skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An excerpt from a 2020 Stratechery article (https://stratechery.com/2020/facebook-invests-in-jio-platfor...):

“Over the past two years, more than 200m Indian phone users have flocked to take advantage of arguably the greatest corporate gamble in the country’s history. Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, has spent $32bn building up his telecoms company Reliance Jio — the biggest private sector investment in India’s history — as he fights for dominance in the world’s second-biggest telecoms market by user numbers. Much of that money has been spent giving away free access to what Jio says is now the world’s largest mobile data network, with its clients consuming about three times the amount of data of an average European customer.

The launch of Jio has helped to engineer a socio-economic revolution in India. For the first time, millions of Indians are able to access the internet to register for benefit payments, download school textbooks or simply watch India beat Pakistan at cricket. The rapid growth in the telecoms network has encouraged some of the world’s biggest retail and technology companies to plough money into the country. Walmart this year announced the world’s largest ecommerce deal by buying 77 per cent of Indian online retailer Flipkart for $16bn. Google is beefing up its India team, while Netflix says it hopes to add 100m customers from the country.”

Hell of a legacy.
France just can't shake the Minitel, that's for sure.
The kind of roles that are good are the ones that you can be honest with. If you have to constantly lie about your situation, it probably is going to blow up sooner or later.

So find somewhere that you can just tell that you're in Bali or whatever.
"Fair" can express an intuition, in addition to objective standards. Which is why Big Time adds both context and definitions to flesh it out. A bitter dispute about those terms could result in litigation. But the overwhelming majority of contract disputes don't go to court. Sides figure things out based on estimates of their odds in court.

The defined term "fair commercial license" only matters if you fall outside the definition of "Small Business", reach out for a paid license proposal, and don't see receive proposal you think meets the definition within 32 days. In other words, if negotiations for the license totally fail.

At that point, if the developer is dead convinced they've made proposals meeting the requirements of Big Time, and your company continues to use the software, they can sue you for infringement. Which, in all likelihood, will just result in another round of license agreement negotiations, this time with lawyers.

If you get to the point where a piece of Big Time software is worth that much to your business, even if it still counts as a "Small Business" under the terms, there's nothing to stop you reaching out to negotiate paid terms ahead of time.

In sum, both the value of the software to your business and the extent to which you're even worth pursuing in the first place will affect the way things play out in practice. FRAND-like commitment aside, compared to the traditional, closed-and-proprietary approach, the difference with Big Time is that noncommercial and small-business users can have the software for free, and everyone can see the source code.
> for now, an emphasis on steering is the preserve of expensive brands like Porsche.

Anyone know of other makes getting steering right nowadays?
How We Lost the Women in Computing (2018)
The observation isn't that opposition to big tech is always irrational or partisan.

The observation is that Big Tech plays the role of Powerful Boogeyman for both the left and the right in polarizing narrative construction.

Ofc non-partisans can also dislike big tech, and partisans can dislike big tech for rational reasons. Neither of those is inconsistent with the above observation.
Just tried it out!:

Wordle 209 6/6

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EDIT: the formatting doesn't seem to work here, green and yellow squares disappear after posting the comment.
> Academic code is about "proof of concept."

Why does he think that but presumably not the same about the paper itself and the “equations”, plots, etc. contained within?

It’s really not that hard to write pretty good code for prototypes. In fact, I can only assume that he and other professors never allowed or encouraged “proof of concept” code to be submitted as course homework or projects.
Video games are almost becoming video gaming(as in what they call those places where you play video slots in the closed off section at the back of a restaurant in my area). It is definitely concerning
There's a trade off between exploration and exploitation. And sometimes, because they put on their best face to recruit you, you can't figure out that a seemingly promising idea is actually nonsense and it will never work without joining the effort for at least a month or two to go far enough down the rabbit hole until you realize it's full of manure.

I've lasted anywhere from 30 days to over a decade depending on the gig. And every one of those moves was the right choice. I prefer to rely on my own research of the person's career track and the number of people they can summon as references to say nice things about them. Tech culture brings out survival traits and I'm not going to hold anything against people who act in their own best interest.
Works OK for me. It's on Notion, a Google Docs competitor that gets heavy usage. Maybe something is wrong with your browser
I think 15 ff/ hour (about 2.5euros), if memory serves me well for a local call. Minitel was more expensive ( 3615 i think was typically closer to 15 euros/hour.

It was brutally expensive actually.
The paper this is a response to is being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29936104.
You've been wrong about Omicron the entire time. You were proclaiming doom weeks ago, and crapping all over many of us pointing at the South African data. We were proven correct, you were proven wrong. No sense of humility about this on your part. Just because some of us deal with fear better than others doesn't make us fools and you empathetic by comparison.

"Many" is not remotely specific. It's hand-waving. "Many" people who drive cars die in car accidents. It's hand-wavy and vague, and is often an indication of cognitive dissonance to argue this way. The confidence with which these assertions are being made is unearned and unjustified.
The game has two lists -- the guessable words list, and there's also a subset which is the possible answers list (this is also provided to the players, I think maybe in order, even -- it is just for fun after all, no need to prevent cheating). IMO it is better to stick to the guessable words list.
What a hacker-news-worthy first comment!

On mobile the website worked great for me. Writing a blockchain is an eye opening task, I commend the OP for doing this and giving us all some inspiration.
They could fly coach with the rest of us unwashed masses.
> I can't even lower the dang contrast on my iOS or MacOS devices

Does "Reduce White Point" on iOS/iPadOS help at all?

https://support.apple.com/en-by/guide/iphone/iph3e2e1fb0/ios
> Reproducing the results does not mean running the same code as the author and plotting the same figures as in the paper. This is trivial and good for nothing.

I agree with this statement, however I think you may have a misunderstanding on reproducing results. It's not that you can reproduce their graphs from their dataset, but rather seeing if their code reproduces on to your (new) dataset.

Another way to think of it is that the research paper's Methodology section is describing how to set up a laboratory environment to replicate results. By extension the laboratory for coding research IS the code. Thus, by releasing the code along with your paper, you are effectively stating "how is a direct copy of my laboratory for you to conduct your replicate on".
My mom tries painfully hard to make Bixby do things for her. She will spend 20 minutes trying to get it to find her a recipe or something instead of using an app. I keep trying to tell her to stop wasting her time and just use google but I guess there is still some novelty in these conversational interfaces (clearly its not easier or faster). If she could use google home to fill out her time sheet or save a document to google drive she would. The thing she finds difficult about tech stuff is remembering the workflow of how to accomplish a task through multiple websites/apps.

Also while I’m on my soap box this is a PSA to all ui devs, stop trying to turn every menu/button text into an icon. My mom does not even remember that the button with 3 horizontal lines means menu she is not going to understand that stamp icon means “add a signature.”
> That's not really the problem with solar. Storing energy in batteries from day to night is a solved problem, it doesn't even double the price of electricity.

I very much doubt this is "solved" at the scale of an entire country's energy needs for half a day, never mind the entire world's. Lithium and other materials for batteries are not that abundant, and definitely not that abundantly extracted.
Your bias is showing. Politifact?

The NBSA sent a letter to the DOJ asking them to look into school board meetings around the country, saying that the parent protests were "equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism."

The NBSA has since apologized and removed the letter from their website.

Politifact responds by saying the word "terrorist" does not appear in the memo, thus the "domestic terrorist" claim is false. They created a straw man and then defeated it. Yeesh.
> The argument has been made that this is actually a First Amendment violation because of the state action: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1363175977531150338

The argument has been made, but not successfully. The thing is, threatening to pass a (flagrantly unconstitutional) law if companies don't do something isn't enough of a direct tie by itself to make someone a state actor. Especially when those countries from time to time ask Congress to pass such a law.
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/judiciary_rep...

Here you will see that the FBI counter terrorism team was spurred by that Oct 4 letter to start tracking potential threats that concerned parents posed. So no, he didn't technically call them terrorists, he just had the counter-terrorism team activated to look for terrorists.
Roughly how much did you spend on the home, if you don't mind me asking? I'm curious how expensive that area is.

Most homes that are near the sea are pretty damn expensive in the US. Or if not, have significant flooding, hurricane, and/or will probably be underwater thanks to climate change in 10-15 years.
Same. $500K is huge for us older engineers with families. Let's not forget - the average age of successful entrepreneurs is 45... (ok unicorns average 34 - but they're f&cking UNICORNS!!).

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-21/what-s-th...
I understand, however, consider that being good for patent policies between multinational Fortune 500s does not in any way imply that it is good for anything else. In the case of two F500s with their respective lawyer armies, they are evenly matched, they're equals. Thus a licence can work even if murky because either side can make it very painful for the other to make it not work. It's a repeated prisoner's dilemma case.

For me, as the creator of the hypothetical software in question, I am vastly, vastly disadvantaged — not only am I not a lawyer, I do not want to hire one because if I hired one for every sale I would end up bankrupt. Not only that, it is possible that the software the big company uses might be the last one they would ever get from me, if they so choose, so they have no incentive to play nice.

I probably do not need to quote you the Athenians response to the Melians, you get the idea. I would recommend, if you like to get any real adoption of your licenses with the developer community, to think more like the Melians and less like the Athenians.
Unless my brain isn't parsing it right, that dating icon is both funny and NSFW.
This is legitimately the stance I take on audio quality, video quality above 1080p (although I do notice the difference in bitrate between streams), cars, video games, and a lot of other things.
OK, Mr Troll. That site is like I had a seizure while playing with Adobe Dreamweaver.
I only do fresh installs for actually new systems (not replacing an existing system, which just gets the disk moved or copied), and it might happen if I lost a drive that wasn't backed up. Or if a system switches operating systems, or if I break things bad enough and can't restore.
The last bit of information that GP might be missing is that

pub fn main() {
let x = 4; // unused
println!("{x}");
}

would previously be a compile time error (because the format! family of macros perform string interpolation at compile time):

error: there is no argument named `x`
--> <source>:3:15
|
3 | println!("{x}");
| ^^^

So no new existing code will stop compiling, some things that were previously compile errors will now work.
It's not a bad idea to include pseudocode, but my pet peeve is that there's really no standard for pseudocode. I tend to write pseudocode that looks like python. I did that in an internal paper for a group I worked in a few years back and the manager of the group made me change it to look more like C (complete with for loops as: for(i=0; i<x; i++) which made no sense to me).
Poll: Why are people leaving their jobs?
There has been quite a lot of press about the 'great resignation,' with employees leaving jobs in droves. This is likely hyperbole, but it does seem that there are a large number of people switching jobs.

If that is something you have done or are considering doing in the near future, why?
flexibility (remote, hours etc)
new challenge / learning
company culture
life balance
The FSB plays for keeps, I would not want to be in their shoes. Wonder what they did to piss off the Russian government, it would have to be something like that, as long as they are just ripping off Western Europe and the USA it seems that they were allowed to operate.
Yes, the university library is where I would try to find a publishing solution that could remain after I am dead and all my online accounts expire.

GitHub is not a viable solution; Microsoft can not be trusted to keep these important cultural artifacts safe and accessible in the near future.
> No one other than extremists (which exist in all groups) believe this

This is the main argument I hear. Tell me then, how else is it useful?

> using this as a reason to hate NFTs makes you appear unreasonable and not grounded in reality

It's a perfectly valid reason to hate NFTs among so many others. Instead of since centralized authority such as a government keeping track of who owns something it's a "decentralized" blockchain.
Play Wordle for a Different Day
This video on Deleuze and control societies feels particularly relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY&ab_channel=Plast...
Sounds like a perfect metaphor for blockchain applications!
I didn't write it explicitly, but I was describing ssh'ing to an RPI behind a NAT as most residential U.S. internet is. In that case 123.45.67.8 won't help you.

In fact, I think the comment I was responding to understood my meaning and retroactively edited their comment to include the part between the dashes about accessing a compy behind a NAT. GP-- did you do that or am I imagining things?

Anyway, I agree with that comment as written-- if you don't ever need to care about breaking through NATs, Tor isn't a big benefit. (But there are, however, a large number of situations where users do care about NATs. GP only mentioned the one I had in mind. So I don't agree with the greater upshot of anonymity being the determining factor in Tor use.)
not really, I take good native app over bad electron one any day of the week.

I am linux user but i will not miss humble bundle.
Rogue police officer’s claim secret service knew about Barcelona's attack
Lol good catch, I was in a waiting room and didn't get to check grammar. Fixed
Regarding games: PS1 games may run with PCSX-Reloaded aka PCSXR (the most-current-before-Retroarch fork of PCSX)—if the machine has any 3D acceleration. However, Retroarch's version is probably out, their requirements are higher.

N64 emulation may also be possible, however afaik it's a gamble whether accuracy is ok and games don't glitch all over.

Of course, mashing the gamepad—or the keyboard—is not good for hands. OpenTTD is indeed much more relaxing on the fingers.
I would start by looking at variance in state funding pre-covid. Reducing funding: increasing tuition to market limits, then cutting expenses. Increasing funding: increasing expenses and increasing tuition to market limits. Tuition has roughly on an 8% track and historical circumstances vary, so pricing and spending reactions aren't immediate.

Here's a high level report showing some of the state funding changes. https://www.cbpp.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/10-24-1...
Check out https://privacy.com/. Pretty neat and gives similar/better features.
That use-case is exactly what I use https://www.zerotier.com/ for — SSHing into my NAS from anywhere in the world. And there's less configuration involved than setting up a Tor hidden service.
Unhinged psychopath. Flammable language.
I do, but YouTube constantly finds a way around it. I've been running Adblock Plus and Ghostery Lite, but YouTube ads have poked their way through again.
I don't snack, because I'll get fat. I saw a guy who snacked on carrots, cucumbers and tomatoes throughout the day that he brought to work in the morning. Even though I think that's pretty cool, I never picked up that habit
South African study suggests Omicron less severe even for unvaccinated
Ask HN: Recommend Me Best Linux Laptop
HN, I am thinking of buying new Laptop and I will be running Linux on it. Can you please recommend me good Laptop that runs Linux well(Laptop can come with any OS but must run Linux very well)?

It could be better if these criterias are fulfilled:
1) Best performing AMD processor(or is Intel good?)
2) No Nvidia. Good Intel igpu or ryzen igpu will suffice. but it must support VAAPI very good for hardware acceleration.
3) Good Battery life
4) Good Keyboards and Touchpad
5) Good number of modern ports
Agreed, that's the only thing that will stop this garbage.

Between companies and banks doing this, our own government allowing civil forfeiture, and the penalties- of there even are any, are a monetary slap on the wrist, what recourse do we have?

We can't even change the laws because money lobbies and always wins.

I really hope this is the tide changing.
This is super cool. I built a product that accomplishes a similar function: record notes via sms or email input, play them back via email[0].

I originally thought this would be useful for every todo. Once done, it would be put on the list of "done" accomplishments. But, accomplishments of too fine a granularity are not really motivating anymore. I'm interested in trying to zoom out and see what it's like to receive a summary of "accomplishments" instead of "tasks."

Nice work!

[0] https://www.tatatap.com
Do police always film their raids? I doubt it. This almost seems like a TV show. My propaganda spidey sense is going off.
> It's absolutely possible to be rational and yet wrong. It's also entirely possible to promote or allow something for a while and then decide it has finished serving its purpose.

Yeah. Also, generalizations can be true but misleading in a particular instance. I think a lot of people make that mistake with China, assuming because in general democracies have been more successful than autocracies [1], they can be complacent because China will fail. There's no reason autocracy with a talented leader (or one who's lucky) can outperform a democracy.

[1] People also often say that free markets are "more successful" than less free markets, and it's probably true to an extent, but there's also a lot of problems/disagreement defining what "success is." For instance, the US has traded away a lot of its general manufacturing capacity leading to more "success" by some financial metrics but failure by many others.
Effexor. Which is the one I hear people complain the most about in terms of discontinuation symptoms. I'm glad I tried it though, as it's perfect for me
Wow. Atoms were slow when they were new. 2-4 times slower than a E5300 Core 2 Duo or whatever was common in 2009.

That said, with maxed out RAM and a cheap SSD they were 'enough' and they came in some neat formfactors. I had the Lenovo S10 netbook, but the 1024x600 was very hard to live with. They didn't offer anything special in the way of power savings or battery life, either.

For the price, a 2-3 year old Dell or HP laptop was a better choice, and then the iPad came out...
Thank you, ransomware warlords, for the service you've done the world today.
> not much of a snack eater

> caffeine is my weakness

I think these two statements are related!
In fact they reconvened in the evening on Jan 6, and finished the proceedings by 3:30 am on Jan 7. And it's true they managed to get the confirmation done, but that's not quite the point -- the point is why they had to be doing it that late in the first place. The reason is, that this purely symbolic event is anything but; it transmutes the winner of the election into president elect. It marks the beginning of the transition of power, when the president elect begins assuming the powers of their future office. This preliminary title comes with real powers like the ability to see classified information, and increased protections.

It's also completely irreversible. It turns out, the easiest way to prevent a president from being inaugurated on Jan 20 is to prevent them from becoming president elect on Jan 6. There's a real question as to who would ever have the Constitutional authority to undo that, because all the objections are assumed to have been settled through the process on Jan 6. After that it's a done deal. I would say Jan 20 is the more purely symbolic event of the two dates, because by then the authority of the new executive is more firmly established.

And we can't brush past the fact that there was a delay, no matter how brief. The few hour delay could have easily been multiple days if Pence had left the Capitol, and it could have changed the political calculus in terms of states deciding to decertify their elections. Multiple days could have easily turned into multiple weeks as the Justice system moves at a snail's pace, and then suddenly it's Jan 20 without a decision on the election.

If that were to have happened, the House would have voted and with a majority of delegations Republicans would have chosen Trump.
Thanks!

I'm getting a cluster stood up now, and I'm setting up Prometheus today to monitor the fleet. I'm currently not happy with my latency, but that may because I'm using nanos on a small RDS instance.
Multiple Sclerosis Causality
Agreed! Even if your code is just a slight modification of some other well known tutorial, in order to reimplement the code means that I, as a scientist, have to reverse engineer your codebase based on your text - which may not be as straightforward as expected. Remember that some researchers are not native English speakers, so there's the added complexity of translating your words into a readable format.
You read that report wrong. That report states that even without anything, an N95 mask will give better protection that simple wearing a medical mask, like what most people are approved to wear right now. So an N95 mask with exhalation valve is better than anything, including medical mask, except for a completely sealed N95 mask.

But since a completely sealed N95 mask isn't the standard we need to reach, we only need to reach the level of medical mask which gives more than enough protection, a valved respirator is safe. That's exactly what the report states.