skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a “comments” link in the header that shows the newest comments across all stories. People could be refreshing that and acting on comments without checking every individual story. This could be a good way to help moderate a lot of low quality comments, but the people doing it might not have all the context.
Not exactly.

In Spain where I am from the cost of college is something like €2000 per year (approx, depends on degree). That is for your first attempt, which means if you pass everything the total cost could be 8000 for the degree. If you fail a class and have to take it again, besides gpa, the price increments, and keeps incrementing for each attempt until you reach almost the real cost of that class.

Some other things to note:

- public schools usually have better recognition than private ones, for things such mba's may be different

- the government can help with the tuition fee depending on the financial situation, meaning you can get the degree for free

- if you get the max score in one class you get that fee back, so if you get max scores in all classes you can also get the degree for free
> I always thought that wave function collapse does not require any human intervention and that this can be shown.

It is, in principle, impossible to determine this, because eventually humans will see the output of the experiments. However, we can say that if humans are special, the only things able to cause “measurement”, then our specialness also gives us time travel powers that can only be used for “measurement”, and Occam's Razor says that's probably nonsense.
High Tech Genesis Inc. is hiring C# Developer
No thanks, we don't want another Prop 65 nuisance, this time for photos.
https://archive.is/U0XVQ
their use of the terminology of agent is wrong. agents have the ability to make their own decisions independently. Reference frames are just mathematical coordinate conversions, not agents.
Don’t tell students if classmates get coronavirus, U of Delaware warns faculty
I briefly looked into UWP when it was being promoted with such fanfare, and the only thing I could see were the gross incompatibilities with WPF, basically requiring you to maintain two guis if you wanted to use the app store and support two versions of Windows, let alone Xamarin. Then they basically dumped the app store model they were going to use and started allowing anything on there. It's https://xkcd.com/927/ all over again, except in this case it's all just Microsoft!
> This bug affects 3 people (!)
https://archive.ph/Y9eDh
>What I'm specifically interested in, is what happens when as an influencer you _don't_ disclose an ad? Are there fines?

Of course, not everyone is caught and punished but if you're big enough to attract the scrutiny of the FTC, they do issue fines for not disclosing ad sponsorship. Example:

https://www.marketingdive.com/news/ftc-fines-detox-tea-compa...
> Most people are sick of ads and would happily pay 1/10 a cent to read a quality article, especially if the process was frictionless.

I don't know that an article is quality until I am done reading it. I already paid for my ISP, my electricity, and my computer equipment. I'm spending my finite amount of time reading it. Why would I pay extra for the privilege? Unless I will materially gain from reading it, i.e. "here's a discount code for your next month's ISP bill", I'm just gambling 1/10th of a cent that I might get some sort of emotional contentment reading an article.

Even if the content of the article is good, what if the presentation sucks making it physically difficult to read. For my 1/10th of a cent am I getting an easily accessible form of the content? If I want to read the content again will I have to pay another 1/10th of a cent? If my 1/10th of a cent for a single page view or a full read of the content, if the host breaks up an article over multiple pages am I paying for each one? Can I freely download and use the content within the bounds of Fair Use? What are the full terms of my transaction?

While you're trying to make the case for some trivial amount of money, if everyone is asking for a trivial amount of money then in aggregate it's no longer a trivial amount for users. If I can't get a refund if an article sucks then I am not interested. If a website has to potentially give refunds to users then they won't be interested.

Even with micro-transaction payments websites have the same perverse incentives to get traffic as ones that run advertisements. The more traffic they get the more money they make. Content producers will also eventually require some sort of onerous DRM to make sure that every single view of some bit of content is paid for with a micro-transaction.
It's funny, i find anti-union to be nearly identical to anti-government.

It seems there are people who feel any organized entity with power is bad. Be it government, or union - the effect is the same. I can definitely agree that it can be bad, but to me it's the only entity that should be representing me. Corporations will have no incentive aligned with myself. Unions/Governments serve as a way to organize the people at large. Which to me is a wholly good thing.

This organization however does not come without risks. I think where we fail as a civilization is recognizing this power dynamic and finding ways to monitor corruption. I want to give a government power, but i also need ways to monitor them. Without know if/when an organization becomes corrupted we have no way of healing, and it will always be doomed to fail in the worst way.

I'm very pro-union. However we need to figure out monitoring. In Governments, and Unions. Otherwise in my view it's just a matter of time before they fail.
Oh, well then certainly there's nothing to worry about.
I believe you're referring to delayed choice quantum eraser?
I figured those were OCR errors or something. How would this help maintain originality?
> But my professional Sony ZV-1 is small and light enough to rest on a monitor (I use a stand for better stability, but it could easily sit on a monitor.)

So, $700 and no fancy mic array? (Edit: reading up, limited to 720p? ick?)

I mean yeah I'd have a nice camera as well, but given that my need for a nice web cam is because of a pandemic where I can't go anywhere, that isn't as much of a plus as it'd normally be!

Also I need something that is proof against being knocked off the table by cats, which happens about twice a week to my current webcam.

Also $300 is already at the very top end of what I'd pay, if the Opal was $200, that'd be an almost instant buy. I imagine they don't have proper scale though to get the price down that low. Chicken and egg and all that, if they flooded the market at $150 or $200 maybe they could get the volumes needed? But problem is lots of web cam competitors have finally come onto the market, this product a year ago would've created a larger splash.
Not all sponsored ads are sneaky, a number of YouTube channels I watch do hilarious skits for each one at the end of their videos which I think is a win for everyone involved.
I think I'd agree with you, but the unionization vote for amazon Warehouse workers failed ... by quite a large margin already.

It's not lost on me either that a vote of 3000 cast votes is not representative of every amazon warehouse, but I would think if it's really bad the vote would be much closer.

https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/nlrb-announces...
Is robbing a robber a crime?
That probably means that they have been banned which starts their post at -4 karma and requires vouching in order to list publicly. This only happens for repeated bad behavior.
You can bind one worker to multiple routes to accomplish this. It would probably require some custom routing to check the host not just the path if you want different content.
Lol tyranny of the majority keeps Uber cheap?

You know drivers can just stop working if they don't like the wage right?
SoftBank Eyeing Battery-Maker 3DOM for 6G and Mobile Base Stations
> QM works even if there are no humans or other subjective "observers".

How do you know?
Because after 100 years of arguing about this, we have a theory which explains everything, but nobody has come up with a reasonable explanation of how the delayed choice quantum eraser could possibly work unless causality works different from human intuition.
AFAIK you only need 4.
Ask HN: Pro and Cons of external control via IPC vs. Extension Language
Hey HN!

Recently, I'm thinking a lot about "practical software freedom" as branded by GNU Guile (aka. "customize and extend while running" + self documenting/live introspection).

I really understands how cool that can be when it's done well, and I see many successful project doing it this way (Guix, and Emacs obviously, but also outside of LISP world there is awesomewm and many others).

I've already tried integrating Guile in some hobby projects written in other languages, so I understand how it works, although I don't use it on a daily basis.

On the other hand, most of the time I'm using (and tweaking) programs that are extended and configured externally through IPC (e.g. sockets, d-bus), like i3 or NetworkManager. I'm more familiar with running helper programs (or a front-end) that I wrote in the language of my choice with a library, using d-bus discoverability features when available or after reading some documentation.

I often hear that this second way is "only almost as powerful as having a real programming langage built-in", but I'm not sure I understand why. I realised I don't really know the practical pro and cons of each way.

From where I stand, I see three main advantage of the IPC's way and none for Extension Language (sorry) :
- It's language-agnostic, at the reasonable cost of writing libraries (vs the cost writing and maintaining e.g. a Lua->Scheme compiler like Guile's folks are doing)
- It can be extended remotely through network
- When using d-bus almost everything is standardised and runtime cost is never an issue (at least from what I've seen so far in 10+ years).

Obviously the reason why I'm seeing things like this is because I never had the opportunity to learn the advantages of the Guile's way, so... I'd like to learn some bits from you :)

I know there's a lot of enthusiasm here for LISP-related tech here, so if you feel like proving me wrong and explaining me why the extension language path is better, I'm all yours!

PS: I really don't want to start a flame war lisp vs not-lisp or d-bus vs not-d-bus, I'd like the conversation to stick mainly to IPC vs Extension Language. Thx!
Well, the founder is also the Libreboot founder and lead. The Libreboot releases are signed with her GPG key, she isn't exactly a third party.

So, as a sibling comment points out, buying from her helps ensure Libreboot's continued existence.

Additionally, in the past (I'm not sure what the financial situation is today), buying from her has also also gone to actually hiring developers to work on Libreboot and port it to more hardware.

> Why can't people just buy the used laptop made by the big manufacturer and install it themselves?

They can. The founder actually encourages this! At conferences she's run workshops to help people install it themselves.
How does that apply here? To what standards am I not holding myself to? I don't lie[1] and cheat[2] and try to exploit everyone in my life[3]. Hell, I even pay my taxes![4]

Plus, again, I'm talking about corporations, not people. Corporations are not people. For example, Microsoft is a rotten company and I will never be their customer if I can avoid it. But I have absolutely nothing against Microsoft's employees (except maybe some of the C suite)

[1] https://nypost.com/2020/05/01/jeff-bezos-may-have-lied-to-co...

[2] https://www.bookweb.org/news/aba-releases-report-detailing-a...

[3] https://time.com/5629233/amazon-warehouse-employee-treatment...

[4] https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/biden-singles-out-...
Very self-aware move, piggy backing on a well recognized brand like Ray-Ban and laying low. Props to them.
I've lived long enough to quickly suss out humans with a lack of empathy and life experience. The life experience I can forgive, the lack of empathy I cannot. I hope you embrace the opportunity to grow as a human.
Transferwise (and others like it) have no such issues. When I make a cross border transfer, the funds are immediately available (if I elect to debit my account immediately). This varies by jurisdiction but it proves that cryptocurrencies are not required to have instantaneous transfers.
So there's nothing overlaid on your field of vision with these, right? It's just a camera built into glasses frames?
Maybe it's a clever hack.

Suppose you are making a universe. You want to ensure that the universe you make is interesting, i.e. contains consciousness. So you set up the rules like QM: everything exists in probabilistic superposition until a consciousness observes it. One of the superpositions contains a consciousness, and that collapses the wavefunction guaranteeing consciousness in your universe. It's a way of using survivor bias in your favor.

Disclaimer: not to be taken seriously.

Disclaimer #2: Also, coincidentally, not related to poster drdeca. Unless he is me from another superposition and we haven't collapsed yet because you all are not as conscious as you think.
That's why I specifically mentioned the structure of the image. You'd still have to differentiate lens corrections, but structural changes could be counted differently from color / sharpening corrections / standard postprocessing.
Error Handling in Go REST APIs
Paul Chaikin, Ned Seeman and other folks at NYU have made some interesting experiments towards self-replicating artificial building blocks, if you're interested...

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10500
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2009/sm/b8176...
That makes no sense, since children want to live, so you can't apply the logic to children, only to yourself.

So I ask you again, would you prefer not to have been born? And if yes, what's your argument for continuing your own life?
Civil courts are not equipped to deal with this issue. At best you will get a lot of very rich lawyers. At worst you will get inaction and a lot of very rich lawyers.

Taxes are a traditional way of pricing in a market externality. It seems appropriate here.
there are names for this sequence of statements, in logic, in rhetoric, but I will offer the seasonal ML machine-learning version: underfitting the data
My finances are really good these days. I had temporary difficulties in early 2020, as did many people at the start of the covid pandemic, but those are long behind me now. The company has existed since 2014.

The company is doing extremely well these days. I'm very grateful for everyone's support!

PS:

New Libreboot release soon.

The current Libreboot 20210522 testing release (from May 2021) is more or less complete, and the most major issue (the reset bug) is now fixed in libreboot Git.

I'm polishing the current Git and aiming for a new stable release.
Because without sponsored content, they'd have to give content creators a bigger cut of their own revenue.
I fully predict that people are going to find a way to spin this that "The COmpany Store is sending its employee to the Education Farm to learn to be Bezos Slaves".
Men Fall Behind in College Enrollment. Women Still Play Catch-Up at Work
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Domination SF novels inspired in part by Sparta.
this is HN where its a race to be as pedantic as possible
"the production cost doesn't account for the total lifecycle"

Until that issue is addressed, plastic will reign supreme.
"The report said the diplomats’ illnesses coincided with increased fumigation in and around residences where they lived. One of the authors of the study, the professor Alon Friedman, clarified in an email to Reuters that both Canadian and Cuban authorities were fumigating." - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/19/havana-syndrom...
I've been doing some research in the last couple of weeks about the astronomer Thales of Miletus for an upcoming episode of a podcast I host about the history of astronomy that I run [0]. I had known that Thales was one of the Seven Sages of Greece, but I didn't quite appreciate the extent to which the Seven Sages had entered the popular consciousness.

It turns out that centuries later over in Rome there was a public latrine in the town of Ostia Antica that has some graffiti that reference a few of the sages, including Thales, and provide advice for those using the facilities:

* “To shit well, Solon rubbed his belly {Ut bene cacaret, ventrum palpavit Solon}.”

* “Thales admonished those shitting to strain hard {Durum cacantes monuit ut nitant Thales}.”

* “Sly Chilon taught to fart silently {Vissire tacite Chilon docuit subdolus}.”

Below these there are some other pieces of advice, though not from the sages:

* “shake yourself about so you’ll go faster {agita te celerivs pervenies}”

* “you’re sitting on a mule-driver; I’m hurrying up {mvlione sedes, propero}”

* “friend, the proverb escapes you: shit well and fuck the doctors {amice fvgit te proverbivm: bene caca et irrima medicos}”

* “no one talks to you much, Priscianus, until you use the sponge on a stick {verbose tibi nemo dicit dvm priscianvs utaris xylosphongio}”

An interesting article with more details: https://www.purplemotes.net/2014/01/19/seven-sages-ostia/

[0]: Shameless plug: https://songofurania.com/
They don't seem to claim there is a distinction on the mechanics there? Rather their distinction seems to be "are these part of the same overall program, or two separate ones", however you measure that: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLPlugins
One important thing to note, the specific reason that this and calling it the "china flu" or blaming china or any of that is stupid as hell, is that it doesn't matter where it came from, pandemics are a sure thing on a not crazy timescale, if your country couldn't handle one in a responsible and safe manner, that's on your country!
The difference is that you can't decide to fuck off (eg. go backpacking or live with your parents) whenever you feel like it if you're an indentured servant. Furthermore, "food and board" is an imperfect metric, because even though it may seem essential, it has a lot of discretionary components built in. For instance, buying organic or ordering takeout for "food", or getting a luxury condo or a nice school district for "housing". I'm not saying everyone working on amazon living paycheck to paycheck is because they ordered ubereats every night and live in a luxury condo, but it's something to keep in mind when we're narrowing down what exactly "indentured servitude with extra steps" means.
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Acts (aka Trump Tax Cut) actually permits (or just increased limits for?) taking a full deduction, up to $1 million, for computing hardware, rather than following a depreciation schedule. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_179_depreciation_deduc... and https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/new-rules-and-limitations-for-d...

We'll see if that catches on and makes a difference. Accountants, like software engineers and every other profession, tend to follow trends.
The problem is the layering of the abstractions. Having PaaS on top of Kubernetes in a way that you move down to a more powerful primitive is going to be the most scalable.

What happened in the public cloud space was a disparate set of services which made the choices really costly. Azure went in heavy on PaaS while AWS was focused on VMs. The easy adoption and migration was on AWS. K8s seems like a reasonable abstraction that reduces the cost of these decisions because people seem to agree that K8s is a reasonable base.

Being able to slide on a compatible PaaS layer shouldn't negate that K8s investment, and make it easier to adopt for some organizations, or parts of those organizations. But, I wouldn't argue that we are the point where that layer is mature.
Quite an audacious move by Facebook. Tech specs look good, but the biggest challenge is going to be privacy.

I recall years ago when the first Google Glass came out, certain venues like museums put up rules banning their usage. And that was for a halo product whereas this is clearly targeted more at mainstream users.

With rumors of Apple also offering up something similar soon, we'll see how this sort of gadgetry is "normalized" by society.

(Google Glass apparently still exists! Albeit only for enterprise: https://www.google.com/glass/tech-specs/ )
https://theconversation.com/heres-how-many-times-you-actuall...

Links to two studies which place the number of times you must reuse a cotton bag between 130-7100 times.
Even if this were true my point (2) still stands.

But it really isn't true because spec is part of the code. If your formalism is wrong, irregardless of whether implementation is correct, your code will behave wrong. There is absolutely no goal post moving. If my program is wrong, I can't tell my user "well, my unittests are all passing and I have 100% code coverage".
Virtual Data Rooms Can Combine Usability, Customization, and Security
> Ads on TV as well as in the printed press and large online platforms are labeled either by law or more or less formal agreements between these publishers.

Ads on TV are literally placed in news (local and national) broadcasts with no indication that they were paid for. Every morning show has a segment where they shill products, periodic "gift guides," and people being interviewed who are headlining or keynoting local trade conventions and festivals. I don't think that there is legislation of any sort governing print ads; they're labeled to distinguish them editorially from the rest of the magazine or paper for the magazine or paper's sake whenever they're labeled. If they're disguised as a story, I've never seen them labeled at all.

On the internet paid stories get labeled a lot more often these days, but the push that made that happen is part of the same push that made influencer labeling happen, because the internet, being new, is the center of a lot of moral panics.
I would personally quit out of principle if an employer asked, let alone demanded, to see an offer I received from another company.
We do criticize contemporary societies too. We talk about aspects like unfair justice system, inequality, corruption, sexism and such.

We do talk about contemporary totalitarian societies and near part totalitarian societies.

The expectation that we will heroise past society, to feel good, to make them sound awesome, is on itself a bias.
Google has tripled its profits, but of course it's whining about the rising salaries.
Facebook on Your Face
I'm skeptical of this. This is essentially the way the GIBill works. They give you just enough money for books and tuition, and rent (while you're actively in school) but for nothing else. I found myself completely exhausted trying to work full time and go to school full time and eventually dropped out.

How the GI Bill works: https://www.va.gov/education/about-gi-bill-benefits/post-9-1...
Cool, thanks for the link.

For what it's worth, we use rules_nixpkgs to source Postgres (for Linux and Darwin) as well as things such as C and Python toolchains, and it's been working really well. It does require that the machine have Nix installed, though, but that opens up access to Nix's wide array of prebuilt packages.

https://github.com/tweag/rules_nixpkgs
For qsort, sure, but it's pretty common to not need the void* argument for the start_routine you pass to pthread_create, to come up with one example.