skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This thread is tired at this point and I don't think we're going to get anywhere, but the reason I asked is because I was trying to imply that just because you work for Google that doesn't mean you necessarily have knowledge of how data is used in other departments, and I suspect Google isn't a moral singularity from my perspective (meaning some departments really care about user privacy and security and others are far more 'open-minded' with data).

I never attacked your character, and I don't think you're a shill at all -- nor would I ever use any of your posts against you except in the spirit of genuine debate. Not everyone is a vengeful ideologue. Work anywhere you want.
Also as humans get richer, they almost never consider themselves ‘rich’. If you’re born into affluence, it’s almost impossible to comprehend this.

I’ve watched people living in a rich western democracy, who are rich by the standards of their host country, travel to India and see the grinding poverty of so many people’s lives. Their assessment was not that they themselves are rich, but that those people are poor.

It’s also incredibly difficult for those living higher up on Maslow’s hierarchy to see that it’s their entire level of society that is - in aggregate - a force for negative environmental impact. Individuals won’t admit to this, and will instead say it’s fine because they sort their recycling and only have one car and... but the macro scale is ignored because the self-defense mechanism won’t allow it to be fully understood or admitted to.

Those who manage to admit and realise this is a problem may try to help - or at least not contribute - by doing their best, but usually this means keeping as clean as they can personally, while still taking advantage of most of the trappings of their bubble. Il not saying they’re bad people or they shouldn’t make an effort, but ten people picking up litter versus ten million dropping it is never going to work out.
The federal interstates are supposed to have 16' (4.9m) clearance under bridges. However in older parts of the country (mostly the Northeast) there are many bridges that don't have that clearance and have been grandfathered in.

And of course, Texas has bigger clearances, because Texas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_standards

edit Looks like Texas may have consulted with the Army's Transportation Engineering Agency for design input, as it's mentioned in their design standard manual

http://onlinemanuals.txdot.gov/txdotmanuals/rdw/freeways.htm...
It is a one-way street, two lanes, so you'd have one lane dedicated to all trucks going left and one lane dedicated to all trucks going right. And all cars could go straight under the bridge from either lane.

That is already what is set up. All trucks must turn before going under the bridge.

Except people ignore that and go straight anyway.
Looks like we are silent friends. The one thing I often get is just a message "JavaScript is not supported" and the other is wacky and long indices at the top. But, just having mywebsite.com/txt would not be a crazy idea...
It's far harder to change regulations once new technology comes into the market. There is always a delay between introduction and legalization, and sometimes it doesn't happen at all.

Remember,the beneficiaries of the old system will be lobbying to prevent progress.

For a trivial example, direct manufacturer car sales are effectively banned in many US states. Dealerships are an entrenched and hated third party.

They exist out of "concerns" about rural car maintenance.
If there had been a law that mandated X percentage of the population must have a way to repair their car within Y miles, that would have been less distortionary.

The average American drives something like 13k miles per year, and modern cars tend to not need an oil change for 10k miles or even longer. Tires last for years. Other maintenance is less frequent.

Meanwhile in the 60s you'd change your oil every 3k miles. I'm sure in the 20s or 30s you'd have all kinds of maintenance to do

This concern about maintenance is obviously not as critical as it was in the 20s and 30s when these laws were created.

100 years of technical progress with little to no legal progress.
> It's common to say that the "pro-life vs. pro-choice" debate is all about whether the foetus is a person of not, but that's a misdirect.

I would say exact opposite. It is the key question, because if there is no fetus-person claim, the whole issue is moot as there is no entity to which pregnant person has moral responsibility.

But if we assume a fetus is a person with all personal rights, it is just clash of rights and freedoms of two persons, which may turn out both ways based on relative valuations of these rights in a society. Personal autonomy is a strong card, but there are many cases where it is restricted to protect life of others (involuntary treatment of mentally ill or forced isolation of infected).

Also, the case is stronger as (with the exception of rape) parents are mostly responsible for conception of child. One can say that it was not their decision and contraceptions can fail, but the same can be said for car accidents.

OTOH, the fetus-person position is here only because it is a forced religious idea on secular society. So it is much more clear-cut to just reject fetus-person proposition on secular grounds. (We already did something similar for braindead cases that are biologically alive.) Without that 'pro-life' position has no standing. By abandoning fetus-person debate and making the debate about personal autonomy, the 'pro-choice' side just unnecessary weakened their case.
I enjoyed this. It conveyed a little of the sense of wonder that can come with just a touch of JS without bashing the frameworks. I also liked the emphasis on making HTML and CSS do the heavy lifting by adding and removing CSS classes as triggers.
Hey, I spent a few hours trying to get those headphones working yesterday. Everytime I selected HFP on Ubuntu 20.04 the selection just went blank. Any tips greatly appreciated! Thanks.
I agree with everything except the blanket need to make all of these things mandatory without some sort of aid (such as a subsidy) and the bit about banning home furnaces. Homes built today might not be around by the time the grid is carbon neutral. Burning fuel for heat is absurdly thermodynamically efficient compared to burning fuel to heat water to spin a turbine to induce a current to push electrons around over miles to resistively heat a coil. The grid has a very long way to go before home furnaces become less pollutant than home electric heaters.
Certainly you have a point, I could be more informed on the theory. But I don't think that's all what matters. What reads in the Quran and how it's interpreted, and put into practice in different societies, countries and sects are two different things. For example, the Gulf-states would easily have the money to build the most well-being and equal welfare states in the world, if they so wished. Yet they haven't done it, which leads me to believe that no religion will overcome natural selfishness of people.

All religions teach their followers to show compassion towards the less fortunate of their society - and societies of all religions regularly fail to do this. Ideologies shouldn't be judged solely based on teachings, but also what actually happens. If there was an exceptionally good religion, it should deliver exceptionally good results. Religion and income inequality seem to have little correlation, which leads to a conclusion that they're all equally useful or useless in this practical aspect, no matter what other differences they may have.
Nothing wrong with doing laundry with a better view than 90% of the rest of humanity. I was a really studious kid and only later came to appreciate the area where I am from.
Visa and MasterCard charge somewhere between 1-3% (depends who you are and the details of the purchase). PayPal charge around 5%. Some two-way marketplaces charge upwards of 40%.

I think Apple is providing more value than PayPal, but less value than a two-way marketplace.

For me, 30% is extortionate and predatory. 5% is too low for the value they provide. 15% is quite high, but it can be justified given the value adds (advertising, content delivery, reviews, last resort QA, security etc).
The trick is to make as much as possible static. Just pure functions. Second trick is to have only one way direction, eg components only listen to events, they don't emit events, then they don't have to depend on each other, which in turn will lead to better reusability and less spaghetti.
Logic, Before ICs
You might be able to get around this by using the laptop microphone instead of the one on the AirPods. Option + click the volume icon in the menubar during a call and choose the MacBook microphone. Audio should switch to A2DP and sound much better.

This works for me on two different bluetooth headsets, but I've never tried AirPods so YMMV.
Not sure on getting it right. Old houses in the UK are a nightmare in term of thermal and sound insulation (basically none). Sure, it protects your head from the rain (when it doesn’t leak). But in a discussion about consuming less energy, thery are pretty much a counter-example of what to do.
Alternatives to Nicetranslator.com ?
Once again, a useful site, https://nicetranslator.com tweaked into un-use-ability. WHY oh WHY?

I used the old site to write a scholarly book about language.

Was able to do simultaneous translation of a word into about 50 to 100 other languages including some of the root languages. Really great.

Why there is not a classic.nicetranslator.com? I asked him, maybe he'll put it back up.

Thanks if anyone knows a site. I searched and could not find.
The mayor is elected but in practice the NYPD operates with an absurd amount of autonomy
Other than the minor detail that only the affluent think about these problems, have the resources to solve them, and the spare time to do anything about them.
This seems to be similar to "Look, Cover, Write" approach that children are taught to learn how to spell.
This is great. In legacy codebases for my employer I'll always reach for vanilla JS when solving a problem or implementing a new feature. Better than tacking something on in jQuery.
No direct impact on OSM services.

Mapillary is/was a private for profit company that allows people to extract information from their crowd sourced photos and then add it to OpenStreetMap. So a road sign or business name or whatever.

This arrangement encouraged lots of OSM users to contribute photos to Mapillary, as it is a nice way to add information to OSM (and to enable others to add information).

The indirect impact on OSM services is that turning on the view of the Mapillary images in an OSM editor will request that data from Mapillary servers (which are now Facebook servers). So you can go to the OpenStreetMap website and engage in an activity where you request data from Facebook servers. But you have to sign in, activate the editor and then activate the view of the images for that to happen.

A lot of the people that contributed heavily to Mapillary are disappointed with this outcome, as they have strong feelings about Facebook. I've contributed a little bit to Mapillary and will likely continue to do so, as I'm not trying to create an open data street view commons, I'm using it as a convenience.
Look what I've done here. I've said "dumber" not "lower". You've said nothing. That's double standards.
SeqDiff – Diff between two general sequences for Rust and Python
The popular type is from Qualcomm called AptX Low Latency (not the same as 'lossless' AptX HD versions) and you need it on both sides xmt/receive. I have never seen this supported natively before so I got them as a pair of headphone jack to BT dongle adapters. Video works fine on Hotel TVs which was my normal useage.

A normal old school ISM band headphone with transmitter base is better for TV but the dongles travel better.
Way to really milk ownership of the domain.
Well, if you used the tools I mentioned you'd know who/what configured your system that way and how to fix it.
“You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are?” (2018)
Prejudice in science – Lessons from the coronavirus story
Rust also seems like a great choice because of its close ties with WebAssembly. Web developers who learn it should have an advantage as the tooling starts to get better around WASM.
Lubricants get thicker at lower temperatures.
Habitable for who anyway? We shouldn't assume that life can only develop in the habitable (for us) zone. But we do anyway because we don't know anything else.

Why would other sentient beings even want to communicate with those self-centered carbon-breathers? Why not just laugh about their hubris and that woefully incomplete definition of life? Telling them would spoil it!
>> Creates a hot-reloading server that auto-updates whenever models are updated or created.

This is neat.

Does this mean - if your generator finds a new model in mongodb, it autogenerates model file within the folder and vice-versa it creates APIs if there is a new model file within model folder ?
I don't understand this decision. Do they really think that creative wording will keep people from figuring it out? And once people figure it out, the "creative wording" just makes them look dishonest. Is it just about preventing news websites from being able to use "FB bought us" as a direct quote?
XDR (schema-ful, zero-copy (if done correctly)), but it's older and even less cool.

[EDIT] and I forgot to mention re-entrant as well (again if done correctly).
>> why do you have to program those endpoints over and over again for each entity in each project? It just seems silly. I'm honestly surprised there aren't more projects like this

This is exactly what got us started - we are solving automatic REST-GraphQL API endpoint creation for all SQL databases. Check us out https://github.com/xgenecloud/xgenecloud
Pay with cash, not concerned. Something everyone should do.
You only need to look further down in the comments section here to find people dismissing the paper as leftist/Marxist propaganda. I'd bet that if it was written in a more neutral tone, such people would be more likely to actually read it. It's harder for people to trust a paper when it's author clearly has an agenda because it's hard to trust the author to be unbiased and include all relevant information.
I work in a very bureocratic work and for some years I needed to sign a lot of papers each day. Actually all these was prepared by an assistant but need to had my signature because of the position I had.

To solve this I had made a stamp with my name and signature. I had visited a shop that sells stamps, put my signature on a paper and after some days they presented me a wooden stamp with a perfect copy of my signature on it. So when the papers needed signing I gave it to my assistant and she just stamped my sign to all the needed papers!

Of course that means that she could also sign other things as myself but I trusted her and was careful to sometimes glimpse at the papers that were signed (they all had the same template).

I have to confess though that it was really crazy how easy it was to copy my signature and have a way to sign every kind of paper. I presume that if some signature of me was in a non proper place I could complain and a specialist would recognise it...
I don’t understand why the lady who took him home refused to take him back after he mistakenly said he wanted to return to work with her. Was she so annoyed with the little child because she thought he rejected her that she would refuse to help him any further?
Wow cool, I always believed (wrongly) it was US
Well that was riveting, bit of a cliffhanger at the end there. I had hoped for more closure, just like the author.

What stands out is how the author leaks information to people in the first parts of the story, and then is peeved at the Sheriff's department keeping him out of the loop near the end.

The author says they trusted the wrong person but really they should have trusted no one. You live and you learn.

This article cannot convey to me, a european who has never seen wilderness, what Death Valley really is.

I still don't understand why or how the family would set out from their van, not in the direction their van came from but rather further into the wilderness. With wine and beer as their only apparent sources of liquids.

This seems the biggest issue here, people underestimating Death Valley, I mean it should be apparent from the name.
it is possible to build sustainable and to last, while at the same time be easy to tear down and reuse.

one key seems to be to avoid concrete.

broad.com, a company in china, has developed a lightweight, energyefficient, durable, and reusable way to build using steel.

i am pretty sure there are others out there with other good alternatives
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Wikipedia claims:

The COP for heat pumps range from 3.2 to 4.5 for air source heat pumps to 4.2 to 5.2 for ground source heat pumps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump

Whereas a resistive heat coil has a COP 1.
Why is it important for a matrix to be square? (2018)
>it's fine for the first 3 days until the clip breaks off.

Hasn't this been largely fixed by connectors that have a cover over the exposed clip?
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From the video, it looked like the truck braked faster than I would expect a human driver. I wonder if that water-curtain stop sign tripped up the truck's anti-collision braking system, that sounds like it would be a good target for such systems!
1) "I'm using Python/Ruby/Java/C#/some other non-C/C++/Rust language, how do I even call this RusTLS thingy? OpenSSL has shims everywhere so I don't have to worry about FFI/JNI/etc."

2) "My distro does not include a RusTLS package. How do I package this? Do I have to add Rust to my build dependencies now? How do I add the Rust steps to my build system? Where was that CMake manual again..."

Rust has a bright future ahead, but yet another TLS library doesn't justify the overhead and complexity of bringing Rust into a build of non-Rust code. Now, if most distros were to offer a rustls package, this could be entirely different story.
Demo link -> https://team-video.github.io/tragopan/

This looks good, will check out for one of our projects.
A metre divided by 10 is 10cm.
A foot divided by 10 is 0.1feet = 1 13/64 inches.

Contrived examples are easy.
Doesn't really seem to work now. Social media turned tribal instincts can readily be turned on "real in person people".
> One would think they would've looked more closely at the traffic on that road and adjusted it accordingly.

They didn't raise it only eight inches because they simply felt like it and picked a number out of their hat - eight inches was the most they could do without also impacting a nearby level crossing. Ballasting plain track up to a higher level can be done relatively easily (up to a certain extent of course), whereas touching the level crossing requires more work and also creates problems with the road geometry there:

If you raise the track across the level crossing too much, you create a nice little hump on which long vehicles can now get stuck, which isn't what you'd want, either. Fixing that in turn means rebuilding an even more considerable section of the crossing street, with all that that entails...
I feel like you didn't read what I wrote or the article: Life itself depends on sustainability.

> If we look at sustainability from the perspective of "preserving human existence as long as possible", then the only long-term solution is expanding to other planets/solar systems.

Or not have a system of infinite growth at all.

> The language and tone used in the paper is not in the format "if we want to increase sustainability, this is what we should do"

It's literally what the paper says.

> "economic systems that exploit nature and humans"

This is also objectively measurable. They're talking about externalities. Is economics also a bunch of value judgements now too?
In a wide range of climates, maybe, but in northern Europe, in winter, that is not going to give you a lot of hot water.
I'm not sure why you're bringing up synchrotron radiation in particular. Although it's important for some sources, it's not driving the majority of what is being seen here. Comptonization is important for active black holes. The radiation from the milky way has strong emission lines - it's not a synchrotron spectrum. Mostly thermal emission is emitted from clusters of galaxies. There are a lot of different emission processes to consider in astrophysics.
Covid framework: How does this thing end?
Ask HN: Does taking notes help? Is it worth it to use systems like Zettelkasten?
There is quite a fuzz about taking notes and systems like Zettelkasten lately. Roam Research (https://roamresearch.com/) contributed to these things going viral.

I have a question regarding this: do these systems help in the context of programming/software development/computer science?
Does note taking help you to understand, remember and learn things?

I am quite struggling if I should take on such a system myself and what the benefits and disadvantages are.
An oat milk factory would be importing bulk quantities of oats and flavoring agents like cinnamon, vanilla, maple syrup (which maybe be processed by expensive factories). I would just be going out and buying these things separately and tossing it in a blender with random measurements until it tasted the way I like. No factory required for me. T'would be even better to grow the ingredients myself, but I do not think a vanilla bean vine tolerates low temperatures. Same with cinnamon. Oats would be easiest to grow, and I'd imagine there would be some threshing and winnowing involved (manual labor opportunity). Might as well let the combines and tractors harvest millions of bushels and I just spend my nations currency to acquire a 50 lb bag every few months (storage in cool/dry place).

I suppose purchasing a colorful carton adorned by lots of writing in the "Vegan Isle" of a grocery store could be an easier way because the aforementioned steps may be far too time consuming for most people who want everything pre-prepared for them by a favorite brand and stored in plastic/cardboard/glass individual packaging.

Meat is a different story, because coordinating the grazing routines, herding (some canine breeds are helpful for this), winter hay feeding stockpile, veterinary treatments, calf birthing, nutrition feed deficiency compensation, slaughter (bolt-gun to forehead is most humane), blood drain (good composting material), and butchering into desired cuts would be consuming much more time than available in a highly specialized life.
I don't think wired headphones really have latency of their own. A single audio sample takes less than a microsecond. The latency will all come from upstream buffering, which will depend on the application and the OS.
5 edits on OSM since 2014 I can't see his interest on OSM
Yeah no shit. JS is the only community I've seen where code size scales with dependency count in the positive direction. It's ridiculous.
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Show HN: Who is running a Covid-19 contact tracing app near me?
>thermal paste degradation

Are there any thermal paste that doesn't degrade? Or minimal degrade within 5 years. We can fix dust with cleaning, we can get to a point where our computing needs could be done fanless ( Current iPad Pro ). But what about thermal paste degradation?