skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much has human activity altered earth orbit?

If an alien civilization 1M years ago saw earth and decided to shoot it for whatever reason, how much error would human activity have added? Seems like it would be tiny, but accuracy from such distances would also be huge, so could be 'enough'?.

Come to think of it, the chicxulub impact probably had a larger effect on our orbit than any human activity, and a far-away alien civ would have a hard time predicting impacts at such distance.

Would be interesting to make an interstellar warfare game that models the speed of light as a 'fog of war'. Projectiles are accelerated too fast for any control or deceleration systems to survive. Goal is to anticipate where opponents' assets will be in the future and move your assets away from where opponent will anticipate they will be. Could bombard your own planet to alter orbit at a cost to productive capacity. Kind of an orbital shuffleboard.
The great thing about the scooter is that it isn't mine, so I don't have to worry about it getting stolen.

That's it. That's the killer feature.
At a conceptual level that would be no different than having a Python implementation targeting the JVM or CLR runtimes (aka Jython and IronPython).

The usual situation for these alternate implementations is that they make it easier to interact with other code that targets those runtimes, but that they do not speed up the average speed of the interpreter. The previously-mentioned compatibility and performance issues for C extensions also remain.
This is the key. I don't think most people would care about the drafts section if it appeared and disappeared without disrupting the normal way of doing things!
I'd love to see a discussion here too. If I've understood John Gray correctly, human progress isn't cumulative, such as the way science and technology is, as it builds upon prior work. Intriguing.
For rentable escooters, the consumer doesn't really have to worry about them being stolen. And they're easier to park than bikes.
Ask HN: How do you choose a professional service provider?
If you don’t have a personal recommendation, what criteria do you use to choose a professional service provider when you need one? By “professional service provider,” I mean a physician, dentist, psychotherapist, lawyer, accountant, etc. Basically any service provider that can’t really show you a portfolio and who handles specialized or sensitive matters. Review sites by and large are not great for this, because nobody reviews their doctor or their lawyer.

I’m at a loss. Any thoughts, HN?
Datadog contributes auto-instrumentation to OpenTelemetry
How to propagate uncertainties.

Daily journaling.

That I needed glasses.
It's probably the best solution for you.

Please let other people decide what's best for them.
Not random code, but specifically written with type checking should be doable. There was an asm,js subset for example.
We Still Need the MIT Media Lab
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At home I use dark mode for everything. At work people like to see the sun so it's hard to read with dark modes.
But these clients have already expressed a desire to invest in startups. If your idea of working in their best interest is to "not invest in startups" then you shouldn't take the capital (and fee$) in the first place.
It's just one sentence mentioning it at the end of the article. Doesn't sound like they're launching a massive campaign.
This is key. If your filter is to never partner with countries who have done unethical things, you're never going to partner with anyone.
Correct answer, but one corollary: If the only reason you have an office in an open office setting is because you make the rules, you're not a leader. You're a "boss".
The service is not the weakest part of Apple. Instead, is the complete lack of innovation nowadays. They lost everything since the death of Steve Jobs. Unfortunately.
Interesting, a paradox of progress. In one observers view it's moving forward, in another, backward.
Yes, count me in as a buckwheat pillow adherent. Best thing I ever did to improve sleep. Prevents a hot and sweaty head. Plies into desired thickness or contour well. Apparently, they're also less likely to foster mites or other pillow dwellers. No concern about foam off-gassing.

I have one cased with cotton on one side and wool on the other. The wool side is less crunchy but warmer so I prefer the thin cotton-on-buckweat feel by far.

A king-sized buckwheat pillow is luxurious but weighs a ton. For travel or camping I take a very small version, also useful as a meditation zafu.

Plastic versions of buckwheat filling I've slept on in Japan probably make extra sense in a commercial setting because I assume the whole thing is easily washed and dried. Slightly soft tiny hollow tube cuttings is the best description I can give.

Your rock pillow is interesting. Polished little stones in a thin sack?
It used to be possible to become an engineer that way. If you had enough experience working with licensed engineers, and got recommendations from two or three of them, you could take the PE exam without any academic credentials beyond high school.

Sadly, even engineering has become credentials-obsessed now.
Pretty much this. I think users today are extremely lazy and are unwilling to learn anything. It's to the point where they are the ones being used instead of doing the using.
Here we go. The IDF will accept any article except ones that criticize Israel and then MUST require citation.
Well, you can do it the good ol' way with ceramic piggy banks that do not open but need to be crashed with a hammer.

Anecdata, I had one in the shape of a dinosaur, must have ben 5 or 6 and I still remember (some 50 years later) the day I decided that I needed a new toy the doubts about actually breaking it (with the assistance of my dad) and perfectly remmber the dinosaur, whilst I cannot remember at all which toy I was willing to get, probably a toy gun, but I am not sure.
The P-TECH program reboots vocational education
You think I go to FatBurger for my health, my contrarian journalist? No, here's what those two products aren't: made from slaughtered animals. With a side of onion rings, please, and ranch dressing on the side. Health, phhhhhht.
I really dislike these, they're too narrow and difficult to scroll manually
"not guaranteed that the situation is better elsewhere" - almost certainly it couldn't be worse.

Labs change focus all the time, even without describing it to the world. Why else would they have bumped your research?
*acousto-optic, of course. (I swear, auto-incorrect is getting worse.)

To expound slightly on your (correct) explanation: The phonons impart (or remove) energy to (from) the laser light, the same way a moving mirror does: via doppler shift.

I made a differential heterodyne interferometer in undergrad using the method you describe.
Seems like a highjack may be possible actually... Here is a list of other things they listed they can do with the simjacker exploit that goes beyond simple data exfiltration:

> PLAY TONE
> SEND SHORT MESSAGE
> SET UP CALL
> SEND USSD
> SEND SS
> PROVIDE LOCAL INFORMATION
> Location Information, IMEI, Battery, Network, Language, etc
> POWER OFF CARD
> RUN AT COMMAND
> SEND DTMF COMMAND
> LAUNCH BROWSER
> OPEN CHANNEL
> CS BEARER, DATA SERVICE BEARER, LOCAL BEARER, UICC SERVER MODE, etc
> SEND DATA
> GET SERVICE INFORMATION
> SUBMIT MULTIMEDIA MESSAGE
> GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION REQUEST
That's exactly wrong. Composers have always included cultural references and emotional trigger patterns in music, and arranged them to create musical metaphors - sometimes just for the expression, sometimes as social commentary.

For example Don Giovanni has quotes from the dance music of the day, and Mozart uses the quotes to highlight the experiences and feelings of the characters - sometimes ironically, sometimes not.

And in the Baroque period there was an established tradition of associating standard compositional patterns with specific emotions. It was diluted in later periods, but it never quite went away.

20th century academic music turned its back on these traditions and made the dogmatic assertion that music is just formal structure with no other content, and more or less any structure will do as long as it's complicated enough to be intellectually interesting.

But it's never been true. Not in classical music, not in academic music, and not even in "simple" pop.
£150 for 3x500 stickers at Amazon. That should leave you missing approximately 75 stickers, which you can buy as singletons directly from Panini, at £0.25 a piece. So you can do it for £170 with absolutely no social interaction required. Definitely an unreasonable amount for a bunch of stickers, but still peanuts compared to what a freemium video game can cost.

Just to be clear, sticker collection economy is also shady, it just doesn't have a societal impact remotely like that of loot boxes.
Fragments is a wireframe iOS kit for Sketch & Figma that you can use to build any kind of mobile app. The full kit includes 370+ layouts in 10 categories and it’s based on nested symbols and built with layer styles.

All files are named, sorted and combined together accordingly. All latest features of Figma & Sketch App has been used to speed up your design workflow. In addition to offering the largest prototyping screens on the Internet, Fragments iOS kits' components are all symbol-based.
Interesting that the quote mentions Tel Aviv and not Jerusalem.
I'd argue that an invalid string concept would be neither correct nor efficient. Why should all code that deals with strings carry the burden of fallibility of a subset of string functions?

You've mentioned NaN propagation in another comment and I think that's a perfect example of the problem with this approach. Sorting a vector of arbitrary floats is a notoriously thorny problem because any float could be NaN, and as NaN is incomparable to any other float, there is no total ordering of floats. There is no general solution to this problem that doesn't involve making assumptions that could be faulty for some applications.
You’d have to compile the CPython interpreter to WASM.
Yes. And my home city.
Senior Planet, the tech-themed community centre that turns seniors into techies
I think modern life has torn the social fabric apart. There have been numerous studies on loneliness and a sense of alienation recently. A solution could be more face to face interactions. Junior needs to put down the phone and play with real friends. So does Senior.

https://its-near.me - Connect with people and events nearby
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We're on a thread about a suicide prevention campaign, but people still don't have the sobriety required to handle the thoughts that drive it.
>almost feels like a country within a country

Exactly how I always saw the "new" China. Ever since my first intro to it in the early 90's. All of these are city-states trying to get as rich as they can, while acting as partners with each other for the favor of Beijing, and simultaneously competitors with each other for the favor of Beijing. If you go to all these places and they feel very different from each other. (At least, as an outsider they really felt different to me.)
I think the current guideline on voting should be changed to "do not downvote if you disagree with the sentiment of a comment, provided it is substantive and factual". I see way too many downvoted comments that are purely statements of relevant fact, or are sincere questions. If HN members can't manage being reasonable and logical about controversial subjects, how do we ever expect the average person on the street to do so? No wonder politics is so screwed up these days.
Building a license plate reader from scratch with deep learning
Quirks mode can largely be described with a quirks-mode stylesheet that applies several custom styles to all elements unless otherwise overridden.
> Management is the difference between your work seeming like its a valuable contribution to a bigger picture, or that it's a pointless sisyphean exercise in futility cynically driven by profit or ignorance.

Wait, this one is an objective property of the product you're working on, right?
Philosophy and the Practice of Bayesian Statistics (2013) [pdf]
Reply to self: many programs have realized this, too, and added _enormous_ scroll bars, in the form of a “Show Thumbnails” feature (examples: MS Word and PowerPoint, Mac OS Preview and Pages) or as a “minimap” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini-map#Code_Minimap_in_Text_...)

Say NO to sneaky scroll bars!
OpenSSL Security Advisory [10 September 2019]
"There are over 200 species of malaria. Humans are infected by five. But birds, bats, lizards and antelopes are also hosts for malaria parasites." [1]

So no, unfortunately, curing all the humans will not wipe out malaria. The only real solution is to drive the mosquito vector to extinction, everything else is a temporary half-measure.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/ma...
Many Americans care deeply about Israel. What’s wrong with that?
Docker (the daemon and tooling) is generally upstream-supplied (ie: docker provides apt repos etc).

Not uncommon for rapidly moving upstream. I wouldn't recommend running distro-supplied docker in general (and neither do docker).

Curated apt repos is nicer than snaps, IMNHO.
> You can't necessarily add properties to a base class and have all of those reflect immediately

Are you talking about JS? You definitely can:

class A {}
class B extends A {}
const b = new B();

A.prototype.test = () => 'test';
b.test();
// => 'test'
All they have to do is allow the immigration of violent sects. Overtourism problem solved.
When you have a dark-theme-ish website, then the bright scrollbars suck, especially if you got more than one (e.g. two scrollable columns). So you need to do something or else a lot of users will complain or just leave.
I wouldn't say it's antagonism or anything like that, just as you aren't antagonistic towards the gear in your alarm clock. Nevertheless if the gear started playing up, you'd get rid of it without a 2nd thought.

Obviously this is filtered through (emotional) humans, and job roles have differing fungibility, but the corporation doesn't really care about you except perhaps where it benefits itself.
If only HTML could have hyperlinks, embedded multimedia and textual content in a single file...

(In all seriousness, it's sad that YouTube has such a narrow focus — video files only — which helped it spread to many different devices, from small phones to TVs, but hinders interactivity)
What I mean is to fight back with your brain but not with your body. Someone getting assaulted should be “smarter” to not fight back physically with much bigger opponent. You should look how Edward Snowden or Julian Assange fight back.

“world wide consensus” means to create big enough entity who is ready to act when law is violated anywhere in the world so that its actions can hurt violator. Imagine the world where open-source is replaced by such entity.
> There is no concept of an INVALID string, as float has NAN.

Isn’t that just NULL?
Ask HN: What do you want from your presentation software?
We're doing a little bit of research on what people think about the current state of presentation software. We see some opportunities, but would love to hear where others think the problems lie. Feel free to comment below, or if you're so inclined filling out this survey would be really nice - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XNZNJFW
> Except that Python does not optimize tail calls

Tail call reversion optimization just exists so people can right 'for loops' in a manner that looks 'functional' on the surface.

Because that is what tail optimization does.. it turns your recursive function into a loop.

So every time you write a for loop in Python just tell yourself that it's actually just a brilliantly optimized recursive function and you can get the same benefit.

Functions are first class objects in python so you can, if you really want, write functional code. It just all kinda goes to shit when you start importing other people's libraries that demand classes and methods being used. Those libraries are just a major part of what benefit you get from using python.

So I am not saying that any of this invalidates haskell or anything like that.
Man, Doom 2016 is an astonishingly good video game. It's rare to find games that so thoroughly accomplish exactly what they set out to do. I finally got around to playing through it about a month ago and I'm very excited for Doom Eternal in November.
It's become somewhat popular in the US, despite the US having no cities with good bike infrastructure. Convenience is a hell of a drug.

The way I see it, this increased uptake could help drive greater investment in bike lanes and walkability. Politically, it's always easier to spend money on things people already do than on things they might do if you spent enough.
> What about it seems trustworthy?

That Israeli spies have been caught multiple times in the US, spying.

If you've have a history of murdering people, I'm at least going to give some attention to the people saying you've murdered again.
I always find this very frustrating, how hard can it be to put a demo (or even just a screenshot) of your product? Did they not think someone visiting their site would want it?

On this note, the worst offender in my opinion is Voyager for Laravel [1], where the "play" button has been put over a screenshot of the product, but when you click on it there's a 90 second video of a guy talking about the product. So. frustrating.

[1] https://voyager.devdojo.com/
Just extend this logic to the Cold War and WWII. Why would America ever choose sides, right? Just let the Nazis take over Europe and USSR take over the rest. No enemies to worry about!
Gnome 3.34 Release Notes
Are you sure? At check in they always put a destination sticker on the bags. In this case they just put Amsterdam instead of London on the bag. It didn’t seem to be much of a hassle.
Cabal hell is a solved problem these days. Solved three different competing ways --- nix, cabal new-build, Stack --- where ideally there'd just be one, but not the issue it was five years ago.

That doesn't mean dependency management is always easy. It's a hard problem in any language. But you won't find yourself in an inconsistent state that requires blowing away your installation if you use one of those three approaches.
The Stigma of Solo Founders
Remove javascript, instant "lite" version. You can even disable it with a CSP header.
May or may not have been a startup acquired by AMZN, and my team was all let go via PIP before we could transfer internally. Not sure if this is common practice or just bad faith to do damage control around our boss' mistake?

Thanks for the offer though, means a lot.
Keybaseproofs
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/nemo786; my proof: https://keybase.io/nemo786/sigs/7ZLqAPS0c3fXDv-a5xro5NJzioewaY2eaTW-sqR1p8g ]
> But you made the original claim, therefore the burden is on you to provide supporting evidence.

Not really. This is not some magical incantation that compels me to do anything, nor does it make what I said wrong. And tip if you want to win at online forum logic argument wankery (not with me though), perhaps appeals to "stereotypes" and "personal experience" are not the best place to start.
Unfortunately I believe they've said "since this is a product for professional workplaces we don't see a need for this feature".
Keys.openpgp.org: Three months after launch
Pine (or rather Alpine) does have HTML support built in and enabled by default.
I don't think you're wrong - but you might want to look at docker swarm over compose (even on single nodes) and:

https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/secrets/

(as well as the sibling "config")
Thanks for that! I wasn’t aware it existed.
False.

Apple does not earn millions from the sales of targeted ads. Google does.

Apple earns millions from selling a link to Google.

They also want to provide their customers with access to the best search engine. I’m sure they’d prefer that not to come with ads, but that option is not for sale.

Claiming Apple earns the money from targeted ads is like saying Herman Miller or PG&E make money from targeted ads because they sell something to Google.

Obvious bad reasoning.
I needed this 14 years ago
That's rich seeing as how Microsoft is comparing the Surface to a Mac Book using their spokesman "Mac Book".
> This complaint looks disingenuous to me. If you're using a trackpad, you already have scrolling built in and the scrollbar is there primarily for visual feedback.

For short scrolling, that's fine. For long documents, you're sitting there flailing.
The Rise of Deaf Architecture
It depends on the values of the host society. They may want to promote democratic access to their country.
Hey guys, I'd like to recommend something to everyone here. There is a book I have been reading to help manage my depression, and I think it could behoove many others as well. The book is called How to Stop Feeling So Damn Depressed (The No Bs Guide for Men) by Jonas A Horwitz. It's about 140 pages long and has given me a good outlook on handling these feelings and emotions I have.

I'd also recommend everyone to see a mental health professional, if they haven't and are struggling. There is no shame in seeking help!
What's wrong with that road? Seems just like your standard mountain pass road to me. :) Those switchbacks are tight, so trucks are probably not allowed on that road.

I lived somewhat close to there, but not close enough to know that exact area. I am now an avid road cyclist that loves to do big climbs. That road is not even that bad https://veloviewer.com/segments/4090708

I do similar climbs here in California.
A big thing I see is they keep pushing the idea on the younger generation that if you do not go to college you will fail, work McDonald's your whole life etc.

They easily load the kids up with student loans/debt and have courses/advisers readily available to sign them up and get them what they need to get into college.

I do not remember in my high school, one class about financial literacy or how the best way to pay back student loans.

No one informed us well of the risks of taking out private loans to cover what the federal loans don't cover.

No alternative options are promoted heavily, sure there may be an army recruiter or a weekend where they showcase some trades you could get into, but they never explain union/trades.

I wish they told me that at 18, I could join a Union (Carpenter, Laborer, Millwright) and enroll in a 4 year apprenticeship where you start at 60% scale your first year (Make $18 right out of high school), work while learning your skill with a 10% increase each year over 4 years so by the end of your 4 year apprenticeship when you receive your journeyman card you are making $28+, I think more people would at least consider that course if they are more hands on and like to fix stuff.
Well they conspicuously didn't until Pearl Harbor.
Meanwhile, in the world where generative music is made with the obvious involvement of actual musicians: http://www.generativemusic.com
How would you use the refcount?
That's an incredibly hard event to process at 5. Someone close to me lost her dad at 6 in a similar way (major injury, passed away shortly after), and I've helped her process that in conversations over the years. It's still hard to grasp what that experience would be like. I can see the pain it inflicts, the questions it triggers, but I suppose I'm fortunate enough that I don't fully comprehend it. Losing parents is so hard, and hard enough as an adult when it's easier to process and you may even feel secure in your independence.

I'm glad you feel free now.
There's something deeper here that runs counter to the generally accepted idea that lights from screens at night disrupts the body's circadian rhythm and keeps us awake. Anecdotally I know that I can go from "can't sleep; thinking about everything I have to do tomorrow" to asleep in 10 mins opening my phone and browsing reddit - in dark mode no less, makes me feel better about doing it - and reading mindlessly. Emphasis on mindlessly.