skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a lie.

I frankly don't even think the EU could tell you what is and isn't OK.

And tons of stuff gets you in trouble, up and downstream. Ie, using a CDN that is logging IP addresses, operating behind an abuse filter that does tracking / ip logging for anti-abuse stuff without doing all the explicit opt in stuff. Obviously things like using a hosted CDN resource (font etc etc) / or tweet embeds. Figuring out which users are EU users, responding to GDPR requests for data and validating those and the list goes on.
Minneapolis takes biking seriously. In huge amounts of snow and horrible weather!!

Weather down there seems even more conducive.

My dad can bike from their house to downtown in 15 minutes (more like 30 as getting older). It's amazing. Completely protected separate bike lane going through old rail corridor. I can bike to whole foods from there too without having to go on a busy street.

They are expanding light rail there too but seems like similar to most cities it isn't great yet. Hopefully we'll see more density around the stops. My city Denver feels the same it's not actually used as much as it could be.
> I sometimes wonder whether the invention of the public lending library could happen today.

Not a chance. You can see this with the US Postal Service today, with some people arguing that it should continued to be stripped because it isn't profitable. It isn't supposed to be profitable!

I think the closest we could ever get would be an "old Netflix" approach, where you have to pay a monthly membership fee based on the number of books you want at once that turns a profit.

As for eBooks, I generally find a spot to buy them online (with or without DRM) and either rip the DRM out or pirate them after purchasing. Voila, it's just like a normal book now!
Not necessarily - federated media, webs of trust, and diligent curation across many smaller communities could allow for something that replaces Twitter, reddit, and centralized media hubs. Search within that context is easier - p2p/torrent streaming with crypto incentivized seeding can scale distribution.

The current state of adtech and near total surveillance isn't sustainable as more people wake up to the downsides, and as fake crap begins to accumulate.

Decentralization of social media, advertising, e-commerce and other web 2.0 staples will be a natural evolution of technology. The story goes "under Google's model of the walled garden web, SEO, spam, and bots achieved parity in all content metrics except actual meaningfulness to the user." Despite having all the compute and talent you could possibly bring together, Google is failing to uphold its core technology. They incentivized bad faith behavior, and are reaping the consequences of that. The acceleration of seo hacking and artificial worthless content is asymmetrical to the acceleration of the capabilities and market model Google has created.

A search engine can navigate self selected communities, human curated lists, and creatively bundle lists of lists to achieve high quality results based on actual humans self selecting and acting in their own interests. You can do things with higher quality classification and even provide regex over crawled data without huge technical barriers. Search agents will come about, whether locally or cloud hosted, and will eventually replace centralized engines like Google.

There are non doomed visions of the future. Maybe we won't suffer a digital trashocalypse.
The vast majority of people browsing hacker news are in the tech industry, not high school kids with no money.
When i do my periodic refresh runs c++, i often question myself - why i'm bothering with it? C++ seems more about programming c++ itself than programming against the actual problem. At which point i reason that if i ever need to go native and fast, i'd simply use C, and for the higher level use not-c++.
The focus modes seem like a classic engineering attempt at overgeneralizing software; there was "do-not-disturb" mode and the similar "sleep" mode, so why not consolidate them into some kind of overarching superclass that can do both?

What we got is a mess that arguably makes the whole thing more confusing.
> In response, the project manager changed the computer's code-name to "Butt-Head Astronomer." Sagan filed suit in federal court for libel [and] the use of likenesses.

I feel like the latter legally counteracts the former. For it to be his likeness, has has to admit that he is infact a "Butt-Head Astronomer". If you openly admit you are something, it's not libel?

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_penis_rule
Even better, we have a video preview of each feature that you can flick between using the left and right arrow keys – https://supernotes.app/features/notecards
Not sure if sarcastic, but that has nothing to do with the quality of a GC algorithm. Sure, Java does not (yet) have value types so data structures with non-primitive elements will not have the most optimal layout, but java does objectively have the state of the art GC implementations that work under so high allocation rates that other GCs simply break down. Eg. Go notably slows down threads to let the GC catch up with the work load.
Or poor design on the part of 5G transmitter designers?
Neat tech, but I think prescribed burns are probably better for the general health of the forest ecology. Furthermore, prescribed burn uses a smaller tech stack (less dependencies on high tech) and is more resilient to logisitical and tech failures.

Speaking more on resiliency, in permaculture design, wildfire analysis is one of the things you do in a sector analysis when designing a site.
But this company can't even be bothered to even strip symbols. Having Apple allow caching + putting this in every single airplane is a way more difficult (and certainly more costly than spending 5 minutes stripping symbols and other things).

Maybe we as an industry should start doing the boring parts instead of jumping into shiny tasks that take 10x, 100x, 1000x the time it would take to solve the original issue...
What I find more funny is that everyone expects to be paid for their content. 95% of the content out there is not worth paying for.
That'd probably work a whole lot better if the app wasn't 439MB.

I've been on a few budget carrier flights that have skipped the headrest display for an airline app. They haven't had external Internet access, as it's just served over a local WiFi connection from an onboard server, so you must install the app before you take off.
Well the whole point is they didn't have permission to use that spectrum. The interference the FAA is complaining about is explicitly outside of the radalt allocated spectrum.

FCC has allocated radalt's 200Mhz, with another 200Mhz guard on either side. If these devices are not properly filtering out frequencies outside of this massive 600Mhz range, those devices are faulty and should never have been certified by the FAA in the first place.

It's reasonable for the FCC to assume that spectrum users will not be affected by interference from so far outside their allocation.
Interesting take, but I can't see much use for it perhaps. I'd probably prefer vertical scrolling, and to be frank I did something like this a long time ago by setting my Xorg screen settings to be larger than my monitor (and then scrolling around with the mouse). Tie that with a tiling window manager like awesomeWM so that you can configure while you work and it should work out to be just about the same experience.

Highly appreciative of people trying new things though, I will never shut down people's desire to experiment. More power to them I say, one day someone might stumble into something that really really works wonders.

edit: sorry, I thought the project WAS PaperWM. but no it's cardboard that has been inspired by PaperWM.
I do wonder how they're going to get enough coverage. There are plenty of places where a fire might start that are dozens of miles from the nearest road. You'd presumably want to deploy the base camps in some sort of grid, which would mean a whole lot of hiking things in on horses.
I’m old enough to remember a time where carrier grade NAT wasn’t freaking everywhere and everyone actually had a static dedicated IP address

You could start a multiplayer game of StarCraft just by putting in your friends IP. It was wonderful and how the internet was meant to be
That doesn't seem to be practical. Maybe for some big parts like engine airlines have direct relationships but all parts including radar altimeters ?

An modern commercial plane has tens of thousands of suppliers supplying millions of parts. No airline [1] could even imagine to have the staff to manage OEM relationships with that many indirect suppliers. That is what you pay Boeing for.

If that was the case no airline could afford to buy more than 1 type of plane or certainly not more than one manufacturer, you would need to handle all the suppliers in the industry?! it would be incredibly inefficient to do this for them individually .

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[1] Maybe United , American or Delta could have that kind of staff, but given the airlines operating margins in the last 2-3 decades even that seems unlikely
> stop providing the tools and the codes to anyone, if there's no revenue to be had

this is a crucial statement in this exchange.. there is value, the car.. there are participants in the value chain.. mfg, dealer, repair shop, consumer.. where is the value exchanged? this is fair to discuss in the open..

When people get angry or resentful quickly is perhaps, when LIES are told for the purpose of getting a result. Also, modern manufacturing is a different thing, than 100 years ago when this started. Many more things are possible.

I will add, it is obvious here on YNews, that some manufacturers are absolutely callous to the rights of consumers. The USA pioneered consumer rights in many areas. I still hear Mr Ralph Nadar on the radio some days.
Nah, no more casting in vance, which kind of killed its main use for me. It's not their fault, its the microG package maintainers that don't want to do it. I guess the new casting protocols aren't worth it.
Possibly. It's pretty ridiculous what some courts/prosecutors consider "practicing law without a license".

For example, I was told by a judge that just if I help my wife fill out an appeal form, or if a real estate agent explains about a sale contract, that could be considered practicing law without a license. Frankly, that judge seemed like he was either an idiot or corrupt/biased based on some other stuff he did too.
Ive thought about this too but I think its just because it's so trivial with raspberry Pi's. When I think about it, I can't imagine what a homebrew box could offer to someone whose already decided they don't want a Chromecast or Roku. Maybe a remote?

I know there are some minimally sketchy kodi like distro images out there, I forgot their names at the moment..
Kobo - great devices - I will always buy from them - great for family.
As another pointed out you can bypass account creation using an sqlite query, depending on version (in KoboReader.sqlite).

There are multiple configuration files list the api locations that beacon reading information regardless of how books were loaded.
Though if you care about tracking you also have to find and replace any mention to facebook, google and a few other places (in eReader.conf).

sed 's/\(http\)\(.*\)/http:\/\/localhost/g'

Didn't see any more strings in the firmware binaries (checked last year).
Other e-readers stop at nothing to sell your data. Kobo is reasonable.
Maybe the answer would be more clear if you read the end of that quote.
> You can see this with the US Postal Service today, with some people arguing that it should continued to be stripped because it isn't profitable. It isn't supposed to be profitable!

That seems unlikely. Why do you think it's given a formal legal monopoly on the service it provides?
They aren't actually detecting the fires, according to this article linked on their press page:

Each drone would be parked inside a secure shelter and launched in response to fire-watch cameras or satellite imagery. It would navigate autonomously to the ignition site using “computer vision,” its infrared sensors feeding data to AI software to estimate the size, growth rate, and direction of the fire, before “deciding” whether to drop retardant on the fire, create a firebreak ahead of it, or summon more drones. Human operators would oversee and approve its operations.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/11/30/can-bay-area-startups...
Our past forest management practices are a part of it, but climate change is also a huge part: <https://www.c2es.org/content/wildfires-and-climate-change/>
Most likely databases. Pretty sure one of the Sun SPARC boxes I managed in 1995 and that had a few GBs of RAM. It also ran Informix, which I don't miss administrating.
Vim keybindings are one of the safest investments available to people in tech. You find vim keybindings everywhere. For example, some days ago I installed a plugin to have vim keybindings in Libre Office Writer!!!

The only safest investment in tech is touch typing.
Those are things you have to deal with once in a while, and largely cease to be issues once you get over the learning curve. Bad code is something you have to deal with day in and day out.
It tells me that there is a new version. It downloads it from somewhere and installs it. It could be GitHub but I don't know.
It's especially worse for people who are traveling.
Millions of dollars pour into security compliance startups
Makes sense; after all, crypto is good for exactly two things: speculation and money laundering.
i'll need to open a pull request for [tolocal](https://github.com/nelsonenzo/tolocal) :). It's clunky because it requires node and terraform and AWS, but all your stuff is self hosted and can be e2e encrypted, costs almost nothing, can be used with real domain names, etc. I would like to make it all JS at some point (the actual terraform is minimal), but it's hard to see why when Cloudflare Tunnel is a thing now.
Fabrice Bellard's TinyEmu actually implements enough of the RV128 spec to run code. So the spec is defined well enough to implement, I just think they don't want to paint themselves into a corner before there's an actual need.

I was going to link to his site, but it seems he needs to update his certs.
I don't think a system like this is comparable to the 10 a.m. policy of attempting to totally suppress all wildfires. It still makes sense to quickly detect and suppress all unwanted wildfires. And as far as I know, the proposed solution to the 10 a.m. policy isn't to just randomly let some percentage of natural wildfires burn as much as they want, but rather to do prescribed burns (and still fight to control and extinguish unwanted wildfires).
What website, whose revenue comes from engagement and engagement from content, is going to do that?
Comparable services like ImmersedVR have a virtual webcam that projects a picture of you as an avatar, including moving your mouth when speaking etc. It's pretty out there and I suspect I would be too worried about looking hiliarously silly while saying something serious to ever use it in earnest. But that is the kind of direction things are going, with some offerings now actually mapping a texture map of your face onto the avatar and animating that.
Apple had the legal right, sure, but they should have just respected Sagan's desire for them not to use his name without being dicks about it.

They used his name without permission for a codename, he asked them to stop, so the changed the name to "Butt-Head Astronomer", in a way that everyone involved with the project knew it was a reference to him. I pictured a bunch of people with the emotional maturity of 15-year-olds when I saw that.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30445969

"They mostly did. They've been warning about this for 3+ years now (see this report from the FCC back in September and October 2019) https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/102214765103/AVSI%20RA%20Interi...

"They couldn't have warned folks about more than a year or so sooner than that, because the spectrum bands for 5G hadn't even been fully decided prior to it. (The public notice of band reconfiguration only got announced back in May 2019)"
The owner retains control of nothing. From the instant you first seed to p2p, there is nothing you can do anymore to change what might happen next. You completely lose all agency over your own material. That is not "control".

If you want to get off a platform, you can do that with a website. You don't need to give up editorial and retractive control forever (which you must do in order to use p2p, which is why this headline is so wrong) just to step off a platform.
I think Sagan was totally right to ask Apple to clarify that he had not endorsed their product.

I think Apple engineers were being butt-heads when they got annoyed at this and renamed the project "BHA".

But that should have been as far as Sagan went; suing for libel because someone calls you a "butt-head" is really foolish.
I'm very intrigued by the potential for new wildfire tech but as someone who lives in wildfire land in Montana i have my doubts about this video... detecting putting out a campfire is a pretty idealized case.

Most fires in our area seem to be started (either by lightning or an improperly extinguished campfire) and then exist as an undetectable underground smolder for quite a while until hot, dry, windy conditions emerge. Then they can blow up incredibly quickly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxcDxp07okc

The current system of lightning strike tracking, inferred overflights, lookouts and helicopter bucket/crew drops works pretty well. They literally drop a crew who can dig down and put out the smoldering parts and then drop a huge amount of water from nearby lakes on starts to get them out.

I could absolutely see drones improving the detection of smolders/smoke plumes but the method they have for putting fires out seems like it wouldn't work on buried smolders or anything that had grown too big. I wonder if they have considered something like a swarm of drones that could scoop water from smaller closer water sources and maximize the delivery rate vs the current helicopter and tanker systems.
I have a problem with paying for something that has been a basic capability of every computer made in the last 20 years.

Not to mention, the obvious issue that paying for YT Premium requires you to provide valid personal details to Google (for payment processing) and remain logged in. That's way more tracking potential compared to Vanced/NewPipe/Invidious/etc.
Don't The FCC set maximum levels of noise a device can emit and minimum levels of noise other devices must tolerate. Unless the antennas are way above their limits this shouldn't be an excuse...
Is Linutronix by any way related to Pengutronix? https://www.pengutronix.de
I don't think this is true. There's plenty of ways to build a filter that won't meaningfully interfere across such large swaths of rf bands.
I'm amazed even to hear the words "an Ngrok employee", like it were Google or something. The last time I remember reading about Ngrok, it was just one guy's repo on GitHub. That doesn't even feel that long ago. I'm stunned and perplexed to hear all of this.
The easiest road is use what you know. I once had a boss who wrote letters in Lotus 123 (for DOS) instead of Wordperect.

If you regularly log into fresh *nix installs from the terminal that’s a plausible reason to learn Vim.

If you want to live in an editor, that’s a plausible reason to learn emacs…it supports just about every language, email, task management, git, etc.

Emacs key stroke support is more directly supported by other applications, probably because most applications don’t use modal keyboard input by default…don’t have vim like if this then that then that keyboard logic.
C++ exceptions aren't totally zero overhead. For an obvious example, you pay in code size.

I do agree with the overall analysis, though.
"Clean up the mess you made or we'll take this to court" is bargaining, not slavery.
> Plato and Socrates apparently feared literacy in common men,

Can you back this up?
Cool build, but it doesn't look like it would actually stand up to the typical stresses of mountain biking (rock strikes, water, mud, debris, etc). On super smooth singletrack I could see it being fun though.
> Maybe we can't ever stop them from happening in the first place perhaps it's more flatten the curve

We've been trying to "flatten the curve" for the past century. Turns out that was a bad idea. The only way too get back to a healthy ecosystem at this point is to allow a hundred years of excess built up fuel to burn.

California had artificially pleasant (i.e mostly wildfire-free) summers for many years. The next few decades will be paying the price for that.
I read about this a few months back and it seems that a key issue with controlled burns is liability. No-one wants to be responsible if the wind blows in an unexpected direction and it gets out of control. They’re scared of the variables. And of course, the less you burn, the greater the risk when you do burn, so it’s a vicious cycle.
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The "read more" largely turns it into "Rain acknowledges the essential role of wildfire in healthy ecosystems, but chooses to ignore it".
Thank you! I'm now wondering why the US didn't stop at 3.8GHz and limit power levels too?
Update on Astrobotic Peregrine from Seared YouTube
HK then Small town UK then Small town NZ. I doubt 1% of HN works in Silicon Valley or on cutting edge designs.
I think so, yes. Even in niche subreddits (arch linux, say) if you ask a question, you'll only get stock answers, as if the other person had done a quick web search, picked the top result from google, and pasted it in.
Sounds like you're describing some impossible system but that is how it works in the rest of the world. There's a time at which the gates close, and if you're at the gate before then then you can go on the flight. If not then they might wait for you for a bit if you've already checked in but nothing is guaranteed.

They can still go early if all of the passengers have boarded.

I got to Dublin airport once at the time that the gates were supposed to close and they said they would wait for us if we were fast... Got to the concourse and it was the furthest gate possible - the sign said to allow a 15 minute walk! Had to run all the way but we made it.
I think "dead" is pretty clear. The work is not used anymore at all, or only for hobbyist projects.

I think "dethroned" or "unpopular" would be more correct presuming that C++ would lose popularity over time due to the issues raised.
It’s more like, you can fence off your cattle but you can’t fence off the birds and the bees.

So even if the cattle stay within their limits, the grass relies on bees coming in from neighbouring farmland to stay healthy.

If you pave the area outside a cattle ranch the grass inside will die on the borders.

So you have to zone the land outside the fences to make sure it some other ranch or else left wild.

The same with spectrum. Adjacent frequency bands have to allocated to uses which do not produce a lot of interference that travels very far or is used very much.
Meanwhile in the world of forest management: https://www.fs.usda.gov/managing-land/prescribed-fire
Since at no point in time am I forced to read nor agree to those terms, I don't think they can be used as an argument.
That makes no sense - you would just buy the ultra cheap unlocked model each year. Also how do you justify paying for a boost when the next gen is faster and an incremental price increase.
Most browsers have the option to mute all sites by default unless you explicitly give permission. I find it quite useful!