skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
-H. L. Mencken
Quite a weak article, i’m surprised this makes the bar for publication.

There’s a fair amount of contradiction too, it makes a distinction of “5G EMF” but then goes on to say 5G is loosely defined. So why 5G EMF and not just EMF? EMF in the Ghz to Thz range is not new. The only extra information conferred by adding 5G to the term is that we’re restricting the concerns to EMF at very low power levels (milliwatts).

I missed any links to let me follow up on the claims of harm found from non ionising radiation. I definitely want to see a bit more of the basis for those claims because if they’re based on findings at megawatts of RF energy then it’s not exactly useful, on the other hand if the findings are based on milliwatts of RF energy, that’s potentially a concern.

Side note: i don’t know if you’ve had a look at the 2.4GHz spectrum recently but i am amazed at the amount of emissions and i live next to mostly fields, genuinely surprised to see much in the way of emissions. Bluetooth beacons are a real stand out surprise, neighbours televisions, bathroom scales, all sorts of things that I wouldn’t expect to beacon when turned off.
The determinant of n vectors {vi} relative to a particular basis {ei} in an n-dimensional vector space is the scalar-valued ratio:

( v1 ∧ v2 ∧ ··· ∧ vn ) / ( e1 ∧ e2 ∧ ··· ∧ en )

The signed volume per se is just the n-vector: v1 ∧ v2 ∧ ··· ∧ vn

Generally working with the wedge product is more pleasant and conceptually clearer than working with determinants. Among other things we don't need to make an arbitrary choice of basis or unit n-vector. There's also no reason to limit ourselves to n terms. v1 ∧ v2 is also a reasonable quantity to use, etc.
Relevant blog post - It's not the incentives it's you.

https://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2018/10/02/no-its-not-the-in...
AMD looked just as bad not so long ago.
It is more likely they will stick to their guns like IBM sticking with Power (which is technically awesome) but still pricing it too high (because cost economics is likely out of whack) and in the process they will lose developer mindshare.

I really hope Intel does better than IBM with Power.
Now who is overthinking it? :P

I'm not making any comment on the number of adults; I'm just responding to the original argument that "well, I know foster kids who haven't been successful, who had supportive adults", and the ensuing argument, to further explain why that isn't a negation.
Article outside paywall:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/684.pdf
True. But there's nothing stopping Parler from running their own servers either. There's many controversial physical businesses in the US that would have trouble renting. But nothing stops them from buying their own land.

That's the issue with Parler hosting. With hosting, you're digitally renting.
Cancer-related suicides in U.S. dropped during last two decades, study finds
The insurrection directly was trying to kill our democracy by overriding a vote, the core guarantee of our democracy.

But in general, I think "buy our product if you want to try to overthrow democracy" is just in general, a bad business strategy.
I don't see this at all. The "extinguish" phase is usually done when a product is acquired by a direct competitor to acquire it's customers. Amazon doesn't have a competing product. And their platform is well-known for supporting multiple competing software products (look at their array of databases for example). And the fact that they are now supporting their own JVM to protect users from Oracle's newly aggressive licensing.

This is, perhaps, exploitation but it seems unlikely they'll kill Elastic ever.
Eugene Bullard:American slaver son: “véritable héros français, true French hero”
I recently decided to port some of my Python analysis code over to Julia since I've been doing a lot of ODE stuff lately. Overall I'm liking it, but I've found a couple things frustrating: 1) the docs and online issues/answers are a bit of a mess, partly because many of the accepted answers are from pre-1.0 days; 2) the error messages I've found are long and not very helpful. It takes much longer to track down a bug in Julia than Python code.
No, mocking their claim that it's about free speech.
This isn't true. Modules are free (unless you're a hosting competitor) so there is no licensing revenue there. They might be charging a handful of enterprise customers for special module support, but that isn't their main revenue stream. Their revenue is from Redis Enterprise which is a Redis hosting solution (managed cloud, unmanaged cloud or on-prem). Redis Enterprise is entirely closed-source, but it's an infrastructure management system and not a data store (it isn't Redis).
>> Seems like AMD could equal or beat M1 if they wanted.

Sometime around 5? years ago AMD was planning to have an ARM option. You'd get essentially an ARM core in an AMD chip with all the surrounding circuitry. They hyped it so much I wondered if they might go further than just that.

Further? Maybe a core that could run either ISA, or a mix of both core types. I dunno, but they dumped that (or shelved it) to focus on Zen, which saved them. No doubt the idea and capability still exist within the company. I'd like to see them do a RISCV chip compatible with existing boards.
I didn't like it. I don't get what is so good about its style. The prose is too purple and it meanders a lot. Even for its time the style feels choppy.
> You're kind of right about this, but it's the issue that AWS just has a massive head-start with any client that already uses AWS. They don't really out-compete, they just use their existing vendor lock-in to gain an advantage. And really, by using your dominance in one "market" to gain an advantage elsewhere ends up feeling like a bit of a grey area.

I'm not sure if it's actually a gray area, since I'm pretty sure leveraging your market dominance in one area to compete in another is illegal anti-competitive behavior. Isn't that what the whole Microsoft antitrust case was about? It's too bad the government pretty much gave up on enforcing antitrust law for 20 years, since it feels like similar practices became normalized due to lack of enforcement.
Satellites for Rent: A New Business Model for Space
Unlike iOS, Android lets you choose which contacts app to use and does not require you to log into any accounts at all to use the phone. You seem to be transferring what you know about iOS to Android when that does not transfer at all.
Large or precise, pick one :)

Making large, precise workpieces is an artform, you have to take temperature of the workpiece into account, compensate for that, expansion of the bed and so on. Very tricky to do that repeatedly with any degree of accuracy.
Though I definitely agree that bash's abbreviations are a barrier to entry, I think a bigger impediment not just with bash but many languages (say, Haskell) is ungooglable operator syntax.

If you didn't know what it was, how would you figure out what `$(expression)` means in bash for example?
I think a healthy degree of skepticism is warranted with all the bogus 5G news about. But the author of the cited study, Professor John Frank[0], has past research in occupational and environmental epidemiology. That sounds like exactly the branch of research that would be involved in analyzing the risks of new technology.

[0]: https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/john-frank
Redis Labs only supports Redis Enterprise. They're not in the business of offering support for Redis.
Building server software on Graviton ARM creates a vendor lock-in to Amazon, with very high costs of switching elsewhere. Despite using A64 ISA and ARM’s cores, they are Amazon’s proprietary chips no one else has access to. Migrating elsewhere gonna be very expensive.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they sponsor their Graviton offering taking profits elsewhere. This might make it seem like a good deal for customers, but I don’t think it is, at least not in the long run.

This doesn’t mean Graviton is useless. For services running Amazon’s code as opposed to customer’s code (like these PAAS things billed per transaction) the lock-in is already in place, custom processors aren’t gonna make it any worse.
The Project: How do we make sense of chaos? Tabula Rasa
This is what globalists have been working towards the past decades: shoving western liberalism into the rest of the world. Evidently, with terrible results. So they have been moving to plan B: move the third world into the first world. A plan that will backfire in a terrible way (we are already seeing a resurgence of the far right in many countries of Europe).
The only people who still believed in the End of History in these past few years were the elites and the well-to-do knowledge workers that serve them
You've been watching too much Star Trek.
> standard in the sense of something needed for interoperation is docx

100% this. Word, or docx more specifically, is used for exchanging documents all over the place. It's readable (and writable) by Google Docs, Word, Pages, Open Office, and more I'm not aware of.

I do some proofreading, and I have done typesetting for a novel, and if the inputs I get are not in a Google Doc, it's in docx file.
If you use a VM language like Java, Ruby, etc, that work is largely abstracted.
Ebay, and specialized traders. Also: contact the sales people of new machinery for early access to trade-ins.
Markdown is pretty good for advanced blogging if you use it as a superset of HTML, as originally intended.[1] That way you get simple syntax for the stuff you're likely to use most often and can still implement more complex formatting when you need to.

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#html
in typical industry, the specific grade will be ignored.

the only scenario i'm seeing that someone will care about your thesis grade is if you stay in academia.
Does anyone here have their Librem 5 smartphone?
AMD had to go through that in order to become a competitive business again. Look at them now! Maybe Intel's chip design business needs to go through the same thing.

Maybe there is a way for Intel to open up its fab business to other customers and make it more independent, without splitting it off into another company. However, it seems like that would require a change in direction that goes against decades of company culture. It might be easier to achieve that by actually splitting the fab business off.
The single most underused command in powershell is: Get-Alias

Essentially every command you'd use has a 2 or 3 character alias that is easy to remember and quick to type.

On top of it their almost programitacilly named, so if you know the powershell commands full name you can almost certainly guess the alias

Typing Get-Alias lists them all out.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...
Well if someone dead said it and it was important enough to put quotes around, it must be true!

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them."

~ Karl Popper
> "There is a difference between that, and some business coming along with a dump truck full of shit that they then dump on the lawn, and I'm sure you understand that."

Is there a difference? The sign never said how much shit could be deposited on your lawn.
Just to add here, the question is not “is markdown (or tex or binary strings or...) better”, but “can the person who determines whether I get paid open the file?”

The fiction publishing world is cutthroat competitive. Trying to use nonstandard tools / “breaking the mold” adds even more friction to success.
From a purely utilitarian perspective, I can live without Elastic far easier than I could live without AWS. From a legal perspective, AWS are faultless in using OSS for their own purposes. The only losers are Elastic's investors. And there's no way they couldn't have seen this coming with their business model as it is.
Using CopyAI and GPT-3 to break your writer's block
Commonly used terms/functions tend to become shorter and symbolized as some notation, similar to how all the Math notation came to be. A mathematician would be unproductive without those shorthand notations.

But I guess there is a balance. Not everyone want to write matrix multiplications as A+.×B, though A%*%B seems acceptable to some, most nowadays write it as np.dot(A,B).
Well, I assume The Verge has more journalistic integrity than that (it's not done for emphasis, it totally flips the tone of the message from 'pro' to 'anti' (as it were)!) so it's disappointing that someone at GitHub leaking the story seemingly decided to take that message out of a context they could see, knowing that anyone else seeing it would read it as pro-Nazi without it, to make the point 'how dare this person still be employed by GH'. Both leaker and author of that message would seem to be on the same side, saying something in defense of Jewish people, but leaker is all but calling for the other to be fired for it...

Maybe they just searched 'Nazi' and took screenshots without reading context.
Sure, but the question is: who gets to decide where that line is drawn when the answer isn't so clear? Are we happy delegating that decision to a couple of corporations?
Imagine if other corps behaved like this.

If printer companies managed to get legislation written that allowed them to send people to knock on you door and check your printers are only using authorised ink.

Or Microsoft agents checking your OS licenses are in order.
Giving third parties access to your supercomputers
> Unfortunately a lot of people including many celbreties decided to ignore that and instead focus on white privilege and if those were black people the result was different.

It also seems to me that "race" isn't the only pertinent difference with respect to the differing police response between the two riots. Even if the police simply leaned right, that would provide a non-racial explanation. Of course, we can't have a politicized police force, but that's a non-racial explanation. Similarly, BLM spent the entire summer campaigning aggressively against the police (whether or not their campaign was righteous is immaterial for this conversation) while MAGA was consistently "Back The Blue" right up until the Capitol Hill riots. Again, it's not acceptable for police to act on such biases, but it's a very different problem with a very different solution than a racial motive.

> Some people don't want peace, just wars.

Sadly, I agree. I get the distinct feeling that people want to crush their political opponents these days, and they're happy to use any post-facto reasoning to rationalize their anger, hatred, etc. It seems like we as a society no longer value peace, mercy, forgiveness, or grace; there is only vindictiveness masquerading as "justice".
> A relevant question is "would they have been that successful if Elastic were 'just another closed source enterprise product'."

> Elastic was successful because a lot of companies tried it out for free and then purchased licenses, or because hobbiysts used it on their personal project and then pushed for it at work.

That model is not actually incompatible with closed source. You can always distribute binaries with a liberal usage license. And if your model is selling support, that might actually be helpful, since it's even less practical for a 2nd or 3rd party to support software when they don't have access to the source code, so you'd sell more support contracts

I think Amazon's behavior may end up just harming open source, by punishing the idealism that leads companies to try to make commercialized open source business models work.
Intel / AMD had a duopoly on desktop / server because of x86 for a large number of years.

Loss of that duopoly - even with competitive manufacturing - has profound commercial implications for Intel. M1 and Graviton will be followed by others that will all erode Intel's business.
The other comment gives a good overview, I'll try to elaborate a bit.

I worked for a few independent studios that a lot of design students would think were up there in terms of reputation. We did work for cultural institutions, museums, galleries, architects, artists, fashion brands, etc. The kind of thing you dream of doing as a design student.

The pay at these "cool" studios is generally awful. £25k after 5 years kind of thing. One guy who was at a studio I worked for before me was on £16k. Factoring in the long hours, that works out to well below minimum wage. This is in London, btw. I did get to sit on a chair that cost more than my monthly salary though. I know the directors of these companies make very good money.

Generally they all have a huge list of previous employees. They hire graduates on low salaries because you get to do "cool" work, these are almost exclusively young people with parents that can subsidize their living expenses whilst they start out. They last one to two years, rinse and repeat.The graduate to job ratio is depressing, we used to get tens of applications a day, it's very easy to find replacements.

Unpaid internships are normal, although some pay minimum wage. I had a job throughout university and blew all my savings doing an unpaid three month internship after graduating. It was stupid but also got me a job (on £18k, as a "freelancer" to save the employer money), it's basically impossible to get a foot in the door without working for free for a while. This obviously leads to an industry with very little diversity, most people simply can't afford it.

There is a lot of pandering to artists and curators and talk of "giving shape to contemporary visual culture" that everyone knows is complete bullshit. The art and design world is full of the most egotistical people imaginable, and graphic designers are on the bottom rung generally speaking. We worked with one curator who literally refused to speak to anyone below director level. As in to your face, would just completely blank you, it was bizarre.

The only viable option if you want to have a career is to run your own studio, but again that is very difficult unless you have the money and connections.

In the end I decided it wasn't worth it, I'd rather have a pension and a family one day, it's not worth giving that stuff up to design books or typefaces for artists or curators that don't even know your name.

I still really love design, and I do know a lot of nice people who still do it, but the industry is not great!
And you can now get cheap single-phase to three phase inverters to drive that gear. You won't be running it at full power but a 240V socket will happily drive such an inverter/motor combo at rates that most hobbyists would be more than happy with.
I'm just a bystander in this regard as it's not really my domain, but have played around with AWS a bit and I must admit, I didn't realise that ElasticSearch wasn't Amazon's own product per se.

Seems to me that Amazon has grossly overstepped fair play here.
> COSS companies like ... GitHub, ...

Hmmm. GitHub is an enabler and supporter of OSS - but unless something major has changed and I missed it - their main product isn't OSS.

They probably shouldn't be on that list.
For commands you use frequently you can still use shortforms, positional arguments, and tab completion, though.

For instance in powershell you can also do:

ls -r foo
They actually have their billion dollar company, if they think they're owed it - Elastic has a market cap of over $14 billion.
Perhaps PowerShell is the new COBOL?
there's no aliases for arguments

There are (if implemented by the function), and moreover you can use just shrink the name to the point it becomes ambiguous. Your example is the same a "ls -r -i foo".

Also tab completion. You never type those out in full, no carpal tunnel, it's just "l -r" the TAB and select what you want. Discoverability is everything in PS.
No, the fee is not decided by the legislators. Of course they can remove the whole system or pass new laws for its mechanics, but the fee itself is not under direct government control. The effect is, that they can just sneakily shave off the budget by 10% for the next year like with budgets under government control. They would have to fundamentally change the system first, which would create a lot of opposition, as a result, so far no government hasn't done that.
A bonus for complexity can be given according to something like this:

https://ai.stanford.edu/blog/topologylayer/
L.A. Suspends Air Quality Rules to Cremate Backlog of Covid-19 Victims
There are aliases for parameters, `-ea` for `-ErrorAction` comes to mind. But those are defined by cmdlets, not the user.

However, you can always shorten parameter names as long as they remain unambiguous with other parameters, so

Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Include foo

would become

ls -r -i foo

which just happens to be shorter than your 'find' example.
And the insurrection was planned more on FB than Parler. The FB app is still in the app stores.
2020 tied for warmest year on record, NASA analysis shows
I only gave it a try for a chapter or two just to get a feel for what might be involved. I first tried pandoc. This mostly worked, except for the indentation of paragraphs. I took care of that by setting up LibreOffice's paragraph indentation, and used LibreOffice's search replace to remove the (now) extraneous new lines.

My recommendation is to grab a decently long markdown document and give it a try.
Sure, but what oppressive law is at work here? Companies make choices about who they want to do business with all the time. If the argument is that Google and Apple shouldn't be able to ban any apps on their respective stores, it would require enacting a law to force that upon them.

The Google and Apple duopoly may be something that requires regulatory action but I don't see how a store should be forced to sell or distribute any product from a company whose conduct they find objectionable.
From 15,000 Database Connections to Under 100
The high frequencies are one of the techniques in 5G that enable faster data transmission. Another is beamforming: instead of broadcasting data in all directions, it is only sent in the direction of your smartphone. The thing is, there's no change for the receiving smartphone (same RF transmission power), just reduction in interference for others.

[edit: thereby, you can have more devices talking on the same frequency without disturbing each other, since they are separated by the "beams"]
Hi HN! Founder here. Just wanted to share my latest venture with the HN community.

Backstory: the teams at my company got really tired of the usual remote "Happy Hour" activities and thought it would be fun to do something a little different — a little more fun! I decided to run a session of “Family Feud” for my team and everyone had a great time. Before I knew it, multiple teams throughout the company were reaching out to me to run a session!

After thinking about this experience and talking with numerous managers, I found it was getting harder to keep things fresh as many teams continue to work remotely and thought there was an opportunity to do something more scalable and high quality. Hence, Gamejoy was born!

Right now, we're focusing on games that combine fun + universal appeal/ease + the opportunity to get to know your teammates better (i.e. games with built-in icebreakers). We're starting with a few games and hoping to launch more (i.e. Poker is a common request) shortly.

Would love any thoughts or feedback. Thanks!
Fantastic work, very nicely put together.