skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sentinel 2 images are freely accessible, paid by european citizens through the copernicus program. There's also landsat 8 images, of similar resolution (10m/pixel for visible, lower in infrared bands). The revisit time depends on the latitude, but roughly you have a new image of the whole earth every week.

Maybe that's too high res for your application?
I have a watch that would be considered expensive by most. It’s not really about telling the time - I simply appreciate the complexity and beauty of handcrafted mechanical watches.

People spend years learning how to build them. It takes a long time to assemble one. They’re precisely made with small parts made of precious metals which are themselves expensive.

With companies like A Lange & Sohne, each watchmaker can only make about 6 watches per year. At a pace like that you’re not really paying for the watch, you’re paying for their labor and expertise. You’re paying to preserve the craft. You can’t make 6 of something in a year and sell it for $100 if it’s how you make a living.
The irony is that we invent a myth to explain our own fallacies, pointing to the frog and claiming we're not alone. Yet the truth is that we are alone!
Dry Laid Stone - The Stone Trust Indoor Walling Center 2016 [video]
> You pay for a nice hot cup of ₹10 Chai on the streets but then you got a phone call later on - naively to upsell something..

Not sure what is this about.

Everyone pays using QR Code. No personal information like phone numbers are passed on to the merchant.
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China Reaches Peak Gasoline in Milestone for Electric Vehicles

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how so? if a word is bold in a sentence, you want it to be bold in the translation without having to split the sentence up (which will fail as soon as there is more than one formatted word)
but not everyone wants/is capable of buying a 150lb NEC tv made to resist vandalism and such, they just want a flimsy plastic panel that takes hdmi from their laptop and pushes it to an appreciably large 1080p panel
Here is Rider pricing: https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/buy/#personal

i.e. $52 instead of $149, for the first year.
>ctrl+f "abuse", ctrl+f "contact": no results

Is this your way of saying you searches the site for terms like ”abuse” and ”contact” but got no results?
>We need a new philosophical movement for computer technology.

I'm hoping for Cory Doctorow's new book[0] to ignite this discussion.

This is the first thing I've preordered in my life. And despite his marketing being a bit cheesy, I think he might be the right guy at the right time to plant the seeds for this movement.

[0]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-internet-c...
As a software engineer, I don't think capitalism is the only factor preventing big companies like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit from releasing their back end code... You'll find that their back end code is a real mess with millions of lines scattered all over the place, with various parts tightly coupled to specific hardware and software vendors; I can almost guarantee that if Facebook made their back end code fully open source, you'd probably need a team of 100 full time engineers working round the clock for 1 year or 2 to launch a Facebook clone... These platforms are way over-engineered; the technology essentially cannot exist without the people. Facebook as a platform is not merely code; it's an insanely complex amalgamation of both people and code. It would be useless to make their back end code open source as essentially nobody else would be able to run it.

That's why Twitter software engineers were making fun of people wanting to release the Twitter algorithm... They were well aware of what a complex mess it was and how unrealistic that was. People have the right intuition though; it doesn't need to be so complex. It is complex by design.
(I see that the name of the channel is called poor life choices)
Hey I am Andi, the author of blog post and wanted to jump in... First neo4j is not an in-memory db since its main storage is on disk. It does come with cache mechanisms using which data eventually ends in main memory but that is completely opposite approach of what we wanted to show in this blog post and what Memgraph is capable of doing. Memgraph is an explicite in-memory storage (or was since now it has capability to also use disk) because everything is computed in memory, no caching needed no buffer pool, for in-memory storage the only disk-related thing is securing the durability but that is different topic
How AI is gaining ground in simultaneous interpretation
NNs are decision trees anyway -- take any classification alg and rewind from its decision points into a disjunction of conditions.

Or, maybe more clearly: imagine taking any classification algorithm and drawing the graph of all of its predictions across it's domain. Then just construct a decision tree which "draws splits" along the original alg's decision edges.

Likewise, all ML is equivalent to a KNN parameterised on an averaging operation.

Everything here is eqv to everything else. ML is just computing an expectation over a training dataset, weighted by the model parameters.

The "value" comes from the (copyright laundering/) data. The only question is: can you find useful weights by which to control the expectation you're taking?

Various ML approaches weight the training data differently. The most successful of the latest round of AI manages to compute weights across everything ever written --- hence more useful than naive KNN which wouldnt terminate on 1PB of text.
Compared to what? To visual studio? It's bad. To rider? It's bad. To the level of support in vscode, for example, for typescript? It's bad.

To using a potato? It's pretty good! To using a plain-text editor? Pretty sweet! To using the old omnisharp plugin? haha... is there anything that isn't better than that?

Seriously though, if you want an honest answer: It's not that bad... but, its frustrating after using a different editor. They're now investing in making it better (1), and it is better than it was a year ago.

Expect to see more improvements in this space.

..but like, yeah. Right now, it kind of still sucks if you're working in C# full time, compared to the serious alternatives. You can see common themes on the issue tracker (2), if you want a less anecdotal response, or perhaps dig through a couple of the juicy threads (3), that give you sense of the state of play right now.

tldr; watch this space; if you're already heavily invested vscode, give it a whirl... but, if you're using a mostly-c# code base, you probably won't want to have it as your primary editor right now.

[1] - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/announcing-cshar...

[2] - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dotnettools/issues

[3] - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dotnettools/issues/329
Eton, where upper class boys are sent for a good part of their early life, has a strong connection to temporary homosexual connections, at least from the books I’ve read about the place.

There’s been arrests by teachers at Eton for the same reason. Child sexual abuse.

That’s all I know
Youtube's single largest capital expense is going to be Google Cloud. They're not paying market rates for that, and in any case, GCP pricing hasn't gone up to a level where YT would need to increase pricing by 40%.

They simply do not what their profitability price point is. And they never will, as they're not independent of Google.
This is a bit off-topic but I'm wondering if I'm going to have to hack baresip to implement it:

Is there such thing as a SIP to mobile phone bridge, so that you can make phone calls over the net via a mobile phone that is in some remote location?

The application in my case is making local calls in a country that is expensive to call into. If it exists its the kind of thing that is resistant to search, unless it's called something I'm not aware of.

Edit: I think I might be looking for a SIP GSM Gateway running on an Android phone

To clarify I'm looking for:

initiate voip handset call => internet => call is initiated from remote mobile phone

remote mobile phone receives call => internet => voip handset rings

Or put another way something that exposes the Android phone as a trunk line.
Sure, but if netflix, your bank, your power and water service, and a chat app, where 80% of your contacts are only support chrome, what will you do? Many banks already require hardware attestation from google for mobile apps and mandatory 2FA via that app is a pain on a rooted phone and workarounds are painful.

I mean sure, you can just not-use those services and not chat with everyone else, but that's a bad solution.
outside of the linux nerd bubble, demon would not have positive connotations for a large swath of the populace. the religious uproar would not be a quiet one.
Something that cannot be openly discussed here for multiple reasons (I agree with some, like flaming).
I read it the same way as you did, or at least it's an approximation.

In general that's not really surprising. I remember discussions from some years ago about larger networks leading to smother loss surfaces.
unit tests generally have a faster iteration loop than end-to-end testing. so while you don't get the full coverage of a workflow, you do catch some class of bugs earlier than you would if you only rely on end-to-end testing.

IMO both are to be used together...unit testing for increasing development speed by catching errors earlier, end-to-end testing for making sure the full workflow works

the failure mode is writing so many unit tests that you actually slow yourself down maintaining a bunch of tests that barely ever increase your total velocity
The right way to do this is to remove tax withholding by employer. If people really have to write a check every month to IRS, they'll start questioning more. For quite a few people on HN, the taxes they pay would be more than all other expenses combined.
I hear ya, it does all makes sense tho

Quartz jumping seconds was a novelty back in the day. No one now views it that way, being interested in it was a fad.

Spring Drive now is not a fad, but IMO a sustained niche for enthusiasts. It’s been around a while and has stood the test of time (pun intended!)

The F. P. Journe is high end mechanical art/creativity. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Hackers Target Telescopes, Forcing Them to Pause Operations
Or, optimistically, this is really how they think about these things, and you should simply be happy they're not trying to obfuscate their findings.
Yes it is annoying, but I would not go so far as to say it indicates poor business practices. Jetbrains is a very well run shop and they treat their customers with a great deal of respect.
> It’s important to find/figure out what a company values and optimise for that.

One important ingredient for this is to know many companies will actively lie about their values. Typical case is, everyone tells you they value quality and feedback, while in reality everything is rushed and actual suggestions are at best thrown away in the "later" bin.

> Once a reputation has been established, it’s then possible to go about changing things, but not before.

I've noticed 2 patterns in my various gigs in the past: The virtuous cycle where I'm trusted to build something with significant autonomy from the start, I end up being happy, motivated, productive; and the vicious cycle when I'm just a new untrusted cog in their machine, my motivation & productivity plummet.

As far as I can tell I have no control over the initial condition, and the only way I could break the cycle was to start fresh in a new assignment. Some would suggest I suck it up and work my way up, but to be honest I no longer have the energy to pay my dues over and over again.
>Blame your government. There could and should be laws against that or at the very least incentives to prevent it.

In a democracy the government is a proxy for the people. I blame the people. If the majority was conscious of their rights (or at least what these rights should be) the governments would have no choice and they'd bring laws that protect these rights. Yes, no democracy is perfect, there are lobbyists, corruption etc, but if the large majority of the population wants something all these lobbying and corruption can only delay it.

The issue with the government(s) is a symptom, not a cause. The cause is that the majority of people have no spine. They'll sell their privacy and rights gladly for a tiny bit of perceived convenience, entertainment or status. It's like this famous saying "people that are willing to sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither". Substitute privacy/ownership for freedom and convenience/entertainment for safety and it will still be true.

Neither me nor my partner own a smartwatch/health band. Why? Because we literally found no brand that could be used without setting up silly "online accounts" and having our personal details (including health) harvested. The pine watch is an exception, but last time I checked the software was not ready for daily use.

Personally, despite the above, I'm a "long term optimist". I think people eventually will learn to value their privacy, their right to ownership/repair and they will stop buying and using devices and software that infringe on these rights. But not before a generation or two come and go.

Consider other revolutions in human condition. For example the industrial revolution. It brought magnificent benefits, but also (especially initially) it was horrible for many people including children. Eventually the masses started paying attention and worker rights were established, but not a second before the majority was ready to sacrifice a lot to fight for it. It will. Be like this with our "digital revolution".
So basically, it's not practical to do this.
> the high fantasy he invented

This is an overly simplistic statement about a great achievement, which has had a long-lasting cultural effect.

I'm a little confused about why "cannot be overstated" fits better when the preceding phrase is an understatement. Can you explain?
>The person has a choice whether to consume fast food regularly. It’s their >freedom, yes, but they should also accept the costs that come with their >lifestyle choices. Similarly, if someone chooses to regularly drive at a >daredevil speed, they should pay a higher premium.

i'm scared of people that think like this. all digital transactions enables such people to mandate these ideas - the road to hell with their good intentions.
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I think social media and the democratization of the hustle culture that was for a time limited to the US and at most a few big EU cities.

The number of scams, scammy behaviors like dropshipping, scammy advertising like those 'health pills and supplements' (shootout to Logan Paul and Joe Rogan, but we have those in France now) and how becoming rich on the back of trusting people skyrocketed. I think responsability is diluted enough, and this new mentality of "hey, it's not my fault you felt for it, gotta think more, I did and I'm fine, I merit what I got, and you merit to be scammed" makes people less trustworthy.
ISS can just jettison trash.
The fact this comment is getting downvoted speaks volumes to the degree of detachment a lot of the people here have from reality.
How does it invalidate the claim? I don't see anything saying the bridge is used. If you mean that garbage collects, I'm assuming that to mean that wind blown trash (probably from the highway) collects and they clean it up.
I teach a class distributed systems, and this site is one of the references. Thanks for making Raft so clear!
My discord server was flagged as "offensive" and removed from public listings without giving a clear reason why. It took me weeks to accidentally discover the cause, which was the name of a channel: #bugs-minor. Renaming it to #bugs removed the flagged status.
I see. I’ve seen embedded styling/html in localized text, but doing that with rtf also makes sense.
Cheers!

> Figure 2 is great, but I would agree the entire paper is needed if you are implementing raft. There are a few specifics in the paper that you need when implementing it.

It was more than that. I'm blanking on what it was but there were parts where I really couldn't find anything about the intended behavior in the paper (let alone in Figure 2) except for in Diego's thesis or in the TLA+ spec.

Though maybe I was just not reading the paper correctly.
You don’t need to go back to vim. You can try vscode.
Stem cells used to successfully treat arthritis in a gorilla for the first time
Show HN: RESTful APIs from any data source
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It is free for now, so please signup and let me know what do you think. Just ignore the pricing.
Raft cannot handle Byzatune faults by itself. There are variant algorithms that can.
Massachusetts is even worse. The RMV works with companies to screw people over. It gives out most slots to driving schools to begin with.

If you want to get a road test the wait time is over 3 months now. But if you pay a driving school $200 they will schedule you a test in 2 weeks. They do nothing for that money, just schedule you. You also separately pay the RMV the fees for the road test.

All of this for a pro forma 5 minute road test because the testers are now unionized and capped the length of the tests in their contracts. You don't even go on a highway ever or drive on a normal busy city street. If they run behind they just skip even the most basic moves and just have you drive around the block quickly.

I saw some really scary people get a license my day there.
Sounds like a good name for a debt collector.
One of the problems with the Spanish flu was governments covered it up. It didn't start in Spain, Spain just had better freedom of the press and newspapers could talk about it. That's where it got the name.
The idea that homosexuality (or heterosexuality, for that matter) is a permanent state the persists through everyone’s life not only ignores the existence of bisexuals but is also ahistorical and probably an artifact of certain societies needs for categorizing people. I suspect capitalism has something to do with it.
I feel though that there are a few languages which are designed purely for IDEs, I can’t imagine writing C# or Java without an IDE.

C++ or Python on the other-hand? IDEs become more of a preference in my opinion.
its just c with classes, you will be ok
Jetbrains has a great marketing dept if they can get a "65% off your first year license" to make the front page of HN.
I suppose you could use it to work out where you need to go as you attempt to sail across the Pacific in your improvised raft?
Iomixer
> Raft is a consensus algorithm that is designed to be easy to understand.

> Consensus typically arises in the context of replicated state machines, a general approach to building fault-tolerant systems.

I recognize that I'm not the intended audience but I do think I would be a lot more capable of understanding this article if it used less jargon or at least defined what it meant. I'm only mentioning this because ease of understanding is an explicit goal.

Can someone give a real world example of where this would be used in a production app? I'm sure it's very practical but I'm getting caught up in trying to understand what it's saying
> However, the UX of discord is problematic towards anything other than a gaming community.

Discord was built with a core target market and really they've nailed it. But I really have to wonder what a business is doing when they have their support chat or whatever on discord. I have no idea why someone thinks a chat platform that talks about school clubs, gaming groups, and art communities is the place to conduct business. To me, it's a bit of a red flag when a company chooses a tool that is clearly not designed for business and doesn't even try to pretend like it is when there are tons that are.
In many places the system has no flexibility to keep up with demand, especially seasonal demand and supply. In my country (Romania) we have problems with ID, passport or license renewal in the summer when many people (a few millions) working abroad return in vacations and the demand triples for a month or two; also the workers in these government agencies are in vacation, so supply is reduced. This imbalance is temporarily and not corrupt, but it has an impact too.

When I took an extra category on my license it took 6 months to get a slot because motorcycle exams were not programmed from October to March, every year. When my brother did the same, but in the summer, it took 6 weeks to get scheduled. For comparison, for regular driver license (car) it takes usually a week or two.
Speaking of access, if you own minecraft with a mojang account you need to migrate it to a Microsoft account by September 19th.

If you don't Microsoft, one of the wealthiest corporations in existence, will steal your copy of minecraft that you purchased elsewhere.

Sorry if this isn't on topic, I'm very salty over the migration.
I think you're jumping to a few conclusions. How does foot traffic annoy them exactly? Who isn't annoyed by litter? There are no more kids. If a bridge that I and no one else uses, means that I have to pick up wind-blown litter everyday, I'd complain a bit too.
The most underrated insight about logarithms is that for almost all practical applications, log2(n) is smaller than 32.

The difference between a O(1) and O(log n) algorithm is usually not that big!
See iomixer, which seems to cover this niche exactly

https://iomixer.com/overview/

https://iomixer.com/configurator/
> And when you stop limiting your experience of a thing to a low resolution description of it, it tends to inspire a sense of awe and wonder (at least for me).

That's interesting, because to me awe and wonder are a low-resolution description of a thing. Yes, the world is immense, indescribably complex, it largely cannot be labelled or interpreted, but that is not surprising, profound or interesting. Awe fetishizes the unknown: upon realizing that the universe is not fully intelligible to the human mind, we immediately put that realization in a box and make it into an experience.

The truth is, the world is what it is, and what it is is too large to fit in any mind. In that sense, your statement that "you stop limiting your experience of a thing to a low resolution description of it" is actually impossible. No human mind can possibly do this. Anything we think or feel about the world is a flawed and limited interpretation, including awe and wonder.
Actually even now it can be. Look up the serenity os project. Andreas keeps things nice and tidy.