skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Got a source for your "typical British pronunciation" of "pasta" being non-Italian? I read your comment as asserting that typical Brits pronounce it as "par-sta" with a non-rhotic 'r', but I don't think I've ever heard anyone except the Australian John Torode pronounce it that way.
You are of course right, I should have phrased it in a different way.
Yet people are always railing about how restrictive the AGPL is!

Licenses like AGPL are necessary to preserve our freedoms in this cloud DRM world.
If asymmetric encryption gets thrown into the mix it becomes much more annoying to get to the point where you can even begin to see the traffic.
What do you mean you don’t pay for homeschooling?

Are you claiming that its not necessary to:

- hire a tutor/teacher

- buy important supplies like textbooks/sports/music/etc

- fund learning and recreational trips

Reading between the lines of your umpteen confusing comments in this thread, are you claiming that your partner gave up their paid job to tutor your kids for “free”? Is that the “opportunity cost”?
Uber doesn’t force anyone to work for them. If they feel exploited, they quit and do something else. That the company is making a lot of money shows that there is demand among their drivers. I just fail to see what’s wrong with that.

To me force—including reckless regulation—is the real exploitation.
Thought the same - nice : )
dang: can we update this link to the researcher's official link?
https://comsec.ethz.ch/wp-content/files/retbleed_sec22.pdf
All the additional detail in the nebulae shots in particular!

What's resonating with me today: As a web dev, I cannot imagine the feeling of so much dedication and effort from so many people finally unfolding to release after 30 years. One moonshot longer than full careers. Some of those responsible (hundreds? thousands?) retired or no longer with us. What a sacrifice, and what an achievement.
Oh yeah? I've never seen a marketing department with a decent understanding of microeconomics. Most in fact are trying to maximize budget ie. expense.
Honestly I'm at a point where I'd rather just not name things after people. They're too fraught, the basic idea is questionable at its core, and avoiding it avoids a whole host of potential problems. I'm not saying the criticisms of the Webb telescope name are valid or not, it just doesn't matter to me. Give it a descriptive name, or a fanciful name or one based on some sort of mythology. But not a real person.
Someone should create an index of "Linus said this attack was impractical/ unimportant". I can think of a number of great examples off the top of my head.
Are ads coming to the Android lock screen? Let's hope not
> account recovery is not something "nice to have", but rather a hard requirement — and it's impossible, by design, in a public-key-crypto-based system.

Can you give some examples of acceptable account recovery systems?

Do they involve either giving up privacy (with government-issued IDs, for example), or delegating the problem to another system like email?

If email is an acceptable system to base account recovery on, then couldn't users just store their recovery private key in an email sent to themselves (or saved as a draft)?
I was just on vacation and took some photos with my phone camera, and some with my Nikon D4000 and a pretty basic 55-200 lens.

The phone pics have the benefit of some pretty good automatic processing, ease of use (the thing is already in my pocket), and for typical landscape or portrait stuff, they are just fine.

But there really is no comparison when it comes to "real" bokeh/shallow DOF stuff, not to mention the sheer flexibility offered by a full-fat lens, bigger sensor, and controls that don't have me poking around in touch screen menus. I could even swap to my 35mm f/1.8 if I wanted to shoot in lower light than my phone can do without digital tricks or longer exposure times.

If I were in the market today, perhaps I would go for a mirrorless camera, but as someone decidedly not professional at all WRT photography, I still enjoy having something flexible in addition to using my phone as a decent backup point-and-shoot camera.
I would normally agree with you, but the concern here is about information asymmetry. Workers can make bad decisions when they don't have a full picture of the costs of working for a company. I'm normally hesitant about regulation, but hat is something that regulation could help with to improve a worker's decision-making (similar to healthcare price transparency) without interfering with a company's operations.
> Those e-gates really suck always. What's so hard about reading MRZ?

Its because its not fully-automated.

If you keep an eye out, you'll spot an officer sitting in a booth with a couple of LCD screens.

They are actually touch screens showing a grid of mugshots of the people passing through the gates.

Officer needs to tap his finger on your mugshot to open the gate.

Hence if its a busy day, or the officer is eating a donut, you'll get the sucky delay experience.

Obviously there is little public information available, but there is one public document that makes some vague hints about what a "Monitoring Officer" does, including a reference about requiring being logged into a "Monitoring Terminal". See here[1].

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Definitely applies to Germany. Our infrastructure is deeply fucked and we missed all the chances to innovate after 16 years of conservative rule, but the balance sheets look nice though.
I have no idea why it was marked a dupe. dang?
> Tail-calls is fundamentally something that the compiler _cannot_ solve

Possibly a stupid question as I haven't given this much thought, but I thought tail call elimination could be used to convert recursive calls in tail position into loops. Could a compiler not do this (like Scala does, for example)?
Yes, but it does it without the tabloid caps, Sky are by no means innocent re this type of thing of course
I'm curious what your definition of UX is in this case. I have a Q2 and I find that while it's a little quirky and they made some specific strange decisions in development to be a very powerful and pleasant to use camera and I enjoy using it over my previous DSLR because of its low weight, beautiful lens (which in reality is what you're paying 2/3 of the money for anyway) and the photos it can produce, and specifically on the point of the EVF, it's really one of the better ones on the market from my experience. The biggest critique I have for the camera is the abysmal battery life, and the fact that they changed to a proprietary (and very thick) battery compared to the Q.
Meta asks line managers to identify poorly performing staff for firing
How are you calibrating that scale and where would Seventh-Day Adventists be on it
That might have been the case a few years ago (at least here in BC, Canada) but these days virtually every sit-down restaurant I go to has their menu available - often exclusively - via QR code.
Open Firmware for PinePhone LTE Modem – What’s Up with That?
it came with the house and I haven't got around to replacing it yet, nor should I have to really.
You're an eBay seller's dream customer.
Is that the problem?

1. Most hosts have some secrets. For example, client credentials. That's hard to avoid unless you just don't do auth at all.

2. Most hosts let users ssh to them.

3. What you've described is the cloud provider/ PaaS model.

4. It's not that easy to just "keep untrusted code" out. Like, what if an attacker exploits an exposed service and then wants to privesc?
My point is more that there can be two groups of users with mutually exclusive desires, and it can be practical to choose to satisfy one group over the other based on your particular goals. There's not always some monotonically increasing function where you can over time satisfy a higher and higher portion of your users.
Visitor: what's your wifi password?

Me: it's the entire alphabet in order.

Visitor: I don't want to type 20+ obnoxious letters.

Me: can I interest you in a QR code?
>
AFAIK, China has paid no price (legally) to date for stealing tech from others and disregarding patents/copyrights.

If you consider arresting Huawei executives, sanctions against that firm, and having their equipment banned/restricted for many use cases by a number of western governments to be 'no price', then sure, no price has been paid.

We can split hairs as to the steps of the exact chain of causality that has lead us to that point, but I'm sure it was a factor.
Well I have a router for sale that costs only $2!

* shipping is $20
It's a sunk cost if it's in their warehouse, and it costs to store. Every dollar they make on the sale is an earned dollar.
I'm just going from memory. The last time I found them I harvested an entire tree worth, and that was enough to feed two people for two nights. I think I filled up a Baggu and a half worth, and each of those holds at least 15 lbs of mushrooms.
After all this publicity Lofi Girl will become even more popular.
Ask HN: Why Is ♥ Emoji Allowed in Story Titles?
don't make me tap the sign:

https://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypert...

> I am getting frustrated by the number of people calling any HTTP-based interface a REST API. Today’s example is the SocialSite REST API. That is RPC. It screams RPC. There is so much coupling on display that it should be given an X rating.

> What needs to be done to make the REST architectural style clear on the notion that hypertext is a constraint?
Recent and related:

James Webb Telescope First Images – Livestream - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32070531 - July 2022 (8 comments)

Deepest infrared image of universe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32062849 - July 2022 (334 comments)

James Webb Space Telescope White House Briefing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32062139 - July 2022 (91 comments)
In general, cutting-edge astrophysics does not necessarily use cutting-edge software engineering.

For example, the JWST also uses a proprietary version of JavaScript 3, made by a bankrupt company.

https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/15469085323556577...

I think there's a pretty good chance that their data encoding scheme was working, and so they just left it in a working state, without upgrading it to use modern best practices.
This how HN talks about basically every administration of every country. No bigotry here (in GP's comment), just skepticism, cynicism, and distrust for authority.
Big Ten Blame
How much is the VAT?
Ahh whoops you’re right, lol. Embarrassing.

Hubris was designed to be easy to port to RISC-V, so yes! We didn’t end up doing that though. Someone else did though! https://github.com/oxidecomputer/hubris/discussions/365
Thanks!

I worded that poorly ;

Wouldn't one be able to adjust the perceived path of the photon after time, to adjust for re-normalizing the path of the photon based on the understanding of the gravitational arc imposed on such -- meaning the astro equivalent of "ZOOM. ENHANCE!" :-)
Yeah lots of people confuse that domain for China.
Coming from C#, I couldn't handle the untyped nature of GDScript, and quickly took up its static typing.
Giving a shit doesn't scale. In a society obsessed with growth, it's not a sustainable thing.

Draw what conclusions you will. I would gladly give up this incessant "growth" for quality.
Do you feel that way about your family members? Your spouse? Your children? They don't matter?
I am aware, but it renders a lot of our existing infrastructure useless which means we'll have to invest a lot in other second strike measures. Which is gonna cost a lot.
No, I mean doubles across all axes. 1 unit cubed becomes 2 units cubed.
Bringing back some real fond memories.
They haven't sorted it out, but it's also fundamentally not really something that Google can sort out.

Sure they can. They choose not to, for obvious reasons. If they were able to confirm, after the outcry, that the takedown claim was "abusive" -- by whatever criteria -- then there's no reason they couldn't have done that before they outcry. But the cost of doing that would start to chip away at, well, you know what.
Aside from the issues that others have mentioned (Brexit, security clearances), the UK is in the middle of a huge BA.5 Covid wave. Estimates are something around 1 in 25 people had it last week, and it's getting worse. That's driving a lot of staff absences.
The company I work for builds websites for small and medium sized businesses throughout the US. For a period of about two years we would host a copy of a video that we made for the customer on YouTube and use it on customer websites. There came a point where a handful dissatisfied customers claimed infringement for some of these videos and our YouTube channel (thousands of videos) was terminated without appeal, even though the customer had always provided authorization and the contents for these videos. Fortunately we'd decided to self-host our videos before the channel was terminated but there were cases where we lost content that we'd created.
> size slapd
text data bss dec hex filename
2787425 78888 570048 3436361 346f49 slapd

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2826 hyc 20 0 8442040 1.8g 222972 S 17.5 3.1 744:17.91 gnome-shell
1122733 hyc 20 0 5834092 2.1g 211008 S 12.3 3.5 1184:04 seamonkey
2603 hyc 20 0 3072140 32480 24128 S 11.6 0.1 2597:09 pulseaudio
1124256 hyc 20 0 3026040 391680 107860 S 9.6 0.6 638:12.95 Isolated Web Co
1123672 hyc 20 0 13.2g 697540 318016 S 9.3 1.1 611:31.12 firefox

Still pretty lightweight, seems to me. As for pain to manage, that hasn't really been true since the introduction of LMDB in 2011. BerkeleyDB was a pain to manage, before that, but nowadays It Just Runs.
Yes. Yes. That is the status quo. That is the status quo.
A lot of the conversation here is based on anecdata (interactions with uber drivers or cabs) or people projecting what its like to be a driver on uber and they are unwittingly being exploited.

I worked at a company that provided products to uber, lyft and doordash drivers, and personally interviewed well over 200 drivers, (along with having access to detailed data on a much larger dataset). The vast majority of drivers we talked to did not feel like they were being 'exploited' and generally liked the flexibility of the gig economy. Most workers were part time, working to supplement income from other jobs or in between other gigs, in fact when i was there, most drivers worked less than 6 months before stopping. I would say these people have a much better sense of whether they are being exploited than people who are not in their shoes.

There was a small but important minority (we called them 'professionals') for whom driving had become their full time profession (most were not cab drivers before) who were perpetually annoyed by uber and their main gripes tended to be the changing promotions systems, and algorithmic changes that reduced/limited profitable rides (like airport pickups) and just general loss of control.
> Of course the direct answer is "inadequate staff" but the next question is why is that so much more now?

Simple: here in Germany, all workers at airports authorized to enter controlled zones have to pass an extensive background check, a process that takes 3-4 months under normal conditions [1]. During COVID, a lot of these workers were laid off instead of being placed under the employment protection program or left entirely since the Kurzarbeit only paid out 60% of already extremely low wages (14€/h for baggage handlers, [0]). They found other employment and won't come back - to make it worse, airports are usually well outside the city borders, so there's an awful lot of commute involved at a time when public transport doesn't run as well.

> Why aren't the airports doing more to entice workers like perhaps better benefits, pay or flexibility?

There has been a continuous pressure on costs everywhere at airports, which means the airports themselves have not much flexibility on raising fees to account for increased costs, and the companies providing the services like baggage handling, refueling and whatever usually won their contracts by tender which means they are locked in as well by law.

[0] https://de.talent.com/salary?job=flughafen

[1] https://www.luftsicherheitsschulung-online.de/faq-beantragun...
Right, hence the "very comfortably". That wasn't min specs, that was a very happy Win95 system.

> Also a fresh install took up a whooping 50mb

I do wonder WTF modern Windows is doing with tens of GB of disk space, not even counting swap & such. Seems like it jumped up dramatically after WinXP—even the otherwise-kinda-decent Win7 used crazy amounts of disk. "They started including a bunch of drivers" bullshit, Linux has always included loads of drivers with most default installations and it's so much smaller that just calling it "smaller" doesn't do the difference justice, plus there are surely a lot of those that could easily be made a download or optional default-off package (extremely niche or very old hardware).
Well I have to admit, I don’t know their business model very well. But, at least in my case, if I did it for a while and calculated my reimbursement after the costs of running the car—and found out I wasn’t making enough—I would quit.
I take shots of OO regularly. Stops hunger but slowly, because it takes a while for body to convert to fat metabolism.
AceBase Realtime Database
Why wouldn't it be? It's just a Unicode character. A quick test just now suggests that HN titles allow a pretty broad range of (if not, indeed, all) Unicode characters.
Given a choice between life in jail or turning over the coins, I know what I would do.
The fact that you need an A/B test to demonstrate that frontend performance has an impact (on user experience first and foremost) in 2022 speaks volumes.
Having worked federal construction projects in...adjacent venues, I'm exactly aware of what is involved and the scope.
I’d argue that LucasArts was effectively dead before the acquisition, despite having in theory a few games in development. That said, I’d also argue that LucasArts would have wound up shuttered even if it had been in great shape, so you’re probably right either way.
Didn't work on Zaphod though. He just ate the cake.
If language is just decided by popular vote, somebody should tell the English that they are using English wrong -- there are many more Americans after all.
It matters because, just like me, the freelancer will get work from other sources.
This is the mentality of a family member of mine who was in early on BTC but also sold early (Liked mined lots at 10cents each, sold all at $10 each).

He is up on every new shit-coin, he spouts a little bit about the world changing proposition, he basically does it because "hes not missing out again".

His idea is to drop $100-$1000 as early as possible (like at the ICO or pre-buy whatever) and hope one of these things 100x'es.

Part of him knows this is a fools game, but he is "smarter" and still doesn't want to be left out yet again.
> Maybe what will evolve the space is automatic translation from any possible format to any other format using AI.

Easier said than done. Facebook, Google, Twitter and Co. like to gatekeep their data and don't allow third party clients access. So you don't just need an AI smart enough to capture the data and reshape it, but also one smart enough to pass whatever CAPTCHA they throw at you, which will likely get progressively more difficult the more popular your tool gets. And of course they'll lock your account when you try, so this is at best a read-only participation in the social network.

The problem has shifted over the last decade, it's no longer about fixing a broken Web, but about a large part of the content no longer even being a part of the Web. Everything is either moving to Apps or getting gated behind login screens and ToS.
That's what Val Kilmer did, yep.

https://www.etonline.com/val-kilmer-explains-why-he-got-chem...
> where are the individual owns the car

You're right -- the city required that taxi cars had medallions to be allowed to pick up passengers, and the one who owned the medallions on cars there was the owner. With a medallioned car you could pick people up in front of bars, night clubs, off a random street corner, etc.

I don't, however see it as any different from an LLC. At the end of the day the taxi drivers worked directly for themselves, had their own clients, optimized for themselves on finding places to get hailed customers. At least the one I talked to about money stuff had their own CPA, if they filed as self-employed or formed an LLC/C-Corp/S-Corp, I don't know. They were paid by people they picked up, directly, rather than the taxi company.

They had a B2B relationship with the taxi stand, they rented a car with a medallion rather than go through the process and cost of buying one, they earned money directly from the people they picked up, making themselves a B2C.

And if you bought a medallion, you didn't need to rent the car from the taxi stand, so you could do it totally yourself and cut them out. You gain maintaining the car, the capital expense of the medallion.
> The reality is that software is extremely expensive, especially polished software with a good user experience that's usable by non-experts.

I get your point here and I think this has been the case for so long that it seems like an immutable law by now. But, is it inevitable that software should be so expensive to produce?

How we write software today is largely based on ways of working and technical limitations that are not much different to what Fred Brooks wrote about in the Mythical Man Month. Brooks had some hope that programming languages would raise the level of abstraction we work at and that software design would shed much of its "accidental complexity".

Better programming languages could enable authors to work on problem solving rather than generating artefacts for machine computation.

The promise of better languages has been with us for a while but I'm not convinced that this avenue is as well explored as some believe it to be. The scope for these kinds of new abstractions isn't just drop in replacements for the programs you might write in C - it extends to other flavours of programming.

An example of progress here is how component libraries are used in web UI development. Mature component libraries require very little work to use and massively speed up development of "polished software".

Declarative end-user programming isn't a lucrative problem domain, but innovation in this space is still possible and could change the face of free software (both definitions) for everyone.

Progress like this could enable user communities to build, maintain and run their own platforms without the level of expense that currently prevents these kind digital commons from forming.
Merge Ahead: Researcher Takes Software Bridge to Quantum Computing
You're talking about macroeconomics, the exciting and unscientific field of how interest rates, markets, etc interact and the whole big world of wealth works. Obviously very difficult to get any real experimental data that isn't unrepeatable or biased. You can argue one position, or just as easily find data to argue the opposite position, and nobody will ever know which one is right.

Microeconomics on the other hand is much more a real science that helps answer boring practical questions like "How much capital should I invest in each product line? How much should I price this good at?" or my personal favorite because it is relevant to everyone, not just managers: "How elastic is the demand at firm X or in industry Y for laborers with skills like mine, and how elastic is the supply of such laborers?" Thinking about that question can really help anyone make choices about where to apply for work if you want your career to do well.

And since it happens at a small level there is lots of data so correspondingly more scientific certainty.
> (or could be)

So which is it?
Because this is what makes the difference.

You seem to have opted for the first option in the rest of your post but never mention why.