skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have seen my friends use Life360 to track their kids and I was honestly surprised that they trust this company with real time location permissions. But I also understand the need for parents to keep a tab on their kids. So I ask this crowd are there any non-shady companies in this business? What methods are parents of HN using for tracking their kids? I realize people might have opinions on privacy of their kids and you are free to not "track" your kids but for some safety and assurance is also a big deal.
I will be afraid if someone starts building radars using a Raspberry Pi and an AD9177.
The Old Man and The Sea, For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Duchies etc still changed hands quite frequently
My recent favorite books:

Epic Fantasy: The Malazan series. (Gardens of the Moon, the first book is a challenging read and has a bit of an anticlimatic end. Don't judge the series till finishing the first three books. They get easier to read starting book 2).

History: The making of the atomic bomb by Richard Rhodes. (The title is misleading - it's not about the manhattan project really. The book traces the history of nuclear physics, starting from Rutherford realizing that most of an atom's mass must be concentrated in a nucleus - and step by step, follows all the turns and surprises as a group of people pieced together what an atom must be made of. The book makes an unavoidable turn into the manhattan project and ends with Hiroshima/Nagasaki, so yes the Manhattan project does make a significant part of the book, but it's really not the focus of the book).

Design: The Elements of typographic style by Robert Bringhurst. (A beautiful book about typesetting beautiful books).

Nature: Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake. (A fascinating book about fungii. I'll never see trees the same way again).

Autobiography: A man for all markets by Edward O Thorp (Claude Shannon shows up and helps the author try to cheat at Roulette using wearable computers! A lot of fascinating stuff).

More history: The Anarchy by William Dalrymple. (A book on the British East India company went from being a merchant company to eventually becoming the British Raj).
Something written on a pipe would be an easter egg, likely tolerated.
If a non-standard dataset is being used, I would expect there to be a discussion/analysis on what characteristics of that dataset made it unusable for this paper. Especially if a proposed model is being compared against models that were trained on those standard datasets.

If you are establishing new baselines using those same models on your non-standard dataset, then one would expect you to put in a good amount of effort to finetune all the knobs to get a reasonable result. If the authors put are able to put in that much effort, then that kind of feedback is definitely unreasonable.
Given that it's 9:1 illegal to legal in the SF Bay Area, even this tax break might now be enough to matter. It's already lower risk and high profit to sell illegally rather than legally.
It’s bad for campaign donations and bad for future highly paid job prospects in the financial industry. So politicians and agency workers have strong incentives to not be too tough on banks.
If any of us had the opportunity to make $1 billion dollars and pay a $920 million dollar "naughty boy" fine after the fact, who here would say no?

The fine should be ALL of the ill-gotten gains and then a naughty boy fine on top of it. To do otherwise means that you did not do justice.
I think it's really important for people to understand that $1Bn isn't a lot of money to JPM because they do lots of things. They made $30Bn last year - but this specific trading business probably made nothing like that. They're doing consumer banking, investment banking, commercial banking, asset and wealth management. It might be true that $1Bn isn't a huge sum compared to the total profitability of JPM but I don't see why JPM's consumer banking arm has anything to do with the fine. Most likely these trading desks sum up to around 50-100 people at most. It's a very profitable sector (when you're breaking the law) but it's a tiny tiny part of what JPM do, and the idea that we should fine JPM more because they have lots of other businesses is just kind of crazy.
> 5) 9 Stories by J.D. Salinger

I'd encourage anyone who was put off by The Catcher in the Rye not to dismiss Salinger's other work, and agree that this is the one to read, if you're only going to read one (other) volume of his.
Moonbounce isn't practical for any real application nowadays. It's a fun experiment and a PR stunt.
MySQL used to be the "has more features" camp, I'm not sure why you think it does less.

There are many things that MySQL does that Postgres still can't do, like memory tables or pluggable storage engines.

And for anecdatum: I've been serving a million people concurrently on PG without any handholding except the initial setup: but that tells you nothing about what we were actually doing with it.
Unfortunately those working in fields like education and healthcare have too much empathy. They don't go on strike or have a 9 to 5 mentality.

Capitalism favours the narcissistic and the psychopath.
Thanks for the positive response! Yeah, it’s a bummer that it got attacked. I guess that’s par for the course when dealing with anonymous content.

I’m hoping to revive this project at some point,
with a bigger focus on preventing abuse. I have some ideas in mind :)

As for releasing the source, I don’t have any plans to release the full stack. However, I may extract out the main part of the frontend that controls the pixel canvas and open source that so people can play around with it locally.

Probably going to take a bit of a break from this project before doing any of that though. Stay tuned!
Ableton Live has a Audio to Midi [1] feature that works pretty well to extract notes from audio. Melodyne [2] is a very powerful tool to mess around with notes in general.

There's also some open source projects out there, such as aubio [3] and Omnizart [4].

[1] https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/converting-audio-to-midi/

[2] https://www.celemony.com/en/melodyne/what-is-melodyne

[3] https://aubio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cli.html#aubionotes

[4] https://music-and-culture-technology-lab.github.io/omnizart-...
In Canada/Quebec too.
I recently discovered that if you're logged into Wikipedia, you can customize the UI completely.

You can, of course, choose different themes.

But you can also upload custom CSS and Javascript!

Link to image of preferences page -
https://ibb.co/Kbfh1QQ
Wow, I love this edit, I’m agnostic myself but that seems rather neat. I remember reading about how Warren Buffet, despite not being particularly religious, has read the Bible like 7 times or something. I always found that rather interesting. Thanks!
> Think about abuse in other contexts to put it in perspective. If a teacher in the middle of giving a homework assignment had said the same thing, would that be okay? What about a police officer who pulled someone over during a traffic stop? What about a customer at a drive thru saying this into the speaker?

Calling a group of people "DUMB DOLPHINS" on an email chain ... Inappropriate, un professional, dis-respectful all seem like a better way to characterize it.

Its like the reverse of when Prince Andrew described Jeffrey Epstein behavior as "Un-Becoming". There is probably a better way to characterize it.
Well, the writing is awful -as expected from a professional writer with
mainstream awards etc that are routinely handed out to people who just. can't.
write. But do it anyway. At length. Great length. On and on.

I mean the entire article could be reduced to one page, were it to be stripped
of all the unberable snobbery and laughably superficial invocation of
"scientific facts". As a piece of philosophical writing, it's complete shit. It
puts forth its author's beliefs, straw-mans all the possible objections that the
author has thought of and makes no effort to think of any ones the author
doesn't have a good answer for. It makes it very obvious that the author thinks
that he is one of the very few, chosen people, intellectually gifted enough to
ponder these difficult, oh, difficult, questions so deeply. It makes it plain
that everyone else is an idiot who doesn't know shit. The article preaches and
moralises, and grandstands and my god, the voice, the smugness, the
know-it-all-ness, the manic-depressive irony, the self-serving banality, is like
listening to Ferris Buehler telling himself off for masturbating to his dad's
porn.

And you know what? It's fucking wrong to kill lobsters (and crabs) by boiling
them alive. If there's any other way to do it, then there's a better way to do
it. That is my deeply held belief. But by reading this article by someone so
obviously so up themselves they see the light from the other side, for a moment
I doubted my belief and started thinking that I may be wrong in my convictions.
Not because the article gave me any new perspective on the subject. But because
it made me think: "this idiot agrees with me. Why?".
I use it right now and it gives 24/7 livetime location reporting as well as free driver reports (top speed, number of hard braking events). There are other features you can upgrade to, but it's definitely useable at a free tier.
There doesn't have to be a law against something for a jury to find you responsible for damages. This is a civil suit, right?
Interesting that books like "Bury my heart at wounded knee" by Dee Brown doesn't seem to come up in these threads - but maybe it's in the high school curriculum in the US?

Which reminds I've yet to read Isaac Asimov's books on the history of North America/USA.

https://sursumcorda.salemsattic.com/archives/2018/06/19/isaa...
IMHO the things that OP wanted should not be part of the website:

Narrower columns? Adjust the width of your browser window.
Nicer Fonts? Those should be a user preference, not served by website - I see the OP agrees with this...
Dark Mode? That should be a function of the DE, or maybe the browser, but not the web site.

Everything about this work says "I want to control the look of web pages on my end."
Half of cutting the images is a space saving thing.

Wikipedia is a pretty big website, and (like the rest of my web presence) I'm hosting the mirror on a single small consumer hardware server. I'm keeping all the wikipedia pages as compressed HTML, and if you look at the sources you'll see it's very bare bones, most pages are like 50 Kb, yet the total is still 21 Gb. I don't think I have the space or bandwidth for selfhosting all of wikipedia's images.

Part of this experiment is to illustrate just how ridiculously large page loads on a lot of pages. Even text-heavy ones like Wikipedia.

If you compare the HTML payload alone of these two renditions of largely the same text, it's a 50x difference. The full Wikipedia page load exceeds 1 Mb, mine isn't even 10 Kb.

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

https://encyclopedia.marginalia.nu/wiki/Scamander

That's kinda ridiculous.
> Surprisingly (for its author) this analysis misses the most remarkable part of the story.

This is mentioned at the very beginning of the article, in the quote from the CNBC article:

"By chartering private cargo vessels to carry its goods, Amazon can control where its goods go, avoiding the most congested ports."

And another quote mentions Amazon shipping to Washington:

"That CNBC story follows on a similar story in Bloomberg last month that opens with an anecdote about one of Amazon’s workarounds:

'Most cargo ships putting into the port of Everett, Washington, brim with cement and lumber. So when the Olive Bay docked in early November, it was clear this was no ordinary shipment. Below decks was rolled steel bound for Vancouver, British Columbia, and piled on top were 181 containers emblazoned with the Amazon logo.' Some were empty and immediately used to shuffle inventory between the company’s warehouses."
I am looking forward to reading the whole thread, but while people are at it, you can check this out:

https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app/category/0/all-t...

You could also find nice websites and collections if you Google "Hacker News books".

Hacker News has become one of the most impactful places in determining what to read.

I have read at least 10 books as suggested in HN comments by others within 4-5 months after deciding to do so.

I have a list of almost 70 books that I am going to check out, and a shortlist of ~20 books that I am definitely going to read- all from HN comments.

HN is a great place to find out new books- whether it is about tech, fiction, or non-fiction.

The books suggested here amazingly diverese in nature. I highly recommend reading books suggested in HN many times according to your choices to whoever reads this.

Happy reading!
definitely true in the late 90s.
Is it because of the kernel or simply specific to NTFS?
I’m having a hard time seeing what’s special about this. This has been a HAM radio thing for a long time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth–Moon–Earth_communicati...
I feel like his best bet would be to consult various religious leaders and convert this experience into a profound voyage to faith.

Then market a book & speaking tour. Quit at 3 mil and call it a day.
A smattering from my audible listening list which I particularly remember liking (this might actually be a 'less read books' list sorry ;-) ): Michael Palin - Erebus ; Alan Moore - Jerusalem ; Graeme Green - Travel with my Aunt ; Karen Maitland - A Company of Liars ; Louis de Bernieres - Captain Correlli's Mandolin ; Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose ; Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls ; Robert Harris - Imperium trilogy ...

I'd second for Master & Margarita and almost anything by Dostoyevsky
Why isn't it practical? Background noise makes it unreliable?
In my previous work, people wanted to remain on good terms because they were good jobs they were hoping to return to once economic conditions were better. It also helped that they were unionized so they got a reasonable package to make ends meet in the interim.
> It also does not imply the owners of that land - that had to take a risk in allocating their funds to acquire it - do not deserve to benefit from it (given they also very likely pay taxes on that ownership, which is true in the vast majority of the US; and property taxes are a very important government funding source in the US).

the georgist's view is that the landowner does little to contribute to the area being nice/successful, but reap all the benefits.

> Take now... some hard-headed business man, who has no theories, but knows how to make money. Say to him: "Here is a little village; in ten years it will be a great city—in ten years the railroad will have taken the place of the stage coach, the electric light of the candle; it will abound with all the machinery and improvements that so enormously multiply the effective power of labor. Will in ten years, interest be any higher?" He will tell you, "No!" "Will the wages of the common labor be any higher...?" He will tell you, "No the wages of common labor will not be any higher..." "What, then, will be higher?" "Rent, the value of land. Go, get yourself a piece of ground, and hold possession."

> [...] without doing one stroke of work, without adding one iota of wealth to the community, in ten years you will be rich! In the new city you may have a luxurious mansion, but among its public buildings will be an almshouse.
Not who you're replying to, but even if I'm not 100% productive I'm also not ignoring phone calls, and showing up late for meetings. All while billing my company for OT
Self-Described Bitcoin Creator Must Pay $100M in Suit
> its really annoying to click on a Wikipedia link on HN/Reddit and having it open the mobile site on desktop.

Yes, this is a gigantic pain. But I would say that it's the HN commenters being incredibly obnoxious, not wikipedia being wrong for giving you the mobile site when you specifically ask for it.
Can someone explain why the RISC-V ecosystem won’t eventually stabilise into a series of lower performance open source cores and higher performance closed source (and non licensable) cores.

In other words why should designers open source performance leading cores for competitors to copy?
>I think your boss's actions (or lack thereof) speak louder than words.

Whatever the cause, the fact that the toxic person is still there says everything you need to know. Bad employees will not be pushed out. So even if the current toxic one goes and a new toxic person comes, you'll have more years of dealing with that new person.
It's such a childish game. You just choose the problem you want to solve, and work it back from the whys and start at the beginning.

When I worked SAFe, I was able to point every single outage at the SAFe baloney using this technique. They stopped making us use SAFe.
> I know this sounds horrible but in the days of covid and working from home, what are companies supposed to do if they have to lay off large amounts of people?

This isn't about a Zoom call.

This is about companies taking massive, quick capital to rapidly expand head count at such a rate to which this inevitably occurs.

It lacks responsibility, care, empathy, or even the slightest bit of concern for those that have invested their opportunity cost of being a part of your company.
High school: More physical activity. I developed my mind only. I was a very fast runner and a good high jumper, without ever exercising, and I probably could have been some kind of track athlete. At high school age I had been bullied enough to think that sports were not for me, even if I was good at them. I think I should have tried.

College: I should have switched programs from journalism/communications to comp sci. At the time, I couldn't conceive of starting a university program all over again at the incredibly advanced age of 22.
It's kind of hard to assess what impact you'd see, but for me, changing teams has ended up giving me a chance to work with new tech, a broader understanding of our system overall, and it's been a good chance to get to know more people. To be honest, I'd recommend periodically rotating teams, even if things aren't bad on the current one. It's really kept things fresh for me.
This is a civil trial. If it goes forward then the court will determine liability, not guilt.
> No it's free promotion for the FSF

They deserve the promotion, because they created useful software.

> BS, i use FreeBSD and no one ever forced me to use Windows

At some point, Windows was everywhere, you couldn't hide from it. Now, Linux provides a strong competition, forcing even Microsoft to include it into Windows. BSD, instead, served as free labor for Apple, who created a walled garden for users.

What exactly do you want to do with the code that GPL prevents you from?
Love the 'fantasy' scene [0] in Annie Hall where Woody Allen's character 'pulls out' Marshall McLuhan to put an intellectual blowhard back into place. McLuhan says, "I heard what you were saying. You know nothing of my work - you mean my whole fallacy is wrong. How you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing."

Maybe a cameo in a movie meant that McLuhan didn't take himself too seriously. I find his ideas relatively 'approachable', although I'm fairly skeptical whenever reading any philosophical work. Just recently, I had to deal with phenomenological and heuristic approaches to qualitative studies. I see some value, but (as a scientist) the lack of rigor and consistency makes my head spin.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRcMsqCbzWk
Mind you, he still gets to keep billions in Bitcoin.
You should have specified somewhere that PDFs are also vulnerable. It is not common sense.

On that, PDFs run scripts and use graphic libraries, they are not text documents.
This is only somewhat related, but a couple years ago somebody at my company who many people had worked with and liked (he'd been around for a long time) died unexpectedly over a holiday weekend. Our management decided the best way to disseminate this news was to hold an all-hands where they announced he'd been found dead. (OK, they used the term "deceased" so it was slightly more formal)

I probably won't ever forgive them for that. That kind of news is extremely personal and they shouldn't have called us into a room to tell us in front of literally everyone else at the company. I don't need or want my coworkers to see how I react to death -- what if I'd burst into tears? I certainly had felt like doing that.

Honestly even though he was really well-known, the best way to handle it would have been to send an email out (like they did for everyone else who passed) and then have an optional get-together where people could reminisce if they wanted to. Preferably in an informal environment like a bar or restaurant for happy hour.

Curious what other people's experiences have been.
Think about this for just half a second though -- What would be the value in buying location data on someone's Tile? Phone location data is valuable because it tells you where a human being with a wallet is.

If someone attaches a Tile to something (say their backpack), what's the use in buying that location data? Are you going to try to show location based ads to someone's backpack that they accidentally left in the library?
exactly, what's the mechanism by which this keeps getting posted individually (a time limit I assume)? it almost seems like marketing spam at this point.
5% raise when inflation is >5% is a real wage cut.
Ah, I see. The wording on the Wikipedia page isn't as good as the wording on the specification draft itself:

> This document was on the W3C Recommendation track but specification work has stopped. The specification reached an impasse: all interested implementors have used the same SQL backend (Sqlite), but we need multiple independent implementations to proceed along a standardisation path.

It seems like they didn't just need a specified SQL dialect, but multiple actual implementations, but I might be reading into the wording incorrectly.
TIL there is such a word as 'ax'.
The thing I don't understand about agile is that many projects require a year+ investment before anyone will use it. e.g. say you're building a competitor to Google Docs. How do you get any real user feedback after < a year of work by a substantial team of engineers? No one is going to want to use your prototype that barely does anything. Or worse yet, your backend that doesn't even have a UI yet, and also barely does anything.
I download a new Takeout every six months. One thing to be aware of if you plan on storing these long-term is that their archives are not very efficient. In particular, there is no incremental backup option—each Takeout is a full copy, and there are often many duplicate files even within one download. I take two post-processing steps with each download which significantly reduce the storage space required: (1) I convert the Google Mail data from mbox format to maildir (with mb2md[0]), so that each email is a separate file which can be deduplicated, and (2) I append the new takeout data to a SquashFS[1] filesystem with xz compression. This automatically deduplicates identical files, both within the new archive and against previous archives. The end result is that I now have three ~50 GiB Takeouts stored in a single ~25 GiB SquashFS filesystem image.

My (Linux-based) process also involves ratarmount, bindfs, and fuse-overlayfs. These tools are not strictly necessary but they do reduce the amount of temporary space required, since there is no need to unpack the .tgz files. Access to the resulting filesystem image is through either squashfuse or for better performance (but requiring root) a native loopback mount.

[0] http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS
Can your address the substance of my post rather than nitpick dictionary definition of a word?

And if you are going to do that, at least contrast speculation and gambling, since that's what we disagree about
Very nice. I think a bit more spacing between text body paragraphs could help legibility.