skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-h56N_A3rY It's in Polish. They also drive a real car into one of these things set up as a bumper!

News articles, links to more videos, patents, etc.: http://www.rexresearch.com/lagiewka/lagiewka.htm
Price per seat to NASA on Soyuz was $90m each, while per seat on Falcon 9 it works out at about $55m under the current contract. Bear in mind that contract was signed before SpaceX had recovered any first stage boosters, so that's not taken into account in the pricing yet. Soyuz certainly had a good run though.
The author of that board might swing by.
^ This probably needs "in mice" integrated into the title somehow—but it's still a cool article.
footer needs to be responsive and horizontal and also contact button in the footer gives "Email Protection" error
Superior might be a stretch, but it the ability to use PKCS11 and FIDO2 tokens look to be differentiating features.
The article is misguided at best.

The amount of desktop customization on MacOS vastly exceeds anything that was possible on Windows 3.1 by an order of magnitude.

Yes, tweaking the individual colors of desktop elements is more limited.

However, look at the accessibility features, and you’ll find many ways of customizing the desktop that make read differences in people’s lives.

This whole idea that disabling tweaking colors on the desktop theme is part of a slippery slope towards a computer ‘you don’t own’ makes no sense.

Windows 3.1 was not open source. Mac OS is vastly more extensible and programmable than any desktop environment from that era.

That said...

I do agree that we live in a world where people who create OS’s have vast power over the experiences of those who use them, and this is not where we should be.

The real step down this path came when both Apple and Microsoft copied the desktop metaphor superficially from Xerox but left behind the end user programmability of the Smalltalk and Mesa environments.

Their goal was to create an environment for the delivery of shrink wrapped software. That is what Windows and the Mac were about.
Holy crap, that’s awesome!
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Having just one widely used GUI toolkit would also help, something both Linux and Windows are struggling with (Windows especially, with Win32-style WPF vs Fluent-style UWP)
The entire world benefited from slaves for a long time. Don't pick on the US, it was a universal practice. It isn't done now not for moral reasons (you can read the moral arguments of slave owners for a different moral perspective - it is "interesting"), but economic. Slaves need to be fed when they are not working, so better to let them figure that out for themselves when you don't have a job.
Sure, and OSes are written by developers and cost money to make. Companies have to make decisions on where to put their resources. Customization and configuration almost always gets the ax today, and cost is often a leading factor.
I think that her performance as Delenn was really superb. The whole plot of her being the bridge between humanity and minbari was portrayed with such pathos without drifting into sentimentality.

One by one the cast of B5 is leaving us and i am sad to see them go, without another shot at telling another story far superior to most science fiction productions nowadays.
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Ah it's still alive. If not a time for revival! So many good memories!!
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BaseCamp and Hey.com are now worth $200B according to Google and WhatsApp
> The whole point of "open source" as distinct from "free software" was to get away from all the ideological baggage and focus on pragmatic licensing that would appeal to businesses. Guess what: it worked.

Which OT1H is a valid reason not to go all "spirit" and "ideology" in business; OTOH, if what you're all about is spirit and ideology, it's a valid reason to stop thinking what you're doing is "Open Source" and go back to the original "Free Software" terminology.

As I think someone else mentioned already in this discussion, the term "FOSS" does more harm than good by conflating these different things, and should be avoided.
I forgot about YouTube and Gmail (things I use daily), so thank you. Maps is amazing too.

My question wasn't to be a jerk. It was a legitimate question asked out if ignorance.

I still kind of feel like they could be in a lot of additional areas like logistics where they could put all their capital and software edge into becoming a global leader.
Completely agree. It's a boring reddit/twitter soundbite which contributes nothing
Original paper: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03160-0
> There are two types of genius. Ordinary geniuses do great things, but they leave you room to believe that you could do the same if only you worked hard enough. Then there are magicians, and you can have no idea how they do it. Feynman was a magician.

- Hans Bethe

I believe Feynman's "magic" was in how well he could explain things to others, and there isn't a "explain things well" gene...
Agree the UX is poor but I prefer this because there are tradeoffs involved in some of these choices. Auto filling, for example, caused a bunch of critical bugs with LastPass. As an extension, there’s always going to be limitations that I’d prefer security software not push.

Natively integrated password managers like Firefox or Chrome are in a much better position to push for UX but you can see they aren’t that much better either.
You're forgetting the most common characteristic of the prolific, financial independence.
That's an interesting idea. I think this could work great in the
Pi Zero format - compact, wifi + mass storage if needed and with
the right wiring you could even flash the controller remotely
via wifi.

Could be a nice mix for projects where the size of another PCB
would be problematic. The target audience would probably be
smaller and I doubt the RPi Foundation would be interested
considering their focus on education, but I would probably buy
one.
Cross-referencing this with interviews on Indie Hackers, it seems that people have the most success with WordPress plugins and G Suite integrations.
I wish they would of added wifi and bluetooth to the board. This could of replaced esp32s.
> My point was that this seems like basic application of simple concepts from Computer Science

Can you give examples of real world programming tasks that don't fit this definition?
There are usually multiple sane reasons why these ideas don't make it; either technological, practical, business or social hurdles. Conformism is one of them. They aren't actually better than what they are going against until they overcome that, or offer some kind of massive advantage that makes it dumb not to switch.
I guess I think CD could still be valuable in that kind of setting in terms maintaining a deployment ready release that is ready to enter an externally imposed release cycle. (including delivering change mgmt artifacts etc...).
Note that Arduino is coming out with a new Nano board for the same chip (new RP2040) with 16MB of flash and wireless built in. No word on pricing yet, though: https://blog.arduino.cc/2021/01/20/welcome-raspberry-pi-to-t...
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well they are in big trouble because Samsung, Toyota have come up with superior batteries and they are now ramping up production.
I suspect manufacturers wager they can skimp on quality cause customers will chalk it up to "the internet" or "my connection"
I can remember how I was able to chat with my Facebook friends with Pidgin, those were the days.

I don't think Facebook will allow any client to support chat like they used to do back in the days, unless you do some wired bridging hacks like you have to do in Matrix

Edit - fixed typo
I think in your product descriptions you should consider “conversations” as a more generic, friendly, and open ended alternative to the word “interviews.” Many of these podcasts are presenting the experience as a conversation, not an interview, even if the traditional old fashioned word for what they are doing is interview.

It would also remove the negative reactions (my own included) arising from confusion where people worry that your product might be intended for job interviews.
Having worked at Palantir in the past, I’d like to again take the opportunity to let everyone know what it is they actually do, because they really aren’t this all-seeing boogeyman of tech that everyone enjoys making them out to be (such rumors do bolster their reputation, however, so they aren’t likely to correct them, and paranoid responses like some here just lend them more credence).

They build a federated search engine with a simple UI to make it accessible to a non-technical audience. That’s it. Have a whole lot of data in different databases/data lakes? Palantir will let you search across all of it quickly and simply. They don’t source the data, they even hold the data, they install their servers on premise with where the data is already being stored, and import it.

It’s a specialized Google with very robust and configurable access controls that you can buy and run because you’ve collected more data than you know what to do with.

Now you may still be legitimately unhappy with them because of who they work with or the implication of making those entities more efficient in processing data, but given that HN is a technical audience I’d really hope that we can get over this trend of thinking Palantir has some magical data summoning abilities.
It sounds insane to me that Instacart even exists.

I guess Instacart was a trailblazer? I don't see why supermarkets wouldn't offer this service and pocket the difference.

In the UK major food supermarket do deliveries or local collection.
They're prepared by the supermarket staff in their warehouse, without having to browse the supermarket.
They're quite reliable (you order online and you have to pick the products manually) but they will apply substitutions sometimes.

Collection is free if you order over a certain amount.

Covid messed up things (queues got super long / expensive) but overall it's a well working model.
Most people will cheat in high stakes games. That's why I give it a high probability in a high stakes game like the last election.

I know everyone wants hard evidence but I'm establishing motives. I cannot possibly prove any of this to you.

Certainly not enough of anything to convict anyone just to point out that the likelihood of cheating on both sides was very high in the last election.
Its merely an observation that we must all take responsibility for our national policies, which have created the need for companies like Palantir.
The advice about the order of includes is interesting, as it's the exact opposite of my usual habit. I see the point, and I'll definitely consider adopting it.

One thing I've been bitten by in the past is that Clang / libc++ on Mac sometimes doesn't require a standard header that GCC / libstdc++ does. I don't think this pattern will fix that, though.
Adium (https://adium.im/) used to be the MacOSX native version (port) of Pidgin. It seems they still recommend it. However, Adium seems kind of dead? Last commit (https://github.com/adium/adium/) was in 2016.

I build a MacOSX app bundle for the original Pidgin long time ago (https://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin-macosx/). At that point in time, this was not so trivial, as the GTK support for native MacOSX was experimental (http://www.gtk-osx.org/). You could simply use the X11 GTK version but I rather wanted to have a native version. I have no idea what the current state is with GTK on MacOSX. This Pidgin build is obviously very outdated now (from 2009), and probably does not run on recent MacOSX versions (they are frequently breaking backward compatibility...).
Yes. In Oregon, you might have a bit of a wait if you visit an office at a busy time, in Florida, a visit to the DMV requires packing a lunch.
>All electric cars are torque-limited. They simply have to be. A static electric motor, of the type needed for higher speeds, given full voltage would not only snap bits of the drivetrain but rip apart its own mounts. So they are all limited to various degrees.

Electric motors are far, far, more forgiving to drive-train components than sporty vehicles with manuals and medium duty trucks of equivalent power levels because there is no clutch to dump. Sure it's not quite as forgiving as an automatic transmission but it's close.
Does anyone know if the WhatsApp plugin works?
That tutorial dates back to Windows 3.1 at least, if not earlier.

Edit: I also suggest you scale those Windows 2 screenshots to the correct aspect ratio. They currently look very stretched.
The analysis seems to focus on the number of companies, not by employee headcount, so I'm not sure this is indicative of the experience of living in Silicon Valley on average.
No computer? Getting a vaccine appointment a nearly insurmountable hurdle
Electrical engineering is a nightmare compared to software engineering. It also involves a lot of programming. It's just that hardware businesses don't give a damn about the software.
They might expect you to but they won't force you. You can just walk in.
Is there a good guide that you recommend on the PIO or DMA features?
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I would add ftp.funet.fi to the collection
But the point is that it the default shouldn't be being NYT exposing you, unless you can make a appeal that puts in you one of the Socially Correct Categories (according to the NYT!).

I want the default to be revulsion for doxing, and widely-used strong pseudonymity or anonymity, whereas from what you've said it seem you'd rather people's real names were out there by default.
Two days ago Beeper, a (almost?) universal chat app, was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25848278
There's been such an enormous amount of churn in the IM client market for an industry that hasn't seen significant innovation since the days of dial-up.
yeah but just because he lost money doesn't mean that he is wrong. You can be right and still lose money in the markets in the short run
How to overcome “motivational inertia”?
Hey HN,

when i am coding i rarely want to stop.

When i am not it takes extreme discipline to do so, especially outside of work. I had less day-to-day coding at work for some time now due to responsibility changes so i feel that i need to step it up in my spare time.

How do you overcome this kind of inertia?

Once i overcome the hurdle (usually 30 minutes or so) i enjoy coding a lot and i can not identify why it takes such willpower to get to that point.
That's the standard practice, I believe. Presumably that's why Arthur C Clarke chose the year 2001 for the name of his book rather than 2000.
The themeability ran on anarchy but on the community-organized kind. Users expected apps to use the Desktop's toolkit and having their custom widgets respond well to theme engines.

But that's only for KDE nowadays, there was a period where GNOME was breaking theming with new releases and its maintainers argued for why they just supported the standard Adwaita theme and not anything else. KDE comes with a historic sloppiness at the individual application level, you'll quickly notice that padding, margins, lines, orientation are all over the place and it's just how KDE application developers roll.
This is a great thread, thanks. Familiarity is a powerful thing. It helps explain why excel remains the most widely used “programming language” in enterprise.

Part of it is habits, which are not easy to change. And the fact that when they are changed, it’s often incrementally, by substituting them with something similar enough.

Thanks for the reminder of the amazing things that are out there, but just haven’t cracked the mainstream. I think about it a lot with software from the 90s. Things like HyperCard. Stuff that, despite lower processor rates and memory, seemed MORE sophisticated than a lot of what’s standard today.
IMO there is not a lot of hate for monoliths. Service oriented architectures and their successor microservices have experienced a lot of push back from teams that have tried it and it doesn't work out for all applications.

PHP - I mean, it gets the job done. I would never start a new company and choose it, but if you're already on it, its good enough for most things. Go can be far superior depending on your needs.
Updated link to traefik container config:
https://github.com/rocdata/rocserver/blob/main/docker-compos...

(link changed because only need SSL certs in prod -- so moved to a prod-specific docker-compose file)
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For how long, approximately, can you see your desktop's wallpaper during a day? I see mine for about 5 seconds during the boot, after that Chrome auto-launches, and I never see the desktop until the next reboot (all the non-browser apps I use are pinned on my taskbar).

So what's the point to change it? Instead, I always change my mouse cursors to the Garfield theme from defunct Microsoft Plus! -- they are of pretty nice orange color.
You're out of touch because this doesn't apply to the entirety of the US.
Or: if you are like Saruman, using the Palantir will corrupt you. You have to be like Sauron, who is in no danger of being further corrupted by the Palantir...
There are several DIY drone boards that have this kind of setup. Usually it is an arduino mounted to a Raspberry pi with an i2c channel for communication, but they seem to be getting more and more popular.
I agree with wcoenen.

They invested in multiple potential paths to a global internet. It's not surprising that they'd drop the investments that aren't as promising as the investments that are showing significant promise.

It's like saying I applied to multiple colleges, and because I only accepted one application, that the other applications were a failure. But, no, it could just mean that I preferred to go to the college that I accepted, but the others were a hedge against that path not working out.
I use finch (the curses version of pidgen) to keep up with people on discord from tmux.
The only closed platform it doesn't seem to work with that I use is imessage.
When XMPP was quite widespread and lots of my friends used it Pidgin was my trusted software. I'm very happy it's still being maintained and to see lots of plugin for new IM protocols/services (Telegram for instance).

It's a pity that the font on the new website is too thin for me and very hard to read :\
> Just putting "order-550e8400-e29b-11d4-a716-446655440000" does not make it an order id either, thats what foreign keys are for, mistakes can be made either way.

I'm not talking about the DB level here, I'm talking about what goes over the wire or ends up in logs files. And if you are handing out the uuids to your consumers, you can be reasonable sure that you only get back the uuids you handed out. So if "order-550e8400-e29b-11d4-a716-446655440000" is not an order, it an error on your side and not on your clients side.

> If your sending id via json you should be using json to encode type either:

Yes and you should also not make any mistakes.
Improved usability killed theming. When you are no longer bogged down in a tool, you’re less concerned with how it looks. You’re more focused on accomplishing your task.

Theming is alive and well in code editors like VS Code and Sublime — because we stare at them for 6-10 hours a day.
Would new markets solve the problem? TFA describes paperwork delay, which may be a problem with any market. The point of the EU was to eliminate the borders by adopting common standards, both on food handling and on balancing economics. Any new market is going to be similarly careful about accepting foreign meat imports -- and is going to be further away.
These are some really great points for when it can be better to use microcontrollers over microprocessors/applications processors. Agree that generally simpler is better, and microcontrollers are simpler than Linux SoCs for many things (maybe not in getting from zero to main(), but after that).

I would add that it really depends on the problem you're trying to solve, though. Microcontrollers are disadvantaged compared to Linux SoCs for many workloads other than low power and low latency (i.e. hard and soft realtime).
You're leveraging your dominance in some sectors in order to gain advantage in another sector. That's what they got Microsoft for. Also can't imagine countries bowing down to these kinds of tactics anyway.
Eg Arduino will launch a board with that, the core here is the new chip, not the Pico board, lots of manufacturers will build boards with the chip
To burn the trees, you need oxygen.

You want to use oxygen from the atmosphere, and bury it underground?
>there's a mechanism that can absorb kinetic energy

Yes, it's called braking.
>something interesting to think about, I wonder with demographic trends etc if 0 to 10 is a more useful measure of daily driver performance and experience than 0 to 60. My wife's car does 0 to 10 at every stop sign, and technically my car is faster at 0 to 60 but I only did that twice a day at most for the commute, for sportiness reasons I might prefer the worlds fastest 0 to 10 car over a theoretically faster 0 to 60 car.

Depends on how long the average on-ramp where you live is.

30-75 measured in distance instead of time would be a good measure where I live.

Being able to gracefully merge no matter how bad of a situation the idiot in front of me leaves behind would be far more beneficial for day to day use than off the line speed.
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yes, a lot faster. Mechanical relays will probably be at best <30Hz, tube circuits can do 10000Hz+
US is performing human inequality of the worst type for quite some time. Just to be clear, at least from non-US person point of view - US action clearly state that 'your life is worth less if you don't hold US citizenship'.

We can't have 21st century discussion about race and gender equality and then ignore this glaring fault. I know some people will come and say 'you know this is how states and secret services and whatnot should operate blablabla'.

Its plain wrong. Justice and equality of human beings simply don't exist if inconvenient. It doesn't matter if its my or your state doing it.

And arguably the worst part - from all I could ever read on it, this different type of racism doesn't even bring any proper safety results for US that would justify it in some twisted optics. It for sure pisses tons of people all around the world though.
If Manufacturer A represented 80% of the fleet and 70% of the failures, dropping Manufacturer A doesn't make sense.