skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking not too long ago about how phones are missing an installable os with a clear business plan.

There is the potential(given an unlocked bootloader), to use webusb to allow people flash the OS from an official website.

And maybe at a later day allow install from phone to phone via a cable, as a lot of people nowadays don't have a PC.

The pricing will be tricky though, $5 per install given a large user base, plus maybe some additional features for sale.

That being said, having an OS also means having an appstore, that alone could generate enough revenue to make the OS free.

By OS I mean an Android fork or a fuchsia based OS if the license allows it.
I think we should assume he was talking about LeVar Burton because he's famous for his love of knowledge and beloved by Americans, and very much fits the role and culture of the show. Have you ever seen Reading Rainbow? (Or even TNG?) Everyone's been talking about how apropos that'd be, try googling "LeVar Burton Jeopardy".

If I didn't know better, I'd think you were trying to make this about race.
That is ignoring the trillions of dollar this industry has spend on think tanks for the downplay of climate change, funding of paid for scientific articles to spread fud, funding conservative anti-science parties, lobbying for laws that actively hinder progress in renewable energies, hoarding patents on renewable energies, buying sustainable competitors and killing them.

This is beyond "people don't want to pay more", this is "we could get the same energy but cheaper, but that wouldn't allow the very powerfull to exhauste an available resource to depletion before they move on and leave us all with the externalised costs".
Groundbreaking Virtual (NFT) Museum – Epic VR, No Download
Their margin is approaching 40%. They're basically printing money at this point. It's hilarious how a manufacturer can be so profitable nowadays.
I agree, this makes sense, having O(1) access to all items in a string array seems logical to me, you would also avoid problems with forgetting \n termination like in C.
You can't say "fuck" on the Internet, so he just censored himself in a technically-humorous way.
New study on Delta breakthrough infections shows twice the risk as Alpha
What makes you think the war wasn't won despite pathetic and fumbling actions by leaders and governments? WW2 wasn't a showcase of efficiency and practicality. Ha, my country sent a small contingent (25k) to fight against the Axis in Italy. There were new uniforms made for this expeditionary force. Turns out they chose uniforms that closely matched that of the german uniforms (!).
From a book on this subject: "Another problem in the country's preparation was the production of uniforms similar to those of the German Army. 'They even threw rocks at us in Naples thinking we were the invaders'.”

I thought the rollout of the vaccines in the time it took, with the effectiveness it had, just went to show how the knowledge and technology of vaccines makes it one of the greatest human achievements, ever.
That depends on if someone else gets in. AMD or Intel could if they wanted to - without the expertise it will be hard, but a few expensive years of research and they can get back into it. Hire a few TMSC people.

Or it could be someone completely new. The problem is hard, but solvable.

TMSC does have incentive to keep prices low enough that that doesn't happen. They also have other incentives to treat good customers well (though who the good customers are is an open question)
Many people use Youtube for listening to Music, makes sense to listen to a song more than once :)
The level of hateful, spiteful, and bitter disdain I see in comments across all of Reddit have led me to believe it’s not just popular subs and it’s not even just Reddit: this is where the younger generations in America are right now, emotionally. People are looking for someone or something to judge and hate. It’s not limited to any particular political cohort or socioeconomic strata either. I see it here on HN quite a bit too, even in more anodyne discussions you can read it prowling around the edges of the discourse.

It’s not just that there’s people who make these comments - of course there’s always going to be - but that fact that they’re typically so highly upvoted anywhere there’s a voting/likes system. Anything that attempts to reflect nuance or lower the temperature has no boosters, while anything that reflects the worst, most reductive or least honest take is what bubbles to the top.
> only 40-something percent of the employees said that they felt like their total compensation was fair in the employee engagement survey

I always reflexively lie on these out of a fear that someone will want to talk to me about it.
Nature paywall is on scihub. Just copy the doi.org url.
Too bad we can't pull it off with current technology.
There are so many different varieties of sense of humor. It varies from culture to culture, generation to generation, family to family, and person to person.

It's one thing if a joke is actually harmful, of course. But, beyond that, I'd say that denigrating someone else's way of being whimsical is a specific subspecies of taking yourself too seriously.
> Nvidia might sell a consumer GPU which is immediately resold on the retail market at 100% markup.

The same might be said of event ticket resellers making a big markup.

But the reality is that, in the case of event tickets at least, it's very common for the original sellers and the resellers either to be secretly the same party, or at least have some kind of profit sharing agreement.

It's simply that the original seller doesn't want to be seen to be price gouging, so doesn't want to put the list price of an item up, but still wants to gain. That's frequently done by it being very expensive to become an 'approved seller' or similar.
>All hardware is paperweight without software.

You miss the point. I can buy an x86 machine and run Windows or a FOSS OS or any number of unix clones or hell even write my own OS. From the outset I can say I own the hardware.

You can't say the same for Apple hardware. Even if the act of jailbreaking as a specific case is not considered illegal, you have to do many illegal things if you want to pwn an Apple device enough to run another OS on it.
"Overview of reports with fatal outcome after COVID-19 vaccination in the first 14 weeks of the Dutch vaccination campaign."

PDF:
https://www.lareb.nl/media/2uwpelnj/signals_2021_cases_fatal...
New York has been downzoning for years now. What's important isn't just having high density, it's making sure that available housing grows with the population. When your population is increasing, increasing density helps with that.
The consent pop-ups aren't solely due to GDPR, and GDPR is about much more than tracking in that sense.
Right On! Congrats for that mindset.

However, I suggest that you should still track your time to determine whether your "Value" is worth the "Cost of Goods Sold".

Measure What Matters. :wink:
Thanks, giving it a thought. I might be too in love with tech to go to the deep end, but it’s never a bad idea to consider that option either. I’d need to learn to use a paper calendar and to carry it with me at that point for sure :-)
I’m running an RX 470, since I upgraded one of my monitors to QHD, it has been having some issues. Luckily, I hate action games, don’t care much about high-end graphics, and grew up with 30 FPS as target ;)

Some day I’ll be able to upgrade to a new budget GPU.
Judging by how many people are moving from places like SF and NYC to places like Houston I think people prioritize affordable housing over all the secondary luxuries.

<insert low effort quip about consumers being cheapskates and not knowing what's good for them here>
El Salvador Gets Ready for a Risky Bitcoin Experiment
A Thumbs Down for Streaming Privacy
Ask HN: How can I improve my transactional email project?
I have been working on a email platform for the last few months, https://postheat.com. While building and marketing I did not find much traction with non-technical users. So decided to make a pivot to developers with the addition of an API for transnational email. While working on product market fit I spoke to around 100 developers to learn more about their needs for an email API. Most devs I have spoken to are already using another platform and are not looking to switch due to the cost of code migration (understandably). I have some had some interest from developers with new projects, but I’m still far from product market fit, and I do not yet have much traction.

How can I update my email platform in such a way that would compel you to use it for your next project, or even better, migrate away from your existing solution?

P.S. The email builder is here: https://postheat.com/create
At this point it's literally it's own country called Taiwan.
Well, the higher the price, the more incentive other companies have to catch up and compete with them. (Or take a more flexible portion of the market by price.)

Chip fabrication is a difficult market, with barriers to entry only similar to stuff dominated by governments, but there is still a little bit of competition there.
That was practically the case in the early- to mid- 2000s with McDonalds and Burger King.
It's my daily driver (on a Sony Xperia XA2). Signal and WhatsApp work perfectly, without any issues.
I would pay a lot more than 30
For the past several months, archive.is itself (and its numerous aliases) has been subject to immensely aggressive CAPTCHA blocking. To the point that I usually give up on it.

(I'm also opposed to the use of Google and Cloudflare CAPTCHA on several considerations, including but not limited to compatibility and privacy)
Building from tarball has many advantages over building from a VCS, especially a DVCS. The main one is that tarballs are serialized, hash-able, cache-able, mirror-able, checkable objects. Unlike a tag from which some serialized version must be synthesized (and therefore has multiple interpretations) and may require multiple round-trips to do from a remote resource.

In my Linux distribution, if something doesn't have a release tarball then I do something similar to "pristine-tar" to create the synthetic version that's stable over the decades (since I may need to rebuild the same software 10 years into the future). This is done through an HTTP-based service so I can fetch the result as if it were a tarball, and use all of the caching (by hash, see [0])as a result.

Release tarballs are VASTLY preferred for this reason.

Languages that try to "help" by circumventing this -- making reproducible builds into the future difficult -- have special helpers which go and fetch the resources (again, as serialized, checkable, hash-able objects) and make them available.

Some projects also attempt to download things from the Internet during the "build" phase of the project, so I created a tool to drop network access during that phase as well [1].

[0] https://hashcache.rkeene.org/
[1] https://chiselapp.com/user/rkeene/repository/bash-drop-netwo...
demand shift and panic buying are not mutually exclusive. and it also keeps happening (from this week: https://www.businessinsider.com/costco-shoppers-stockpiling-...)
It was rougher/tougher than I ever thought it would be, not for me/my family, but the pain and suffering my little girl endured - to then receive a bill at the end of the day, is just insulting, imo.

I'm actually British, I moved to the US in 2016. Me/my family have used our fair share of the NHS - my mom suddenly died when I was 12, my dad is in remission from prostate cancer after treatment, I've had kidney stone surgeries, 8 years of orthodontics, major jaw surgery, broken bones, bad childhood asthma, etc. https://kingsley.sh/posts/2021/staggering-cost-of-surviving-...

I agree, I got world-class care, by world-class medical professionals, but, I also earn 2x than the average worker, I can afford to pay $700/m, the highest plan my employer offers. We still got a mistake $2.5 million dollar bill, we went to collections 3 times for less than $50, etc, etc.

The icing on the cake was my daughter being denied Medicaid because I earn too much. They skipped over HER 1-in-700m to 1-in-2b diagnosis, and her many disabilities, to deny me because I earned too much. I was told I'd need to spend the GoFundMe money (which ultimately paid for my baby's funeral), my 401k, any/all savings, and maybe even consider getting divorced (I'm here on a marriage green card). I like the good, but despise the bad.
Debian Developer here.

Automating some parts of packaging does not remove the important part: reviewing the code, checking for past security issues, adding sandboxing, removing privacy breaches, testing that package works well.

Packaging for Debian is not meant to be a 5 minutes effort like some other distributions - by design.

It takes work to make sure users can trust some software.
Unfortunately the set that contains all sets except itself doesn't exist either. If such a set X existed, then you could easily build X unioned with {X}, which would be the set of all sets, which doesn't exist. You can't really avoid Russel's paradox, it prevents you from being able to make a set that is basically all sets, minus some exceptions.

But there is a way to get around Russel's paradox, the standard way is to define a new kind of object called a class. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_(set_theory) . Basically a class is like a set, a set can be a member of a class, and you can do most operations with sets on classes as well (union, intersection, etc). And you can create a class which is all sets satisfying some property. From this you can't have a set of all sets, but you can have a class of all sets. Russel's paradox doesn't go away, you still can't have the set of all sets (and you can't have the class of all classes), but this still gives you enough to talk about properties of all sets. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%E2%80%93Bernays%E2... for an example of how to define classes. That particular example is a conservative extension of ZFC: any statement about sets that can be proved using NBG can also be proved using ZFC and vice versa (assuming ZFC is consistent). Your statement can't involve classes, because there is no definition of classes in ZFC so it wouldn't translate, but your proof in the NBG system can make use of it
For my usage so far yes, dev VM has around 60 GB, others around 30-40 wich is plenty to install everything. For Nextcloud I mount NFS volumes from TrueNAS which has 2 TB HDD.
This is Nazi Germany, and anyone who thinks you should be forced to take an experimental procedure is, how should I say, not on the side of good.

Also look at the way Pfizer is forcing countries to not use any other vaccine in the future with their agreements. Brazil is refusing to sign such agreements.
That's a problem for an aggregator site like HN. Dozens of paywalled sites are likely to show up here. Even if the average reader wanted to subscribe to them, he or she might not have the money and time to do so.
DuckDuckGo is literally Bing with some privacy features.
Why would you bury perfectly good wood? What you are talking about already happens, there is net reforestation just due to the demand for wood.

As far as pure sequestration goes, fast growing plants like hemp are better candidates.
There was no Fortran 80 standard. There was Fortran IV aka Fortran 66, Fortran 77, Fortran 90, and following, most recently Fortran 2018.
Pydantic's "BaseSettings" has pretty much cured the evergreen itch of writing my own configuration languages. I love that env vars automatically override default values.
I can count multiple times where GDPR has improved my life as a customer and even as an employee. GDPR was a landmark success in my opinion, especially after the failure that was the cookie law.
They could have been using webp and had the same benefits but they haven't. Like you said they could have been using jpeg 2000 correctly but they haven't. I doubt we will see avif be used this way correctly especially considering how in flux it is right now. I've messed around with avif on https://squoosh.app/ and it's not really as easy as just picking a number between 0 and 100 universally for every image and having it be better than jpeg.
In my experience the iTunes store is such a horrible, slow piece of shit software that I only use it to search and rent films I heard about elsewhere.
At least I won't be extradited to Russia.
Who Runs Twitter’s Twitter?
This looks awesome. Excited to try it. Day-to-day I deal mostly with MSSQL - eagerly awaiting that connector!
They probably meant this: https://blog.jolla.com/new-strategic-investor-joins-sailfish...
The author of the article is very biased because he is also the (co-)author of these libraries.

Personally I think that is not the fine way to bash other projects in the open source community. Clearly, attrs+cattrs and pydantic focus on different things. Let us all live together peacefully :)
I don't understand this. I visit a site I've never been to before and immediately a popup takes over along these lines. Do those really convert? I can't imagine they do, but they are also everywhere so they must be effective to some degree?

I feel like The Guardian's approach is better, after a while they bring up a banner down at the bottom that says (paraphrased) "hey you've read x articles, we want to stay independent, can you help us?"
According to "How long would it take to fall through the center of the Earth?" [1], it would take 2 * 42 min = 84 min, ignoring air resistance, and, (probably) survival of the passengers.

[1] https://www.physicscentral.com/explore/poster-earth.cfm

This approximation accounts for this fact: "As you fall there is less and less mass between you and the center so there is less and less to pull you down"
Half of US workers favor employee shot mandate: AP-NORC poll
Firm orders years in advance are in general far more valuable than much more expensive orders today. With the years in advance orders you can make plans around them.
As long as you keep Javascript disabled in your browser...
Programming Languages on the Piano
If programming languages were piano melodies.
Proof of work cryptos are a pox on society. That said they are some of the most location neutral energy consumers. This allows mining farms to be located adjacent to hydro dams or wind farms to get the cheapest energy and use energy that would otherwise be lost in transmission. 1TW is around 20% of global energy production. This is enough of a factor to impact manufacturing of renewable energy equipment. It allows them to achieve economies of scale faster and accelerate the transition to cleaner energy that we need.
I tried switching to DDG three times over last 6 years, and I always move back after I end up adding !g every second time when searching because the results are outrageously irrelevant. DDG does not understand me as Google does, bad or good thing it might be.
Because it stems from an earlier law.

The one stems from the e-privacy directive which stems from 2002, the other is the GDPR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Regulation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...

https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/data-protection/gloss...

https://gdpr-info.eu/
I worked for the company running the most A/B tests in the industry for most of my career.

Having a user testing session is relatively rare, saved for special one-off products/features. Actually having feedback from those sessions distilled into product feature proposals, and getting them into the product roadmap is even rarer.

In the meantime, hundreds of A/B tests based on metrics like these would have been ran and resulted in a permanent change to the product. It’s just so much easier for everyone involved to trust “the data” vs something that requires nuanced interpretation.
I wrote a Magento 2 build and deploy commands workflow
That's way more than Reddit needs to run with the idea.
Startups on Hard Mode
Quick we need 3 downvotes to restore balance
Show HN: Sync Raise Hand for Google Meet
I've released a Chrome extension that links the raising of hands in real to the raising of hands on Google Meet.

- Your real raised hand will be synchronized with the action of the raise button in Google Meet.
- All processing is done within the browser. No image data will be sent to the any server.

It's very easy to use, so please give it a try!
Substantial how? Apple doesn’t sell ads and I’m pretty sure that antithetical to their business model, if they did their advantage in other ways (privacy which sucks anyways) would dry up.
Graphene veils may hold the secret to conserving priceless works of art
Yes, the latest release have seen some code contributions from Aurora. Some well-known people in the community even work for Aurora, like coderus.

To be fair, without the Russian investor, there would be no Jolla anymore :)
Nor now with the antivax / antimask disinformation, propaganda, and hysteria.
Because the population has increased over the course of fifty years. There's a limit to how many single-family houses you can build that are reasonably close to jobs.
Though it does create its own separate class of potential bugs. When you assign some text to a fixed-length string, Fortran will silently truncate or space-pad it to make it the correct length.
we have barely even made a dent in the crust, I don’t think that would happen in our lifetime.
Early in his term, Trump flirted with the idea of changing quarterly earnings reports to be biannual. I wonder how much that would have shook up corporate culture.
chesterton fence + lindy

a fence that’s up for 30 years is more likely to have purpose than a 2 year old process set up in a growing company.

generally, you can tear things down the younger they are.
The GDPR most certainly has not failed, in fact it is gathering steam. Compliance is increasing, more and more consumers are becoming aware that this law is working to their benefit, and fines are getting more substantial against those companies that have unilaterally decided the GDPR does not apply to them.

Of all the legislation that has come out of Brussels I would count it up next to the successes, similar to the roaming charge law and the one about phone chargers.
Hey Phil! Great questions and I'll add this to the README:

- Data is automatically loaded using your Stripe API key. Stripe is the only source I'm supporting right now, but happy to add more based on demand.

- Yeah, good catch, it shouldn't link Paper's landing page. I'll fix that!

- Been working on it a few months
Not just naive users either. I am very computer literate and yet I find myself in situations where I've skipped that text and only find it when I go back.

It makes me think when I'm designing things. If I have problems with stuff like that, how can I make it better.
more powerful in most cases - yes. distributed - no.
learning about doing HA/Scale out via distributed systems is a really valuable skill, and projects like these make it sooo much more real, beyond even just basic networking.
Edwards is a former lawyer. His predecessor is a library science person. Perhaps that is insignificant. Time will tell.
Products that don't behave the same should really have different part numbers. In this example, perhaps they could call them SN550 and SN550A (B, C, etc.) or even SN551, SN552, ... if the majority of the design hasn't changed.
Sounds like you want jsonschema.
> The company has said it will make $100 billion in capital investments over three years through 2023.

>At the same time, "it will be very costly to manufacture in the U.S. and Japan," a member of the TSMC executive team said. The company is building a cutting-edge semiconductor facility in the U.S. state of Arizona and is considering opening its first Japanese chip plant in Kumamoto.

TSMC heed the call of US to build a new fab in AZ. It seem logical to raise their prices to meet this "demand". A fab in the US will not generate as much profit as Taiwan or China fab due to labor cost/benefits.
In modern hand to hand combat you don't use a sword, you use this: https://www.rmjtactical.com/collections/tactical-tomahawks/p...