skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rewards don't have to be small if everyone in the country participates in the pool through taxes. Maybe not in the billions like in the current system, but plenty big enough to encourage people that have ideas.

The risk part is a problem, I agree. If the risk is larger than the potential reward, it isn't worth it. The risk should
somehow be collectively handled as well.
I doubt any of this is true. If that was the reason, why not demonstrate for the right to visit?

It is often a negative stereotype that gay people want to live in communes.

> Brendan Eich is surprisingly un-cancelled

No, he was cancelled by Mozilla for something that has nothing to do with his work. The company lost a lot of goodwill because of that. Liberals too btw. If you preach tolerance and pull stuff like this, your statements won't have much weight further on.
RISC-V Bytes
> "but she wasn't willing to disagree with the computer"

This mentality is far too common among modern humans. I've suffered these people at banks, bill pay stations, travel situations, etc. It's especially annoying when you're facing them with undeniable evidence that the machine contains mistaken data and they still respond with "I'm sorry, sir. There's nothing I can do. It says right here that you owe {$random-money}." Machines can be wrong, and even more commonly, the people who enter data into those machines can be wrong. But then you get these people who can clearly see that something is wrong, but they refuse to refute what the machine tells them? Why?

I swear, when the machines finally decide humans are obsolete, we'll happily line up and willingly march into the kill-box…
The true extent of America's food monopolies, and who pays the price
Apple's biggest engine for growth is services. Even they are clear about that.
JavaScript library easy draw canvas HTML
Hello everybody. I would like to recommend this library to everyone who uses canvas in html. Here you can very easily draw all the objects, much easier than you are doing now. Here is the github link: https://github.com/fakt309/easycanvas

I would be very grateful if you rate this library.
Careful. Your Apple data is being given away to Chinese dictatorships and the US government.

You don't actually know if your data is given away. We only learn after Apple is caught.
I bought one recently too. Not quite used to it 100% but I am seriously digging it. I get pain in my right hand from typing in particular symbols like {},[],\ etc. that are commonly used in programming and rely way too much on my right pinky. I've mapped them on to keys that are easier to hit on the keypad layer and made that super easy to toggle into. It's a game changer.

I also get a lot of shoulder pain from using a standard keyboard but I'd already resolved that with a split board. I just wish they were cheaper!
what does your b2b contract state? annual terms?
Tech CEOs should stop using sci-fi as a blueprint for humanity’s future in space
It's whatever you want it to be. You can choose to turn up with winning as you're only goal, then spend a couple of sleepless days hammering things together. Personally I take it as an opportunity to play around with silly ideas a bit, but mostly drift around the place chatting with the other people about what they're doing.

Last time I did one I ended up not really attaching myself to a team at all because I had some family issues come up early in the weekend that needed sorting out, and I think that ended up being the most fun I've had at a hackathon - I spent the entire weekend just chatting to people, and occasionally helping out teams with issues they were having where I had some experience. It turned into a mentorthon, which is honestly much more satisfying.
Did Richard Branson go to space? Neil deGrasse Tyson says 'no'
Congrats, that's great news! I imagine it was a bit nerve-wracking to put yourself out there like that, but it's great that it paid off for you.
I think nix already does what you want for search, but the install suggestion is a good idea.

`nix install packagename` would fall outside the current command convention (since `profile` is a command and `install` is a subcommand of profile), so they would have to introduce a new top-level command "install" which is aliased to `profile install`. Given the `nix` command itself is a newer/experimental alternative to `nix-env`, et al., in a seemingly similar spirit to `apt-get/apt-cache` -vs- `apt`, I think creating such an alias would be a very reasonable thing to do.

`nix search packagename` afaik currently does what you (probably) want. It defaults to searching in both `packages.<system>` & `legacyPackages.<system>`, so nixpkgs will be included. I suspect the inclusion of `nixpkgs` in the examples above is actually narrowing the search, possibly for speed: doing `nix search packagename` is currently a bit slow.
Introduction to Functional Programming in Python
This is a nice benefit of not having an upgraded zoom account! All meetings are capped at 40 minutes, which is a perfect amount of time
Yes, but SMTP is a protocol wherein a system opens a connection to another system and says, hey here's a message.

And if that doesn't succeed for some reason, it reliably queues and retries.

That's a push.
On problem is that many of the government interventions on "making college cheaper" had the reverse effect. Loans and grants made students price insensitive (and financial aid disguised the true price). Couple that with the fact that universities compete for students by spending money - nicer facilities, more programs, more administrators/support personnel.

It will be interesting to see how the experiments by Purdue and Texas pan out. Both have initiatives in "affordable" degrees, and both have enough of a brand to be attractive alternatives.
> Pi comes from logic, not nature.

What if logic is different in different universes? Logic is universal... but is it multiversal?
I'd love a dual, absolute/category, scale to make my decisioning easier. If something is green on an absolute scale then it's a smaller problem if I pick a product labeled red on on category scale. But I do know that I shouldn't do that.

Dual scale would make it possible to differentiate between two similar products - an "eco" cotton bag could be orange/green while a single plastic use bag could green/red. This way every one would know that an eco bag is worse than a plastic one unless you use it a lot.

Finally, producers would be motivated to optimise environmental impact of all kinds of products because having a red label would be shameful.
I'm way more impressed by some of those ASCII charts than I am of the SVG conversion. The one that looks like a temperature scale from 2011-2016 is super cool.
Ugh, wish it were 70-75 minutes to account for meetings that run over...

(Please no hate, I'm just being practical - high value conversation can happen in the final minutes and if participants aren't running off to another meeting, then it's best to just give them a few extra minutes)
Diagrams.net Sketch Mode
Picking someone at random off the list

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Beimler_(screenwriter)?wp...

> He attended the University of Southern California, graduating in 1977 with a degree in film production.

> It was eight years before Beimler sold his first script, during which time he earned a living as a documentary cameraman – the same type of work that his father was involved in

lol.
You can even submit your domain to the list [1]! This is useful when your domain has user-alloted subdomains and you want to enforce a stronger subdomain isolation. Ghost.io for example is there because the Ghost Foundation has sent a submission.

[1] https://publicsuffix.org/submit/
Zmanknesset – Israel MKs
The Knesset Time website is an independent website established as a service to the public and presents a kind of "time clock" for Knesset members in Israel.
Similar vibes from that Brennan Lee Mulligan's Skype CEO impression:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI0w_pwZY3E
I've experienced some such issues, too. And indeed, I think it was mouse related, but maybe not so much the mouse itself as the fact that it was too far out.

I've switched to more compact keyboards (a MS sculpt ergonomic) and it went away.
Understanding Youth Sentiments Through Artificial Intelligence
> the ballot language on Prop 22 by the AG was what I would consider literal propaganda.

What does this mean and why aren't you being specific about what you're saying was dirty fighting? You're omitting your argument and just leaving the FUD.
Track/engine building and maintenance is probably more expensive than airports and planes.
> The data in one table would not be related to the data in the other tables. It would not be referentially intact.

The use of "related" in the docs and here in the title of the posting seems to make the typical wrong assumption, that "relational database" refers to the "relation" between "related" tables. However the theory refers to the relation between the tuples aka rows. Thus that the relation is the single table.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relation_(database)
Fragility is when you need a safe space from away from free speech. That's the definition of fragile. Pseudoscientific sociology constructs always gives me a good chuckle.
I think we only have Terms of Service which are being analyzed by our lawyer. We are self-served customers, so there was no separate agreement.

EDIT: It mentions they can charge us Over-Quota Fees when we exceed the quota, but does not say how much that can be.
I don't need it, but I like it
> There is an overall thread amongst "polite" circles of emotional suppression: don't show anger,

Because showing emotions to ones who are not interested in them often leads to net-negative outcomes?

If one person shows anger, people around feel threatened, and based on their nature respond with fear or anger. If people need to have a discussion to find some solution to the conflict, it is much better if they do not feel threatened.

Even if there is no conflict showing unwelcome emotions is like throwing garbage to neighbors' gardens. You would feel better, but then other need to deal with that.
Tourism Industry
I think Russia is overrated. They certainly are high on the aggressive level, but that doesn't make them stronger when push comes to shove.
Ok, apparently flagging can lead to automatic removal, I understand that now. But how exactly? It's not explained anywhere. How many flags are needed for a submission to get auto-removed?

>and it takes very little effort to flag an article, by design.

I'm sure I don't have to tell anyone on HN how such a design can be easily abused. A single entity could get undesirable submissions removed by running multiple accounts.
> but I do not miss having to switch batteries

Wow, how much do you type? Mine last more than a year.

Actually, the batteries it came with only ran out last week and I thought the keyboard itself was dead, since it happened all of a sudden after I moved apartments.
"Compilers are better now" is a perennial claim. There are lots of regularly-structured problems where this approach can be fast. The lessons of VLIW, Itanium, and compilers for parallel machines, however, are that on irregular codes it doesn't matter how much time or effort you put into compilation, because at compile time you have less information than at runtime, and that's a critical disadvantage. At compile time you can't see the runtime data dependences, and your generated code must conservatively assume dependences exist. Handling it at runtime, hardware can see the actual dependences and that's what enables it to beat the "smart compiler, simple hardware" approach on a lot of real-world use cases.
A slightly orthogonal way to see this debate is that the standards that became dominant (tcp/ip, http, html, cookies, smtp, js, etc) became that way specifically because they were inferior in specific ways, such as privacy. This gave the opportunity to build varying levels of user exploitation into any desirable application without explicit consent or decision to pay for it. An Internet built on superior user-empowering technologies (there were and are plenty) would never have attracted the amount of investment that the exploitive web did. If the main metric that matters is growth, it doesn’t matter where it comes from; even highly exploitive use cases like spam and scams were some of the most aggressive accelerators of early usage.
> Since this is possible, is it also possible (and performant) to convert something like Java or rust or c# to performant JavaScript and get the full power of a strongly typed language?

It is possible! Java has a few compilers (TeaVM, Google Web Toolkit, JSweet). Rust is usually compiled to WASM (like C and C++). I'm not sure about C#, but F# has Fable. OCaml has two, js_of_ocaml and Rescript (formerly Bucklescript).
That sounds really horrible. ..so they just snatch people up and abuse them on any slight pretext, depriving them of even water for days?

That seems bad enough like someone should've tried to fix it by now. I guess there'd be issues making it difficult to improve?
It was indeed in jest! Wendover's videos have been consistently increasing in quality over the years. The amount of research that goes into each one is phenomenal. So much so that lately if I ever come across any aviation topic on the internet, there's already a Wendover video about it. :)
No, if Amazon was afraid they would have changed things.

Amazon will have run the numbers, they'll have an elastic pay scale to respond with if things go downhill.
I hate hearing the 'everything just works', because it 'just works' until it doesn't. Apple users use the same term until their software no longer just works.
Unsurprisingly, like most such questions, the effective answer is: "Define π"
For women, remote work is a blessing and a curse
> USA does this all the time. They do it to criminals, but if Iran considers this author a criminal then the kidnap part is not really an issue -

It's criminal because it targeted an American citizen, on American soil. Why isn't that so hard to get? It wouldn't be criminal if it happened in Teheran, since that would be under a different sovereignty.
In a company where everyone is working from home Meet is used for much more than meetings - we regularly use it for pair programming which can run all day, and product development workshops which are very hard to fit into a single hour. Way back when I even once used it as the only remote employee in an otherwise co-located office as a telepresence solution, with a constantly open call to the main office so that people didn't forget I existed (protip: don't be the only remote employee in a colocated company).
Nice, I'm too more impressed by the txt format of graphs.

Is there a tool to convert SVG back to text graph? That would help text-based file as document a lot.
https://help.libreoffice.org/6.3/en-US/text/sbasic/python/py...
But now they changed it so it always controls the media volume by default on Android.
If your intention is to mimic the sun, the light source outside the window must be much farther away than it is. I also always made its light more yellow and the ambient light blue-ish, but that'd be radiating from the outside.
These are all jokes except the iPhone randomly included which is real. Am I missing something?
Colleges have already adapted - they've widened the net, looking for rich parents globally. They admit more foreign students, who pay full rate. That's particularly controversial for public schools because of taxpayer funding.
Diane is basically running the business now and the vision is fairly clear at his point. I doubt that will be happening for meet. Google is organizing itself around key verticals (websearch, cloud, media, office/collab, and devices). Meet is a key feature for their office suite.
It is very popular with smaller companies that already pay for gsuite where I am in Colombia. It is well integrated out of the box with the tools you are already using.

In our case we use Meet for around 95% of day to day calls. Zoom for more conference style calls.

We have a diverse mix of operating systems, and it least in my experience Meet is the one that works best in browsers by far. Especially since you don't have to jump trough hoops actually using the browser version.
I was not disagreeing, merely providing additional information. I have edited to clarify.
Meet, until April or so last year, was always a part of the paid Google Workspace product. They only just turned on actual free access to people without Workspace accounts.

Overall its probably one of Google's best products IMO. It has enough functionality to be useful, but in general just gets out of your way and lets you get on with talking to people.
> A persistent connection has a cost.

are you sure? specifically, are you sure a persistent connection has _more_ of a cost than repeatedly re-establishing a connection & TLS, etc.?

in terms of energy costs alone, DNS resolution, establishing routes, generating cryptographic session keys, etc. it's definitely not as cheap.

in terms of today's computation power, the "memory" costs of maintaining a connection are minuscule, and the performance "penalties" are negligible.

example: lets say you have 50k event subscribers. if nothing happens, then, aside from a few TCP keepalives (which are not strictly speaking required, and can happen very infrequently), no traffic moves. if instead you have polling once every second, then that's nearly ~13-14 connections a second, each one with at least 4 round trips of traffic. that's a measurable amount of load.
Afaik for the WebAssembly MVP, the goal was to have a simple, efficient compile target - therefore only integers and floats. To make wasm more useful & easier to integrate, the plan calls for interface types[0], which allow both accessing complex (JS) objects and calling browser APIs.

[0] https://github.com/WebAssembly/interface-types/blob/master/p...
I wouldn't sell the financial analysts short. Pandas was developed by financial analysts to assist in their routine analytics work.
WebAssembly's purpose was never to replace JavaScript but only to speed up certain parts of a website/app.
Even a 60 minute cap is generous. If they made it 75 minutes why would anyone ever pay for it? The point of the cap is to be annoying enough to temp and upgrade without making the service unusable.
Will one of the benefits be absence of copious amounts of highly inflammable liquid on it in the event of crashes?
Ask HN: What business course is recommended to manage a multi-million $ company?
This is for someone who is very experienced and technically proficient, and with hard-work and enterprise has worked all the way to the top. The person was asked last year to manage and grow the whole multi-million dollar fashion retail vertical and has been given a free hand on everything (except finance that the parent company wants an MBA to handle). The person now feels a bit lost and overwhelmed in the world of Excel, reports and charts and feels their performance is not upto par because of the high learning curve in keeping up with corporate jargons.
You, sir, are doing God's work.
State of QUIC and HTTP/3 in Nginx (with nice eBPF use case)
Mandelbrot Coastlines and Crashes
Unfortunately it's turtles all the way down (up?) - should they ignore the computer and make a mistake, they no doubt will face their employer confronting them with 'the computer told you so and you flagrantly ignored it'.

The recently uncovered UK post office accounting scandal goes to show that the computer is assumed correct by default!
Does anyone know if CSPs can be managed via supplier agreements? I’ve always assumed it’s a commodity service and as such there are standard T&Cs, TOS etc. Certainly those in the financial sector wish to manage other types of supplier risk in that way where possible.
> vaccines in general are "perfectly safe"

I don't think anyone has ever said that, have they? They've said things like "vaccines are pretty safe" and "the risk of something going wrong is tiny compared with the risk of being unvaccinated", sure, but I doubt any medical professional has said "perfectly safe"?

> Those are not good numbers because they are drastically higher than would be expected for a vaccine.

Probably the smallpox vaccination program is the only one even vaguely comparable in size to this and, yeah, that had many fewer deaths (68 in the US in 10 years, I think, but I couldn't find out how many vaccinations were actually done.)

But then smallpox is a much easier thing to a) spot, b) treat, c) isolate people from, and d) create a vaccine for.

> Consider that US all cause mortality for the under 65s is still seriously above the expected baseline

Do you have a URL for that?
would a graphical highlight of the changes on the images help?
For me a hackethon is about having fun. Period. In my company I organized multiple hackethons. As soon as Corona is less of an issue I will organize the next. I just rent a nice place for a weekend and we all come with our laptop and code in the weekend. And if you don't want to code; that's fine too. Once a colleague of mine was improving his rc airplane. We all watched him fly it. Some of us like to cook as well so that option is also on the table (pun intended).
Won't batteries be a problem now?
I tried a Maltron keyboard (very similar to Kinesis Advantage) and loved the concave key wells - its the only keyboard I've ever had that I could confidently hit the number and FN keys without looking. Only reason I didn't buy it was because the hand separation was not large enough (shoulders are my big problem area ergonomically) so I would love a fully split Maltron/Kinesis.

For that upcoming split Kinesis, I really hope the cable is longer than it appears in that tweet photo so that the two halves can be moved far enough apart.
so this sounds like they are fully in the right here (ethics and pricing aside) - you have no formal contract or locked in pricing, and can be dropped or changed basically month to month.
Unfortunately it takes forever to load for me on a mobile phone and is pretty unreadable once loaded to the page margins and font size.
Wondering Where Your Data Is? It’s Probably Chilling on a Hard Disk
Thanks for pointing this out and I'll update the homepage accordingly. You're right about the sustainability challenge though!
Probably because people's livelihoods depend on employment and they have much less power on the markets as individuals than companies.
https://archive.is/UjYeV
Not sure the government needs to be involved at all. Purdue has an income-based repayment program. It's not a loan - technically it's an income sharing agreement. A sophomore, junior, or senior receives an amount, say $10,000, and agrees to repay 4% of gross salary for 100 months after graduation.
Somehow the really large MegaCorp I work at has Python, Anaconda3, and Pycharm. I was surprised and have been using it to automate some mundane work I have to do.
I could vaguely imagine someone wanting to snag the domain from the original dev for fifty bucks and spin up a site to ‘save reddit videos... if you give us your phone number’.
Remember: we're talking about metropolitan police, a force in our society that discriminates against high IQ applicants.
Can someone explain the iPhone one? I've never had an iPhone, it looks just like a simple slider, I don't see the problem. Is the gif not playing for me?
Portrait mode DOOM for PC compatibles
Agree. This is why there is so much MS Access stuff out there. It came as part of the MS Office suite so office workers had it on their desktop and could use it without having to IT and work their way up the priority queue.

VBA is terrible, but it is the only programming-like option for most office workers outside of IT/Engineering