skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember building simple PyQT apps on the N900, and then C++/Qt. At one point I was very tempted to start my own business and become a real developer for the platform while it was still "young", but it became apparent very quickly that Nokia was not seriously invested in it, and in any case they were not interested in small devs (getting an account for their joke of a store was a byzantine process, and expensive too iirc).

I attended an event with an "evangelist" here in Manchester, I was all fired up. It was some dude from Finland on a UK tour, and from the start it was all about the transition to QT on Symbian - this was to an audience full of people already working on iOS, to whom Symbian was a bad joke. He kept going on about the marvels of QT - which at that point was already a decade old and hardly a novelty, but clearly it had just reached Finland or something. Maemo was a footnote, "oh yeah we have that too", it was absolutely clear he just didn't care for it - the future was QT on Symbian. People were snickering; I wanted to strangle him. I reckon he single-handedly destroyed any local interest in developing for Nokia. I gave up shortly afterwards, and then the burning-platform memo happened and that was it.

My N900 is now an mp3 player for my 9yo son. The MicroUSB-B socket is a bit loose, iirc that was common with early adopters of that standard. The backlit keys have yellowed, or maybe the LEDs have. Everything else still works fine, although the software is obviously obsolete. My kid wonders why he has to press the screen that hard, and I feel like someone trying to explain ancient history.

What a waste, Nokia, what a waste.
They handled the complex config in an interesting way. I'm taking a look at Dhall for a real use case at work recently, and thinking it might be able to handle a lot of complex config scenarios. I guess that remains to be proven out.
Most human activities could be seen as that. An american screaming madly at its tv screen showing a football game with ads telling them what to buy. A priest burning frankincense and telling other humans what to do... Those are all meaningful for the people practicing them and can look ridiculous for others.
Given the setup relies on intimidation plates to frighten the crabs into action, we can only assume the future of computers will be "Regularly Intimidated Soldier Crabs".
It had amazing multitasking prowess for a 2010 phone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900#/media/File:Screens...
That's awesome. Perhaps closer to the early 2000s for me (on Astalavista [sic] or some such), and I still get the feels when I read it. It really made what otherwise seemed like a strange/underground interest turn into a noble pursuit.
Offtopic but I've been considering starting a "render farm" business. I can fork out some capital, take a loan and such but the important thing is, rent and electricity is almost free. So, wpuld it work?
Let's admit, this telescope is also one of a kind, and it (ELT) is not online yet, too.

If we care about telescopes which are built by hundreds, their mirrors are an order of magnitude smaller.

OTOH with the massive launch capacity SpaceX is building, we could put a dozen 5m telescopes in various high orbits around Earth. With orbital assembly, very large diameter mirrors can be formed; even if these mirrors had a relatively small area (many holes between mirror elements), the angular resolution could be higher than anything reasonably achievable on the planet surface.
They do, but newspapers don't allow readers to distribute misinformation among themselves, or vote threads full of self-reinforcing misinformation to the front page of /r/all.

The thought shaping at scale capability of Reddit is massive, and seems to go mostly unnoticed as everyone is laser focused on QAnon and conspiracy theorists (which quite conveniently are very common topics of discussion in these threads).
How does tax work? BTC is an asset not a currency. It’s like paying for your credit card with gme stocks
I teach kids and it's cool how there are ALWAYS a few who WILL find the mouse holes in software. It's been fun teaching them over MS Teams.
Thanks for the link!

With regard to speed, why do you think the TechEmpower benchmarks[1] (which I think actually do employ a good number of workers for the sync frameworks) have the sync frameworks getting smoked by the asyncio frameworks?

[1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=...
>you've yet to tell me why I'm so wrong

You're wrong about this. Maybe I haven't done it as explicitly as you want, but that's the point. For such a great 'meditator' you pay too much attention to your own thoughts.
Isn't cryptotrader.tax free, or at least freemium?
Ask HN: Which of the following ML topics do you wish had good tutorials?
1. Distributed Reinforcement Learning with RLLib
2. Distributed Deep Learning with PyTorch
3. Reinforcement Learning with PyTorch
4. Linear Algebra for ML with numpy
5. Other (please specify)

I like to teach what I learn and have a few tutorials up on YouTube. I need your help in figuring what should I put up next.
Exchanges like Coinbase could function like your bank and checking account you use to pay the Visa bill today. Your bill for last month is $2500 or 2500 euros, you'd like to pay with a bitcoin from your account at Coinbase. Visa calculates the exchange rate at that moment and sends a debit request to Coinbase for xxx fractions of a Bitcoin to be transferred from your wallet/account to Visa's wallet. It's a way for Visa to accumulate Bitcoin for one thing.

The other way it might work is if the merchants price things in BTC. Like any other foreign currency, they take the USD from your account and pay the merchant in BTC at the current exchange rate.
Ideas can compete on a level playing field, purely on their merits, or they can be "put out like a fire" by someone with power and influence, and many variations in between.
Australia and New Zealand both had channels 0 and 1 for analog television broadcast.

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

During the peak of Solar cycle 22 in 1989-1991, amateur radio operators (including me) on the US west coast used to listen for New Zealand channel 0 audio on 50.75 MHz (also 50.74 and 50.76 MHz). If you could hear the wideband FM audio, it was almost guaranteed you could make SSB or CW contacts with New Zealand hams around 50.11 MHz.
Maybe you're right, but I still think it's a large jump going from completely non-commercial to partially funded through commercial means. It's a jump that I find concerning
Zettlr is great for some things. It has a couple downsides relative to something like org-mode:

It doesn't have any real outliner capabilities. Not that everyone wants an outliner, but you get it with org-mode.

It doesn't work like a wiki. In other words, if you link to a file that doesn't exist, it just says the file doesn't exist. It's kind of annoying to have to create those files manually and then reopen the document so you can add a link, even worse if you've linked to several notes you want to create.
Database Security Checklist for Small Teams
Indeed - something often misunderstood as always recorded from the perspective of a third party observer.

Quick follow up question. If you did depart and travelled at near-ligth speed to another galaxy, arrived there in a few seconds and then looked back at the earth - would it appear as only a few seconds have passed for the earthlings back home as well?

By the same token, if you are actively watching another galaxy as you travel at near-light speed towards it - will you be watching that galaxy "age" at an extremely fast pace throughout the journey?
> Would it become a problem if one landlord ended up owning 60% of mall retail? Why?

The fact that they own 60% is not a problem in itself but it is a problem when you consider the practical effects it’s having on app developers. A growing number of developers who reject their 30% price tag have no alternative to reach that segment of the market.

If we were seeing the same level of dissatisfaction with landlords hoarding real estate and the inability of their potential customers to go elsewhere, I would of course consider their monopoly a problem as well. I don’t think we are seeing the same level of monopoly and its failure modes happening in retail real estate.

I cited US statistics because US-based companies (Epic, Purism, Basecamp) seem to be at the center of this debate. If this discussion turns into proposal for legislation or an anti-trust case, it will likely happen in the US.

> Apple's 30% cut is exactly equal to Google's 30% cut.

Google actually has decreased their fees to 15% for smaller developers [1]. This is also much less of an issue on Android because there exists alternative app installation methods on that platform. Users can install app packages without needing to go through the google play store. So there is an alternative for developers.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/16/google-app-store-fees-cut-fo...
Yeah he at least got a job for most of the stuff he learned doing this not at Microsoft probably ...
Give it up man. You’d think HNers would get it but they don’t. Most likely because they hate that they missed the bus. You’ll never convince them. We should just stop trying.
Especially when semiconductor manufacturing has become a major geopolitical flashpoint between China, EU, US etc.

Apple would be insane to get into the middle of it.
All 5000 Images in Beeple’s $69M Magnum Opus:What I Found Isn’t So Pretty
We shipped ethereum proof of stake December 1st, 2020. There are over 100,000 validators in the network, securing over $6 billion worth of value. This isn't hot air with little substance.

EDIT: adding source https://beaconcha.in
> No screaming on California roller coasters and thrill rides, state guidelines

While this is the source headline, it is also a straight-up lie (as is the associated subhead) that directly contradicts the body of the article (given the source and message, more likely political propaganda than clickbait, hoping to drive perceptions among the large number of news browsers that don't read most articles beyond the headline) and should not be retained as the HN title.

And even the body of the article is deceptive; despite referencing the new rules that allow park reopenings on April 1 in red-tier counties, it appears to base any mention of any potential impact on screaming in those rules from an undated reopening plan from an industry organization (that, given the absence of any press release announcing the plan on the organizations website, seems to be from before September 28 of last year) which itself appears to be lobbying for setting the industry rules for reopening by proposing responses to non-industry-specific concerns from some (uncited) state document.

The actual industry guidance for amusement parks which was released some time ago (and remains current with the new rules which allow reopening in red tier and adjust capacity limits and other limits in other rules) does not say anything about screaming at all, implicitly addressing the concern which led to that being included in non-industry-specific guidance previously with masking requirements.
> The new study provides strong evidence that Greenland is more sensitive to climate change than previously understood -- and at risk of irreversibly melting.

I think its silly to say _irreversibly_ melting. It apparently was completely ice free at one point, and then something natural caused it to freeze over. Likely it could happen again in the future
With the cloud/github/etc now, 'format your hard drive' is not what it used to be.
Hey there, just wanted to share that for me (using Opera browser with ad block) scrolling is broken on your landing page.
> That used to be the way that news was done, right?

That seems like a bit of a rose colored view of news in the past.
> CTRL+F "pine"

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It seems overly convenient to gerrymander the definition of strife so that it excludes anything that might contradict your thesis.

One can argue that as the arrow of time moves forward, technological progress has been increasing overall and inequality has been decreasing...

One could argue this, but again, the facts don't support the proposition. While it may be true that average and even median wealth has increased, the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest has never been greater---the poorest people in the world live much as their ancestors did centuries ago, while the richest have massively increased their wealth even in the last couple of decades. Technology indeed raises all boats, but it raises them proportionately to their wealth, and so is highly non-linear, and certainly not equalizing.
IIRC, Apple basically made "retina displays" happen - when nobody else would make that expensive step - by telling a screen manufacturer "here is a very large check; build a factory to make these at commodity scale, within one year."
Imo, the logic of most investors is "Can I afford to lose 5% of my wealth? Heck, I can lose 10%!" So all the rich with zillions in assets invest what they can afford to lose, those 10%, and hold. If the rich top 1% owns 50% of the entire world's assets, then such is the target price of bitcoin - 5% of everything. At the moment, this everything is $100T. This gives us what, 250K per btc? Multiplied by expected inflation, say 2x.
Audacity defaults to rendering audio as stem plots now, when zoomed in.

I found https://thewelltemperedcomputer.com/KB/SRC.htm to be interesting. Near the bottom, it has sinc-interpolated visualizations of discrete-time signals (though saying that resampling is bad, because of a Nyquist-frequency signal not surviving an upsample and downsample, is misleading). What program is that?
It's really easy to justify. A very prominent example of why would be penicillin. Who knows how many useful things we'll find and where?
Man that sucks! Were you mostly in Melbourne during this time? They were in lock down for a long time but most of the rest of the country was only 1-2 months of severe lock down (hard limits on leaving the suburb and then later, a hard 50KM limit from your place of residence).
An early SpaceX engineer crawled inside an imploding rocket on a jet in midair
https://mooseyanon.medium.com/github-f-ck-your-name-change-d...
Do you feel all crytocurrencies (or crtyptostoreofvalues) deserve the same status as bitcoin? If not what makes bitcoin special?
Speaking as a progressive woman, that was actually the first thing I thought of. Y'all can have babies without us. More power to you.
Not too hard to get consensus if you're an authoritarian regime in china. All of the largest miners are in china.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/731416/market-share-of-m...
JEP 402: Unify the Basic Primitives with Objects (Preview)
It is already well known that the Earth has gone through melting and freezing cycles but we, humans, have surely created* this particular melting cycle.

The problem is not with the Earth. It is that we, humans, we likely not survive if this cycle of climate change continues.
For people interested in this kind of stuff there's a good book on visualizations from WSJ: https://www.amazon.com/Street-Journal-Guide-Information-Grap...

It's pretty concise and full of helpful rules like that
The problem with almost all alternative crytpo currencies is that somewhere deep down non-decentralized skeletons are burried. Either the protocol doesn't scale to more than a dozen validators, or there is some key node hosted by the devs (I think this is the issue with stellar).
Those aren’t audits, those are attestations. The Gemini page says “audit”. But that isn’t what the pdfs say.

Read the accountant’s writing very carefully and you’ll see it means they merely examined management’s report and their assertion that at a specific time at 3:44 pm feb 26th they had the money.

https://assets.ctfassets.net/jg6lo9a2ukvr/1Qg69anSKlBi3FbFA4...
What if you produce the mandate signed by someone impersonating the customer? I imagine that is the typical case for ACH fraud. Not everyone has their own ACH connection; you would plug in a stolen account number at some merchant.
I still hope some viable and fully open Linux option will emerge that's not Android. And have good quality devices with that. Google did a major disservice to Linux at large by the rift it caused.

I don't want bionic with Surface Flinger. Give me a Wayland compositor and a normal Linux stack.
Guess why. Like Maemo and OpenMoko, absolutely nobody cares about PinePhone.
Well, yes. You can't just convert filesystems in place, whether ZFS or otherwise. After installing the package you can create ZFS pools and filesystems. If you want to replace existing filesystems you would move all your stuff over after the fact.

Booting from ZFS will require some extra steps. I actually cheated here and just left /boot and / on ext4, using ZFS for /usr, /home, /var and everything else, so I don't have firsthand experience with this (on Linux anyway, on FreeBSD you can just select ZFS during installation). But if you do want that, it doesn't seem too difficult, https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Deb...

As far as ext4 checksumming, as your own link says, it only checksums metadata -- actually, a subset of the metadata apparently. ZFS checksums everything, meaning your actual data. Further, since ext4 is not aware of redundancy -- you'd be using lvm or mdraid for that -- it's not clear what it can do if it does detect an error. With ZFS these errors are fixed automatically.
Why does the matrix come to mind.
Check out an HP t520 or t620 thin client on eBay. They’re cheap, have free management software and run Linux.

They ship with VMWare, Citrix, RDP, terminals, browsers, etc and work great.
PRIs arrived a bit later around here, and definitely changed the game. I think it was late 1996 when they started getting popular. Before that, it was stacks and stacks of modems! I remember going into one of the main POPs and there were metal shelves, over 150 modems (Microcoms, I think?), power strips 3 layers deep, individual serial cables to terminal servers, and a river of RJ11 phone cables coming out of the wall. All this was in an unconditioned basement in a small office park. All those blinking lights sure looked cool though.

Our upstream was a couple T1's to two different providers. At some point, there was a billing dispute and one of the T1's got shut off. Everything was lagged for weeks. I forget the brand of terminal servers, but they booted off floppies, and stored their password file there, too (this was before RADIUS was deployed.) Crazy times.
“Do not answer! Do not answer!! Do not answer!!!”
I don’t think it would work. Amazon’s problem is not its lack of a given tool, but rather an entire culture that’s incapable of doing what’s needed to win here.
Every time I've started to write a shell script, I've finished it in Python.
without a more substantial argument, it doesn't seem like a "reasonable belief" to me. the fact that you have a bunch of people crammed together in a small train seems like it would overwhelmingly dominate the "safe or not safe" equation, not to mention the problem of how to get people to properly distance themselves in the long queues typical at amusement parks. if screaming is really the needle that breaks the camel's back, it's probably too early to reopen the parks at all.
How does unique visitor tracking work without cookies? With IP address?
We're at a periodic (125,000 year) temperature peak. Warming is surely a natural event. http://donath.org/Photos/TempChange.PNG
Why do you believe an individual stream is limited to 10Gbps?
> The idea is they would put up the signs when they reopen

There is nothing in either the actual published state industry-specific rules for amusement parks, or the lobbying document from the industry association suggesting that such signs would be required, recommended, suggested, or...well, anything else.

The entire idea seems to be an invention of the article writer, whose nearest nexus to reality is the non-industry-specific concerns from a not-fully-cited source which seems to be some earlier version of the state reopening blueprint (but, notably, not the industry-specific guidance which has already been issued for the amusement park industry) which mentions activities involving screaming, etc., as things that need to be limited or mitigated generically to reopen.

But the cited industry lobbying plan itself proposes addressing—and the actual state industry-specific guidance for amusement parks (that the article simply ignores) addresses—this with masking, not any rules about limiting or discouraging screaming, whether by signs or otherwise.
What’s gold’s inherent value?
No cars, no streets: Saudi Arabia's The Line
Yep, pandoc is great! I used it to write a technical book. I wrote the text in standard markdown and used pandoc to convert to PDF and ePub, with MOBI handled separately (by Calibre). That plus a handful of ruby scripts to do some markdown transformations worked out pretty well.
Can it do 3d animations?
The conclusion seems based on the relative execution times for the two benchmarks. Since the benchmarks are measured in the same way, their error bars should be basically the same as well. This analysis is not an analysis of the absolute execution time of these algorithms, but the difference between them.

I don't think the conclusion is hasty. Lemire is saying: "look, if the M1 full multiplication was slow, we'd expect wyrng to be worse than splitmix, but it isn't".
Ah, so its purely from a historical preservation angle. Is there a point with $80 Amazon stick welders available?
> Earth naturally warming was a.. natural event - there is no need to label it troubling or liken it to an artificially-warmed event

Natural events can still be troubling or cataclysmic.

If the Greenland ice sheet melted entirely relatively quickly, it would be extremely troubling whether it was happening for human or natural reasons.

We still have to adapt and survive any climate changes that happen, natural or not. If climate changes pose a significant risk to us, they are troubling, natural or not.
Man, if all advertisements were this level of quality and usefulness the world would be such a nice place. Not only are all of the example visualisations very illustrative and pretty, but they actually use real (and interesting!) data instead of tiny contrived examples. Being able to click through almost every example and play with a real full chart to see exactly what it's like at scale is a fantastic demonstration of the principles being covered.

Covering the "why" instead of just the "what" (e.g., with the history behind unclassed scales) is also very engaging content. It makes sense in retrospect but it had never occurred to me that it wouldn't have been plausible to create an unclassed scale for data points of arbitrary value until the 1970s.
Absolutely. It depends on the hardware.

I've found if all you're doing is developing then FreeBSD is fine. If you bring simple multi-media use cases into the mix then things get a bit hairy.

Ubuntu certainly helps, but it's also hairy when things go wrong or get close to going wrong.

I just turn my Mac on and get on with working in a Unix environment.
This is an interesting question. You'd need to keep track of cost basis and gain, and specify whether you want to work on a FIFO or LIFO (more likely) basis.
Shopping less, not having children, eating less meat.