, a commenter for 6 months, and occasional author of submitted articles (usually submitted by someone other than me) that have reached #1, violation of the HN guidelines is the norm on HN, and abiding by the guidelines is the exception.

I myself have been personally attacked on here, or been interpreted uncharitably, etc., countless times. Mostly with no moderators intervening. In general I have no objection to "policing" the comments, if it is done well, and consistently, but the problem with policing, not just on HN but in general, is the selective, arbitrary enforcement of rules.

Just looking at the current case, for example, why was my reply flagged, but the comment I replied to, which you also cited as violating the guidelines, was not flagged?

Moreover, IMO this whole submission seems to be a strange time to be pedantic about enforcing the guidelines. After all, the submission itself was flagged as very low quality, and many of the commenters were justifiably complaining about the low quality of the submission and wondering why it was #1. The author is deserving of some rebuke, especially for the "nefariously hides itself from Activity Monitor" bit, which is technically false, indeed impossible. The author should know better, being or having been a Mac software engineer himself.

In fairness, HN is no worse off than any other site that allows comments from the general public. HN wants to believe that its comments are higher quality than other sites, but the reality is that it's not really true, and it's hard to see how that will ever become true. Maybe it was true in the distant past when HN was less trafficked, I don't know.
Have you considered a static site generator?
Those risks are overrated. It's more likely that the security flaws are patched quickly in Wordpress. Whatever else you'll use, you'll be just as dependent on that. Wordpress is very performant if you optimize it for that.

There are many other choices depending on what you want. If you just want a blog with a comment section, you could use hugo + disqus and host it on an s3 bucket. It will be fast and will cost very little to host.

You could go with something like Laravel if you want more control over the dynamic website. I say Laravel because if you've been developing for Wordpress, PHP is the most familiar language.

There's always Joomla which is more flexible and will give you some diversity while being familiar (also PHP).

If you're OK with Python, there's always the trusted old Plone CMS.

There are many other choices. Depends on what kind of websites you want to build and what you're looking for.
> I can federate with both Gab and "official" Mastodon if I want to

Not in practice. Most "official" Mastodon sites will block you if you federate with instances of which the mainstream Mastodon community disapproves.
> With more parties, there would just be clear coalitions, one conservative and one liberal.

Multi party coalitions don’t line up this way when considering individual issues, which is the problem we’re discussing here: the paralysis of the US Congress.

Imagine if the Libertarian Party, the Ds, and the Rs each held a third of Congress. On things like finance and gun laws, the Ls would vote with the Rs. But on things like abortion and drug laws, the Ls would vote with the Ds.

The meaningful representation of a single third party thus already throws a wrench in the “conservative vs liberal” ideology. “Us versus them” might still exist, sure, but it shifts per issue instead of being a polarized dichotomy. It’s a step in the right direction.
Good MBAs tend to be good at being MBAs, which is an orthogonal skillset to being disruptive inventors.

Tim Cook has an MBA. No one could complain about Apple's financial performance, but the company has definitely lost the "Let's launch a market-defining product every five years or so" momentum and gloss of the Jobs years.

It's an open question whether this would actually have harmed Apple's performance over time, or whether the market cap would be even bigger if Jobs were still alive. (IMO it would probably have led to a much broader and more inventive product range which would have triggered earlier antitrust action - but of course that's just speculation and there's no possible way to back it up.)
Q: Why do programmers confuse Christmas with Halloween?

A: because 31 (oct) = 25 (dec)
If you embark on such a project, I would help. Drawing inspiration from https://www.themoviedb.org/
Gnome Music Add Volume Control to UI (Resolved Notabug)
Someone not as perfect as you won't know to slow for blind hills and blind corners.

Someone not as perfect as you won't know to back off in wet conditions.

Someone not as perfect as you won't anticipate when to brake early to accommodate the extra stopping time.

Someone not as perfect as you won't be as meticulous about vehicle maintenance.

Someone not as perfect as you doesn't have your quick reflexes.

Someone not as perfect as you doesn't apply 100% of his attention to driving, never looking at a cell phone or radio.
Ask HN: Just Sack Me
As a very conscientious worker I think I have learned an important life lesson over the last 30 years of work. A coping mechanism which says, "just sack me". This translates as I am doing the best I can. That I have realised others will take advantage of my good will. As others sit around and twiddle their thumbs I will be given more work.

My question is can anyone frame "just sack me" in a better way? I imagine I am expressing something important in not a very articulate way. In a way which sounds like stick it to the man. I would like to help others who are struggling in their work with what I have learned without sounding so negative.
Uh, citation needed? A typical MOSFET is abundantly capable of switching several amps of current, orders of magnitude more than you'll find in a USB system.

Also, an SSR (whether MOSFET, IGBT, triac, or SCR based) doesn't latch either. Only some esoteric mechanical relays latch.

I had a similar requirement to OP, though my USB hardware was fine, it was a third party device that would sometimes fail to connect when the system restarted. A watchdog reset of the uC trivially reconnected my hardware, but I resorted to enabling/disabling the AHCI driver to force Windows to re-enumerate USB devices to get that to be reliable.
> he was writing about the dystopian present he was already aware of

Correct. After signing up with the left-wing forces in the Spanish Civil War, and getting betrayed by the Stalinists, he was one of the left-wing British writers who could see what Stalinism was and wrote about it. The whole "memory hole" business is a reference to the removal of Trotsky from photographs, for example.

This has nothing to do with anti-maskism and COVID denialism.
Very nice! Liked seeing Chomsky, Fromm, Tolle and Postman when I clicked the "software engineering" link. Will check out some of the other recommendations.
> This is less than inflation in my country, so effectively working hard made me poorer in real terms?

Fucking lol'd hard on this. Prestige of the promotion is fucking nothing bud, start looking elsewhere (ideally somewhere with a higher offer considering your tenure, mandatory). Otherwise start looking into creating a side-hustle too.

Side tangent, you're pretty much spot-on about creating a business, provided that of course you approach it sensibly. You might enjoy this read: https://wallstreetplayboys.com/watch-the-company-man-give-aw...
Ah, that might explain some strange behaviour I had. I entered a few fairly disparate books including "Red Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson and was recommended an Asimov compilation, which is not worlds apart.
Though I guess if one iteratively reads at "the fringes" and uses this tool they'll gradually move out of the bubble?

Cool tool though, I think I might try doing just that ^
I launched MediaFire as an unlimited storage provider in 2006.

While it is true that data accumulates as time goes on, it's not as big of an issue as described. Older data tends to be smaller, for example, photos were lower resolution. That is compounded by the fact that storage is getting cheaper. For example, the price for a 500GB drive in 2006 is the same as a 14TB drive price today. If your getting the same subscription dollars, it suddenly becomes cheaper, every year, to store legacy data.

In my findings, the reason unlimited doesn't work is a small percentage of users (very small, like ~0.1%) who push it to the extreme. In other words, if your exhaust 50% of your resources to service 0.1% of your users, at a fixed subscription cost, the model doesn't work.
Clean architecture: Domain-driven design, part 1
That's from the point of view of a server, a user, or both? (I guess a user can always have several accounts while still using the same client... for those clients that have not blacklisted Gab outright?)
> The web has to mature beyond advertising as a business model.

I've said it many times before but it's worth repeating...

The Internet survived just fine before all the ads and tracking and it will survive fine without it.
Does anyone have any good suggestion on an automated way to back up my entire google photos collection?

Currently I use Google Takeout and then upload a ton of zip files to a backup like Backblaze.

But it's tedious as heck and has me maintaining scripts to manage it. Which is the worst because I touch it once a year so I forget everything.

I'd pay money for a business that handles this. I just want my photos safe from a Google tantrum, but I don't want to do the work.
Because its originally error codes. 0 is "all went well", != 0 is an error code telling you why it failed. I'd guess which then got things added like "programA && programB" as "A went well, so do B and check if B goes well", which kinda gives the logic value true to 0.
"...merely that you could assemble them to an SBR"

That's only half true for constructive intent. They also have to prove that there was no lawful configuration for those items. For example, you can own a short barreled upper with a pistol-compliant lower and also own a complete rifle. You have the same parts that could build an SBR, but they have a lawful configuration so you aren't in violation unless you actually put them together in that way.

This theory doesn't generally apply to 80% stock because the finished product is lawful (non-prohibited people can build their own guns). Also, the frame/reciever is the "firearm" regardless of the other parts, so it doesn't matter if they are selling it alone or with additional parts.

For example, if a felon is in possession of just a finished frame, they would go to prison just the same as if it were a completed gun. This could also be a scenario where constructive intent could come into play - where the finished product would not be lawful to own for the felon (that's the case for the frame without the parts too). So there's really no legal difference between selling just the frame kit or the full parts kit.
It's the same way in the United States. 40 km/h above the limit is the norm on our interstate highways. Perhaps only 20 km/h on smaller streets.
I suspect parent is referring to how actual service backing an email address can transparently change from Gmail to Hey to Fastmail and so on. The hosting is separate from the identity.
If tribal ideology is all you are fighting then maybe. But it's a big maybe. Crap is crap. It will not get any less crappier if you get more diverse crap. If a person is not developing intellectually he'll take on some other BS that will be equally stupid. All effort in vain (unless that was the actual goal all the time).
you will be sent to prison for extortion.