skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Breakfast stopped 9:30 or 10am, depending on cafe in mountain view. Dinner mostly started 6:30pm. There were some cafes that provided food continuously, so some folks grabbed dinner at 5pm and left.
No it wasn't. The original eBook reader was the Rocket eBook reader. The books were html 3.3 files.
How could a review service without an associated company/service be built? As in through some decentralised mechanism?

That seems like properly hard problem - reviews aren't objective facts like OSM data & verification/spam would be tricky.
Always be talking to an expensive camera and they will give you royal treatment.
When DHS flagged my passport gun ownership was one of the first things they asked me about. I don't think ownership is enough to flag you but your answer or lack thereof undoubtable is placed in the database for whatever sort of assessment they use.
This is proof that we are still in the digital incunabula.
Probably because the EPUB file has some problem. Amazon is very strict about EPUB validity.
I still miss Peanut Reader and peanutpress.com

Simpler times.
Are you proposing that we start monitoring phone calls and the mails like we do the internet, and cut off calls and burn mail that involve disapproved talk?
ctrl-shift-enter + 2 variable solvers.

It will change your world.

That is all.
There's probably more, I'm not up on all the particles. My thought is that a) a particle that only interacts with gravity is not prohibited by the Standard Model and b) our inability to detect (yet) such a particle is not proof it doesn't exist.
> Terraform's design is that of a half-baked configuration management program. It's not even declarative programming, because declarative programming requires the program actually try to achieve the desired end state.

terraform is fully declarative; if I want a thing of the XYZ kind, I ask terraform «give me a thing of the XYZ kind and I don't care about how you will get it for me». Declarative programming operates with intentions without focusing on details of how the intention will actually be expressed; «give me XYZ» is an example of such an intention.

Declarative programming and the «desired end state» are orthogonal, and the desired end state may or may not even be the goal of a declarative program. For example, expert systems are all declarative, and they don't deal with «worlds» and can be «entered into» from «anywhere». And, since their «worlds» keep on constantly changing by introducing or retracting facts, at best it is only possible to think about a snapshot of such a world at a given moment in time.

> Terraform won't do that. It will try to create or destroy something based on what it thinks the world looks like, rather than what the world actually looks like.

Can you unpack that? terraform keeps the current state of «world» as a dependency graph in a state file and compares it with intentions expressed in .tf file(s) that under the hood translate into one or more new or changed graph nodes. If there are differences in two dependency graphs, it modifies the current in-memory dependency graph, applies changes to the infrastructure and incrementally updates the state file to reflect the dependency graph update progression in the infrastructure.

terraform is not a sentient being, therefore it can't solve philosophical problems nor can it reason about anything that goes beyond its state file. It is, essentially, a «make» for the infrastructure management with each provider supplying built-in build rules.

> For example, if you tell Terraform you want an S3 bucket, and it tries to create one, but it already exists, Terraform dies. In that case they want you to manually use an 'import' command to import the existing S3 bucket (which btw is a different syntax for every single resource). Why doesn't it automatically import resources?

Why? Because it is a feature.

If a S3 bucket already exists, it may mean of the following:

1. It is already managed by another terraform project;
2. It has another owner who might have created it using a different tool that manages the S3 bucket lifecycle differently;
3. A coding mistake, e.g. a .tf file has been copied and pasted into;
4. Something else.

If terraform were to be allowed to auto-import existing resources, case (1) would become a time ticking bomb until the S3 bucket would get updated by another run of a terraform project that manages it as well; case (2) would likely result in a homicide with the rightful S3 bucket owner chasing you around with a hammer; case (3) is a wake-up call to not rampantly copy and paste .tf files; case (4) can be anything else.
kinda funny if you spam click it also.
Do you think it's practical to put dozens of antennas on every residential property?

That's the point: with enough effort you can make any sort of wireless link pretty arbitrarily large and more "wire-like". At an extremely disproportionate increase in cost of equipment and sensitivity of antennas to positioning.

But now you're competing with the installation costs of fixed cabling anyway - we're not talking about small portable devices any more which a consumer puts "wherever" in their house. We're talking large fixed installations which need to be aimed and calibrated correctly, and consume substantial power (the Starlink rectenna for example is not a low power device).

The moment you've got skilled labor having to come out to the property you've lost: it's just as easy for the skilled labor to install fixed line cabling, as well as less disruptive to the home owner and it is very likely a lot cheaper. Our cities are well setup to bring things into people's homes - we have water, gas, electricity lines that need to go everywhere. The cost is not in the device, it's in the labor.
This! I most notably always fight google news: preventing it from dropping out of real-chrome into worst-chrome by opening in new tab has become finger memory...
Another cool easter egg:

https://www.google.com/search?q=ingenuity

(click the animated helicopter)
Finally saw "Office Space" recently! Now I know about "flair". 15 is the bare minimum. Look at <dedicated-employee> - he has what, 35 pieces of flair! Don't you feel like a slacker, barely achieving minimum expectations?

As to the parent thread: I make about half what I would be making if I had gone the FAANG route -- but I get to choose what I work on. That is a fair deal in my mind. Working on things that fascinate & inspire me make me a 10x rockstar. But if I'm asked to keep dead code limping along zombie-like, I need to work harder and longer because in that scenario I am a 0.5x sleeper. YMMV
I remember long stretches of time when these companies would scoop up as many tech workers as possible to deny their competition access to workers. Guess they've decided this isn't necessary anymore.
Casual! If you aren’t submerging your chain in molten wax while in an ultrasonic agitation chamber then you may as well just throw your whole bike in the trash.
Added challenge would be Excel 95 on a 486 DX.
I'd love to see some papers from more, shall we say, impactful peer-reviewed journals.
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045221
Aside: what's the best e-reader device (ignoring cost)? I'd like to invest in one soon, something robust and durable, good contrast.
I kinda like the idea of running open source software on an ereader but I'd probably consider it merely nice-to-have.
Looks like it is only enabled when the interface is English. I do not see it by default here in Germany. But I get the paw when I add &hl=en to the url:

https://www.google.com/search?q=cat&hl=en

Oh, and it also works when I use the German word for "Cat" which is "Katze":

https://www.google.com/search?q=katze
Indeed!

I was so glad to see you cite not only the Rebello paper but also Protocol-Aware Recovery for Consensus-Based Storage. When I read your first comment, I was about to reply to mention PAR, and then saw you had saved me the trouble!

UW-Madison are truly the vanguard where consensus hits the disk.

We implemented Protocol-Aware Recovery for TigerBeetle [1], and I did a talk recently at the Recurse Center diving into PAR, talking about the intersection of global consensus protocol and local storage engine. It's called Let's Remix Distributed Database Design! [2] and owes the big ideas to UW-Madison.

[1] https://github.com/coilhq/tigerbeetle

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNmZZLant9o
I hope not. Publishers know that it's impossible to typeset an ePub exactly as you want it displayed since display is under the control of the reader, or the reading device. At least until pdf is no longer synonymous with letter paper/A4, ePub is a flawed format.

And for the umpteenth time, the pdf format is size agnostic.
It's a "problem" only if you assume nation-states own the brains of their citizens, and have the right to dictate that they stay within their borders.

There's a lot of brains draining from Russia right now due to Putin's policies. Should we deport them all back to Russia?
I think this article is more about alternative rasterization algorithm for 2D geometry. 'vector graphics' is misleading as vertices used in graphics APIs are vectors.
Before asking why, can we even prove that anything does exist?

Three famous quotes that many people agree with: "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" "I think therefore I exist" "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."

We can interpret the first saying that it is questionable if something exists if it isn't perceived. It ties reality to perception. The second quote insists that a person exists because he is thinking, because he is exhibiting conscious activity. How can we interpret the last one. What does it mean that something "doesn't go away". I take it to mean that it keeps affecting you and impacting your life.

I think it's pretty interesting that it all seems to tie into the experience of a conscious entity. Maybe it's a self-centered view of the world, or maybe these two concepts really are intrinsically linked.
> I've never understood why people go along with things they disagree about.
As an Engineering manager this happens to me a lot. The first (perhaps most important reason) is that I realise that I might have things wrong and welcome the opportunity to grown and learning. Second, I want to show my appreciation to my report by supporting her/his idea. And third, I always take to opportunity to keep my ego out of the game. I might need to manage the risk and interests, but that's just part of the job.
Did you know that MSRP is not the price you pay? The cheapest Audi S5 I can buy now in Seattle is $69,465 with dealer markup.
Check killedbygoogle first
AppLovin offers to buy Unity for $17.5B
Mountain biker chiming in: have broken chains, friends have broken chains. It’s not a common occurrence, but basically ever has a chain breaker and spare links in their bags. MTB also admittedly puts a lot of components under far more wear and tear than other disciplines.

For MTB especially, it’s not the fact that there’s probably better drivetrain options, but the fact that the current options will happily take a beating, and still let you ride back out. I’m sure the string is real nice and quiet, and has a nice internal hub, but my chain, mech and cassette will get whipped into trees and rocks, will have sand, water, grit ground through it for ~20kms, sustain impacts from going off drops and jumps and they’ll continue to work. I’ve bent mechs, hangers, dinged cassettes, ground chainrings, and they’ll put up with an astounding amount and still get you home.

Once home the ease of access make maintenance a lot simpler, everything gets a clean and lube and it’s happy to go again.
> Combined with Calibre, I don't even see what the Kindle value prop is.

Easy purchasing of ebooks from Amazon, combined with their large selection of ebooks.
謎だね。
I worked in this field for a minute (XENON1T) and I heard a few talks about MOND. We were all pretty open minded but it failed to stick because it didn’t convince us, for a number of reasons. Curious about your background here.
This is the age-old ethical question "do people deserve more reward for their time when they do higher-leverage work?"

It's not as obvious a "yes" as I first thought. I do high-leverage work, but that just means my work builds on the work of many others. I couldn't do anything near what I do now we're it not for thousands or even millions of other people doing low-leverage work that provides the fulcrum for my work. It's society that allows me to do my high-leverage work -- why should I personally collect the pay check for it?

Also I won the genetical lottery to have the interest and intellectual capacity for this work. Is that something I should be rewarded for? Or is it an unfair advantage that other people should be compensated for not having? There's nothing about my personal effort that has given me that advantage.

Not to mention the education and relaxed upbringing that allowed me to reach this potential. That's also a gift from society to me. Should my response be to not repay? To hoard the rewards alone?

I don't know! That's the system we live in. But is it the system we ought to have?
It's trading customisation/flexibility for ease of use, at a (potentially) higher cost.

The older kindles with 2G/3G "Whispersync" functionality had another major drawcard of working just about anywhere, even if you didn't have wifi coverage or a phone with data services. I have in the past used this to load several more books while in an airport in a foreign country between flights.

Many people if you hand them a Kindle can easily navigate the store and buy a book.

Without that built-in store, then they're now going to have a bunch more hurdles:
they need a computer, internet access (or an offline store), the skill and ability to run and use Calibre, the knowledge of where to get eBooks from, how to get them in the right format (or convert them), etc.
Reddit I started to look at on my phone, but then it tried to bully me into installing an app. I like bullies much less than I like forums, so I do not look at Reddit on my phone anymore.
Matter fixed!
If countries don't want a brain drain, perhaps they should adopt more of the policies of countries their brains are escaping to.
The performance of this is abysmal, which is pretty interesting and I would expect more from Google.
The asinine name gets an F.
The antenna array is parallel to the ground, so scaling it up has a minimal impact on drag.

It increases mass, sure, but an increased mass to drag area ratio is usually considered a good thing (you'll be needing a better rocket to launch it tho).
> Until we actually find it, I think it is premature to dismiss out of hand other theories that explain the same phenomena. I'm not sure MOND is any better than DM, but I think it is worth at least pursuing the idea

“Dark matter” is just a phenomenological name to whatever mechanism that might explain all the observations consistently. Under this banner, people have studied models of everything from axions to small black holes. Speaking as someone who’s worked in the field, nobody is “ignoring” alternatives to dark matter — if they could think of ways to make up new alternatives (leveraging MOND, or otherwise) they totally would do it — the problem is that most such alternatives raise more complicated questions like breaking the consistency our theory of gravity, or introducing bizarre quantum behavior of certain cosmological fields, etc. Maybe all those problems can also be solved — but nobody knows how! That’s why it appears like they “ignore” it.

Further, any new theory going to supplant dark matter needs to explain not just galactic rotation curves, but also beat the Lambda CDM model in its ability to model/predict details of the cosmic microwave background radiation. AFAIK, MOND or whatever else is not even close, when you try to put all that together.
JavaScript Features
Labeling "generations" is stupid to begin with, but there's nothing going on at the moment. There's no millennium change or anything else of note. So what we have for the foreseeable 80 years is "the nothings."

Want to talk about an age group? Say what it is. How dumb can people be? Here, let's walk though it:

"Today, 20-30 year-olds face a variety of economic challenges."

OMG, that was soooo easy! I didn't have to make up or look up a bullshit label! YAY!
You will never prevent people from downloading your html and rendering it, correctly or incorrectly. Attackers will just pull in an open source browser engine that supports mobile. Our smartphones were not made with security in mind. They are literal spyware.

I suspect the more likely use of OS-based frame busting is to circumvent ad blocking browsers. This is even the use case he mentions as an example.
Kindle Paperwhite (2021) is one of the fastest E-reader available right now (in term of responsive ness). Kindle device have excellent dictionary too, especially for non-latin language. (Japanese dictionary implementation on Kobo is not very good).

Kobo is more open and is price competitively with Kindle. It's also much more customizable if you are into that.

There are also a lot of Android e-ink tablet like BOOX. These are more expensive but a much, much more customizable as it's basically an Android reader.

Contrast shouldn't be a problem with any recent device. But anything release in past 1-2 years are excellent.
PwC uses g-suite
>So what?

This is exactly the type of reaction I expect from modern leftists when they are proven factually wrong and logically inconsistent. Thanks for being an epitome.

>You're also skipping over the "systematically persecuted" part

Homophobia is a crime in the EU. So much for not being "systematically persecuted". Homophobes fit that description far better than homosexuals today.
It is just the fashion of our time. See also: gravel bike tyres with tan sidewalls, or if you’re old enough, bar ends.
The Kobo Store is really easy to use - plus Overdrive (library ebook software) is natively integrated into Kobo as well.

It’s basically equivalent to Amazon and when you purchase from Kobo (or check out from local library) it shows up automatically when you sync via wifi.

They’ll even price match Amazon (credit for difference in cost +10% bonus) just by filling out a form.
In a very real sense a lot of people had no choice but to stay in company towns. There are certainly similarities between a company town and Facebook, but choosing not to use it is not a matter of survival for anyone.

I agree that Facebook, like company towns, should be regulated given the scope. But I think we should evaluate bannings like Alex Jones more from first principles such as whether there is more harm in allowing him to stay on these platforms or in banning him rather than being strictly adherent to the principle of free speech.
> I know my phone battery is made with slave labor, but it's not like I can choose to buy the one that isn't.

But you can choose to go without the phone that requires the battery. Now I know the canned response is “it’s not practical these days to not have a smart phone”, but going without one will not kill you. If the only phone available killed one person for every phone sold would you still demand to have one?
It's not always perfectly edge on, and it requires a control system to keep it oriented that way.

This is why from the linked article:

> The satellites were then placed in a protective "safe mode" and commanded to fly edge-on "like a sheet of paper" to minimize drag effects as the company worked with the U.S. Space Force and the company LeoLabs to track them with ground-based radar, it added.
There are phenomena in the universe that, for example, general relativity does not predict correctly. Is your conclusion that we should discard any useful theory which ever fails to match an observation?

Would someone who relied on Newtonian dynamics 100 years ago likewise be incorrect to do so because it failed to explain many aspects of planetary motion?
Impressive timeline! In many orgs going through all logs, let alone doing reconnaissance on attacker infra, seizing domains, and sharing threat intel with other companies because of such mediocre attack is out of question.

Was almost waiting for a dox of the attacker :-)
Because I don't necessarily want the link I'm visiting cluttering my history and tabs, and I probably don't want the site in question to have access to my cookies and whatnot. It's much more likely that I'll check out random links in apps (HN client, reddit, twitter, etc) if I know SFSafariViewController will be there to act as a wall between the visited site and my primary browsing setup.

The only thing I can see acting as a replacement is iOS offering to open links from external apps in a private browsing tab instead of a regular one.
What is your solution for bulk transport, last mile, etc?
If you can't convince the other person through evidence or logic, atleast in technical matters, what are the odds you are actually right?
Totally forgot this one, not the easiest to play with a track pad!
Kobo has some fantastic ereaders (and the premium kobo is cheaper than equivalent on Amazon). They also natively support Pocket and checking out books from your library via Overdrive.
Is there a mathematical proof that that is the optimal strategy for zero growth resource economies?
Thats not true. Even if you put your content online, that doesn’t mean it will get in front of people. Disney, through its mass and various distribution levers, can control a significant percentage of what Americans watch on a screen, which isn’t healthy for democracy or capitalism.
Any good recommendations for starting points to learn how to work with these? I'm not a programmer, but do have programming ability, and use excel all the time. Having a more flexible system with better inputs (tying in web scraping, data pipelines, etc) sounds like a great idea.
Sadly the border is the one exception where filming/recording an official in execution of their duties is illegal (constitution "doesn't apply" at the border). Same to cell phone operation. There's no way to record it. And I get strip-searched when I cross the border by officers who have found themselves quite desperate to find something, anything, to charge me with.

I would say the banning of recording at the border is something DHS/CBP counts on in order to enable their pattern of abuse. And when they lie in their warrant, it helps them greatly as it's purely your word against theirs.
I hate to have to make this argument, but here goes...

...where do you draw the line? An M240 machine gun? A Stinger missile? A PFOS factory? A Special Atomic Demolition Munition?

We regulate private possession of dangerous items all the time, and pretty much everybody draws the line somewhere despite vigorous dispute where that line should be drawn in specific cases.
There is no such thing as ground. Especially for high speed signals. An unterminated wire to ground is an antenna.

Older machines tried really hard to have a solid ground reference. Busbars. Copper sheets brazed together. Stuff like that. Lots of headaches with potentials between different grounded points. Eventually, everything with any significant length went differential, so ground potential didn't matter so much. More electronics, fewer headaches.
Who's going to lead them - they are. It's up to the citizens of those countries to select the government and policies that do not drive away their brains. Usually that means rejecting socialism.
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I see cat in 3D
As an American who grew up in the country and gets anxiety in bit cities, this seems insane to me. You’re essentially forcing people to cram together in city centers and think this is a good thing?
Could this principle be used to make a reactionless drive for spacecraft? I would assume it would only be effective in an absurdly deep gravity well, like right next to a star, so it's probably impractical; I'm just curious.
Which means it should have resumed after the ~three-year window of so-called "Millennials."