skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do we need yet another one clone of chrome? The majority of noticeable browsers nowadays are chrome clones. If you do not want to use chrome due to sending data to google, you can use chromium, brave, vivaldi, opera...
It can be done for under $600 using a bladeRF..
https://docs.srsran.com/projects/4g/en/latest/app_notes/sour...
I agree. For a country of patriots, the US has 0% of inner unity. To each their own is what most Americans seem to live by, and I’m sure 9/11 was the first and last time the country United.
This piece could benefit from some H1/H2 headers to break up the text.
This is a pretty common phrase in English as well, it is not meant to be taken literally.
Being on phone, ipads and computer almost all the rest of my waking hours makes doing single tasks towards a larger project slowly quite meditative.
Absolutely. Keeping a testing or unstable chroot, explicitly for the purpose of running or developing bleeding edge versions of things without disturbing your real install, is a time honored tradition, decades old.

Many, many people do this (to such an extent that there's light tooling and sugar to make the experience easy), including me. :)

(is 29 when native comp comes in?)
You can write the plugin really easily. He's right. You should do it. Much better than getting annoyed.
I wonder if TheRinger can afford him. My impression is that sites like 538, Grantland, Andscape, etc don’t make any money for Disney, so this isn’t too surprising.
It doesn’t take much to make machine-learning algorithms go awry
> If you are willing to pay for the most expensive items

With IKEA, anyway, once you get into their actual quality items, they start to get more expensive than other options at the same quality level. (A caveat: I don't shop from Walmart so I have no idea about their quality scale).
And people say The Register doesn't do funny headlines any more.
You clearly haven't tried moving with your local "designer furniture center" "high quality" furniture. IKEA is pretty much as good as the "quality furniture", when it comes to moving.
More directly they are both about prediction.

If I can accurately predict the next X bits I don't need to store those.

If I can accurately predict the next X bits of information that will happen after a decision I can make a reasoned decision.

That's it. That's the link as plainly as possible. If you want more detail read up on arithmetic coding and how it can take predictions as in input to data compression and then Marcus Hutters papers on general purpose AI requiring the exact same thing.
It's lost on me why the author does not see skilled doers as benefitting from talking more their activity.
Oh, that's cool! I didn't know that.
The very idea of election forecasting is harmful to democracy and should be shunned wherever it appears.
Nice of the debris to miss the expensive camera gear. ;)
You'd need a rigid structure to keep the gyro from ripping itself loose from the structure. Even constructed as a giant space frame, that's a lot of mass to deal with the torsion of the structure rotating.

A structure 100m on a side would be just at the bounds of current technology (the ISS's control moment gyros). With 30% efficient panels that's only about 4MW before conversion and path losses.

The high impulse ion engines to desaturate the gyros would still need to be refueled regularly. I think you're hand waving a lot of complexity that even if completely solved still leaves a solution that's orders of magnitude costlier than solar panels on the ground.
pascal strings are terrible, the correct solution is to just always have pointer+length and even better to make that a built-in type for all types.
What else should I spend my hobby hours on? Woodworking is better than DotA2 or whatever kids play these days.
Yes, that was the youtube video I linked to. If that can be successful with some telemarketers, I'm sure a chat-gpt aided program could be even more successful at frustrating telemarketers.
Most businesses fail, and it’s usually a matter of when. A part of not picking winners and losers by fiat is also disregarding that most new businesses will fail but a few will succeed and a very very few more will rise to the level of challenging any of the major tech companies, but they will rise and if it’s not your business, it will be somebody else’s.
The MacOS app was unusable when I tried it
Unfortunately Safari cannot run uBlock Origin.
Seriously? What did he get wrong in 2016? Trump squeaked it out. 528 provides probabilities, and he expressed a very strong possibility of Trump winning with a 28% chance--much higher than almost everyone else including the Clinton campaign.
They made quite a few of them; the interwebs say something like 365K. I know a guy with 2 IBM manufactured M1s. Even cooler, the Rock-Ola juke box company made M1s.
And classic Windows is still a money printing machine after all these years. It's making more in profit than Azure, gaming, search and Github/Vsc combined. Other than Apple slowly carving out additional PC market share there is no serious threat on the horizon for classic Windows.
Agreed. There is no real discourse on guns in the US. It’s not maniacs, mental health or politics. It’s guns.

Every discussion on the gun problem leads to vague mentions of better mental health or going back to communal communities. Country’s with far cheaper healthcare can’t solve the mental illness problem, only our lunatics have can’t walk into a store and buy a firearm.
Thanks, Well spotted - I've ammended it
I was commenting on the absurdity that I perceive in the preceding comments. One person spoke about the "safe, invasion-proof" geography being stolen and the next person says that democracy is more than having a big stick. I'm agreeing with the person who said that it was stolen and that stealing had nothing to do with democracy

I can add to this though that in a capitalist and supposed democratic state the majority theoretically has the stick but in reality the money has the stick, it was the same when colonists arrived in the US

All laws in the end are enforced by the threat of violence. But in reality the laws don't matter a whole lot of you storm in with enough gunpower, hence the genocide
Absolutely. Good planning and foresight on his part to enable him to retain ownership of his hard work.
Notion's definitely seen a lot of bloat in the last few years. I used it since the "2.0 relaunch" and it's gone kind of downhill after each release. Stuff that used to work well don't work as well or fast anymore.

Still better than anything else on the market though.

Apple Notes is great for my own stuff — but good luck trying to get multiple collaborators to use it.
The closest experience to what living in space that can be experienced on earth is living on a submarine. Working with advanced tech in an environment where everything is trying to kill you, logistics challenges to maintain operation, schedule completely dictated for you, etc. But ask many people who want to live on Mars if they would go on a long underway on a submarine, and they don't seem to excited by the idea. I don't think people really think about the day to day operations, but jump on the fame/historical significance being one of the settlers on the moon or mars.
Consider also the additional cost of moving the (bulky) furniture.

Consider if you're moving cities (lets say 250 miles) and going from a 10' van to a 17' van (with the assorted Ikea furniture) moves you from 12mpg to 10mpg - that's 20 gallons of gas to 25 gallons of gas. That's an extra 45 kg of CO2 emissions.

Buying new furniture at the new destination then is a smaller incremental cost of going to Ikea anyways.

And while I'll admit that this is a very simplistic analysis, the corresponding assertion that doing this is a larger carbon footprint may fail to take into account some nuances.
+1 never had anything break.
I was poking around https://forums.fsharp.org/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/fsharp/
Ask HN: Security Training for Users and Management
We just had a ransomware attachment get opened by most of our senior management. Luckily our systems caught it and stopped it.

How do you train non technical staff how to avoid opening these things?
You don’t really think Turkey or Hungary when you think of Europe.
Corporate cost cuts reframed as a moral deed
Huh, I had no idea Nate Silver got his start on daily kos.
He talks about making a set of references values for vowels in this video. This is something I had thought of too in the past, but limited in scope of teaching English to Japanese native speakers. It struck me that instead of teaching to target prononciations of words using the whole vowel space of american or British English, which has some differences that are hard to understand for native Japanese speakers, a vowel space could be made that was optimized listener understandability, but having enough differentiation of sounds, and ease of articulation.
I'm on the opposite side of the fence here... Intuit is a business, and can choose to do business as they please. If the FSF doesn't like that, they can write their own tax software. (And not on the IRS' dime/time)

If that's too hard, that's not Intuit's problem. They shouldn't be forced to go FOSS if they don't want to.
Here is a 2003 documentary on the same subject.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/rosalind-franklin-lega...

My take away was that Rosalind Franklin did support the Watson Crick paper but that there was some conflict leading up to the paper. She did not seem to think her ideas were stolen.

It did not help that after Franklin died - Watson wrote a hit piece on Franklin. I think that is what caused people to question if Watson was above board while Franklin was alive.
That's exactly how I felt about Salesforce over many years of customizing it to basically be a UI on top of a relational DB with a nice import tool and some workflows built in.

But apparently it's out of vogue now and Notion and others are the "web 2" versions of that with more Javascript.
I'll be the one to sacrifice my Internet Points by bringing up the notion that the question of who discovered DNA's structure is not nearly as important as is the question of why the question of who discovered DNA's structure is significant. It is, of course, primarily and famously the specter of the erasure of women from scientifically and socially significant developments, the thematic subject that this article addresses.

There is another aspect of this significance, however, in the way that James Watson's impropriety - in his work, and in his telling of the story of his work - reflects on, and is reflected by, his later racist and sexist intellectual misadventures. The myth of a singular - well, dual - genius who moves humanity forward lends credence to his bigotry - how can the father of genetic science be wrong about the influence of genetics on society? - while the truth dashes that credibility (without necessarily undoing the significance of his actual contributions). And it is a controversy that gets re-litigated perennially not because people truly care that much about the discovery or discovers, but because our understanding of these events underpin beliefs, our understanding of the world, that are as sharply relevant today as a shard of glass.

To retreat to attempting an exhaustive reconstruction of events might be comfortable, but it is also a bit dangerous - it assumes a totality of understanding that may be found wanting - and, more importantly, it misses the core of why the controversy exists in the first place. Peer esteem may be foremost on an academic's mind, but we've long left the ivory tower on this one.
Yes. What's the use of having standards for document handling and guaranteeing their correctness if we then feed them through a black box and accept its interpretation at face value.
It is indeed -- which is why I wasn't commenting on their business practices. I was only commenting on my experience with their products.
Pray tell, how does the hardware chip send data to Qualcomm? That data goes over the 'net, right? How does that hardware chip interface with the 'net? The answer here is 'through the OS' since that is how network connections are made on these devices. Even if the hardware chip contained an IP stack it would still need a network connection to get the data back to Qualcomm. That network connection goes either over the wireless interface (3/4/5G), via WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC or any of the other interfaces the device has - all of which are controlled through the OS.

Android, being built on top of Linux which contains Netfilter as I explained elsewhere [1] which allows you to block network access no matter whether the data originates from some hardware chip or somewhere else. The only way data could make its way off the device is if the radio firmware made a covert connection to Qualcomm which could be used to totally bypass the Linux kernel. That connection would not use the system IP stack and it could work even if the user does not have data active. It would need cooperation from network operators (all over the world) to get the data out of the carrier's network to Qualcomm. This is not what this article is about, it is quite possible that the likes of the NSA are up to this type of shenanigans since they may be able to force carriers to do their bidding [2] but Qualcomm is just another corporation looking to 'get to know their customers'. Read the article and you'll see that the data is exfiltrated through Android. A default block for outgoing data - like I use - blocks this just as well as it blocks other similar attempts.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35707645

[2] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/how-att-helped-th...
What's an alternative to repl.it? I used them a lot, but now that sign up is required I would like to use something else.
See also git-history. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29479258 https://simonwillison.net/2021/Dec/7/git-history/ https://datasette.io/tools/git-history
Thanks for the correction. So 23.76 hours a day (averaged over a year).
Too Real.
If it's not being done in public, it's absolutely being done in private. Do you believe democratizing that data is a bad thing?
Most people that I've showed the hostage scenario to have failed, so that's really awesome that you got it!

Right now, I'm not too sure about where to take the negotiation games. I was hoping that the educational aspect of it might make it good fit for universities to use it in their classes? Or maybe something else? If you happen to have any ideas, would love to hear it :P
I wonder where the convention of using "First" in bank names comes from.
The fact that you think the CFTC wouldn’t sue anyway and that the SEC is employing some sort of professional courtesy exposes how much you actually know of whats been happening with the SEC and crypto. Also that you imply him saying something is a security would automatically make it so is even more so telling.

The CFTC is not happy with Gensler’s blatant power grab either
https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/SpeechesTestimony/phamstateme...
this is an interesting take. why do you say that?
The problem, is that as a consumer, it's become harder to know what a reliable product is. There are few reliable reviewers and companies change models constantly and change manufacturing processes of existing products.

As a result, as a consumer i generally buy cheap because if I pay more I still may end up with a cheaply manufacturered product.
This is true for all their stuff approximately pre-2018. Most of my furniture is older and was great value. Now you have to be very watchful of the materials and test it out before buying.
This explains the growth in the low end but not the lack of decent mid-range options. We no longer have good/better/best. We only have shitty/best and one is 10x the price of the other. Of course Joe Blow isn’t going to spring for the 10x option; he can’t afford it. In the min-maxing of profit margins, we’ve lost the pretty ok. Also I didn’t blame the corporations man; I specifically blamed market consolidation, greedy investors, and the output of HBS.
Show HN: qdbp – a minimal, elegant, safe, and expressive programming language
I started working on qdbp about a year ago after coming to the conclusion that modern languages were way too big, complex, and unwieldy. qdbp is the philosophical opposite of languages like C++ - it is tiny, and will stay that way. The language itself comes with no if, loops, switch, macros, etc. However, the few constructs that qdbp does have, along with its unified syntax, can compose to form higher level abstractions(like if, loops, switch, defer, monads, domain specific languages, etc). A few key points:

- qdbp is statically typed and types are fully inferred, meaning there are no type definitions or annotations

- The language uses prototype based OOP centered around anonymous records and polymorphic variants. It has a syntax heavily inspired by Smalltalk and Self

- Unlike virtually any other OOP language, qdbp has no mutation or inheritance(it instead has record extension, which is very similar to single inheritance)

I'd really appreciate it if you checked out my language!

https://www.qdbplang.org/
https://github.com/dghosef/qdbp
While I readily admit to feeling like my comment could be seen as sealioning, but could you post some links and/or search terms I could use to try to research why one might hold an opinion like this?

I don't know whether to agree or disagree with this; I'm new enough to not have come across this particular opinion before (that I've noticed).
I read one more recently and managed to find it:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096014812...
I mean... I think that's a good quality landing animation.
Replace xml with anything else. You're not writing XML. It's just a format used by a layout editor. The issue with this strategy is merge conflicts and diffs that make little sense to a human reviewer.
Economic growth includes things like “improved product quality” and is already decoupled from carbon output. There may be some fundamental limit to economic growth, but in order to show that, your argument probably has to have a form like: “humans can only produce this much utility”
just in case someone finds that YT video entertaining, you'll really love https://www.youtube.com/@KitbogaShow
If someone doesn’t like what you’re doing, wiretap charges are legally plausible.
Traveled to Japan recently (time zone change, long transpacific flight). No problem. I charged the Watch when I got to the hotel and it still had quite a bit of charge left. Then I just charged it whenever I showered and that worked for me.

The Watch isn’t like a phone. It doesn’t have a lot of background apps running and the battery life between charge intervals is more than enough.
You're not using "at worst" correctly. What you describe is an "at best". Worse would be that CGP Grey deliberately picked a misleading title in order to optimize views, algorithm, etc.

This is, I think, the case. But I don't begrudge them too much, YouTube is cutthroat.
If you’re near lots of families with kids then the target is likely quite packed
> How about 0%(poverty line or below) - 18%(max for anyone) income tax and we forget all other taxes?

How about no? How’d you pick those numbers and a two-tier system? (“Let’s set the top marginal rate of our only tax to approximately the lowest tax-to-GDP ratio of the OECD” is, I suppose, a choice, but its a very odd one.)

> Income happens when it is realized or upon transfer.

In any progressive (including a two-tier like this, which, while far less progressive than the status quo, is still technically a progressive system) system that brings LTCG in line with general income taxation, you also want to allow advance recognition (for sure) and maybe deferment of income spikes, otherwise you end up taxing income that takes multiple years and is nonrepeatable the same as current and repeatable ongoing income, which is unfair to people with irregular income through capital. Doing this, and applying equally to regular income, also is more fair for people with irregular non-capital income, which may be a less-common pattern, but definitely happens.

> this is the fairest way I can think of supporting savers, supporting investing, supporting small businesses, and allowing the wealthy to be taxed at a reasonable rate.

It radically cuts taxes on the wealthy, and "supports" all those things by cutting taxes on the wealthy people doing them. Its just a giant downward shift of net tax burden that also is a massive cut in overall tax revenue.

> This also incentivizes congress to actually grow the GDP and work within a budget.

No, it doesn’t. (I mean, there are incentives to both of those, especially the first, that exist independently, but this doesn’t add to any of them.)
Sounds like a stealth layoff.
It’s pretty easy: if someone is projected to win, voters who were planning to vote for that person might stay home to avoid “wasting their time” since they’re going to win anyway. Then that person doesn’t win because the voters didn’t show up.
I always bomb the whiteboard coding portion. I've been doing this for over 20 years. I've been a senior engineer since before the iPhone existed.

Fortunately, I interview well and can discuss many, many technical concepts deeply. But put me in front of a whiteboard and I couldn't tell you my mom's name.
My Commodore 64 has a USB interface nowadays (and a few replaced caps). Originally it only had a tape "drive" ie cassette. After a few years we got a 1541 floppy disc unit. Tick, tick tick, whiirrrrrrrr (think: trilled r on speed), fut (etc). Instead of 10-15 mins to load a game it loaded in a fair few seconds. Bear in mind that the 64 refers to 64 kilobytes.

$ ls -lh /usr/bin/cp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 123K Apr 3 19:00 /usr/bin/cp

The copy command on this laptop is 123Kb! ls is 135K. Elite on the C-64 has filled 3D polygonal space ships, space stations and stuff, a whopper of a galaxy and a HUD that gives you an excellent idea of what is where in 3D. You get a trading system and ship upgrades etc. Oh and music - The Blue Danube should play when one is docking with a space station. Obviously you'll need a driver for the joystick and keyboard too. You don't get the whole 64Kb to play with either - a fair bit of that is used by the system itself.

Before the C64 I used a ZX81 and before that a ZX80 - they had roughly 1 kilobyte of RAM. The ZX81 had a RAM pack upgrade which added 16Kb. It was a bit wobbly and required a strip of Bluetac to stop it crashing the computer when nudged. An uncle of mine calls "bloody luxury" on that - he learned programming with punched cards - probably ForTran.

This laptop's kernel is 12M and initramfs is 14M and a fallback image of 70M. Add to that a microcode image (7M).

You'll be glad to hear that Kermit weighs in at a svelte 26K (I've just installed it from the Arch AUR)
Yup, even in person i.e without zooming, the moon looks way smaller when in the middle of the sky; yet on the horizon amongst man made structures it can look bigger... measure it with your thumb and it's the same size - context changes our perception.
Thanks for the link. The first half of that paragraph is also interesting: “In 1968 NBC-TV invited Clark to host her own special in the US, and in doing so, she inadvertently made television history. While singing a duet of "On the Path of Glory", an antiwar song that she had composed, with guest Harry Belafonte, she took hold of his arm, to the dismay of a representative from the Chrysler Corporation (the show's sponsor), who feared that the moment would incur racial backlash from Southern viewers.[22] When he insisted that they substitute a different take, with Clark and Belafonte standing well away from each other, Clark and the executive producer of the show—her husband, Wolff—refused, destroyed all other takes of the song, and delivered the finished programme to NBC with the touch intact.[23][24] The Chrysler representative was terminated, and the programme aired on 8 April 1968, four days after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., with high ratings, critical acclaim,[25] and a Primetime Emmy nomination.”
Vala?