skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is also luck.

Intelligence is genetic, which you have no control over.

Noticing "emerging trends" is also likely to not have been 100% due to Jobs/Gates attentiveness. If you heard about it from a friend of a friend, that's extremely lucky.

This is all also in hindsight. Of course it looks like they knew exactly what they were doing, because they succeeded. Other people were not so lucky.
Debating it is difficult, its a really nuanced topic. It's way too easy for it to devolve into a "you're with us or you're against us" type of argument.

And of course, like you said, deeply entrenched industry leaders have their own interests to protect.

The article isn't meant to be for or against nuclear energy, but rather the pros and cons of deploying a miniature plant
A couple of years ago I inherited a client's static site that was written in React before Next.js took off. It is a real accomplishment to make a static site as unnecessarily unmaintainable and convoluted as that one was.

Part of my screening process is making sure something like that doesn't fall in my lap again. Even static sites aren't safe these days.
Thanks, I was just about to ask.
So much speculation in this thread but I haven't heard anyone ask why Microsoft is requiring this. The article as well as the linked Microsoft specification document does not say. I'm very curious as to why.
We have the best of both worlds: we're migrating to k8s, but on ESXi just because.
America’s workers are exhausted and burned out- some employers are taking notice
As someone on the other side of the table (essentially chief revenue officer for a college)—there is a real dichotomy here: on the one hand, faculty were themselves trained face to face, it’s what we know best, the medium at which we are most proficient. That said, the presence of scaled alternatives makes the educational economics of yesteryear, no longer feasible.

So our choices are:
(1) Cut salaries and tenures or
(2) Scale up

Option (1) is a political third rail. Option (2) comes in many shades of grey: all in with someone like coursera, literally operating at 8x scale relative to traditional endowments, or lightweight (either roll your own or with select niche vendors), say 2x. By fiat, the closer the new medium to the old, the better the early results. Faculty CAN become entirely proficient and effective educators leveraging new technologies at 5c+ scale—but only if their’s a will.

And, in order for the latter to exist, unfortunately it must be accompanied by a strictly positive remuneration, ie it cannot be free.

This isn’t the utopia that MOOCs first promised, but rather the political realities higher Ed finds itself in. For these reasons, I myself have begun paying for professional tutelage when I encounter a pencil of mine in need of sharpening. Despite a career’s worth of mastering the practice of learning, my capabilities (and will?) were insufficient to glean more than the most elementary basics upon enrolling in MOOCs, however I came to learn that I benefited tremendously from personalized feedback in my learning, something AI is still some ways from delivering!
Sorry. That's different kind of amendment. I don't think you've read what people have written to you. You are misunderstanding the subject of "amendment to a bill".

PS Intimating is the wrong word. I think you meant infer instead of imply.
Flying cars will be a reality by 2030, says Hyundai’s Europe chief
> I will not be advising him of that because I share his opinion that the web is fast becoming an application delivery system and not a document reading system with some media additions; in fact many here reading this will say "duh!" because they assume this is a good thing.

I guess I'm one of those "duh" people. I think it already is an application platform/delivery system (has been for a long time), and I think that the ever-evolving web is a good thing.

In college, I had professors literally laugh at me when I said I believed most software was moving toward the internet. Fast-forward to today and I'd say that their actual insults against my chosen direction of software engineering (targeting standards-based web solutions) were not only unprofessional - they were entirely not correct.

Reading this document literally felt like I was hearing their arguments as to "what the internet should be" all over again... And, as someone who embraces the internet, I feel so much of this is regressive. Especially in regards to taking shots at stuff like WebRTC...

Your friend and I differ so much in-that they argue against things like communication, graphics, gaming, etc in the browser where-as I have built a career off of embracing it.

> I'm very sure it's profitable to turn the web into an application platform

The web has been an application platform since ECMA landed in Netscape, and arguably long before that too. The anti-application "content presentation only" take has been something for a long time, and it is not going to happen or we'd still be on the original "Hyper Text Markup Language" spec. The web has always wanted to be more than it's previous spec... it's an ever-evolving standard that is designed to meet the changing needs of it's users in an ever-changing world.

Information, capability, and expression all want to be free.
Prions need to be beta-sheet proteins with specific conformations. They're hard to generate, and certainly are not single-base substitutions - otherwise the biosphere would be riddled with them.
no worse insult than LinkedIn-like :(
That’s correct, ground temp can be way different than air temp (if you’ve lived in a snowy climate, you’ve almost certainly been in storms where the falling snow melted after hitting the ground.)
Certain jurisdictions may have records retention regulations so e.g. search history can be supoenaed in a criminal investigation.
Because most VC founded companies are not about results. They are about virtue signaling to attract even more capital. Profitability has been thrown out of the window long time ago. Success is measured in the stupidest KPIs you can imagine. That's why 9 out of 10 VC founded companies fail. So you need to indoctrinate your minions to make them act accordingly.
This is literally one of the quotes: "Ramaswamy fought a battle with other Google executives to prevent them from mining the search histories of Google users to improve ad-targeting on non-Google sites."

Did you actually read the business insider article that you linked?

Seems like you went into your research with preconceived notions, didn't find anything glaringly against your viewpoint, and proceeded to provide it as evidence for your claims.
For me it's almost certainly the risk to mental health - a lot of founders I know are chronically stressed, anxious or lonely, even the ones doing great work.
Some comments are mentioning the utility but I'd like to offer another opinion: until humanity actually makes decisions based on what's best for the stability of the planet rather than short term gains I'm not sure we should be trusted with such a power.

There are so many helpful things we could do for our planet which aren't even truly disruptive to our economies which we neglect to do for either inertia sake or the profit of existing archaic industries...

Take for example ditching most of our usage of fossil fuels, we have nuclear and other technologies but it would be greatly destabilizing to economies dependent on selling oil. Considering the environmental catastrophe we already face and will face from global warming it's no brainer!

What about protecting important old growth forests? They are a bastion of biodiversity and important for sequestering carbon but since the lumbar shortage drove up the price of wood the importance (not to mention the fact a majority of people don't want that lumber cut) we're going ahead anyways. Check out sales in Alaska and Canada.

In short, what would this be used for? I imagine what ever seems entertaining and marketable which will just get us further from saving ourselves and the planet...
I both love and hate this idea
Ask HN: What do you wish your education system taught you?
Didn't Signal have some weird licence restriction saying that non-official clients are not allowed to connect to official servers?

How does this client bypass it? Can I use it to text a friend who uses the official servers?
Java's is extremely powerful, especially when you include stuff like bytecode-weaving (e.g. AspectJ: https://www.lenar.io/logging-method-invocations-in-java-with...). Which I mostly include because support for it effectively built into the language and all major IDEs, whether it's a run-time or compile-time construct (or a blend of both). And with a sufficiently-complex custom class loader, you can do darn near anything at runtime, as you have control over how the system loads new code.

Android specifically though: an unbelievable number of libraries use reflection at least a little, if not deeply. E.g. the Android UI framework is absolutely riddled with it - ever used XML to inflate views, i.e. the default way to build a UI? That's all based on reflection. Many (many!) of the most-popular libraries use it as well, though the efficiency-minded ones generally use compile-time codegen (annotation processors) where at all possible.
Sure. I 100% think there's a reasonable reading of de Raadt's virtualization take; you don't even have to be charitable to find it. It's just not the take that people who try to dunk with it on message boards are reading.
Talks and Tutorials from 2021 Python Web Conference Released – Six Feet Up
My search engine and aggregator locserendipity.com has not gotten much traction despite many hours of work. Even so, I have learned a lot from working on it, including a working familiarity with multiple languages. I have also learned that others are not as interested in history, puns, classic radio, and other resources.
Android Hidden Codes: All the Custom Dialer Codes and What They Do
> Why are we assuming success already?

I guess a combination of how little side-effects they've had at scale, and of how effective the data shows they are at preventing the first virus and the earlier variants, which is what it was designed for.

I think the uptick expected is with regards to unvaccinated people, and to new variants for the most part. You should also still see a 5% to 10% of cases in vaccinated people, as the vaccines show a range of effectiveness only around the 90%, so an uptick will still occur, but the overall numbers should be much lower in vaccinated people.

To conclude, success is not on our fight against Covid, though you can say it definitely helped a lot, but the vaccine technology has definitely shown success here.
This looks awesome and I hope it succeeds, but I have a tiny nitpick: it's too bad that when they came up with the name they didn't think of a name that sounded good when you say "Just X it": "google it" is basically second nature now, "neeva it" is hard to say/sounds weird
It's worth reading the definition: https://opensource.org/osd

I think this would likely fall foul of clause 6, in that using the software for training ML models would likely be considered a "field of endeavor". It's not the classic application of this clause (ie. "you can't use this software for military purposes", etc), but I think it'd still be covered.

Of course, IANAL, and your lawyer's opinion might differ.
Correlation Analysis 101 in Python – Issue 35 – Data Analysis Journal
signald is a fork of signal-cli
Correlation vs causation.

Just because they "worked hard to this day", doesn't mean that's what caused them to be mega rich.

People just don't like to think that maybe they didn't do anything special to deserve their success.
unfortunately companies don't make interviewing for real design skills a priority. you'll get weeded out because you forgot how to do topographical sort
What's Up with Oral Opinions in Bankruptcy?
The point of APIs and libraries is abstraction: you can understand and use without the details.

(Now... you may argue that apis are often badly designed and implemented... but at least they are trying).
Nissan is intentionally building disposable cars for people of lesser means and credit scores.
How is this true in red southern states like Louisiana, TN etc?
Yes many of these schools exist like 'lambda school' where they siphon your income for x years. Holberton website is filled with dark patterns requiring personal information and logging in to see any fees so if anybody is wondering it's $85k for 2 years, 60+ hours per week (so covering own cost of living for 2 years), and they can siphon your income 17% per month for 42 months so 3.5 years. It's not clear if this is gross or net but it's almost always gross siphoning for these shady schools. There is also absolutely no proof you will be employed after or that anybody will recognize your education as you do not receive credentials.

No regionally accepted credential means don't invest your money at all, ever, no matter what they promise. You go to a plumbing trade school they give you a regionally accepted credential so you can work, never trust these outfits they end up costing the same as a state school so just go to the state school and get your credentials.

If you want to take 2 years off to teach yourself watch MIT free lectures and contribute the entire time to open source software. There you get people auditing your code, experience working as a 'team' or whatever. Nobody takes $85k from you.
I think a better characterization would be "status is not necessarily reciprocal"; the person evaluated for status does not need to be aware of the evaluators, as long as they can leverage the evaluated status itself. I think this is exactly the property that allows for prosthetic status. But it also makes it much more game-able than the real, just-in-time, participatory status.

In the case of a lord, the carrier of status is actually the title than the person who happens to be the lord at that time. Lordship is the technology that attempts to scale the status across time and across a higher number of people. The problem of giving what is ultimately dead-matter so much power is that anyone who can capture it can also use it, regardless of legitimacy. This is a perennial problem woven into literature and philosophy for centuries.

The high-follower-count as a status technology is just a newer, planet scale version of this game, but it is not the ultimate status carrier either. The ultimate status is held by the tech company that can give the follower count its meaning. It is the immediate entity that can convince us to divorce status from its original, participatory meaning and to respond to its reduced form that is the number. It is the almost transparent medium where numbers and attention flow through, all of which it can ultimately can turn into money.
Jung called that "the provisional life" or you could call it "provisional living." Something a lot of dieters and addicts do. "My life'll be swell after I quit heroin tomorrow!" You get to enjoy the security of knowing you're gonna do something about the problem, without the hassle of actually doing it. Quitting is far enough in the future that there's no discomfort from it, but because it's "coming," you can let go of your guilt, relax and enjoy one more fix!
That is surprisingly good contrast. Better than I've ever seen e-ink displays produce, and I have on occasion been looking - I'm a photographer and enjoy hanging my own work, and it would be convenient to do so this way.

On the other hand, for the same price as the 13.3" version and at the same size, I could print and frame approximately 80-100 photos, even from my gallery-quality inkjet - if I take the quality hit and use the HP AIO where the ink is free, that's about 200-250. (At that point it mainly depends on what kind of bulk rate I can get on the frames!)

So the unit economics don't really work out in favor of the ArtFrame here, I feel like. I wish they did!
It's not a licensing restriction, it's a terms of use for their network service. It's also not enforced. Their clients are open source, signal-cli uses a fork of the Android app's client library.
Thank you for mentioning this device! I have been wondering if there was a feature phone + signal!
I don't value YT for how much it costs to run I value it for the videos that people choose to upload for free. I am not sure that it matters much to me that I am downloading videos from an enormous site with massive traffic. Some of the best videos I get from YT have very few views and the uploaders are not looking to financially profit from sharing them. These videos could easily be served from smaller sites with less traffic that do not cost much to run. I get reliable downloads from all over the internet, not just Google servers. I would not complain about YT because I never see any ads, and downloads are relatively easy, but I do think it's a bit myopic to imagine that YT is the only way we could ever have accesss to so much video. I think that was/is inevitable. The internet allows people to share stuff.
> Every self-respecting pentester should have a powerful password cracker in their toolkit, and John the Ripper is simply the best cracker out there.

I was under the (possibly mistaken) impression that hashcat gave JtR a good run for its money, or even firmly surpassed it, particularly when GPUs are available (which one would have available for any serious password cracking attempts)?
If you hold your nose, you get OK Google and co to act as your intermediary.

Home Assistant has one paid for option: "Nabu casa" which includes an intermediated link to Google/Amazon etc. https://www.nabucasa.com/

I have run up several HAs and it keeps on getting better. Yes, each deployment is different but HA delivers because if you use "supervisored" or the hass.io distro you get all the addons out of the box and that includes Node Red with a shed load of batteries included. Adding more is simply a config entry.

I have one customer who needs a way to fire up and shutdown their office PCs when they work from home. These are Catia workstations with some serious grunt that a home machine generally lacks. I deployed HA and LAPS (MS way to deploy local admins on a Windows box.) HA is a VM so it is "free" apart from my time. I recently added an AD account unlock facility involving quite a lot of LDAP triggered by a button press, not to mention a few ACL changes on the AdminSDHolder container.

My home HA controls underfloor heating, makes my doorbell speak to us. It turns a water feature off and on depending on sunup and sundown and a few other things. I've recently added a power meter monitor.

My office one watches windows, doors and lights amongst other things. That was an easy win. When you lock up at the end of the day you check out the panel and it tells you which windows are still open etc and you sort that out. It will also send MQTT messages and SMS my phone if any smoke or water sensors go off on one. We have 40 windows and a quite a few doors in my office. Most doors are defined as fire doors (UK) so they must be shut. We have a NUC style PC with two LG commercial panels attached and a camera for constant video conferencing with a colleague in another country. A NodeRed routine wakes the lot up in the morning and shuts it down at night.

I've barely scratched the surface of what HA and co can do. The real point is that all this stuff is free or nearly free and is documented and there are forums for support.

In HA (finally) Zwave, Zigbee and all the rest are finally all useful and very well supported. You still need to take some care but there are very few sharp edges left. Nowadays all I see is a relentless progress, functionality just keeps on appearing. It's quite something to watch.
I use beets and I use Rekordbox to play music from my controller for DJ'ing. The problem I had was how to use the tags and other fields including custom ones I made from beets in Rekordbox. I made a plugin that takes a template and applies it to the `comments` field of the music file which I can read anywhere.

You can see it here: https://github.com/michaeltoohig/BeetsPluginStructuredCommen...

This joined with a few other plugins allows for really great dynamic playlist building. Then when I'm playing music I can effortlessly choose songs to play together without necessarily even remembering what the song sounds like before starting.

For viewing stats/graphs of your library
https://github.com/adamjakab/BeetsPluginDescribe

Use Essentia open-source music analysis on your files
https://github.com/adamjakab/BeetsPluginXtractor

Create smart playlist from library queries
https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/v1.3.17/plugins/smartplaylis...
I think it is just misuse.

Rainbow colormaps show banding, which is great when you want to have an idea of contour shapes. For example, the most common rainbow colormap, "jet" is great at showing jet engine exhaust plumes, hence the name.
But if the value matter more than the shape, then it is terrible. The same banding that highlight shapes create artificial discontinuities in otherwise smooth data.

Maybe it is like the Comic Sans of color maps. It serves a purpose. In the case of Comic Sans, it was made to give a comic font to the comic characters of Microsoft Bob. And people liked it and used it everywhere, much to the dismay of typographers. "Jet" serves a purpose, but people misuse it because it looks cool.
A country made of "dirt roads in rural Canada" will stop looking like "dirt roads in rural Canada" in short order - no industry, few jobs, and every teenager with high school diploma will try to escape to an industrial nation next door.

You're taking being part of Canada as granted and then complaining that Canada is ruled by the wishes of the majority of Canadians.
> If the paper weren’t laid out in complete grammatical sentences and published in JACS, you’d swear it was the work of a violent lunatic.

Favorite part of a good article. Although it seems to me these experiments need to be repeated, for science.
I actually have an Inkplate at home. The 8 gray shades they support are unfortunately not evenly distributed, which makes it difficult to display images in good quality.

EPDiy looks interesting, though.
Because the populations of their cities and suburbs are red (remember, we're talking at the margins here) to the point that required items on the official blue platform that blue candidates must espouse in order to get blue funding are deal breakers to them (at the margins).

HN always has a wide blind spot for how much the average person's beliefs are mixed and matched from the left and right. Ask the office janitor or delivery truck driver what he/she thinks about abortion and LGBTQ rights and then ask them what they think about min-wage and healthcare. Odds are you'll get points from both parties represented. Red states are reliably red because those people reliably care about things from the red platform more than they care about things from the blue platform and blue states are blue for the same reason.
I am hoping the price of batteries drops so much; buying a new battery for a used electric vechicle is trivial.

I will never go electric if I gave to fork out a huge some of money every 10 years for a battery. Right now, the longevity of batteries is looking better than I anticipated.

(I keep vechicles for 20 plus years, and do all my own maintance, and repair.)
Free API Made by a High Schooler?
Free Api!!!
2021 being the new 1791 makes me very happy.

Please god make King County (Seattle) its own city-state. We've had enough.

Had it with these Federalists. Why did we even rebel if it wasn't to say 'screw you' to Georgie. I'm not interested in replacing a a single king with a panel of busy bodies. I'm interested in 'No Kings'.

Now excuse me while I tend my marijuana farm while being blisteringly drunk.
Are you talking about developing for windows or developing on windows? I'm talking about developing on windows. I don't really care what the apis look like underneath it all. wsl on windows is a lot more intuitive to develop on when you have a target environment of linux compared to something like osx where its almost like linux, but not really at all.