skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m still amazed that we allow compilation of so obviously faulty programs.

It’s like you sent a 1kg package through the postal service, and then the recipient gets an envelope containing a piece of cardboard from the original packaging..
And everyone involved is somehow A-OK with all of this.

If your programming language silently converts between types (in any direction), just to accommodate the programmer, instead of them specifying what they actually want to compute, you simply have failed as a programming language designer.
Not GP, but I just expose node-red flows via http and hit those from hass. There's probably a more elegant way, but having them communicate via http also lets me hit the flows via flic buttons or Apple Shortcuts without having to go through hass (which I never let see the public internet).
A "suborbital" trajectory is just an orbit that intersects Earth's surface, and in theory you can make it whatever size and duration you want. I suppose the limit would be when your apogee becomes high enough to be near or beyond Earth's gravitational sphere of influence, which would happen for orbital periods on the order of months.

Practically speaking, if you have enough thrust and delta-v to achieve a suborbital flight of more than a few tens of minutes, you also have the ability to reach orbit, so why bother?
No. Stockfish owns the copyright to their code. You can't copy stockfish code without a license from stockfish. There's no provision in the GPL for some third party to re-grant a GPL license to someone else after their license was terminated.
I've tried deps several times, but I keep coming back to leiningen. Can anyone explain the advantage of using deps to me?

What I want from a build tool is: manage dependencies, starting a repl, running tests, and building a jar.
Leiningen provides me this: lein repl, lein test, lein uberjar. Simple and exactly what I need, and importantly: i can expect that all leiningen projects use the same commands.

Deps can be made to do all these things, and more, but you need to configure it.
Which test runner should I use for tests? Which library should I use to build an uberjar?
Since it's all configurable, I risk that every deps project gets it's own special snowflake build setup, and I need to spend time avoiding this.

Until deps gets a standard way for building and testing, i'm sticking to leiningen.
No, they're breaking with accessing a part of the internet that web browsers used to support, an no one does anymore. They are most certainly not break the web itself. These are different things: if you need FTP (and let's be real: you don't), then as a user you still have TONS of options available to you, and as a host even legacy systems using ancient versions of Apache can already serve file listings as standard web pages. Just turn that on.

Your web browser doesn't need to support FTP. It just needs to support the web. Everything else is a bonus, unless it's a security liability. Then it has no business being in there.
Shouldn't it be possible to make an sql structure and mount it like an FS to find out?
ah, my favorite type of hacker news post: "smart" western person finds a thing he doesn't understand, begins to understand 25% of it, and then decides to "fix it" like it doesn't have centuries of history and learnings around it
I'm build a dedicated observatory in my back yard? how the hell does this help me do better at astronomy?
This is next-level American exceptionalism.

Here's a random bit of French motorway, not radiating from Paris, and a random bit of interstate.

I don't see any difference.

A89
https://maps.app.goo.gl/DfPWAMrsm4J4R3QQ8

I70
https://maps.app.goo.gl/r34MPasPfxn6XTUg6
Ok, thanks for letting me know, I thought the world was sane and had a way to compare CPUs in an apples to apples fashion...
Why is FTP all of a sudden an important interop protocol when we have HTTP, HTTPS, rsync, scp, etc? Why is the browser responsible for maintaining this legacy FTP support when there are command-line utilities and dedicated GUI clients for it?
I would love for directories of small files to be stored this way under ZFS; like infrequently updated tar or zip (no compression) files. (Though the filesystem layer of compression might operate on the whole file, or maybe as two streams, one for the file and one for the index.)
It's notable that proposals for racial equity listed in their Strides never mention that Asians even exist.

https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11...
> Browsers opening an ftp:// link can simply prompt to open it in a different program, much like they did PDFs in the past. (I also don't think a browser should have to be a great PDF renderer, but here we are.)

Except then you have to find, install, and configure that program, which not everybody may be able or willing to do. We have trust browsers, for better or worse, and many people may not be comfortable identifying another trustworthy program to handle FTP downloads (due to malware/adware concerns), especially when they're trying to do something else. Having something in the browser saves users a trust decision.

Also, this feature has been so established that lots of stuff was designed expecting it to work that will now be broken. I also wouldn't be surprised if some FTP sites (say with old drivers) just get taken offline without being migrated, due to this.
Don't forget that airplanes spend their time at altitude where this is much less wind resistance.
Is it a known issue that the filesystem on Windows 10 is so slow? Being 5 times slower than macOS was roughly my experience but I thought there was just something wrong with my Windows laptop. I can't find any benchmark or explanation about this.
Walmart and Amazon raising wages allows them to exercise their huge scale to further crush their competitors.

With their huge efficiencies of scale and deep cash reserves, they are better able to offer higher wages than competitors. During the pandemic, both Walmart and Amazon have seen huge growth. They can continue this growth post-pandemic by squeezing their competitors on wages, and eventually emerging with less competitors.
I can't remember the details of the actual task. A couple years ago we got a request from the business analyst to make a change to the system. Whatever the change was I remember objecting to it, saying we would create issue in the system and there was a better alternative that wouldn't involve constant prod issue fixes (but was a substantial lift and probably not worth the effort). They decided to do it their way and assigned the story to me. Nope, I'm not going to be a part of breaking our system with some BS. I told them I wouldn't work on it for the reasons I stated. They assigned it to someone else and implementated... briefly. The business realized their mistake and rolled it back. They never tried the other implementation because it wasn't enough return on the effort, like I said. If I had been wrong I probably would have been fired. Because I was right, I kept my job but my relationship/rep with the business was shot.

I had a second issue on that same team where the business analyst wanted me to implement an accrual. The requirements didn't match with the stated intent- basically they were calling it an accrual but the requirements wanted snapshots of what would be paid later. I brought up the discrepancy and asked for some clarification. I was told "build it how the I tell you". So I wasted 3 weeks building it out. Then they again realized I was right and had me rebuild it as an actual accrual. No "thanks", no "sorry". Just "We need to build it this other way now".
>It’s just that people are realizing that there are easier minimum wage jobs than working in a kitchen

Exactly, so restaurant owners should raise wages to compensate. There's not a shortage of workers, there's a shortage of owners willing to pay the current market wage.
If you're using the hassOS version of homeassistant, you can activate plugins, and one of those is Node-RED with the necessary integrations.
Is there a machine-readable spec for JPEGs? Did it find interesting bugs and oversights?
> When do we start reexamining these foundations?

Start? The entire labor movement, the public accommodation portion of the civil rights movement, and the rest of the transition from gilded age capitalism to the modern mixed economy has been a process of reexamination of and evolutionary progress from the classic capitalist conception of properry rights. Just as, for that matter, the several centuries of evolution from feudalism and other pre-capitalist economic systems through Enlightenment liberalism to the peak of gilded age capitalism was such a reexamination of pre-capitalist ideas of property rights.
And while you can conceptualize them roughly as successive and mobotonic, both of those are oversimplifications; elements of pre-capitalist patronage-oriented systems were still around past the peak of capitalism, and isolated points of reversions from capitalism to them or to purer capitalist models from their replacements occurred throughout the process and still do.

But the idea that society is sitting on some static foundation of property rights that is waiting for a beginning of a reexamination is...not remotely tenable.
> JR will make up the difference renting space at the new rail stations

This is something I just don't understand about transit design in the US. Why don't we take advantage of the property value increases next to transit?
Some say that he could see his yacht from space on his flight. Some even claim that is the only way to see it in full size all at once.
I've been using TweetDeck for years now. It's one of my favorite ever products.

I'm pissed that they've ignored feature requests for years now and they decide to do this. To completely miss the point and reduce the information density of a product that thrives on density.

I'm just hoping the Better TweetDeck Chrome extension and Tweeten still work.
Well pnpm centralizes it so that you’re only referencing a single location via symlinks and that is a major speed up, I think moving dependencies out of the file system altogether would be nice. I’ve explored the possibility of this, but I think the way snowpack does streaming imports[1] in version 3.0 may be the best solution overall. I haven’t spent much time testing it but it appears to be a major process improvement.

[1] https://michalkuncio.com/how-to-use-snowpack-without-node-mo...
And Firefox didn't even do that. It never included full FTP client functionality; it only supported directory listings and downloads.
"Science"? how is it different from saying "Church"

I really think we are going back to the middle ages, with inquisition tribunals condemning heretics for blasphemous opinions.
It sounds to me like the author had a severe anxiety attack for the first time. And just throwing out a wild guess that they possibly had recently experimented with ayahuasca or some other form of DMT.
Its the same with pilots. Early on only pilots flew at all. Currently anybody who crosses a certain line is considered an astronaut.

There will be some shakeup in the is there clearly is a different between the type of astronaut that is trained to do experiments in space and repair a space station, and somebody who just sits in his seat and lets the space-craft fly.
no, the real omar was unfortunately heterosexual.
It doesn't stop another person redistributing -- but then Chessbase still has no license for the copy they received. It doesn't help them.
Mmm:
https://www.qualys.com/2021/07/20/cve-2021-33909/sequoia-loc...
AFAIK the limit has been lifted since Windows NT (so since the 90s), but only if you use the obscure NT path prefix (\\?\).
Throughout Buddhist history, the contemplative, meditative, "philosophical" Buddhism has always been practiced by a small minority of monks and nuns. Even at the height of Buddhist fervor in the middle of the first millennium, far under 0.5% of the population of, say, China were monastics. (In fact most of those simply had certificates of monkhood that exempted from corvee labor - taxes in the form of labor, and weren't seriously committed to spiritual practice.)

Most Buddhists have been lay followers content to pray at temples to ease their worries and bring good luck, seek the monastics for ceremonies like weddings and funerals, and donate to monasteries to keep their spiritual practices going. The whole of Mahayana Buddhism is far more concerned with the worship of spiritual intercessors called Bodhisattva's, those who have achieved enlightenment but have chosen to stay behind to help devotees. This form of Buddhism constitutes the bulk of religious practice in East and South East Asia. To ignore it in favor of only one strand of Buddhism is like seeing Christianity only through the eyes of Flagellants or Dominican monks or anchorites.
Yeah, really gonna need some numbers here, though, because literally no one I know younger than 40 even knows what FTP is, let alone having used it.

Even Apache 1 can expose dirs over http instead of ftp, there is literally no reason for FTP unless you want uploads. In which case: no you don't, you want sftp at the very least, because you care about the fact that you want data that gets uploaded to be your data, not the data that a MITM trivially changed it to. Which FTP fully allows.
Singapore built one of the world’s biggest floating solar farms
Conventional trains' acceleration profiles are already limited by passenger comfort rather than engineering difficulties. Being able to start and stop much faster isn't helpful if it's already outside maximum operating guidelines.
This right here is something I want to say every time the "people said x, now people say y" paradigm appears. The word "people" in both cases are not the same persons.

It is a shorthand but it always seems like it's designed as a "gotcha". I haven't thought enough about it to figure out what fallacy it entails, just enough to ignore it anytime I see an argument that uses it.
Amortizing the cost would be better, without telling the user. Just charge everyone the same and factor in the cost of the free upgrade to the users with HW2.5. It’s not like this isn’t how it’s done elsewhere. High margin buyers subsidize low margin buyers all the time.
> Oh it's too expensive.

The Chinese probably have some funky calculation that shows it makes the country that much more efficient.

For reference, it takes 4.5 hours to travel from one end of the Netherlands to the other by train. China is 231X larger.

https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/country-size-comparison/neth...
The pandemic has had me appreciating home cooking more. I still eat out occasionally, but for health reasons, I prefer the home cooked meal. Pandemic lasted long enough to shift my preferences long-term.
Companies are already doing this. IR consultants have, allegedly, been advising exec teams to use/not use certain words based on their impact on AI models. It is inevitable.

SEC filings are somewhat more robust because they are a standardized format but the point of many of these frauds, for example SinoForest, was about things which weren't in the document not the things that were (the stuff that was in documents was never a smoking gun...iirc, I remember looking at the stock before it happened...a lot of these Chinese frauds had totally fine numbers though, that was the point).
Apparently "I want a laywer dawg" doesnt count.
Should probably prepend "Ask HN: " to the title for a bit more exposure.
I think it effectively means that for many. Unless there's a really easy-to-follow error page.

I tried chrome on an ftp:// uri, and it just does nothing. I suspect because it was the Windows default app for ftp uri's, then they dropped support, but that didn't change the mapping in Windows.
I actually think space tourism for the rich is very important.

We are entering an age of global techno oligarchy

I want my masters to see the earth from space. Get a feel for the stakes, see the delicate ribbon of air, the vastness of space.

See it as the rare jewel we spent a short time on, and the obligation to treat it well
Are you in the US? If not, let me explain, as a former US Chef, how comp works in the US for FoH employees:

The vast majority (let's call it 99%) of all dining establishments pay whatever their local tipped minimum wage is (for the purpose of this we'll use the Fed min, which is currently 2.13 with a "made whole" rate of 7.25). This means all the owner is on the hook for, is: 7.25 - 2.13 - Declared tip total.

What does this mean? It means sometimes waitstaff will actually have $0 paychecks, because the amount they earned actually outstrips the pay coming from their employer due to their tax burden on declared tips.

Well we can't have that! So what's an enterprising waiter to to? Often, declare as little as possible of their tips. Now you can't get away with ignoring credit card totals (there's a paper trail!) but you damn well better believe that every server (EVERY SERVER) everywhere in the country is doing their best to hide that cash from the tax man. Often times the managers help them with his (because they were usually servers too at some point).

TL;dr- Restaurants aren't paying servers who are making 20/hr. What's going on is that those places charge so much for their dining experience that it drives of tips (in the US, people typically tip as a percentage of their bill, e.g. 20 dollars on a 100 dollar meal is considered standard). It actually makes more sense for a restaurant to raise their prices if they want to their servers to make more money, and it STILL doesn't cost them more.

High end places don't need to pay you more themselves to attract the best talent. There are only so many places in a given area where you can pull in 200-500 dollar nights. If you suck, they will fire you comb through the stack of resumes they have at any given time to find someone who seems likely to not suck.
Don't think it's a problem to give them the code, as long as your own license isn't terminated.

But it would be a breach of copyright for Chessbase to distribute or modify the code, after their license has been terminated.
Me too. Can now drink even 6 cups of decaf daily with no problems. And it tastes exactly as good.
Do they not sell rakes in Russia? /s
> Define "lots"

a ton of government and scientific datasets are provided over FTP
MicroMacro: Crime City Playable Demo
Another vote for "The Phoenix Project" and "The Unicorn Project".

Both of those books are technically fiction but they are incredibly insightful into what goes all around coding and how to optimize those processes.

The characters are very engaging and I found myself relating and taking ideas to improve my work/organization!
I can promise very sincerely that no discount was given on the basis of switching.

In fact; cost did not factor at all.
EU proposes ban on anonymous cryptocurrency transactions
I agree. Creating some friction to encourage the move away from FTP is the right thing to do, for a variety of technical reasons

There are times when HN seems to become very negative to a particular topic. In the past I’ve seen it with Kubernetes, systemd or GCP/AWS. I feel it’s that way with Mozilla/Firefox. More often than not, comments on Mozilla/Firefox are very negative then create a feedback loop of negativity. Obviously subjective, but just what I see
Wrong Models
People become servers because of the tips not in spite of them 9/10 times. Of the servers I've known every single one chose serving because it beat the hell out of the other available low-requirement options they had. Complaining about tipping is easily one of the most counter productive forms of woke culture I encounter on a regular basis.
The skilled work went to the guilds.
It's easy to understand (I'm being a bit hyperbolic) if you can believe that space and time are emergent properties of matter and not required for the underlying physics.
I think the more important question to resolve here is: did AlphaFold change anything with respect to structure prediction that enabled them to make accurate predictions in the complete absence of sequence similarity to proteins with known structure?

My understanding is no, they did the equivalent of template modelling, which uses sequence/structure relationships (that are more subtle than the ones you get from homology modelling).

I'm less interested in reconciling my internal mental model of psp wiht CASPs, than I am in understanding if AF2 is somehow able to get all the necessarily structural constraints through coevolution of amino acid pairs entirely without some (direct or indirect) learned relationship between the sequence similarity to known structures (be it even short fragments like helices).

If they really did do that, and nobody did it before, that's great and I will happily promote the DM work, as it supports what I said when I did CASP: ML and MD will eventually win, although in a way that exploits the rich sequence evolutionary information we have, rather than predominantly by having an accurate force field and good smapling methods.
Gates is doing great work, no doubt.

But are they "hard" problems to solve? Most of the projects Gates takes on have already been solved in the developed world. He's primarily trying to distribute those successes to the developing world.

In any case, we can have both: rich people building the tech of tomorrow, and rich people trying to apply existing tech to the underserved. Both are good; both have utility.
NHRC report: https://youtu.be/E7WLeVxTvus

Blaming Modi for the Gujarat riots.

Even though it is sufficiently proved that the whole progrom was planned and executed by Muslims by burning alive 59 Hindu pilgrims.
I guess I don’t get your point.

Is it that Branson should be moving faster? Taking more risks? Even after a test pilot was killed?

Why should they go faster? Because SpaceX does? Why should everyone copy SpaceX?

Should they do more frequent PR and show incremental developments/achievements? How is that any less of a PR stunt than shooting the CEO into space?

Why are we impressed by SpaceX PR (they don’t have to invest so much in coverage) but not by anything else?
Can you link a picture? I also have Streacom NUC passive cases, but I use those as linux desktop for my kid, I mean why waste a good GPU on a server?
Americans are in the habit of treating all goals as achievable in a systematic manner and to break down all obstacles into simply more things to learn and apply. With materialistic and worldly goals this works very well.

However by ignoring the soft needs of self in favor of the hard needs of ego, one applies the above methodology right up until their psyche falls apart because there's nothing left holding it together. The ouroboros runs out of tail to eat.

And Buddhist tenets, as understood by Westerners, don't help. Anatta, the doctrine of no-self, does not mean you can just ignore the needs of your psyche! It means your self is illusory, constantly changing. Illusions, have rules! They're durable, they don't just go away because you naively decided they don't matter anymore.
You do understand that second-hand Apple devices are being sold and bought every day? Only those where the previous owner was too blasé to turn off the cloud lock can't be sold on.

Which is not Apple's fault.
> Almost everybody skips reading the terms and licenses of things

Yeah, nobody reads this stuff. I've even seen developers fail to understand the implications of the license they're applying to their own code and then get mad when people do things that are allowed.

Most people will not actually go to court over any of this stuff either. Surprising to actually see someone getting sued over licenses nobody reads.
What does this have to do with the number of dead cooks?
IOW high speed rail is not popular.
I suspect that when someone’s website is down it looks bad on them