skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a certain irony that you ask for data instead of anecdotes to chastise /u/blackearl’s claim, then provide a personal anecdote to support your claim.

This seems like a reasonable start to build a case against Comcast:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Comcast
actually, I'd think state sponsored terrorism would have the resources to get away with it.

Just send the voice data through a raspberry pi to a remote location and carry out the attack from there. You could send voice data through a TOR-like protocol or something to keep you anonymous, if that's important. You could maybe rig some explosives to go off if the FBI/FCC/FAA gain access to the attack point, to prevent them from recovering evidence.

Lot's of police/fire radio systems are similarly without authentication, so you could amplify the mayhem by doing the same thing to those frequencies.
Uber’s Aerial Rideshare Project ‘Entering the Next Phase’
I guess, but the price tag seems intertwined with the quality of service? Hard to separate them (at least for me).
"Acoustic Levitation"

Found the name of my band
I try to have my team "teach not criticize" when it comes to code reviews. This helps shift the mindset from "what's wrong with this code" to "how can this code be better".

Its a subtle difference, but makes a difference in morale and code quality.
It is risky on the part where a customer can dismiss him at first view and not interact further.

But if that's not the case, all he has to do is not give them any reason to validate the assumption. That's hard, but not risky.
usually you design the system to utilize all of it

So, don't do that then. Adding capacitance is a problem, dumping heat is not. Seems a small issue (at low power) for a doubling of operational lifespan.
Clayton Christensen has died
Given how little I trust Ads (and I think others are in the same boat) I'm a bit surprised Google hasn't started interspersing Ads more at this point - having your Ad as the second result below an organic search result would probably give you more clicks... that first search result slot is slowly becoming a dead zone.
Toronto Centre is in the top level of the ATC hierarchy and is a geographic area rather than specific to the city of Toronto. Airband AM only has a range of 50-200mi in flight so they have outlying stations, usually colocated with VOR stations IIRC.

He probably got lucky and had a station within 5-10 miles of his bathtub...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Area_Control_Centre
Any non-paywall link out there?
Seven six, on the fritz! (Squawk 7600.) There’s an established, cut—and-dry procedure for when an IFR aircraft goes NORDO. Even without that handheld, you would’ve been fine.

Every airplane between you and your destination, on the other hand, would find themselves being rerouted.
The question of trusting Google's search results go far beyond it obfuscating ads in the results pages. Google's executives exert absolute granular control over what results end up at the top. Research shows that users are most likely to click only the top few results, meaning the this control has a massive influence on public awareness.

What's more, Google has been shown to be ideologically driven when ranking its results. Including, for instance, down-ranking news sites with left-leaning or socialist views such as the World Socialist Website, Common Dreams, Democracy Now and others as part of a concerted scheme with other information controllers like Facebook to marginalize ideological viewpoints counter to their preferences.

One can only speculate how much "meta-googling" (googling google to find out what it's up to) is rigged and cherrypicked.
"Keep your solutions close, and your problems closer"
Does cash make it harder to operate? That sounds backwards to me. Traditionally, small businesses love cash. The open secret is that no small business reports 100% of their cash income to the government.

I've had small business owners tell me that literally no small business could survive if it had to pay all the taxes they technically owed. There are some near me which offer significant discounts for paying cash.
2019 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards: Animals Show Their Funny Side
Open the "web" link in private mode, then click the article.
AMZN takeover of Whole Foods is a fascinating experiment in class identity (‘17)
It feels like Google is just utterly incapable of ever saying they messed up, on anything. The statement here should have been really simple: "At Google, we're always listening to feedback. We want to make sure that ads are clearly marked, so we'll be experimenting with different favicon placements."

Instead, they go on this weird aside for 2/3rds of the official statement about how everyone actually really liked the changes on mobile, and all the initial desktop tests were great too, and site owners loved having their branding front and center.

If your users widely complain about something, to the point that you're forced to backtrack on the changes, then why do you think that any of them care about what your initial user tests showed? None of this qualification is necessary or relevant except to satisfy Google's weird need to always make sure that everybody knows the company is always right.

> Last week we updated the look of Search on desktop to mirror what’s been on mobile for months.

Like seriously, what is up with these weird jabs? I'm sorry that we didn't like your UI redesign, Google. Get over it and stop being so defensive over user feedback.
no that the saying goes that management tools (oracle, mssql, etc...) for enterprise db are better
I, for one, welcome our new government overlords. Me and my family feel completely incapable of judging the truth or falsehood of claims based on evidence and testing hypotheses.
> If this really is wisdom, it does not follow that it takes 300 pages to communicate.

There's not a big market for 10 page books.

A lot of business books suffer from the same issue. There's some genuinely interesting or innovative idea, but you could explain it to a bright audience in about 10 pages. So you fluff up everything in order to have a book you can sell.
It's getting possible now - there's devices that 'harvest' ambient radio waves to power themselves - here's a device that has a full Bluetooth stack: https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/15/battery-free-bluetooth-sticke...
Thanks for the correction. This wasn't clear from their homepage.
Trust is different. I’m just talking about status which comes before trust can even begin.

Price is not enough.
Agreed.

XCOM (the original) to this day remains one of my favorite turn-based games. How you grew attached to your troopers! The remake is pretty good, too.

How do you find Stellaris, by the way? I'm tempted by it but at the same time these days I simply don't have time for time-consuming, micro-managed 4X games that feel more like work than fun.
This is still my favorite way to do Clojure. I gotta say it's such a nice editor.
Tesla Model X Electric SUV Crashes with Nissan GT-R Supercar
To be fair, Netflix also has a bunch of conspiracy theory shows in the "documentary" section.
Once you can AirPlay to your amp, you can do everything wrs wants.

Any streaming service on your phone (or guests phone) will just AirPlay to the amp.

To play music off the file server, I’ve heard Roon app is pretty good.

If you want different music per zone, you can just setup multiple Raspberry Pis connected to different inputs on the amp and give them different AirPlay names.
It will likely end up in a landfill after a year or 2.
> Who's going to fix inequity in health, education, and other factors that start at infancy?

Well, with health... Something like Equality of Opportunity would be provided by universal health care. But to get Equality of Outcome? All I can think of (as an actual 'solution') is randomly killing women (or systemically denying them health care) to make sure that the average lifespans of men and women match. (We don't have a way to extend the life expectancy of men by 5 years to match that of women - if we did, we'd already be using it, and it would probably work for women too - so the only way to make things 'equal' is to reduce women's life expectancy by that same amount)
I paid it! I hoped for that model to win :(
Gravity: We might have been getting it wrong
Do they not have the option to abstain from votes?
> this level of care is surely costing someone a great deal of money.

This level of care prevents spending much more money monitoring/treating many more people that this patient might have been in contact with otherwise (some of them being doctors and expert on this kind of disease that we don't want to have to put in isolation for a week when we need them the most).
> Why do people care about "valuable things"? Status

No, they care about them because they need them. People need food, clothing, shelter, companionship, and many other things. People also provide those things. Producing those things and trading for them is not "status"; it's filling genuine needs.
A data point from the Apollo Guidance Computer restoration: we found all the capacitors worked perfectly after 50 years. This included a bunch of electrolytic and tantalum capacitors.
I've run into this need. Generally, you have a DB, you just want to bring it back to a point in time. As RDS instances can be part of a bigger setup, it's not always trivial to point your application at a different instance, so re-using an existing instance can be helpful.
Mars rover is frozen in place following software error
> Of course this is written by an academic

I see you are truly gifted at this game - that is a sublime opening gambit.
I blame Michael Moore for destroying the definition of the Documentary genre.
See my sibling comment about Stellaris. Please elaborate!

These days I would enjoy a 4X empire building game that focused on the absolutely highest level issues I imagine a ruler of a galactic empire would focus on. That is, managing the empire and maybe space fleets at the highest level, not issuing orders to individual ships or planets. Maybe dropping down to a particular theater of conflict or diplomatic crisis if the situation calls for it. And at the same time, making it enjoyable, of course!

Nothing kills my enjoyment faster than old-school micromanagement. R&D, ship building and handling, resource gathering -- my serfs should be doing that, not me, the emperor. I'm no longer a teenager with lots of spare time :)
What I dislike about all Haskell examples on every blog is that the writer happily assume that I'm familiar enough with Haskell syntax to understand the code.

In the ordinary method, there's a function name, it takes one input, and returns a result; easy-peasy. Yse, what the method does isn't clear, but at least I know the methods name!

Now lets look at the Haskel fuction.
tryAccept :: Int -> Reservation -> MaybeT ReservationsProgram Int

I've read enough of these Haskel enthusiast blogs to know that the name of the function is tryAccept (it helps that it's the same as the C# method), and it takes in two parameters, an int and a Reservation and returns a Mayb of a ReservationProgram. And it's somehow an int, so it's like an enum? That's weird, clearly I don't understand Hasket syntax.

And then later, I'm told that it's simple to figure out what a ReservationsProgram is because there's some enum that doesn't include the word "ReservationProgram" in it.

No offence, but this isn't enticing me to Haskel.
What would you accept as proof that the entire concept was invalid?

Is there any single experiment or study that would show this? If not, how many - and what would they need to cover?
My wife does this all the time. If she wants to go to Prime video she types "Amazon Prime Video" into her address bar then clicks the first Google result, often the ad for Prime Video.
I started with a Telegram group so I was relying on an existing infrastructure at first. Then when the community got bigger, I thought we needed a website, as an extension of our private group. I don't think it would have make a lot of sense to create a new group on another platform like Facebook or Reddit (since we were already using one).
You might be interested in Cliff Click’s aa[0].

It’s still under development but intended to be a high performance functional language.

The author has substantial experience in JITs and compilers.

[0] https://github.com/cliffclick/aa
I might be misunderstanding, when i open the link in private mode it behaves the same as it does in non-private.
Indeed. Not everyone even has to have ADS-B Out. You only need it if you’re going into or over Class C or B airspace, in the Class B veils, Class E above 10,000 except below 2500 AGL, and in Class E over the Gulf of Mexico. That leaves huge swathes of airspace—dare I say most airspace in the US—where ADS-B isn’t required. You could fly across the entire country without hitting an ADS-B requirement. And the only way for ATC to see non-ADS-B aircraft is radar.
I think it's not impossible to dethrone Google from its dominant Search position if it continues a trend of serving up less relevant paid results, provided a competitor is able to step up.

It's what happened with Google initially. I remember the late 90's search engine landscape. Result were hit or miss, but one of a few search engines would usually give what you needed, so you had to try a few: Yahoo, Alta Vista, MSN, Hotbox... there were even sites the aggregated a few engines to provide results from multiple: I don't remember the name, but there was one such that had 4 quadrants, each one a different engine and you'd get results from all 4. It was my default for a while.

Then Google came along, and I'm not sure it always provided better results than all of the other engines, but it consistently provided results that were good enough that you didn't need hop around much anymore. And as we all know, virtually in the blink of an eye they dominated the market.

This is why I think they can be dethroned if they go too far down a path of weakening their results. Just a bit too far, and a competitor with a little momentum and word of mouth network effects could really gain a toe hold. It's a long shot, but over time.... there was once a time IBM seemed unbeatable. It took years of chipping away from multiple competitors, but they had a big fall.
So in other words people should talk about social issues based on the facts (statistics) and not their opinions (lived experience), and being a part of the group in question is irrelevant?
It is far smaller a stage than an open internet has given people, some of whom use it for far worse things than either Amateur How-To's or Conspiracy Theories. The solution should be to education society, not lock down information flow to protect society. For kids it is a bit different, but that's on the parents to protect their child and no amount of technology is going to fully counteract neglectful parenting.
Tile tracker tags use a 3V 130mAh CR1632 battery, which lasts for a year... I wish I remembered the math to figure out what trickle wattage that works out to, for comparison.
George Soros Pledges $1B University Fund to Fight ‘Would-Be Dictators’
One verification avenue that comes to mind is matching fingerprints but that would only work for those who both can afford such a high-end phone and can take time off to go register their fingerprints with their voting office, or however that would be implemented. Maybe a future rollout like this could be done when biometrics like this are standard in cheap smartphones and biometric collection becomes a standard voluntary part of voter registration.

Maybe mail-in ballots could come with QR codes but this kind of defeats the idea of a mobile-only option.

Maybe we just need to accept that some voter fraud will happen like it already does (the standard for voting in-person is nothing but matching the name you tell them to a list of names, not even any ID required) and settle for something potentially exploitable like SMS's with links sent to phone numbers whose registered names/addresses correspond to a registered voter, where you then have to verify some information like past addresses or whatever. If we'd just force telecom companies to tighten up their security that would be a perfect solution, and as it is it's probably good enough using the existing rate of voter fraud as a bar. Stealing a phone number in the process of identity theft is something that happens and is easier than it should be but it still takes a while on the phone and someone making a full time job of it just to hope to catch that automated text probably wouldn't get that many, if the texts were sent at random times throughout a whole month or so.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument
When the media and establishment are repeatedly caught misleading the public, the result is the proliferation of conspiracy theories and a culture of distrust. Alex Jones isn't the answer, but neither is he the main problem. The problem is corruption in the mainstream media. That's far more pressing than grassroots videos that while probably incorrect at least challenge people to question what they're told.

I think there's a general and growing distrust of media that feeds into people like Alex Jones' popularity. I don't know how many of those people take him 100% seriously vs how many are just happy listening to an outsider that's taking shots at known corruption.
Peripheral question to the article: are there any vendor-independent tools that attempt to objectively measure result relevance among various search engines? Or even user-rated studies where the user tried multiple engines and rated their results?
I've also got most to switch to Signal. On Android, it's much easier as it can handle both SMS and Signal messages, so there's much less friction for usage.

Group chats are also fairly decent on Signal, I just wish there was a way for an "admin" to exist to moderate users in the group.
I think Clayton Christensen is one of those rare professors from Management B-School whose principles and theories made so much sense and helped a lot in many businesses and in fact in life.

Things like Jobs to be done and How do you measure your life are wonderful things for anyone to pursue in life (in a general sense)
So college students should not be allowed to donate plasma for money because they aren't able to give consent due to being under economic duress?
Rather annoying that this article doesn't address the consequences if they fail in their endeavors and the thing does blow up.

Also, not great timing for Boeing.
I think I have more than 10,000 hours on MOII. It took me literally years to understand the spy system (without googling it out).

I've won in every possible combination: fully industrial feudals military, super rich charismatic weakling diplo win, techno-antares, custom ship building.

The game has an amazing amount of design flaws for today's standard, but what a game. I think the only rival in complexity and replayability is Heroes of Might & Magic 3, one where I've put in 3x the time and each time I play it I discover something new.
>UK will become a colony of US

What? No.
> Hitting a GEO target is not difficult. Ignoring dedicated ASAT missiles, any modern IRBM or LRBM can be tasked to intercept a GEO target.

Do you have a cite for this?
Me too, they even advertised they charge $1 so that they will never have to sell or compromise your privacy.

Of course, that promise is worth less than $20B as we found out.
This is similar to secret societies of the 18th century. Using an initiation ceremony to convey simple ideas in alluring, romantic rituals.
Julia's REPL is beautiful
I think it's pretty clear what Peretti was talking about--let's make an effort to respond to his intended meaning and not get caught up in semantics.

Peretti is talking about quality versus quantity: maybe Google doesn't serve up quality ads, maybe they just serve up quantity ads.
Define "a little weird" – I've been following Jimmy's other blog, The Analog Antiquarian [1] (and also read a few of the non-gaming focused posts on this blog), and so far nothing "a little weird" has stood out to me. Not refuting you – just curious to know what you mean.

[1]: https://analog-antiquarian.net
Steals/Hijacks the back-button via option-left keys, which was quite unexpected.
I feel as if "news" is probably a bad thing for most non-professional designers. I want to know what my users are most familiar with.

I don't really want to be chasing what the "best" design professionals do. Rather I want to replicate the experiences I see on the most common web sites, the ones that I visit. That's often deceptively difficult, especially if what users are familiar with comes from sites like Facebook (that have large teams of professionals in both design and programming), but it's at least a common thing I share with my users.
How do you vote with majority, when the majority is only known after the vote?
My issue with conspiracy theory commercializers is that they don't give or promote the intellectual tools to "question what they're told", they just prompt people (primarily through appeals to emotion, especially fear and anger) and then turn it into a commercial product that justifies any lie. And there are real social effects from these conspiracy peddlers, like people who've lost their young children in a mass shooting receiving death threats and accusations that their dear child never existed and it's all a hoax.

I mean, I saw an anti-vaxxer post from social media that unknowingly suggested "a small piece of a virus instead of toxic chemicals" as an alternative to vaccines...
We were doing it in-house for a while, but switched to Yodlee and SaltEdge for the past 2 years or so.
You don't believe people sometimes do things because they would otherwise be forced to live in poverty? Because that's literally what "economic duress" means.
There is a fairly large number of collaborative board games:

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamemechanic/2023/cooperative...

Some interesting ones:

* Gloomhaven

* Spirit Island

* Pandemic (or any of the other games in the series)

* Codenames Duet

* Arkham Horror (or any of the other games in the series)

* Mysterium
This graphic on Wikipedia is probably really helpful to visualize some of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome#/media/File:D...

While there's a lot of space junk up there, you can see that the graveyard orbit is in fact a fairly tight line around the equator. It should be quite easy to avoid.

From the look of it, it's kinda functionally equivalent to putting a fence around an airport. I mean, sure, it theoretically limits your options, but not in any practical way.
there is this latent assumption here that men are reliable breadwinners and/or that they generally do not use their economic power in this arrangement to abuse their partners and families.

Women working is a way of evening out the power imbalance that has led to suffering for women all over the world since the beginning of time.

When you have no economic power you are dependent on your husband which is why unpaid labor is so dangerous. The husband calls the shots. Not all husbands are good guys. It's only reasonable for women to want to reduce their exposure to this problem via things advocated for by feminists over time: birth control to avoid unwanted and forced pregnancies (far more common in the days of having 5+ children) and of course death during childbirth, literally their own income stream so they can pay for things a husband might not value equally: healthcare, tuition, clothes, and more, an income stream to enable a divorce should the husband be an abuser, problematic addict or worse...

in less shitty scenarios, the sudden death of a male partner can result in financial ruin for a family with a 'non-working' mother. Again, its economically reasonable for a woman to want to hedge against being stuck at 40 years old with no advanced skills in a career.

It's all about female empowerment.
ResizeObserver in WebKit