skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excerpt:

"...I'm pretty certain that
if any of the anti-CLA people start this discussion first it will be
hijacked and used to strong-arm the Emacs community and the GNU
community at large into abandoning the requirement for a contributor
license agreement relying on a torrential flood of messages posted by
anti-CLA utilitarians, and resulting in an influx of low-quality
contributions.

It helps less that RMS recently has been deposed from the GCC steering
committee by a bunch of professional consent-manufacturers who should
not have been given computers at an early age, which is emboldening them
to become more aggressive and demanding towards other GNU projects..."
> Set up a permit system and call it a day.

Yosemite implemented reservation system due to Covid and they carried it over. It works great. There’s less traffic inside the park, fewer people on trails and plenty of parking spots available. Only drawback is that tickets run out very quickly as it’s such a popular place.
How easy will it be to get a PCB made if relations with China keep deteriating?

The US has PCB manufacturers, but they are WAY more expensive.
Many trails near Seattle are actually more crowded than the urban parks within the boundaries of the city. Lake Twentytwo and Mount Si are conga lines compared to places like Seward Park or Discovery Park.
Could you explain why you feel bummed about it? You've clearly exposed your child to a world of fulfilling outdoor activities that are far richer than what a group of kids could get up to in a neighborhood. I myself had the freedom as a child that many in this thread fondly remember, and yes, making friends and spending time with them was highly influential. But all my significant memories involve sleepovers, watching movies/playing video games, or family vacations. Simply being allowed to go outside didn't really do much for me, and my most defining life experiences at this point occurred in high school and the two years after graduating.

I think that if you as a parent are giving your child the freedom to go outside and explore however they want, as well as a minimum amount of advice, that's really where the advantage lies. Being told that the world is dangerous and constantly being smothered definitely causes issues but I don't think there's anything inherently valuable about socializing in a very specific way.
Journal
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/advanced-photoni...

Better article:
https://phys.org/news/2021-06-thin-film-tech-revolutionize-n...

> "Our technology is able to transform infrared light, normally invisible to the human eye, and turn this into images people can clearly see—even at distance.

> "We've made a very thin film, consisting of nanometre-scale crystals, hundreds of times thinner than a human hair, that can be directly applied to glasses and acts as a filter, allowing you to see in the darkness of the night."
This one is new to me. Pretty cool.
I'm not disagreeing, but note that humans have not come up with a way to express musical notes in Unicode or Emoji. The second vertical dimension is critical for music notation.

I'd suggest that the same idea applies to nuanced facial expressions. You could certainly devise a set of glyphs to stand in, but they would have to be learned by everyone.

The failures we see today are attempts at rendering expressions on drawn faces -- and to be fair, even a high res photographic still image of a real human making an expression could be easy to misinterpret. Especially across cultures and subcultures. My 15-year old niece has very strong opinions on how many periods I use to end sentences..

I think "fixing" emoji is probably a lost cause. But I am biased since I don't care at all. The most interesting and amusing thing I know about emoji is that when Apple changed the "gun" from a realistic-looking Glock/etc to a toy squirt gun, all the ingrates who used the image in a threatening manner ended up looking silly to iOS users. Android followed quickly.

I support the same sillification of negative and angry facial expression emoji as well, FWIW, and I think it's probably hopeless to try to cram nuance into any of them. Fortunately, we still have words.
Whenever I hear "overpopulation" from anyone, I want them to watch this video:

Overpopulation or Underpopulation by Toby Ord

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7LgGylpI9U

A rough snippet: note that hammers and songs are different. Hammers are made of matter and require labor. Songs are a pattern and can be copied virtually for free. Songs are more valuable when there are more people: greater total enjoyment. And having more people means more minds to create great things. Some things like computers are so complex that they require a large population to make. Smaller populations might not yield the amazing technology we could otherwise have.
why is this different for dogs?

I have been bothered at times at just how outside the overton window the idea that animals/pets, dog or cats should be able to e.g. see their parents or children, ever again, falls. I'm not a vegan or a big animal person, but it just isn't talked about.
Chromium is open-source. It's trivial to see if it's respecting the header or not.

DNT was DOA. You can blame Microsoft for that one.
The emails between pirate bay and web sheriff are pretty funny.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090105141217/http://static.the...

> We shall look forward to hearing from you.

We look forward to receiving more of your so exquisitely designed HTML
e-mails with the shiny wanna-be-police-star.

https://web.archive.org/web/20081221100050/http://static.the...

> Dear Frederik,

>

> Hello.

Hi! Please, learn to quote properly in your e-mail messages. You can
learn from how I do - I promise you that proper quoting is not patented.
> Why do I never procrastinate?

"You have to know what it feels like to be someone you're not" is a great point, making this a great question, but as a procrastinator... I really don't know. The article would be enhanced if it provided example answers from people for whom the prompt is accurate.
NASA’s ‘Moonikin’ Will Boldly Go Where No Test Dummy Has Gone Before
I used runV with drone.io (on top of Media) to run distributed on-demand VM builders for GitHub enterprise (we were building physical machine images to deploy so needed VM isolation).

It actually worked great, and I've struggled to get as quite a flexible CI system at other jobs since then (the big advantage was it looked like Docker, so with compose you could either spin a metal-like nested VM or just pull in some DB containers in your build instance).
How To Identify Unique Audio Frequencies via Arduino Microphone Calibration
My first encounter with John Law's story was after reading Charles Mackay's 1852 "Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds".

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518

It's plainly told and unsurprisingly familiar if you've followed the causes of any of the negligence entertained by the SEC this millennium.
If you ask any trading desk in the space they will tell you they personally regularly do this.
I think what OP is referring to is that it seems like every year or so we hear that someone knocks over some balanced rock in Bryce or Moab or jumps into the grand prismatic pools in yellowstone.

And yeah, those areas are really full of idiot tourists walking around everywhere.

What I think a lot of people don't understand is that is 0.00001% of all the beauty that BLM/NF lands in the US offer. I have my own favorite trails in Oregon, Arizona, Utah (that I won't share anywhere) but some of them see 1 person per day. I'm sure there are some folks that know about trails visited once a year. It's those areas that are definitely NOT Disney. (Especially on June 21 when you'll have thousands of naked people hiking everywhere)
> Ribet recalls seeing his first Klein bottle at the home of a colleague and deciding he wanted one. “I phoned Cliff the next morning and said something like ‘I’m a mathematician, and I want to buy a Klein bottle.’ Cliff replied with a question: ‘If tin whistles are made out of tin, what are fog horns made out of?’ I was speechless for a tiny moment and then replied, ‘fog.’ There was a pause; then Cliff said, ‘You are a mathematician!’”

So this was a fun anecdote in the story, but my immediate reaction (ex-physicist that I am) was, "But of course everyone would say 'fog', wouldn't they?"

I immediately asked two people, and they both looked puzzled and said nothing.

Is this actually a good distinguishing test? Please, HN, try this on your friends and see if it's true!
Am I the only one who expected a command-line interface with ascii graphics?
> to a safe and healthy life.

Huxley was right, we have come to love the world we live in
The idea of the US "turning into a third world country with a Gucci belt" is just a caricature; you are taking it extremely literally and I'm not sure why. But assuming large amounts of the population believed this to be a fact, this evidence from the website is not significant whatsoever. It's imperfect and insignificant. Any meaning you extract from it would be the equivalent of obtaining a desired trend from a plot full of randomly placed dots.
What Happened to GE?
We can be sensitive about edge cases, but we don't generalize from them.

Actual intersex conditions occur at a rate of approximately 0.018%. [1] This is a pathology, not a third category.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476264/
Germany does well because there is a fairly low level of unemployment, and unions have board representation = they get ALL the financials = they know when things are good and bad, and by general cross industry co-operation only ask for wage increases when the company can afford it. There have been occasions where wages went down - for the good of the company. Similar to Japanese unions.
In addition, the spread between the lowest wages and the average is small by US standards, so even the lower paid people can get by OK. In the USA the unions demand beyond what the companies can afford = the US auto and machine tool business was exported to Taiwan, Japan, Korea and now China - whose quality gets better every year.
See what tunnel diggers and crane operators get in New York if you want a shock and an answer to why US subways and highrises cost so much (as well as land costs) and corporate real estate rent extortion = where the next crash will come from as business taxes are applied to corporate rentals for residences.
Nerds love terrible analogies for some reason, yours is much better.
It sounds like a place where "hero" PM's who know how to navigate the system and attract buy-in would do well.
> Just start shit. That's the battle.

In my experience, even after starting, some things just remain difficult. No matter how long I manage to keep momentum, that inner voice keeps saying: "This is hard. This is boring. This is time consuming. This is boring. This is uninteresting. I want to do something else." It's like rolling a stone up a hill; there is just no momentum to gain.

Sometimes a perspective change can help, but that can be easier said than done.
And the Wilderness Areas.

One of my personal favorites: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_Waters

If you portage in far enough, you can be the only person/people on a lake, with no cell phone service. On the other side of the Canadian border is Quetico Provincial Park, which is a Canadian canoeing wilderness. The million acres of BWCA and 1.2 million acres of Quetico join to form a massive wilderness full of lakes and wildlife. Native Americans left pictographs which are still visible, and French Voyageurs used this area extensively to travel from Canada to Lake Superior. I highly recommend a trip if you ever get the opportunity.
Europe has no true wilderness and is not even in this race. Huge areas of the US are essentially untouched, no visitors, no buildings, no roads, just primal Earth. The Alps are practically suburban in comparison to the Rockies.
Like I said, I may be overly cynical, but I do have a particular reason to believe the largest surveillance capitalism and advertising company in the world might be ignoring my privacy preferences...

(And Apple might be too, but they've got different motivations and incentives around iOS user privacy that Google for Android users...)
As a kid, in the mid 70s, I recall playing with a board similar to the one depicted in the article, purchased for a few coins at a surplus store. It had rows and columns of small modules stacked that way which consisted of one transistor, a few diodes and a bunch of resistors. All modules pretty much the same, but much smaller, with only one transistor and a few other parts, unlike the ones showed in the article. The equivalent circuit was indeed some sort of basic logic gate. Transistors were all TO72 packaged; I can't recall the manufacturer, possibly Motorola or SGS, and showed an unknown label as they were probably high grade parts relabeled for that customer which btw I'm sure wasn't NASA since I'm in central Italy.
I salvaged what I could and ditched the board, so now you know who to blame if a rare piece of computer history has been lost forever:)
I was going to say, 40,000 Americans die every year in car accidents. People get into their cars when they're drunk and when they're so tired that they're nodding off at the wheel. People eat tacos, apply makeup, and text their friends while flying along at 45 miles per hour in a 2000-pound death missile.

I find "cyclists" to be as cringey as everyone else does, but cyclists aren't killing 40,000 people a year. They wear silly outfits and are kinda irritating. As far as sins go, those are pretty small in the grand scheme of things. By and large, when a cyclist acts a fool, they're endangering themselves. When a driver acts a fool, they're endangering everyone else on the road.
Googling isn't the same thing as learning a new skill.

Right, agreed. Search-fu is nearly always necessary, but not equivalent or sufficient.

Of course, there are exceptions. For example if you have somebody else's expertise on tap (in book form, or they're teaching a a class, or they're your best friend, etc) then no need for search-fu.
It's a reminder that these are glyphs, on the same plane as words, aimed at portability.

I think what you are looking for is stamps and png/gifs, which are also supported in most relevant chat platforms these days.
I think I'm just missing what the point of the sentiment is. You brought it up in reply to the failure to adhere to the semver contract.

> Per hyrums law, this would mean that essentially all changes should result in a major version bump, which defeats the purpose.

So, what is the point you want to bring across?

> I think the observation is that this is sort of going to inevitably fail, and people will get mad at you anyway (perhaps more mad than if you didn't have any semver promise to begin with).

Yes, and? It has absolutely zero impact on the applicability of semantic versioning, its purpose, and its utility. Nor do I find this observation particularly novel, or surprising. Are you suggesting to do away with semver, because a patch update given a theoretical "enough usage", will break for someone? We already have that granularity, just lock the version you use to the exact patch, and you're good. That way, you treat any change as a potential braking change, and the end result of this defeatist attitude is covered.

> The ultimate conclusion from this approach is that for a widely enough used api, you will always break someone, so you need to ship a migration story instead of a change, or you need a way to assert that your change won't break any of your users, which short of being able to run all of your dependencies tests isn't possible. This can be achieved in a corporate world, but not in the OSS world. And so yes, one of the fundamental truths of software engineering is that semver is fundamentally broken. It may be the best thing we've got, but it's absolutely not a magic pixie dust. You will still break your dependencies, and your dependencies will still break you, and you should prepare for that, semver or not.

And again, this is just beating the same dead horse. What's the actual point in relation to semantic versioning? Semantic versioning is not "fundamentally broken", that conclusion is ridiculous. Semantic versioning an engineering best practices. These things, and "logical thought experiments" rarely agree with each other. Suggesting this is therefore fundamentally broken, with not a single clue given as to how to improve it, is what I'm referring to as a defeatist attitude. A "best effort" must improved with a "better effort". So far, I've just seen "meeh, what's the point".

> Yes, and? It seems odd to drag someone for marketing themselves, on of all places, hacker news.

I'm not dragging them for marketing themselves. I'm annoyed about the triviality of the "observation" being referred to as a named law, in a contrived attempt at credence. It doesn't help to then see this used as attempting to make a point it has no grounds for. Not every xkcd observation needs to be coined by someone and called a "law".
mrehler did not make that claim.
At the time I'm writing this, the answer got 3 upvotes, 13 downvotes and 1 delete vote since the link has been posted: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/40429822/timeline?filter=Wit...
Huh, never heard that word until now. I guess that's why so many of the road signs have bullet holes.

It's really cool to be able to simply pull over to the side of the road and put up a tent nearby
Show HN: Emojraw – Emoji Drawing
AWS KMS is a regional service but China is still extra special.

With KMS actually the only thing that prevents encrypt/decrypt from anywhere on the Internet is the access control logic of the service. AWS of course hold the private keys for ACM certs too and could provide them upon request. (Side note: the KMS "BYOK" functionality is almost completely useless).

Realistically you should expect any cloud-hosted infrastructure to be fully transparent to relevant authorities. This is usually not a business problem.
There are similar asymmetries in other two-sided matching processes, like hiring or dating. The exact asymmetries may differ, but the high-level framing of asymmetries existing and being something you can either use to your advantage or not holds true.

In general, in any of those processes, I try to balance the symmetry as much as I can, whether I have the advantage or not. I think that just leads to more meaningful longer term matches.
African WhatsApp Modders the Masters of Worldwide Adversarial Interoperability
KITT & Siri start flirting.
"Letter to a Christian Nation" (96 pgs) addressed many of the problems I had with my Christian upbringing and allowed me to finally be comfortable with the idea of giving it up. I have been much happier since reading it.
Why? If I have a website based in the US and I accept PayPal the worst someone in Germany can do to me is dispute the charge and get a refund. I have no presence in Germany nor will I ever set foot there.
The cells are power/range limited to avoid distant cell interference
American National Parks are still very much wilderness landscapes. Even the most touristy of areas can have the barest of amenities.

There are no guard rails at the edge of many popular high points. You can fall off the top off Half-Dome in Yosemite if you’re not careful. Bison will and often do gore people in Yellowstone. Hikers drown in flashfloods all the time.
It's not the ads, it's the site that places them in awkward places. Or worse, the site plays several video ads at once.

Sites can control this.
> Write your code for junior devs in their first week at your company, not for academic journals.

Hard and fast rules about coding style are silly. There's a time and place for clever code, and there's a time and place for verbose and straightforward code.

I write performance-critical code. Juniors shouldn't be mucking about there, because it's performance critical. I also write non-performance-critical code with some effort. I write that stuff for the juniors.

When writing for academic journals, it looks like the stuff I write for juniors. I'll drop a hint here or there so experts can reproduce less-obvious optimizations.
Business, the Octopus Game
It should be clear from the thread's context we're not talking about those sorts of creative endeavors
So...you don't know, right?
Morgan Stanley – return to office or else
Tyler Cowen’s the man to turn to when you want a great little ethnic restaurant in Rockville or Annandale, but panning Kind of Blue as overrated is peak Mercatus Center performative bloviating.

Here, go read Nat Hentoff’s interview with Miles from 1958 instead: https://www.jazzstudiesonline.org/files/jso/resources/pdf/JR... [pdf]
Let's see how deep this rabbit-hole goes
Someone could just walk in and hear the speaker playing ads.
I guess it's matching for 3 blobs separated by dots (ala JWT). Should probably check length and then verify the JWT.
From the US perspective, the markets run at a healthy profit; they surely generate far more in taxes than they require in regulatory expenditures. And the exchanges themselves do much of the policing of companies, so the actual costs are low. Public markets require the same sort of policing as public streets if they're to remain reasonably safe and effective for the public.
What officer was murdered?
For fans of Miles' later period, this project is releasing every live tape of his performances from 1969-1975, in order and with commentary: https://theheatwarps.com/

Some real gems here, most of which are free to download. I admire the level of borderline-obsessive dedication required to keep such a project going!
Hey, nice work on this. Projects like this can be excellent for learning, landing a good job, and trying out new tech.

I was surprised to not see a Github link. Are you planning to open source it?
Reminds me of this article on roman numerals https://kevlinhenney.medium.com/out-of-control-97ed6efa2818
I think it's the opposite. Though the casualties in earlier large conflicts are numerically smaller than compared to WW1/WW2 etc, as a percentage of the population involved, they're higher, no?
I started studying SQL when I was a freshman in high school circa 2000, the book I had was called SQL Queries for Mere Mortals. Is this a play on that, or was that title an homage to something even earlier?
Definitely don't join an agile shop with 2hr ceremony BS meetings
I'm no expert and I've visited Germany only a couple of times (again, only Berlin and Hamburg), but don't they have like an awesome public transportation system? Uber is great, alright, but when subway/train/buses work so good, I don't think Uber is all that necessary.
Ok bud. Whatever you say.
Or just cancel almost all meetings and do async communication. Works great.
experts can edit the stackoverflow answers (assuming their stackoverflow rating is high enough)
I get an error:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'canvas' of null
I’ve long wondered why there isn’t a voluntary open database somewhere for hosts to register their AirBNB name and city and allow people to look up their direct contact details.
Is it my imagination, or do the offerings from Square and Stripe continue to converge?
Egyptian siblings earn five records for hand, foot and arm span size
Ask HN: How do you watch over your kids digital gadgets? (Parental Control)
My son is 10 years old and has online classes. I have been trying to find ways in which I can monitor his activities on Windows 10 laptop and exercise parental control.

To start with, installed https://www.kaspersky.co.in/total-security. It does provide a good view and control over
1) Screen time
2) Searches
3) Websites visited
4) Applications used

Is this good enough?

Which other ways or what else I could do?
This shit blows my fucking mind.
There is a lot that is less exciting than the highlights of a national park, but it's far from "all kinda boring". I've camped at loads of BLM locations and similar public, non-national-park spaces and found many great spots.