skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Skimmed quicky through the article, but I think it's worth pointing out that:

> While tweeting with anger, Daniel pointed out that I should tell them kindly and it’ll work out. I’m sure it will. Let’s hope I can make it work first. I don’t like just opening issues. I’d rather send a patch directly.

Sending patches directly is a non-collaborative approach to open source. Issues are made for discussion, and PRs for resolutions; as a matter of fact, some projects state this explicitly, in order to waste maintainers' time with unproductive PRs.

Disliking issues implies (in a way) disliking collaboration. Maintainers who don't respond to issues are unlikely to respond to PRs/patches anyway.

EDIT: Extra context: the maintainers are very responsive to PRs (see history of closed ones¹); writing a rant instead of opening issues and/or PRs is... hm.

¹=https://github.com/TwinProduction/gatus/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3...
I suppose it was inevitable that this method is cheaper than a pure hardware solution. A fast 680x0 can probably be emulated directly in CPLD but it's much less flexible than pushing all the emulation into a pure software solution. The board is a good way to interface the Amiga trapdoor slot to the Raspberry Pi which is so cheap and cheerful that you can easily dedicate it to this single purpose.
Most people already have a credit card or a bank card.

Also at least in the UK I can open a bank account with a utility bill to get a crypto account on any major exchange I need to upload a photo ID usually a passport as well as a proof of address.

Then I need to make a bank transfer and even then the account is still usually limited till some arbitrary time frame has passed or number of transactions have occurred.

Transferring crypto is still much slower than using a card. Get the address / scan the QR code, log into your exchange, do the transfer and then wait until X number of confirmation has passed which can take 20-30 or even more minutes.

This is antithetical to an impulse buy which quite likely how most of the people that pay for Onlyfans and other porn sites get hooked in the first place.
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You should try it and see what it does when you force it to use floats. You may find it interesting in light of your "leaky abstraction" comment. Pyret is designed precisely to make that point clear.
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Delta is weakening vaccines, but it is weakening natural immunity even more.
There's a few negative results journals now - https://www.negative-results.org/ for example.

The only concern I have around a disincentive to not publishing is that in some fields, the peer review process can be quite flawed and effectively hold back worthwhile publications for various reasons - sometimes there's too much of an expectation of specific ingrained methodologies, or an expectation of certain "doctrines" to be adhered to.

There can also be some significant gaps between disciplines, where neither discipline wants to publish the work, as they both feel it belongs in the other discipline, which effectively leaves only the more generic (and usually less prestigious) "any inter-disciplinary research" journals.

That becomes a problem if institutions are focused on publication metrics and venues as a priority, as it means the institutional incentives drive people towards or away from these kinds of work. Ideally we need negative results published in the same venues as positive results (in my view), so those doing this valuable work don't get "relegated" to the negative results journals, which will no doubt get less attention at tenure review time, or from grant funders looking at publications etc.
It's a pretty trivial CRUD app, if you want to be dismissive about the actual tech involved, but if you've read any of the discussion, you'd see that the tech largely isn't what's being discussed here. (And I'll bet the tech stack that powers FB messenger or Snapchat is endlessly fascinating, but you could similarly derisively call those CRUD apps.)

OF is fun to talk about because, well, it's porn. But looking past the empowerment of mostly young women (top earners make O($100,000/month)), OF is of particular interesting to the HN crowd because it exposes a lie: digital money is not the same as physical cash. Having a gatekeeper say what you're allowed to spend your money on, is antithical to freedom. Whiiiiiiiich leads to cryptocurrency, which many a reader here finds interesting.

The other theory that was previously being floated about was FOSTA-SESTA laws, which purports to be against sex trafficking, but ends up hurting the very group it says it's against, sex workers. Those laws are what closed down Craigslist personals and Backpages, for better or worse. (Which, according to sex workers, worse, since it has lead to sex workers being killed.) But see this is also of interest to HN readers because those bad laws mean a founder-CEO could face jail time if the police believes their MVP app/website promotes sex work in a primary way.
> Like Rubenerd said, I am thankful that the mainstream-ness of Linux helped other Unix systems as well, but monocultures are destroying what people have spent years to improve.

The rant leaves out all the important parts. I am curious to see what those reasons are beyond personal pet peeves and if they actually outweight the benefits of standardization so that people can worry about bigger issues.
Wow, that's a great problem. Imagine putting up 10 junk collectors the consist of solar panels a super capacitor and a giant electromagnet-all bundled up in a little space drone. The earth tracks garbage maneuvers the drone near the orbital path of the junk, and when the junk comes close pulses the magnet. The junk decelerates, the drone accelerates and then eventually merge orbits. Junk captured. Onto the next one. As most of the acceleration and deceleration is provided by the kinetic energy of the space junk, the drone needs very little reaction mass as it only has to adjust its angular momentum now and then.
I cultivated connections outside academia–and landed a job
I suspect it’s the journalism step that introduces the error you’re objecting to. Proper scientists* will report their findings and methods. Journalists will tend to write the “Doing X leads to Y in humans” headlines.

Many times the first or first few teams won’t know what the confounding variables are and subsequent research is needed to find them. They should still report their initial “hmm, that’s novel” findings even if it later turns out that it’s explained by confounding variables.

*-No true Scotsman
Poverty leads to fewer social connections and that follows the rest of the outcome.

People in a cohort fall into a bell curve. “Social lubricant” is why the dumb or less capable kid in a rich suburb ends up being some sort of professional in a nebulous job where the smart kid from a poor neighborhood feels like Starbucks or an LPN is a life changing job.
I fly FPV drones too and the batteries suck and this thing seemed to have 40+ minutes of flight time.

Even top of the DJI drones (which are not exactly freestyle/racy) would top out at around 30 minutes.

Not implying aliens, but I wish we had that kind of battery technology in my Nazgul5, if it's a drone they've seen.
Kind of ironic how Jack has been all about Twitter's new decentralized (“Blue Sky”) effort, whilst Twitter under his leadership has followed the path of the worst-behaving centralized services (locking down APIs[1], these nag screens, paywalling dumb features with no option to remove ads/tracking, turning verification from a security feature into a popularity contest).

[1] I remember some of this happening before Jack's return, but still.
This is about ShotSpotter.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ShotSpotter
So there is no grant of copyright to distribute copies of the dependency, but what about useyright? The dependant project just uses the the dependency to run a test. Supposing it didn't distribute it as part of the release, is that still allowable?
There is something very romantic about this - obviously there are other ways to make the trips, but somehow is feels more free and a bit furtive, like if you had to sneak out of town for some reason it's a good thing to know.

I'm in Canada and I can't think of any meaningful distance you could cover in this way. Maybe Toronto-Barrie. Our cities are all so far apart, they are mostly isolated hubs and spokes.

Curious in the US, would there be any regions where you could get anywhere by this method?
They dont work very well, I had two Amazon accounts and changed them to the same email, but I could only log in to one of them. It is very confusing.
Because `def` suggests there is only one kind of thing we're defining (functions), when we could be defining any number of things: functions, type aliases, algebraic datatypes, tests, etc. So we use `fun` for functions, and different keywords (e.g., `examples` for examples) for other things. You should really be questioning why `def` was used for functions.
I find it fascinating that people get into fights over this, just as they did when payment processors forced the deplatforming of conservative political commentators as if it wasn’t the different sides of the same coin. Not only that but people also celebrate it as a sort of victory for their side. Which is why I find it sad that in the end everyone loses and the Internet becomes a bit less free every day.
I can only speak for myself, but i feel that the easiest way for me to communicate my issue is to show how i would fix it. If I can't propose a fix I don't feel like i know enough to raise an issue.
Good point! Still very stable. Good head control!
Zucchini and pine cone pollen in a scanning electron microscope
Had not heard of this. I've tried two different autocompletion systems Coc and YouCompleteMe on vim, and both failed to make it automatical enough.

Maybe if I had the time to figure out this Bear thing I would, but seriously VSCode already with vim -bindings works out of the box so why bother :)
Why are you comparing consoles to phone app stores when the more clear comparison is console app stores to phone app stores? As far as I know, every console manufacturer monopolizes all sales to their platform, which is no different than Apple or Google’s app stores.
I’ve also been doing a lot of experimentation with gpt3 and gptj story generation recently. The problem is that although they always start off with something interesting, they will then begin to ramble, and finally go into an odd repetitive feedback loop. You can break this to some degree by injecting new, human generated content, into the prompt (which is what AI Dungeon does) but two problems always remain: the model has very little memory of context or previous events, and can’t plan into the future. So that while it will produce really interesting events that move the plot forward, it can only do so in response to an event that immediately precedes it. The “story” never finishes and there’s no real plot, it just meanders forward from event to event without development, long term consequences, goals or conclusion. This is because, as mentioned in the article, these models are always backwards looking and they don’t seem to build any kind internal model of the world they’re describing. And, the illusion of creativity is based on carefully constrained randomness, which, with enough brute force and luck, can produce interesting stuff, but can just as easily go off the rails.

There may be some way to carefully design prompts so that models learn how to both summarize all past events, which could then used as context for subsequent events. And also, to train them how produce coherent story summaries and then use those as a nucleus to develop properly structured stories - but we’ll need to investigate :)
Because CC companies (who are being forced by the government) can hold companies and startups in a chokehold until you play by their rules.

And as much crap as crypto gets for its usability, this seems to be a legit opportunity for some cryptocurrency or service to shine through.

(With that said - what's stopping banks from refusing to offer their services to crypto brokers?)
License reads:

> "Copyright Bouke van der Bijl

I do not give anyone permissions to use this tool for any purpose. Don't use it.

I’m not interested in changing this license. Please don’t ask.
"

Used by counter on GitHub is at 464. The way it's worded would imply that they are all violating the license? How can this be enforced for inconsequential small pet projects? Is this really something to worry about, particularly with what (seems to me) to be a sort-of spurious license?
"monoculture"? but, musl vs gcc!
Why do we fart? Ten facts about why we fart
A Mirai is heavier than a Model 3, so that theoretical advantage is not realized in practice.
old school. looks cool to give it a try
Its about binding everyday life with government compliance. Everyone will figure this out sooner or later.
"These prices" being price comparisons between insurers, and "here's why" because prices are sometimes much lower with other plans, or no insurance at all.

Aside from the clickbait title, this is interesting information.
The conflicting license states

>I do not give anyone permissions to use this tool for any purpose. Don't use it.

So no use rights either.
Maybe the operator was on the ridge?
Fake news in academia. They need to do it because their click bait does not drive ad revenue, rather it drives the awarding of grant money. Does the 'educational institution' where the researcher works then have to pay back the grant money? After all, everything in the lab is actually owned by the university and the grant is administered by the university and the university takes a hefty 'management fee'
Honeycomb Is All-In on OpenTelemetry
Or the war on drugs, or the food pyramid, both of which are still happening.
> What happened to traditional bash scripts, chroot profiles and Makefiles?

They're gone, and it's not for the worst. Have you ever tried editing a 1000+ line Makefile or debugging an insanely large bash build script with all these assumptions baked in? Bonus if the shebang requests sh, but it actually needs whatever shell the author has.

Docker is just static linking taken to the max. It's so ubiquitous because it works well. Yes, these Dockerfiles could have been written better, but the equivalent shell files would have been worse.
I failed my 11 plus and ended up at a high school where they didn't even tell us about university. At school, I found bullying and sadistic teachers completely overwhelmed the educational aspects; my only goal was to get through each day without being hassled.

The only circumstances where I would consider supporting streaming would be if it was continuous, and people could move between streams at any point in their education.

Putting all emphasis on a single test, taken on a single day at age 11 is like something out of the hunger games. I still recall breaking down in tears when my headmaster called out "Time's up!" at the end of my 11 plus. I knew I hadn't done very well.

Now I am a professional programmer (the only non-graduate in the company), shipped video games on my own, and have had writing published, so obviously the education system's estimate of my abilities was far from accurate.
Git ships (usually, but technically depending on package I suppose) with 'contrib' stuff in Perl at least (e.g. diff-highlight).

I think more of a barrier if they even considered it would be the FUSE dependency. I mean, of course it uses FUSE, but it makes it Linux and (with a bit of pain) macOS only.
I’m undecided about hydrogen. I don’t see where it is better than just replacing everything with solar and wind, and batteries.

Where is any colour hydrogen superior to that?
>Fat needs energy to maintain itself?

Yes. Stored fat isn't just inert fat, but fatty tissue. Made of cells that need energy to stay alive.
The importance of reading is as much about how it shapes your understanding as remembering discrete facts. I'm not necessarily great at recall of characters names in novels, or specific dates in history, but I'm quite good at abstracting the high level meaning of something. It means that, whilst I may not win as many general knowledge quizzes, my actual understanding of things I read tends to be ok. This strikes me as much more important.

That said, it would still be nice to have better recall of facts for sure.
I have very mixed feelings about this article. If you want to run a non-standard operating system (all the BSDs combined have about 0.3% market share according to https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-bsd) then more power to you, but it should be unsurprising that most OSS developers prioritize bugs or features that impact more of their user base. I applaud the author for their "I'll port it myself" mindset though.

At the same time it does feel like there ought to be a more standardized way of converting packages between operating systems. I look forward to the blog post for next week where they detail how to get it all working.
Solar-powered system extracts drinkable water from “dry” air
"The spikey blobs", which I assume to mean the larger ones, are 100µm in diameter according to a follow-up post [0]. This would make the image a bit over 1mm high and approximately 1.5mm wide.

[0] https://twitter.com/BenKrasnow/status/1429296823844306952
I think the arbitrage opportunity isn’t nearly as large as people imagine. Payment processors aren’t run by ideological zealots who refuse certain transactions on moral grounds. On the contrary, they are ruthless capitalists who’d love to get a slice of any and every multibillion dollar market under the sun.

I’m sure actuaries at MasterCard ran the numbers and found that the risk of accepting payments for live adult content (e.g. high level of chargebacks, extreme legal consequences for processing payments for blatantly illegal material, e.g. child pornography, that’s hard to filter out owing to the transient nature of live streams) far outweighed the benefits. And if you’ll excuse my appeal to authority, I assume those actuaries are correct, given the amount of money such a profit-focused company is walking away from.
A disproportionate percentage of the US elite is also Jewish. Yet they, as a society, seem to have mostly overcome the tensions that have plagued Jews and white non-Jews in Europe for a very long time. What makes you think that the US "melting pot" culture cannot overcome other obstacles (currently IMO mostly exemplified with the rising Asian "elite")
i thought some other similar typing library has already been available. maybe i am wrong. Nice library.
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Large drones are expensive just like any other aircraft.
He is taking about open source projects, where people donate their time and their code for public use.

But that is not enough! It seems they are obligated to write portable code and support all OSes and distributions people happen to use.

I just wrote a small lib to talk to a service I use. I am on macOS and use python 3.9. I suppose it can run I linux or even windows, but I haven touched windows or Linux in 10 years.

Instead of keeping it in my hard drive, I posted it on GitHub. Now people can use it if they want.

If some random guy appears and rant about how dork I am for not making it work with free bsd out of box, I’m pretty sure I’ll be calling names.
Which companies don't discriminate against age?
Any credible research or sources on this?
Docker ecosystem itself is just pure bloat. I already have all the tools to build and use thirdparty software in my host distro. Why should I need another [untrusted] copy.
And then it is GPL with exception for libre software or commercial license.

I hope they have reasonable commercial licensing.
not very sure why you want to write it in sql. But nice project.
You raised the bar that is required. It is more appropriate to look whether iPhones are a dominant brand, not whether they are the only brand.
I felt ‘seen’ as I went through the tweets…

- Starts is London, where I lived for 18 years.

- Goes through Kibworth Beauchamp which is about a mile from where I live now (Beauchamp is pronounced like ‘Beecham’ btw)

- Then to Derby, where I was born and grew up

- Then through Belper, where my first job was

Felt slightly surreal!
https://trimread.org/articles/288
I was thinking the vaccines cause autism debacle, the manufacturing consent on whether or not cigarettes cause cancer, the oil companies holding their climatology research they'd finished in the 70's. But gulf war 2 probably counts too.
I feel this is one of the obscure benefits of a universal income and/or reducing wealth inequality.

Once you accept that every human deserves a basic level of economic comfort, you need to structure society to actually harness their talents.

If you can make your child's life easier by waving a wand and making everyone in your society dumber and/or worse educated, then that would be a terrible temptation, and that's basically what we have now. Imagine a world where the simplest way to your kids and grandkids being healthy and wealthy was to maximize the human potential of the population.

This is the promise of meritocracy, but we seem to already have hit the limits of that, with everyone jockeying to keep other people's kids out of the good schools. Why don't we just build another good school? Oh, because it's not about what they learn, or how much they could learn, it's about dividing the population into winners and losers.
The Eighth Amendment forbids “cruel and unusual” punishment.
Low quality post.

>The first one that came to my mind was Gatus.

Gatus's readme heavily implies it's meant to be run inside Docker, let alone be built inside Docker. The "Deployment" section only lists Docker-based methods, points to an examples tree that only has Docker-based methods, and has a "Using in production" section that redirects to the "Deployment" section. They've clearly intended for it to be run in a Docker, and thus Linux, environment.

>Here’s another one, it’s called statping

The default Makefile target builds Linux binaries, but even from the README one can see that it supports OSX, and within the Makefile one can see OSX-specific targets. Sure there's no FreeBSD target, but the software clearly wants to support more than Linux.

>The developers of the New World Order will assume, always, you are running Linux, as Ubuntu, and you always have Docker.

The developers of the "New World" write software for the OSes they use, same as the old world. Linux users write Linux software. FreeBSD users write FreeBSD software. Only when they cooperate on the same software does that software work on both OSes.

Unix is less portable than the author thinks. Source code usually isn't 100% compatible between any of the BSDs, let alone between FreeBSD and Linux. If I were the author of statping and was asked to support FreeBSD, I would require not just code and makefile support but also CI support to ensure its quality. Why should I be expected to do that on my own instead of a FreeBSD user contributing it?
Next to all the other points, Dockerfiles force you to explicitly list all your dependencies. Makefiles, especially for smaller projects, has a tendency to let you Google header names. That alone is a win for portability in my book.
Incentive alignment would help too. If only there was a socially and legally tractable way to pay teachers like sales reps…