skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just like MySpace existed when Facebook launched, and no one is using Facebook today.

Seems the biggest Kickstarter ever was Pebble, which raised 20 million USD, while ConsititutionDAO seems to have raised ~49 million USD. That's more than double the funds, even while being on a shorter deadline.
> You literally put a sim card into a phone for it to be treated as a cell number?

Well of course -- the SIM is the (as others have pointed out, "currently assigned", yada yada) phone number. So what else would any device with a working SIM slot be treated as, than a cellular device?
Well, Winston, the party would love to know how many out there don't realize that it's satire.
That's fine for the party, because the others don't realize it's not.
> The Internet is littered with complaints about dell PCs failing after warranty, and how recalls are covered up on them frequently.

Not to divert from the topic, but I sometimes wonder how companies on Twitter have their staff monitor tweets to get on top of social media controversies started by random people involving their brand (race, discrimination, etc.), while giving a cold shoulder to paying customers complaining about broken product features or design (with staple replies such as "contact support" or "see warranty info").
Or lacking adequate case law, that's what the FSF et al. would want you to believe, anyhow. Although a bit vaguely drafted in this respect, the copyleft effect of GPL depends on the concept of a derivative work under copyright law. It would be a bit far-fetched to claim that in your example, the combination of the function and the codebase is a derivative of the function you incorporated.

Anyway, because the fact that people think GPL is that extensive is enough to create unnecessary problems, I too prefer MPL, where the copyleft scope is defined very clearly for its use case.
> Nearly every Windows user hates Windows, everyone knows that Windows it's a bad operating system

Maybe you have some data we don’t but that’s probably wrong.

Also I think Windows 10 is very good, so that « everyone » is wrong.
Microsoft wants to have a word with you.
Canada annexes Maine. Florida floats off. Amazon forms its own government.
Not just the book 1984, but also the year the Mac was released, and the ad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I
Even better -

automaton cost today < cost of never automating because the union won't let you cut jobs
> Heck HTTP isn't even the hard part anyways

Wait until you read about HTTP upgrade mechanisms, HTTP transfer encodings or even 206 Partial Content implementations that are broken everywhere.

HTTP 0.9 was easy to implement, but everything starting from 1.1 and upwards is borderline insane, especially SPDY and QUIC.

While I don't agree with gemini's design decisions (and neither with gopher's), I can fully understand their point of view in regards to unnecessary complexity and side effects of network states.

Source: Building a peer to peer Web Browser, for around 2 years already (still far away from usable).
US wildfires have killed nearly 20% of world’s giant sequoias in two years
I still use it a lot on Windows as a scratchpad kind of thing. The near instant load times and the persistent memory are super useful to me.
Constructing a excuse to back out of ISS while saving face.
Store the LUKS crypto key in the TPM, and make sure secure boot is used so the TPM will only reveal the key if the systems boot chain is verified.
How to Move Money in the 21st Century
Haiku Now Has Blink
Quite possible that he is not talking about watts at his target speed for 24h but about watts at 45 km/h.

Watts@45 has become something like an informal standard unit in the field of cycling aerodynamics.
I'm having a difficult time finding the numbers of unionized and non-unionized auto workers in the US. Lots of propaganda both for and against unionized autoworkers but little useful information.
More and more that seems to be the state of the internet; lots of articles and information but little that is useful and what is useful is difficult to find.

Overall it looks like 2/3 of auto workers are unionized? And the split is the Big 3 versus everyone else. And it looks like the big difference is pensions. And the fact the the Big 3 make shitty cars and ginormous trucks that make little sense to me.

An interesting article about the BMW plant in Spartanburg SC finds fault with both UAW and BMW. That's the plant where I heard rumors that the German BMW workers threatened to strike on behalf of the South Carolina workers, partially to also protect their own situation though. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/09/06/spar-s06.html

I would also love to learn more about unions and workers' councils in Germany, as they sound less antagonistic with management while still managing to look out for workers. I wonder if something like that could work in the US. Either way, investigating either of these topics would be a major undertaking.

UAW benefits sound great but I sure would not be proud to work at Chrysler.
Most new ferries in Norway seems to use batteries these days and last time I was on the west cost back in September I made sure to look at it.

It seems they attach a charger while they lower the ramp fir unloading and disconnect it just before leaving.

The unload / load process seemed as fast as before to me but I haven't used ferries a lot since before covid.

I also guess they might do slightly longer maintenance charging cycles at night since there are fewer departures then.
That's really impressive, congrats! But, I'm not a bad programmer and up to around day 15 they regularly took me multiple hours. And around day 15 I started to find them hard as in couldn't do them. Do you remember what it's like to not be able to do a problem? There are lots of normal people reading HN -- surely you remember what they're like? Like, imagine someone who's learning to program, or one of those people who's really keen to do things in an obscure abstract way, but hasn't yet learned how to do things usimply. Have you met programmers from bootcamps who've only been taught a jumble of javascript, mostly framework stuff? I know there aren't many people like that where you work! But they do exist and they are here with us reading HN.

It often takes me 15 or 20 minutes to read and understand the problem description. But it sounds like you frequently had solutions written within that time!
you never heard of compulsory licensing?
What deergomoo says, and also performance - Svelte isn't really a framework, it prefers to call itself a compiler. Each component compiles into something that has no virtual-DOM overhead - what the compiler does is that it tracks which fragment depends on which value, and then at runtime when a value is updated, only the needed fragments are updated.

What I also like about it is what a .Svelte file looks like. Since it's a compiler from the very beginning, it didn't need to start as .js and only than add .jsx for a little less verbosity. Svelte file is basically a HTML file with <style> and <script> tags. Variables from javascript can be referenced in HTML simply with {var}, and there are constructs for if/else, loops and few other special things. Easier to see than describe, go to https://svelte.dev/tutorial/
Apache-2.0 has corporate-friendly patent clauses missing from most other permissive licenses.
Yes, but it's actually not that simple. If it blasts too hard there's the chance it will have to start cooling.

I suspect cars use linear control for heating and cooling, it's easy to implement and well understood. In that case it will not use max heat until it reaches the target and turning it to max could get you there faster.

It's actually really not a simple problem, look into control theory of you're interested.
Kinetic kill is exactly what "Russians" (the military, the country isn't a monolithic entity) couldn't do before. The Soviet Kontakt system never passed the final live test because the Union had crashed. Anyone who paid any attention knew that Nudol was in slow development for a decade, had been fired blank many times and had to be tested on a live target someday, for the contractor to complete the job. How can you trust a weapon that's never been properly tested?

Good candidates in lower orbits were all short-lived and reentered long ago, and possibly weren't sufficient to test the claimed performance, to start with. What even makes you think they "haven't bothered"? I have no idea why they didn't launch a dedicated target though - might have been budgetary reasons, bureaucratic failure, or because of a specific test envelope. Alternatively, the military rarely care when it involves strategic matters, you can complain but it just works this way. In particular US military who blew up the Solwind observatory at 550km to test the ASM-135, the only US ASAT weapon currently in operation. It was in 1985, the same time when USSR was developing its counterpart, so it's easy to posture as morally superior when you already did the damage and there's currently no need for another ASAT weapon.

Edit: here's a better analysis than most: https://spacenews.com/op-ed-lessons-to-learn-from-russias-nu...

(meta: threads like this usually have little substance and garbage quality for HN standards. People start assuming all kinds of things and post kneejerk reactions without even bothering to research what's publicly available. I typically avoid posting in these, but then they just become outrage bubbles)
India has been doing this for decades. Somehow the global pharmaceutical industry didn't collapse despite of Indian drugs being exported for very cheap.

It's just a lie, one of very many we tell ourselves.
1)
You will not find any 65 year old, working in the office, civil servants in the US Army. Mandatory retirement is now 62 years old (up from 55).
Unless you have many stars then you can stay until you are 64.

I never saw any 55+ on the sharp end of the army.

2)
A gun you give to the soldiers will be simple.

When you are given a new weapon, you will be drilled on it.

You will learn to fire, aim, reload, disassemble, reassemble
(With strict time requirements).

Then you will be drilled more.

The hierarchy and command system of the US Army is extremely different from
what an office civil servant union member can expect.
You will not have an officer yelling at you to do something or face what
could be severe consequences if you dont obey.
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> Unfortunately, we report here that these apps not working on our system namely .., Emacs, Firefox, MPV, SMPlayer ... VLC, ...

How is it possible to create a Linux version that doesn't run Emacs? Shame, sounded interesting otherwise.
> unit tests

Don't you need a way to generate more inputs in addition to the one you have?
> Are games with virtual assets bubbles?

As an investment asset? Almost certainly. Nobody is going to want your CSGO skins in 20 years time when it doesn't have any players anymore, and we don't often hear about $50k second life purchases anymore when they were a weekly news item in the noughties.

If you buy one because you want to play with it? Fine, that's not a bubble. Enjoy!

If you are just buying one just because you think the value will go up, and the asset doesn't generate any returns other than the price people are willing to pay for it, and other people primarily want it because they think the price is going to go up - you are probably in a bubble.
LGPL doesn't require to make the entire codebase free software

(GPL does. It is part of the contract: get some, give some.)
Nuking most of my .vimrc and just using LunarVim
Sorry I missed this yesterday. Accounts have to be monthly unless there’s no transactions. That’s when you get quarterly statements. So if you’re getting quarterly statements, then there’s no transaction to dispute — I believe the theory goes.
Why would regulated and non-regulated exchanges differ in whether they follow Benford's law or not then? (As in the article)
> msw

MagicSeaWeed <https://magicseaweed.com/>?

Ah, Metre Sea Water <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre_sea_water>.
Insulation Using Popcorn?
Tried to learn Zig by doing AOC earlier this year. Wow, that was painful. Python is a much better match for all the text manipulation.
Code coverage. Subject to campbell's law and goodhart's law.
I have worked on some hard engineering problems in my life, where one could not have been sure if it is possible to find a solution. In my experience, when you get to a "From here on it is just more of the same" situation, that is a strong indicator that a solution will be found in the near future.

And that is the feeling I get when I watch FSD videos these days.

5 years ago, people were celebrating lane changes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7jNHFwZ3Ec

Nowadays, FSD drives through all kinds of weird scenarios:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LISLFHCPWrw

And people complain about specific situations FSD can not handle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT2H42k7Z1g

I'm pretty sure someone at Tesla sees this and thinks "Hmm.. we can solve this in a similar way we solved lane changes".
Laws of Security
Star Citizen raised hundreds of millions without the use of a blockchain.
They do work, including copy, paste, cut, undo ... cmd-h to go to home screen ... theres a lot
> The only other American company to come close would be DeLorean, who failed after two or three model years and less than 10,000 chassis I think.

Huh -- what was "American" about DeLorean, besides the founder/owner being from the US? The company was based in the UK (Northern Ireland) AFAIK, or possibly Ireland.
What triggered you to remove grains? What type of aches did you have that removing grains have fixed? Congratulations btw
Ask HN: Why does cryptocurrency subjects on HN lack curious conversations?
I remember reading about cryptocurrencies on HN around the time Bitcoin was first published. A lot of skepticism was already there, of course. But the discussions were mostly curious, and people trying to learn more, even when they didn't really understand any value of the thing, or when they thought it might be bad.

Contrast that with how the discussions on HN are today, where there are basically two camps that are just screaming at each other. Curious conversations about cryptocurrencies on HN are basically gone, and one group yells how great everything is while the other one is warning of the impeding doom and zero use cases.

Why did it get like this? Is the sentiment similar on other social media? Is there any particular reason cryptocurrencies are so divisive while other subjects are not?
Why is using a high speed camera and a logic analyzer less viable than measuring the end to end latency and trying to subtract the computer part of it? Or are you suggesting that a solenoid should be used to press the key instead of a finger?
Article explicitly mentions price is high because there are no recurring costs, so it actually isn't more expensive than other treatments that may cost hundreds of thousands every year.

Iirc economists have estimated that a human life is valued around 3M$ by society (a couple of years ago, probably higher now), the price doesn't necessarily seem too high.
I personally use MX Browns at home, but they're not significantly louder than a full size, well used membrane keyboard. Membrane keyboards tend to get noisier as they age and their stems wear down and their lubricants degrade.

On the other hand, there are far more silent mechanical switches available. There are "Silent Brown" switches, "Red" switches without any tactile feedback, or "Silent Red" switches, with even less noise.

If I decide to change my office keyboard one day, I'd buy Red or Silent Brown switches, not because standard Browns are actually annoyingly noisy, but we as people are under stress in the office and get irritated sometimes, and I want to be polite.

As I said before, mechanical keyboards are not about the noise they make primarily, they're much more comfortable to use and they last a long time. Oh, I like the sound of my Browns, but it's just a secondary effect.
The mind of a master procrastinator (2016)
My first Linux install was in 1995 or 1996 with kernel 1.2.x and a functional desktop required way much more than a single floppy disk. IIRC, the kernel alone (with initrd) was taking one disk. I'm curious when "lightweight Linux" fit on one or two disks.
The article says "7 nm for Herøya – Brevik and 30 nm Herøya – Larvik."
Perhaps that's why Avalanche is doing so well. They get rid of many of the current problems of Ethereum and offer an EVM.
looks like an interesting project. Is anyone using this in 2021? I noticed the last blog post from the official site was in 2017. The forum is also very quiet.

What would prevent me from touching this however: ISO images are hosted via plain HTTP[1] and the only way to verify it is an md5sum that I have to fetch from the same domain. not only is there no transport integrity but I have no way of knowing if the binaries hosted on that server can be traced to a build upstream? Maybe I have to dig around their hg to find out or I'm missing something? Who built these images and where would be good to know before I would consider loading any of this on my hardware.

I could not make sense of the info in this page[2] linked to from [download] warning about spectre/meltdown. Also the suggested mitigation techniques were odd to say the least.

The project had a total of 7 contributors since 2012. Would be nice if this got more eyeballs and some serious refactoring on how they do security and build automation since this is a key element in a distribution (imho).

[1] http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/rolling/slitaz-rolling.iso

[2] https://forum.slitaz.org/topic/-important-info-about-meltdow...
And so does the multiple of IPOs that happen every day. Does that mean blockchain is useless for that purpose?
MacOS is partly a freebsd derivate, Netflix-cdn runs on freebsd, bigiron controlplane (junos,ios) is often netbsd based, enterprise storage (netapp) also ... there was a list on wikipedia iirc (canot find atm)
A couple of arguments I have heard against unionizing at the Tesla factory is that the workers are part of the innovation that takes place there. I'm not sure if that kind of flexibility would be permitted in a union run factory. Also the UAW rarely does or is able to negotiate for stock options, which Tesla workers currently have. Although I can't speak to the validity of either of these.

Glass door seems to rate Tesla well and I doubt Tesla managed to game Glass Door but no one else has.
The reason why we don't have such a book is simply because nobody has the slightest clue as to how things work at the macro level. We got as far as figuring out a few dozen cells at a time, but beyond that it's really anyone's guess. We don't even know what the _questions_ should be in this field, let alone the answers. I suspect it's also strongly discouraging to newcomers because things just start looking very obviously intractable very early on, modeling of large numbers of neurons sufficiently well is mathematically near impossible, readout is mostly destructive to the specimen (and in ghastly ways - the specimen has to be alive and awake for it to even be possible), and completely impossible in humans, though Neuralink might provide a much needed boost there. Speaking of Neuralink, I think this un-developedness of the field is why Musk is pursuing it. This is, in many ways, the _real_ last frontier - understanding ourselves. There won't really be much to understand beyond that, since it is but a small step between full understanding and the ability to replicate, and possible eclipse what we have.
> No individual human being has the psychological makeup to completely feel the full accomplishments of Armstrong, so that is something to consider.

I don't understand how it contradicts "Armstrong had an impostor syndrome therefore comparing with his individual quirks is stupid". We all sometimes doubt ourselves but OP's story is a bit different. What, if I worked in McDonalds and met all those people OP met, you would've told me about Armstrong too? The one and only advice you get in such situations is "do something which will distract you from how much you suck in the society, where the alpha and omega of your value is going to fucking space or earning billions of dollars".

https://www.gwern.net/The-Melancholy-of-Subculture-Society

Ah, the ultimate solution: forget about achievements considered important for the society and join small groups of other losers where you wont suck as much and be valued as you are, wasting your life as a D&D narrator or whatever. You are worthless for the humanity so step aside, play games, watch youtube and meditate - life is so wonderful.

> OTOH far more common is the exaggerated ego where people feel accomplished for things that did not actually happen.

Sounds like a compensation for those who can't deal with reality. We are not talking about people imagining things.
good point, seems the risk IS worth it for a lot of ppl
> I’m from the PHP world of things and need to get experience with what the modern stuff you’re describing. Are there platforms or projects that provide the foundation of what you’re describing?

Clojure and ClojureScript is probably the best real-world and actually practical example of this in the wild. .cljc files can be loaded by any Clojure runtime, while .clj files are for Clojure and .cljs are for ClojureScript. Many of the libraries in the ecosystem all use .cljc, so you can use the same libraries both in the backend and in the frontend.
"But next time I think I’ll just buy the 16GB variant upfront."

Next time don't buy from a company that forces you to spend the maximum if you want to use your laptop after 3 years.

I am hopping but not expecting that this chip shortage will force vendors to make systems more modular again as they can't get enough ram/disk out of the get go. Wouldn't that be a nice world where you can upgrade your laptop or desktop PC yourself?
A bunch of previously tenured faculty in Georgia might beg to differ with you there.
The market for healthcare needs to be completely unregulated and open to competition. The licensure barriers to providing drugs, medical devices, and medical services leads to far less innovation toward more efficient ways of producing medical products/services than there otherwise would be.
Adding to what others have said, I mentioned 'production-ready' specifically because built-in http servers in programming languages are usually for testing and are not supposed to be used in production due to poor performance e.g. Python's http server and hence you'd require a standalone http server with python or Node.js applications.

In Go you can use default http server, multiplexer and router to serve your http requests directly to your application logic. It also has support built-in for Lets Encrypt SSL certificate via autocert covering all fundamental reasons you'd want a standalone web server for your web application.
Why we migrated to TypeScript after all
Does anyone know why the change at the north pole is bigger than the south pole? Is this because the north pole is floating on water?
I really dislike the use of the word "anomaly" in climate change circles. It may be technically correct, but it feels like propaganda. All it is is the difference to the average of an arbitrarily chosen time frame.

It would actually be strange if temperatures where exactly like the average all the time, so calling it an anomaly if they are different from the average really seems misleading. Again, it may be the technically correct term, but it has a different meaning in "normal language" imo.

The trend of the temperature may be "anomal", but that is not what they call an "anomaly".
I had several absolutely awful experiences with CosmosDB even before this breach. Its design and engineering are the worst I've encountered on Azure or anywhere else that I remember.

This vulnerability, and especially its handling by Microsoft, were the final nail in the coffin for us and we've put in the effort to migrate away.
I think they've just lost somebody that they care about. :(