skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We've got plenty of sunlight in the Midwest, I assure you. We don't need any of yours.

I grew up in the Midwest. Plenty of sunlight are not words I would use to describe it.
The BBC laserdisc project mentioned in passing was actually modeled on the “Aspen Project” by Bob Mohl in the late 70s at the MIT ARCMAC, predecessor to the Media Lab. You could navigate in “street view” around Aspen, Colorado and yes it used video disks.
This isn't really the issue - it's that patents arising from federally funded research that really matter, the intellectual property created by researchers who are paid by federal agencies and taxpayer funds. The fundamental problem is that the universities and researchers can exclusively license that IP to private parties (under Bayh-Dole, passed in the 1980s).

A more rational approach would be to allow any private party (possibly excluding foreign corporations) to license any patent generated, even in part, by federal funding. This would mean, for example, that any pharmaceutical manufacturer could start producing mRNA vaccines and a wide variety of other artificially price-inflated drugs.

Hence, the simple solution is complete repeal of Bayh-Dole laws and an executive order to universities to grant IP liceneses to any interested private party.
If you read the article and more about the backstory of the production, the director did not get to make the film he really wanted to make. From the very start the producers demanded he turn it into a summer blockbuster and changed all kinds of script and other sequences to be more cheesey action movie fluff.

It's actually pretty rare that a director has complete creative freedom on a film. Only huge names like Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, etc. once they gained acclaim could put any damn thing they wanted on film and know that no one would question or change a thing
Jerry can*
Although Franz Inc supported Franz Lisp and developed Allegro Common Lisp, it is my impression they are distinct implementations. I can't find any hard evidence one way or another. Do you know?
SendGrid. LaunchDarkly. Dropbox was rejected first time around.

And I would take a guess Bolt probably got rejected.
Just the V8 ICE is going away
Dutch City of Haarlem could ban meat advertisements in world’s first
> Or imagine if you're blind. Trying to listen for tire noise.

When vehicles past a certain volume (which are not aggressively streamlined to shatter human-powered landspeed records) move faster than 25 kph (15 mph) they displace enough air that they are quite loud.

An automobile-sized vehicle isn’t some kind of terrestrial ninja when its engine doesn’t make noise. Depending on make, model and speed, the volume of displaced air is significantly louder than the engine running at constant velocity.
Yeah I don’t see the point in applying anymore (I’ve applied twice). Why bother?

I found a bunch of “first check” VCs but out of the ~30 I contacted, only 4 responded with some level of, “Ahh, that market hasn’t been proven but keep in touch!”

With YC it’s, “You didn’t get selected but keep trying!”

The only need I have for VC money is freedom to work on my ideas full-time and continue to feed my family. I guess I’ll keep bootstrapping.

A close friend once told me, “Rejection is protection and redirection.” (:
Ask HN: stack recommendations for a lateral mover (2022)?
Working as a "quant" right now but I want to broaden my horizon into web development (have some ideas that I want to try to build, and also want to futureproof a bit because I moved to a location with few opportunities for quants). I have a math background and I do lots of programming - Matlab, R, Python, even some web apps in R/Shiny and hosting my own, very basic static site - but it's nothing like modern web development as far as I can tell (the crux is usually the math/stats modelling and data handling). It's just dizzying trying to get on top of how many web dev tools/frameworks/languages there are and how fast everything seems to be changing.

Been lurking here and reading up for a while, I just wanted to ask for some tips before I start. I feel like I have a decent grasp of the programming basics (data structures, OOP,...) and Linux CL, and I have an idea for a simple (Sudoku) app that I'd like to build. My idea was to look for tutorials and try to build that app using eg Next.js/React, Tailwind and TypeScript (hoping that those are among the most recent and will be state of the art at least for a while), and then try to host it using something like Heroku or Netlify. I found [0] quite inspiring and plan to use the stack as a bit of a reference. I don't think I'll need a backend yet, but later I might like to add some functional language (eg Erlang or Clojure) to my stack because I like the paradigm intellectually, if that makes any sense (over something like Go or just using Python which I already know). I know how to write SQL queries (and also data modelling/normalization), I don't fully understand what difference eg Postgres vs SQLite would make once I need a DB (other than that the latter is easier but has a hard limit, apparently). Any thoughts on that plan, tips/suggestions/things that I'm missing?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32376154
I run all 64 bit Windows 10. But, if I was on 32 bit, I wouldn't count out Windows 1.0 16 bit PE's from running:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client...

If you want to try, extract disk4-apps.img:

https://winworldpc.com/product/windows-10/101
Why is that? If you were forced to join against your will, as in a draft, or in some nations where it's required, doesn't seem that odd to complain about it.
Third possibility: they don't have the data on hand anymore to correct the figures with... It was a 2013 paper, after all. In their reaction statement they also provide a new citation which re-ran the experiments:

"Confirmatory experimentation has now been performed and the results can be found in a preprint article posted on bioRxiv, ‘Homeostatic responses to hypoxia by the carotid body and adrenal medulla are based on mutual antagonism between HIF-1α and HIF-2α’"
Can you suggest a more clownish, less serious, less menacing figurehead?
Right, because they would let someone who created an account in the last month or two and has no presence into their hunting lobby?
To be clear, slime isn’t necessary.
I feel like the time is so right for a true-to-the-material film or series adaptation of Gibson’s works. I would pay so much money to see Neuromancer or Bridge trilogy adapted for the screen.
https://www.amazon.com/Johnny-Mnemonic-Black-White-Blu-Ray/d...

I don't have a Blu-ray player; time to find a torrent...
It appears this can also be done with jq [1]. Is this app doing something similar?

[1] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44497533/jq-transform-un...
Offer to pay your landlord's cost to put one in for you.

Eventually landlords will be falling over themselves to install chargers so their apartments will remain rentable.
>The physical form factor of the “type C” connector is great

At least for phone charging, I find it worse than lightning. It's way too loose (whereas lightning is snug), and I'm always worried about the plastic bit sticking out on the female side is going to break.
latest paper on the topic:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01092-9
Okay, still the same thought experiment. Pick up a random USB C cable. Now tell me:

How much power can it deliver?

Does it support data and at what speed?

Does it support video over USB C?

If I bought a cheap USB power only 5W cable and got the hypothetical iPhone 15 Pro Max with USB C support that could charge faster with a 20W cable, do 10Gps data transfer and video over USB C, wouldn’t I still end up throwing away the USB C cable I got with the $100 Android phone contributing to eWaste? Isn’t that the entire argument about forcing Apple to support USB C?

What happens when I buy a cheap USB C cord from the convenience store? Will it support “standard USB C”.
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Industry bodies vary in quality; USB-IF is notoriously bad at UX. They focus on providing opportunities to participate in their newest standard. That's why you end up with monstrosities like renaming USB 3.0 to USB 3.1 Gen 1 and adding USB4 2.0 instead of simply calling it USB5, like it should.

Cables and docks, once again to give opportunities to participate to as many players as possible, only have to implement few elements of the standard to be branded.

Apple and Intel basically used the Thunderbolt standard to get rid of this mess. Thunderbolt 3 and 4 are forcing implementation of all the optional elements of USB to be branded. So if you want to have a sane experience with USB-C, stick to TB ports, docks and cables.
>> And Republicans chose Donald Trump as their leader in order to disprove this perception?

Republicans are split on Trump:

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/08/09/2-traits-of-...

My guess is that if Trump runs for president in 2024 he will split the Republican vote and will not win.
You most likely don't need metrics
Haha, “have fun in jail”?! Sheesh. Interesting anecdote about today’s value add. I wonder why?
They could have in the past too.

Is there a conspiracy going on now?
Anonymous claims responsibility for Moscow traffic jam tied to app exploit
The self-driving AI they use this chip for appears to be less than impressive from my perspective. Its mistakes seem to come up in the news quite frequently.
I wonder if there is a business opportunity here: operating licence servers for legacy games. It would obviously require the approval of the game publisher, and some kind of subscription-based business model. I have no idea if that would work, but I suspect that there is a fair-sized subset of the gamer community that would be prepared to pay a small recurring fee to keep a much loved game alive. Thoughts?
Wow, all three are huge!
I'm still waiting for a thin low weight A4 size eink reader
As a user I absolutely prefer freaking "turn off" button for both wifi and bluetooth.
They also provide a good counter to propaganda. You don't have to believe you get Covid chipped or in evil lizard people to see serious and concerning displays of media propaganda. And yes, it is US corporations in cooperation with government far more than the Russians on the English speaking net. There is just as much propaganda in Russia in Russian of course.

It is just the usual type of propaganda and works even more effectively as it did in the past.
In my experience, metrics are a giant waste of time for engineers and engineering managers. Project managers and folks who depend on the fruits of engineering labor on the other hand love these metrics. It is simpler (and wrongheaded) because who wants complications after all?
Look at the trivialization in this article for instance - "tasks come in, and software comes out". Oh really? I had no idea!

Tasks vary drastically from project to project,including due to varying requirements, ambient software environment, technological changes and a host of other factors. Metrics are a way for project managers to pass the buck on to the engineering teams and nothing more.
I’m not sure why “effective” is the metric you are using. I’m saying it is easier to dig a canal that can provide water for tens of millions of people than it is to move tens of millions of people to a new state.
There are also enclosed ebikes for inclement weather, such as the Organic Transit ELF and the BetterBike PEBL.
The different treatments of patents and federally funded research has always been shocking to me. In the one case, a private party pays the government for a limited monopoly on a novel idea and the government makes the patent publicly available. In the other case, the government pays for the research, the authors pay for publication, the authors’ peers review the work for free, and Elsiever gets the rights to paywall it forever at 10000% markup over S3 storage costs.
I feel like it is thoroughly explained above and my other counterparts in conversation understand the point.

I am also not sure you're conversing in good faith. You're tossing out pithy one-liners that demand greater effort to respond to than to say them. This was also my experience a long time ago when we used to discuss things on IRC (including, I believe, this exact topic).
Its not interesting at all, there are buzzwords and buzzwords get you paid. The secret is knowing the words they need and maneuvering them into the title.

I dont doubt if you look at the blurbs for an annual intake of YC you will see the exact same effect.

I am personally working the very first reimaging of the traditional <insert market place here> with a distributed no code ai blockchain approach; that puts mobile, web and API customers first.
The context of the quote is found here [0]:

> In addition to making sure that location information and other data are fully encrypted, participants’ identities remain private from each other and from Apple.

I don't know that it matters whether or not there's any authentication information. If you could get your Apple device to misreport its location (would need jailbreaking for iOS probably)[1], maybe you could fool the Find My network into reporting the AirTag is elsewhere.

[0]: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/find-my-security-se...

[1]: This would likely need to be quite involved, considering location may be determined from a combination of IP, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, etc., although I'd be surprised if there aren't already tools available to do that, especially on macOS.
No experience here, but I came to the exact same conclusions you did. Avoid fights where possible, but be prepared for them if they happen.

And presumably you'd think the enemy forces were large enough already, there's no reason to add another couple hundred.
Uuids have next to no chance for duplicates and are safe for usage in all languages.
integers can cause problems if your system that use the numeric ids use the wrong type.
you can run into this with javascript, which can cause problems. Integers can also cause problems with databases, mysql splits the space of possible ids between all servers in a cluster. So when one db server is more used for creating records you are wasting space.
integers can also create problems if the datatype is too small.
Nope. Just that it is a GUI and provides Syntax highlighting. :)
Yes, that attempt to EEE the web was thwarted thankfully.
You can disable this feature on just your iPad from the Bluetooth settings.
This reminds me of the tiny mechanical camera that I had as a kid for the 110 film format. It was my first camera and I loved that little thing. It looked something like this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/juan-antonio-capo/6981339701/i...
> Browsers HTML and CSS parsers are incredibly generous in what they accept

Yes, that is part of the problem. Parsers should be fail-fast and deterministic, this is one of the many problems of the web. Developers don't notice their incorrect code due to this and without noticing rely on the implementation-specific way one browser handles the issue. Then 3 versions later or in a different browser they whole house of cards comes tumbling down.

> One developer can do with the web what 10 couldn‘t do with native

Building a non-trivial app is always faster to do native. By a huge margin.
"Part 2 of this volume is an exercise in theoretical applied science, a mode of research which aims to describe technological possibilities as constrained not by present-day laboratory and factory techniques, but by physical law." -Eric Drexler, Nanosystems, Appendix A.

Dude was very clear about his aims, and it is a shitty kind of strawman argument to dunk on Drexler like Scott Locklin is doing here. Physicists think like this all the time when considering upper- and lower-bounds to things. Drexler just had the temerity to put nice graphics alongside his speculation. It's not his fault if people got inspired. The upside of his work (inspiring dreamers to get into materials science, physical chemistry, even molecular/cellular biology) far outweighs even the worst downsides haters like Locklin can invent.
My point was just that the pattern (subsequent films had significantly lower box offices) was the same. Comparing box offices from several decades ago is hard not so much due to inflation but because there are so many alternatives to watch something today, and the time from theatre to "you can watch it at home" is much much shorter than it used to be. You really need to compare all income sources, but those often aren't published.

At any rate, the message I originally replied to was "do these movies make money though?", and the answer to that is "absolutely yes!" I don't really have an opinion on Star Wars as I didn't care all that much even for the older films. They probably could have been better (and made more money!), but it's the difference between "making a fuckton of money" vs. "making a shitton of money", so to speak. You don't need to make "the best" to actually make money; "good enough" is, well, good enough.
Cat must be like, sob! how do I keep getting found out?
> Remove politics

That needs the remotion of taxation. I agree.
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ripgrep also uses simd https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19271497
AC clocks can sync their motors to the grid frequency, making it another perfectly valid mechanism of counting time. The grid frequency is very consistent.
20L can is half to a quarter of range, two 20L cans will fill the tank of a miata, half the tank of a tacoma.

For people in a city who never leave it? EVs are great. Everyone else not so much. Personally I think plug in hybrids are the future because they overcome this but seems everyone just wants to push pure evs.
The benefit for A* and B* sizes is that you can buy a roll of A0 or B0 and then print directly and then you can cut to any A* of B* without any offcuts.

For documents that need bleed to edge you have RA* and SRA* sizes.
Frivolous meetings all day and the expectation that I’d do my dev work after hours, just like my boss and his boss. Then when the team started getting behind on tasks, the solution of course was…

wait for it…

More meetings!
5% + 50¢ fees are EXTREMELY high. not even worth considering.
The use case is a multi-tenant application where each organization has a set of plugins or integrations. Those integrations have associated config objects and maybe some other properties. Each organization might have some other resources that users create.

It seems somewhat nice to have resources that users create and interact with via an API + CLI to use identifiers that people can type out and remember instead of copying.

Unguessability isn't a big deal because all of these IDs can be namespaced under the organization ID and the auth check can just return a 404 instead of a 401/403 if the person doesn't have access.
As it turns out, there is gravity on the moon: you just need math to prove it (no wonder an elementary teacher thought otherwise). Safer just to wear heavy boots.
I've lurked on KF with an empty account for a couple of years. (I have an interest in niche drama and as a lesbian, trans drama is pushed into any space for lesbians ANYWAY).

I didn't see brigading, but I did see doxxing.

And of course the whole thing is a mentally-toxic nut-picking echo chamber, but that's kind of par for the course on the modern Web.
> the fact that the people under discussion were almost universally subject to seemingly coordinated harassment campaigns

Almost universally? I don't think I can think of a single person discussed on Kiwi Farms experiencing that.

Or, well, I take that back I can think of one person: Patrick Tomlinson. Patrick Tomlinson, all his personal faults aside, is legitimately constantly being pestered by a crowd of fans of the Opie and Anthony radio show. Originally they were on Reddit, and then migrated to their own forum. Kiwi Farms later discovered this brouhaha and started discussing it.

That's about it.

Now plenty of people have an incentive to claim they're experiencing coordinated harassment. Every social media personality since the dawn of time, whether they're being discussed on Reddit or Twitter or whatever, is massively incentivized to make up claims of harassment. Usually the kernel of truth is that they might have received maybe one rude DM from someone, which they then parlay into "harassing messages". There's never any receipts and the connection between the main group discussion and the person messaging is dubious at best. They wield this like a cudgel to shut down all criticism of their behavior.

I mean, hell, take Onision. He pulled that shtick constantly. That and DMCA abuse. And the discussions he was shutting down were (true) claims that he was grooming teenaged girls sexually. The mainstream public finally heard about Onision because of Chris Hansen's investigation. But there are dozens of Onision types out there pulling the same trick.

Kiwi Farms has always been very careful to cultivate a culture against interacting with the subjects.

Again, I think you really are imagining some kind of 4chan type scenario. That simply isn't the case.
Pro tip: the cops will help you if you call them and say “hey, I’m outside (address) and I can see my stolen bike, I’m going to go retrieve my property, let me know if you want to help. Also I’m armed.”

They’ll help.
Heck of a lot more involved (and expensive) then getting a jerry can filled.
The burden of proof is on the interlocutor to disprove the value of a Fortune 500 company, yes.
There’s a regulatory requirement that specifies how much minimum noise should be emitted in each frequency band. All BEVs need this pedestrian alert system. It takes into account that partially deaf people may not be able to hear certain frequencies say tire noise band.
> makes authentic loud V8 noises

Doesn’t it make an obnoxiously amplified EV high pitched whir? That was the impression I got from the unveiling
Open source more often than not is not quality assessed as some commercial products, and hence the UX and ease of use falls behind. So if open source as an ideal wants to be successful, it needs to step in that regard.

Take Blender which was terrible for years and years, but changed happened because the projects they did allowed them to work with professionals which could point out shortcomings.

Or GIMP, its UX is terrible still afaik.

Or lets install Linux, as long as it takes a considerable expertise and doesn’t come preloaded, people won’t switch.