skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> low power usage

How about turning the NAS on-and-off as you need it? There's no need to run an "always on" computer unless you want to.

If you want to run an IRC bouncer or a webserver, then buy a Rasp. Pi for that. The NAS is primarily storage, which doesn't necessarily need to be always on. (Besides, turning the computer off is the ultimate security move. You can't get that data hacked if the computer isn't even on)

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> I have several big beefy servers to run ZFS on my network. What I am missing is something tiny and quiet that can do the same job at a small scale just as well while the big machines are turned off.

Ever try just... sticking multiple small-and-cheap hard drives into the clients?

Its not too hard to make redundant RAID1-like storage spaces (Windows-clients) or RAID1-like LVM (Linux-clients).
Might be useful for a lot of things if the research holds up. Maybe we could get a realtime video feed of Mars, instead of being 15 minutes or so behind :) That would make exploration and space development and such a lot easier.

Incidentally, if we can't assume c as a constant, we might not be able to assume m as a constant for photons either.
i think that is generally a compliment though, not an accusation
Is it similar to scrapple in taste? I get the sense that the answer is no, but would like to confirm before looking for this. I don't much care for scrapple, but would be willing to give the bologna a try if the taste were more like a standard lunch meat.
Cars like Microsoft Word have a broad feature set because needs are broad. For those of us who want reliable, inexpensive, self service-able transportation there are fewer choices. My guess is because the majority are entranced by sexier things: smart features, driver assist, and safety features of dubious quality.
Swift Concurrency: Behind the Scenes
> To sell you product with source code (with a open source licence attached) is simply not possible.

It's possible and it's called double licensing. Should work best with AGPLv3.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-licensing
Serious question - what alternatives are left for those of us who want a dumb car? I've spent the last three months finding out I can't get solar panels installed without a high-fidelity power-monitor tap connected to the provider's cloud, logging every appliance I use and what it's doing. Same deal with cars - they are on the internet and they generate evidence used to convict, and geofencing is coming. Other than stockpiling cars from 2010 - will we have alternatives?

https://www.fox13news.com/news/evidence-showing-drivers-spee...
The point of `auto` and `:=` is not to "shave off a few seconds of effort manually looking up the return type of bar(), and a few characters typing out the type in foo's declaration.", but to help with refactoring.
Wind-Powered Car Goes Faster Downwind Than the Wind
Glad to hear I'm not the only one who wants a dumb car. Unfortunately, the idea of electric cars has become bound up with the notion of software-driven cars. I want an electric car with analog controls, no touch screens or over-the-air updates, and minimal software. A car that I feel like I own, rather than one I'm getting a click-through license to use.
Note that Julia has explicitly[1] taken much inspiration from APL to a further degree than NumPy does IMO.

1. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/search?q=apl&type=issues
TL;DR: It depends on which state :) There's some more info here: https://stripe.com/docs/tax/supported-use-cases#us-sales-tax
.Net is now almost fully open sourced, especially the parts that MS recommends starting new projects in.

And Java has always been open source.
I believe he prefers one fancy character to two ugly characters.
Home Rolled Store with the Vue.js Composition API
Head EU antitrust regulator wants Apple to allow alternate app stores
Here is a Firefox bug report suggesting a per-site permission for WebGL: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1694456

There's been no Mozilla comments on the bug yet. Perhaps so many sites use WebGL that the user would be pestered with too many permission prompts?
PHP 8.1.0 Alpha 1 available for testing
Yep. Americans used to drive enormous boat sized cars, then suddenly a lot of people liked these small Japanese cars.

I wonder why that happened????
Notification pollution is real and I'm glad Apple is taking real steps to address it in the form of the new focus feature which lets the message sender determine whether to alert the user.

I've been asking for this for a long time[1], But it shouldn't be only for 'Do Not Disturb' but rather for every message.

I don't want to be alerted for meme or forwarded messages, Letting the users determine the notification level - Delayed (to be notified when I check the phone) or Immediate can go a long way to habituate message etiquette.

As for non messaging apps like you mentioned, They should be shamed in the 'Notification Pollution' panel.

[1]https://needgap.com/problems/59-notification-pollution-mobil...
Faster than expected by whom?

The clueless government officials and climatists who argued for the handouts?
Yeah, and for site name Statista!
i mean if the end goal is to propagate the organism, surely intelligence will be helpful to this - interplanetary scale
Online wholesale marketplace Faire raises $260 mln, valued at $7 bln
I used to have a car before moving closer to a metro area and going full Uber.

It was a cheap Renault. Malfunctioned twice in ten years. Repair was trivial both times.

Sometimes I think about having a car again, but the sort of stuff you described makes me super nervous.
Blogs without timestamps ought to be illegal.
Check out Bollinger electric trucks. No screens at all; even the battery gauge is analogue.
> I clearly remember the sales person there showing me a flow chart printed on a pillow.

wait, what?
I think the big question here is who should then 'regulate' the marketplace of ideas? In a free speech society is this the government? Is it corporations?

In either case or a combination thereof the regulation will undoubtedly contain bias. Thus why free speech is supposed to be free speech.

In economics it is understood the only way to accomplish a true monopoly is through government regulation. If we allow government regulation of in the marketplace of ideas we run a very real risk of seeing monopolies of ideas.
Congrats Soumyadeb and team.

I too would love to see a dbt integration, perhaps avo.app/iterative.ly together with some sort of generic webhook source, oh pubnub/pusher too. The product has come a long way in a short period. Shout out to for great engineering support and giving customers the airtime for product/feature discussion.

Glad to be an early adopter and cant wait to see what comes in the next few months.
Constants: Types of Variables in Arduino (part 1)
Mr. Hands was on to something
> PV has a higher carbon footprint than nuclear.

Not inherently, though. This is only because the current energy production is 90% non-renewable globally. See e.g. here, page 11: https://group.vattenfall.com/de/siteassets/de/verantwortung/...
most people globally do hold most of their savings in cash, many people are unbanked and physical currency is the only way they have to preserve wealth.
As a smaller-scale contractor I just tell people what I charge. If they're not willing to play ball* get to premium compensation, no deal. It's cliché but BATNA is everything.

*I'm willing to play ball too, e.g. for a staff position I might take extra vacation in lieu of more cash, tradeoffs like that. But basically I'm not gonna take on extra hassle without being incentivized — because I don't have to and don't want to, all there is to it
Make Classics, Not Content
What's it with the perpetual reposting of meaningless rants like that? https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=yager.io
One reason it hurts the poor most is because of timing. Prices go up 10% over the course of the year. Then, after prices have gone up, then wages go up to make up for what prices have already done. But that leaves you with a chunk of time when prices have risen but your wages have not. If you're already poor, that really hurts.
There is no money to be made in the form of profits or FCF from renewables. Not only that, there is no money to be made in energy which isn't fossil in general. This includes Carbon Capture, storage, and nuclear fission/fusion as well.

Fossil fuels extraction is the best of the industrial/non-talent based sectors, Saudi Aramco basically sticks straws in the sand and oil comes out at 7 dollars per barrel.

Electrons they are all the same, there is not some consumer convenience in using green electrons.

The only success story in terms of marketcap is Tesla, but that company is based on constant lies told by the CEO to keep people energized.

If we manage to solve climate change it would be the biggest letdown ever for the general population: the way this thing is being socially and politically advertised people expect a technoutopian future where all of a sudden rainbows would appear all over the place from cows derriere in lieu of methane. A technoutopian pipedream sold by Musk and the like.

In reality we'd just manage to keep things as they are now, our lives won't change that much.

Tl;dr Long SaaS and fintech, short energy and construction
Data Types and Conversions: Types of Variables in Arduino (Part 2)
That's one way to look at it, and certainly a view that many share -- but isn't that more likely to attract regulatory scrutiny instead of deflect it?

I sit in on many of these W3C meetings (I'm not from Google) and the discussion is always "given that we want to achieve X definition of privacy (where X varies depending on the proposal), how can we mitigate some of the fallout that will happen". It's never "how can we defeat these privacy measures that are going to be put into place so we can keep the status quo".

You can argue that advertising is a net negative for the web or that it's evil or whatever you want, but if you frame it as "how can we take steps to make things more private for end users without completely destroying the way business on the web make money" then I think the current path is a reasonable one.
> We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time. For any issues, contact q6news@khq.com or call 509-448-6000.

Why do they do that? It seems to be a news website, which holds read-only content. Readers are not "users", I don't see how the GDPR can apply here.
Ah yes. We did end up using extraReducers, but didn’t love that the thunks and their corresponding reducers had to live in separate parts of the file. (For me at least, mentally simpler to have an action and it’s reducer close together.)

This looks cool, thanks for passing along! I’m actually starting a new project now, and deciding what my state management / caching layer should be, so great to know this is an option.
There are good uses, but with the exception of doi (and apparently gov.uk's own), official documents are not one of them.
Yes really. About your example, what have you heard about the difficulty of learning Finnish and Estonian?

That aside, there's no way there's an universal easy-to-learn language. Language families are very different.
Product and Engineering need to be peers in this regard.

I think Spolsky said it best about the dynamic between managers, product and developers

https://youtu.be/A3-ijSmDQ3c?t=983
I appreciate that they've done a good job of describing why things like a lack of generics hurts and alternatives, but ... yeah, this is the beaten horse.
It's less so when you know about some evolutionary programming techniques, such as using Lisp with a subset of the code that defines behavior in a tree structure that allows for parts of that tree to be swapped in and out from other programs using the same design whike still yielding an executing program. Combined with a fitness function you can "breed" programs for a task.

As I understand it there are attributes of Lisp and attributes of the program structure (such as putting much of the logic in that tree structure with defined split points) which makes this much more feasible than otherwise.

My guess is that DNA has evolved similarly, where the ways in which it splits and the mechanism in which it is interpreted and executed help, and also the organisms we're talking about (us and the other complex ones) have iterated to a design that's more amenable to bits being swapped. That is large chunks of us may be more similar to a lisp program with attributes that make it easy to swap parts than to a bunch of object bytecode with absolute and relative jumps all over.

Note: A lot of this is poorly remembered from a survey of AI class two decades ago, so it bears someone with a stronger background verifying I'm not making a complete hash of it.
Yes. The comment I responded to said "literally all companies", not "literally all large companies".
A.k.a, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions."
How Amazon is tackling the A.I. talent crunch
Has anyone tried calling them?
Your reddit username is not your identity, and it's data which reddit already has. In fact, you can use it to browse reddit without being signed in, and reddit will glean much less data from you by the use of Apollo in either case.

The developer specifically states that they perform no user-linked tracking with their app. Their monetization model also supports this conclusion.
The answer, of course, is "oil".

The oil industry funds anti-renewable but pro-nuclear efforts[1]. That might seem counterintuitive, since nuclear also competes with fossil fuels, but the fossil fuel industry knows that nuclear plants take a very long time to build. During that time, more fossil fuel plants get built, and the renewables industry struggles and possibly withers.

That creates a stripe of Internet commenter convinced that nuclear plants are the solution and renewables are terrible. They all use the same lines of reasoning, and it doesn't really matter how many times they're refuted because... well, because this is a playbook that has been used many times over.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-solar-kochs-20140420-st...
FWIW, there has been a lot of research on making GC (particularly on the JVM) communicate its memory status to the kernel, but the (usually Linux) kernel developers’ attitude was always “no, you don’t get to put your thesis into mainline, unless you can prove people actually use it”. Which is partly fair, but the end result is still a dumb chicken-and-egg situation.
I don't mind complexity but what I can't stand is having to access that complexity through touchscreens. Without the tactile feedback of a knob or button I have to take my attention off the road to see where I need to press on the screen. That's a major step backwards in auto safety, IMO.

And don't get me started on the lazy manufacturer design trend of bolting a tablet to the dashboard and calling it a day.
An Ultimate Guide of Web Application Architecture
Most unordered lists like this should be numbered so you can later refer to the points by number.
Watching superhuman AI play games doesn’t look like this.

They just look like people that are really stupid in some ways and really good in others.
I'm still surprised that they did not include a crypto accelerator on the Pi4. It seems like a very low cost peripheral, with a high performance impact for many use cases (drive encryption, network encryption, etc...). I ran some benchmarks between a Pi4 and a Nanopi M4 and it wasn't even close.
I think proof of “real” intelligence by answering harder and harder questions is barking up the wrong tree. I think evidence and proof are a better way to denote varying levels of understanding.

A deductive system can come with an answer and a proof of that answer, where proof is whatever counts as proof in that system.

So the notion of “does it really understand it’s answers” gets punted off its Q&A abilities and onto its ability to justify its answers.
California is not a member of the SST because it does not currently tax a number of things that are subject to tax under the SST regime. For example, digital goods are taxable in SST states but not in California.

Similarly, there are a number of other product categories where CA's taxability classifications do not match the SST's classifications.

Generally, the total tax they could collect from remote (non-CA) sellers below the $500k nexus threshold is not worth the effort it would take to change things so that CA could join the SST, and moreover, it would require significant changes by CA sellers.

Generally, those same considerations also apply in NY: the cost burden on local sellers to make the change would dwarf any minuscule tax increase from joining the SST.
You can also set it as an altlayout on your keyboard. I'm on linux so I set it to holding Winkey switches to APL.
I've heard this repeated several times. Is there a source for this claim from any of the people who designed the language?
Just another field for battle in the Go vs Rust HN comments war
also the basket of goods is mostly impacted significantly by technology which causes deflation.

it doesn't include things that don't have acute tech-driven inflation (housing/education/healthcare) where tech can't drive prices to zero as easily.
I am going to post this here again as it is relevant. To question whether it was possible or even that tampering of electronic voting systems occurred is not an irrelevant.

The author of the paper actually made that claim in 2016:

https://www.npr.org/2018/05/08/599452050/the-u-s-voting-syst...

So it is obviously something that should be questioned, criticized, reviewed, etc. as it does pose a true risk.

Should people storm the capital, no. Should there be dialogue around the subject? Absolutely. Even if the fringes of that dialogue are extreme, it is not time to mute the conversation.
Might be easier to set up the backend before testing the front end. You could use your existing models and code to create data in the DB for instance, and then use the web browser to test that things are working.

What's the alternative? Prepare the backend via exclusive frontend operations? That has its own issues like possibly being impossible (e.g. maybe making an admin isn't exposed to the webapp) or being slow, or not being able to create data in a "legacy" state that the current frontend can't do.

Or maybe use C# to create and teardown the data, but then call out to a nodejs process in the middle of the test?

I am legitimately curious how you would test a C# app exclusively from nodejs.
I'm not an expert in the wording, but you can read quotes from several people on it, and it's clear that they were blind or mostly blind prior to the act. By "mostly blind", I mean things like a verbal vote, but at a time that would be hard to predict, and no CSPAN, paper transcript, etc, to record what exactly happened other than the totals.

See https://congressionalresearch.org/LRA.html for example.

Edit: Guessing it's mostly sections 104 and 121 of the bill: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/91/hr17654/text

"Roll Call" is their wording for detailed info on who voted for what.
Next time I want to make my eyes bleed I'll hit up .net
We are also looking at DOI for UK gov docs & data to make them easier to cite.

You can give us feedback at https://github.com/alphagov/open-standards/issues/75
cases = [
{ in: 1, arg: 2, expected: 3, message: "base case" },
{ in: 2, arg: -2, expected: 0, message: "negative numbers" },
...
]
for ( c in cases ) {
actual = obj.do( c.in, c.arg )
assert( actual == c.expected, c.message )
}

see: http://fit.c2.com/ ... table-based testing, "cases" and "drivers"
> You might be expecting a linked list of integers, but at some point, some tired, coffee-fueled programmer with a deadline to meet accidentally put a string in there somewhere

How often does this really happen in practice? You know the software doesn't work when you try a wrong type, because it blows up on startup or on a request. In my experience my bugs aren't because of problems with types but with logic errors. It compiles but is not correct because you're doing the wrong thing. You know pretty quickly in Python or Javascript when you make a mistake because you pass in the wrong arguments and the right thing _doesn't_ happen.

Types don't save you from typing the wrong code or simply doing the wrong thing in a type safe way.
For what it’s worth, my base model Honda ticks those boxes.
Simplifying the tax code is certainly sensible. Reducing the tax burden is not. As mandatory expenditures (medicare and social security) continue to increase as a percentage of GDP, the discretionary part of the budget (roads, defense, R&D, etc.) is going to continue to get squeezed. Unless we can significantly reduce the amount of money going to the health care sector to the tune of about $1T/year (and deal with the impacts of that on the people currently working in that sector), tax burden is going to have to go up.

Some nice charts midway through this page:
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/cbo-warns-fiscal-path-is-unsus...
Yeah, seriously. "We recognize that we want to be tracking the hell out of you and unfortunately you live in a regulated area where there are laws somewhat trying to protect you."

Anyway, fellow European netizens, you can read this here: https://web.archive.org/web/20210610163014/https://www.khq.c...
Data Protection Officer: What It Is and Why You Need It
Yeah, I like the tech behind Tesla but am turned off by. 1) The large, distracting screen in the front of the car. 2) The subscription model of the car's firmware.

If electric cars ever become widespread I hope I can find a used one engineered without that stuff. Otherwise I may have to stop buying cars.
Why is it meaningless? It sounds like you disagree with it, so maybe you would like to discredit it's face value.

The "perpetual reposting" seems like a signal that it resonates with some people? Once again proving that it likely isn't meaningless (at least to everybody).
Right, I'm struggling to think of a user profile that would be OK with just software from major distro repos.

"Normal" users? They're going to want several proprietary programs, some of which will surely not be in even the non-free repos, unless they're an only-uses-the-browser type who'd be fine with a Chromebook (or, more realistically for that user profile, just their phone).

Power users? I have to assume my experience of often wanting or needing something outside official repos, or a newer version of something in official repos, is far from unusual. I'm not even that demanding a power user, and that's still a very common situation for me. What's worse is the more one chases system stability, the worse this problem becomes, since Linux distros mix the base system and user-facing applications all together (and the structure of x-window-system/wayland/drivers/GTK/QT makes it hard not to do this)
A silver dollar in 1960 would buy about 4 gallons of gasoline.

That same silver dollar now buys about 7 gallons. (Melt value)

A 1960 dollar bill bought 4 gallons of gasoline back then, and now would purchase about 1/3 gallon.

It really does depend on what kind of "dollar" you're talking about.
it doesn't say the country, must be haiti? (509 prefix)
John! Thanks for sharing your story. Anyone who ate as many Costco muffins as you, Doug, Max, Ted, and me during YC were destined for great things :) Congrats on the fundraise!