skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The price of standards makes me angry. They're essentially a form of legislation in many countries - to sell anything in the EU you have to comply with the relevant safety standards. Yet they're kept under lock and key - to read the rules which you need to follow to sell something in your own country, you need to pay a 3rd party hundreds of Euros.

And when you read the standards, they reference other standards. Eventually you have to build a graph of standards to which you must comply, each one costing hundreds of Euros. It's a complete racket.

The worst thing is that the standards themselves tend to be written by 3rd party organisations with an interest in that domain, so they have a strong incentive to make the standard match with whatever they're doing. So not only does a new startup have to spend months reading hugely expensive dry safety standards, you also have to build something which is essentially a worse version of the incumbents.
This is probably the one I'm most proud of!

https://soundcloud.com/congratulatinos/caroline
It's a Pixel. Starting with 9 or 10, Android limits apps' background activity unless they show a notification (and probably has limits for those too when the screen is off). Plenty of apps had to deal with this, I have four of these notifications.

These limits don't apply to notifications via Google's services (GCM or whatever they're currently called). So if you're using the Gmail app or another app for a specific mail service, sure you will receive push notifications quickly.
I wish the barriers to using new architectures were lower.

For instance, suppose binaries were typically distributed in a platform-agnostic format, like LLVM intermediate representation or something equivalent. When you run your program the first time, it's compiled to native code for your architecture and cached for later use.

I realize I've sort of just re-invented Javascript. But what if we just did away with native binaries entirely, except as ephemeral objects that get cached and then thrown away and regenerated when needed? It seems like this would solve a lot of problems. You could deprecate CPU instructions without worrying about breaking backwards compatibility. If a particular instruction has security or data integrity issues, just patch the compiler not to emit that instruction. As new side-channel speculation vulnerabilities are discovered, we can add compiler workarounds whenever possible. If you're a CPU architect and want to add a new instruction for a particular weird use-case, you just have to add it to your design and patch the compiler, and everyone can start using your new instruction right away, even on old software. You'd be able to trust that your old software would at least be compatible with future instruction architectures. Processors would be able to compete directly with each other without regard to vendor-lock-in.
It's also from 9 years ago?
Jane Street Puzzle Feb 2021 Solved! OCaml to the rescue
I feel like MIPS and RISC-V are so closely related they're not terribly diverse. Academic MIPS evolved into RISC-V.
Not having access to adequate forms of mental stimulation and activities for normal socialization, however, can reach the standard of torture, before long. Ramp it up enough, and eventually you're inflicting irreversible brain damage.
Emacs works well in a terminal. I'd recommend the GUI version, but it was originally a terminal program, after all.

Vim has some great advantages, like the ubiquity of Vi on servers and the ergonomic layout (though Emacs can emulate that pretty easily). But yes, Emacs is far easier to modify, it's built from the ground up for modification, and is written (mostly) in the language you modify it with, Emacs Lisp. The self-documenting element also helps tremendously with modification.

If you're curious about Emacs modification, I'd recommend this article:

https://malleable.systems/blog/2020/04/01/the-most-successfu...

And, not saying you should, but if you ever do want to get started with Emacs, just load it up and hit Control-h t (or select the tutorial option from the splash screen) to start the great built-in tutorial, which is really strong. If you get past that, there is a lesser-known tutorial on Emacs Lisp built in as well that is quite excellent and more people should know about it. To access it, hit Alt-x, then type info and hit Enter, then select the "Emacs Lisp Intro" tutorial from the list.
It's an analogy to the way we detect things like food spoilage or gas leaks by smell. For the vast majority of us most code smells are actually observed visually (Why is this nested 10 levels deep? Why are there 20 parameters to this method?) so I suppose we could start saying code eyesores, but that often has the wrong sense (even more strongly negative) than smell.

It's really only douchy or elitist if it's strictly used in an insulting or disparaging way. Most of the time when people talk about code smells it's meant to indicate, just like with real-world odd, bad, or unexpected smells: Something doesn't seem right. I could be wrong, but it warrants investigation.

Using the examples above, deep nesting and large numbers of parameters are indications of a potential problem, but are not necessarily problems. It could be that a refactoring is in order, but it may also be that everything is fine (just not pretty).
I made $55k per year in 1990 as a software developer in the San Francisco area, but then Apple/Adobe and others here entered into an illegal hiring pact to fight it.. later, Internet.. things changed. Wages for working people, even to some extent software, have been stagnant for thirty years, while the cost of higher education and distinctive homes rose 300 percent, depending on your setup, health care too..

literal evidence, I can see cars advertised for sale that are essentially the same price point as they were in the 1990s (working person's market), yet the Dow Jones market average went from "breaking ten thousand" to what, thirty thousand plus now?

Something is very, very suspect with the high-end money game in the last thirty years. People who do actual work? see George Carlin, he will tell you
I’m of the opinion that you shouldn’t send people to jail for more than 3 months if they’re not going for their entire lives. I don’t want people coming out of a place like that into my suburban neighborhood.
When you operate at "Google Scale", individual users don't matter. If the fraud system has a few false positives but on the whole saves the company money, it's still a win for the company. The moment they open some sort of review process, where they actually have to pay real people to look at things, a lot of their razor thin margins on their products would completely evaporate.

One idea I had recently is to pay Google -- put up a collateral of a few $100 to get someone to review your case. Consider it a fee to have someone with the authority to fix things look at your problem. Why don't they do something like this?
Even bigger batteries entered service in California last year.

"At 300MW / 1,200MWh, the world’s largest battery storage system so far is up and running"

https://www.energy-storage.news/news/at-300mw-1200mwh-the-wo...

Phase 1 of Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility was connected to the power grid and began operating on 11 December 2020, at the site of Moss Landing Power Plant, a natural gas power station owned by Vistra since it acquired the facility’s previous owner, Dynegy in 2018.

At 300MW / 1,200MWh, the BESS is considerably larger than the 250MW / 250MWh Gateway Energy Storage project brought online earlier this year by LS Power, also in California. Not only that, but Phase 2 of Vistra’s project will add another 100MW / 400MWh and is scheduled for completion by August this year.
My anecdote is as valid as your anecdote. Life got cheaper over the past 15 years, not counting changes in family size.

I used to have insurance co-payment, a deduction from my paycheck, and an unreachable out-of-pocket maximum. All of that has changed.

I used to pay about $1200 rent for a crummy house in a dangerous neighborhood. Now, with a paid-off mortgage, I pay just $266 for property tax on a house that is 3109 square feet on 0.39 acres.

Childcare is my wife, so $0 then and now. Income tax remains $0 due to child deductions. Sales tax is about 7%, relatively unchanged.

Education is a new expense compared to 15 years ago when nobody was in school. If I look back more than 20 years instead, to when I was in college, I can see that college has gotten cheaper. Tuition is a tiny bit lower, but the big change is that tuition and books for the first couple years are now free if you get it done in high school. That cuts the price in half.

This is not to say that I pay less. I now have a huge family. Things are cheaper, but I'm buying much more.
No need for a hill! You can dig a deep hole, and fill it with concrete weights.
This seems like it’s meant to be commentary on censorship, but I’d be willing to bet this has nothing to do with that. Google has closed or limited accounts for all kinds of reasons over the years that have nothing to do with what the user posted online.
Sorry for the downvote. It was a good question, but I did not want to encourage a link between game theory and objectivism to the casual observer because I seem them as complete opposites. Objectivism is, at best, short-sighted - screwing over the people around you because it is convenient in the moment and becoming indignant when the folks that were mistreated no longer want to be your friend. (At worst it is justification for people that enjoy inflicting cruelty on others.) Game theory can demonstrate how to be truly selfish, it is in our best interest to be kind, thoughtful, and good communicators and to cultivate strong and healthy relationships.

Objectivism is just toxic foolishness.
And from tonight's bad film club, may I recommend this Czech time travel / twin swap screwball comedy with Nazis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVBPNfKfgNo
I wonder if the boring company has any plans to create tunnels that could be used for gravity energy storage.

After all, if they have the tech to continuously bore long tunnels, boring straight down becomes a much easier task as you don't need as much anchorage to provide forward pressure.

You can essentially use the front plate of a TBM, and have it "fall" into the ground with a large weight behind it.
What about cobalt?
I am glad that this is getting attention. Open access has been a discussed issue for academic journals for some time already but the locked down access for standards has received little attention. In addition to ISO the IEEE, SAE, NMEA all have their standards behind paywalls. Even ASN.1 was for many years, long after it was adopted for the RSA PKCS standards, a paywalled standard. This is incredibly frustrating.

I remember sending cheques to "Global Engineering Documents" in Englewood Colorado to get printed copies of various standards back in the 1990s and hoping that would die with the advent of the Internet and the possibility of cheaply distributing information. It was understandable in the world of paper that if you wanted some obscure technical document that it was expensive. They retained the publishing model but eliminated the reason it was expensive.

It has been encouraging that people like Carl Malamud have been working at making various aspects of our laws, regulations and standards public but more work is needed.

Some of my tweets over the years on the topic of open access standards:

"I am really thrilled by sudden attention on paywalled standards. Current model hurts standardization. So how about it @SAEIntl, @IEEESA, @NMEA_org, @isostandards, @ITUstandards will you join the 21st century and move to free open access standards? Alternative is your irrelevancy."
https://twitter.com/mjduigou/status/1369033695030513670

"It annoys me that the IEEE standard for publishing test results probably won't be adopted by software industry because it is behind a fricking paywall https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8662798"
https://twitter.com/mjduigou/status/1273718847497887744

"I don't like that @IEEESA or @SAEIntl put their standards behind paywalls. Whatever revenue this publishing model makes is grossly offset by the impairment to, you know, standardization."
https://twitter.com/mjduigou/status/1308889681187221505

"How many bullshit encodings have been created since 1984 because ASN.1 wasn't a freely available standard? Not that it is perfect but SO MUCH PAIN could have been avoided if there had been community adoption. That adoption didn't happen because it was not an open access standard."
https://twitter.com/mjduigou/status/1308892326098546691

"Free the codes! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/publicresource/public-s... Only slightly worse than patent trolls are public standards behind paywalls."
https://twitter.com/mjduigou/status/384767046753320962
Please don't post like this—it does nothing to help, and you're just stoking a flamewar, guaranteed to get dumber and nastier as it gets going, with this flamebait and name-calling.

The way to help is to let us know. We don't come close to seeing everything.

The way to let us know is by emailing hn@ycombinator.com, as the site guidelines say. Fortunately another user followed them and did so.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My first thought was BonziBuddy: a free "assistant" program that was monetized by capturing and selling your personal data and displaying ads directly.
> * Streaming services don't have scheduled programming, so shows can be as long as they want. Different episodes of the same show don't have to be the same length. "Seasons" can be any number of episodes. With that freedom, a lot of shows are now 45+ minutes long (equivalent to hour-long shows with commercials). If the average attention span were shrinking, this isn't what I'd expect. *

Tangential anecdote: I have a friend who's a writer for Netflix & Amazon shows, and the streaming services have fine grained detail on subscriber behavior - at what point in the episode do people tend to stop watching, etc. The streaming service uses this data to create specific models for how shows and individual episodes should be structured to maximize audience retention. The writers are given specific instructions of how many and how frequently "payoffs" need to be peppered throughout the episode.

So while shows today might be 45+ minutes long, they're also not written like shows in the past.
Even were the victim alive, we are not a society that encourages the victim to dictate the punishment, nor allow the victim to carry out the punishment, so what would the victim's thoughts matter?

As much as it's presented otherwise, punishment western democracies is first and foremost a method of deterrence for the good of all, not for the satisfaction of those harmed.
>"“alligator” for A, “baseball” for B, “constellation” for C, “dinosaur” for D, “elephant” for E and “golf ball” for G.

Shame there wasn't anyone to share "Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, etc" with them. It works well in practice, has less syllables, and probably has many in prison that already know it.
I’ve had serious issues with the judicial system in this country for years now, but banning board games is just a new level of absurd.

How a system so unjust can exist in a modern “democracy” is beyond me.
To be clear, I'm not the author so I cannot answer on their behalf.

In my opinion though, "could" is so close to "potentially" in definition that it seems rather pedantic to hinge the entire article and its conclusions on that single choice of word.
When going to college I lived with my aunt. Coffee was too expensive, so we drank tea.

I looked up how to brew tea in her old Encyclopedia Brittanica. The most useful bit of information I gleaned was that 3 minutes was the optimal steeping time. You want to maximize caffeine while keeping the bitter tannins to a minimum.

I also found that drinking lots of tea caused muscle twitches. I did some research at the library and the cause, I determined, was that tannins also hinder the absorption of B vitamins. So take B vitamins if you start to have eye twitches, etc. Or drink less black tea.
A common mistake technical people make is to be too theoretical or overcomplicated with their work and decision making, where everything has to be some math model written out in a nicely formatted LaTeX document. Don't fall into that trap, it is very ineffective.

Stats is a tool like any other tool. Boil your question down to the fundamentals (first principles) and maybe stats is one of the tools you decide to use to solve part of it, where appropriate.

Most questions involving data can be answered with something as basic as a plot.
Funny, I've also had this happen recently to one of my accounts, only without the policy violation part: in my case, it's just that Google noticed "unusual activity."

I haven't forgotten the password, and still have access to the backup e-mail address but Google won't let me access the account regardless: it keeps asking a security question, which I believe was never set (although I can't say for sure since this account is very old, it was created when Gmail was still by invitation only).

I've mostly been using it for all kinds of membership registrations, where I don't want to enter my primary e-mail address for privacy reasons or to avoid being spammed, so it's probably not a big deal. However, the bottom line is that it's really easy to lose access to your Google account, and there's no recourse.

Edit: Tried to log in again now, and this account is only "locked," not "disabled," whatever the distinction between these two states is.

Separately, another Google account, which I had been using as my primary e-mail until a couple of years ago, is now set to forward all mail to my current address, and I noticed that whenever I log in and click the button to save the Gmail settings, even without modifying any of them, it would get disabled for suspicious activity, and I would have to recover it using the backup e-mail address -- which happens to be the same address all the mail is forwarded to. I expect it's just a matter of time before I'm locked out of this account as well, despite hardly ever using it nowadays.
Vouch links appear when a post is [dead]. There are degrees of [flagged] and [flagged][dead] is only the last of them.
well I guess innovation has a price (or maybe a cost). And as long as ISO puts up a paywall they have determined by market forces what that cost is.

My perspective on this idea is that altruism is dead when it comes to open source. Peoples work needs to be paid for. Weather its ISO or the guy creating a program using it. We are not to be slaves to the future and I dont wish that for future devs. Making a profit isnt evil but wanting others work for free is selfish. People can always make their own standards and come together across nations and do the work. But they much rather cry and call hardworking people bad.

Tim is trying to save a buck I bet.
Offer discounts to your SaaS subscriptions based on their country's location
I think suburban America broadly does not want psychopaths running around which is what burglars and drug dealers become when they spend 10 years in prison.
Title needs more fucking obscenities.
> Their punishment is their loss of freedom.

Like it or not, this is not reality. Reality is that they aren't treated like human beings, are deprived recreation, are unsafe, are mistreated by staff, etc.

Saying that loss of freedom is their punishment is viewing it in the most idealistic way, disconnected from the reality of it. Being in the prison system is far worse than lack of freedom.

That's why prison reform is so important.
This is going to be about that shitty Alcubierre drive again isn't it?
> - you can't upload photos using e.g. Google Photos or Nextcloud in the background

You can. I use PhotoSync to upload my photos in the background to my Nextcloud server via WebDav. Nextcloud and Dropbox have their own special functionality to automatically upload photos in the background.
There are very few areas suitable for pumped energy storage. It requires specific topology and geology.
SPARC is well known to be different enough (big endian, register windowing of the stack, alignment, etc.) that it exposes a lot of bugs in code that would be missed in a little-endian, x86 derived monoculture.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=152356589400654&w=2
Even if it isn’t valid, someone still has to take them to court for it. That’s often a high enough barrier to allow them to get away with bad behaviour without anyone doing anything.
It’s funny to think that the concept of a female only hotel like the Barbizon was a workable idea in 1900, but would be impossible to establish today in our 2020s political climate, certainly not in NYC. It would be possible to set up a coed hotel for “female identifying” people of all sexes, but female only would be a nonstarter. One step forward two steps back it seems.
My worries about US healthcare don't revolve around the cost or the quality, but more about the instability. If I know roughly how much I'll need to pay I can plan for it, even if it's quite a bit. But if I get into a crash in another state and taken to an out-of-network hospital without even being conscious, that can fuck up your finances straight away.

What I'd like to know is how much NHS-level healthcare would cost me in the US. Given a monthly payment, I want 100% of everything covered all the time. No out-of-pocket, no out-of-network, everything with no exceptions. I'm happy with generics, a bit of a wait and a non-private room, but I want 0 unexpected bills.

Maybe companies like Kaiser do things like that?
In Switzerland, and maybe in, say, Appalachia, it's an obvious thing to do.

But if your land lacks serious mountainous features, like much of Texas, it becomes impractical. It's also seriously more capital-intensive: you need to pour like a million tons of concrete.
Hardly. I will simulate a response to you:

> I can't believe you would complain about living IN YOUR OWN HOME nice and comfortable while PEOPLE ARE DYING. To compare this to prison is an INSULT to OUR HEALTHCARE HEROES. We're IN A PANDEMIC

There are enough loud voices from people with high Right-Wing Authoritarian Scores (which isn't a Republican/Democrat axis, before you decide I'm being needlessly political) that will shout you down.

As a personal test, I am buying GEO and CoreCivic to see how much I believe.
It's at the core of the WebExtensions APIs permissions system:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

WE are implemented both by Chromium and Firefox (with nuances)
Prison serves several roles.

Public safety - Keep someone deemed a threat to society away from the public until they have served their time, or are otherwise deemed safe.

Deterrence to others - Show to other citizens that committing a particular crime has punishment, so they will not do the same.

Punishment of the offender - Actions have consequences.

Reform - As much as possible, set prisoners up for success if they are eventually to be let out. There is a lot more to this, but I'll leave it there.

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Note how "revenge" and "sadism" are not in that list. How does it benefit society, or the prisoners, to remove certain social, educational or entertainment activities? Do you think someone planning to murder or rape someone will be deterred by knowing they won't have chess? Do you think it helps or hurts a prisoner's mental health by taking away such simple things?

I don't have many answers, but more people need to see prison for what it should do for society and the incarcerated, rather than wishing for prisoners to get sexually assaulted (for example).