skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there even a credible report of it being accompanied by a military jet? The reports I have seen are all sketchy on that part.
What's the alternative? A new facility is better than a facility outside the US.
> Not mentioning it does nothing.

I don't understand how you assert this.
For what it's worth Facebook and Instagram (also owned by FB, but is fairly separate product-wise) have pretty good export tools. You make a request in the web UI and a short time later, can download a zip with a bunch of JSON files. I was pleasantly surprised by how much they included.
Honestly, go to an office supply store and try a few chairs. See what’s comfy, but also forces you into a good posture. There’s not really a one size fits all office chair, and $200 goes pretty far if you’re not buying a high end chair (which the Markus is not.)
In Belarus that may be the case (I seriously doubt it though), but it is not the case in the US. You are required to comply with all ATC instructions.

14 CFR 91.123(b) - https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.123
> Looks really cool, but I would always use zsh-auto-complete.

Thanks for this feedback. Would love to dig in a little more here. What is it about Fig that turns you off? Is it the idea of having a GUI in the terminal?
There is one thing I would like to expand upon in what you said:

> Apple is afraid of giving users the choice, as much as that large apps that people use will force users to make the choice for them.

That assumes that users have no choice but keep using the side loaded software. But that's not true. People could just stop using Facebook entirely.

I guess the majority wouldn't, but the choice is there at least.

In regards to privacy, I agree with Apple's stance. But what about other areas? I don't want one single company dictating what I can or can't use on my device.
I question the priorities of a developer who spends (wastes?) their time trying to dazzle me with bespoke UI. They should be focusing on dazzling me with the speed, efficiency, and reliability of the intended use of their program.
I wrote this primarily because I think of the situation and the outcome as unfortunate. I'm not sure the pilot had a chance but rather I find it remarkable that he tried hard to do the right thing.
Not sure why people are only recommending a tablet or iPad. Most parental control software should be able to do most of what you want. Blocking updates would probably require a bit of hackery.
It is asinine to compare the two situations. Greenwald is wrongly equating the two together for his puppeteers.

1) Snowden had already been charged at that point and was running from the law. Morales's plane was diverted because it was believed to be providing passage to a criminal. While I don't know what Snowden did was right or wrong, it is clear that Snowden broke laws. His intentions might have been good but he broke some very serious laws.

2) Roman Protasevich, on the other hand, is a blogger. He hasn't released any state secrets that he swore an oath to protect.
Hopefully the price keeps going down over time, not only for this device but for other similar devices like this one. I'd really like to find an affordable eInk display that isn't too far of a regular screen price point­.
Eh money is trying to park itself somewhere.

Maybe the founders sold this as a way to get dev telemetry data + a subscription.
That is not true.

He suggested that the virus may have come from the Wuhan lab.

NYT slammed him for this "fringe theory" in February 2020:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/business/media/coronaviru...
I’m going to assume that women’s fundamental willingness to engage in this kind of behaviour hasn’t really changed but that they are no longer shamed for doing so. Couple this with social media and you get a big uptick in visibility.
The whole point of "You HAVE to do it like this, it's what the book says!" is to sell more books or consulting.

I agree: Clean Coders and TDDers are cut from the same cloth.
E Ink Brings Built in Touchscreens to E-Paper Line
Is there no save button when something substancial happens?
If you ask Charlie Stross, it’s Christian theology in atheist clothes, with Roko’s basilisk playing the role of Satan.
Yes, it does make me think of a child sitting in a sandbox, claiming it as ,,mine,, without knowing the first thing about how it came to be.
It actually makes alot of sense, Siemens and supplyframe will tremendously benefit from this!
Maybe it has changed in the last 3 years, but "comptime" doesn't seem like such a "weird syntax" to me?
This isn't a dark side. It's the other side of the same coin and we try to tuck it away, keep it under the rug, hide it from light.
I've had the same experience. I've been using org-mode as my primary note-taking tool for several months now and am getting more comfortable with emacs as a result, but while I can see the appeal of magit, the "spend time learning how emacs git" vs "use the CLI to do what I want in 3 s" hasn't balanced out yet in magit's favor. At some point I'll probably sit down and take like a half day or so to actually learn magit, but git CLI isn't really broken for me so the drive to learn an alternative git tool hasn't been all that strong. Still, magit seems nice, so one of these days I'll probably make the effort.
Cameras and optical payloads for small satellites (updated)
I don’t buy into NAACP propaganda so no for me.
$400M for a bicycle factory?????

That's a lot of money...

People in other countries can open a few car factories with money like that.
We promised this vaccine waiver 20 years ago
I suspect that your assumption that this facility is just to make stationary bikes might be a little off.

Part of this investment is likely to be expansion of their product range.
The Academy
In addition to the database PaaS services, the “always free” cloud infrastructure is this:

- 2 AMD based Compute VMs with 1/8 OCPU and 1 GB memory each.

- 4 Arm-based Ampere A1 cores and 24 GB of memory usable as one VM or up to 4 VMs.

- 2 Block Volumes Storage, 200 GB total.

- 10 GB Object Storage.

- 10 GB Archive Storage.

The ARM infra can be 1 VM with 4 CPUs/24 GB RAM or up to 4 smaller VMs.
Will the new factory fix their treadmills?

Re https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26846641
> Heal to what? The idea that there is a natural ecosystem is nonsense

There isn't a stable state, but there are multiple equilibria. We can quantify the robustness of an ecosystem, its resilience to exogenous shocks. That makes certain states "better" than others.

That resilience is low and decreasing. "Healing" means helping it increase. Re-introducing extinct species may or may not build a more robust and more productive biosphere.
This transcript was released by belarussian authorities
We're more aware that in a situation where a local council has to take over your garage for decontanimation

1) You wouldn't have a local council

2) You wouldn't have a garage
On a related note, Mark Ruffalo sorry for calling Israel/Palestine conflict a genocide:

https://twitter.com/MarkRuffalo/status/1397023731722113032
This is like replacing a CRT with a high def flat screen. There's millions of them out there in gyms and schools and hotels, and these are WAY better.
Not everything. The transparency prompt would still appear, but Facebook wouldn't need to show users that Privacy Label in the App Store. They could also access restricted iOS Entitlements that the App Store would not permit. These entitlements can do things such as "read data from other apps" or "see what apps are installed in the system" or other functionality that the App Store doesn't allow under almost any circumstances.

If sideloading was enabled, Facebook could claim use of those entitlements. iOS could potentially show a prompt forcing users to OK their use, but Facebook would obviously hope most people just tap the button without thinking.
I wonder how much "HTML non-compliance" is lack of education and how much dark patterns. Remember the time clean URLs were a thing? Don't tell me Facebook engineers haven't heard about it.

https://m.facebook.com/events/2805322196445083/?event_time_i...

Like seriously. It's almost like someone learned HTML/HTTP best practices, then did the exact opposite.
Even if you believe that there's little difference between Snowden and Protasevich, the scenarios are clearly different. Rescinding permission to transit is a far cry from falsely reporting a bomb threat, backing it up with military force, and then searching the plane and taking multiple passengers into custody as a condition of the plane's release.
Analytics.js 2.0 – the analytics library built for the modern web
But you'll have to buy a new bike in a couple years when they stop updating the software on the old ones.
Open-Source FPGA Foundation Launches “Tape Out World” Initiative
Open-Source FPGA Foundation’s “Tape Out World” Initiative
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May 25, 2021 – Open-Source FPGA Foundation (OSFPGA) has launched the “Tape Out World” initiative which is a key component of it’s push for democratizing silicon and purpose to promote design and manufacture of prototype FPGAs (and CPUs and other chips) world wide. In this effort OSFPGA will collaborate with Efabless Corporation, leveraging it’s ChipIgnite program that provides a pre-designed carrier-chip along with automated open-source design flow and full chip template making easy, affordable, and rapid implementation of custom chip design. The initiative will be operated by OSFPGA’s Tape Out World Committee with a global and modular approach and a roadmap for jumpstarting country specific programs, with Tape Out USA as default and others following in rapid succession.

At the high level, the idea of the Tapeout World and underlying country initiative is simple and scalable, where a few universities having at least two faculty researchers in chip design are identified in each country by a Country Champion who is a community or corporate member of OSFPGA. They are in turn enabled to organize at least two student projects all the way from design-through-tapeout on the EFabless platform. While the primary targets are universities, research institutes and startups can be supported. The tape outs are funded via sources vested in technology and ecosystem development identified by the country champion. OSFPGA will be announcing a series of such programs in Q2 2021 and beyond with several identified countries already in the pipeline process.

For more information:
OSFPGA Tape Out World (www.osfgpa.org/tapeoutworld OR email info@osfpga.org )
Efabless ChipIgnite (https://efabless.com/chipignite/2106Q OR email shuttle@efabless.com )
YouTube Will Monetize Videos Without Paying Content Creators
I use it, it's quite cool, I did need to patch it to fit my needs, but it makes it easy package anything.

I wish though that it would expose the mechanism as nix derivation instead of CLI command (I eventually figured how to do it, but feels a bit hacky to me)
Rechargeable Cement Battery
there is zero evidence this is true. none of those companies are asking users to sideload on Android.
Yeah they apparently had Russian passports and the full support of the Russian state.

Maria Zakharova even wrote that “It is shocking that the West calls the incident in Belarusian airspace ‘shocking,’”.

She is the Director of the Press Department for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and is famous for claiming things as ludicrous as this one…

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/konstantinbenyumov/mari...
> Usually the flag is there to introduce a branching condition (effectively breaking "a function should do one thing")...

But if you don't let the function branch, then the parent function is going to have to decide which of two different functions to call. Which is going to require the parent function to branch. Sooner or later, someone has to branch. Put the branch where it makes the most sense, that is, where the logical "one-ness" of the function is preserved even with the branch.

> I find the same can be achieved w/ polymorphism and/or pattern-matching, the benefit being now your behaviour is part of the data model (the first argument) which is easier to reason about, document, and extend to new cases (don't need to keep passing flags down the call chain).

You just moved the branch. Polymorphism means that you moved the branch to the point of construction of the object. (And that's a perfectly fine way to do it, in some cases. It's a horrible way to try to deal with all branches, though.) Pattern-matching means that you moved the branch to when you created the data. (Again, that can be a perfectly fine way to do it, in some cases.)
I have used "immutable" schema designs when there were strong requirements for full audit needs over time. It works very well even in a normal RDBMs system. It also allows some very neat reporting e.g. compare the same report at different points in time.

The basic idea was that every operation (create, update, delete) are actually normal SQL inserts and all reads are against views defined such that the most recent tuples are returned unless they are flagged as "deleted."

I have typically used these types of designs in mostly simple applications with tables where the row counts are in the low millions of tuples. Dealing with this design in the billions of tuples (probably sharded somehow) might have motivated us out of normal RDBMs and into one of the specialized immutable DBs mentioned.
What are your reasons to assume that Siemens would mismanage these sites?
The macho man would never apologize like a little bitch to a communist regime.
A modern large car plant starts at $3bn-4bn then goes up from there depending on how much of the manufacturing you are going to do yourself, so it’s more like 10% of the cost of that.
WTF indeed.

There has to be some grand vision behind this, presumably large-scale data capture. At the end of the day, the terminal is is to the dev what Google is to the internet user: the point of entry where many journeys begin, with dozens or hundreds of interactions every day. And while devs are a niche market compared to Google's userbase, they are a lucrative and strategic one nonetheless.

Casting aside the environment of low-interest rates and massive inflow of investment in startups, how does a product like this otherwise raise several millions? The pitch sounds like something that a competent indie dev studio could sell on the Mac App Store...
The service is the real product here - the equipment just helps with lock-in. They do seem to be spending the money in the right places- their instructors and production are second to none.
> The idea of code telling a story is that a unit of work should explain what it does through its use of well named variables, function/object names, and how data flows between function/objects.

Code telling a story is a fallacy that programmers keep telling themselves and which fails to die. Code doesn't tell stories, programmers do. Code can't explain why it exists; it can't tell you about the buggy API it relies on and which makes its implementation weird and not straight-forward; it can't say when it's no longer needed.

Good names are important, but it's false that having well-chosen function and arguments names will tell a programmer everything they need to know.
Tale as old as time! I remember getting into almost a shouting match with a UI designer over this common conflict. Is it more important that the app's UI is consistent with other apps on the user's computer, or is it more important that it is consistent with the same app across all platforms (and consistent with the company's self-defined "branding")? I argued that the user expects all his apps to be consistent and look like they fit in with their other apps on the system, and the designer argued that the user doesn't care, and that our company's designers knew better than Microsoft/Apple/etc. about the best User Experience for our particular app. Seems like reasonable people can disagree about this.
"People could just stop using Facebook entirely."

If people are still using Facebook, today, knowing all that has happened, the odds are most people will continue using it though one can dream. I would honestly expect 90%+ of Facebook users to sideload if Facebook required it.

"But what about other areas? I don't want one single company dictating what I can or can't use on my device."

If you told this to an Apple Engineer, he'd look at you in the eye and tell you that the iPhone isn't for you and to buy an Android. You have that choice. The iPhone doesn't fit your use case and Apple isn't interested in making it fit your use case.
People are used to paying $100+/mo for a Gym, if Peloton can convince them to work out at home thats worth the $2500 they charge every 3 years or so. They can make the equipment free or cheap with multi-year subscriptions.
For those of you not in the lisp sphere: Robert is a very competent guy. He is probably the guy you would want for this kind of thing.
We allowed the end of privacy in exchange of our egos to not be hurt. I hope it's worth it.
You can find tons of data on that on Google, maybe not Norway but EU airspace. It happens about once a day.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/russian-aircraft-violate-eur...
Under GDPR, they have to include everything (they admit) they have about you, isn't that right?
It's an apt comparison. And if we don't like the consequences, all the more reason to reflect on our own actions
This should be retitled to be

Based on the assumptions built into our computer models, our models suggest that it could take millions of years for biodiversity to recover.
This argument feels hollow to me. You may be right, perhaps we overvalue the purely economic contribution of biodiversity.

But biodiversity is less of a means to me, and more of the end. Humans ARE biodiversity. We exist because of the long, complex and ever moving evolutionary chain. We haven't found life any where else in the universe like it exists on earth. It is a wonderous experiment and it is something we have a responsibility to foster. Without it, it feels like humans are but a finger lamenting at the death of the body it extends from.
A president of the united states, tried to invalidate the elections and coordinated attacks on the US govt. He got away with it.
Denying access to airspace of a private plane feels a little different than forcing a commercial plane to land with threat (and real actions) of violence. The level of crimes involved is also an important distinction. What Snowden did is illegal in pretty much every single country in the world (if committed against that country). On the other hand, what Protasevich did, many countries have laws to protect such actions. I'm not saying I agree with how either situation was handled (or laws involved, etc), but a 1:1 correlation between the two is ignoring important details.
As I said in that thread: there was never anything wrong with their treadmills. They function exactly like all of their competitors treadmills WRT: dangerous for pets and small children.

On top of the safety key which was easily removable, they've now added a PIN on top - so if pulling out the magnetic key is too much effort you don't even have to do that.
I just use their RSS feed, but the UI looks fine to me.
Agreed. I also like the yellow-emoji option--use something that clearly has no race.
I have not, that's a good pointer. Thanks!
A few pieces were easy to identify even with a phone and regular headphones. I tried a Pixel 4a directly to Philips SHP9500 and got 4/6.
Well from my pov just because there's lots of it doesn't mean it's interchangeable? I think legal protections on what you create gives you an avenue towards making a full time career out of what you do. And I don't think the patreons or kickstarters of the world replace that because it firstly makes you a slave to your audience and secondly forces you to become a marketer which probably great disadvantages anyone who isn't either good at that or who isn't already comfortably well off enough to afford the time to get good at it.

Finally I think it would greatly decrease the quantity and quality because frankly your time would be better spent elsewhere on things that can support you financially.

Thankfully, it's never going to happen so it's a bit of a hypothetical conversation.
Actually, there is much evidence. The Google Play Store is significantly less stringent on Android than iOS. For example, Google is estimated to get less than 1/10th the data from an iOS user as an Android user. The Play Store also, currently, doesn't effectively enforce the use of Google In-App-Purchase.

Because of that, there are less reasons to sideload away from the Play Store (from a company's perspective) as there are on iOS.
They respect _their_ dead. There is relatively minuscule respect paid to dead native people that lived in their land before they arrived.
It is not uncommon in US for ATC to offer pilot options for diversion or emergency landing when pilot declares an emergency. Good controllers understand that pilot might be dealing with flying airplane and dealing with emergency (e.g. engine failure) and offering help with navigation. Of course, it is PIC responsibility to select the best option and communicate to ATC about it.
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> Perfect opportunity for the elite hackers that were just chomping at the bit for me to connect an outdated device to the internet,

And this tone is good faith? lol, OK.
> The pilot is not powerless at all in "usual" emergencies. Declaring an emergency allows them to do pretty much anything.

Arguably once you are within firing range of two Mig-29's, the power dynamics changes slightly.
The US (really its NATO allies) made no attempt to arrest Snowden (not that he was present) on the Morales plane. They simply said you can't fly him out over NATO airspace. If they wanted to pull the trick used here, they would have let Morales into German airspace and then intercepted the aircraft and forced it down. They did not.
Don't mess with the UI please. It's simple like it should be.
Yeah, sorry. I understand how that's not everyones style, but I'm glad that you could still get something out of the site.

You'll find more stuff like that on my other site htmhell.dev.l, if you're interested. :)
Uninformed people
Sensationalist celebrity gossip BS is hacker news worthy now? I come to hacker news because I don't want to see crap like this.
Isn’t the fact that Amazon is so open and notorious in their price fixing agreements evidence of their oversized market power? Everyone knew what Standard Oil and Ma Bell were doing, too. But what were consumers and competitors supposed to do about it? When you have monopoly power you don’t need to put effort into hiding it from consumers or the market so much as you need to put effort into appeasing the politicians who oversee the DOJ.