skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can be self-hosted easily on AWS (it uses EC2, S3 and DynamoDB). It’s fully open source, MIT license.
I do it for a living, IMO, no. We spend a lot of our time just putting plumbing in place, not much time left for creativity.
They are used in murder cases
> What do you do if the sum of the monthly pledges goes down at some point? Will you make those features private again?

Nope, any feature that is released will remain public.

> I guess it's a bit counter-intuitive for me that a one-time release of a feature is tied to a recurring sponsorship level.

In the end, I'm selling early access to new features, that's it. If you need something now, and it's available for sponsors only, you need to subscribe to get access to it. You can always implement it yourself, the project is very hackable and puts a great emphasis on extensibility. The documentation is very thorough, also in respect to customization. However, sometimes, maybe especially for something like technical documentation, you don't want to be fighting browser bugs and edge cases.
The problem is that one is explainable and the other is not. "He was near the scene of the crime and has no convincing alibi," is very different from, "The computer said he's a suspect and we don't know why, but we still want a warrant." People being targeted for being anomalous is bad, but centralizing and scaling it up is worse.
Hmm is it true that the dishes can be triangulated? I was under the impression that they were motorized and directional (not like a cell phone that's omnidirectional).

Obviously they're a bit bulky for now, but I suspect they will shrink considerably over time.
I know of a murder case where the suspect is trying to use a web page refresh in the middle of the night as evidence he did not kill his lover. The prosecution thinks it was an automatic refresh but have difficulties proving it.
Have you never been involved in an effort to counter spam, either via email or comments?

It is often the reason for corporation like fb and google for closing account. It is totally BS. Spam is NOT a big deal compare to censorship. Any competent developer can use Bayesian algorithm to counter spam on a personal level, and the code can be just sitting on the client side. The big problem is these data company won't be able to get your data.

Not getting tech support lowers the profit margin for the big corp. However, automation and AI are NOT a replace for good customer support. Get some freaking real humane tech support in relation to the number of active user you have Google/FB. This is one of reason why the world hates you.
Erich is also one of the Gang of Four, the authors of the Design Patterns book. The fact that IBM did not recognize him as a Fellow and let him leave for Microsoft tell you a lot about why IBM's stock is in the gutter.
"not doing this to make a quick buck"

yet its a blog site absolutely new-years-eve-plastered with ads and user hostile content
I'm probably not understanding something. How is $250k ARR enough to build a team with? I would think you would need to be a magnitude higher at least to support a team off of that, especially if you are bootstrapped and have no cash reserves.
It only uses WinMD as the format for metadata input for code generation. The output for C# is still a bunch of P/Invoke declarations (using Roslyn source generators).

By the way, .NET is also retiring the ability to use WinMD directly via runtime projection, in favor of code generation: https://github.com/microsoft/CsWinRT
Quantum mechanics to generate truly random numbers
It's highly popular for enterprise line of business and industrial apps you'll never hear about. Some of it is moving to web but web is not really competitive in terms of performance and integration (lots of legacy COM/ActiveX or closed source native libraries to integrate with). The only realistic alternative is using WinForms (more dead than WPF) or Qt but then you have to hire C++ programmers.

It's certainly perfomant enough (much faster than web) for complex apps like CAD - the actual editor/renderer won't be WPF of course but some custom OpenGL/Direct3D code.
Show HN: I bought wutangforever.net a few days ago for $10
Thought it was a good deal. Using it for misc purposes (server, email forwarding, irc, vpn, etc).

And put up some ASCII art like the good ol' days. Wu-Tang is for the hackers!
It seems like they already came to Jesus and that Jesus was Elon.
This is indeed a problem. However, given that you need to pay for a subscription to get access, I consider the risk rather low. The Insiders code is released under the same license (MIT), as I didn't want to make things complicated, so I couldn't even enforce someone publishing it. I have a fair-use policy [1] that (up to now) all users respect.

Yes, the model is far from being perfect, but it allows me to pay at least some of my bills. I'm always curious to learn how to improve it!

[1]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/insiders/#terms
I don't buy this argument at all. That's such a broad definition. By that logic every single business that sells any type of product or service is a competitor since they all compete for consumers money.
Could you elaborate? What do you program, what language do you use, what exactly do you mean by putting plumbing? (making sure libraries talk to each other? something else?)
> the iphone price keeps rising at a healthy clip. They can now be $1300.

The iPhone (1) was introduced in 2007 and cost US$ 600 for the 8 GB model. What were its capabilities in 2007?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(1st_generation)

What, for $600, can you get now? And what are the capabilities of a $600 smartphone in 2021?

An iPhone 12 mini is $700 [1], an iPhone 11 [2] 64 GB is $600, and a 128 GB for $650.

The same number of dollars gets you much more in regards to technology in the past. That's not nothing.

[1] https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-12

[2] https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-11
Okay, but that requires installing a native code module.
> "Facebook is not a photo storage service."

That doesn't matter, what matters is how users perceive it, almost everyone I know keep telling me that it is (if it walk like a duck...)
Yeah, I get it's bidirectional and was thinking about a movable mount exactly. Flying over felt costly which is why I thought about wardriving and relying on transmitter antenna sidelobes for detection - as I believe they're smaller for parabolic antennas. From what I've heard, this is the most common approach - just a van roaming the city and comparing what they see to list of licensed radios.

Although, now, thinking about the costs I feel that maybe I was wrong in that assumption, and flying drones is cheap enough for this purpose.
Top rated e-scooter sharing Apps in December 2020
No, they don't, but that's what you get around here. If there's a bigger hive of intellectual douchebaggery in this sector of the galaxy, I haven't found it yet. Still, the good usually outweighs the bad by far.

To be fair to my downvoters, it would be more accurate to say, "Any sufficiently dominant corporation is indistinguishable from a monarchy." With the US government, at least, you have the right to vote, along with some constitutional protections including various avenues of appeal. When Google terminates your account for no good reason, on the other hand, there are fewer options. There's not much you can do but post a cri de coeur on Twitter and hope HN or some other intercessory spirit notices it and calls the King's attention to your plight.
It's funny to see MS do this after all those years of messing around with various other bloaty UI frameworks... and further reaffirms my decision to stay with pure Win32.

Perhaps MS is encouraging developers to native UI after all.
Accuracy is generally not great compared to gps. When towers are more dense accuracy is increased. However, an LTE phone generally pings a tower every few minutes on average so you can track people pretty well. Telecom operators have tools (generally 3rd party) that indexes and geolocate this log data from the towers in order to solve network issues. It can obviously also be used for law enforcement purposes but probably require a warrant
> If it's someone I don't know (megacorp here too!) I just ignore it altogether... They'll eventually give up and ask the actual question.

This is my tactic too. About 50% of the time, they finally cave and just ask the question within a couple of days, and the other 50% of the time I never hear from them again!

Still annoys me though, as it's just one more thing in the back of my mind when I'm trying to focus on something.
How can I reach out to you? I don't have a job offer, I just wanna be nearby when you find this job so I can come with ;)

I don't want to do anything where drivers or hardware keeps sucking the life out of me. I also don't want to do anything where I need to read a dozen spells into some cloud shell in order to get a hello world from an app running on sixteen different machines.

This sang to me, friend. Someone suggested consulting once, to me, and I see it quite a bit in forums where the topic of engineering malaise is brought up.

Problem for me is that puts me a few layers closer to the business types and represents the exact opposite direction I want to go in terms of day to day interactions. Not that I think they're bad folks, I understand they have a part to play in the business same as I do; it's just there's a massive misalignment between "the business" and myself as an engineer in terms of...I guess comparative levels of tolerance for bullshit?

Something, ain't it? Been doing this for 22 years, management for the last 8 and I still can't find a better way to put that.
as a CompE by training, i'll say that people fetishize low-level programming

in general, everything's exactly the same imo

so if you're interested in the field, go for it
It was also possible in VB6, planet-source-code was the best source for that..
The last time I was working on a web server it was in C++, and could be absurdly performant up to the limits of the operating system. But that was ZWS, before Linux started shipping its own kernel webserver and before the final death of commercial UNIX distributions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus_Web_Server
Just as Google want you to do. Within 3-5 years you will probably see a high price increase and no where to go.
Fundamentally, the power a author has ,that is greater than the power granted by IP, is the power to decide whether to release something or not. This is a nontransferable power.

Historically, copyright was the granting of limited time monopoly powers over the distribution and derivatives of something in exchange for the promise of the author to not make use of the power to choose to not publish. In other words, copyright was meant to encourage publishing. The reason was that publishing that was controlled and approved by the state was vastly more preferable to uncontrolled organic spreading of knowledge. It was meant to be a win-win-win for everybody. The author gained revenue, the state gained control and the public gained culture.

The same was true about patents. The state granted the inventor a limited time monopoly over the use of a solution in exchange for the inventor not keeping it a secret. This granted the the inventor a way to extract revenue directly out of an idea instead of out of a finished sealed product. It granted the state control. And it granted the public access to the inner workings of the innovation.

This however does not mean that the power to keep something secret is gone. When it is more profitable to do so, the choice will always be to do so. That is why trade secrets exist. That is why there is a black market for information. Secrets are still highly valuable.

Currently the term of copyright extends far beyond the end of the life of the author. Noone will publish anything after they are dead. Also, all IP rights are now transferrable and inheritable. Oftentimes IP transfers are imposed on employees as part of their contract with the employer. The main beneficiary of IP today are large corporations. Also, the public is no longer just a consumer but a transformer. And due to technology, the state has clearly lost control. All of this makes the system of IP, not sustainable. The incentives are no longer aligned.

This model relies on that fundamental power to keep something secret and to trade that secret. It is an attempt to realign the incentives of each party based on simpler assumptions.

Now please explain why you believe "it's just asking to fall into a tragedy of the commons".
That's true, but Tesla has yet to figure that out.
I always refer to QFT + Standard Model as 'fact' even though myself and all other Physicists agree there may be deeper understandings than what is currently known by science.

At some point is becomes philosophy when you call into question something that has zero evidence against it and the evidence in favor of it has been measured out to 43 decimal places already.
Right, for me bleeding isn't bad, but writing on waxy paper like birthday cards is another problem.
It's a neural network. It gives approximate results. Here's a newbie question that asks basically the same question, with some interesting answers.

> codesternews: Any deeplearning expert here. Why Neural network can't compute a linear function Celsius to Fahrenheit 100% accurately. Is it data or is it something can be optimised.

print(model.predict([100.0]))
// it results 211.874 which is not 100% accurate (100×1.8+32=212)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19708787
Oh yes, basic accounting and work/business law. I was recently shocked to realize that I know exactly nothing about this, even though I'm attending a 'gymnasium' (a school with advanced academic education in many directions, wiki says comparable to US 'preparatory schools') and this is a thing many people will need in their life.

The reviews look very positive, I'll look into it, thanks!
It's MIT-licensed, as the original project. I have no interest in legal prosecution. Also, different licensing would make it more complicated for companies.
Replying separately to this:

> We see 2D (i.e (3-1)D) constructs where our physics fails and even have proven their informational content is proportional to surface area (Hawking+Susskind). Most people think black holes are 3D spheres, but they're really 2D surfaces to their "inhabitants".

I think that is more complicated. From what Susskind explains, the current understanding is that black holes have a dual nature, similarly to the idea of wave/particle duality. Specifically, you can perform experiments that would see the event horizon of the black hole as a 2D surface which emits Hawking radiation; and you can perform experiments which will show the event horizon of the black hole is a completely unremarkable region of space. Importantly though, there is no way for an observer to notice both results, so there is no contradiction. The black hole is 1 thing to some observers, and 1 different thing to other observers, and the two can't even communicate.

Even more specifically, to an observer that will never cross the event horizon, the event horizon is a surface emitting Hawking radiation. For an observer approaching and passing the event horizon, the event horizon emits no radiation and is a completely unremarkable region of space-time. The two observers of course can't communicate, as the observer crossing the event horizon will never be able to send a signal outside again, and conversely, a signal sent from outside after they crossed the horizon will never reach them.

I would also note that our current theories do not permit any kind of structure to exist "inside" a black hole, which is a 0-volume point. If you mean "inside the radius of the event horizon of a black hole", I believe matter would be observed falling quickly towards the center. A theory of quantum gravity may give us some idea of the structure of a black hole, but I personally doubt that it could be allowed to contain another universe.
Space pen and tiny laminated notebook made by my SO. Infinitely better than firing up a text editor on a phone and worry about effing notifications, filenames, whether I'll remember to spend a few days setting up a decent backup solution and whether that will work with this particular editor or whether it just saves things in places I can't access on my own phone.
Agreed Lombok is nice, but why can't they just put that in the runtime? You have to be suspicious of every extra package.
Tree – a lib for working with nested data structures, open-sourced by deepmind
I support law enforcement using tech where it is necessary and proportional, but completely against it when not the case.

This seems to me like a dragnet and I would hope the ACLU takes this up and hopefully the press can start to make some noise about it.
Ask HN: Any Advice for an SWE Noogler?
I disagree that that is enough to be useful. To give a deliberately extreme example: if it produces code which has half the number of bugs as a human, but it only outputs Malbolge source code, nobody else will be able to fix those bugs which remain.
It was (partially) because of the evolution of C++ that Java became popular. C++ was starting to gain baggage by recent additions like double inheritance. Java was seen as a clean break from that, and back to a a more solid OO model.
Whether you agree with the government response to covid or not, I think it’s fair to say it was authoritarian. Journalists generally took the position that more rules and restrictions were necessary and often applauded the strongest government responses from other countries. For that reason alone, it would seem there is an authoritarian bend.
I am pretty good about writing P/Invokes but I have no way of proving that what I did won’t create some memory overwrite or leak. Too many moving parts between C# and C++. Nowadays I find it better to write a layer in managed C++. This seems much safer and in a sense is more straightforward.
Exactly.

Most of the Chips in Cars are on 28nm if not older. And 28nm Fab Demand has been outstripping supply for quite a while. So 28nm products are getting much more expensive and some customers simply refuse to accept the new price. And when they do, Vendors said it is too late, orders are already taken.

And they just love to blame it on TSMC.
> faster startup time

Compared to Java 9, which was a big regression from Java 8 in terms of startup time. And Java 8 in turn was slower to start than Java 6.
Forensic methods used by police and intelligence go much deeper than just looking at phones near the crime scene.

It’s amazing how efficient the FBI has suddenly become, practically overnight.
I'm wondering the same thing.

The article only says this:

"Purposeful internet outages generally have a distinct network pattern used by NetBlocks to determine and attribute the root cause of an outage, a process known as attribution which follows detection and classification stages."

To me they just drop some silly terms and fail to actually explain anything.
heh. I've been using jax for a couple of months and its been a pretty nice replacement of both pt and tf. it feels like what a ml framework would look like if it were built around easy scaling and dev friendliness.
Who should you expect to spend your life with?
WinRT is not going anywhere. What more, it's usable from classic Win32 apps these days.

https://github.com/microsoft/ProjectReunion
> The question is what the non-crime use case is.

To protect against a tyrannical government.
Whiskey Shots and Pickle Brine Got Paired Up
This is a fascinating idea. Make the districts bigger but have each one elect two people. Which in California would basically be the two people who run in November since we have a jungle primary.
Don't we?

I can name a few Ruby celebrities off the top of my head:

- Matz

- TenderLove (Aaron Patterson)

- DHH

- _why (Jonathan Gillette)
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Advogato is a blast from the past
I spent 11 years in the games industry - there is certainly something great about working within the confines of a games console. You have a set amount of memory and processing power, and that's it.

It's a shame the industry itself sucks. Take a look at EA-spouse and the latest crunch for Cyberpunk - it sucks all enthusiasm out of you.
One of the advantages of an autonomous driver is that its superhuman reflexes, never driving while tired, never getting road rage, etc., will make it less likely to get into an uncontrolled environment.

Would you prefer your pilots to fly your plane with no AI assistance?
Direct link to /guide/ page that contains samples: https://traindown.com/guide/

seems pretty nice -- ez way to keep logs, reminds me of medical shorthand
Probably that's not what happens.
They can do that because the social media websites that a vast majority of people use all fall under US jurisdiction, so obtaining evidence is just a subpoena away. I guarantee you that the US government would more strongly push for Internet censorship if the US protests in the past four years were organized over, say, Vkontakte.
How can it be litigated if it is secret? The sorts of lawyers allowed to know of it are not the sorts of lawyers who file suit in the public interest.
Ask HN: Is the stock market different this time?
The stock market is at all-time high and this last bull run has been the longest in history.

However, I'm increasingly nervous that a big downturn is around the corner and am considering moving a significant portion to bonds. COVID is still ravaging my local economy and I'm concerned about the new variants.

But when I poll my friends, everyone seems to be super optimistic and pouring even more money into the stock market - and they're reaping big gains!

Do you think a significant downturn is coming (as has followed all major bull runs in my brief survey of history)? Or is something fundamentally different this time about this bull run that I don't understand?
I’m sure my pc experience would be different and block everything, but that site has way too many ads, subscription, cookie notification stuff on mobile
I guess thats what something like clojure is supposed to fix? Interop with Java to give you access to that world? Not sure how that plays out in the real world though
Personally I'd theoretically be ok with having contributed long ago, and the company now going SSPL. Not that easy to have known, that far back, how things would turn out.

> need to stop Amazon or they might not survive as a company

They make lots of money, but also have high salary costs, right. I wonder if you looked at the numbers and growth / profitablity, and concluded that they're at risk, or if you're assuming
I think op was refferring to the first uhhh, cryonics attempts. They were sad, I recommend giving this podcast a listen: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/354/mistakes-were-made

I'm not sure if any actual official institutions failed in this way.
Not sure I am following you.

I am against the Trump censorship on Twitter and has gotten countless downvotes on this site whenever I talked about it.

Are you saying the Chinese censorship was wrong too? Because I didn't deny that, I merely said that the Trump case was worse. If you think they're all equally bad that's fine by me.
Man all of this cool tech would have been useful during the... oh I don't know... entire summer of deadly riots and the formation of an actual rebel state in Seattle CHAZ
It sure feels greedy if your inheritors expect to retain a monopoly over all rights over your work after your death for at least 70 years.
Above a certain speed the main sounds you're hearing are tires against the road surface. At low speeds engine noise and braking are predominant, and the former for electric is actually a problem because people are used to hearing the sound of ICE cars when judging to cross the street.

The worst bit is that sound walls, at least the ones deployed in America, do not even really fix the problem, because they can reflect sound (so they may reduce immediate area noise but increase it farther away). You would probably want something pretty much like a tunnel.