skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ethics requires a framework. Just because something is free it doesn't become good. For example free heroin samples!

It's a complex problem to even phrase the question of what do we mean by having a healthy software/IT ecosystem. Do simply count the number of users? GDP of the Internet? Number of git repos? Naturally those doesn't even begin to capture the self-balancing dynamics we are after. We want to encourage folks to start new ventures, but also to give back. But by giving back what if they eliminate old ventures? (Eg. Google "giving back" Chrome might make the Firefox venture non-viable.) How can we describe healthy competition? (It'd be good if the browser market wouldn't be cross-financed from ads, but - let's say - every user would tell their ISP to direct some of their subscription fee to one of the browser vendors.) Okay, but what does this have to do with licenses!? Yeah, it's a fairly hard problem.
Don’t know, don’t care. The extension is called “I don’t care about cookies” not “automatic opt in/out” :)
> Last summer, a quote for a 3,947-square-foot roof with a 12,3 kW solar roof tile system was $54,966 before incentives.
> Now the Tesla Solar Roof configurator shows prices between $79,938 and $100,621 for the same size roof

Yikes, that's quite the increase. I think that might actually shift it out of realistic price range for my house. I'd been looking at them last year as a possibility when we get the roof replaced.
I'm currently using Tailwind CSS to style a fairly simple static website that's being generated using Hugo. I've been considering using some Tailwind UI components, e.g. modals (in particular, lightboxes to show zoomed-in versions of images).

I assumed that I would use Tailwind UI's HTML for these and write vanilla JS for interactivity, but now I am rethinking, especially having read this quote in the article: "If we tried to write it in custom vanilla JS, well we'd be making it harder for literally everyone".

So given this announcement, in my situation would you recommend against vanilla JS, and instead to adopt one of React or Vue?
We used to get the Tamiya 4WD kits when we were kids, and they were great fun, particularly when making huge outdoor tracks and trying to race each-others cars on foot
Here’s a field guide on measuring fuel moisture content written by people at a California branch of the Forest Service:

https://www.bia.gov/sites/bia.gov/files/assets/public/pdf/id...
Former pentester here. It was often the case that we were able to penetrate a box as a low-level user account, and the way we escalated was to search ~/.bash_history of an admin account.

chmod'ing the homedir would've prevented that. Unix happens to be pretty good about directory permissions.
> ...sometimes a reasonably priced, rock-solid, proprietary tool can be preferable to a janky OSS project connected to a murky business model.

I agree completely with this. Even worse, "free" (ad-supported) software is so darned convenient (and I'm so used to my software being non-paid) that I often end up using it even when there are better paid alternatives.
Unlike RISC V, the "other" free ISA, performant POWER workstations/servers are already available. Moreover, IBM has done a lot of great work in making the POWER ecosystem open (not just the ISA itself).
It goes consumer grade, automotive, military, and then you have levels above that meant for things like space and down-hole oil drilling. Automotive is certainly a step up above consumer grade but it's not like Intel is throwing an i7 into a car. They are going to just offer fab capacity to anyone that can build on the various technologies that can be built at Intel's fabs.
I work full time in VR, using virtual screens (ImmersedVR). I was never really all that excited about AR/VR outside of entertainment until the first time I accidentally spent 8 hours of focused work.
Good way to repurpose billions poured as capex into the older nodes
Not sure what the point you're attempting to make with those hypotheticals is? What if winning the lottery came with a bunch of pitfalls?

I don't begrudging the ppl who bought houses for their good fortune. I resent when those people block new development in the name of maintaining "historical character" or whatever other invented excuse to keep their own property values high.
What authorities? In the US usually violating a contract is a civil matter. Unless you're a rich corporation that accuses people of fraud for violating your ToS like some companies do then sometimes the federal agencies get involved which basically protect big business and charge people with crimes that the little guy will never be able to do the reverse against a company.
Yes to ground source. Obvious thing to do in a cold climate.

I am very sceptical of a Heat Pump working efficiently down to -20F (-28C in modern units)

I found -3C was the lowest. It is a new heat pump obtained with the advice of experts.

Physics. What is the operating fluid that will evaporate at -28C? As it stands I think it is untrue.
Datapoint: I cannot see this comment (1 minutes old, at time of editing) if I search for comments by kazinator from a private browser window where there is no logged in HN session.

11 minutes in, I can see it now.
Time to sell the stock short? Appears to be near the top of it's recent range today April 12th 2021 at $506. Wonder where it will be in 3 months time.
> It does not necessarily speak well of Intel's current situation, though, with respect to CPU and memory chips, that they consider this a good move.

They also announced [1] that they were building two new fabs in Arizona a couple weeks ago. There may just be growing demand for shortened supply chain in the semiconductor space (recent trade/tariff wars, chip shortages from offshore fabs, various national security implications)

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/tiriasresearch/2021/03/23/intel...
You’re actively paying huge dollar figures to experiment with your survival. Which I don’t judge even if I find it too risky for my taste. But your giant expensive experimental hunk of alloys and minerals is also a death sentence for others when it messes up.
The main IP Nuance took away from SRI was SRI's EduSpeak.

Now: Nuance was spun off of SRI probably a decade or more before Siri was birthed in a Darpa program called CALO. CALO may have, in some implementations, used EduSpeak or it's lightweight cousin, Dynaspeak. But I'm pretty sure that when Siri was ALSO spun-off from SRI, and bought by Apple, that Apple did not want to pay the license fee for the EduSpeak code. So they used something else (which, AFAIR; was an Apple-confidential matter).
Adobe aren't super clear with what the cancel fee would be. This: https://imgur.com/a/yQFQRKF is what is looks like when you sign-up.

There is a final: 'By placing my secure order, I agree to Adobe's subscription and cancellation terms and Terms of Use' but you don't have to check a box. I think it's a bit deceptive.
Not if it's using the license activator.
Yea but then it's not "crypto" duh. /s
OP indicated relatively strongly that they do care about being opted out, so I don't think anything that does not "stops them from suffering".
I have a buddy who put in a fireplace insert and pellet stove. Besides the fact that he picked up very modern implementations of these two devices, he lives on a 10 acre property that's mostly Cherry Trees, so an electric log splitter was purchased along-side the fireplace insert.

He put them in after discovering that heating his house on LP (the only fuel source outside of electric available where he lives) cost about $650/mo to keep his home as warm as he wanted it. IIRC, he was basically keeping his house at 85 on those two devices, alone. He added geothermal a few years later.

His home is in the middle of the windiest parts of the thumb -- very, very cold in the winter with a lot of snow.
A bit of both, I think. To do this is really hard. And requires some changes to how the car is made. Some of these lessons learned are presumably are being introduced into the Model Y, like the single-piece rear casting.

There's also a ton of engineering needed to go into how to make better robots.
Soon it'll be a whole bitcoin miner in a QR code
In the early 90's we had a Scalextric set, with several cars that my brothers and I raced against each-other. I later bought myself a really cool Lancer Evo V car, that had a 4WD system and 'grippy' tyres.

I soon binned the 4Wd and standard motor in it, and replaced it with a high (high!) speed brushless motor that spun to some 25k rpm, got some 'competition' sticky tyres for it, and added a neodymium magnet to the nose to 'try' and keep it on the track.

There's still a Mitsubishi lancer shaped dent in the back wall of my Dad's shed, haha.
No it does not, no it is not possible to use equality comparisons usefully in FP arithmetic
The page that that Reddit submission links to was changed later to redirect to an update about six months after that post, apologizing for the accusations.

In fact, the person who made the accusations has a page from a couple weeks ago calling for people to defend RMS and specifically saying that he is not transphobic [1].

[1] https://libreboot.org/news/rms.html
The .bash_history file is mode 0600, regardless of directory permissions. Was this not always the case?
Justified or not, I personally take a dim view of cancellation fees in general. Evidently i'm not alone either.
Hope is not a great thing to depend on when it comes to multi-ton fast moving objects
Huawei to Invest $1B on Car Tech It Says Surpasses Tesla
I'm not a full data point to work from, but I've got neuropathy and nerve damage. Side effects include severe short term memory problems (I can forget some things as quickly as 10 seconds, as frustrating as that is..) and sometimes motor control issues.

For me, speech recognition and assistants, along with software like Todoist, are able to keep me far more functional than I would be otherwise.
What kind of diodes will they be producing?
> x86 instruction decoding is complicated by the fact that instructions are variable-width and are byte-aligned (i.e. any instruction can begin at any address).

This is also not a good security property since it means you can hide secret instructions in a program by jumping into the middle of innocuous ones.

> ARM A32/A64 instruction decoding is dramatically simpler -- all instructions are 32 bits wide and word-aligned, so decoding them in parallel is trivial. T32 ("Thumb") is a bit more complex, but still easier than x86.

A64 doesn't have a Thumb equivalent, also, and supporting A32/T32 is optional.
People are giving terrible advice in this thread. Changing your credit card number or reporting it as stolen doesn't mean you are off the hook for the payment you agreed to. While Adobe probably won't care enough to do it, another company in its place could very well send the debt to collections and ruin your credit score. Next time read the terms of a contract before signing it. Adobe has a no-contract monthly plan which is only marginally more expensive.
At some point I guess you run into definitional questions around what counts as wealth or ownership. If you could seize any building in your country at will, do you own all of them? What if you could probably only size a few dozen before people started getting angry about it? Etc.
Would love to see a recent review of Privacy.com vs Abine Blur. Does Privacy.com really make it so you can't delete an account?
This event was way overblasted in the news by OneWeb despite SpaceX helping them out and disabling their system for OneWeb. It's pretty clear that OneWeb is playing political football here and trying to make SpaceX out to be some kind of bad actor despite SpaceX going out of its way to help OneWeb. These articles are just pure clickbait and aren't helpful.
Just to make sure you realize. SpaceX was not at fault here at all. They went out of their way to help OneWeb even though their satellites normally maneuver automatically.
Just going to drop a plug for my open source pet project:

https://beta.akkeris.io/
Yeah that's a good thread.
Some providers are rolling out http/3 support and heroku still hasn’t supported http/2.
No it’s not due to that. How do I know? Look at PE ratios. Stock prices are backed by earnings.
Ah, fascinating. That seems a likely suspect.
Your comment leaves me wondering if we're reading the same essay.

PG specifically states that the "main reason it's easier to start a startup now is that it's cheaper". And, "cheaper" comes in the form of lower infrastructure costs, lower advertising costs, and lower cost of capital.

>> But the main reason it's easier to start a startup now is that it's cheaper. Technology has driven down the cost of both building products and acquiring customers...now investors need founders more than founders need investors, and that, combined with the increasing amount of venture capital available, has driven up valuations.
Yes. It's also very possible that the two aspects are synergistic.
Glad to see more open source options (I develop and maintain Scantron https://github.com/rackerlabs/scantron/) when it comes to network scanning! Appreciate your contribution to the community.

So you're not using nmap under the hood?

What's the largest IP space you've tested it on so far?
Not spending money on hardware that Facebook can brick whenever it feels more evil than normal.
https://therecord.media/security-researcher-drops-chrome-and... says this isn't a fully weaponizable exploit because you still need to escape the Chrome sandbox after using this. But, the researcher shows a screenshot of having started calc.exe which seems like something that'd happen outside the sandbox?
It's something Intel used to be good at until they dismantled all of their other chip lines in the 90's and 00's.
> I worked at ULA for a year about five years ago. At that time they were arguing that it wasn't going to be cost effective.

When you sell the rocket and not the launch on cost plus contract, it's indeed not cost-effective.
> I’ve never seen it by going after the 7 pin.

Is this just a repercussion of most people being right-handed?
Rural america is very happy with Starlink, where it's available. The FCC is currently preventing them from using the full capabilities of their system by delaying certification of the extension of the system.
Thank you for the feedback. I went with the knob for my affinity for everything analog. I can make it look like a retro slider. I agree with you on making it mobile-friendly.
> Participation in competitive sports can be a good way to learn to deal with this at an earlier age

Not if you went to my school junior or high school. The (very wealthy) district used egregious tactics to remain classified as a size 4A district for years after it realistically exceeded that classification, so it could "compete" against teams from rural and poor areas with smaller student bases and WAY smaller tax bases.

On the other hand, they had everything else (college, jobs at dad's company, etc.) handed to them the same way so maybe it did prepare them for their lives. Ugh.
I'd say especially when it's not costing Adobe anything to cancel your subscription, it's just a money grab.

There are some exceptions where a fee is ok like when it's actually putting the business out financially, like Garmin & Iridium satellite service agreements, Garmin has little choice...but clearly not the case for Adobe
I'm not a bastard.

I don't see an easy way to report your calling me that, and I don't want to bug the mods with an email, so I'll instead just tell you: Go to hell.

OK, hope we're even now.
I'd love if people did better than Elon Musk, unfortunately no one is right now. Elon Musk is a bright star in the world right now for progress while most people are proclaiming doom and gloom and doing little to solve it.
I believe this should be taught in school, starting in the seventh grade.
Increasing my contribution to Zig to $200/mo
Regarding the boring company, i have seen at least one engineer's breakdown of their tech and it appears they are using off the shelf tunneling equipment and their costs are in line with and sometimes higher than several other established companies that dig smaller tunnels like the Boring Company does. It seems the only competitive advantage they have is the bully pulpit that is Elon Musk and his blind followers that can popularize the idea of small tunnels.
I would refuse as well.

Do you think her boss vetted the app, reviewed what it information it collects and where it's sent, audited the vendor, contracted with them to be liable if there's a privacy breach, explained any risks, etc?

I'm getting sick of inappropriate or user-hostile cloud offerings blindly seeping into places they shouldn't be. e.g. Here in BC you can sign up to get Covid test results on your phone, but it requires specifically agreeing to your personal health data being sent out of the country. No thank you.

Just because it's easy for an employer doesn't mean its safe, secure or appropriate.
When you're talking about Siri; you need to talk about the virtual assistant piece separate from the speech recognition piece.

When Siri's ancestor was being worked on at SRI, it used a cousin of Nuance for the speech part. The PI of the virtual assistant piece of that program spun it out as a separate company, and was immediately snarfed up by Apple.

At that time, they switched speech recognition providers; but I don't know if Apple picked Nuance specifically.
Don't even think of trying to pay a dividend or your stock is trash.
> it's not an endless amount of content you enjoy

Hard disagree. There's an endless amount of that too. It's just filtering it out from the rest that's the difficult part.
No. I’m saying how do infer it was suitable for nuclear weapons production? The International Atomic Agency has the most stringent oversight on the Iranian nuclear program and there has been no evidence of a nuclear weapons program.
This is real news.
I’m surprised to see this pass with such an overwhelming majority, although as an outsider I am not very plugged into Scottish politics. Didn’t Humza Yousaf come under a lot of fire for proposing this law some time ago?

Apart from the fact that words like “hatred” and interpretations like “reasonable person” are vague and variable, I think it is really crossing a line to interfere in conversations people have privately, such as between parents and their children. This feels a lot like what we call indoctrination or thought control when countries like China do it. Scotland shouldn’t get a pass just because those seeking such restrictions are western leftist activists.

Some examples: if I want to protect my kid from getting propagandized by trans ideology that is pushed heavily at public schools these days, will that be considered “stirring up hatred”, just because I don’t want to subject my child to life changing medical procedures? Will pushing back on critical race theory be considered hateful? What about teaching children values like hard work, which some consider “white supremacist”?

These aren’t theoretical concerns. I’ve seen the mentality of banning “hate speech” taken to extremes in Canada already, where a father objecting to his child’s gender transition has no recourse, is not allowed to talk to press about the issue (to bring attention to this injustice), and is in jail for trying to get help and attention for his predicament (https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/26/canadian-father-jailed-...). It’s sad to see such illiberal laws corrupt otherwise free nations.
Someone on here made the comment a little while ago that while that is true for compiler makers, parsing is the much more useful skill for the average programmer. It allows you to approach a new realm of problems that are otherwise off limits.

So while looking back it may seem like a gentle incline, to a lot of us looking forward it is a steep cliff.
They should correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the GP's point was that there should be a standardized way for software to present spatial audio to the sound system, which can then render it according to the user's preferences. How the sound is generated (e.g. moving point sources; spatial reverb; pre-spatialized tracks) does not matter.

Yes, using even third-order Ambisonics is not as precise as rendering all point sources (and non-point sources...) exactly through the HRTF. But it is an existing standard you can use today via OpenAL Soft.
I would imagine the researcher showed a screenshot of the exploit being run on a copy of Chrom{e,ium} where he had disabled parts of the sandbox (that, or he has a more complex exploit with another maybe-undisclosed sandbox escape).
Heroku is certainly "expensive" if your comparison is "I can make it at home for nothing". But our time has a price as well, and honestly the only thing young companies or projects should be doing is spending time getting customers and revenue. Deployment ops is a later stage activity.

When you tip over that threshold from "default dead", that is, non-revenue focused activity won't kill your company in 6 months, then and only then do I think it makes sense to switch over from Heroku to something else.

I still use Heroku all the time, and recommend it to clients who are starting out as well. (Just like how I recommend buying a $10 theme for design instead of wasting money fiddling with a designer/design team).

You need to determine product market fit, pricing, and distribution first.
FYI, my point about river width was not a put down in any way. I'm not sure if you took it that way. It seems like other people did.

Average river width is not representative because there are often big population centers near wider parts of rivers. For example, when the east cost of the US was settled, people built cities on the wide, navigable (for big ships) parts of rivers that were close to the ocean.
Or maybe Intel leadership sees the big picture and they’re doing their part to help their country.
I’ve never really understood these “freedom to X shall not be limited save by this large list of limitations” style.
Your comment seems to conflate autogenerated IDs like MySQL AUTO_INCREMENT or PostgreSQL SERIAL with internal row IDs. Autogenerated keys are set on insert if you don't provide a value. After that they are stable. (And very popular, too.)

The case you describe sounds like using Oracle ROWID as a key, which I suppose people do as a hack to get around schema problems instead of fixing the schema. [1] That's an exceptionally bad idea.

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/pseud...
High accuracy long read DNA sequencing. The new chemistry for Oxford Nanopore is getting close to where you can use it exclusively without polishing (down to ~1 in 100 base errors), and the price per gigabase has become competitive with Illumina (but with reads in the 10s or 100s of kilobases in lengths). On the other hand, PacBio HiFi reads are really reliably high accuracy and still long enough to resolve complex variants missed by Illumina, and only ~2x more expensive than ONT.

Both technologies totally redefine what we mean by "sequencing a genome" and open up broad categories of mutations that are completely invisible to more common forms of genotyping or sequencing.
That's Xeon Phi (formerly known as Larrabee) but in general this isn't that useful. Or rather, when it is useful it's called a GPU.