skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still single, and I'd hate to find myself single and in the suburbs alone with a house when the party starts when this apocalypse is over.

But I've heavily considered it!
I had an MR-2 for seventeen years, and I hacked my own engine disable system. If you started the car without the (non-heating) cigarette lighter pushed in, then the car would run fine for 30 seconds, and then the fuel gauge would go to zero and ten seconds later the car would die.

I loved the idea, until the system became flakey and I found myself time and again frantically pumping the cigarette lighter, hoping to get it to behave. I finally removed it. (Ah, youth...)
Pipes in powershell are just as powerful as in bash.

Every curly braces pair is a lambda function with a single parameter $_.

You can approach powershell very functionally and the abstractions work fine.

It is however a minefield of pitfalls.

Obscure error handling at the root script. Always run code at a main function that is called in the root script.

Permissive undefined variables and parameters access.

Unwinding nested attributes by referring to it at the root object level: what if you need a variable attribute from an object but the attribute collides with a built in method?

Truthy and equality are not interchangeable. -eq and Object.Equals produces vastly different results, due to the first not being type safe.

Some functions are sintactically similar to flags and parameters: -join.

Case insensitivity. Seriously...

All in all, if you are mindful of the pitfalls, use Set-StrictMode early on and don't run code at the script root, you are fine. Better than bash. A well written poweshell code is in my opinion way more readable and maintainable by than a well written bash code, despite its shortcomings.

However both of them don't come close to what python is in terms of type safety, error handling, legibility, flexibility and maintainability, even for system scripting.
What an incredibly helpful comment.
Taken out of context that quote would imply "we need even more serious censorship", but admits that deplatforming a certain world leader is a not a real solution and that these actions that should be taken:

> Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted.

> Commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms so we know how and what content is being amplified, to whom, and the associated impact.

> Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation. [link to post on changing Facebook's timeline algorithm]

> Work with independent researchers to facilitate in-depth studies of the platforms’ impact on people and our societies, and what we can do to improve things.

The first two are no-brainers. The third is alright, but I doubt re-weighting Facebook's timeline algorithm is going to put the genie back in the bottle. The fourth is useful but pretty generic at "do research on things".
This is really cool! Way to push the web ahead Brave!
> I don't know about this case

I understand your confusion. The capitalist class push a different narrative, a narrative which makes others’ exploitation, as well as our own, seem normal - as well as portraying capitalist production as the only viable system of production.

If you’re genuinely interested in exploring this from a systemic perspective, I can recommend Zak Cope’s ‘The Wealth of Some Nations’, as well as Vijay Prashad’s recent book ‘Washington Bullets‘, or anything written by him really.
> Does anyone know why this was omitted? Verifying a hash is straightforward.

A CID for a file is not a simple hash, it represents the root of a merkledag of a file tree and chunks of the file. Getting the dag metadata requires a p2p connection under normal circumstances. A public HTTP gateway, given the CID, returns file content, not the file tree or merkledag the CID is a hash over.

It's doable, but totally reasonable that they didn't include this in 1.0.

further reading:

https://dag.ipfs.io/

https://cid.ipfs.io/
I would doubt it, the time it will take some time for linux operating systems to optimize for the M1 architecture
I should introduce this site to HN. "Let's make porn image by Genetic Algorithm" is very interesting project that aimed to make porn image by just selecting which is more ecchi, started in recent days. Initially the image was just like a mosaic but now hentai people made boobs, face and body.

https://gamingchahan.com/ecchi/
> Before then, home delivery was via mail slot or by handing the recipient the mail directly.

Here in the UK it still is (also options for delivering to a neighbour or collecting from the local post depot)
This is why I've suggested a proportionate representation within the states (several states do this already). I do think the EC needs a lot of restructuring but I feel like most of the responses I'm getting are still reducing it to the dichotomy and applying positions to me that I don't hold. All I've stated is that the EC is broken so keeping it as is isn't a great solution and I don't think going to purely a popular vote is a good solution either. But there's a lot in between there and limiting ourselves to only those two solutions is a bit insane.
Wow, this is very cool. Love the tabs for RAM/CPU and such.
Are we? Because to me there are huge cracks opening up. Death toll isn't the important part about terrorist attacks, it's the responses that count, and the response to this seems about the same or more extreme as 9/11 to me, and I lived through that on a military base. I don't remember 25k troops being deployed into DC for 9/11.
Some more details can be found in Malwarebytes blog about this: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/malwarebytes-news/2021/01/malw...
As amazing as webassembly is, I feared this day. This is the day when we are no longer able to examine the source code that our browsers are running.
Not Rust but I often find with ADT's + Pattern matching I end up with a state machine without even attempting to write a state machine.

ADT's + pattern matching make it a very easy pattern to implement. If your language supports exhaustive pattern matching it's also a very easy way to leverage the compiler to find bugs in your logic.
It's not just most-improved, it's actually the best economic system in large countries (thus more easily corrupt) that were not benefactors of classical imperialism if all you care about is development. This is simply an incontrovertible fact - India, Nigeria, Congo, etc... were in similar initial conditions and fared much worse economically.

Far from being worse than liberal capitalist economies - which are the majority of the world - it's 73 in GDP PPP per capita out of 193 - solidly above average.

It's also not had a period of high growth, it is still having a period of high growth, with 2.4% growth in 2020 which is by far the highest out of all major economies, and a predicted 7.3% next year. This is better than a lot of low income countries, coming from a medium-high income country.

It's also set on escaping the middle income trap in 2-5 years as GDP per capita goes above 12500$, which is something that most liberal capitalist economies cannot achieve.

So no, it's really not just in relative sense. In performance with its current position, it really is doing better than alternate models of liberal capitalism, and by quite a margin.

I don't support the political reality that makes it work at all, but it is clear that liberal capitalism is not the undisputed king anymore.
What's your opinion on the moderation here on HN?
I think you are way over estimating the level of prosperity of the poor throughout the US. There are people around me that live in literal garden shed shacks built with scavenged construction scraps and garbage. Go into big cities and look at how many people live on the streets.
Yes, that's what he said. That doesn't make what I said untrue, though...
I think modern car alarms would get triggered if the car got jacked up. Even on quite calm seas the alarm goes off on some cars parked on RORO ships, just from the vibrations.
Crypto wars II. Barr was making noises about banning strong domestic cryptography again, a few months ago. It's a Democratic party trigger, too, so don't expect this to change much.

[Can you fine folks in California vote out Feinstein? She's long past her best-used-by date]
I love working from home. The thing that drags me down is not seeing friends, not going to the gym, but working from home has been an improvement. No more wasted time commuting, more time for myself!
"American" coffee in europe usually refers to drip coffee.
When the dictator operates a secular government and the alternative is an ochlocratic theocracy, I don't think the morality of the situation is so clear cut.
You're right. Thanks!
Every time a stratechery article is posted here I wonder how long it'll take before they reference a past article. It was the first sentence.
I reckon this is the actual product here.

Almost nobody needs a drone to deliver their packages. Many many people would like a solution to porch pirates (or untrustworthy neighbours). A somewhat securely bolted down "Amazon prime standard carton" sized mailbox with a remote unlockable lid and some digital signature type of delivery notification sounds like a product to me. Something short of "secure against a determined thief with a crowbar/anglegrinder, but effective against casual swiping of parcels left by front doors - and priced appropriately (so the crowbar guy doesn't assume only people with expensive parcels would bother).

"Drones" makes good clickbait though.
> it's used by an extremist group.

If you have a legitimate source for this (i.e., not probably citogenesis https://xkcd.com/978/) I'd be very interested. As far as I can tell this was essentially made-up and has been spread via the citogenesis cycle ever since.
I recommend Dyson's Maker of Patterns[0] autobiography told primarily through his letters to his family throughout his life. Includes great stories about Feynman, Oppenheimer, other heavy-hitters of mid-century physics. The format was surprisingly narrative, makes me wish I wrote as many personal longer-form letters with family and friends.
Also Siobhan Roberts' biography of Conway, Genius at Play[1], told another great story. Low on math content but Conway's personality and the narrators attempts to corral it were quick fun.

Both are recommended. Does anyone have recommendation for a popular-science level book on Graham? I'm only familiar with him from the Numberphile video series.

[0] https://www.harvard.com/book/maker_of_patterns_an_autobiogra...

[1] short snippet from it https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2015/roberts-john-horton-conway
That sounds like a feature looking for a problem... my car flashes the hazard lights when it locks, and I've been able to lock it every time without any problems. I just make sure I lock it when I have visibility of the car.
>> why should society care that Taylor Swift gets more views on TikTok vs her personal website?

Because I know what the motive of TaylorSwift.com is. Its to promote Taylor Swift. I don't have to question it, I don't have to ask myself, "Are they promoting Taylor Swift because they like her political ideology, or because she makes a lot of money for TaylorSwift.com, or <insert a million other questions that I haven't asked and a million more I'm not smart enough to think of>?"

Sure, an argument could be made that visitors of root_axis.com aren't being exposed solely to what root_axis has to say, that in fact, root_axis.com is a Latvian honeypot designed to capture users information for the express purpose of Latvian national security interests. But that's a crackpot argument that is far less likely than say, TikTok's purpose is not just to generate money but to gather data about users for the CCP. You'd be more insane not to see that as a byproduct of TikTok, given ByteDance literally has CCP ties through and through.

>> what about all the people that get essentially zero engagement despite having access to those platforms and having something worthwhile to share?

This actually makes my case against the dominance of a platform or monopoly. Why are these people getting zero engagement? Are they bad at SEO? Did they not pay the Google tax? Are they being unfairly targeted because of <insert any potential reason>? Hard to say, nowadays.

>> Is this something we should care about though?

To answer your last question, I don't know. Maybe we shouldn't. I think these are serious problems though, and they're going to require serious thought. Or hey, maybe VisageTome, Honker, PopTalk, DingDong, and Immediapost overtake FaceBook, Twitter, SnapChat, TikTok, and Instagram and it all sorts itself out... who knows?
PPL was one of the problems in scaling up StyleGAN2. It contributes to the over-regularization that made diverse images impossible to learn. There might be some very weak value of PPL which is beneficial (probably the optimal value of the PPL regularization is not exactly 0) but when the runs take a month or two, it's not easy to experiment with them!

The dataset is actually ~3x bigger than ImageNet, FWIW.
Yeah, reading that bit was a bit odd.
While julia does not have full lisp semantics, it is very close. Granted, it's not especially similar to Clojure itself. It's closer to a lisp though than almost any other relatively popular modern language that doesn't use S-expressions.
Not the government. And why should anyone inflict their view of morality on anyone else?

I really don't want anyone - liberal, conservative, Christian or radical Islam - enforcing their determiniation of moral hierarchy on me. Do you?
Seriously. That is stuff that nearly everybody's against and is a constant boogeyman brought up by many on the left, but they can't ever seem to demonstrate that it is a pervasive problem. Nobody admits to being a white supremacist because it's basically universally denounced.

But those same folks will happily excuse the whole BLM/Antifa rioting during 2020 where billions of dollars in property damage was caused and dozens of people died.
Why are you and another reply quoting "economic anxiety" when that was never a claim I made? I'm talking about the total contempt you and others seem to have when talking about these people. If you think they are misinformed and have been misled, cool, let's reach out and try to help get them back on the golden path, but all I see is insult-slinging and you're still doing it.
Why Biden and Democrats might not push employee status for gig workers
Show HN: your own personal satellite?
Here's a bizarre and probably a stupid question. But perhaps a fun thought experiment.

If you had access to a small satellite, what would you do with it?

We've managed to drop the price-point and expertise overhead required for having/operating a 5kg-class satellite to a point where a "somewhat wealthy software engineer with a laptop" could have one (i.e. $250k all in, including launch).

This is not the market we're targeting by any means, but I've just realised the Venn diagram has crept in that direction. And I thought it might be worth thinking about … if just for fun.

Anything beyond hobbyist astronomy/photography, kudos, etc?

Example satellite: https://orbastro.com/satellites/orb-3/
Wattpad sold to South Korean giant Naver in US$660M deal
If the first lockdowns worked why are we having more? If the first lockdowns didn't work why are we having more?
Maybe you can start the ministry of truth and tell everyone what the truth is, Komrade.
A lot of us get into programming because we enjoy it, but the realities of work often mean doing boring repetitive tasks. OP isn't suggesting that it's mandatory, just a way to keep from feeling burnt out, and I agree.

Additionally, if you're smart that time can wind up being compensated later. I wrote JavaScript on my own for 3.5 years before I started doing it professionally, and while I didn't get paid, it allowed me to eventually double my income, so I consider it a great investment.

> We don't expect this of other careers,

Sure we do. Doctors may be expected to read medical journals or keep up on the latest research, for example.
It depends on how much money you have, and how interested in VHF/UHF you are. If you're very interested in VHF/UHF (repeaters, simplex with your neighbors) and you only have $20, then it's the perfect radio for you.

If you have $10,000 and want to chat with people around the world, then you'll want something else. People hear "ham radio" and think "chatting with people all around the world", but that is not what Baofeng radios do :)
I think there are some pretty significant parallels between slavery and child labour. IMO children aren't capable decision makers so a better place to begin the parallel might be comparing child labour to the abuse of those with mental disabilities or the elderly. The parents may or may not have their child's best interest at heart but they certainly have an outsized force of opinion when it comes to the child's actions.

I think[1] that for slavery to exist in society there has to be a really strong psychological justification for the slavery on the part of the owners and that that rubs off on the owned - slave revolts were pretty immediately effective when they happened in the south but relatively rare and I think this is due an acceptance on slaves' parts that they were powerless to change their situation.

If that view is effected then I think that children would be in a similar sort of situation as slaves - but I think abuse of the elderly or mentally disabled is a much clearer parallel to draw.

That all said - I don't think that's the side of this issue that's problematic. I don't actually have a problem with children working when the economic situation requires it - I have a problem with companies that could improve that situation to remove the need to have child labour instead exploiting the situation to make more money.

If a family was farming in complete isolation from the rest of the world and barely scraping by then I'd find it perfectly acceptable for the children to help with maintaining the farm as they are able - since the difference is between survival and death.

1. Heavy into opinion territory here so I wanted to clarify that none of this is intended to offend.
Interestingly I'm noting most of the replies to my comment are assuming I want to keep the EC as is. Which I'm not sure how to even respond to comments like that since my opening line states the opposite. That just I don't like the conventional alternative. But I guess this is the problem that we're talking about (and seems to becoming increasingly more common), that we're removing the nuance from problems and trying to apply overly simplified solutions. All that results is in continued problems and continued infighting. I'm not sure how to break the cycle when people on HN are forcing a position on me that I explicitly stated I did not hold.
I was getting my car serviced at a local Toyota dealership today. While I was waiting for my car, there were two Priuses that came in with stolen/hacked off catalytic converters. A Prius with a really loud "straight pipe" exhaust is awful weird. In any case, auto theft isn't about stealing the whole car, sometimes it's just hacking off the valuable bits without even breaking in. It's not a new problem. Before catalytic converters, it was taking hood ornaments or wheels. Car alarms, at least the ones that alarm when the car is jolted or moved, are just about the only thing I can think of that can help deter this type of theft.
Simply having money shouldn't, per se, be used as a reason to assume guilt. This is not a good way to get to a more civilized world where living right and working hard leads to the good life and all that.

(Yes, I'm aware we have some serious issues in the US with not adequately equitably distributing wealth. A policy of "hang 'em high because they are rich!" doesn't fix that.)
Here in Western Australia it got pretty hectic for a few weeks at the start of 2020 as a general wave of panic set it, and the public started panic buying before the lockdowns. We only endured a short 'official' lockdown time, however ended up working on home for the most of the rest of the year.

Our hard border policy certainly helped ease the stress fairly early in the piece however, and we all had a (comparatively) easy time after that.

Personally I had some additional stress while working at home - we had a kid at the start of March so it was an interesting time - but luckily for the most part our state was quite insulated from the social impacts of the covid period.
This is powerful willful ignorance.
That was the problem with my attempt at a 'This Husbando Does Not Exist' model: https://www.gwern.net/Faces#anime-faces-male-faces There weren't that many male faces, and the ones that I could extract turned out to be super-feminine looking anyway, or outright crossplay/traps, so it didn't wind up looking all that different!
They are hardly willing to work 996. Extreme opposition is mounting, and a lot - maybe most - of the younger generation of programmers soft-strike by not doing anything work related at all after 4-5pm. Because of relatively generous firing protection and a lack of programmers they generally get away with it too.

This is actually a big reason why most Chinese people didn't care about the CCP going after Jack Ma, 996 is extremely unpopular.

That said, given the shortage of programmers, being willing to work unreasonable and frankly unproductive hours is not a sufficient deterrent to competitiveness.
That article is very homophobic and you probably shouldn't be citing it. It's pretending that the only porn that exists is depicting women.
> THE CAR ALARM IS BOTH INEFFECTIVE AND ANNOYING. IT'S ALSO UNNEEDED.

I'm not sure which definition of unneeded the author is using, but I would say car thefts makes them needed? Could say they are ineffective, but still needed
A google search for "most obscure computer language" (with "computer language" being the terminology they use in the episode) returns this article as the first result https://blog.payara.fish/6-of-the-weirdest-most-obscure-prog...

My guess is that they just skimmed through that and picked "Malbolge" because it sounds the best.
Like... just a few
Democracy only works because we all believe that it works.

When that belief is shattered, and people no longer believe in a peaceful transfer of power, you get violent transfer of power.

I think it's far too early to make such a claim. Wait till 2022, or 2024, or 2028. This genie is not going back in the bottle without putting up a fight - not while its being egged on by opportunistic mainstream politicians.
TPTB like when certain tragedies happen because it catalyzes public support for laws they want to pass.
This doesn't allow full text search easily, though.
Exactly - Disney Channel in general is still filled with child actors. Perhaps the acceptance of child stars is because we idolize actors and envy them when they grow up to live their lives in multi-million dollar mansions in LA.
Are you talking about a territory like Bermuda, or the independent Commonwealth countries that were inspired by the Revolutionary War?
>The idea that a specialized tool is always better than a multi-tasking tool is simply not true.

It is hence the name specialized, but if you have to live with a all-round tool then that whats you have.

>one needs only to look at how many options there are for ‘ls’ to see that “one tool for one purpose” is not always the best thing.

The gnu or the bsd one ;)
Check out Tinkercad. I don't think the program simulator in it is as cool or as in-depth, but you can program a virtual Arduino with it and hook up wires to a breadboard along with many other common components and have some outputs too.
It is not true that GameStop is bad for developers. The ability for gamers to sell games enables gamers to stretch their dollar further and to buy more games.

In an environment where selling is not possible gamers lock their available dollars up with the top tier of expensive AAA games and there's less sales opportunity for the rest of the market.
https://www.artbreeder.com/ also has a great editing interface, and has some of our earlier models.