skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the moment, the incentives are all aligned with us keeping the 3rd world as it is for as long as possible.

IMO we need to recognise that the rhetoric of it being "our fault" doesn't sell well, right or wrong. We need to change to saying that it's in our interests to help the rest of the world change quickly. Better still would be to make it in everyone's financial interests to do so that incentives are back aligned with the best outcome for the planet.

We need to continue the R&D we're doing, and give away the research so that the nations currently industrialising can skip over that step. There are social issues as well, industrialisation of Britain was a major driver behind democratising the country and enabling social mobility, so it's hard to rush that as well.
Environmental activists also seem prone to early death in some oil and Gas rich third world countries.
Who cares about the optics of it? We now know it's bad, that type of whataboutism is the most destructive and dumb kind that exists.

Serously we should just pay for their solar panels, windfarms and reactors and be done with it.
sharing email is not harmful I suppose! Means, I share it quite often with many communities. I would do it.
I'm not sure the discussion benefits from debating that.
I'm in a similar situation, but it's like 1/3 of what she'll make. And I have literally no idea what to do now. I have a good feeling for how to manage it. But not a good feeling about what it means for my life.

In the SF area, it's not enough to live with a family. Where my wife and I are from, it's enough to early-retire with average incomes (4% of 2M$ ~= 80k$/y, 40k$/y median income). But do I want to do this? Or do I keep working my job?

My job is alright, and I make pretty good money. I've been progressing along so far and doing well. But would I rather not have to attend meetings I don't feel like? Yes. But would I rather ride a bike everyday that I want? Yes. Would I rather play games for hours? Yes. Would I rather learn to machine stuff with a CNC? Yes. Would I rather learn new maths, sciences, engineering fields? Yes. Would I rather go sailing around the world? Yes.

Or at least for a while. But then I'd probably get tired of it. And then I can't do too crazy stuff because we have young kids that need to grow up. And then I couldn't afford the sustained expenses, and then want to go back to work. But then I'd have a gap in my resume and worry about having lost touch with my network and career.

We're already debt free and save a large amount of our income every pay-check. We're not interested in buying a house or living in a fancier place. Not interested in a fancier car. We don't want to flash like we're wealthy. We want to be able to hangout with our friends without making them uncomfortable.

So what do I even do with this money? I've never been taught how to be "wealthy". Before all this became reality, I thought I knew what I'd do, I had so many ideas. Now that it's there... crickets.
Microsoft buys Nuance for $19.7B in all-cash deal
Thanks, I see (I think).

So some use cases would be for gaming (where you really need dedicated graphics performance), and also for MacOS as a guest OS (as otherwise the user interface is really slow)?
Probably a crapton of patents for voice recognition.

Also, if you cannot operate a keyboard and must communicate by speech to operate a computer, it's pretty much Dragon NaturallySpeaking or GTFO. Integrating NaturallySpeaking tech into Windows would be a huge boon and further cement Windows as the os to have if you have disabilities.
Microsoft looks to buy Siri's AI developer, Nuance
This is really, really unfortunate. One of the last on-device speech companies is being bought out and moved into Microsoft's cloud division. Expect nobody to be willing to sell you speech recognition without a cloud subscription now.
> profited off the genocide

Also, it's ludicrous to believe that FB actually make any money of Myanmar. They make money from serving ads to the developed world, not poor developing countries.
I think it's life-changing in the sense that for 99% of people they would have enough time to at least look for a better job over the course of a year. For a fair few people it would even give you enough time to get a qualification.

All depends on what you mean by life-changing though.
IANAL, but I believe the term is "detrimental reliance".

You relied on the representation of the other party that they agreed to X(written contract or not, written is easier to rove, but not essential), and then took actions based on the expectation of X.

Costs might include hard materials & labor costs for preparing the site, your labor in preparing the site, lost income for time you spent, opportunity costs of not taking advantage of other opportunities (e.g., how much electricity costs you incurred by not putting in other panels instead of their contract), and emotional distress.

The problem is going to be proving each and every one of those charges in court, in the face of both legitimate and bullsh*t arguments by Tesla's lawyers - and they will bring both types of arguments by the truckload.

What Tesla is counting on is that it will almost always cost more to pursue the lawsuit than you will recover, so no one will step up and sue. They have scale, you don't.

This is why class action lawsuits exist - so that all similarly situated plaintiffs can combine their actions into one, and pursue it with one firm. It would not surprise me that someone at a class-action firm is already examining these reports, taking notes, and making calls. Similarly, anyone with this problem should be contacting class action firms this morning.
I don't know about "reasonable", but much smaller numbers have, in practice, been banned in various contexts by legal authorities (tl;dr 2 to 11 bits).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number#Other_examples
There is indeed some contradiction in concluding that your situation is a special enough to write an article about it to New York magazine and then say in the article that "At this point in my life, nothing is going to change"
As a victim of war myself, I beg to disagree with you.
Or much worse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26667101
Sometimes. Sometimes it's the 22nd. Neither of which are a long way from January 1st. Hence "roughly".
You can't meditate on that thought. Keep the search :)
Free Laravel Spark Alternative
Laravel Wave is now open-source. Seems like a very good free alternative to Laravel Spark
No, the takeaway from Ted Neward, the author of this analogy, is this:

> "Although it may seem trite to say it, Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science. It represents a quagmire which starts well, gets more complicated as time passes, and before long entraps its users in a commitment that has no clear demarcation point, no clear win conditions, and no clear exit strategy."

Though I must admit your take is good, too!
Neuromancer is cool. Some would say it's the seminal book on cyberpunk, though I don't know how dated it feels now.

There's an excellent HN thread on this very topic that I'm sure you'll find value in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24304799
Very nice, hope this will be another to send Bolsonaro and Duterte to jail, but what will it do to curb the greatest poluters: USA and China? Looks like just another regulamentation to contain the development of poor countries.
Bear in mind, Nuance is often the voice technology behind other companies' speech-based products too. Nuance technology originally powered Siri, for example.
The average cost of buying something online, especially from China directly, is:

- At least 1 hour of searching, market research, vetting the vendor (insofar that is possible at all).

- Staying at home for multiple days when the delivery is expected, while frantically checking incorrect package trackers.

- Alternatively, having the package delivered to the post office. Going there and waiting with 50 other people takes 2 hours.

- If the vendor is dishonest or the package delivery fails, add another 4 hours at least.

So the answer to your question is: Everyone who does not want to jump through these hoops or values their time.
> Wanna learn French? Go to France and live there for a year.

I actually did that but only for 9 months, my french isn't that good...
The fact you can't comprehend why they'd be unhappy about it... is why they're unhappy about it.
Very true. It surprised me how non-dysfunctional government interactions are here relative to the SFBA and the reputation of Florida in general. DMV appointments are very easy to get and you can get in and out pretty quickly. In CA, you had to camp out at the DMV at 6am to have a 50/50 chance of getting out by noon.

311 type issues in miami are handled pretty quickly, same day in some cases. In SFBA you could go months before seeing public safety issues addressed, if ever.
FF was also pretty involved with DoH and ESNI (now ECH).
I'm re-watching this right now.

It is a great show.
Been using it for a few weeks on one of my side projects. Overall pleased but did encounter some problems:

- Builds randomly fail to deploy and without notification (had to push a random commit to master to trigger a new build)

- If using custom domain, there's no way to redirect myproject.pages.dev to myproject.com so I had to use a <link rel="canonical"> on the off chance Google finds my pages link. I also had to use a page rule to redirect all traffic to www

- I'm not exactly sure how (if it's even possible) to set up a staging environment so that every push to master doesn't automatically deploy to production

- All the cache-control headers are "max-age=0, must-revalidate". I had to create another page rule to edit this to 1 year max age for assets that already have contenthash appended to their file names
I made the questionable choice to write my map renderer from scratch, got it barely working, then got bored and abandoned the project at least for now. When I finish my current pet project I plan to replace it with an existing renderer and focus on the hiking/backpacking specific features I can add.

If you want something that actually works I highly recommend Gaia. They only have OS's driving maps built-in, but you should be able to manually add OS's leisure maps. Reasonable usage will definitely fit within OS's free tier, but you'll probably need to pay Gaia for pro. Disclaimer: I've worked with the tech this described a lot, but not actually done the steps I'm suggesting.

See:

https://osdatahub.os.uk/docs/wmts/overview

https://help.gaiagps.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047068634-How-...

My WIP project: https://github.com/danielzfranklin/backpackingmap
Thanks for the detailed answer! Going farther, why do you go to all the trouble? Is there something specific about the articles on the list that make you want to promote them?
And LinkedIn is still terrible, but no more so than they were before the acquisition. Then again Skype just got worse and worse and Wunderlist just got absorbed by the borg cube. So a mixed record, but at least seems to have been getting better in more recent times.
Gotta say the Kennedy Space Center visitor’s center sounds very similar (they have the best Space Shuttle display is think), plus has a full Saturn V. Plus the Washington DC’s Smithsonian Air and Space Center (free... has a spare Skylab space station you can walk into, plus an Apollo-Soyuz display, plus a Moon rock you can literally touch) and the museum at the airport which has an orbiter.

It’d be fun to see these and the Moscow museum back to back to compare.

We are fortunate to live in a world with parallel space programs—that cooperate!
One dead and one injured in shooting outside Paris hospital
> Imagine all the automation this requires, but without any advanced electronics. Was it all relays and switches?

Yes, basically. My understanding is that it was a very fancy RC car with extra strong antennas to be able to give video feeds from the 4 cameras and receive commands live from Earth. (Plus bells and whistles like solar panels and a plutonium heater, see [0].)

The moon is only 1 light second away, so remote controlling a car that moves at 1 mph is not too much of an issue. (Though with bad video quality it is still a challenge, see the fate of Lunokhod 2.)

[0] https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2011/03/rovers-lea...
Handy Golang Tools
It really depends on how you define laptop. There was this sort of thing in the 80s, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_T1100), of course. And there were a couple of laptop-shaped laptops from 1988 on, but they were either spectacularly compromised (the NEC Ultralite had a max of 2MB of storage, for instance) or spectacularly expensive or both. In terms of laptops that were shaped like laptops as we know them, and that were actually usable outside of very specialized applications, the Powerbook 100 and Thinkpad 700T could be reasonably claimed to be about the first.
Sketch based modeling and animation tool from Google
Also direct link to web demo http://MonsterMash.zone
> Being a tech worker is not like banking, where you know you’re not doing good for society

I... I work in banking and I think I'm doing good for society :D It's weird how deep this belief banks are an artificial parasite that built itself on top of normal people became. If people don't like banks and think they're really bad, they could really try removing them... it's not like I'd disobey a law or anything that says we can't work in banks anymore...
> Microsoft closed up its entire mobile efforts after acquiring Nokia

Sometimes what happens is, that big company sees something useful that small company is doing, they buy them, pick the part that they need and then close the rest.

> Amazon might seem too entrenched now, but really it’s just one storefront

Then they should pay taxes just as a storefront.

> The market should be regulated, but market forces are also an important regulator and that fact needs to be recognised more widely.

The regulation is very weak. There is no level playing field as big companies have money to buy politicians and regulation that favours them and penalises competition. The whole concept of legalised corruption - lobbying goes against free market and should be illegal.
I think the way carmakers are going the auto industry could justify most of the valuation.
Congrats on releasing! Cloudflare Tunnel secure localhost public URL looks like a very powerful feature. Is Cloudflare working on a full "Cloud IDE" in-house? It appears all the parts are there, even for just a cloud shell ;)
Your source makes reference to an email which is no longer available, thanks to a dead link.
Other discussion: Microsoft buys Nuance for nearly $20B https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26778780
they will hold online meetup: https://www.meetup.com/dolphinscheduler-meetup-group/events/...
Yelling at waiters because you’re not allowed to eat inside is also not helping, friend.
My problem is that human activity for thousands of years is focused on using resources and basically consuming the planet. We take for example iron ore in a places rich with iron, we turn them into the product and spread them across the world, so it is harder to reuse them. We take crude oil and transform some part to plastic, which is harder to reuse and we burn another part, which is irreversible.

And we do it on a huge scale, we need to do it to have drugs, houses, cars, energy, whatever. You can't make a solar panel without mining. You cannot feed 7 bln of people without tractors, etc.

So humankind somehow consumes the Earth. In 1 million of years, we may no longer have any crude oil left. But we are supposed to be here for much longer than 1 million of years.

As I know this, it seems to me, that these things are artificial cutoff. This is bad and that is ok, even when both things consume nature and are unsustainable for millions of years.

A problem is, as long as we are bound to the Earth, there are only two options. Either some form of primitivism, return back to the stone age (not to bronze age, it is mining) and reduce a population to <1% of today. Or to colonize space and "use" Earth (pollution, mining, reduction of diversity is all consumation) and everything so little we will be able to improve enough to colonize space and then start this consumation on much wider scale, that is unlimited (humankind isn't probably able to spread over the whole universe).

A problem with the second is that we are just in the beginning and we don't even have a smallest experience in things like making planets habitable, changing their trajectories, etc. To get there, we need highly speculative science. To get there, we need funds to support it. To have funds, we need profits. To have profits, we need efficient markets. To have efficient markets, we need freedom. And you probably know, anything starting with "The global campaign..." of any kind is definitely going to lower freedom.
And anyone who agrees is downvoted.

My take is this. For a few years I've avoid touching doorknobs and doorhandles. I avoid people who have colds or flu. I avoid sick people with ANY communicable disease. Nothing to do with COVID. I just reduce my number of colds by a significant amount. Its called common sense.

How we got COVID will be explained by speculation for years. Those responsible will never pay. Those who profited will never pay.
My dad came to 7 digit figures in his account twice. It wasn’t really easy money, he worked both times decade long for it to happen. Both times he wasted it. I guess, one needs a decent financial literacy to be able to control such amount of money. Both times he listened to some charlatans and invested into some weird shit. I don’t think he will make it for the 3rd time, but let’s see.

On the other hand I could retire after inheriting all the assets from my mother alone. At first glance it would be really cool, I would retire to Croatia, have a small house and a boat, but after a while it would be boring for sure.
The perils of rounding; or, Careful with that Axe, Eugene
Yes, but you might only have to do it occasionally to have it pay off. Just enough that the dozen or so people at the top would think twice, because especially with the IRS bounty system, it may not take more than o e person with cold feet to either stop the fraud, or whistle blow and make prosecution much easier.

Although it would help significantly if corporate tax returns were public as originally intended. That's a bit like open sourcing the data, and you could have a bug bounty on finding issues.
Siri is brain-damaged. I am constantly disappointed with how stupid she is compared to Alexa and the gap is widening. I try to keep things as simple as possible with her because she always disappoints me. I wish Apple would open up a tiny bit of those 200 billion in cash reserves on improving Siri.
You call out a supposed fallacy in my statement but not your own. Simply repeating an unsupported belief is not support for an argument - appeal to emotion by wishful thinking, ad nauseam.

You might want to look up Brooks's Law.
Quite so. Money problems are nicer to have than no-money problems but they are still problems. After the initial rush of "I will never have to worry about rent anymore!" wears off, you realize that none of your previous friends can relate to your situation anymore and that you are now a target for every scammer in the country. Worse, even winning tens of millions will not make a dent in the bigger "change the world for the better" dreams you may have and there is an even bigger disappointment waiting for you when you realize you are still a small fish compared to the Bezoses and Gateses.

Forcibly changing economic class without taking care to also change social class can be really tough psychologically, something that you frequently see in those Reddit topics.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26778946
Bingo. Texas has no state income tax and has offered a lot of incentives to bring in more business.

It's the 2nd largest state in the Union, has a decent set of universities, warm (hot) weather, and several large, wealthy cities, like Dallas and Austin. Houston is set to overtake Chicago as the USA's 3rd largest city before too long.
The [[ builtin is a ksh feature copied by bash. POSIX includes [[ and ]] in its list of reserved keywords but doesn't specify their behaviour.
Said with zero self-awareness several paragraphs after humblebragging about how frugal and low maintenance of a person she is. The entire article is so myopic but I think her transactional view of relationships, and framing of them entirely in terms of competition and power dynamics was the saddest part.

> My mom has gotten bitter. She said, “You’re going to have more money than your dad and I combined, and we’ve worked all our lives.”

I guess her thinking comes from somewhere
The Guardian is not nuanced or well-researching and it's ran by receiving funding from billionaires in order to push public opinion. They are also considered mainstream media by any rational person.

Which "Mainstream media" outlets do you consider to be nuanced and well-researched?
In case anyone wants a video of the original talk: https://archive.org/details/pyvideo_440___opening-the-flask
At least in Germany this is done in some places. I often buy flights out of Frankfurt since the ICE train goes stops in the airport.
Once you compress the number it becomes stored in base-256 due to how the gzip file format works was my understanding
I must disagree. From a UX side alone, they've regressed, but then there have been more outages since the acquisition than before.
"Media is not spreading free opinion; It's generating opinion" --Oswald (b. 1918) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decline_of_the_West
This feels to me like a bit of a 1 dimensional appeal to authority. Consider the role of old guard media in selling the war in Iraq to the American public. Their pieces weren't well researched and turned out to have been fed to them by the administration. The Osama Bin Laden cave base diagrams also come to mind in the same vein. The NYT Daily's "Caliphate" podcast series is another great example.
I ended up picking hexo [0], as the hexo admin plugin [1] provides a nice localhost CMS/editor that supports image pasting, tag editing etc (could be hosted online too for remote/mobile access, but wouldn't be truly static/server-less at that point).

> but it feels somewhat clunky

Yeah, still feels like there should be _something_ better out there

[0] https://hexo.io/

[1] https://github.com/jaredly/hexo-admin
Ask HN: Any “Teach Yourself CS”-like guides for other fields?
Hi HN,

Are there any resources for self learners similar to "Teach Yourself CS", but for other fields (for example, biology or physics)?

Thanks.
It kind of reminds me of the manually-shared HOSTS.TXT list of domain names before we had DNS, and seems like a problem we also need formal infrastructure to solve long term.
Opening the Flask (PyCon 2011)
And who makes those decisions?
The Rolls-Royce Ghost: A magic carpet ride that costs as much as a house
Gradle is none of those three.