skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are these APIs private, then?
Yes, but there would be a sufficiently-well-resourced agenda to mostly avoid convolution....except the incentive is misaligned.
Yes, obvious typo. The world’s first inter-city railway opened in 1830 (not 1930!) and carried freight from the beginning:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_and_Manchester_Rai...
What is this 'subset'? CLOS is based around class&inhertance&mutability + generic function dispatch over classes. Spiritually Clojure wants to avoid OOP, where CLOS is a full object system with an optional meta-layer.
> does the GDPR require blanking the names of ex-employees in the Git history

I very much doubt the GDPR overrides the irrevocable license to redistribute (GPL in this case) that each developer is granting through the act of publishing their code. My understanding is that it regulates all the unpublished, ostensibly private information that the companies you do business with collect about you.

Put another way, wouldn't it be a bit ridiculous if the author of a book demanded that their name be removed from the work years after publishing it? What are libraries supposed to do, dig out all their copies and scribble over the name?
There are several problems with your argument.

1. How do you distinguish legitimate and illegitimate patents. I guess you have to agree on some arbiter, like courts of law. So that's how we are in the current situation

2. Notwithstanding the issue around deciding between them, most larger patent holders have a huge portfolio of "clearly" legitimate and illegitimate patents, and they are using both (you don't need to sue to use the patent, just threats are enough)

3. If you ever spoken to a patent lawyer, the whole process is about making the patent as broad as possible without disclosing how to actually do it (at least if you are using the technology yourself). So one might argue it's about making the patent as illegitimate as possible, because then the patents are actually useful (otherwise they are just to easily worked around) .
People like to say that without patents there will be no incentive to advance technology, but if you're the one to come up with an idea then you already have a huge head start. If you don't make use of that head start, then you don't deserve it, and this applies to patents as well.

Monopolies are bad, and competition is good. Everyone is already incentivized to come up with and implement ideas faster than their competitors. Giving one person a monopoly just restricts others from creating competing products and only gives the user a worse and more expensive product.
Start adding a
"Patent troll advance recovery fee" line item to your bills (even if it is just a break-out of the total cost), even for minor items and SaaS transactions so people see the impact to their own wallet.
huh, what do you mean by that ?
What a nice surprise! No bloat, no fluff, just bare metal.

I wish this project takes off. I remember how beneficial Sinatra was among the heavy Ruby frameworks.

We need something else than the React / Vue / Svelte triumvirate. Something much simpler. Something which brings back the joy and playfulness in web development.
While we're at it, can we stop replacing physical knobs and buttons by dumb touch sensitive buttons ? I feel like a cave man when I have to repeatedly press "+" on my induction hob and hear the stupid beep it makes x times. Plus it does not work well when it's wet which of course happens a lot, it's a kitchen ffs. A good example of "backwards" progress unless of course the ease of cleaning your hob is more important to you than using it for you know, cooking.
Strange - same here. Not sure why Smart Crane is something I couldn’t under.
I think you might be referring to the patents from Nokia. These are licensed on FRAND terms. Nokia was one of the original inventors of GSM and owns a considerable patent portfolio especially on the network tech.
If you're far enough away that someone can't see if you have a mask or not, you're fine to remove it...
Using my induction hob is a nightmare for this reason.
Russia says no danger after blast in smallpox lab

A gas cylinder exploded and prompted a fire in a Siberian research facility which houses samples of smallpox, SARS, Ebola and other potentially deadly viruses. Russian officials said there was no threat of contamination.

https://www.dw.com/en/russia-says-no-danger-after-blast-in-s...
> it's hard to argue with the readability, even if writing it is a bit unintuitive at first

You can sure say that again. I always found it difficult to write nontrivial AppleScript code, which could have been ameliorated had the IDE been anything other than worthless for debugging.

But yes, it’s very easy to read.
To agree with you:

I've used nix for a few projects over the past couple of years, always because I wouldn't have done the project without it (or I would have had to learn a series of separate solutions). I have never learnt nix, except to get it to do what I want.

When I started, it was full on "what is the magical incantation to make it do what I want?" mode. Now I am usually capable of saying "to do X I need to do Y; what is the documentation for Y?", and when I find the documentation for Y it usually conforms to my presuppositions and merely adds detail and color.

This is a really weird feeling. The idea that Nix/nixpkgs makes sense is so shocking to the core of my being. But it is still difficult even to find the documentation I want. But nix does give me another feeling that I like: confidence that I am building a system.
2 year wayland (sway) user here. Every time anything is posted here about wayland, I read about some people's crazy issues. Karma brings them all out of the woodwork, I guess.

If message boards like HN are where you're getting this impression, just beware of sample bias. Remember that everyone on Fedora and/or KDE has been running wayland for literal years. That is a lot of users, and not enough complaints to make them consider reverting.

Fwiw here's my counter anecdata:

I'm on arch with swaywm, meaning my system is in no way "out of the box". I have gone back to X from time to time, and... it drives me crazy. Everything is blurry, it takes an hour off my battery time, and it FEELS laggy and unresponsive. Oh, and the experience of installing anything involves 5 extra packages (automatically included, at least) to work around X stuff. God help you if you want to configure an input method; it goes through AT LEAST 2 layers. For some input methods (touchscreens, i'm looking at you), you have brittle hacks like one layer is just reading the debug log of another. Anyway every settings change you make requires restarting your whole WM, and probably fiddling with several 3rd party tools to understand and make it easier... no thanks.

Even when I could only screen share between xwayland apps, and I really tried to go back, I couldn't stomach it. The wayland experience for me is just so much better across so many dimensions. I can only imagine what it's like for my friends who use OOTB setups and aren't even aware they're on Wayland.
Journal of Memetics (Issue 1 – May 1997)
The ones listed here: http://www.kimnicholas.com/uploads/2/5/7/6/25766487/fig1full....
>I have to wonder if human kind will need to find some way to convert CO2 to pure carbon for storage as a climate control measure.

We have! They're called plants. Any other method uses far too much energy to be able to do at the scale we need.

Plants do capture carbon. As long as they don't burn subsequently, this isn't released again as CO2.
I asked Kevin Kelly this in an AMA around 2010 or so and he said that he didn’t read any published magazines that were similar and the closest was an RSS feed of blogs. I followed up with that that list was but never got an answer.

I miss Wired. The current magazine is closer to Seventeen than the pub in the 90s and early 00s.
Very interesting! Never heard about it! Do you know if there are already "buy your own plankton" companies similar to "plant a tree"? From what you say it seems like this might have a higher ROI.

Also, is my hunch right that we have more space/capacity in the sea rather than on land?
Anybody got experience comparing ceph vs gluster vs lustre, etc? I am interested in simplicity and resilience in case of node outage. Is any of these close to set and forget?
- "foraged food being contaminated with car emissions": Sometimes I think about it, when eating figs just next to roads, trees literally shaped by the traffic, or near gutters. But I try and see. I live in the French riviera, it used to be full of orchards, greenhouses. There less and less relics of this beautiful past, but I can still explore the area for those fig/clementine/mandarine/orange/loquats/persimmons trees (there are avocados, but I'm not fan)

- "How do you find these produce discounts?" Same process - exploration, helping, sympathizing with fruit producers vendors, they are often happy to get rid of unsold fruits.

I wish people will change their mind, damaged/ugly/super ripe produces should not be wasted, they are still mostly good, a fruit that fell on the floor isn't wasted, a fruit with a bug isn't wasted (all the opposite, it's a sign it's good), most people throw away way too much food, and parts of the food
I'd say this is someone who was curious and followed that curiousity.
Of course a modern wood bike still has steel parts because the alternative is so far inferior nobody would buy it. That doesn't mean it's impossible or that back then nobody would have considered it. Today nobody would seriously use wooden gears, but back then they were the best you could get and were still good enough to be worth the effort.
Create a startup, have a multi-billion dollar exit, then use some hundreds of millions for lobbying
That’s beaten very easily by

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
return 1;
}

and that still is a very bad entry for this contest.

(Always carefully read the rules)

Seriously, I haven’t watched the video, but chances are it has solutions that are in a completely different league than the idea behind your proposal. It likely goes into similar territory as “Who Can Name the Bigger Number?” (https://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html)
Children learned 'little or nothing' during school closures: study
Especially since the multi-thread OS means wasting space for multiple stacks. 400k is a lot for an MCU, but for the ESP32 its really not that much. A 1MB Sram version would be great, with two cores.
Pointing out spelling mistakes is a fallacy in the sense of attacking the person rather than the argument (as in, you know what they meant to say, but wanted to make them look silly), and they did post a literal megathread of evidence which (because it wasn't summarised for you) you decided to discount.
Elon Musk startup shows monkey with brain chip implants playing video game
Great, thank you for the picture!

Which ones did you do so far? All of them?
You're on crack.
The funniest thing with this tax letter is that on the envelope it says “Karriere mit Zukunft” meaning “careers with a future” like they completely seriously expect your newborn baby to start working for them 18+ years down the line.
Exactly, this looks like a tough problem to solve reliably.
If you commit to choices like these in your daily life, it's net-positive for your health, wallet, and planet!

- Stopped eating meat 30 years ago. Easy and healthy.
- Installed solar panels on my house 2 years ago. Free installation; leasing the panels for less than the cost of the power they generate.
- Buy renewably-sourced power from the grid, and return excess solar-generated power to the grid. Not sure how much that costs.
- Never learned how to drive a car, so I always bicycle or use public transit. Easy and cheap and healthy!
- Buy food that was about to be tossed in the trash via TooGoodToGo almost every day now. Very cash positive and involves an extra bike ride.
The Meme Machine (1999)
You probably have a Chinese abacus, the Suan Pan [1]. The (“16th century”) Japanese derivative, the Soroban [2] has a single pebble in the top registers. The former can do both quinary and decimal reckoning. The Russian Tchoty [3] does not divide the board, but rather uses 2 colors for beads.

If you are interested in a ~comprehensive treatment of the history and types of ‘counting boards’, K. Menninger’s Number Words and Number Symbols [4] (where I read about Kiyoshi Matsuzaki aka “the Hands” beating Pvt. Thomas Ian Wood and his electronic calculator) is a good resource. quinary and decimal variants are addressed in fair detail.

The section Counting Boards in Ancient Civilizations starts with the Salamis Tablet [5] and the Abax[6] depicted in use by a Persian calculator in the Darius Vase [7]. These boards didn’t have wires, so the ‘calculators’ used pebbles. Then we have next in progression the Roman hand-held abacus [8], which apparently found its way to East Asia and there it found a lasting appreciation and use, culminating in the two Chinese and Japanese variants noted above.

One of the surprising aspects of the discussion of the use of these instruments in Japan has to do with how they are used. I always thought the abacus delegated all the math to the device, but this is apparently not correct. Per Menninger, the reckoned must “constantly work the problems in his head”

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suanpan

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soroban

[3]: https://womenshistory.si.edu/object/tchoty-or-russian-abacus...

[4]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1598307.Number_Words_and...

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamis_Tablet

[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_table

[7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_Vase

[8]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_abacus
This nrf52 demo might be salient:

https://youtu.be/tbl6Dui-_w4

https://github.com/NordicPlayground/nrf52-ble-multi-link-mul...
I was reminded of the Cyclops from Krull.
See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18332012

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26301765

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18181503
This is also called the base rate fallacy. As soon as you put it into relation to the base rate you get a more useful number for your own decisions.

For example if the numbers are stated as above (1:10000 ratio in people driving motorcycles to people driving cars), you have to multiply the risk of motorcycling by 10000 to get it to the same level as the risk of driving.

If you look up the numbers there are 8.3 million motorcycles registered in the US. While there's a total of 273 million registered vehicles (this includes motorcycles). I used 2018 numbers for both, to make them comparable.

https://www.iihs.org/api/datastoredocument/bibliography/2181

https://www.statista.com/statistics/183505/number-of-vehicle...

The number stated in the odds is also for all vehicles I assume since motorcycles are motor vehicles. This leads us to 8.3/273~3.04% of the vehicles on the road in the US are motorcycles.

That means that you have to compare 1/899 / 3.04% to the 1/107 figure. I.e. lifetime chance of death with motorcycle is roughly 3.66% and chance of death with any motor vehicle is 0.93%.

This of course still ignores details like how often people use their motorcycle (usually fewer kms than in cars), which roads they use (more dangerous but fun country roads instead of highways), etc. but it gives you at least a ballpark estimate that using a motorcycle will up your risk by about a factor of 4x vs any motor vehicle (any including motorcycles).

Also you can only die once, so if you're a heavy smoker you probably lessen your risk of motorcycle death considerably.
I have no issues with Brave after disabling all of their crypto stuff and widgets. It's safer, smoother, and much better at ad-blocking than bare Firefox. I don't care about CNAME-uncloaking by uBlock Origin, because that's already being taken care of by NextDNS at OS level.
The picture mainly focuses on things that we should avoid. Do you know if there is a similar one with things that we can actively do e.g. comparing planting trees to other investments?
Pareto strategies for B2B SaaS demand gen
So many and over such a wide span to narrow it down to 2-3 definitively so I'll cover ground instead.

1) The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649­-1815[1] (actually book 2 but the first covers an earlier period this covers the period across the Act of Union - when England/Scotland became with Wales the United Kingdom and when the British navy went from "decent" to not just first but first by a hilarious margin - the only modern analogue that sorta fits is the US navy compared to everyone else post-WW2 up to well right now)

2) Dreadnought[2] which covers the late 19th early 20th (Birth of Queen Victoria to the start of WW1) - when the Dreadnought type-class battleship was considered the premier strategic weapon of it's day.

For the rest it's a vast field (that I've barely scratched - history is a hobby for me part of the perpetual "why is the world the way it is" fascination with everything) as always wikipedia is your friend :-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_of_18th%E2%80%931...

For more modern naval stuff (where modern equals ~a century ago) I can heartily recommend the https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4mftUX7apmV1vsVXZh7RTw Drachinifel - he has a way of providing information dense content in an entertaining way - his video on the technological arms race in metallurgy for ships armour for example is superb.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Command-Ocean-History-Britain-1649-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadnought_(book)
Are the tools and software from Nordic better?
So what if anti-maskers feel justified in their own perspective? From the perspective of Jeffrey Dahmer, killing and eating people is justified. What is the point of making that comment, other than muddying the waters with some false equivalency nonsense? Anti-maskers are awful, awful people. It is reasonable to be mad at them because they are killing people; their anger is not based on reason and it is not equivalent.
Software as a Service was how I did it. It nicely handles the "whenever I stop working, people stop sending me money" issue, and you get to sell it to businesses, who actually pay for things.

I've written a bunch about the process of going from salaried developer to software mogul thousandaire. Here's a bit of an overview:

https://www.expatsoftware.com/Articles/guy-on-the-beach-with...
See also Opium (vs. Dream): https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/excited-about-dream-web-framewor...
Very inspiring - thank you!
>> The signs of alien civilizations are everywhere, but humans cannot perceive or understand it

> As for signs of alien civilization being everywhere, here I have to respectfully disagree.

This is all speculation, of course, but that's all we have. This particular answer to the Fermi Paradox goes like this:

Human reasoning and interests are entirely circumscribed by our perception. We are capable only of dimly imagining that other kinds of perception and reasoning exist, but not imagining what or how that might be. Our fictional aliens are (necessarily) only ourselves in disguise.

If other strategies or sentient processes are possible, we will be unable to recognize them as such*. It's not necessarily that alien civilizations are "smarter" or more "advanced", but so different that we wouldn't even recognize them as sentient.

We humans will no doubt, assuming our current state of knowledge endures, create Dyson swarms all over the local cluster, but that is a strategic inevitability given the best of our current understanding; an understanding that, again, is circumscribed by our bodies and minds and perceptions, which in turn are the result of specific evolutionary pressures. There is no reason to expect that these specific pressures uniquely equip us to grasp the entirety of this vastly complicated cosmology in which we find ourselves.

"Assuming our current state of knowledge endures" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, though. How likely is it that 1,000 or 10,000 years of research and increasingly sophisticated understanding of ourselves and our Universe would lead to Dyson as being our best option? Personally, I think unlikely, but who knows?

There are too many mysteries and unknowns for us humans to be too certain about anything cosmological or metaphysical. Way, way too many unknown unknowns.

* Unless aliens are close enough "like us" to be recognizable, but this is exactly my argument: this answer to the Fermi Paradox is that our perception and reasoning ability gives us such a thin slice of understanding the Universe that we have less chance of grasping "alien civilization" than grasshoppers have of understanding how bats "hop". Our dominance of Earth gives us a kind of provincial self-confidence that we understand everything important, but really, that is unlikely.
In order of importance.

I replaced a gas drier with a ventless heat pump one. Replaced a gas water heater with a hybrid heat pump one.

Bought a Prius to replace a E150 cargo van as a daily driver.

I'm relatively poor for a tech bro. And hate flying. That cuts down on high carbon footprint leisure activities.

And didn't have kids.
The existence of the outbreak in Wuhan leaked within 72 hours of the first suspicious patient test results coming back. China is not the black box many Americans and Europeans think it is.
Those of high impact: one less child, car-free, avoiding flights, plant-based diet (but not 100%).
Eggs: many different ways to prepare, many ways to experiment and modify the recipes so you don't get bored, low cooking time and effort, healthy and nutritious, cheap if you're on a budget, low in carbs. Scrambled eggs is my default meal for when I don't want to think about what to eat.

Steak: tastes good, quick and easy to preapare, also low in carbs. Pan-searing a piece of ribeye is my second go-to for an easy and healthy meal.
I would think the person above you meant that the line pays for 100% of the cost by selling ticket / right of way. In stead of needing permanent subsidies to operate.
Never ceases to amaze me that I've been using HTML for more than 25 years, and every now and then I still learn a new nugget this and wonder how I could have not known!
> And a need to travel distances.

I suspect this one mostly.

As has been pointed out in a wonderful series of articles posted here on HN as well (https://acoup.blog/) the VAST majority of people historically spent their time subsisting and then taking any surplus and spending it to help themselves improve their probability of not dying next year. Travel of any distance further than a walk simply wasn't on the agenda.

This is similar to the Cotton Gin. It wasn't that huge a leap and people already knew about gins long before then. However, who cares about a 1000x production increase in cotton until there is sufficient demand to feed into?
Apart from the NTP tangent, this sounds like a Linux XFS / ServeRAID M5210 firmware issue. Your XFS filesystems created using the incorrect block/io sizes reported by the RAID controller would have been unmountable on the newer Linux kernel regardless of Ceph.

Lesson learned: your configuration management also needs to control for firmware versions such that the same issue would have shown up in a dev/test environment before turning into a prod nightmare :/
A revisionist experimental archeologist should build a period specific Roman bicycle using period specific materials for those beautiful Roman roads.

Bicycles need those good roads - bicycle movements were actually really involved in getting good roads built in the late 19th and early 20th Century (today some drivers don’t wanna share the good roads, that’s really ignoring the history of how cyclists helped them exist): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Roads_Movement
If you can have microwave ovens, why not microwave boilers?