skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think there is an issue here with another side that is worthy of consideration, why not present that other side? Explain how NPR is not a tedious, humorless, trend-following sack of buzzword-dependent fake journalism. Taibbi had a point of view, and laid it out. I don’t see that as a problem. It’s presented as opinion. Of course it’s exaggerated for effect—that’s just good rhetoric. I haven’t heard their broadcast in two years, but I’m sure there must have been at least one non-moronic story mixed in with the typical NPR pablum. I remember hearing some excellent stuff, in past years. I hope it’s not all gone.

EDIT: What I see as his larger point is more interesting than the NPR stuff: how their being lapped by non-traditional media is some kind of unfathomable mystery to the folks at the Times and NPR, but dead obvious to anyone outside their journalism school bubble.
> there are lots of [FTP] servers in place...

Define "lots". Chrome dropped FTP support in late 2020 and basically nobody noticed. The vast majority of the remaining public FTP servers are also accessible over HTTP.

> I would expect Mozilla to advocate for more FTP as a cheap way of distributing files.

In what sense is FTP "cheap"? What makes it any different from HTTP in that regard?
I agree. Likely a quick checkmate in court.
As an outsider it seems Google has a much more academia friendly culture than other megacap tech companies. Guessing the talent which this culture draws are likely more adamant about their work being open sourced.
> A single stop adds much more than five minutes to total transit time. [EDIT: Apparently this doesn't apply to maglev. This could be a game changer for HSR in the American political landscape.]

That is false even for non mag-lev. Do the math as I did: at .7 m/s/s (which is what shinkansen does) it takes less than 90 seconds to get to 300 km/h. That leaves far more time than is needed at the station (1 minute is plenty if the train is designed right). You don't count stop time at all because it averages out with the acceleration.
My whole point is that "EU-talk" is just a convenient scapegoat. It even doesn't matter if EU exists or not. Those crooks like Orban don't need a solid boogeyman, everything is good for them. Be it EU, "Communists", Jews, Roma, gays, trans, immigrants, dwarfs, Serbs, Croats, Albanians, hairy women or aliens, there is always someone else to blame for their own problems.

This is what fuels these guys. The tanking economy of their own doing which leaves citizens poorer and poorer. So they take away the money with one hand, and point to someone else with another.

EU has its own internal problems and huge overhead, and I agree it doesn't help the situation, but blaming EU for Orban's success is naive.
Who was actually using these?
That's a really good question, and I think is better than a plane in this ways:

- No need to wait in any way to out your bags or suitcases. Maybe a fast X-ray scanner where you put them in a side and pick them in the others in about 10 seconds.

- You know and can select where you want to sit precisely during the ticket purchase, unlike AmTrack.

- Due to the previous detail, you can show up to the train door even a minute before leaving without Any problem.

- All trains have a previously programmed leaving and arrival time, so there's no need to wait for traffic control in normal conditions.

With all of this, even with a train and a plane having the same travel duration, in a plane you will have to wait for a lot more of "bureaucracy" than in a train.

All of this is based in personal experiences using mid-distance trains in Spain, and the fast long-distance ones are even better and more comfortable.
I think you’ve missed a couple of details. The loans are provided by square’s ILC, and the checking account is an FDIC insured one with Suffolk bank.

So ‘just like a bank, with the same security’ would be more accurate.
The frustrations you mention are some of the primary reasons we started iggy. There's a lot to this so I'll respond to your concerns one by one.

- You can store our data for thirty days, and that can be extended to month-to-month as long as you have a subscription. (This is covered in the 'SERVICE.' section of our TOS) Just keep in mind it will get stale if not updated on some cadence.
- Price: we are a new startup and inevitably have a lot to learn about pricing, but we will always communicate any pricing changes (This is covered in the "FEES AND PAYMENTS." Section of our TOS)
- We do require attribution, and there are many ways to do this-- happy to chat more about options here. (This is covered in the "CUSTOMER RESPONSIBILITIES." Section of our TOS). To keep in mind, OSM data does come with a license that is still in effect if you are using it via our API. (osm attribution, and share alike when combined with other data, helpful info here: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Licence_and_Lega...).
- You can combine our data w other sources. (Why? Iggy is founded by engineers, data scientists and others who get that this is how data becomes useful.)
- You can share our data on other maps unless otherwise specified (i.e. our datasets that start with 'licensed_'; see dataset-specific info in our data catalog (linked above))

Does that help?
If you have any other questions about this please don't hesitate to reach out to me at lindsay@askiggy.com
No, but there is now, "thanks" to Electron :P

More specifically, HN would use less RAM than VSC would to open a .txt file.

Eh, not bad. not good; we don't know what the new goalpost positions mean yet.
Caretaker vs. Dependent: Pros and Cons
This sounds like a distributed way to award prizes, but it's entirely abstract. What prizes do they plan to award this way, and using what criteria? It's not going to help any projects if they can't anticipate what they might win.
Those are going to require some serious citations. I'm quite sure most desktop GPUs don't run as tiled renderers at least under normal circumstances.
The trick that worked for me is to be absolutely ruthless.

I don't allow myself to bookmark "read later" pages again. I have to options: either I read the page here and now, devoting my full focus and attention, or it's gone forever.

I suggest you read about the power of focus, and also work on the damage that the fear of missing out is causing you. Yes, there are millions of interesting topics and insights out there, but you can only read one at the time. So ask yourself: "if I had to learn about one topic today (or this week), what would that be?". There is no later, there is no tomorrow... it's either now or never!
But you can't write books on running Linux in production, or Apache, or Windows, or Oracle, or... since the book shelves are (not literally but metaphorically) too crowded for yet another one on the subject
Which database?
Wow. I've heard firefighters are typically excited to get a call as opposed to being bored at the station, but how did you feel going into that? At the time, you can't imagine what you're about to see or what you're going to have to do...
Phones of Macron and some French ministers targeted in Pegasus affair
so why do you choose https://mupdf.com/ as the pdf engine? how does it compare to google's pdfium https://opensource.google/projects/pdfium
"While there are no inter-city or inter-province maglev lines yet in China that could make good use of the higher speeds, some cities including Shanghai and Chengdu have started to conduct research."

So, what exactly has been unveiled? The vehicle itself? Yet another test ground (there has been such in Germany since the eighties)? It might be news-worthy that the new train can reach 600km/h, instead of the 450km/h earlier trains could, but ... just barely.
It's complicated, but my understanding is that the government can take things, as long as it actually has plans to use the stuff it takes to help the public. E.g. building dams, highways, etc are the common use cases.

Importantly those highways don't need to be free to use. The government can take land and build a for-profit railway, in conjunction with a private corporation if they want, as long as it was to benefit the public.
Billionaires in space and bottling the overview effect
Check out NCBI, terabytes of public data are being shared on FTP servers. There are other protocols/APIs, but FTP has been a much better experience in many use cases. Those files are also linked all over the place in NCBI pages and elsewhere.
TVG is a badly designed system and so it uses far more time to both at the stop and in acceleration. Try looking at shinkansen for an example of what is should be.
ftp and ftps are alive and well in the enterprise b2b space, but also most people dont use web browsers to access it so /shrug
OP was explicitly making a utilitarian argument, one that did not present relative weights or other assumptions about population size. On that, it failed to make its point, which is what my comment was about.

If you wish to say that most philosophical arguments are people reinforcing their previously held beliefs, I would not argue with you.
Why not rsync, scp, https, or any other plethora of much better alternatives?
> simp

This has rapidly become my least favorite neologism.
From GNU GPL v3:

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The Untamed Rise of Hospital Monopolies
Consumer Reports says Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' software lacks safeguards
Takeoff power is not only needed at takeoff. It is needed at go-around (if the landing is not working out) or in emergencies (what do you think will happen when 1/2 engines quits?)

Catapults address one of those cases, and you die in the other two. No thanks.
Again, though, the 15th in particular just wasn't enforced for about a century in the states concerned. The civil war probably provided impetus to pass these very important amendments, and that, as you say, shouldn't be understated, but they weren't particularly effective in a reasonable timescale. Going back to the original point, more or less the entire south were rogue states to a much greater degree than Hungary, for a very long time.
I’d be interested if anyone here uses this feature, and if so what the use case is?

This decision seems like a no-brainer, but I’ve found I’m always surprised how much use legacy features like this can have.
>> I'm highly skeptical of attempts to quantify the precise relationship between error discovery stage and cost in a way that is generalizable...

I would say universally that bugs found prior to shipping are lower cost (not just cost to fix) than those found after. I've heard from an auto industry friend that over-the-air update capabilities are becoming mandatory for more components. That sounds good because critical fixes can be issued without the cost of a recall (very expensive - if you're a tier 2 supplier you may be out of business). The down side is that the software teams are starting to think they don't actually need to be "done" by launch day, which leads to a bunch of harder to quantify costs.

Another example from a different industry: a bug that caused file import compatibility issues between two versions of the same software. Had that been caught before shipping it would have been no problem to fix. But instead the fix involved trapping an error and rereading the file with a different code path. Also, we didn't realize the change mattered so the file header info was not updated, so we couldn't tell in advance if a file was "old" or "new" when reading it. Once files of both "versions" were in the wild with our customers the simplest (most correct) fix was not possible without braking compatibility.
GPL allows you to use and distribute open-source code as long as you follow certain conditions like open sourcing derivatives under the GPL.

Since Chessbase has not done that, Stockfish devs are no longer allowing Chessbase to use their code.
Absent a license, ChessBase has no right to distribute any of the Stockfish code.

This simply reverts the code to copyrighted content, much like a book.
For all those who tried using Node-RED and couldn't get along with the visual "pipe" paradigm of programming it, Huginn [0] is an excellent alternative.

0. https://github.com/huginn/huginn
Earlier submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27830047

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27838498
rules laws and regulations.... always wanting more control over people.
Demand trial by combat. Opening move, e4.
So, I should be OK to use my most precious asset -- time -- on an investment in a dead-end technology, because that investment could possibly, maybe translate (in some reduced way) to me being able to use a different technology later on that is not a dead-end technology? How about I just invest directly in technologies that have a payback and not try to cram the entirety of all software engineering systems into my brain. I already have an unending amount of things and systems to learn in s/w, why shouldn't I prioritize the learning process towards investments that have the best paybacks.
So... could anyone with experience in the area give an estimate of how much the likelihood of an unstoppable, untraceable "DIY" bioweapon appearing in the next decade has increased thanks to this?
I have long said that we need to work on local transit before we work on HSR, but in truth the two do compliment each other. All cities of any size at all have at least a small amount of useful local transit. Expand the local system and make it useful would be a great investment and HSR will make it more useful.

Most local transit systems are run by people who drive though, and it shows in how bad the majority of the system is.
As long as code connects to other code, it will need to be updated whenever the other code is updated.

Maintenance-free code is a chimera.
Huh, that's worse than I'd have thought; maybe I've just been lucky when I've been in Germany not to hit significant delays.
I think it's fine, so long as people are willing to accept the sky-high cost of living that comes with their policy choices.
Anyone have a beta invite code?
It's been often quoted that Nvidia has switched to tile based for their Desktop renderers, but I haven't seen a source that confirms this. I suspect this is speculation due to changes in raster order that produce side-effects that look tiled even though they aren't.
I wondered whether Node-RED supported complex event processing (CEP), like Siddhi's efficient regexps across non-adjacent events.[1] A quick search turned up node-red-contrib-cep[2], seemingly little used. Perhaps something might be done with node-red-contrib-actionflows[3]? It seems Node-RED's emphasis is perhaps more on integration than analysis?

[1] https://siddhi.io/en/v5.1/docs/query-guide/#pattern
[2] https://github.com/carloszimm/node-red-contrib-cep
[3] https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-actionflows
At this one job I had, the org basically ran on stored procedures. Like thousands of them. So I whipped up a couple of functions and keybindings so if the cursor was on the name of a stored proc, I could surf to it. And then back and so on. Basically, it was a stored proc browser!
[off-topic]

Interestingly, "half a dozen" makes it sound bigger by relating to twelve (12), while "a handful", while closer to the truth, would somehow diminish the impact.

PS: I suggest that "a hanfdful" is closer to the truth, because any value different than 5, 6, 7 could have been named more appropriately.

e.g.
2-3: a couple
4: a handful
5-6: a handful - half a dozen
7: half a dozen (somehow)
8-9: about ten
10: ten
11-12-13: a dozen
...

If I sounds like I'm pointing fingers, see me as a target as well. I want to highlight this as a funny/interesting bias in numbering as a communication technique. If someone in the crowd has a name or reference for it, I'm still curious.
The cancer of Communism 2.0 (s/class/race) has been slowly taking over American institutions. It is so sad to see how people fall for the bait-and-switch keywords of "social justice", "anti-racism", and misunderstanding that equity != equality. Equity by definition leads to authoritarianism, there's just no other way around it. The BLM movement is headed by people who are openly communist and want to abolish the current democratic structures, but people are afraid to criticize it because they are automatically flagged as "racists". This is the good old motte-and-bailey fallacy [0]. They promote extremist agenda, and when pushed back against, they fall back on a milder, more defensible position - "oh, you don't think that black lives matter?".

I do hope that intelligent people will stand up against this nonsense. Western civilization depends on it.

P.S. I am not going to bother using a throwaway account and speak my mind anyway, and I hope that more people do.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy
That's fascinating, thanks so much for sharing, definitely sounds like synesthesia - I've known several people who've had various types of synesthesia, though none that were alphanumerical, it's always fascinating to learn how wildly different people's experiences are with just... living :)

Do you have any interesting color overlaps between letters and numbers? I'm noticing that the fifth letter E (I'm assuming english, apologies if not!) is of a similar shade (purple / blue) as the number five!

One of the canonical tests to "prove" synesthesia is real involved putting a bunch of 5s and Ss randomly on a page and those with synesthesia could quickly distinguish between the two. It's always fascinating that the shape of the letter/number wasn't part (necessarily) of the color sense, and that they still stayed distinct, so just curious if you've noticed any overlaps/influences between letters and numbers or if they tend to tickle a totally different color sense.
Depending on your application, you learn to care very, very deeply about screws and bolts. Screw and bolt failures kill people, and they usually fail in conjunction with other design mistakes. Like software, it's not just one thing and you do need to sweat the details.
One idea I had is when you get a patent approved, you also have to set some money aside for a bounty that is paid to anyone who invalidates the patent through prior art.
Hmm... I'm looking for a cofounder for a (stealth) teledildonics hardware/VR/SaaS subscription platform.
> I think it can be summarized as "recklessness" (i.e. jumping the gun without proper understanding of/regard to foundational concepts)

Well… I tried to approach it properly. You google or look up in wikipedia a bunch of info on Buddhism, then you find most popular authors writing on the topic. You end up with “Zen mind, beginner’s mind” and a few others. None of them tell you it may hurt you, none of them mention doing it on group settings or with teachers, they recommend you starting alone and doing it daily. One of those foundational books (don’t remember which one), recommended doing an hour a day… How is one supposed to know that it is dangerous?
Stockfish has an opportunity to make money here. No?
>Neither category requires a special funding mechanism

Can you elaborate on this? What effective ways are they funded today? Public goods are chronically underfunded even in the western world so alternate ways of funding these projects seem beneficial to everyone.

One major problem is that the internet is global and most public goods funding happens at the nation state level which leaves a giant hole where too little funding exists for species-wide public goods such as climate change, medical research, and anything related to the internet which is all of the public goods like open source libraries, cryptography, and Ethereum projects like clients, base layer contracts, and other open source infrastructure.

Having a public goods funding mechanism at a global scale seems necessary for our increasingly interconnected world.
>Due to Chessbase’s repeated license violations, leading developers of Stockfish have terminated their GPL license with ChessBase permanently. However, ChessBase is ignoring the fact that they no longer have the right to distribute Stockfish, modified or unmodified, as part of their products.

Can they just do that? How can software really be considered free if the maker can later take away your permission to use it?
So to paraphrase: doesn’t matter for developed nations, we don’t have an answer for undeveloped ones.

…doesn’t that suggest it would be worth a billionaire trying to find an answer for the latter? A way to help local farmers feed their population? It seems like an interesting problem space to me. Certainly more interesting than replicating space flights NASA already did decades ago.
I agree with this, but those things have also moved from essentially being artisanal to being more formalized and scientific. I don't think we're at that point in software engineering.
So do your users assume their fans won’t make copies, somehow, of the content and share it?
> You don't need attendants on rail at all - what is there for them to do?

* Check passenger tickets

* Observe the cars & make sure people aren't breaking rules, etc

* Serve food/drink if applicable (e.g. for business class)

And so forth. This is how the KTX and Shinkansen work, and they know what they're doing.
If you are the only one aboard then you are crew.
This is entirely inaccurate. Chessbase is a company, and has been well aware of these licensing issues. They've purposefully renamed and scrubbed OS code to sell it for profit and pass it on as their own.
It was conservatives who blasted us into Iraq.
Ummmm…what the hell?

“The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false,” the manual explains. “Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuates ‘objectivity.’“
Just look in the about/credits link in just about any studio's game or software product and you will see it is standard practice to look over and include licenses as needed of all 3rd party libraries and code bases used in development and credit them as appropriate.

While the end user might be sloppy on checking the license aspect, developers certainly are aware at some stage, especially commercial developers by the time they create or modify their about dialog.
I, for one, would be quite happy to trade FTP for no-Pocket. I sometimes looked at an ftp index through firefox, but my file managers do a perfectly good job too. Anyway I still don't want to give it up until Pocket is erased.
It's not great to go about name-calling like a schoolchild if someone brings up misgivings about a topic you seem to have decided has no room for discussion.
https://archive.is/rywR5
How are you integrating Node-RED into Home Assistant? How does Home Assistant talk to Node-RED? I recently set up Home Assistant (love it) and an MQTT broker for some sensors and I can think of many ways in which Node-RED could also be involved but don't know which is considered canonical.