skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This really bums me out.

I was a convicted felon at 18 years old, poor, living on the street.

It wasn't any government re-integration program that helped me, it was a random person I met in highschool.

I worked my way through everything -> college -> jobs -> startups -> lucky windfalls -> owning my own company. I've immigrated to Europe (3 times in the last 10 years technically), beating the legal issues each time.

And finally, after 17 years, I'm no longer a felon thanks to a pardon and expungement.

I really wish something like 70MR would stay up. Not everyone can be as lucky as me. Is there some place I can donate?
Yeah, even just adding the domain to the end of the title would clarify
Why Linux's systemd Is Still Divisive After All These Years
I think the context is pretty clear in both comments.

"Politics" in this context means a form of communication, consensus and decision making in a group.
Yes exactly. The US is also at the forefront of Western discussion about colonial repartitions (yes the British Crown still owns the biggest diamond in the world, the Kohinoor, from India) and discussions on sexual minorities.

The only context where GP's sentiment makes sense is a purely economic one. Left economic parties, like social democrats and communists, do a lot worse in the US than in Europe. But this Europe good, US bad meme by folks who identify as progressive is an incredibly shallow reading of politics and history.
You live in the US, but refer to "their" society as if you're not a part of it. So if "their" society is in ruins, why do you choose to continue living there? Surely you can head off to any number of countries that would suit you much better, and allow you to be a part of their society.
This is one of the reasons why I'm skeptical that Apple opening up iOS to sideloading will lead to Meta, Google, or Amazon rival third party iOS app stores hosting apps with more invasive tracking and lack of privacy protections.

These tech giants are great at xeroxing products and features, not so good at selling them in such a way that users can be convinced to switch. The existence of so many cookie-cutter clones that never get anywhere, from entire cloud gaming platforms, to mobile payment methods, to slapping Snapchat-style stories into an app for no reason, shows that it's easy to envision and build, hard to get actual users.
DAs who do that get recalled
If I were to add a NY-Miami-NY trip once a year to my life, and try and do that in a single shot, that would add ~4 hours of charging time round trip. In reality you wouldn't do that in a single shot (20 hours of driving each way!), you'd probably break it up into two days each way and thus have at least two low charge->100% in there "for free" time-wise. This would cut out an hour or so of charging wait time, so really probably closer to 2ish hours of charge time. On a 40+ hour round-trip drive.

EDIT: This is with a Hyundai Ioniq 5, not my current Mach E. The Mach E doesn't charge as fast as this most recent generation of EVs, so it would be a bit over 4 hours each way in the Mach E. However, if my plans for a car was "go on a yearly road trip", I would have probably bought an Ioniq 5 exactly for this reason. Personally though I'd probably just fly for either of those distances instead of spending 20+ hours in a car each way. Which is why the standard range version of the Mach E is perfectly fine for me.
Mismatch Negativity
They can't set rent prices - prices occur when supply meets demand, it's not unilateral.

The origin of rent in land - beware it is not the same for buildings - is the difference in value from one land to the least valuable land. (roughly, David Ricardo). A land tax is about taxing this rent, not about nominal land taxes on everything.

If the land tax is roughly correct, the owner of land cant charge more with the tax because it is less competitive than land that is a little farther away.

Adam smith, David Ricardo, Henry George, Milton Friedman and even Stiglitz have all lauded that land taxes are less distortive than any other tax and would be great as a local tax policy. (In the us, for cities and states).
This is being built in my hometown. That hangar is amazing every time I have visited it. There are even stories of it raining inside and having it's own weather systems [1] . Really great to see them building more blimps again, and pushing what has been done before.

1. http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2015/07/20/the_good...
> It takes a second to show up, and then takes up the top of the screen.

I think this could have to do with it not being local...
It could be that Amazon treats AWS differently than their retail business. Any AWS data stealing scandal could easily drive away multi-million dollar contracts. But they've gone through many retail scandals without seemingly affecting anything.
The problem with spaced repetition is that sometimes the gap never gets bigger than a couple of days. I try to remember piano pieces by heart, but I basically have to play them every couple of days FOREVER or I'll forget them. If the gap never increases, or increases too slow, you're not really "remembering" it with spaced repitition, as much as you are just playing them every week.
If it is not in the repos it isn't going to be used.

Step 1 in getting adoption on the Linux side is making "apt install cheat" and "dnf install cheat" work. Plus whatever the current preferred Mac package manager is.
You can make incredibly fast pseudo dynamic webpages by combining webdis and NGINX SSI. http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_ssi_module.html The way we did this, when the user logged in, we generated their customized content which was the same on all pages -- think of it, this is very common, say, their avatar, the links to their profile etc -- and put it in redis. Now the user gets a customized page without any costly SQL queries, without a scripting language running, it's just NGINX processing SSI include virtuals -- in parallel, no less.
I took it to mean 'dried up suddenly'.

Sustained for a while, and then suddenly you realize that's the end of that.
Perhaps the point should have been backed up more, but I don't see that it would have helped to remind us that conservatives and Jihadists can also be vocal or active.
Chinese language is what I most commonly want to translate. Is there any planned support for this?
But if they're moving away from commentary (progressive or otherwise), how are they going to fill their schedule with "hard news" while also not over-hyping? Lack of real news is the whole reason they started over-hyping and also why they pad out their schedule with commentary.

The announcement reads like "We're going to have our cake, and eat it too." Sounds great! But is that actually possible?
> Sorry, but that’s kind of a made up definition of “command”. By that definition, gzip is a command on “most” systems, bzip2 on “a lot”, and xz on “some”. And yet they are all entered on the command line.

> And what tools a particular system comes with is pretty much arbitrary. The otherwise ubiquitous curl for example is not part of, e.g., coreutils (which is a rather Linux-specific thing, the BSDs have most of the stuff in there as part of their “base”).

"I wouldn't call it"...

I might be encouraged to give context for my subjective opinion. If youd rather make fun of my perceived ignorance, thats also your prerogative.

Also, BSD is not Linux.
As far as I know search ranking on Google is largely driven by AI these days, which requires a LOT of historical click data (query + answer pairs). Because Google has more historical data than anyone it has better results. I don't see how you can have better ranking without the same dataset to train a new model. Indexing the web is not the hard part.
As someone who is in the product realm, one thing that has frustrated me about engineers is how difficult it can be to get Engineers to see see where the puck is going, let alone to skate to it. Many seem to want to operate much like a computer - they take a literal input and give an exact output.

It's so rare, and lovely, when you run into an engineer who can not only figure out how to do the task they're being assigned, but run through the next couple of steps in the future taking the team strengths, company strategy, and product shortcomings into account.
I wouldn't be surprised if there were bullshit reasons for explicitly not exposing this information to the user and this was an engineer's way of maliciously complying with that requirement.
BioWare reveals Dreadwolf as the next Dragon Age title
Not OP but is exactly what I needed to read for my own project, thank you. I’ve been searching for this.

It’s hard to find discussions about the real downsides of using VC money. For instance, what happens when growth fails? Do you lose ownership of the business? From reading this, the answer seems to be: Kind of, yeah. You have to buy your way back.

Another one: What happens if you want to do something extremely risky? My project is a game; what if an asteroid impact seems best for the design, but runs the risk of literally destroying the player base? I can’t imagine that would receive creative encouragement.

So as the author said, it depends on how value is to be measured.
>If the network was amiable to increasing the number of miner contracts per block, wouldn't they have done it already?

“Contracts” is a verb in that sentence, not a noun, and yes, miners do leave the market as it loses profitability, and no, the network does not have a requirement that there be a minimum number of miners, and there are reasons why they haven't left now but might not leave in the future.

You're not using the "why haven't they done it already" heuristic correctly.
We have no idea whats happening in the tech hiring market. We're seeing dozens of layoffs at the same time that salaries are reaching record highs. Hiring freezes and recruiting boosts. This tracker is meant to share jobs, visibility and data for those of us trying to make sense of a very confusing market.
Awesome Racket
Finally, the US Government putting all that inflation to good use.
Up until about 300 years ago it was possible for a wealthy person with plenty of free time to learn literally all of the scientific knowledge in western civilization.
> Not to mention any so-called deficiencies could be remedied in two years by directing 1% of the budget from private jets to FLOSS.

Not sure there are too many school districts with private jets, but if you are referring to the corporate software publishers, i am pretty sure there would be much better things to spend 1% on other than supporting FOSS to benefit and support society.
Yeah good point.

Also, many major historical scientific breakthroughs have been just a smart (usually rich) dude/dudette with a lot of free time and not a member of the conventional 'academic' system.

So somehow figure out a way for public to get in on the research instead of government restrictions on who can purchase supplies which limits research to the .0001% who have PhD's.

This opens the door to a lot more mind power going into research.
Yeah, I think the Brahmins have a vest you can feel on the shoulder, so they do a shoulder grab to act close.
Making EU Foreign Policy Fit for a Geopolitical World
It's going to be super narrow still.

I tried punching this in on an online DoF calculator which has 1/4" sensors, but it only goes to 1200mm@F/45[gameboy], which is the equivalent of the 70mm@F/4[fullframe] end of this lens. Even then, focusing at something 40 ft away you have a 0.2 ft depth of field, so a background 10 ft behind your subject will be pure blur.
Unless you’re entering your location as lat/long, it’s a lot more work.
For many who are just getting comfortable with the concept of media criticism more broadly, the wordiness and detail of writers like Greenwald and Taibbi can be enchanting, but that's exactly how reactionaries drive engagement -- by seeming like the heady adult in the room, despite their very predictable arguments and abandonment of "journalism" per se, toward "political commentary".
"Police unions generally favor more direct feedback mechanisms because they allow for intervention in problems before they reach the stage of a lawsuit. From my experience working with direct feedback programs officer support for this concept is probably surprisingly high for that reason - better to have a contemporary, written negative review than a months after the fact IA investigation."

You're in oversight, so a union could track down your comment and use it to impugn any act you take as biased. Excuse me if I take with a grain of salt your conclusory remark that all the other comments on here are "mostly" misconceptions.

Maybe I'm wrong about that. Do you see stuff like this as one-off or inherent to the current way police unions work in America? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8536863/Head-NYPD-u...
>Hence I've long been of the opinion that founders should build-in "non-acquisition" clauses, making it impossible for predators to simply scoop up a promising company

This sounds good and all, and I would be tempted to do it, but a non-acquisition clause does not prevent the big companies from cloning you either.
This, frankly, is the real definition of a unicorn software company.
Accuracy of non-invasive detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection by canine olfaction
Neural network inference the Unix way
It's your type of understanding and fervor that's needed for a 70MR to move forward. Have you considered taking it over? Think about it. Sometimes you're the solution.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30062948
You’re missing the forest for the trees. Yes, O(1) is not always better, but you’re using an analogy that attempts to demonstrate badness by comparing to a scenario that is generally good. That does not help clarify your criticism!

You’re effectively saying, “that’s bad, because it’s like a good scenario that happens to be bad in this case”. What explanation do you think you’re improving upon?
Emphasis mine:

“Are reposts ok?

If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.”

You post enough that you may have come across it before.

Here’s the submission of the story, 4 hours ago, discussion already in progress: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31596034 (49 points 119 comments)
> You are assuming the default is negative.

I am assuming the default is negative - for Google.

I work for a far far older engineering company which is built on maintaining good relationships with our customers, vendors and their engineers. It is the exact opposite of the AI driven, frustrating/pointless bot response attitude of big tech companies. I like to think the difference is that we haven't optimised out our humanity yet.
You have as rare a courage as Steve Jobs and others if you'd ask me. The only startup I remembered in a long time if that count. I sincerely hope you've had fun and that you'll keep enjoying your life. Speaking of which Id recommend to laugh it a good time and move on. Dont play what if and Cluedo because you are exactly where you should be, in a positive way.

The past doesnt matter, only the present moment does and it's wonderful.
amazing!

I will definitely discuss this in my compilers class, which targets JVM bytecode as a back end!
One thing I don't understand about monorepos is that do people just stay on one platform and check in binaries? Or is it assumed that everything must be compiled and correct. I get that a branch can be compiled, tested and integrated, but how does that work with multiple teams. I mean at what point does it become like week-long builds to make sure everything is accurate and correct.

Or is monorepo more of a "place to put all the code" not necessarily correct or working.

I like multiple repos because it's easier to assume that the main branch of each is "correct and tested and excellent quality".
Sure. Im speaking only about the case when you’re above your family basic needs fulfilled.
The answer to your question is this: _complexity does not go away, we just move complexity to another layer_.

Kubernetes buys the org some things but it is complex and you have to know how to write the app in a certain _way_ in order of the app to be "scalable, etc.".

There are no free meals or as someone smarter than me said long time ago "there is no royal road to learning".
I have mixed feelings about monorepos, but FWIW my most recent consulting client found success using Nx (combined with pnpm). It's not perfect, but it seemed like an improvement over lerna or yarn workspaces without being as "alien" as something like rush. /$.02
Same. GoFundMe?
I'm 50 and the Queen represents a more resilient past. The two things I hear loudest from our culture today are anxiety and the desire for success. I was just saying to my wife we grew up during the troubles in Northern Ireland, experienced bombs, the murder of friends, and the murder of relatives of close friends. There seems to be more anxiety now than there was then. Especially among young girls who are under no imminent threat. The threat seeming to be the problem of too much information and comparison.

We have made great progress in society but I fear we are in danger of shooting ourselves in the foot. The long life of a Queen who is committed to serve others, and not just her own wishes, sits well with me
Also, parliament learned lessons about the mess it gets into when there's nothing above them.

Cromwell was even worse than the king before.
If you have engaged listeners, over time you should be able to convert about 5% of them (generally for $5-10 a month). When that becomes worth it is up to you, but we generally don't see super successful launches for podcasts with less than 10,000 downloads per episode.
And one might be completely wrong about that. Academia and industry research are different in scale, goals and methods. Both have their uses.
> All the while, Martino’s ultimate warning—that they might someday regret actually getting the money they wanted—would still hang over these two young men, inherent to a system designed to turn strivers into subcontractors. Instead of what you want to build—the consumer-facing, world-remaking thing—almost invariably you are pushed to build a small piece of technology that somebody with a lot of money wants built cheaply. As the engineer and writer Alex Payne put it, these startups represent “the field offices of a large distributed workforce assembled by venture capitalists and their associate institutions,” doing low-overhead, low-risk R&D for five corporate giants. In such a system, the real disillusionment isn’t the discovery that you’re unlikely to become a billionaire; it’s the realization that your feeling of autonomy is a fantasy, and that the vast majority of you have been set up to fail by design.

> They ran an experiment. None of their lives have been ruined.” He knew they’d get good jobs, even if it meant the life of a project manager at Yahoo. “And none of their investors’ lives have been ruined either. When they close up shop, their investors will say, ‘That’s one more off the books. I don’t need to help them anymore. I get my time back.’”

No Exit: Struggling to Survive a Modern Gold Rush by Gideon Lewis-Kraus

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7643902
Great example of how the market doesn’t really care about the how, just the what.
> I'm sure they can agree on a name, and I guess they did already because the official Swiss country code is 'CH' which doesn't correspond to any of their four internal country names.

To my knowledge absolutely no one calls them the "Confoederatio Helvetica" in normal conversation, neither the Swiss themselves nor foreigners. (And ironically that name seems to have its roots in an occupation by the French revolutionary army and a name given by Napoleon Bonaparte)

Also, I don't think you can always assume inhabitants of a country can agree to a common name. Often, names are heavily associated with political issues or power or identity issues and it may be impossible to choose a particular name and staying neutral in the conflict.

Example: Try to ask some people from Northern Ireland whether the name of the city is "Derry" or "Londonderry".
Politics happens via communication, but what differentiates politics is that it is mostly about resource allocation.

People don't (usually) get pissed off about idle chitchat. They do when their project is spiked.
Here's a news article about that paper: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/dogs-detect-covid...
Great insight, thanks. Until they get to the heart of the matter and cut out the rot there, nothing will actually change.
I ramble on about this frequently on HN [1], but the Fed's FedNow instant payment service is going live next year. Initially, $25k will be the limit for value transfer, quickly moving to $100k, and finally supporting up to $500k under certain circumstances. Anything else and you're using FedWire (which tops out around $50M per wire transfer). This should eliminate the need for certified checks and money orders over time, and the fraud that goes with them (although fraud controls around instant payments will still be a risk to be mitigated and accepted in various quantities; the first release of FedNow will supposedly have fraud prevention tooling available to system participants).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31530010
OpenRA and OpenTTD
PNPM is a godsend here. Shared deps, local deps, version pinning and overwriting, etc.
Just chiming in to say I really hope this gets rescued. Everyone deserves a second chance.
How do they compare to Fluke quality-wise?
My daughter used to think—and tell people—that her father "makes money."

Then one day I figured out that she thought I literally created paper currency at my day job.
So, the cat will Be at room temp and no worries about the radiation.

Nice!!
>The situation is so messed up that Chomsky and Kissinger are both publicly advising everyone to seek peace! When did you ever think you'd see those two on the same side of anything?

Kissinger was a hawkish warmonger in the 60s and 70s.

But since 1982 he has been a lobbyist and his lobbying firm, Kissinger Associates, is currently owned by the U.S.-Russia Business Council.

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

As for Chomsky, he will compulsively oppose whatever the West does. Is he still opposed to the Western interventions against genocidal Serbian forces in the 90s?
> It's sad that the amount of money floating around doesn't pour into a company like yours.

money is put where profits are

this seems like a low-margin low-profit business

it’s not the investors who are the problem, it’s the capitalist system which encourages this behavior
JPGtoMalware
Nice post but I saw it few days ago on hacker news or it is deja vu?
An announcement from April reads “later this year we’ll introduce optional end-to-end encryption for all meetings” on Google Meet [0].

[0]: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/workspace/announcing-...
> European monarchs don't ... sign laws

That may be technically correct (the best kind of correct), but the details are more interesting:

"Since the sixteenth century no [British] monarch has actually signed a Bill themselves. Instead, the monarch signs what are known as Letters Patent which announce that an assent has been given."

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/society-politics-law/law/what...
I know how numbers work in JS but not python or Rust. It was interesting to me.
Right, like when Trump got voted in and they went absolutely nuts and lost all of the little credibility they had left with outrageous out of context articles. I am a centrist who doesn't think Trump has the best platform out there at all (especially with his extreme isolationism and nationalism), but even I was astounded by how crazily they could make things up, out of context, in order to make him and his administration look bad in any possible way to weak minded headline readers.