skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you can't even prevent your own children from being taught as truth some pseudomoral garbage that maybe 5-10% of the population believes.

What are you referring to? Also, you can home-school your kids. Or just move someplace where nobody cares.

It's not perfect, but name something that gives you remotely as much freedom and power over your government.

Many millions have given their lives, physically or temporally, to making it better, to give you and I the historically unequalled freedom, security, and prosperity we were born into. If you see problems - and so do I - how about helping make it better rather than sitting around criticizing while others do the work?
> Accounts that glorified the "adventure" of going into their habitats, killing their prey, and then shooting them with gun powder and a metal slug.

Except for the gun powder and metal slugs, that “adventure” is the story of humanity’s rise and spread. Humans are native to only a very small part of the world. We became the way we are because humans did go into new habitats, challenged the apex predators, took their prey, and displaced the previous apex predators.

That story of adventure resonates because it has resonated for millennia (consider the myths and paintings and sculptures). That story resonates, because you and I are descendants of people just like that who entered new habitats and outthought, outorganized, and outfought, all the predators that would want to kill them.

So my sympathies are with the man and not the leopard.
> Thankfully, many of those policies were short-lived.

How exactly do you figure? I'm looking at women's suffrage in 1920, Reconstruction era and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and North Carolina's property requirement removal in 1856 and I'm not sure if our ideas of short-lived are similar.
Absolutely amazing writeup, and I love that he released the work in jupyter notebook format (which is rendered perfectly by github no less) which only needs numpy and matplotlib so basically anyone can dig in and start messing with it with minimal effort.

I wish more SDR projects were documented in this form, it is so much more accessible than gnuradio or matlab etc based projects (albeit, these don't run in realtime so it is a bit different usecase than the gnuradio ecosystem).
Taiwan cracks down on China spying on tech firms
I did the opposite thing: everyone in my family kept ruining the standard length lightning cables by smashing them against something while using their phone, so I found a 10-pack of literally 4 inch cables on Amazon.

Now their options are to use the phone or let it charge (or squat inches from the outlet). Haven’t had to buy any more cables.
Ha, it changed. It was indeed a bug
They have agreed a formula along the lines that faster, new generation chips get named as if the previous convention had continued.
Does anyone have to care about this implementation detail?
There's also taxes to consider.

If your site makes its money by showing ads from some third party ad network, that is just going to be ordinary corporate income which you will deal with when dealing with the corporate income tax in your country and/or state.

If your site makes its money by selling products or services to end users it will still be ordinary corporate income in your country and/or state but it will also be sales income and so may also be subject to sales taxes or VAT where your customers reside. That can easily result in you having to deal with taxes in several dozen or more jurisdictions.

If you can make enough money from ads it will almost always be a lot less hassle than making your money by charging customers.
The kids came up with the rules, not the teachers, which seems like a pretty important distinction here.
There does not exist an adequate methodology to determine the length of a nation's coastline. Even if there did exist such a methodology, the various surveying bodies of the world's governments do not agree on any methodology. So not only are the actual lengths of a country's coastlines undefined, we don't even agree on the least bad way to calculate it.

Areas are relatively reliable despite the fact that the methodology can be wildly different between two surveying agencies. Area errors tend to cancel out. You have a little more land here, a little less land there. But perimeter error nearly always increases the perimeter, and rarely ever decreases it.
Unless you know something we don't, there is precious little in the OP's post that hints at a damagingly bad relationship with his parents.

They are upset because he dropped out of -- college, I guess? -- but it's a bit of a leap to say that being upset your kid dropped out of higher education and doesn't seem to have direction is evidence that they "really suck".
All these anti-IDE rants strike me as coming from people who have never actually used an IDE beyond "oh it's an editor with an autocomplete".
Not a civil engineer but have done some work in construction. What you're describing is referred to as differential settlement, and can be a problem for any structure (house, skyscraper, bridge, etc). I don't know enough to guess what they're doing here but usually there's some work with the underlying foundation (ie dig and fill back in with something uniform, put piers or piles to reach a more stable surface, etc).

The other things you might worry about is expansion and contraction due to temperature changes, and even just minor size differences in manufacturing (for instance when using moulds to manufacture concrete, those moulds themselves might not all be perfectly the same size or they might change over time). So often in concrete bridges (or even concrete/steel pipes) there will be "joints" designed to absorb changes within some tolerance (eg with pipes, there's typically a rubber gasket that keeps things air/water tight while also allowing some compression/expansion).
Or pay $4 more and get the family plan.
Social obligation enforced by what? The sword?
In the thread: engineers who are terrified of having their toys taken away.

I disagree with your conclusions on this article, but I hope to see you in the next Apple App Store discussion!
> Is that supported by science

I don’t think that can ever be supported by “science” unless you can have another Africa that was never colonized.

However, I think it can be supported by historical inference and anthropology.
There are lots of areas where men and women live in different worlds. Dating is one of them. The strongest female athlete might be slightly stronger than an average man in terms of grip strength [1]. The best women’s soccer team in the world can’t beat a club side of 15 year old boys[2]. A sub 200 ranked man beat the top 2 women tennis players back to back.

The average man’s and woman’s dating experience are disjoint. The problems the other faces are alien because they don’t come up. Women don’t have any problems if they want to have sex. Men who want to get married and have children do not go looking for long if they’re actually looking.

[1] https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2017/05/04/in-grip-strength-a...
[2] https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/a-dallas-fc-under-15-b...
[3] https://www.tennisnow.com/Blogs/NET-POSTS/November-2017-(1)/...
I actually ran up against this exact problem of IDEs being ubiquitous in the JVM ecosystem at a previous job.

The company had just released a new SDK to access a data repository. Since it was a brand new library, they only had Java/Scala versions, with plans to support other languages (JS, Python being the next two on their roadmap) in the few quarters. My team, primarily researchers who only knew Python, needed to use some of this data for a new project. I figured, what the hell, I've been looking for an excuse to learn some Scala, I'll see if I can throw together a utility for my team to use to get access to this data sooner. I fired up Sublime Text and opened up the docs for the SDK and got to work. The documentation was terrible and I really struggled to do basic tasks with this SDK. Simple things like what types were expected for function parameters was just non-existent. Since this SDK was planned to be released publicly to customers, I thought I'd do my co-workers a favour and sent them a message with some feedback about places where I particularly struggled with understanding how to use their SDK, thinking I could help improve the documentation before this went out to paying customers. Their response was that if I just used a proper IDE for my development, I wouldn't have these problems since the code completion/suggestions would let me know what the types of parameters were.

That experience completely soured me on the JVM ecosystem and I walked away from learning it. When I finally came back two years later, I discovered that I actually really like working in Scala (admittedly I do use Intellij for it now), but that many library's documentation is still quite poor compared to what I've come to expect for Python libraries.
so you're acknowledging that our current political/economic system has built-in inequities? that playing by the rules is not a virtue in and of itself, especially if the rules cause harm to others?
> Meet women as friends in more social environments and this is not going to be an issue.

Unfortunately - this behavior has cascaded over into the general environment. Most women I talk to now are very explicit about their beauty standards they have for the men they’re interested in dating - and they’re always quite a bit more harsh than the men I’ve talked to.

But I’ve also lived on the west coast where the gender ratios from 18-35 are the worst in the country. Any major metro in the US has more men than women from 18-35 but still - it’s really bad over here. Women can be picky because they’re fine with being alone (or having a dog). Most men aren’t (thus the incredibly high suicide rates).
If you previously have spent years never going 45 minutes without consuming coffee, then yes I'd be very interested to hear what happened when you stopped and how you managed to consume that much coffee in the first place. Was it on an IV drip? Did you have a team of baristas working around the clock to always have fresh coffee on hand?
> This is article about teaching children to share Lego toys.

No, it's about using lego to teach teaching kids about capitalism and power structures.

> Exploring power, ownership, and equity in an early childhood classroom

> These children seemed to squirm at the implications of privilege, wealth, and power that “giving” holds. The children denied their power, framing it as benign and neutral, not something actively sought out and maintained. This early conversation helped us see more clearly the children’s contradictory thinking about power and authority, laying the groundwork for later exploration.

Seriously, count how many times the article mentions "power", and count how many times it mentions "share".
I think there’s a bit of “kids these days, amirite?” from the older folks who manage & own companies. As they look back with nostalgia on their own early careers, puritan work ethic, etc, they maybe don’t see that life doesn’t have to be like that…and certainly not when the rewards they got (cheap college, career stability, nice house, two cars) aren’t there any more.

It’s a little ironic that this older generation is denigrating young adults, since they were the hippies and gen X whose parents fought in WW II and Korea and had similar thoughts about THEIR lack of purpose and drive. Oh well, ‘twas ever thus.

BTW, I’m nearly Boomer age so that’s where I get off making suppositions about what the old folks might be thinking.
I'm not calling it indoctrination. But I am calling it a flawed and abusive-sounding methodology.
No company values quality code. Companies value money. Code monkeys are just a barrier or stepping stone to money.
Ask HN: Best Mercury Bank Alternatives?
My Mercury Bank application was just denied due to the country where I’m located (Southeastern Europe).

I opened up an LLC in the US and I’m looking for a solid and reliable bank where I can easily integrate with Stripe / PayPal and do all things online (international wires / payments).

What are my alternatives?
Having spent a few years in Perl I understand some of the frustration of an IDE. I find dynamic languages don't gain a lot from an IDE. But if you're in something with stronger types like Java, typescript or F# the IDE is a God send. The best tool ever is refactor rename. When the IDE can parse your entire code base and rename just the function or variable you want it's amazing. Go to definition is worlds better too.

I found, in Perl and JavaScript, these tools didn't work reliably enough so the IDE was just a slower tool.

Also reading the documentation is important regardless of the tool you're using. I don't think that's a true reflection of IDE development.
It’s quite incorrect to compare them to cnn as a whole instead of cnn’s long form investigative content.
Wage growth would help. Unfortunately, society tends to focus on the minimum wage rather than value creation.
This isn't correct. The rocks on top are not to prevent the tunnel segments from resurfacing.

The tunnel segments have ballast tanks which are empty during towing, then are filled with water to increase the density of the segment and sink it to the ocean floor.
It's more about the long-term relationship.

If [sponsor X] has done five high-dollar 'product showcase' videos in the past year contributing [Y] in revenue, and a separate review of [sponsor X]'s product is coming up, does the writer and/or editorial staff have any possible filters (whether or not intended) to protect the revenue stream for future 'product showcase' videos from that sponsor?

I tend to give LTT the benefit of the doubt, but that's why I say it's a tightrope. Once you have paid content (in any form), and not just ad spots, it complicates the relationships you have with your audience, and with your sponsors/advertisers.
TikTok? Ether?
I think the point was that this data, the shadow profile, is derived from a friend’s pictures etc, and as such the legal copyright to the picture (that would need to be deleted) lies with the friend.

Or that’s how I understood it anyway, correct me if I’m wrong.
They are children. While they are still figuring out what good behavior look like, inevitably some of the behavior that we expect normal adults to exhibit will have to be imposed top-down.
The potential issue with using synthetic data to simulate the problem (like image classification) is that recognizing a lion in synthetic imagery and recognizing a lion in real imagery may also be very different tasks to a computer.
I don't understand Microsoft's product strategy. The push for WSL, PowerToys, a new powerful Terminal, was obviously a ploy to attract developers after Apple's hardware (2016-2019) and software (2011-) decline.

Now what? More telemetry, more cloud-as-default, required Microsoft accounts, Edge sabotaging Firefox and constantly making itself the default browser. I actually like Windows, I understand its flaws and how to configure it to get out of my way. But this is plain creepy. Why bother with all the "Microsoft ♥ Open Source" stuff? With VSCode? Their strategy makes no sense. I know they don't care about making money from Windows anymore, but surely they want to keep/attract power users and devs?
consider that there are women and non straights who have an economic agenda, and even the furthest left mrxist nutter would understand an economic agenda
So the adults banned Legos because they didn't understand how Legos and children work, and temporary prohibition was the only solution that allowed them to restore their utopian play model.
pro tip: you can use lxc/lxd to run VMs under the same infrastructure.

I belive it is something as easy as

lxc launch -vm ubuntu/20.04 myvm
If you can change your DB, then Apache CouchDB[0] handles this out of the box. Otherwise consider something like Apace ShardingSphere[1].

[0] https://couchdb.apache.org

[1] https://shardingsphere.apache.org
> ffmpeg is a tool or library

If you use the ffmpeg library, I will just say it's extremely unwieldy and difficult to use, and has barely any official documentation or examples. GStreamer is the opposite IME.
not everything has to be an analogy to your geopolitical worldview especially with regards to children playing with legos

"mom can I have some more spaghetti?"

"oh sure, let me just call up the Federal Spaghetti Reserve and ask it to print up some more Spaghetti Dollars, thus only further increasing this nation's Spaghetti Inflation far past manageable limits—great idea, if you want to usher in complete economic collapse!!"

like come on
Proof? You want proof for something that has to be true? Phones, accounts, habits, preferences, property, births, deaths. Everything recorded, aggregated. Everything. Do you doubt this?

Everyone's entire lifestream is archived. To leave no record, no trace, takes extraordinary effort and resources. Or to be completely off grid, living like a neolithic nomad; the same as not existing at all.

--

Even in 2000s, Seisent was being used to solve cold cases. Queries to identify suspects. Big data to reveal any one without an allibi.

It's like the 1,000s of rape kits, collected but unprocessed. Why? What possible reason can there be to not investigate? To not close those cases?

We can only guess. Perhaps the people responsible don't want to know.
I don't think getting fake bombs in the mail would make anybody laugh regardless of their character.
True, I actually agree with you, although I've gotten pushback before for saying that they weren't short-lived, because some places (e.g. Boston) did get rid of the property requirement only a year or two after the founding, and women could vote in NJ in 1776, but lost the ability in 1807.

So like I think its probably most precise to say that they were usually long-lived, but not universally. I'll reword my prior comment but leave this here.
Back in the late 1980s, there was a tremendous windstorm in Maryland. I stood at a window of my workplace in Maryland, and watched bricks blow off the cornice and fall seven stories into the parking lot. (Co-workers who drove to work were quite unhappy watching.) In Silver Spring, a partially completed cinder-block building blew over into the street.

My wife knew a woman who had flown into Baltimore-Washington International that day. The pilot made the sensible decision to push the throttles all the way forward and get onto the runway as quickly as he could. The woman could hardly walk off the airplane. Her son, then about ten, thanked the pilot, saying that it was the coolest flight he'd ever been on.
They're interested in street-level roads and higher, as well as POI. Stuff that would support turn-by-turn directions. I'd suspect that if they are foot paths, then they aren't prioritizing non-roads/streets.
I don't think the goal of these teachers is to challenge their beliefs, unless they start enforcing right wing libertarianism on the left leaning kids
An obvious counterexample. I was young in 2005 when Tesseract was open sourced. I wanted to use it to do something. But I decided to trial it out first by writing something in Notepad and then screenshotting it and trying. Synthetic data! But no, I didn’t know how to make the existing computer program turn image into text.
I think there are many unspoken assumptions behind this question. Maybe you should begin your inquiries there.
All of the people I know were never friends before they got together. Friendship marriages and relationships exist but they’re exceptionally uncommon. Thus why I said they’re exceptional.

The stats back this up. You might be living in a world of survivorship/confirmation bias. You’re only acknowledging the ones that worked and not all the ones where the guy/gal never had any advances accepted. I know many women in my own personal life who seem to think no one was attracted to them until I ask them, “how many men asked you out?” They then realized there were plenty of men who were attracted to them - just none that they wanted…
They have no real private space industry worth mentioning, relatively speaking.
Misaligned incentives at the product management layer I guess:

PM1: grow developer tools usage to get yearly bonus

PM2: grow bing cash back usage to get yearly bonus
C++ is no longer backwards compatible with modern C.
Could probably turn that production facility into a lucrative business if those tunnel segments could be transported down the coast / into the Mediterranean.
Currency, Late Medieval Europe (From Intro in the Handbook of Medieval Exchange)
That's fine and would teach the kids about tyranny and how to overcome it.

But isn't this about the teachers intervening? How are kids to fight against the teachers?
Note that Canonical has special tools for installing and configuring that stuff (conjureup or something)
Amazon bought six degrees
This only works because you already have access to an optimising compiler and high level language implementations, likely both available for free, because other people and organisations have already paid for them to exist.
Thanks for your perspective. I guess my dispute is with the claim that this is "objectively worse for most users". Just as some people may prefer a higher volume of untargeted ads to targeting, while others may prefer the opposite, I don't see how one can claim that nobody could possibly prefer less obtrusive inline ads to big blocky ads that reduce the screen real estate of the main content.
I'm not sure if a 55:45 split makes this okay. If it were under five percent I would agree that it's negligible.
The Howard Roark in me is furious. Let each kid build to his own ability.

> All structures will be standard sizes

Way to promote mediocrity. These people shouldn't be teaching our children.
This is why plausibly deniable encryption is such a boon. If you have something somewhat valuable behind some weak encryption or in plaintext and a big blob of mystery on your device it's a lot easier to make the claim that you've surrendered everything without giving up the game.

If they know you're hiding something, for certain, they'll go to much further lengths to find that out compared to suspecting you might be hiding something and finding some other stuff you'd obviously like to hide. If you've got an envelope with 100k in your pocket and you get mugged throw your wallet at the dude as quickly as possible and just book it - chances are that the mugger will either: A) consider the risk/reward at this point to be too dangerous since they've already got a nice bit of cash or B) assume you're just scared and have nothing else. If you say "Hey, I just threw you 200$, I'm going to run off with this 100k now" you're definitely not going to have a good day.
This is relevant to healthcare startups where it is extremely difficult to get your hands on enough real Protected Health Information to do any interesting ML work (unless you are already part of an enormous company with PHI... and even then it is harder than you'd think).
> that “adventure” is the story of humanity’s rise and spread.

It is a very different story when one kills a predator to make a new safe living space for themselves and their family. The person in question had a safe and comfortable place to live and went out of their way to kill a sentient being and then left the area thus secured.

One is about necessity and the other is a blood sport.
Kill the Newsletter is great. I'm subscribed to a number of Patreons and last week I got fed up with the lack of RSS feed for non-audio posts, and got the idea to do something sort of like Chris Hardie and bash together a web server which would receive emails and post them to an RSS feed.

Very glad I looked around and found Kill the Newsletter before I wasted my weekend!
Back the 90's, all the dorms gave students static IPs. The Internet was unfiltered, no firewalls. It was a different time.