skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If their servers were unresponsive, then a long TTL might help as caching resolvers would retry and eventually get a successful result. Based on the output of the OPs tests, they are responding with incorrect NXDOMAIN results. This means that resolvers will cache the NXDOMAIN result using the SOA negative result TTL.

You could remove the delegation entries for the name servers that are returning results though, that might help.
It's not dependent on who you read. Selling single digit millions of phones is not impressive.

Apple sells 80M iPhones in a quarter. Samsung is estimating 20M per quarter for the S8.

The Pixel is insignificant in the larger market.
A lot of JavaScript things have been buggy for me with encrypted.google.com as well. For example the Google timer cards and such often just won't start at all, while they'll work fine on the regular google.com.
What's it like to deploy a Java app to all major PaaS platforms?
Because indexing ensures that if the company exists with very minor standards, people will automatically buy into it via their mutual funds and ETFs.
Friends, I totally get the initial instinct to think "Aieeee! Not another amateur open source software license! Those things breed like flies!"

But if you wouldn't mind taking two minutes to read the text of the license before giving in to that feeling — I think you'll find that it might put you more at ease than what you're currently using — if you're using MIT.

Like MIT and ISC, it's short and sweet and comprehensible, and like Apache it tries to establish common standards around potential patent use and contributions back to the codebase. It hits a sweet spot that, for me, doesn't exist in anything currently on the OSI's long list of licenses.

I did run it by a couple of lawyers and a couple of open source developers before publishing it this morning. But I don't believe that review should matter too much to you: An OSS license is an agreement between the author and the user of the software. If they can both easily understand it to mean the same thing, then we can feel that we're on solid ground. That's why we use MIT today.
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Also the key to long life is a lot of sex :-)
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I'd take wide shoulders over sidewalks any day. Wide shoulders increase safety for many more people. People on bikes can use them. Pedestrians can walk on them. People pushing strollers can use them. You can change a tire on them. Drivers can use them to navigate obstructions (like people who cannot promptly take a left turn). Drivers can pull over and re-tie down a tarp that's too loose or change a tire. Snow plows can easily clean them. They're cheaper (than dedicated sidewalks) to build and maintain and don't need curb cuts.

Using banked curbs everywhere is another more useful alternative to normal sidewalks (less useful to some pedestrians but create a larger perceived separation from traffic than a shoulder and impossible to kill a tire while parallel parking)

Edit: At least offer up a counter opinion if you're gonna down-vote.
Why are you using RN if your app is just wrapping a web view?
But how is it increasing? E.g., is there a Moore's law of qubits?
I really like the localized index idea someone posted earlier. If I could get 60% of my searches answered locally for the cost of 100 gigs of space I would use it. Even more so if I could host it on a local server somehow.
I would call an increase from 27% to 36% a 33% increase in tree coverage compared to the average city.

Not only that, it's the top tree covered city on the source article for that wiki entry:

http://www.deeproot.com/blog/blog-entries/tree-cover-how-doe...

Also based on that list, the 27% average seems to be artificially high by giving equal weight to cities of all size given how the largest US cities are all well below 20%.
Visibility is hugely important to brands, which is why they want to see their logo everywhere, but there’s a price to pay for such widespread exposure, not just financially but ecologically as well.
As you can see on the link, there’s a simple way to reduce these costs, and that’s by using less ink. The idea, called Ecobranding, is a new conceptual experiment created by a Parisian Designer named Sylvain Boyer that aimed at making brands more eco-friendly while at the same time saving millions of dollars in production costs. From McDonald’s and Apple to H&M and FedEx, the streamlined examples you can find here maintain the essence of each specific logo while simultaneously making it more cost-effective for both the manufacturer and the environment. How do you think they compare to the originals?
I use DDG everywhere except at work, where (for some reason) it's blocked.

The one silly thing I miss about not having DDG at work: in DDG, I can type "new guid" and it gives me a new random guid. If there's a way to do that in Google, I haven't figured it out. (And yes I know there are a million other ways to get random guids. It's just convenient for me to get them this way.)
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If you can sweaty-hands the Camera app open with the side swipe, you can use the volume up physical button to take a picture.
>Ask people who they voted for in the last primary for state legislator, and the reasons they voted for them over their opponents.

As a matter of fact, in the last case where a state legislator's seat was contested in the primary at all, I believe I voted for Pat Jehlen, who has a progressive record on economic issues I care about (health-care, wages) and helped pass a bill labeling transgender people (I know some) as a protected class for antidiscrimination purposes. Plus there was pizza at the phone-banks for that bill, and I can always appreciate that.
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Qualcomm is fabless, so they are not producing anything. It seems they are on Samsung for 10 and will switch to TSMC for 7 [1]

[1] https://www.xda-developers.com/qualcomm-ends-foundry-partner...
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This comment is somewhat less off-topic given Gruber's last footnote, where he urges readers to try Bold Text, which he thinks looks better on the small Watch screen. Considering his threshold for small text, this is really saying something!
The 'I'm feeling lucky' one is great.

'<Song name> !' or '<song name> youtube !' takes you right to it.

I'd love a feature that opens the first result on a search engine like wikipedia does by default. Biggest use case for me would be imdb but there would be others.
I don't own a car. I barely know anyone who does. On the other hand, I do walk places every day.

I can't even begin to describe to you how absurd I find it that you think sidewalks along every non-interstate road shouldn't be mandatory.

When I was younger I lived in a much more suburban area than I do now, and when I stayed late for extracurricular activities in high school (two days a week) I had to take a different bus route home. The closest stop on that route was half a mile away from my house. That's not far at all, and I definitely don't mind walking, however, most of that walk was along a two-lane highway with no sidewalk that routinely had people cruising through at 45+ mph. The county has since thankfully put in some speed cameras to help enforce the 30 mph limit.

Why didn't I deserve a sidewalk for my safety, exactly?
I bought a Pixel a few years back, knowing full well that it was a luxury expense compared to the other Chromebooks out there (and yet still cheaper than what I'd spend on just about anything else out there). One of the coolest parts was getting so much free drive storage with it, but now that seems to be something you get with a lot of Google products. I always have a Windows machine from work, but VS Code runs on both machines.

I have to say I still use my Pixel everyday and it's held up very well, I can still open it with one finger, it's as fast as the day I got it even after updates, and I use it with anything after I got a USB-C docking station from Plugable (and learned how to run Linux with Crouton). Before I got the docking station I didn't even realize USB-C actually does network connections too. I also learned how much i don't really care for touch screens, they either get dirty really easy or I'm a lot greasier of a person that I ever realized.
Yes. Quake 2 was December 1997, Quake 3 was December 1999. In that span, the game went from "use a GPU and you'll get colored lights and a higher resolution" to "use a GPU or else you don't get to play the game at all".

GPU power seems to be increasing as fast as it always was, but the things we can do with that extra power are less impressive. So if you're playing games, it's not so big a deal any more if your graphics card is five years old.
You may have no plans to ever invite the public into a commercially-zoned facility, and in that case, making it wheelchair-accessible might make no sense.

But if you suddenly had to up and move, and sell the space, well, it's still zoned commercial, and presumably someone's running a business out of it, and they might have an employee in a wheelchair.

Commercial spaces have different requirements than residential spaces. It's not just a matter of stamping a form. It's also not surprising that it'd take some extra construction to bring a formerly residential space up to code.

AND, I get that you'd like to defer the actual cost of rezoning onto someone else, but, well, someone's got to actually pay to turn the residential space into commercial...and you're the one who wants to do it and will presumably benefit now from doing so.

$3k to make it accessible to people without two working legs seems pretty reasonable.
>If you're staunchly Democrat, and you vote that way in an overwhelmingly red state, is that also a wasted vote?

Well yeah. That's why we need proportional representation. People should vote, not land.
There's a documentary on Netflix (9 months that made you) 3 episodes that covers this for those curious about more details. The episode were this was discussed was either in 1 or 2.
I asked this several times on r/bitcoin and just got links to a Core blog post warning, “this isn’t something Core supports,” and (essentially) “hard forks are confusing for users.” So if you blindly follow Core devs, then apparently that’s enough “technical” reason for you.

[It seems to me that Core wants to keep small blocks so that fees on the primary chain continue to rise and everyone is forced to use the side chains that they are building and stand to profit handsomely from. They don’t want people
being able to use the main chain for small purchases because it increases the size of the blockchain, which makes it more expensive to run nodes, but realistically they’re simply making Bitcoin too expensive to use at all.]

Anyway, I’m curious if your question can produce some more reasonable answers here.
Off-topic:

Can we please stop with this trend of random websites asking to spam me with notifications? Is there some framework everyone's using that's trying to grab notification permissions at every possible opportunity? At the very least, sites should at least tell me what they're going to have pop up as a notification and give me the option to subscribe to those notifications through some link in the actual site (like what Gmail does when desktop notifications aren't enabled yet).

I understand notifications are useful for "webapps", but for a blog post they seem entirely useless, so every time I see the prompt to allow notifications I reject it immediately on the basis of it almost certainly being spam.
It's either that or backporting bugfixes to every single past release, right? Is that what you propose? Or a "middle way" with LTS releases?

I mean, you could have separate bugfix and feature releases for a relatively low cost, but that would only alleviate the problem for the duration of a release cycle.
Indeed I noticed the same issue for my customers using .io domains (and me unfortunately): https://twitter.com/updownio/status/910508435720065024

Seems to be getting better now.
High TTL helps but mostly if it was there before so do it now for the next downtime (it's frequent with .io)
I love ISC — but you're quite on point. It also says nothing about any patents potentially held by the authors.

See this HN comment from a year ago for a fuller exploration of how that can be problematic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12597488
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Lots of discussion on supplements in the comments (which are totally fine). But for additional info, sources of dietary magnesium are (descending concentration): spinach/chard, pumpkin seeds, yogurt, almonds, black beans, avocado, figs, dark chocolate, banana.
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What a strange straw man. People who are very concerned about their online privacy are likely not using that as their DNS.
Very much so. Have people not heard the line "gender is entirely a social construct"? That is mainstream thinking where I'm from. Also referred to as the blank slate hypothesis.
15 times the download size of hnews and it even has a loading indicator with a waiting time of several seconds

Maybe make it more simplistic and fast, for it to be a real open source alternative
I think his point is that with less resources we could solve the general case by improving the ability of wheeled things that need to use sidewalks to navigate rougher terrain.
Yes, it's a simple test:

Show a shuffled playlist of 20 videos, half of which are simulations. The simulations must be entirely synthesized; no mixing in footage of real life.

As long as the videos are non-trivial (~60sec and reasonably complex scenes), the viewers will correctly select all 10 of the simulated videos. If we were capable of generating simulated video identical to a camcorder, people would score no better than random guessing.

So not only have we failed to reach that goal, we are nowhere close -- it's effortless to identify all the fake and real videos. Especially nature videos, for example. When put side-by-side with real-life footage, our best simulation attempts are nowhere near the same ballpark. They're not even the same area code.

The idea that we really haven't accomplished this may seem offensive. My frustration is what led me to work on it. But unfortunately, we're nowhere close. I'm not sure traditional techniques will be enough to close the realism gap.

I've outlined a scientific test that anyone can conduct. The results may be discouraging, but they establish our capabilities. The goalpost is rigid.

To answer your other questions: Obviously everything is impossible until it's not. But I never meant to claim this was impossible, just impossible with our current techniques. I think physically-based rendering circa 2010-2020 will turn out to be a failure from the standpoint of replicating camcorder-grade video, but that's speculation. When you try to simulate physics in such great detail, you end up with hundreds of approximations. When these integrate together, you get modern Unreal Engine videos: they don't look real. They look pretty great! But not real.

Who cares about looking real? Well, like AGI, it's a goal worth striving for. Ever since we've been scribbling on cave walls we've tried to capture realism. Unlike AGI, there isn't much use for perfect realism; it might not affect the world at all. But I'm pointing at the summit; wouldn't it be a fun climb?
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Think of the human body as a system of many tightly coupled functions. Tinkering with one function can have effects on 4 other seemingly unrelated ones. That's why generalizations don't work very well when they are shorter than a full-blown study paper. You primary care doc should have a much better context about your health, your existing conditions, the particular risks that you have... all which may require a different recommendation from "the average".

If you have always been healthy and don't have have a primary care physician (generalist), go find one with whom you're comfortable (look for good communication and someone who suits your personality/expectations) and establish a history. It will feel like you're throwing away a few hundred dollars but with time this will come in handy. The one I have now is happy to help me, an engineer, understand the underlying concepts of my care, without wasting time dumbing things down too much—I can grok logic and tradeoffs, I'm just not clinically trained.
I don't know about that. There's at least speculation that some percentage of animals that went extinct in North America were due to humans. Also in North America there was a lot of impact to ground cover by people before agriculure - i.e. burning down forests to make it easier to hunt game. It's hard to imagine those things only occurred in the Americas.
You are right the red dot might be the first time. The dial varies all over the map series 1, 2, 3, depending on finish and material.

I can't discern a pattern that isn't just dependent on the finish of the watch.
...or just that there is a strong connection between sex and gender. The fact that there are (a small minority of) people who feel "intense, persistent gender incongruence" (gender dysphoria) does not mean that it should be simply considered a "normal course of life" any more than clinical depression is a normal course of life. While legitimizing transgender identities through legislation may help to reduce negative social stigmas (a good thing), it can also be harmful to individuals experiencing those feelings.
M885 was originally designed as basically a copper coated tungsten penetrator, but the M885A1 now is steel tipped with solid copper body. Turns out the tungsten core made it loose it's spin during flight and caused tumbling.

Not sure they saved themselves a lot of money, copper is $. I knew they were trying a tin alloy at one point, not sure what happened to that other than Google saying "Unstable at high temperatures", which is interesting.
Public services in the UK have faced severe budget cuts in recent years. Spending money for new software could very well have meant to have less police on the street. That's not an excuse to use unsafe systems but it can be an explanation. Public services don't work like companies, especially if they're forced to reduce their budget by 30% over a few years without neglecting their duty.
I had in mind transactions in Europe within the SEPA area, eg EUR/GBP/CHF. Banks charge nothing for the transfer, 0.5% fee, and the spread which often is 0.1% or less. FX brokers have even better conditions for high volume customers.
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I want to use Kami, but I am worried by the fact that it asks for permission to your entire Google Drive.

Why doesn't Kami use the "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file permission" scope that gives only access to files created or opened with the app?
What kind of transgenderness do you see in this case? I mean, identifying with the biological sex doesn’t seem trans at all.

Edit: I guess that even though in this case there is misassignment at birth one could make the case that the transgender label applies. I don’t really have an opinion but one could also consider that intersex is something different:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex
Interesting that we reacted to his comment so differently.

There aren't always perfect solutions to problems. Sometimes futurologists are found waiting for the perfect, inexhaustible source of energy to power the world, but the practical consensus is that our renewable world be a mix of solar, wind, hydro, and some sort of more-advanced atom-splitting. Find multiple angles to chip away at the problem until you get where you want to go.

I don't think it's unreasonable to say "let's try to get all sidewalk cracks under an inch" and then say "let's get wheelchairs that can handle an inch-high crack", as an arbitrary example.

I mean, if we want to talk about unintended benefits - my most mobile stroller was purchased as a running stroller to be used on a rail-to-trail, then I found out it could handle bad sidewalks pretty well. Isn't that the same argument as my top-level post, just from the opposite side?
I'd say use the road if the sidewalks aren't traversable and it can be done safely. Is it illegal for a wheelchair to use car lanes?

Pissing off motor traffic is probably the fastest way to get the sidewalks fixed.

Even if it is illegal, I can't imagine a judge not throwing out the citation if you show pictures like that.

edit to address the replies: my suggestion was admittedly somewhat tounge-in-cheek and, no, I wouldn't recommend anyone take the risk. Would I do it as performance art? No, because a judge/newspaper/observer would see it as a stunt undermining the whole argument and possibly even harm the cause.
Recently switched to DDG on my devices and I’m impressed with how much better it is than when I tried a few years ago.
Why was that the plan initially? I'm not up on the history of this one.
Phone anxiety is a weird, and, for me at least, irrational thing. I know that mankind survived for millennia without the ability to communicate with each other out of earshot. But once you get used to having your phone with you at all times, you get used to feeling that if anyone needs you, they can get you.

Apple Watch Series 3 with cellular networking completely alleviates this anxiety. It is not a replacement for a phone, and is not supposed to be. But it lets you leave your phone at home when you go for a run, or in your locker while you’re at the gym, or in your hotel while you go to the beach, and not worry in the least that you’re out of touch.

It alleviates the anxiety of leaving your phone at home by... further conditioning your dependence on interconnectivity? Blind logic is the dark-side of the reality distortion field.

Applied differently: To help me with my alcoholism, I leave my 40oz at the hotel or in my locker-room. Now, I just sip on it from a smaller container filled with liquor that I keep on my wrist.

If your phone generates anxiety, fix the issue.
That never loaded for me.
Yeah this is just strange. If I send data back to my server from javascript, is that using the CPU without permission?
You're confusing market cap with market depth, which is a a closer estimate of "new value."
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