skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have used an early version of James' switch and was kind of amazed that a 3D printed switch worked so well, I really like that project. Also, agreed, owning a 3D printer is life-changing, and you'll discover that you can print all kinds of useful things that you never really imagined before, just because you didn't have a printer.
The sibling comment is circumlocutious but it's what you might think it is when you read the Völkisch wikipedia page. Here's another link that uses the term directly:

https://odinic-rite.org/main/what-it-means-to-be-folkish/

TLDR: it's Nazis.
$350/kWh is still ridiculously cheap. You could build a good off-grid battery system for $7000 or so, which for many people would pay itself off in a few years.
I think more like something that gives rise to an argument might be more multifaceted issue than it seems like to any given single participant?
I quite like this study on de-escalation online. I myself have learned to not care about whether or not people forgave me for being wrong or instead just assume they forgave me for being wrong. If I think I am actually wrong i'll say it and then ignore any further replies to the post. In the case that I simply do not agree that I'm wrong, I do not apologize. I "pithily" re-iterate my opinion/disagreement/argument and why, then ignore any further responses. Keeping track of everyone else's petty beefs with me online is not worth the effort. shrug

As a side note: I do not believe in grudges. So..I do not stay mad.
Will they care? Plenty of people got "cancelled" because of something they did/said/did not/did not say years ago. Imho, the actions aren't the reason they get attacked, they are the tool for the attack, so retracting them might make the attack weaker, but it won't make the attackers back down.

It's either a tribal thing ("I can hurt the other tribe if I hurt that individual because they are part of the other tribe") or purity signalling ("Look, I am clean and virtuous, and I purge even our circle from the unclean").

The tribal thing is somewhat reasonable from a collective stand point (which is why groups tend to look at their members' differently than the actions of competing groups), the purity spiralling is counter-productive in the larger conflict, as you're hurting your own group, but individuals have individual interests as well, and to advance those, they may be happy to sacrifice allies.
I'm American. Lol.
I believe you've constructed a straw man argument about those who "hate" their own country.

It's easy to feel self-righteous when your opposition "hates".

I guarantee you someone out there thinks that I hate America, just because they extrapolate a whole set of beliefs from one thing I've said.

There are people out there (probably on your Nextdoor, because they're certainly on mine!), angry about BLM protests. Angry about the chaos. Angry about statues. Angry about violence. Angry about looting. People saying "if these protestors get in my way, I'mma run them over in my truck." People saying "if you want help defending your business, just say the word and me and my bros will come back you up". People saying "when the looting starts, the shooting starts." People like our president. Advocating extrajudicial execution of American citizens. Do they hate America? Why or why not?
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That's what DeserTec planned to do some time ago. Power line transmission would be possible, but political situations were too unstable, so the project for canceled.
Since we are nitpicking...mp3 was invented by the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications is a relatively new addition to the Fraunhofer Society, before 2003 it was called Heinirch Herz Institute. If I recall correctly, HHI was instrumental in developing the H.256 Video Coding Standard
What I'm trying to say is:

I do understand statistics and therefore the mean is something I would not use in my modelling when there is a high skew in the data: here, the skew appears to be incredibly high - so the mean (here called "R0") is not reliable at all.
They run the names and addresses through voter registration databases, and sometimes keep tallies for specific issues using constituent management software.

I’ve worked in this space and written software that communicates constituent opinions to Congress.

At the congressional level they don’t take emails seriously at all, or pay much attention to them. They’re triaged using constituent management software into email lists with auto-responses for different issues. Actually Congress has an API that approved software vendors use to send constituent opinions and group them by associates issue or bill. Congress members no longer publish their emails and have contact forms on their website instead, that feed into this API along with other vendors (ex: countable.us)

At the local level it’s a different story. Some use software to organize the emails, some actually monitor and respond to emails, it depends.
Firefox on iOS uses webkit rendering engine, so it has all the same privacy measures as Safari.
The article is written in a dramatic fashion, but lacks historical context.

The Philippines was liberated early from the Japanese at the request of Douglas MacArthur. It was not a top military priority, and the planners wanted to skip it, but President Roosevelt authorized the invasion as a symbolic and political goal.

So millions of Filipinos got their freedom from the US. Yes, it was wrong to delay citizenship for a few thousand Filipinos who fought, but in the overall scheme, not that significant.

Until today, many Filipinos want US statehood.

And a lot of other Pacific island nations got their freedom back from the USA, most notably Indonesia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur
> what can go wrong when you [..] rely on government oversight
> this sounds like a traditional government project problem

I don't know why you're trying to turn this into an "obviously govt can't do anything" point. There are plenty of very well-run governments who would have ably foreseen and solved these problems. And no doubt there's any number of private companies who would have screwed up just as badly.

Trying to tar the entire idea of government with Pakistan's performance is pretty bad faith IMO.
It's this actually short sighted though? I feel like the 'companies are exploiting open source' dialogue always ignores how wildly miniscule the risks often are for the company. Creality might have lost a US distributor but is the US their primary market and were they unable to find another distributor?

Don't get me won't, I'm not happy about the state of affairs, but banks are usually pretty risk averse (or more accurately, their risk portfolio is catastrophe averse). If an org like a bank doesn't care it seems like a sign that open source either needs some better teeth or it needs to accept that its role in the ecosystem is changing. We might see some short term success calling out bad actors but if there's enough of them to put on a whole play then it seems more useful to focus on why they're all able to book a theatre so easily.
Kanye West is running for president
Sparrows moved into the neighbourhood this year. We noticed their chirping is incredibly annoying. Turns out it’s the two-chirp version.

For us this sound doesn’t fade into the background because it sounds synthetic or man made. About as annoying as a back up beeper on a truck.
Perhaps this is a cultural difference, but the entire thing just seems strange from my own (European) perspective. Only in the US do people seem to take pride in their measurement system as some sort of patriotic symbol, which is why I originally thought it was a parody shrug

I'm not even going to get started with all the problems I see with "God bless America", which would be long, tedious, probably inflammatory, and fairly off-topic.
Online hate campaign targets Indian streaming stars
Exquisitely phrased, some will understand.
Solution: Don't use twitter. It's the best way to seek out the most toxic trolls on the planet.
My company uses mostly Java and TypeScript. However, it’s a good starting point to proof the technology on JVM languages and see how it’s adopted by the team, how many false-positives is generates, etc. With all automated tools the biggest issues usually are false-positives.
Carlos!
When I try to read the article on mobile, an unstoppable video fills up 1/3 of my screen. The video is unrelated to the article and has no obvious UX to stop or dismiss.

Gizmodo’s website is fucking stupid. Who comes up with this shit?
Related: lyrebirds passing on flute tunes long after the guy who played them died.

https://www.chonday.com/lynibird18/
I get why an engineering department might want to do something, anything to help combat injustice, and apparently this was the best they could come up with. But there's an almost comedic disproportionality between the scale of the problems, and these kinds of 'solutions', like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. In the US, black people are massively incarcerated, get shot for going jogging, get killed in police custody at 4-5 times the rate of white people, die due to lack of healthcare, and make up mostly the bottom of the wealth pyramid in a society where redistribution is a dirty word, real median purchasing power has been declining for decades, televised propaganda is selling white people their own fear and bigotry back at them so they'll vote for politicians who will pass massive tax cuts, and dismantle any social safety nets that might have given the lower class a fighting chance at social mobility, oh and to top it off the White House is occupied by an incompetent, narcissist bigot who was helped to get there by a foreign adversary in order to sow chaos and discord in their biggest geopolitcal rival. But you know, at least nobody needs to be offended by reading the word 'grandfathered' in source code... It would be funny if it weren't so tragic. I say this with love, as a dirty pinko European lefty, but it really feels like a large part of the Left in the US is so daunted by the enormity of achieving social justice in a society that is growing ever more injust (and is almost religiously opposed to attempts to improve it) that they have just resigned themselves to thought policing their own ranks for wokeness, because actually turning the ship around seems damn near impossible at this point.
I thought hydrogen was very difficult to store long term because it leaks through most anything.
I was kind of expecting Qt for Webassembly to be listed there.
https://www.qt.io/qt-examples-for-webassembly
Paras – Digital Collective Memory
I think the incomprehensibility of high level mathematics is as much a planned feature as is incomprehensibility of Haskell to a common programmer. And yet, people who know Haskell find it actually more expressive than e.g. Java, precisely because it is more abstract, and neatly unifies some concepts.

I think what I realized from being a programmer, just like in programming, there is no single language of mathematics. Different sub-fields invented different languages, and since everybody wants to remain productive, the effort to unify the languages is extremely difficult and unrewarding. Yet is much more accepted activity in mathematics than in programming.

But it's not really intentional, it's just a side effect of natural tendency of various research groups to have somewhat different languages.
Ah, well, I was a big fan of "grandfathered in". I wonder if I can introduce the term "code nepotism" instead :)
You find it more difficult to choose between 1mm, 2mm, 3mm, 3.5mm, 4mm, 4.5mm, 5mm, 6mm, 7mm, 8mm drill bits than 1/16 5/64 3/32 7/64 1/8 9/64 5/32 1/4 7/32 3/16 inches?

What's 3/16" in 64ths, while under your car?

(Imperial numbers copied from a website selling a set, metric from my memory of my 10-bit set. I doubt these sets are similar.)
I do notice
I recall a 60 Minutes episode where someone was making batteries using dirt and seawater. The batteries were big and heavy, entirely unsuitable for a car. But for grid storage, big and heavy means nothing.
There is a huge difference between seeing and accepting the bad things, past and present, and hating ones own country. A lot of people I know, that share your opinion, seem to overcompensate for all the bad things. They try to ignore them, and everyone pointing these bad things out has automatically fail to see the good things, thus hating ones country. This is a very slippery slope.
The UK also adopted DAB early and is now stuck with low-bitrate sound quality. When DAB was first promoted in the UK to encourage sales of DAB radios, one of the claims made was that it would provide "CD quality sound". It soon become obvious that the low-bitrates (in order to cram more stations in the radio spectrum) meant the sound quality was anything but CD quality. The sound quality claims were eventually dropped and became "crystal clear sound" or better reception.

This table shows the list of bitrates of radio stations in the UK. BBC Radio 3 (classical music) has the highest bitrate at 192kb for DAB. You get far better bitrates streaming via the web:

https://www.astra2sat.com/radio/uk-digital-radio-bitrates/
Right. Based on the Hindenburg accident, we should just give up on Hydrogen.
I'd pay to research that topic. How people ensured gatekeeping due to fear. And how much is useful (because sometimes cutting people can reduce the paradox of choice which can drag things to a halt) or not.

ps: I'm also very curious about how much obfuscation is just an icing of fetishism [0] on top of a very natural compression tendency (old mathematics papers were written in full words and I can agree that the meaning can be lost on the way and part of the beauty of mathematics is the short symbols that cover a large set of possibilities).

[0] too much pride and a bit of confusion even on the value of notation leading people to think it's more important than intuition and the concept described.
There’s esp-lisp

https://github.com/yesco/esp-lisp
At the beginning there was 4 different routes were considered: fecal-oral route, touch-hand-face, droplets in the air, airborne viruses. Fecal-oral route seems to either nonexistent or incredibly small. Airborne (aerosol) risk has been considered very small.

Two main routes are touch-hand-face and droplets in the air. It seems that droplets are the main route (60-70% of infections) rest come from touching things. Social distancing. 2m indoors and hand washing seems to work.

If there is aerosol transmission it seems to be much smaller percentage than two other transmission mechanisms.

Claiming that aerosol vs droplet transmission is artificial distinction is incorrect. Droplets fall down relatively fast and don't linger in the air 10s of minutes like aerosol. Aerosol transmission is more dependent on moisture in the air, they linger longer in dry air. We should see strong seasonal and climate forcing in transmission rates.

Simulations of indoor airflow that show the difference between aerosol and droplet transmissions:

(caution: just inhaling viruses is not enough to cause infection, you need to inhale a dose that is large enough to cause infection)

https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/modelling-confirms-isolating-th...

VTT simulation with only droplets with and without mask:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YWuD4jdjLc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-apLuN7sZc
> FM audio quality is enough

I really disagree there. The difference in quality between FM and DAB (not even DAB+) is very significant, and I’m not even an audiophile.

The problem is that 1) you don’t know it until you actually make the switch, and it’s not like you can borrow a car stereo system for a week to try it out, and 2) that’s pretty much the only advantage of DAB, from consumers’ perspective, so the price/value proposition is not good enough to make it a no-brainer purchase.
Because these sorts of topics are controversial and the mod policy is to remove topics which are likely to result in people talking past each other.

From the guidelines [1] :

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys the curiosity this site exists for.

I don't agree that these posts should be removed, they're not offensive and they don't incite hatred or violence. If people want to get in a flamewar, that's their business. If you don't want to be involved in the discussion, you can just avoid it. This form of moderation doesn't provide people the opportunity to try and deal with controversial discussions in a constructive way, it assumes that this is impossible and that preventing them from arising in the first place is a better solution.

In terms of this post specifically, I think it is quite newsworthy because Rich Salz is a major contributor [2] .

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[2] https://github.com/openssl/openssl/graphs/contributors

EDIT: formatting
General Program Analysis Resources may also be of interest: https://gist.github.com/MattPD/00573ee14bf85ccac6bed3c0678dd...
Here's a bird singing pirate of Caribbean tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDpR8BeLR_Q

Another singing Adam's family reunion tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD_tPNYgy58

And finally Star wars Darth Vader tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjoCi04Rxwg
Learn Data Structure and Algorithm in JavaScript – Part 04
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Side of AI
I don't know if there's an official definition, but I'd consider the Delta IV and Delta IV Heavy to be separate launch vehicles in the same family, akin to the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy. Whereas with the single-stick Delta IV Medium, the variations like 4m vs 5m fairings are just different configurations.
> which needs to be stored.

Not necessarily, at least not always. It needs to be used and this can be made possible by expanding the high voltage networks.

This would be especially effective in the east-west direction because then areas with sun could supply areas where it is dark. This reduces the need for storage while also making the system more robust.

If we add more north-south interconnects we can use some of the Scandinavian hydro plants as batteries (I agree that pumped storage can never be as extensive as one would like and is not as easily achieved as some people think) and North Africa for solar power.

What is most lacking is not new technology but political will to interconnect the electrical supply network so that energy can flow more easily from where it is produced to where it is needed.
You can evaluate people by their more recent actions. Of course, the more distanced you are from them the harder it is to evaluate them well. So it's a balance of evidence and risk.
The 'first' spreadsheet was a terminal app, and also the 'killer app' for the PC : Lotus 1-2-3.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_1-2-3
Language does influence cultural norms.
Which only seems like a weird conflict from modern eyes, obviously. The ideas that, paraphrased, "the world is made of math" and "spirituality and science are one" are at the heart of western mathematical mysticism, from the 6th century BC Pythagoreans onward.
Ever heard of Fox News and OAN?
Ha, I really appreciate the music choice! Ziad - Elektronik Supersonik for anyone who's wondering.
> Definitely not working ones. As someone who ran an AM+FM station for 5 or so years not that long ago, 99% of listeners were FM, with very few AM listeners.

How can you possibly measure who’s is receiving your broadcast over the air signal?
For me the fact that they’re open source. This thread is a prime example of why it’s so important. We really have no idea what DuckDuckGo is doing because they’re closed source. For all we know they could be forwarding users’ IP to Microsoft/Yandex/etc.

If you want to market yourself as a champion of privacy, then the absolute minimum criteria should in my opinion be that your codebase is open source.
Most people suck at explaining. So the fact that most scientists suck at explaining is like... yeah, that's what naturally happens, unless you actively reward good explanations.

The perfect case would be if someone is great at research and also great at explaining. But great skills are rare, and specific combinations of great skills are even more rare. So you will have a scientist or two who are great explainers at the same time, but then you have a lot of scientists who are great at research but suck at explaining, and also a lot of people who are great at explaining but suck at research. How does academia reward them?

The ones with both skills will get the highest rewards: they will invent lots of cool stuff and describe it clearly, so they will get many citations. But there are only a few such people per generation. The ones who are good researchers but suck at explanation can still invent something and publish the type of paper you complain about; and they will get a (smaller) reward for doing so. The ones who are good at explaining but suck at research... will probably be fired.

There are a few things that a person whose only skill is explaining could do in academia. They wouldn't get a reward for explaining someone else's paper clearly, but they could get a reward for writing a meta-review that would explain multiple papers clearly. In theory, their scientific contribution would be in comparing the papers, but in practice, hopefully even people who only needed one of the papers would cite them as a reward for making it easier to understand. -- I don't know if this would actually be sufficient to survive academically.

People who are good at explaining can also make money by writing popular textbooks. Question is, whether there is a sufficient demand for a popular textbook explaining some obscure math.
> Gemini, being a recent protocol, mandates the use of TLS. There is no unencrypted version of Gemini available.

Mandating the reliance on third parties in the protocol itself does not seem to be a great choice. If I have a simple webpage which I use as a daily diary, why should I go to the trouble of asking a random third party to provide me with a certificate?
No, having to change the code in 50 plus locations is not fine at all, it’s criminal. In a team there will be always someone that misses some of the locations and the implementations will inevitably diverge over time. And at that point every time that anyone needs to do a change he will need to manually fine tune each of the implementations and test each of them since their behaviour may well be different.
I’ve got four DAB radios around my house. What do you use instead? Always your phone? I find the one-touch interface to turn the radio on or off as I go past valuable. I guess I wouldn’t mind if they were really using the internet though.
Well said. I completely agree.

But many people have most of their human interaction
through work and associated activity (commute, lunches,
dinner after work, etc.)

I think that is very unhealthy though. Obviously it's not something that can be changed easily or immediately (especially during this pandemic) but I would urge anybody reading this to steer away from this mode of existence whenever possible.

I have made amazing, lifelong friends through workplaces, but depending on one's workplace for human interaction is fraught. Workplaces are generally unhealthy places to varying degrees.

This is capitalism. I am not anti-capitalism, but the reality is that capitalism is all about extracting value from labor. Making friends at work is a bit like chunks of fruit befriending each other as they're fed through a juice presser.

As an introvert with a medical condition, a wife and
three kids at home, remote working is the best thing
that's ever happened in my career,

This is wonderful to read!
NEAR Protocol – The global computing platform for the Open Web
Thanks a lot! I have a feeling that some of the successful master/slave renames got to the top list at some point in time, so it worried me why this topic got flagged. Could just be my perception. Thanks a lot, again!