skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And such programs can and will be downloaded from disreputable sites packed with malware and other junk, because the user needs that file. The great thing of having this stuff concentrated in a single program is that at least you have only one vendor relationship to consider.
Space-Cadet Keyboard
Thanks! Note taken...
Well, his post is on GCP (Google Cloud Platform) Podcast, so there might have been a discount from Google.
That's funny - I did't notice myself. No idea it was removed
Exactly. The fact that “reinforcements” exist proves that the manufacturers know that the product design is bogus.
I dealt with this when I was younger and built custom cars. Every car builder I learned from has, so I wasn't surprised when the same thing happened after I made my first "app".

The most common denominators are they have nothing more than a concept in their head (nothing on paper, no artistic renderings), want you to invest your time making their dream product, promise you'll both get very rich, have no skills to help make it and express no desire to work on learning them, and they'll be the corporate CEO.
Thanks for making me stop and think twice about this.

Very good point.
> by many little gangs largely made up of childhood friends

This is my impression of how most gangs work. Did the Wire give a different impression?
> Pollsters said that when asked why they will not get the vaccine, 90 percent feared the side effects.

so, "side effect", not microchips?

> One in five Americans believe that the U.S. government is using the vaccine to plant microchip tracking devices into people, the survey found.

I think they had to work hard to select a polling group to get that number that high.
Isn't that basically what online restaurant pickup ordering is?

If I order from Chipotle via the app, I don't have to interact with a human at all unless there's an issue with the food. There's a bag on the rack for me to grab.
SQLite Extraction of Oracle Tables: Tools, Methods and Pitfalls
> I wouldn't describe the far left today as having anything to do with its foundations.

I wouldn't describe you as having any useful knowledge of the left (even to the extent of being able to identify the part that is the “far left”.)

> What I've observed is a political group largely held together with

The far left isn’t “held together” at all, but riven with fairly deep internal divisions. Whatever group you see that seems unitary and held together by anything is a much narrower faction than “the far left”, even if it happens to coincidentally overlap with it. In the particular case of the one held together by:

> an obsessive compulsion to root out any element not in line with its own brand of correct thought, which contains a variety of maximalist interpretations on everything from sex and gender to race and institutions.

It’s mostly a fairly narrow vocal largely petit-bourgeois faction of dilettantes inspired mainly by a weird blend of identity politics messages concocted by center-right groups to look progressive while preventing class solidarity occasionally (but not consistently; a lot of them are pretty much exclusively focussed on non-economic-class identity politics) mixed with progressive economic slogans that that are, at best, dubiously compatible with their particular brand of identity politics.

Being extremely generous based on the subset incorporating, however poorly, leftist economic messaging as a component of their platform, one might consider this group to overlap with the far left, but it certainly is not the same as the far left.
I don't buy the narrative of children from single mother homes faring worse due to not having a "father figure". the hardships fared by such children stem from lack of adequate family finances and lack of parental interaction due to overwork. those families need more financial help, not lamenting about "two parents is always better than one"
From older blog post:

"In particular, the license states that if one redistributes a program derived from our work, the corresponding modifications of our sources and all information needed to build that program must be made available. Only after explicitly informing Albert Silver (the author of the net in Fat Fritz 2) of a license violation have matching C++ sources, but not the net weights, been made available. Obviously, we condemn the approach taken."
I'm not sure what you mean by classical wave functions - I've only seen the term 'wave function' used for quantum mechanics. Are you referring to classical wave equations? I'm not sure how the concept of entanglement is supposed to apply to classical waves though.
No, HTTPS with ACME certs protects well against that particular threat model: The CA runs the challenge from their own servers and contacts the registrar directly. That exchange completely bypasses my ISP.

A bad ISP still can intercept my DNS queries and point my browser to an MITM server - but it cannot intercept the CA's query and therefore cannot complete the challenge. So they can't obtain the certificate their MITM proxy would need.

DoH goes one step further (in theory) : When enabled, my own DNS queries are proxied to Cloudflare, so my ISP cant even intercept those anymore.

The downside of ACME is just that if someone manages to manipulate the record that is actually stored at the registrar, they get the ability to stamp themselves valid HTTPS certificates for that domain for free. Doesn't even matter which CA the site owner uses, they can alway get a Let's Encrypt cert that will be accepted by all browsers.
This is what I should have said. This is an excellent reduction of my waffle.
You can use a chrome extension to tag people; this helps you to track people you care about. It is called Social Cat https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/social-cat/hhiomok...
There are lots of perfectly good (well, suited to their purpose, anyway) appliances (as in: pieces of hardware that cost money) out there that have web interfaces that don't speak 100% valid https. In part, this is because achieving fully-valid https on a machine on a local network, without a static domain name, with a machine & network config that you (the vendor) don't fully control, potentially without an Internet connection, and without installing root certs on client devices is, to put it mildly, inconvenient, and used to be even worse.

Getting rid of http or insecure-https support completely would render either them, or your browser, useless, and require that one or the other be replaced.
I use a plugin that shows new comment counts since my last visit and that highlights new comments[0].

HN is beta testing a similar feature. I'd encourage them to add the new comment count as well if they haven't.

[0]https://github.com/insin/hn-comments-owl
> Well, it's the only thing like it in the world! We are the only country that has a highway network (as in, multilane, graded, exits, safety areas, services, etc.) that runs "from sea to shining sea" and top-to-bottom as well. Literally every city in America can be reached from it

No offense, but that sounds so violently American. Do you realize that most of Europe is covered by a network of standardized, multilane highways with exits and services that is much denser than the IHS?
I don't know what you mean. The number of atoms involved in the free will delusion is infintesimal compared to the number of atoms in the universe.

Number of atoms in 8 billion human brains:

about 10^35

number of atoms in the universe

about 10^82

according to search results.

Maybe there are no aliens but homo sapiens are just the first stage of the universe becoming self aware.
Locality strikes again!
Yes, I figured! I found your synopsis to be inspirational

An additional tool I always wanted was to match external - even macroeconomic - events to company risk factors
It means they are in further violation of a license they already disregarded.
Surprising how many people don't know about ftps. FTP with SSL.
FTP is still heavily used in the energy industry too. We upload an enormous amount of minute-by-minute meter data at work via FTP to various energy providers.
Do poor people have breakdowns? Always read about rich or middle class people having breakdowns or burning out. Dude is on a Buddhist retreat and has a meltdown, but I feel like poor people rarely get like this, they just trudge on.
We're in the part of the Rude Goldberg machine where every single domino that falls is triggering a new biblical plague.
For pull, click on threads.

For push, set up https://hnreplies.com/ or a similar site. Will only give you replies and not updated karma counts. (edit: and be aware of linking your email and hacker news username if relevant for you)
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This wouldn't be a problem if "int" was defined as the same size as size_t.

ILP64 causes a lot of problems, most notably needlessly-increased memory usage and, in C, the inconvenience of requesting a 32-bit type when int is 64-bit. It's rather uncommon to actually need the extra 64-bit range except when describing pointer addresses and memory/disk sizes, both of which benefit from an explicit intptr_t/size_t type for readability if nothing else.
The official statement seems pretty hard to parse. Exactly what is "Occupied Palestinian Territory"? Is it any Israeli territory outside the pre-1967 borders? Is it the West Bank and Gaza as a whole? Is it all of Israel? Is it something else?

This seems like a better article which leaves the impression that it's the Israeli settlements, but I'm still a little uncertain: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57893161
"with enhanced functionality that incorporates more of what you see on https://twitter.com/."

Damn. I've just started using TweetDeck a few months ago and I love it. Why do you have to do that?

I've already braced myself for TweetDeck becoming a paid service. But this is much worse.
They didn't, I know they weren't actually doing nothing that whole time but it's been almost 3 years since SpaceShipTwo's first 'space'flight and there was very little happening. SS2 first flew way back in 2010, it's all just moving very slowly until there's a chance for a PR opportunity and I'm not so convinced it won't immediately go back to doing 1-2 test flights a year for a while again after this.
China has also been rapidly expanding its national highway system. It's now larger than the US Interstate System.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressways_of_China
Small code segments may indeed be maintenance free.

If a large codebase that interacts with any other system/code (either through usage of shared libraries, network connection or a common file format) has not changed, that means there's likely technical debt that hans't been addressed (or needed to address).
I'd be shocked if this weren't the case.
Ask HN: What's something that only you might find interesting?
How can 0.0000151 Bitcoin be made more readable? A typographical proposal
> With space flight there is no B to go to.

That not the case. Suborbital space flight of the model BO or Virgin do is, but that simply not generally true.
Our platform is relatively simple so we are able to use Amazon Linux 2 Docker platform.
> (IDK about you, but 3 seconds of googling is easier for me than conducting my own personal polling of people I see out and about)

Information gathered from the Internet doesn't always match my personal spot-checked polls. I was able to call the BTC peak when I noticed that randoms I'd poll were talking about BTC for example, while the internet was damn sure that BTC would keep going up.

When my Bank-teller is able to talk about her Bitcoin "investments", I know we've reached the peak. Besides, people are excited to talk about their viewpoints and its always fascinating to me. (I do visit the banks on occasion still: gotta collects $5 bills and coins and ATMs don't always dispense those)

Its not a lot of effort and yet gets me tons of information. I don't really see any downsides in just doing it on occasion. I'm not like a newspaper reporter or anything (so this isn't my job), but having a quickie pulse on what other people are actually thinking is really helpful in making my own decisions about the world.

This is just the simple "what's the talk around town" sorta thing. Its not hard to start conversations and enjoy another person's point of view.

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Besides, when we start talking about innately political subjects (ex: is the current shortage due to unemployment checks vs the current shortage due to a lack of immigrants??), it helps to do some on-the-grounds fact-checking. Asking random strangers a quickie question every now and then results in far higher quality. Sure, the strangers remain biased according to their own viewpoints, but... there's still huge amounts of information from their perspectives.

And its not always politics. Asking about "hey, what's that food you're eating? Is it good?" is a good way to find new restaurants. Or "When is your next shipment of X coming in?" is a great one to ask in stores, so you know when some hot commodity is shipping (ex: GPUs at Microcenter or PS5 at Target). Its not like the internet knows when the specific Target at my street-corner is getting the next shipment of PS5s.

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What do you think of "X new product" (useful in determining my next stock purchase: is there on-the-ground buzz about the Ford Maverick? Should I buy the stock F??). Etc. etc. There's just always good information to be gained from helpful strangers. And more often than not, I think people are happy to have a bit of smalltalk in the day (as long as you keep it short).
Windows goes to 260 chars, but the underlying system supports something like 64K, which means you can have files on Windows which are largely untouchable by built-in tools (Windows Explorer, file dialogs etc.)
Here's hoping people's behaviour improves, as getting your friend out won't save everyone. It certainly didn't save one Albertan physician [0]

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/red-deer-clinic-doct...
Does anyone have any context or background on this paper and why its just now appearing in HN? Is this the seminal paper on random sampling? Has this recently become contextually relevant for some reason, or just an old gem that people are rediscovering?

Any background info is appreciated!
You're right. I didn't see that text anywhere on the page, but it indeed comes from the title element. It doesn't fit in the tab, but I see it now in the tooltip when I hover over the tab in Firefox.
I wondered the other day how things would behave in node if dependencies were in node_modules.sqlite3 (with posibility to eject to edit if needed).
Those other groups have professional organizations with licensing. Plumbers will almost always refuse to do maintenance work on any work done by an unlicensed person.

.... software/IT just hasn't had people willing to do that.
this argument is used to justify literally every climate hypocrisy, from pro skiers to billionaires on down

"i do X high-carbon thing to bring awareness to the plebs"
I don't have any problem with practicing a seculars form of Buddhism. I have a problem with somehow believing that it is the only way to practice Buddhism. Suzuki removed it from its historical and cultural context, but he wouldn't have acted as though the historical and cultural context didn't exist.
the whole “emergency landing-strip” thing is a myth btw
Stockfish’s lawsuit against Chessbase
I would expect the opposite. As the mechanical stuff becomes cheaper and more automated, the creative work decreases in proportion but increases in absolute terms.
Exactly -- you can't build big projects without stepping on someone's toes. What we really need is equal-opportunity toe-stepping.
I think it's as real as is possible for a piece of fiction to be
You describe that as an analogy, but I always took that to be what it actually is (or at least one very simple example). Are you saying that that is how we interpret our experience intuitively, but we need a more radical account under the various mainstream interpretations of quantum physics (Many Worlds, Copenhagen, etc.)?
Note that interestingly, momentum and position in orthogonal directions do commute and don't have uncertainty.

You can know both a particle position in the x direction and it's momentum in the y direction with 100% certainty. Some intuitive based explanations would give you the wrong impression here.

Another way of looking at it is that momentum operator is equivalent to derivation, and derivation and multiplying by x don't commute: d/dx x - x d/dx = 1.
So, depending on the order in which you measured (first momentum then position, or first position then momentum) you get a different result.
Bill Gates is chasing harder and harder problems, not these guys.
> How is one supposed to know that it is dangerous?

It isn't supposed to be dangerous, but if you dive head first into hardcore "retreats" with unrealistic expectations, that might end up badly, yes.

For starters, if you have to seek recommendations on the Internet, you're probably already several steps detached from the original tradition. Buddhism has an insane amount of breadth: there are west asian flavors and east asian flavors, and there's literally thousands of years of history to go with them. Some forms of practice don't even focus on meditation (for example, as a child, I was largely exposed to ritualistic aspects of the japanese flavor). If you're interested in it as a westerner, it's likely because you've heard of mindfulness in the context of mental health benefits, but that's in large part a western concept bolted on top of the original tradition.

It would be helpful to try to understand where stuff is getting lost in translation. Learning more about the original Buddhist philosophy and its roots can help give more context on things like what enlightenment is supposed to be about (coming to understand what it is is actually kind of the point) and how meditation and mindfulness are supposed to fit in.
As someone who has looked into alternative data business models for the finance industry, this is really awesome to see someone doing this as a company. I was interested to understand how you think about your revenue model? I feel that if your data provides alpha (i.e. selling before other people are aware of the problematic disclosures), as your models become validated within the industry, someone/some firm is going to use it to generate alpha. But then you have a problem where, that one firm that captures most of the value, and takes it from other participants who now lose the value-add of your product.

How do you balance those two sides? I mean it as a potential customer who would love to pay for your product, but want to understand how you prevent this becoming a alpha-generating NLP strategy for one hedge firm who pays the most for it.
A wonderful, wonderful book. Captain Barlennan is a fantastic character. Time to reread this magnificent story.
What’s allowed to count as a cause?
As a fellow person who grew up in DC, it definitely spoils you - I feel surprised every time I have to pay for a museum, especially because the prices are often so high !
Those darn tech workers also don’t work nearly enough hours. 80 hours a week for minimum wage builds character. Of course the more effort you put into build high levels of skill to create profit for someone else, the more you should forego benefit for your family.

</sarcasm>
> It’s not just paranoia, I have a real risk of getting fired from my job for being a centrist. I live in Oakland, CA and it’s a depressing place. I’ve voted for Democratic Party my entire life and most likely continue to do so, but I cannot vote for local democratic leaders in my county.

But why would you keep voting for the same people that are perpetuating this nonsense? Something has to be done to at least start moving the pendulum the other way.
133% increased performance under controlled conditions bores you?
> But first you gotta find the primary sources.

Yeah, and the real primary sources are the companies building and running software. They don't have time or interest in the long term research. And likely they aren't even concerned with their own technical situation 12 months in advance. They just need to "deliver", they think.

So unless you can find some clever way to gather all their data (Sentry, AppSignal, ...?), you will never know what's really happening in most places. Your research will be artificial without that real world data.
Ask HN: What SaaS should I build now 5 years ago?
Weird title because couldn't phrase it better. Assuming some emerging market that lags behind US by 3-4 years. Which are small/medium SaaS platform ideas that can be developed for those markets? or do you have any advise about how I can go about making such list?

I started coding in 2015, don't really know what was happening before. what was still new in 2015?
If not for the reactionspeed of the guy making that video there were two instances already, one where the car suddenly swerved right into another car, another where it aimed for a concrete pillar.

Seriously, watch the video. Human not wanting to die is the default, but should not be a requirement for something labelled 'full self driving'.
That’s the idea with ERP but in practice the deal is: it does all things for all people, still has holes for edge cases, almost always a horrible UI, and the TCO is way over what’s promised after you pay for implementation and support.
> The performance difference arises (we believe) because when working from an SQLite database, the open() and close() system calls are invoked only once, whereas open() and close() are invoked once for each blob when using blobs stored in individual files. It appears that the overhead of calling open() and close() is greater than the overhead of using the database. The size reduction arises from the fact that individual files are padded out to the next multiple of the filesystem block size, whereas the blobs are packed more tightly into an SQLite database.
With the SV housing prices what they are, seems like a hourly worker can't possibly afford a reasonable place to raise a family. Maybe they will end up paying restaurant workers a "hazard" wage and treat it like working on an oil rig. Do a tour of duty for a month at a time, go back to family in a not-insane location.
It will be interesting, depends where jurisdiction falls and how that jurisdiction interprets any alleged damages since GPL content is normally released free of charge.
Funny, I remember doing exactly that and have the same experience with an Oracle database.
The key argument against this is that many of the planned highways were also supposed to go through richer neighborhoods, but never got constructed because the residents of those neighborhoods were able to successfully fight against them.

(For one example, check out the incomplete stub at the eastern terminus of I-70 -- I don't believe the cost of the land was a major factor in that case)
Misapprehension is a function of ignorance. If you're free of trapped priors, you'll eventually sort out your misconceptions, as you learn more.

Regarding this particular slice of turkey on the table, since you insist: "[T]his is a misunderstanding that the Buddha himself addressed in the teachings."

The teachings? The teachings a person would likely be exposed to and eventually come up understand, if they've read countless books on the non-secular/Buddhist practice of meditation?

Regardless, if failing to "correctly" understand a bit of squishy woo-woo in Buddhist religion is the difference between safe meditation practice and psychosis/nervous breakdown, then that's all the more alarming.
Ah ok, so these humans were doing it wrong then. If that wasn't part of the plan then why have that feature in the first place.
> GPLv3 is obviously a non-starter for most companies

"Non-starter" is a gross mischaracterization for GPLv3 for most companies, even most software companies, considering there is quite a bit of GPLv3 software in a modern GNU+Linux distro that they likely rely on.
NASA uses Model X to transport astronauts to the launch tower. And Amazon invested in Rivian so Bezos wants to feature that.