skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m wondering about numbers for portal actually. It’s hard to believe that it didn’t turn a profit during covid. I had one to talk to my parents (who had one too) and it was too small but it was still great to have. If the big version wasn’t so expensive I would have bought it in a heartbeat for me and my oldies.
You'd think they'd figure out by now how to build a website that doesn't redirect you 50 times and break your back button.
Man time flies. I remember seeing Nubank employees on the conference circuit back when they really were a startup. They were one of the huge early success stories of Clojure. No disrespect ment to Nubank at all, but the point still stands. I'm pretty sure that Datomic was acquired not for their financials, but to secure the future of the technology that such a now-massive company was built on. In a way I feel like Nubank buying Datomic only validates skeptisim of closed-source database companies, that Nubank felt having their database be a closed source product by a company with an uncertain future was an unacceptable risk. Most startups are not going to have the level of success Nubank did and therefor will not have the same options to mitigate the risk of betting on a closed source db.
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Any change to the college admissions process will positively affect some groups and negatively affect others.

There will always be some controversy over whether any change actually makes it fairer or whether the changes were made to achieve a specific outcome.
Report them to who? Not sure there's a US government agency that's interested in getting reports of people having art that offends someone's sense of morality. Maybe some CCP agency is what you're interested in?
His Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology is good and short and findable on the internet as PDF if you're looking for an amuse bouche of Graeber's ideas before tackling Debt
It's interesting at a time OpenAI dropped its robotics branch...
I find that very sad. Talked to a friend today who really want a Quest but didn’t buy one because facebook. I told him to just create a fake account, but heh. People are scared of cookies nowadays.
Off topic: Wow, X's main website[1] is infuriating. The scrolling is very janky with a touchpad, and the carousel at the bottom of the page which highlights projects in a timeline advances way too fast to read it comfortably, and there isn't any obvious way to pause on a slide. Shame, because I was actually interested in learning more about their projects.

[1]: https://x.company
Interviewer: Do you have any questions for us.

Candidate: Will this job require me to violate anyone's privacy.

Hold on, how about this instead.

Candidate: Will this job require me to do anything illegal.

Candidate already knows the answers to these questions. She has no need to ask.

This "the boss made me do it" defense seems to be a recurring comment on HN, perhaps from those with a guilty conscience. But is it really persuasive. It is like asking the reader have empathy for a drug dealer selling fentanyl because "he really needs the money and no one else will hire him".

"I really just want to sell marijuana but the people higher up the chain decided we should sell opiates instead."
Have you read what you wrote yourself?

> ... men will tend to prefer same-sex relationships because they are simpler and more enjoyable

(emphasis mine)

The world's population who agree with this sentiment is usually called "gays." Also, there's nothing wrong with being gay. Don't be like one of those preachers who get caught in bed.
How can a small company complain?

Unless you have tens or hundreds of thousands for a multiyear lawsuit, you're screwed. I recently had a trooper violate my wife's civil rights. I had a lawyer tell me it was a violation, but it wasnt worth standing up for ourselves because the judges don't care about cases unless there was extensive monetary loss.
I’m glad that’s mostly gone from the crypto space, but its because the core maintainers of projects from the first half of the decade either disappear, leave publicly denouncing that attitude, or die.

In the mean time, a lot of people still tinker at their own volition, read technical books, or now learn about blockchain structures in universities, leading to a continual new set of people using blockchains differently or at their fundamental level.
What license to use to prevent AWS et al. from selling my project as a service?
It's addressed in the article. They've clearly thought about it even though we may disagree.
Larry Page 'has been living off-grid on isolated Fijian island for the pandemic'
Just FYI: Your e-mail is not public.

(See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27106893 for some more info.)
How to easily optimize your SEO when hosting your site with Netlify
I’m “unlocking” that this will be dead within 18 months. It will get too hard and bored engineers will head back to Google Corp where the promotion game is better.

I’m in manufacturing. Machinery is highly specialised. Making a generic robot without taking up huge amount of floor space and/or huge leaps in programming is like… Kubernetes being good for hosting your moms book club blog.
. . . Hillary Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta . . . is a long-term associate of the Clintons and was President Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff from 1998 until 2001. Mr Podesta also owns the Podesta Group with his brother Tony, a major lobbying firm and is the Chair of the Center for American Progress (CAP), a Washington DC-based think tank.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/
If you're doing a lot of egress look into AWS Direct Connect (I think GCP has an equivalent too.) That gets you down to $0.02/GB
VR is awesome.
I have the opposite problem... I give money to OpenBSD but can't claim it on my taxes since they're Canadian :-(.
That's a great system, thanks a lot. I inadvertently have a few "Mini" things that are ingrained as habits by now: Learning flash cards about math and electronics every morning. It's spaced repetition, so by now it's usually on around 3-5, which is quickly done. And, if I think about it, brushing teeth is a long standing one. Going to bed without brushing my teeth just feels all kinds of wrong.

Anyway, what a great idea to introduce levels.
I grew up with Full Throttle and like it more than he does (mostly because I really enjoy its aesthetic and humor), but I didn't see a single criticism in his article that wasn't spot on.
My bad, I misunderstood.
“Wind turbines” and “floating wind turbines” are not the same. Floating wind turbines are not as cost effective as their stationary counterparts.
Not really. Micro-hydro is a thing (YouTube is your friend here) but there is surprisingly little energy to be harvested from small rivers with only moderate drops. Great for a someone living off the grid who wants to generate power overnight, but not worth it otherwise.
Larry Page, the son of two Michigan State professors, grew up in East Lansing, Michigan where I live. It truly amazes me that if the story is true he's becoming a Howard Hughes style recluse.
If Perl had offered proper OO without all that convoluted bless stuff, offered proper linting, good data-science libs like pandas, easy concurrency, ergonomical web-frameworks to beat PHP and did not get lost in the "everything will be solved by Perl 6" argument, it could have ruled as the Camel of the Web.

Sadly it was not to be.
I'm a westerner, but lived in a village in Indonesia for 6 weeks. I agree the cost of a base station + monthly fees would be exorbitant for most living in the village as currently priced for the US market. Interesting note though, they had satellite dishes with pirate decoders to watch satellite TV, which gave them access to things like American movies. This is in a place where a cup of coffee was $0.10 and a pack of cigarettes was something like $1. The family I lived with had four kids, the father climbed trees to collect juice to ferment into tuak, which they sold at a roadside stop for something like $0.05/bottle. They also had a small farm. They were able to afford running non-potable water, electricity, TV + satellite dish + decoder, and cheap cell phones with data connections. I'm sure Starlink would be priced in a way that was affordable in the local economy should it get there, and that people that have no other internet options will take it up and join the modern world. I think that will be a net win for society.

Not a direct reply, but Starlink will also enable some interesting scenarios around open internet access in places where it doesn't exist today - like the Middle East during the Arab Spring, or in China, or in North Korea.
Cars are still easier to work on than laptops in relative terms of how many parts are user replaceable relative to the total amount of parts. Regardless, changing the engine is more similar to swapping out the whole motherboard and CPU. Not something the majority of enthusiasts would ever do, but there are some boutique shops that transolant modern hardware into X60 thinkpad chassis.

Anyway, swapping an LS into a modern miata is pretty simple and it integrates well due to everything being CANBUS compatible, after a sufficient amount of adapters is applied.
And much earlier. Mentioned though because that's when they started.
You can actually take the SAT at any age, so I'd say there's no reason to not try and get a high score.
> Riverdale in Toronto, Canada

Other "streetcar suburbs" are listed in:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcar_suburb

There are multiple in Toronto, all of which were not expensive post-WW2 since downtown was mostly considered 'for immigrants' and all the WASPs moved to the car-centric suburbs. Urban living became cool again in the post-1990s, and now Old Toronto is quite pricey.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Toronto
It does look like the statutory maximum for the offenses at issue combined is 280 years

Is that not effectively a life sentence without the possibility of parole? So the point of your response is to point out that he will not get life, but rather, up to 280 years?

Well, no, every rumored problem isn't real, and every real problem isn't experienced by every prisoner at all (much less daily.)

You're trying to argue that he might not experience every horror every day - just some of them, depending on the day? Rapes occur daily in prisons. He might not get raped every day, but he almost certainly will over 280 years in a high security prison (since you claim that is not a life sentence). The rape problem in US prisons is so bad that there is actually a law called PREA - the Prison Rape Elimination Act [1].

I see that pedantry is still alive and well among some on HN.

[1] https://www.prearesourcecenter.org/about/prison-rape-elimina...
The art direction of this game is incredible, puzzles were tough though.
At the time I entered UT Austin, in 1986, they had that 10% policy---it's how I got in. Some programs (nursing and business are the two I remember) had competitive admissions, though, but that was for sophomores or juniors.

The University had 50,000 students at that time. During my time there, they were constantly trying to find a way to reduce that number and succeeded at some point, so the 2009 law may have been a result.
Unless you're Asian, in which case declaring your race will lower your admission chances even relative to white people.
Google used to ask college candidates (I was asked). I don't know if they still do.
I doubt it will end like this for two reason: it’s a money printing machine AND there’s a strong engineering culture. I think fb has more chance to turn like wechat, especially with their move towards payment.
The sanctions imposed by the US government describe explicitly what is and isn’t allowed, and there is a very specific law mentioned in the article.

Griffith was arrested and charged with conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) in November 2019 after he travelled to North Korea to give a talk on blockchain and crypto.

None of this is post facto - he was warned what he was doing violated a law, did it anyway, and is now facing charges for violating that law.
Did you miss the conviction with a 8 month prison sentence a few days ago? Other convictions are in the pipeline.
This looks awesome. For potential real estate investors, how feasible is it to use Sitenna to identify sites that are likely to work well?
Detroit residents are building their own internet
Im from the Netherlands and US education seems to be worst of both socialism and capitalism: lack of choice and sky high prices.

In the Netherlands we have:

Free choice of high school. I grew up in the poorest neighbourhood of the city and I still went to a very decent high school with classmates from all backgrounds.

More and smaller high schools. More choice and competition between schools. Schools are subsidised based on the amount of students they attract.

High school programs have different difficulty levels. Everyone follows a program that matches their academic ability. If you finish the highest level (VWO) you are generally granted access to all universities. American university application feels like a job interview. You have one chance to impress. Dutch (European) university application is like a 6 year internship where you can proof yourself.
Most of the complaints are from astronomers, who aren't taking composite shots, they're taking actual long exposures. Then the repeated passes add up in the exposure.
I agree, re The Three Body Problem. It's a fun story, but not hard sci-fi in the way Stephenson etc are. I also enjoyed the dive into mid-century communist China - it was a jarring, immersive journey into living-memory history I hadn't learned about before.

I think Diamond Age was my favorite overall Stephenson story in terms of both story and neat scifi concepts, but all of them were enjoyable. I agree on Seveneves chars all being forgettable. Dodge (The most recent one) had perhaps the dullest start, but I really liked the Dodge, Corvis, and Daisy characters.
How do you orchestrate or manage your servers currently? And do you employ a in-house solution for it as well?
Alternative to escape in vi and vi-alikes: control-[

I recommend committing this to muscle memory. It takes two fingers, but is more comfortable than reaching for escape on most keyboards.

I prefer mapping caps lock to control rather than to escape, but that's another good alternative. But in any case it's nice to have another option for quitting vim in case something terrible has happened to your escape key, as it sometimes can (sigh) on modern laptops.
Do you, or anyone else here, know how much money Apple saved by offshoring?

I sometimes get it. Then when I hear robots were used, I wonder if it's really necassary to always go to the cheapest labor route.

For years, I held it against Apple for moving manufacturing, but gave up when everyone followed.
We already do those calculations in our heads. We know that many Asians got admitted because they worked very hard, not necessarily because they are very smart or because of good social intelligence. I am sure this affects the way they are perceived in the workforce, the same way people assume things about blacks or women. Usually those assumptions has some basis in reality and as much as you want you can't really control what people think deep down inside, even Stalin couldn't really change it and he used much stricter measurements.
Dicyclohexyl carbodiimine. I used the liquid diisopropyl carbodiimine for 2 years but i wasnt keen on using such a toxic powder
And some birds can mimic voices, for example blackbirds and jays. They often impersonate other birds, or cats.
It's enough to get into any state school, and many people in places like MIT/Harvard/other-here have scores around yours.
You think as part of some larger dragnet it just happened the US Marshals called them the next day?

If it's a a dragnet, they aren't calling about every single post in under 24 hours of it occurring unless the investigating team is absolutely gargantuan.

Your explanation really doesn't make sense because it's the wrong one.
This is deliberate, no?

"This website's agitating negative feelings towards the Federal judiciary! Let's tie them up for three months. It'll fester in their staff's minds. Maybe they'll see it's easier to say nothing in future..."

It's intimidation. I hope they push back harder than just writing about the incident. The initial investigation was entirely meritless.
How was that relevant to the article?
The domain name reminds me of x.com, Elon Musk's 1999 company that became PayPal. It was one of only 3 single letter .com domains. I have a memory that its issuance was a mistake or some sort of strange deal but I can't find any evidence for that now.
Half of automating tomato harvesting was breeding a tomato that could survive the harvesters. (Granted they also taste relatively horrible, but now we all eat them because they are cheap and ubiquitous.)
It's one of the cases where idea is cheap, but the devil is in the details. Executing the idea well is the whole problem.
I took the SAT the first year they added the essay. It wasn’t optional and they had no accommodations for people with disabilities. I would have much rather had a score of 1500/1600 than the dumb 1700/2400 I got.
The Nissan Leaf came out in the same timeframe, simply because the time was ripe for electric vehicles, the technology was in place. We'd still have electric vehicles, but we'd have missed out on the self-driving hype.
I can't remember a single character from Anathem, but its world and some of the scenes are burned into my connectome.
^ this. I would think of snapchat as a competitor to instagram, but not tiktok. You don’t go on tiktok to talk to your friends or see what’s up. Tiktok is the new 9gag rather.
> Meh, I'll use the Mozilla VR OS with uBlock 2040 on it

Adblockers may not work so well in the future, when everything's a binary blob of Web Assembly.
That's true, but in these very specialized fields it can take a decade or two for that to happen.
We actually had a few Pacific Islanders express anxiety with selecting "Asian American/Pacific Islander" because they were worried that identifying as such would subject them to more competition. They were advised to do it anyways.
Anecdote: A senior person at Microsoft that I knew after he left relayed his experience trying to use a Mac at HQ. Balmer threw it across the room during a meeting.
Recipes by themselves aren’t copyrightable. Bullshit stories are.
The means at which we arrive upon AA is even suspect:

A: We want equality, why are white people successful?

B: Clearly because they went to a good college.

C: Okay easy, let’s put the underprivileged into good colleges, that should fix ‘er right up.

It doesn't seem like anybody is interested in solving the hard problem of why underprivileged communities aren’t producing good high school graduates. Maybe it has something to do with, IDK, the fact that they’re under served and underprivileged? Maybe primary education is a more important factor than the name at the top of your college transcript? Maybe good communities produce outstanding colleges and universities, not the other way around? Yet we can’t seem to spend money on primary education or figure out how to help struggling communities. Why is that?
Lots of grocery delivery services do use purpose built warehouses. Stores like Walmart aren't doing that because it would cost a bunch extra vs picking from the stores they already have.

The furniture assembly thing probably doesn't make sense for huge runs, but you could stick one in front of a modest warehouse and build 200 different products on demand.
I don’t know why you were immediately downvoted. This is precisely why places are doing the whole holistic thing which isn’t some mysterious quota thing but giving applicants the ability to show off their talents in whatever their strengths are however they manifest. If you’re bad a standardized testing your app won’t immediately hit the trash. But if you are then by all means put your scores on your application.
> Any change to the college admissions process will positively affect some groups and negatively affect others.

That embeds some really questionable assumptions about “some groups.”
Same here (born in the 70') - I went as far as allowing temporary access by the page, but then concerning the browser itself (Opera on Android in my case) I had only the options to "Allow" or "Deny" access to the camera => I wanted to try this out, but in the end I just couldn't => had to decline :(
>If I were to write about a guy who heard a joke so funny that his heart gave out, I'd be in a real pickle. A real pickle.

Wouldn't that be a figurative/metaphorical pickle? I can't imagine you'd be inside a jar in actual brine and left to ferment.
Clojurescript is at least available at dev time thanks to figwheel.

Vue and React do bring along the whole runtime and allow introspection, but have abstracted away the browser to a great degree.

The problems really break down like this:

Clojurescript: Doesn't run natively in the browser, requires too much tooling, interactive development during development but doesn't make it into production.

React/Vue: layer of abstraction over native browser APIs, also unacceptably large

Svelte: Not available at runtime

Flippantly, the audience is me, but I'm trying to better put into words why I want this. The idea is to get closer to the experience of developing CL with SLIME/Emacs, where you really are poking around on an active living system. I find that form of development to be the most productive, and it seems like the browser + inspector console is a great potential place for such development with the right set of libs. I want a library that is fully available at run time yet small enough that you can send it into production. And I want to to fully embrace web standards for good or ill rather than try and fix the web via layers of abstraction. Last, I want it to have a very minimal surface area so the whole thing fits in your head, think something like Backbone.js where you could read the whole things annotated code in a day and wrap your head around it.

I appreciate your replies, you've helped me at least try and better refine what I'm thinking of.
> having any friends that use it

That’s the point, tiktok is 9gag, instagram is snapchat/facebook/twitter
This kind of drives home the bigger issue though, that grades between two schools look like comparable numbers but aren't.
I'd like the option as thats where they were traded before the transaction space was limited. Counterparty, OMNI... doing that stuff over Lightning Network. Other Layer 2s. The growth of this stuff is limited by bitcoin's current state. It just makes interoperability with the broader Defi space more practical.

Regarding energy, if thats your battle then work on that aspect, there are some influencers aiming to convince miners to create a more energy efficient version of transaction propagation, settled on the Bitcoin network.
Human tactile sensing is still much superior to that of robot hands.
How easy is it to replace the battery--for example, can I carry an extra battery around in my backpack and expect to swap it at a coffee shop, or is it necessary to bring tools / do it on a workbench?
It's funny because in California the SAT is one of the only ways you could basically test into the UC system even if your school didn't offer the required A-G courses.

So you could go to a crappy school, but could show you had a reasonable chance to do well in college and test into the UC system from almost anywhere.
Make sure to initialize with random weights
“Tiktok is a national security threat” hahaha. I miss trump.
Are they a registered non-profit now? I donated when I used OpenBSD but don't think I got a tax receipt, just my name on one of the releases.