skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take it you haven't read her fictional work. Exploring this dualism is one of the main plot and emotional devices for several trilogies.
My primary job is aggregating and contextualizing health data. I don't think people know how many ways there are to get data from government sources. In my section, we'll work with anyone in any way. I've mailed printed reports, shipped CDs, emailed CSVs, and sent collections of links to various data sources and their stewards. We've received requests by letter, phone, fax, email, and walk-in. We've stopped publishing physical and bound copies of reports, but will print them out if asked. People without computers have access to everything we publish online. It'll be hard to know what's available, but that's no different than how things were before the internet.

Seriously though, if you want data in a different format or on something they don't publish, call or email the agency and make a data request. If you don't understand the context, ask them. Personally, I love going into the details of how and why we analyze the data. Other people get crowds when talking about their jobs, but nobody wants to hear me gush about R programming or explain gripe about the latest change in cancer epidemiology standards. I happily spend hours crafting and revising detailed replies to simple questions.

I'll agree with the author that published data shouldn't have arbitrary and inscrutable "metadata." Such as field names meaningless even to other experts (looking at you, US Census Bureau). But it's unreasonable to think non-experts should be able to understand and properly use all data products. Read summarized reports if you want data with context.

>on data.gov’s impact page you’ll find a kind of hall-of-fame list of companies that are “public data success stories”: Kayak, Trulia, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Realtor.com, Zillow, Zocdoc, AccuWeather, Carfax. All of these corporations have, in some fashion, built profit models around public data, often charging for access to the very information that the state touts as “accessible, discoverable, and usable.”

First, consider an alternate to listing companies. Should individuals be listed? How many people works care if there was a race review from Dr. Jane Doe who used the data in an article?

Second, the companies charge for the collection, processing, and reporting of data. That's added value. If you want the government to add that value in-house, then push your government to hire somebody to do it. I agree, it'll be the cheapest option for society. Government data fees are small, usually just enough to cover hours worked (bonus: government underpays tech workers). But you need to convince them it's a valuable position that'll help private citizens and themselves (agencies have to make data requests of one another).
Some people might reasonably prefer ads that are more tailored to them and would consider it a negative impact on the service.

Other sites might, for example, use your current location to display the local weather, which isn't required (you can type in your city in the search bar) but would be prefered by many.

A better solution would be to have the browser ask once, globally, on first install and then send the DNT after that. Any attempt to circumvent anything would be an instant fine.
Yes, the example assumes many things, but the falsifying test does not assume anything that the original theory does not.

You now seem to be arguing that all science must be done by proving things from first principles, which is of course absurd.
Exactly - the first time you work out a "puzzle" it's amazing - especially if it's a complex one without a "solution" that you can glance at when you get stuck.

But doing roughly the same thing for 20 years it can get wearing - it's a different form of brainwork at that point.
Ask HN: Corporate Carveouts for Venture?
I work for a corporate innovation group in a slow-moving industry (think similar to financial services). We've built a couple of software products that have been pretty impactful to our parent, but the parent is getting tired of spending a few million per year on software when it's not their core business.

What is the path for an innovation group getting the capital to become independent? I've heard venture firms generally don't like investing in corporate carveouts since it's pretty complex. Are there any firms that are more open to this? Any examples of successful spinouts that are pretty early stage (I think we'd be Series A/B if we were totally independent)?
Show HN: Functions matter – an alternative to SQL and map-reduce data processing
Epidemiologist R Handbook
Would really like to know what's your theory on why component based software failed in those cases and if Web Components learned/solved those problems.
oh hey i have read many of your AOL files over the years, cheers :)
Probably entirely unrelated, but Sun T series (definitely T5xxx, not sure about T1/2 series) ILOMs were Linux on PowerPC. Always found that amusing.
You provided more evidence for my case - you don’t need an armed population, just enough public support that can overwhelm armed forces and would cause a bloodbath/loss of military and police loyalty. You linked Egyptian revolution which was literally triggered by civil disobedience. Same for Nazis afraid of average German citizens.

None of the no-go areas sound like historical examples you would want to follow unless you like anarchy. They are messy pro-longed conflicts unlike eg Euromaidan.
How has that looked over the past year? :)
No - Running enough TOR entry and exit nodes allows one to unmask initial connections[1].

One can suspect a healthy percentage of Tor nodes are operated by Governments as TOR was developed and released by the US Navy[2].

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2015/05/30/researchers_claim_tra...

[2] https://www.torproject.org/about/history/
why didn't everybody switch simply to USD? That's some hard cash that doesn't care about some petty Brazil's issues. Anything local in such a situation, no matter how well designed or intended, would be suspicious to me.
I just replied to someone else about this [0] - the tl;dr is on Android at least you can grab its sqlite database unencrypted while the app's running.

It's readable without WA, though obviously proprietary in the sense of the structure of it, but it is just sqlite, you can then dump it out however you want.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27106454
Steve Jobs' take at the time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqPrUmVz-o

"You've gotta start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology."

Couldn't agree more. And I'm guilty of doing the opposite.
>In April 2021, the Post published a false front page story asserting that copies of a book by vice president Kamala Harris were being distributed to migrant children at an intake facility in Long Beach, California.[124] Fox News then published a story about the matter, followed by numerous Republican politicians and pundits commenting on it, in some cases speculating that taxpayers were funding the supposed book handouts for Harris's personal profit.[124][125] Responding to questions from Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy, White House press secretary Jen Psaki expressed no knowledge of the matter; the Post then published a new story headlined "Psaki has no answers when asked about Harris' book being given to child migrants."[126] Four days after the original publication, the Post replaced the story with a new version clarifying that just one Harris book had been donated by a community member, but maintained it was an "open-arms gesture by the Biden administration," though there was no evidence of the administration's involvement.[126] Laura Italiano, the author of the story, resigned that day, asserting she had been "ordered" to write it.[57][126]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Post

Hopefully the NY Post's commitment to factual, responsible reporting has improved since April
That sounds like a problem that could be solved with a lanyard.
I feel you, in general I love coding, but I just usually run out of ideas fast if I actually want to start some kind of side project.
A list absolutely dominated by anti-tracking extensions, you love to see it.
SpaceX to Launch Doge-1 to the Moon
> Ultimately, every species is biologically trained to propagate itself

Grouped by planet, we have a sample size of 1.
It's hard to feel that shame when the system is so obviously rigged badly against everyone except the harmful parasites.
It's pretty close.

Only 5% of all matter is "regular" matter, and ~27% is dark matter which makes it be 85% of all mass but not of mass-energy since there is ~68% of dark energy.

It's the combination of dark matter + dark energy that makes for ~95% of the universe's total mass-energy.

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#:~:text=In%20the%2....
Yes, dmd was orinally written in C++, but has been ported into D for quite some time now, this is an extension of said compiler.

ldc and gdc are a mix of D and C++ due to the respective backends.
I don't understand comments like this. Employers are trying to pay as little as possible, with some exceptions, ie. in some cases are willing to pay for "talent" and in demand skills. Even with some lower level jobs, some employers are waking up to the idea that paying the bare minimum has drawbacks, and they get some value by paying essential workers.

So they're not generally in the business of carefully ensuring they don't make the "mistake" of underpaying their employees. If they're underpaying that's a good thing, with some exceptions.

And just how are we supposed vet and/or collect data on employee housing? I don't want that. I want us to work on fixing the housing market, and employers to offer remote work options. I want more flexible hours and vacation time. We need cultural standards and legislation to protect against these things.
Thanks for the reply, it looks like there’s a lot of avenues and differences of value which are worth exploring here.

Personally, I’m happy with a little excess on my personal systems, documentation is a must for me, but it’s a great reminder that I’d need to pull it in separately.

I’m very interested in exploring the “home directory as a git repository” metaphor I’ve seen written up here from time to time, perhaps a minimal system like Alpine is a good opportunity to explore it further.

I’ll play around with it. Thanks!
No, that part of the regulations (the 10 hour break requirement) specifically does not get suspended in an emergency, if I recall correctly, but federal qualifications for new drivers do, so maybe someone otherwise hauling oranges from Florida might drive a tanker while the normal driver has a day off. Plus, this is only federal law; state laws still apply, and it is state troopers who pull you over, not feds.
My long absence from Greece is at fault. Septic Flesh would have been a recommendation if the little grey cells were working properly.
Could I trouble you for an example or a reference on what this would look like refactored with "Split data and functions, avoid or isolate side-effects"? I would like to understand better but I don't know enough about functional programming to grasp your meaning just from the comment.
Essentially every attempt to provide a viable mainstream alternative to Word for Windows failed (to a first approximation) until online office suites became viable. [ADDED: I understand this wasn't intended to be directly a Word competitor but it was part of a general industry interest in Microsoft competition.]

You can critique individual efforts but there wasn't really a big appetite for Word competitors and there was a lot of inertia among mainstream office workers.
Has there been any notable success story with extern(c++)? I know some folks use it to interop with their own C++ code, but I haven't seen any new bindings to any popular C++ libraries.
Personally, given the sheer number of distros for Linux, my awareness of this distro was raised by my use of Docker.
Technically unrelated, but it does beg the question of why OpenPOWER and friends haven't used any of the embedded PPC cores...
>I've never understood the position that the greatest scientific question is whether or not we're alone in the universe.

That is an odd thing. The one that I'm curious about is the drum-banging for spotting (probably highly simple) lifeforms on places like Mars. Given the ability of rocks to hop planets, it's a totally reasonable thing to find I think as you don't even need from-scratch bootstrapping.

I expect it's partly a product of PR departments as you have to keep the public engaged, not unlike the occasional production of aesthetically pleasing images.

It seems to me that it's enough to push for off-planet permanent human settlement. Heck, given the long-term possibilities of AI and von Neumann probes, distance isn't even an unassailable problem, you just have to change your time horizons.
Right, but your e-mail timestamps are still at 2am right? Your team can’t help but notice. IMHO you lead by example, and you set the example here that it’s normal to work at 2am. This is bound to increase the stress for your team. There might also be less impressionable team members, but here you run another risk—they’ll judge your time management skills. If you can’t help but write e-mails at 2:00, I’d be compassionate with your team and send them the next morning (or use some kind of ‘send later’ widget)…
Does ocean acidification alter fish behavior? Fraud allegations create doubt
I think this is more that "more features" = "more marketable" which impacts far more than just "unix tools" or even just software.

Also, simplifiation does not never happen. E.g., I have a near trivial impl (under 300 lines of Nim) at https://github.com/c-blake/kslog { yeah, it may not be of very wide appeal..See the first point. :-) }

I feel a better factoring/separation of concerns is to disentangle file/data distribution from getting in-socket data somewhere persistent.
How so? The US has banned heroin, cocaine etc but it never provided a state-sanctioned alternative.
So you decided to pivot? Would you be so kind to explain what made you pivot from data science investment help?
https://tradingpithistory.com/hand-signals/prices-quantities...

Bit rude!
I think these are things people like to think of themselves as doing with their free time: gardening, long walks on the beach, writing the next great non-American novel.

When I look at what people do off work, it’s mostly TV. They paint like once, then throw out the art supplies. Their kids are watching YouTube on iPads. Participation in the “community” amounts to celebrity gossip, out-group fear-mongering, or inane small talk.
Facilitating CP wasn't the intent behind the internet, but there is significant use, at least if you believe the government when they're trying to justify new regulations.

The same thing holds for BTC and illicit transactions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%27s_theorem

Thank you, that's the kind of example I was thinking must exist. It implies there is a program for each system that is undecidable, and then the question becomes how many of those programs transfer control so that the program rewrites itself. Maybe we don't need to do this in security, but sometimes it feels like the whole field is predicated on denying some foundational truth about complexity.
> It's also worth noting that people think x86 architecture permits unaligned reads but that's not entirely true. For example, you can't do unaligned read-ahead on C strings, because in extremely rare cases you might cross a page boundary that isn't defined and trigger a segfault.

But that's not a problem with an unaligned read but rather that you are reading more than you are allowed to. And in C even an aligned readahead is UB.

A better example might be SSE instructions which do have aligned variants that trap on unaligned pointers.
They didn't "know how to decide better", they just had fewer choices to make and much less information about results. Was it "better" to destroy this or that ecosystem, or consume resources to the point earth ran dry, or start random wars for "honor"? No, but they did it anyway - until they figured out it was a bad idea.
> Arrest and charge people who purchase, sell or even possess Bitcoin

Can you imagine the amount of resources required to accomplish this? The war on drugs was a massive failure and that was arguably a much easier sell than crypto. As if the US doesn't already imprison enough of it's population... talk about a victimless crime...

> Most demand will disappear in that country

Not when all you need is internet access. Supply might, but demand will not be effected much. There will also be exchanges hosted in other countries that can be easily accessed.

Crypto is made to be resilient and/or hard to trace. The normal avenues of tracking and enforcement (which already can be pretty ineffective) cannot compete. You can act like it's "fairly simple" but, as I have stated, it's been tried and continues to fail.
I have a 65'' OLED TV and 24fps content is unwatchable without motion smoothing. When the camera pans, the "jumps" between frames are too distracting.

I only use it at about 10-20% though, not at 100% which I think is the default setting and I agree is vomitive.
It’s possible that people with Adblock are also often disabling telemetry.
Taxes are generally high in Italy, but it's actually quite friendly towards freelancers. I'm in Italy and I earn about the same as my Italian friend in the UK, but I take home more than he does after tax/social security.

If you're freelance and earn <€65k then you can use the 'regime forfettario' and pay a flat 5% tax + pension contributions.

If you earn more & have lived abroad for the past few years, then you can get tax relief on 90% of your income in your southern region (less in the centre/north).
I get it, but I think the only reason why you don't see people dancing-dancing to metal, rather than heabanging and moshing, is tradition, not the music itself. The music itself has eminently danceable components, particularly oodles of rythm.

To give a few examples, I can imagine, in my head, wild rock 'n' roll dancing, of the kind you'd see young folks of the '60s dancing to Great Balls of Fire and the like, but this time under the sweet sounds of Motorhead or ACDC and it doesn't look out of place at all.

Anyway, I don't think modern dance is much closer to traditional dances either.
How it used to be done: https://imaging.nikon.com/history/story/

Super-experienced people backed up by a small army of people doing ray-tracing by hand.

Wikipedia might give you starting points to find modern answers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_lens_design#Lens_optim... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_photographic_lens_d...

And if you want to get a general feel for how the modern designs work, Bill Claffs optical bench is a nice starting point: https://www.photonstophotos.net/GeneralTopics/Lenses/Optical...

(tbh it sounds a lot like the EDA space, and CAE in general)
Train firm’s ‘worker bonus’ email is cybersecurity test
This assumes that the expanding intelligence isn't machine-based.
Earliest known human burial in Africa
I have a collection of 50mm lenses (from the 1950s to 2018). Most of my favorite shots are actually taken with the older, imperfect ones. Some people call these "character lenses", which have flaws that can actually be quite appealing. Most of them are sharp enough and the flaws disappear if stopped down a bit.

Examples of flaws include swirly bokeh in the background, a glow around high-contrast edges, and flares from lights.
Businesses are designed to make money. That includes controlling costs. I'm not saying it a good thing, but you don't have to be some cartoon villain to think this way. It's par for the course in capitalism.
My use cases:

-I have children, who have been known to wander off with my keys

-When I am stressed out I get forgetful, especially about where I put my AirPods

-I travel a lot and like knowing I have my AirPods/Keys with me at a glance, instead of digging into my luggage
>I do this for the love of the craft; not the money.

I think this is main point. Somehow introducing money into anything seems to drain all the pleasure out of it.
I pre-ordered two as soon as pre-orders were available: one for my wallet, one for my keys. It’s some undescribed law of physics that anytime I’m running late I can’t find either.
Second that; Hobbit in particular seemed like a mid-budget British made-for-TV show. I get that it's all psychological, that I'm used to deliberate Hollywood motion-blur look... but I still couldn't bear it.

But clearly we learned something or there was something special about Hobbit, because that hasn't necessarily been my experience with all 4k / high-frame shows or movies...
I'm guessing, but I would expect that there's a fair few people using ad blockers that have turned off telemetry, and thus aren't included in the report.
I don't know how true this is but I always found it interesting that new makeup was developed (HD foundation) as a result of the switch towards high definition tv/cinema formats.
>it using musl instead of glibc

This, I remember jemalloc and musl/ Alpine issues. In the end it just isn't worth the hassle. Although that was may be two years ago.
Avoiding async in order to avoid parallel database calls literally only makes sense if you're choosing between blocking/non-blocking on a single process on a single server instance. The second you scale up to use multiple processes/threads and/or multiple servers, you're going to be dealing with concurrent db calls regardless of whether or not your code is written as blocking or non-blocking.

So not only are you saying that you insist on writing blocking code in order to avoid parallelism, but you're also saying that you'll limit yourself to a single execution process. Assuming a 50ms round trip to the db, you're basically setting a best case scenario of ~20 requests per second.
Does Alpine have an auto-deploy solution similar in function to Debian's Preseed ability? If Alpine can be auto-deployed, and as comments here indicate, may have a smaller installation footprint, it might have merit for some high-instance-count use-cases.
I want to see Firefox succeed. Mozilla doesn't seem to be making the best moves to ensure that right now.
Frangula must be unburied but the seeds will return shaped as a pigeon.

Native here. Is the host of two nice butterflies and a terrific an totally unexpected substitute for conifers. Many people would mistoke it by a small Cypress.
Pairing is a decision made between two devs, not as a team or company, imo.
Yes, the article gives wildly optimistic examples. No one is going to sell you a website that reliably makes $200/mo for $3000. They would ask more like $30,000. What the article brushes over is the wealth gap that prevents most people from buying cash flow. Sure, they probably buy too much stuff. But how long would someone making minimum wage need to save enough money to buy a $30,000 income-producing asset that adds $200/mo to their income? Especially given that the percentage of their income going to housing keeps rising, as the wealthy extract higher and higher rents from them?