skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SpaceX just filed a request to run 30k more Starlink satellites in orbit
http://archive.is/gNmAt

(Archive link for those who prefer non-broken web experiences or want to avoid supporting publishers that actively want to break the web.)
Splitting a NURBS surface "in half" is an insanely complicated operation, and the way you do it almost certainly depends on your intended use case.

If you can't find a library (or engine) in your domain that has the operation, then you're kind of S.O.L., and have to start from first principles.

I don't blame commercial results and SEO for this. It's not like you used to be able to see a menu of rich choices for this, and now they're lost in the noise of companies with a mission.
I don’t think that is a general assumption. Particularly when the generality is made not as a statement of fact but of opinion and in a disparaging manner.
Kundalini awakenings can be just as harmful (if not MORE) as psychedelics awakenings without proper integration work. It always helps to work with a teacher or guide when traveling through a shadowy psyche.
My personal bet that it is a mix of the above. But is it a happy coincidence that an individual that does not really talk in bumber sticker langauage and questions some of the basic core beliefs, is not there in the 'marketplace of ideas'.
Microbleeds may worsen outcome after head injury
You have to at least try before coming to that conclusion.
Microsoft launches new open-source projects around Kubernetes and microservices
Not all homeless are homeless because of mental health or substance abuse issues, but those that are homeless for other reasons are more likely to get help so you don’t notice them as much.
> Hacker News is the center of technology

Let's not pat ourselves on the back too hard.
For startups that matter, the need to break up the monolith will surface pretty quickly. When a single database can no longer handle the traffic anymore, and/or the eng team size grow past 100 or so.

Also, as tooling improve, developing microservice is not that much harder than developing monolith.
I have a group I still care about. Here's how I'm archiving it:

git clone git@github.com:andrewferguson/YahooGroups-Archiver.git
python archive_group.py <group-name>

See https://github.com/andrewferguson/YahooGroups-Archiver and https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Yahoo!_Groups
Above 22Mph it is the tire noise that the most dominant source of noise pollution by cars.
In most noise pollution scenarios EV's will change nothing.
Where in Italy are you from? I've spent quite a bit of time there. I've had pizza in Florence, pizza in Rome, pizza in Sorrento, pizza in Palermo and at a few Autogrills in between. I can't comment on the pizza in New Haven, but I can say for sure there's no standard dough in Italy.
I forgot quite how funny the Young Ones is. Thanks for the reminder.

Rick is a timeless character.
> Our users tell us they find the Google Assistant to be smart, user-friendly, and reliable, and that’s so important for ambient technology. Interactions need to feel natural and intuitive. Here’s an example: if you want to listen to music, the experience should be the same whether you are in the kitchen, you are driving in your car, or hanging out with friends. No matter what you are doing, you should be able to just say the name of the song and the music just plays without you having to pull out a phone and tap on screens or push buttons.

This may be an unpopular sentiment, but at least for me, I find a certain indefinable pleasure in manual tasks, to a certain extent. Slipping a CD into a player or a cassette into a deck or having to browse through a shelf to find the book I want. I don't think people will realise the "ambience" of these minor things we do hundreds of times a day almost unconsciously until practically everything becomes voice/thought activated and almost anything you want is delivered right to where you are. I believe that there is a certain happy medium between entirely manual and being too automated. Obviously this will be different for different tasks but we must keep in mind that the aim of corporations will always be to make them fully automated because that way they and their services become indispensable for the world. Our aim should be to try to tread the happy medium where automation makes significant difference but does not turn us into instantly-gratified, grown-up children.
Set and setting. The drug just rattles your cage.

I quoted Leary on 'set and setting' the other day on an LSD history thread and mentioned Leonard Orr used to get great results with nothing more exotic than oxygen, so rather than repeat that ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21264919 ) I'll say this:

If you have a modality of therapy that works, it will work without the drug (which, at best, serves as an amplifier and a "convincer".)

If you don't have a modality of therapy that works reliably, then it's irresponsible to add drugs and hope for the best. You're banging on the side of the box hoping to reseat the vacuum tubes.

The "convincer" effect can be achieved without drugs. Not to be too mysterious but I mean hypnosis. You can e.g. quit smoking using hypnosis. It's not even hard.

I'm not against drugs per se I'm just against using them in therapy. It's irresponsible. It's like advocating zeppelins over bikes for personal transport.

(I'm great friends with Mushroom, and a little 'shroom tea can be great fun. But cramming 'im into a wee lil pill and then claiming "quit smoking" magic is in it... That's bad science and lousy magick.)
I clicked the link hoping it was about language. But it is about rogue likes and programming.

Since english can verb nouns like nominalization, i can't tell what the benefit is. one boards the board of a ship, levers a lever, and locks a lock.

We "lockpick" more often than we "save face" perhaps English is a head-first language.

In formal writing, a difference exists between nominal and verbal-style.
Its not as terrible as you might think. Do you know of Michael Ossmann HackRF? Funded by DARPA https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/10/19/darpa-...
Nice little idea and implementation. Since privacy/security is a goal, it might make sense to dive into one or more of the following, even if they're not on the main page:

- The tech behind the encryption/privacy. One thing in particular is how is the "my room" feature being saved. I'm sure I could dig in myself but the average visitor may want to be assured that it's saved locally only. EDIT: Hmm nevermind it seems the chatroom name isn't being persisted. Could have sworn I left the main page and came back to the same chatroom but probably imagining things.

- How you intend to keep the site running over the long term, funding, etc. Assure visitors that your incentives align with visitors' over the long term as much as possible.

- Open sourcing would be another good trust signal.

I do like the XKCD-style chat room names. I don't think I've seen that before. It's usually random alpha-numeric. Also love the minimalism, single-use aspect of it.

Keep it up!
Public transit systems do have need of programs for control, infrastructure maintenance and so on, as do railroads.

There's (some) work in conservation (meaning ecological habitats and stuff) if you care about biodiversity, but it mostly requires GIS skills.

A lot of "global problems" (like cancer) are also local problems (like different environmental exposures or individual genetic profiles). It's hard even while working at a global problem to have a solution with global impact. This cannot be understated.

There are some decently big problems in mining (where mining certain compounds has become exponentially harder) and the industry does not typically have a lot of software talent already. However, it can be quite difficult to get into depending on your geographical location.

Have you considered working for the government?
Perl and Raku Both Anticipating Newfound Glory
How to get advice from successful people
The point is that no matter which way you slice it, IQ stands out.

On average, people raised in poor environments who have higher IQ do better than people raised in poor environments with lower IQ. More likely to be more upwardly mobile, more likely to be more whatever.

And on average, people raised in good environments who have higher IQ do better than people raised in good environments who have lower IQ.

If you're a person of color, on average, you're going to do better if you have a higher IQ than if you have a lower IQ.

Same if you're a woman.

And 140 vs 130 is a bit unfair. You're talking about looking for meaningful differences between less than 2% of the population as compared to less than 0.1% of the population.

And just because there are diminishing returns with something like IQ, doesn't make it useless.
> Google Play In-app Billing does not support donations [1], so open source developers should be allowed to link to their own donation pages.

Ok, I had to stop there. They have no claim to this as long as they distribute within the store. It would be nice if google allowed this, but there is no obligation. App Stores are monopolies and should be regulated to allow open distribution.
I mean, this is basically what zoning was designed to do. For the most part, it's working as intended.
Definitely. I'm by no means saying "Do nothing, let them die." But I'm also saying "We have to rehabilitate them" is not a good enough idea either - you can't make people want help.
Deleting it is one option, but another is teaching FB to show you posts by friends who have more interesting things to say. This has worked well for me, though I also expect it depends on your friends and how they use FB.
The screen is right there but you want me to not touch the screen to interact.
It never stopped https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...
Try with hyphens instead of underscores? https://pypi.org/project/simple-gpu-scheduler/ has it both ways which is very confusing.
Hamilton, Ontario has a pizza style that I haven't seen anywhere else - it's similar but not quite the same as Sicilian pizza.

The pizza is rectangular, incredibly thick (almost a cake-like consistency and crumb), with tomato sauce on top and usually nothing else.

I like it, but probably more due to it being comfort food from when I was a kid at parties than the pizza actually being particularly good.

https://s3-media1.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/JkEI-lNlRm-ELKgV2keU...
Your phone isn't always in your hand. In fact, your phone isn't in your hand for the vast majority of the day most likely. And it's in those scenarios that something like this could be cool if it works well.

If it can detect your presence before you actually pick it up it could do things like fire up the face auth systems to give quicker unlock. It can auto-lock if you set it down and walk away without manually turning it off or waiting for the timeout. If the alarm is going off it can lower the volume if it detects your presence before you actually dismiss or snooze the alarm.

There's all sorts of possibilities for all the times where you are not holding your phone. If it works well, that is.
Autocomplete is one thing. Getting a list of suggestions is more important, because you might not know the name of the function.
> Mongo's explanation: "[there was] confusion in the marketplace about the trigger and scope of the Remote Network Interaction provision of AGPL" [1]

I don't understand how this flies at all. The AGPL to me clearly includes AWS in its text, as it's a service offered over the network?
Selecting only the needed data for each component should mitigate this, since react-redux automatically compares the selected data only.

I will agree that it's too easy for components to watch too much of the state, but it's not necessarily wrong to have all the state in one tree.
LP is also covered in the Discrete Optimization course on Coursera:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/discrete-optimization
> Given the difference in annual weather, it's not clear that Boise policy is effective in reducing homelessness.

They might winter in Portland or even LA.

Spokane is another city in that area with a huge homeless problem, and perhaps even harsher weather (Boise is at least high desert). Though housing can be super cheap, my granddad used to run what we thought became basically a flop house that we nicked named the Empty Arms.

SLC seems to have focused more on housing the homeless, but even then I think in recent years they’ve found that their success has mainly just led to a larger problem.
How's this going to be monetized? What sort of execution limits are there?
> What about people who want to be homeless?

I think you overestimate the number of homeless by choice vs homeless by circumstance. You also are sort of marginalizing the homeless who need help by painting them as happily homeless. Very naive take on the situation.
Employ the same techniques that successfully kept dirty magazines out of the hands of our fathers and grandfathers.
Is there a typo in the article? The table shows the iPhone 11 Pro with the 3046mAh battery but the article article says the iPhone 11 Pro has a 3110mAh battery (from the iPhone 11 column).
Why do we need to be able to add two characters again?
My guess is it's ripe for fraud. Find open source app, put on Google with your donation platform of choice, profit!

By requiring government registration my guess is the hope is both that the fraudsters will be caught or dissuaded and if they do make it past the government registration then when the real devs complain Google can say "take it up with the government. They mis-licensed. We just followed their license"
Let's not forget that unlike cars, data on the internet can not actually physically harm people. Especially for crimes with an overwhelming moral component such as sexual abuse, people seem to have a tendency to conflate someone deriving pleasure from pictures of the act with the actual act. (See also UN pushes against pornographic manga, where there has not even been an actual act)
Or as it’s also called, “unreliability”.
Policy making is about turning public money into your money. Finding reasons not to spend wins you no friends in government. How did the uk government manage to warrant a 20 billion pound daily budget? By finding new ways to spend it, and ensuring it is illegal for them not to have it. They need more money.
The "ego" comprises of what makes you "you" — or more specifically, what you think makes you "you". Your personality, your likes and dislikes, your memories, your history, your judgements. All the things that create your "identity". The ego is your custom filter through which you experience consciousness.

It's helpful to be able to experience the world without the influence of the ego, because then you are able to experience the world in a completely unfiltered way. You are able to get closer to an experience of objective truth.

Many people who have used psychedelics or work deeply with meditation all come to similar conclusions: the ego is an illusion. All beings are one and the same. Your sense of "separateness" from every living thing on this planet is a function of your ego-filter — and your ego-filter is wrong.
I've seen several fandom wikis recently which sourced things to Yahoo Groups comments from the creators. Presumably those statements will be lost forever soon unless someone spots those things and archives them.

In the present, it feels a bit silly to mourn random posts from writers and webcomic creators as a serious loss. But when I consider the impact of past artists' letters and journals (e.g. Tolkien), it feels rather different. Some of these silly things will turn into real academic and historical sources if only they survive.
It probably does that too. They’re not mutually exclusive by any means.
You're no coerced in any way. Don't use Google.
First class and economy are different experiences. Airlines don’t change your price for economy based on your personal information.

Would you like to have to pay more because you live in an affluent zip code, even if you aren’t affluent yourself? Because of your age, relationship status, income, wealth, education, friends, and more?
The studies seem flawed in a very obvious way

> If you set up a circumstance where there's no relationship between the button and the light, depressed patients might be able to better pick that out, because that set of circumstances happens to conform to their somewhat biased view of the universe, that bad things happen for no reason," Moore explains. "That doesn't necessarily mean that they're more accurate broadly, but under that very narrow set of stimulus conditions, they come out looking more accurate.
It looks like an interesting alternative to Zapier (or its open source counterpart n8n [1]).

As a potential user, before even trying the tool I'd like to know how are you planning to monetize it. Free sounds awesome, but you'll get to a point where it costs you actual money to keep all this working. I don't want to waste my time creating pipelines in a tool that won't exist in a year or two -or that will become paid and break my existing workflows (or make me expend money unexpectedly)-.

[1]: https://n8n.io/
Basically, open source software that has stood the test of time has either been supported by non-commercial entities (e.g. GNU, Firefox) or has been a collaboration of many commercial entities (e.g. Linux, clang, Java).

Trying to sell a free product that you are developing does not seem like a workable business model. Open-source products which are developed almost entirely by a company with a questionable business model are unlikely to remain healthy in the long run.
Climate Change: Reframing the Problem
I wonder what metrics they're measuring for the favicon A/B split.
I have heard the hundreds of dirty needles sentiment from people but have never encountered a neighborhood in LA where there are hundreds of dirty needles on the ground. Is there any photos of this phenomenon online you could point me to or is this mostly hyperbole?
Unfortunately it's immanently stained by Google's association with it. Plus, it will probably be inexplicably dropped from the phone a couple models down the line.
Are you hosting your own serverless or using AWS?
The Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller (2014)
Mental health and substance abuse issues don't spontaneously emerge on their own. Lack of money, housing, personal life, etc. are huge contributing causes.
That's a good assessment and we're keeping an eye on that future issue. However, we also see the native project and API structure of Capacitor to be very stable and don't anticipate significant changes that will require native project tweaks.
I believe Scotland is forecast to have warmer even wetter winters - although summers should be drier.
Child Porn Ring Busted as Authorities Cite Ability to Crack Bitcoin Privacy
I find it hard to imagine that viewing such videos in the context of a society which vociferously opposes sexual violence could result in anyone thinking the videos are depicting reality. Are we meant to believe that a significant number of adolescents see the vast overabundance of non-abusive pornography, the wider messages about sex they've received every day of their life from their parents and society and peers, and a tiny number of abusive pornographic videos and then conclude that the abusive ones are the actual realistic ones?
You think a breakup will change anything?
A 501(c)(3) application costs at least $275 and takes 2-12 months to process. That seems all right if you're a SV SWE registering something on the side of your regular 6 figure income, but for a lot of folks around the world, that seems a largely no-go way to support their project.

If this is really an attempt at preventing garbage apps from spamming or tricking users, this is both overly broad (many false positives) and badly targeted (many false negatives). Why is it that iOS doesn't have this policy, and has significantly fewer garbage apps?

Maybe if Google were to allow third party app stores, folks could choose the one that fits their ability to evaluate the sophistication of apps themselves. For example, some folks might want to pay for extra security checks on the apps they use, while others want to install anything and everything under the sun.
I wouldn't worry too much about it. It's NPR's job to make something out of nothing. Also, you're using "astronomical" wrong.
Yes, mobile, desktop, and web (Progressive Web App) friendly!
Probably because Google or it's financial partners have compliance programs that require all money flows they enable go through the required regulatory channels.

If an affiliated party is breaking regulations, you can often get in trouble by continuing to be associated with them once you're aware, and ignorance isn't a valid defense.
The README is incorrect, the PyPi package name uses hyphens.
Can someone please come up with AI software that generates buzzword-mashing-up startup ideas, gathers investor capital, hires 23 year olds to work 70 hours a week, and turns around and sells it to another tech company for a few million dollars?
Relatedly, there's a vim-like editor that is all about moving from verb-noun to noun-verb.

https://github.com/mawww/kakoune
> This isn't genetics!

It isn't? There might be a reason that gen- and gno- (~know) are so similar roots
Trivially. It doesn't take a book to say that.

Gladwell wants us to think that successful people earned it, that Bill Gates deserves his $100B. Everything else bends to that goal. But Gates has $100B not because he worked hard, but because he abused monopoly power, and impoverished the world. The enduring legacy of Microsoft's dominance is that people think computers working badly is both OK and unavoidable.
Not when buses get signal priority.
Ad companies like Google tend to be winner take most markets. Thats why you see it referred to as the duopoly of Google and FB, together they have ~60% of the digital ad market.
All I want is a small Bluetooth device (maybe wrist-mounted) with a few buttons, a slider, some sort of rotary sensor like a mouse wheel, and accelerometer. Then give me complete control in my phone over how the software interprets the actions.
Oh this takes me back to a horrible time in my life when I was tracking down a terrible intermittent crash on a LEON (SPARC) processor. I was down at the assembly level, stepping over instructions. It was a bit mind bending to always have an instruction execute AFTER the branch (you wouldn't know if the branch was taken or not until AFTER the delay slot instruction). Often the delay instruction was a NOP, showing the difficulty in filling the delay slots as you mentioned. If you were really lucky, your branch would also result in a register window overflow. By the time handling that was done, you lost your mental context of what was going on. shudder
Watch the keynote for more information on accidental gestures. They cater for it
I think it's less that someone "can't get over Python 2.7" and more "why should I?". Nothing in 3 except bytes/string handling is compelling. Lots of 2 libraries haven't been ported. There is no legal reason to move and no other time pressure.

I would argue that people have been "getting shit done" with C for decades, despite newer shinier flavors of the month popping up, so your argument doesn't hold water to me.
Functional programming also cuts both ways. People think of it as a practical application of category theory, but it can also be about declaring and defining functions in something like the C programming language.

However, if everyone is talking about Haskell and you come in and try to shift the conversation to "programming languages that use functions" you are likely not adding anything of interest to the conversation.

Similarly, "Manufacturing Consent" posited a set of specific filters and measured column inches as evidence for the existence of that set of filters. While you are certainly correct that all forms of human social interaction involve filtering information in order for people to have ideas and follow causes in the first place, it's a broad truism that sheds little light on the topic the book discusses.