skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I could own a copy of every book that has predicted the end of capitalism in the last 150 years I could sell them all as fuel and end the energy crisis.
Even chronologically sorting ones. Any choice made is an editorial choice.
They don't allow cannabis businesses that sell naturally occurring delta-9 THC products. Other cannabis businesses are fine.
Sure, but there is some limitation to what they could feasibly restrict. Tor with WebRTC bridges?
I can understand why he was sentenced to prison but I've never really understood why Ulbrict was put in a high security prison. He's basically harmless without a keyboard.
I did as well. While helping set up my parents (now Grandma and Grandpa) on our Disney+ and Netflix plans, we discussed the demise of Blockbuster.

As it turns out, they did a really good job of insulating us as kids from the backup plans for broken VHS tapes, late fees, mis-boxed movies, returns that were accepted but never registered, out-of-stock hit movies, and other 'adult' problems. Their memories of movie nights did not have quite the same golden hue, but they were happy that they'd fostered that kind of memory in spite of the stresses of parenting.
I just really liked Wendy Carlos' soundtrack. Still listen to it. It has such a calming presence.

Say what you will about Daft Punk and Tron Legacy but the original Tron OST is underrated.
It's interesting how even the example leading that Wired article is of someone who was already a cigarette smoker who switched to Juul. The moral panic about vaping has always been ridiculously overblown, almost as if the anti-vaping groups were funded by the cigarette companies.
That's brilliant! It took me a few minutes to understand what I was looking at... realtime data, hooked into a flight sim, live streamed.
I have close to 18k ebooks in a library, and every other program I've tried to use in the past falls over dead when facing that.

Calibre doesn't fall over. Instead, it happily and quickly sorts and searches and downloads metadata, and syncs to my Kindle (converting formats if required in the process).

It's the most un-Mac-like program I use on my Mac, certainly, and some days I might even describe it as ugly or unfocused, but there are literally no alternatives that work nearly as well, and there's something to be said for that. And "unfocused" just means it has a lot of features I don't need, but other people may rely on those features and not need the features I use.
This woman is a great writer!

This article doesn't really apply to anything I'm doing (at present), but I enjoyed the read.
Berekely Mono

https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono
Ghidra and BRL-CAD are absolutely high quality pieces of software. They just don't have time put into shiny UI. The UX isn't really that bad once you learn them though.

Also BRL-CAD's continued existence really should speak for it's quality considering it's the one of the oldest VCS tracked pieces of software and is the oldest public one. It's leagues ahead of a lot of gov and corporate tooling I've seen on both sides of the fence.

But otherwise yes, the mil-industrial complex often leaves something to be desired with development practices. The money all goes towards feeding systems engineers, mechs, mats, and sparkies. Software is usually the last consideration and is for holding together all the stuff the teams couldn't figure out how to do without it.

Things are getting better but it's a slow process and it almost entirely depends on software engineers sticking around long enough to get into leadership rather than leaving for better paying corporate or research jobs. While I'm on my way out now for a number of reasons, the industry is finally starting to get good at software practices and where it absolutely mattered they for a long time have tended to get it right.
I wish any studio good luck to disable a license on a DVD.
Even if it's consistent behaviour, I'd consistently answer the same way, treating it as honest ignorance. Tasks always look simpler from the outside.

If that conversation is happening with senior management, it can also identify some consistent mismatch between their perception and reality. (Didn't your team get 5 new hires last year? Yes but two are on leave and we also took over responsibility for customer-facing documentation from marketing). Or reveal new priorities when consistent themes come up -- maybe the testing process is being slowed down by a growing matrix of product configurations, and management had no idea how much work that creates.

When the language shifts to something like "regardless of your estimate, we need it done by the end of Q3, so make it happen", then I treat it as pushback.
Part of the problem I pick up here is that, in general, engineers who haven't done the hard work of the actual scoping themselves tend to be wildly optimistic in their estimates.

I'm not sure if this applies to more seasoned engineer-customers though. The more experienced engineer-customers (people who've been working for 10+ years) tend to be far more understanding here.
> They will double dip if they can

If they can, yes. But it will now open them to competition.

Not to mention, if the law is structured in such a way that advertising-based business models remove their (UK equivalent) of Section 230 while purely fee-based models don't (as you'd assume fee-based models benefit equally from any content, where as ad-based models benefit from certain content more than other) then they can't double-dip since the extra liability will wipe out any advertising profits.
I would question why you are giving customers technical estimates instead of giving them expected release date.

Expected release dates should be broad, next month, next quarter, etc.

Estimated release dates take into discussion what is also being worked by development team.
> America should not have national ID cards of any kind. Great, except that this now makes fraud a lot easier.

No, it makes establishing trustworthy business transactions slightly harder. Only slightly, and the necessary technology has been off-the-shelf for some time now.

> Today, if you are a bank you don't actually have any good options to verify the identity of a new customer.

The folks at my local credit union and I know each other personally. It would take a "Mission Impossible"-style impersonation to get them to succumb to fraud ("identity theft".)
Solana Summer Camp Hackathon
To see one, lol. I've waited this long - I think I'll wait for the bulk and then binge
Europe is heating up faster than other hot spots, a study finds
Ask HN: How young should you be for quantum computation to be worth learning?
Quantum computation probably won’t be important in the next decade or two and so maybe learning about it only makes sense for younger people?
I find things like TextSniper to be more useful than this functionality, which has been in iOS and MacOS for a little bit. I use it more on hypothetically selectable elements that for whatever DOM-related reason aren't selectable than I use it on text in images.
If you don't like the come up being too slow, then I suggest mushroom tea with citrus. Makes it hit all at once. One moment you're normal and the next moment you're tripping.
This sounds like a good idea; though I am not sure how it will work in practice when reviews are such a significant factor the consumer considers when deciding to patron a business.

When I worked in at a hometown pizza place (how stereotypical, right?) we were told again, and again, and again by the again, stereotypically 'Old Italian Man Owner' how important 'word of mouth' was to keeping his business alive after he inherited it from his own father. That was around...2015(ish) and...well, communities are aware of the local good spots to go and visitors are left to seek out online reviews when that word of mouth doesn't reach them to make their decisions.
Yeah, trolling can happen but you can also get a good opinion of the place if there are negative reviews. I'll follow with another anecdote.

Earlier that same year(2014-ish) I worked at another pizza place that was newer to the (small-ish but not really) city in a prime downtown location; throughout the 3 high schools a lot of the kids found that the owner was a piece of shit - I'll skim past the health code violations and focus on the prime thing he didn't pay his employees and as high school kids, we didn't really know how to be made whole so our option was to bombard the Facebook page, Google and whatever medium that was available to spread the word of the unfair practices of this owner to the town.

So its a double edged sword. I can't imagine the shithole would have chosen to opt-in when the reviews were used to highlight the problems.
no they dont. Sony / amazon / apple / google can deactivate my account an any given time, and destroy all my content.

Cant do that with DVD.
> a great colleague [who] cheers up five others and is still a net-positive in the amount of work done.

I wanted to clarify here that I mean he would be a net-positive in the amount of work done regardless, and in addition cheers up anyone who's around him. I have positive memories and not sure that really came through when speaking of 'net positive' which is a rather low bar to reach.
Growing up in the 80s with VHS, Betamax, Laserdiscs (if anyone recalls), and being a dj in the late 90s when the thought of a "USB stick instead of traveling with all this vinyl was an impossibility", makes this whole nostalgia tour a fun one. I think we all forget though just how poor the quality was back then, and what we've become accustomed to, with VHS being 240 lines, DVD 480p, etc. It's like reminiscing about the first iPhone and then looking at one and realizing how damn small it actually was compared to modern versions.

I started converting / collecting most of my movie collection onto a localized server years ago, and glad I did. Though I rarely watch all my old movies (a growing list of about 1000 including most of my favorite TV shows), the end game I think we all know is everything streamed, with no actual ownership of content. It's not a terrible notion, but the problem I think we've all seen is it's now turned into a corporate ownership game, and you never know where the content you're interested in watching is. One day Star Trek is on Netflix, the next Paramount, etc.

The only problem has been keeping up with resolution changes, even though I'm a firm believer in unless you're watching on something well over 100" a nice high-quality 1080P file looks just great on a large 85" tv (which I currently have).
So you're saying if the average number of times a Friends collection DVD is watched is approximately 1, nobody is entitled to watch it more often, even if they're a superfan?
I mean. Stratego is a great game; I had a lot of fun playing it at summer camps when I was a young boy. It's cool there's a good AI for it.

But this result feels a bit anticlimactic in a world where AIs can already beat expert humans at go, six-player poker, Starcraft, ...
They also had quite a markup on those snacks. Not movie theater levels, but a lot higher than the convenience store.
> obtain opt-in consent from the person or business being reviewed

Do you feel the same for public figures who don't want to be covered by the media? If not, why?

I do think there are a number of issues with online reviews, but in the absence of other data (which might sometimes be available but might also be hidden by the businesses/institutions themselves), online reviews frequently turn out to be much better than nothing. This can be particularly true for infrequent but meaningful transactions (e.g. large financial cost or affecting one's health).

Disclosure: I run a website that hosts reviews.
He was not convicted of any murder/homicide related solicitation.
You'd need to be working at Discord or something to not know that Free Software is a thing.
The amount of solar power hitting the surface of a car is much, much smaller than the power driving the wheels.
I went to the same place, making this comment thread all the more surreal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32057986
> free as in speech, not beer

I can never remember which way around this is. I think the "beer" is supposed to be free in the monetary sense and "speech" is supposed to be free in the rights/liberty sense, but the analogy doesn't actually convey this:

- Speech is normally both monetarily free and (in certain places) a right

- Beer is normally neither monetarily free or a right. But may make you "feel" free, which is another sense entirely.

Is this a cultural reference I'm missing?
I don't think these limitations are ones that really impact hardware all that much. It wouldn't be impossible to create hardware with the concept of "infinite registers" that ultimately gets optimized away. (see: Mill CPU)

The bigger issue (IMO) is that the IR for compilers tends to evolve rapidly while hardware is stuck in the mud. Moving the problem of finalizing the IR into the hardware will effectively make it so you'd change your compiler to emit IR that targets old IR.

This is why, for example, x86 will get a new instruction which will effectively go unused for 5 to 10 years (except in extreme cases where the performance gains are worth the cost of writing code to detect and use those new instructions... For example, FMA). Those who compile code want it to be able to run most anywhere in not so surprising fashions, so they'll target the LCD.

Now, imagine someone was building a JVM bytecode chip today. The JVM is on a 6 month release schedule. That's incredibly hard for a hardware manufacturer to want to keep updating their chips at that rate. Further, even if they targeted "LTS" versions, they've moved that to a 2 year cycle. Again, hard to really expect customers to want a new JVM chip every 2 years.

The likes of GCC and LLVM IR change and expand just as rapidly (if not moreso) than than JVM.

There is the option of something like FPGA or programmable hardware leaking into more places, but IMO, the HDLs and their tools simply suck too bad to expect FPGA on an ASIC to really take off. We need a first mover here and after that happens, I expect at least 5 to 10 years before the tools get to a level that doesn't completely suck. Even then, while access to GPGPUs is now pretty much universal, GPGPU programming still feels like it is in the stone ages. Despite being a thing for over 10 years. So how can we expect HDLs to evolve at a faster pace?
India: Police rumble fake 'IPL' cricket league that tricked Russian betters
time-rich is a great term. I'm surprised I haven't heard it from the FIRE community.
I don't need to design a thinner mechanical watch to correctly point out that they are far from the envelops of possible with respect to modern mechanics. Like this is a neat object but let's not pretend modern watch making is pushing envelopes outside it's niche domain.
None of this is possible with the first amendment.
Wow this is a great story thanks for sharing!
I have read the first book of War and Peace a long time ago and had a fairly similar experience to you. I never got to reading the second one because I didn’t have the time to do so at the time. I remember it as long but easy reading however. War and Peace definitely is entertaining.

> I somehow got through Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow but don't recommend anyone do that, I was just too stubborn to let it get the better of me

Strangely I think everyone should do that. It’s an insanely fun book once you have accepted you are not supposed to get everything. Pynchon is probably my favourite author all things considered. Still I think starting with Inherent Vice, The Crying of Lot 49 or Vineland is probably a good idea.
>Few of us urgently depend on email just this hour.

I agree that you shouldn't be manically refreshing your email every 5 minutes, but my mail service being down for a few hours would definitely be a major inconvenience if I needed to get a 2fa code during that time. Same if I needed to look at my email to view my tickets for an upcoming event.
I would think it'd be almost impossible to track, given that a lot of products change their pricing plan names, add new pricing plans, don't disclose prices, discount pricing based on usage, discount prices based on annual/monthly, etc.

It's just not standardized enough to track, unlike tracking the price of a specific item in an online store, or even AWS instance prices.
> Put an ad in the paper? TV? Radio? Those just don't have the viewership anymore.

Ultimately people have a specific amount of disposable income regardless of how much advertising you throw at them, so the market will rebalance. There might be less advertising overall, which is a good thing for many reasons but one of them would be that the advertising that remains becomes more effective. The mediums you mention currently don't have the viewership because all attention is consumed by social media - this may very well change.

In addition, the issue only applies to the common definition of internet advertising. Advertisers can still produce first-party content just like any other user on the platform and people will like/follow/share it if it's useful or entertaining to them. Product placement will still work, and so on.
After a few votes the text hex code disappeared for me so I was only voting on the colors.
Hopefully this will also strengthen the INR compared to the USD. Good move!
> Before we get into this kind of stream-of-consciousness outline, I'd like to note that very topically to this, over at the Spritely Institute (where I'm CTO, did I mention on here yet that I'm the CTO of a nonprofit to improve networked communication on the internet on this blog? because I don't think I did)

At this point it seemed like the article was purposefully written in a stream of consciousness style instead of just ending up that way. There’s not much here.
It’s not just India. Many of these come from Pakistan, egypt and other locations as well.
> researchers invented a fundamentally new kind of problem that a quantum computer should be able to solve exponentially faster

Telling of the status of the field.
Show HN: Speech Controlled Robot on FPGA
Whether you estimate something liberally or conservatively hardly matters. You're still going to have to stand trial for the cost by everyone anyway.

You get better at it with time. You'll get better at arguing your case. You'll get better at justifying certain work.

It is worthwhile to clarify to everyone that it is an estimate and not a promise. If someone tells you they can do it in half the time, then a friendly "feel free to help contribute to the project" can shut up people quickly.

If possible, try to get away from this practice and to more agile practices. That way you would be able to just talk about when you start and cease certain work or give wild ass guesses instead of wasting too much time estimating.
> Picking a color from a pallet of similar colors is explicitly rejecting the nearby colors on the swatch.

> It is exactly the opposite of a weak vote for nearby colors.

Surely that is demonstrably false in cases where you could experimentally prove that two adjacent colors are below the voter's threshold of color discrimination.
Promoting VPN usage could be construed by the UK courts as an attempt to commit subterfuge or dodge jurisdiction. They will not take kindly to this. You really want to make it perfectly clear that you want nothing to do with Britain as long as they have crazy laws on the books.

Related point: if you're intending to get out of GDPR, blocking the EU doesn't really help, because the law applies on the basis of citizenship, not territory. If an EU citizen accesses your website in America, that's still within GDPR scope. If you have EU business assets, ship things to the EU, or have any other ties to the EU, then they still have jurisdiction and you certainly still have to comply with GDPR.
If it can be used to create music than feel free to add it here by sending a PR: https://github.com/pjagielski/awesome-live-coding-music
When would NONE show up and when would UNKNOWN show up?
So would something bad happen if you posted the name..?
Ah, yeah, that one's new since I posted.

The account falls into "can't tell if this is a parody of right-wing "hustle" bros, or if this guy(?) is serious" territory.
The “reigning in big tech” thing that’s been going on for all this while is really a ruse to limit citizen freedom while coming up with laws that only big tech can comply to.

I wish it was more widely recognized and understood by more folks.
Fair points but why is the dollar rising in the first place? Isn’t that because of the artificially high oil prices because of the war.. since middle eastern oil is sold in USD.

Countries need to buy dollars to buy oil. That’s why dollar is rising.
Scratch Can Even Do Linux Kernel
Brits don't have freedom of speech AFIK. it was never in their social contract.
Probably for a minority, the rest just did it because it was free and easy.
Ross's story is heartbreaking honestly. Yes the guy basically built the Amazon of drugs, yes he should have done prison time for it. But FFS 2X life without possibility of parole.

This guys has maybe one chance left and that's if a sympathetic President gets elected and pardons him.
This device only addresses the final step of the process which is in fact the easiest step (when dealing with home scale cultivation).

There are already many companies which will sell you pre-inoculated bricks which are delivered to you in a cardboard box which you use as the fruiting chamber. The only difference here is that this company made the fruiting chamber out of plastic instead of cardboard.
Yes they are testing the boundaries, and I think they will be surprised to see the amount of pushback, bad PR, and probably legal action that they get when people can no longer access the content that they purchased.
I think the idea is that you might be able to reduce other problems to this problem space.
You live in a leaky tent with a lot of holes in it.

Someone suggests you'd be better in a house.

"Imagine where I would be without the tent! This is a thought experiment to test the statement of 'this tent being overall bad'. Therefore I won't move."
I wouldn't be surprised if they supported both, but the pictures on their website all show Prepar3D.
> The language isn't gonna "settle down" in that way any time soon

Actually, I'd say the language HAS settled down. Most new releases are stabilizing APIs or general tooling improvements and not actual language changes.

Not to say there aren't outstanding tweaks, adjustments, or improvements to the language that are ongoing, but rather, the target isn't moving nearly as fast as it was when 1.0 or rust 2018 were released.
> If content creator want people to buy their content, then they should sell it.

They are selling it. Just because they're not selling in precisely the way you want them to, that does not mean that you're entitled to the content anyway.

You justify your piracy all you want, but let's not pretend that you'd fork over the cash to legitimize your entire library of pirated entertainment if it showed up tomorrow on some store that offered exclusively freedom-respecting DRM-free downloads (okay, maybe you would, but most people wouldn't).
Wow! I did exactly the same thing as a kid. I though I was sooooo clever.
I kinda feel like cars are a pretty good transportation solution to poor land use planning.
Piracy is more convenient and there are no consequences. You're looking at the problem incorrectly.

People will pirate. Whether or not it's right or wrong is irrelevant. even if it's not "That much harder to X, Y, Z", people will do what is easiest.
The first amendment to the US Constitution provides very strong protection for the right to free speech. Presumably that is the origin of "free as in speech".
https://aptera.us

https://lightyear.one

https://sonomotors.com/en/sion/
Yeah right. Read this NYT article about Ihor Kolomoisky, the guy allegedly behind Zelenskyy's rise to power and do some serious thinking.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191123115230/https://www.nytim...