skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they would be completely dead if not for Google traffic, and they surely know it.

It's worth pointing out that this is not the hidden secret that needs exposing, but the public motivation for this policy. The government is trying to present this as "tech monopolies are abusing kind producers of Australian news, and because the tech monopolies have such a strong hand, we must compel them into making agreements they otherwise would not have chosen".

That's why they've gone to such an extent to try and prevent the "well we just won't index you" loophole.
here: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/wiki/Untrusted-device...
We are not far away from the "personal entertainment device" in THX 1138 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn-Sa0MlFkg
This guy is all over my social media feeds right now with some seriously glib and facile messages. Must be a PR blitz.
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I am a practical person so while I appreciate purity I simply don't have time for it.Software is a means to an end.

However, windows and macos feel less like computers and more like arcade machines every year to me.

So I think now is a good time to learn linux.
For anyone looking for it, the following is the only reference to "deceased" in the patent, which is more generally about creating a chatbot imitating a specific person.

> For instance, a personalized personality index may comprise social data relating to a deceased relative of a user. Although the social data may comprise information from the lifetime of the deceased relative, the social data may not comprise information related to a time period after the lifetime of the deceased relative. As a result, a set of data acquisition rules may be generated for (or assigned to) the personalized personality index. The set of data acquisition rules may provide instructions for acquiring data related to various time periods of the deceased relative's lifetime (e.g., before, during and/or after the lifetime). Such instruction may include asking a user questions about a time period, one or more events and/or people, or asking a user where such information may be obtained. In such an example, such questions may indicate the specific person represented by the personalized personality index (e.g., the deceased relative) possesses a perceived awareness that he/she is, in fact, deceased.
Wow you're not even allowed to make jokes.
This is beyond liking. The effect is similar to that of catnip when I watch videos of cats high on catnip. They start rolling, rubbing against surfaces, they beg for more, etc. And shortly after (10-ish minutes) the effect wanes off.
Multitasking doesn't work, more people need to accept it and move on. Be productive instead of feeling productive in your organizational planning and tasks, don't spread your attention thin - that's what should be considered harmful.
It might not be, if you have 4 shoes they will last longer then one pair, maybe not 4 times, but still.
laugh in his face
Stuart Haselden steps down as CEO of luggage startup Away
> Using cheap labor, copying foreign products, and bypassing copyright worked for the US, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan when they were in their own economic rise, and thus far has been working for China.

That's what makes the arguments from USA so amusing.

I mean they basically nicked, against British law, the designs how to mass manufacture textiles. Is US willing to repay, with interest, all the economic damage that did to British industry? Same with all the later patents. US basically started respecting patents of others when they got to the point that they had more of their own. So only when it was profitable.

It's basically "It's fine when I do it but now that I'm the big dominant power everyone else must stay in line and let me stay dominant"

Don't get me wrong. I'm happy that US did what it did. I'm also happy that the other countries did what they did, because in the end we all benefit more from the countries being more developed than being less developed by "following the rules". Once China gets bit more R&D of their own they will start following the rules simply because it's mostly reciprocal.
Right.

The article says "a powerful nondestructive testing method"

Which I don't think "nondestructive" is 100.0.0% accurate, if neutron capture will be involved in producing the dark spots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_capture

it's basically nuclear transmutation.
This is very fascinating, and it’s exactly the kind of data I wish I could have “for free” for my own life. But:

> Underwear shirts typically last between 20 and 25 times.

This person must have very different wear standards from me, as I would guess my “underwear” shirts last 50+ wears over many years. Although I don’t wear those often, so I admit I may be overestimating how many wears they face.

FWIW it’s also about how many washes they face. It’s good to wear clothes more than once per wash, assuming light wear and they aren’t smelly, because washing wears them out a lot more than wearing them does.

> But my shirts stand out in a league of their own. I spend 751 euros on shirts yearly. Do you recall my costly affection to high quality shirts? Well, here it shows.

Ok now I know this person lives in a different world from me :)

I do really agree about buying for quality and thinking in terms of cost per wear.

I’ve had great luck with Mack Weldon for t-shirts and undershirts. I especially like the “silver” fabric t-shirts, and I can confidently say I’m getting > 50 wears off these given how long I’ve had mine and how often I wear them. They do eventually wear thinner and looser, but have not developed any tears or holes. And, specifically the silver fabric is amazing in how fresh and clean it always smells. You really can wear it 4-5 times, you only need to wash it when it eventually gets stains.
My guess would be debris on the sensor (or one of the filters right in front of it). It might be possible to dissassemble the phone and then the camera module and clean it with an air blower and/or sensor wipes. But disassembly and replacement of the camera module is probably simpler.
It’s very risky to build a service that relays directly on the API layer of other commercial services. If any of there chat apps change their APIs to stop Beeper traffic then they will lose users. Some services will cause a larger loss than others.

I think the economics are simple. The company is two devs and they charge $10/month. If the costs are $4/month/user then they need 83k users to clear a quarter million a year in profit per dev. This isn’t a unicorn, but it has the potential to bring in good money while it lasts.
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If you have any 'estate' and any relatives, it is advisable to have a will to avoid painful / slow legal processes for those remaining.
The hell is with this ad infested spam site being posted here.
It looks pretty clean/lightweight for a WordPress site, nice to see a step away from bloated WordPress themes.

PS: I noticed that you use Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics which are blocked by ad-blockers and are bad for user privacy. If you want better analytics you should have a look over the tool I'm working on ( https://usertrack.net ), your landing page is the perfect use-case for the tool. It has a WordPress plugin version so installation will take a few minutes.
An ecosystem of people who are building bootstrapped, non-VC-funded products.

Patrick McKenzie (patio11), who famously built and sold his "Bingo Card Creator", and blogged about the process, is a "prototypical" Indie Hacker.

The ecosystem consists of communities like [1] and [2], podcasts (search for "Indie Hackers"), and conferences like [3]

[0] https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/selling_s...

[1] https://www.indiehackers.com/

[2] https://getmakerlog.com/

[3] https://microconf.com/
Now that is a heck of a charge rate., say 100 KWH in 1/12 of an hour = 1200 KWH per hour at 350 Volts = one heck of charger and the need for heavy wiring in the charger, in the car to the battery and to the car. Any sort of a bad connection = hot spot = heat will develop.
This is going to take a while to roll out, upgrade all the chargers and the distribution lines even a 10 car charge station will need. Will this work? I have seen vapor batteries before in press releases.
Higher rates will need fewer charging spots, although I assume the change over to high rate will take 10-20 years to fully roll out and will be backwards compatible to the old slow charge batteries?. Perhaps room temp superconductors will be developed?
Yes, Facebook has a dial and they know that they can turn that dial to make us more extreme (byproduct of generating engagement). Personal responsibility is a lovely thing but humanity isn’t just going to become more personally responsible over night, so if we’re going to save our society we have to look at the options available to us in reality and not those we wish we had (specifically an extra helping of personal responsibility). We do this all over—we don’t allow the sale of many harmful addictive substances even though one’s health, finances, etc are their own responsibility. We also regulate casinos and tobacco and alcohol. There’s certainly no reason why we can’t regulate social media.
I just want to note I once run this stack on an old Raspberry Pi 2, and it was still really, really fast. Also it's very lightweight. My current setup runs on a box with 256 mb RAM and for a lot of small git repos it's fine. (Larger ones get OOM reaped.)
The classic goldilocks problem. You want your pages to be hot, but not too hot.
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I'm not from america, and I really don't agree with the politics of either american party.

But as someone who values democracy, I have to be honest about there being a huge difference between the two american paries, especially since trump. (But arguably since nixon).

Sure, I agree that there are lots of emotions everywhere, and people are attacking trump & followers for both valid and invalid reasons, but using the invalid ones to smooth over the valid ones is in my mind (atleast) as bad as the irrational attacks.

To go back to an earlier post in this comment chain, this is the reason why I think that starting a post with "I dislike trump, but.." is a good thing, so that one can criticize the irrational attacks without smoothing over the rational ones.

Also, I don't think intelligence has much to do with this, but rather:

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-cognitive-bias-can-ex...
Lawns are an ornamental form of pasture that belong in rainy, temperate climes, and absolutely not in California any more than golf courses in Gulf states.
And sourcehut! https://sr.ht/projects
I'd say that they have a different set of features: use the software that suits best your needs.
A default installation of NginX in Ubuntu does many things, which you need to administer and maintain.
Haproxy is simpler because it's not a webserver and does fewer things.
For those who check the comments first and wonder why QED is important:

- QED is the ancestor of Unix ed, and thus of vi.

- Ken Thompson's version of QED was the first use of regular expressions in a text editor.
It is an objective fact that lawns are an ecological catastrophe and we'd be better off minimizing them.
While you certainly should make payments 4x yearly, and I do, the reality is they just penalize you (10%, IIRC). I've never heard of it being prosecuted as "tax evasion".

But, unless your interest is >10%, probably actually costing you money compared to making 4x payments per year. IANAL (or accountant).
How does the price compare to other managed ES including from the ES founders?

If it's super non-competitive high, it is even more curious they seem to see it as such a threat. I'm becoming increasingly unsure if they actually see it as a threat, or if it's just like "nobody should be able to make money from our open source without giving us a cut".

Or is it just that all managed ES seems too expensive to you?
Google's Threat to Block Australia over Content Fees Sparks Anger
It’s so frustrating that our phones and computers can’t move at the speed our mind moves. I know it could if someone cared to try to make it a priority.
Those are all bad too. It's idiotic to think this makes lawns less of a problem.
You sound like someone who has read Systemantics/The Systems Bible by John Gall? If not, you are likely to enjoy it.

For anyone else reading, I enjoyed it tremendously and highly recommend it. It's a very fun book to read.
Without wanting to come down on either side of the argument I'd like to say that the Pull Requests they reference in the blog post are over a span of roughly two years and touched somewhere in the vicinity of 1k lines of code. One of them changed one line by adding a synchronized modifier to a function..

I'd not consider that actively developing a product and adding new features.
I'd say it's a mix, but most of the anti-patterns listed seem to be pretty 'objectively' wrong, and not sensitive to house style. They generally aren't just subjective preferences. My thoughts on the first few:

Lowercase preprocessor constants. Doing this contradicts an established convention in C and C++, even used by the standard libraries. You simply shouldn't deviate from this convention, all you will do is introduce confusion. It's hard to think of a good reason to ever do this.

Preprocessor over scopes. This generally confuses and complicates things, but makes sense in rare circumstances. BOOST_SCOPE_EXIT does something like this, for instance.

Including source files (from a header file). Yep, that's a bad idea. I don't see why template specializations would be an exception.

Unnamed #if 0 branches. This doesn't strike me as obviously terrible. Using meaningful indentation would help here. Introducing a macro constant strikes me as introducing a new kind of complexity, given that the goal is just to comment out code. If the goal isn't to just comment out code, but to do 'conditional compilation', then that's different.

Standalone header files. Yes, a header file should include all the other headers it needs. Doing otherwise is sloppy, and no-one will thank you for wasting their time having to fix your headers.
I think it's an language thing. Shoes I would wear for indoor activities like the gym I'd generally refer to as "gym shoes". Any other form of indoor shoes I'd just refer to as shoes. Indoor shoes to me immediately brings up inside the house, especially because that's how OP used "Indoor shoes" in context
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@thi.ng/ksuid https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/tree/develop/packages/ksu...
Isn't vale tudo "catch as can" scripted wrestling?
Another OSS project has chosen to switch to a closed license in response to competition from Amazon.
This is more or less the chief reason for me to work this way. When my daughter was younger I would take summers off, to spend more time with her. Now that she's older, and not so interested in spending all day with her dad (sniff, but I think I was the same way at her age), I continue to do it because it gives me several months per year off, and also results in greater variability in what I'm working on.

If I just quit my job once or twice a year, after being hired as a "permanent" employee, after a while my resume would start to look like a warning sign. Why can't this guy keep a job? But as a contractor, it's normal and expected.
The alternative is e.g. heat pump - you still use electricity, but get much better efficiency than just simple electric resistance heating.
https://www.fee-calculator.net/blog/how-to-uninstall-chrome-...
I saw the Monarch migration once here in San Francisco. It was just magical. The air was filled with butterflies.
It seems you assume you know the makeup of the shoes being worn and that the leather is failing and not other materials. Shoes are made of materials other than leather. In my experience, other parts of the shoe fail long before the leather's useful life is approached.
AMA with Mark Porter, CTO at MongoDB
Should this have [2016]?
Depends how you look at it. Single thread perf is pretty much stagnant. Only recently ryzen has budged multi core perf, we're still to see how long this growth path can be.

I agree that cloud has made computing power more accessible, but there are known limits regarding scalability. Moreover, using distributed computing (spark, etc) kills efficiency (see all those posts about a laptop beating a medium sized big data cluster).
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Two biggest skills - asking good questions and listening to answers/directions.
The paradox is a real thing. The subtle problem is the paradox is often invoked by people who believe 'tolerance' means accepting things that they either agree or have no quarrel with. A very weak form of tolerance.

I suspect actually tolerant people wouldn't be invoking the paradox.
See answer to nicbou's comment.
I have to disagree, I see no reason to think that Elasticsearch is seeking to avoid "the drawbacks" of a permissive license. I believe the project has been using a permissive license since it's first release in 2010.

What they are objecting to is having their project co-opted by Amazon, one of the largest and wealthiest technology companies in the world. Elasticsearch and Amazon have been battling this out for a couple of years now, this is the latest move in that battle.[0] They have been very clear that the reason they are changing the license is Amazon, not "the drawbacks" of an open source license.

[0]: https://searchaws.techtarget.com/news/252471650/AWS-faces-El...
Not only that, the fact that they've already done an episode with this theme is mentioned in the article.
> Yes, the economy will take a hit.

Just print money until you make it.
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This is great to use old-school tools. What really rubs me the wrong way is how manual it is to setup/configure/deploy. Things like this run great for years until they don't, and then you are left walking through the entire setup process again to debug things.
Great advice. There are more complex variations of this (essentially, the reddit "bodyweightfitness" recommended routine mentioned in other threads) but these two basic motions are really the meat of it all.

If you just want to get started, this "one weird trick" of doing body weight rows and push ups really will work. Both exercises have numerous variations to increase load, as well. Then you can use something like the OP's site to find other body weight exercises to sprinkle in.
Setting aside other pollutants in rocket soot (of which there are many) and only looking at CO2:

Which rocket are you saying produces that much CO2, and where did you get that convenient number? Falcon 9 weighs like half a million kg. Falcon Heavy is about three times that. Starship will weigh like 5 million kg. I hope you're not under the impression that all rockets uniformly produce the same emissions. It depends on a few different factors.

Falcon 9 burns RP-1 kerosene, and uses twice as much of that fuel as Soyuz.

Falcon Heavy burns 440 tons of RP-1 kerosene. A 747-8i can carry 60,755 gallons of jet fuel (similar distillate), weighing 407 thousand lbs, or 203 tons. Its range at maximum take-off weight is 9,210mi. A flight from Boston to Glasgow is about 3k miles, so that's three transatlantic flights per tank, or 6.5 transatlantic flights per Falcon Heavy flight.

I wonder if Mr. Musk would support forcing spaceflight companies to offset their carbon emissions by paying for reforestation. Somehow, I doubt it.

Furthermore, rocket emissions deliver gases directly to the middle and upper atmosphere, so their pollution is more impactful pound-for-pound than aircraft emissions.

And in fact, Mr. Musk wants to replace air travel with rocket travel. Check out this SpaceX video from 2017. It's not just one or two flights we're talking about. He wants to fly thousands. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqE-ultsWt0
Technical leadership: Beyond problem solving
And yet there are ways we can address those issues too. I don't get why we gotta stop trying to take care of each other simply because there are assholes who try to take advantage of things.
Well, it will give Australia a chance to create a comparable search engine(s) of their own, and Google will lose that market. Might be good for Australia in the long run...
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I know you didn’t mean it that way.

It’s why the guideline is so brilliant, imho.

It is showing us something that isn’t obvious.

You are being well meaning, but there’s something about the question ‘did you read ...’ that gets people going when they are maybe on the fence about how combative they want to be.
Ah - the reason being those were the terms the state joined under? If they hadn't, many likely wouldn't and the nation would not be what it is?

Anything else is 'changing the terms', and that is very likely to result in a lot of chaos - since it would be unconstitutional, unless you got 3/4's of the states to go along with it.

Pretty unlikely, since most of the states benefit from this arrangement?
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I would add Bitly in Marketing as well. They have more than $100 million revenue per year. Link shortening has got a bad rap but there is plenty of demand for branded links.

I have spent last few months talking to unsatisfied customers of Bitly and following this space and I see a general disappointment with UX, lack of flexibility and high costs associated with the platform.

My service https://blanq.io has tried to address these but I feel there is plenty of space left for more players to enter in. It is relatively easy to get started and scale the service. The barrier of entry is quite low.

But you would need to differentiate your platform - there are like a 1000 clones of Bitly that pretty much do the same.
Also General Dynamics must submit to labor rules:
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/odep/program-areas/employers/fe...

The basis for title 9 regulation is that universities take Federal grants.
Is it hard to switch back and forth between a normal car after that?
This would raise many problems: do you pay based on how long you store the data for? Does derived data qualify too (otherwise you can keep the original data for a minute, derive an intermediate data format out of it, then discard the original)? Do you charge for how long is spent processing that data (so they just throw more CPU at it so the data is only processed for milliseconds)?

I don't think this is a solution. Not only is this hard to implement & enforce, but this still ends up legalizing the unwanted processing of consumer's data as long as the processors can pay the fee. Those users should be allowed to decline regardless of how much the processor is willing to pay.
This is pretty neat, I'm actually surprised I haven't seen something like this on any website before.