skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An F-22 test pilot on the Raptor's flight control system
I started using ownCloud before Nextcloud was forked, and NC seems to have evolved to do much more than just file syncing. However, I don't care about any of that, so I didn't see any benefits in migrating. I actually like that OC is focused on file handling. "Do one thing well" etc.
Missing in the article is the cost of the MOSE system which projected to cost 5.5 Billion Euros!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSE_Project#Projections
I think adding "Most Favorited" would create a popularity contest and people would start looking for ways to game the system. I don't think favorites should have metrics associated with them because as soon as metrics are introduced people will try to optimize them.

Now that I know comments can be favorited I plan to bookmark comments that include useful reference information on topics I find interesting. Adding counters for how many times the comment was favorited wouldn't really help me with that use case because I doubt anyone else cares about collecting useful references so my favorites would never make it to the "most favorited" list. I personally don't care if I make it to the list or not but I'm certain some people would care and they would go around and start playing a popularity contest instead of looking for ways to favorite information that would be useful to them.
It seems to me nerds came very late indeed to the "internet is broken" party. Most of us wanted to believe there was an "invisible hand" online, guiding the world to reason and brotherly love.

My perception is that the inflection points at which nerds soured have been political events: Edward Snowden, 2016 US Election, Brexit, Charlottesville, Myanmar, and Christchurch.

I don't see the common thread of these events pointing to a clash of nerds and jocks. It's just become an exercise in cognitive dissonance to preach "Singularity" gospel, while the world outside looks increasingly dystopian.
Yes, but we're talking about a device here that's not sitting in front of your window, but makes it look black.
This 100%, I froze my HVAC coil and then had to replace it after it leaked freon from an overly restrictive 'allergen + virus' pleated air filter.
That should be the motto for everything.

The odds something will have a newer/revised version in the future is higher.
> "people are naturally generous toward a small circle of precious lives (and skeptical at best of the rest of the world)"

Yes, that's a paraphrase of Hirundo's point. However, my point is that this assertion is by no means universally nor obviously a hard truth, and indeed still a large area of philosophical debate.
I think it's very much both: you're right that awareness of what's going on is increasing and the GP is right that social media is optimized for outrage, and we can add a third thing that the circulation of misinformation is also increasing. I'm not talking about deliberate misinformation, just that people repeat things so quickly and interpret them through the prism of their own assumptions. e.g. the Covington kids case. Correction of the misinformation may follow, but it never spreads as far or as quickly, and in many cases may not bother existing for all the good it does.
I pretty much told him the same: That we declared such statements to be true merely for convenience - it makes the proofs shorter. And that none of the theorems he would normally deal with would have a different "outcome" if we don't accept such statements - they'd still be valid theorems.

But he won't be convinced until he formally studies logic. No idea when that will happen.
Update: Should work again...
I think they've confused 6m users with 6m sign ups. Very different things. 6m active users to 1.5k revenue doesn't compute on a site with ads.

The analytics for their site are 632.67K total visits in June. Interestingly 30% from Poland.

Those aren't the figures of a site with 6m active users.
pull shots

douche chills
I suspect building a new Venice would cost a few bucks more.
I’m a Facebook group moderator. The stressful part is figuring out how to be fair with everyone screaming at you that you are biased.
I recently did realtime collaborative editing of the same file with a Visual Studio Code plugin and have also often used Google Docs and its really not an issue in practice. If it were to suddenly stop me to notify me that there was a conflict, that would be a very jarring and unpleasant workflow.

As josephg says, you don’t want merge conflicts in realtime editing and for offline editing, a git merge conflict resolution style is probably more appropriate.
Does dang sleep?
> You should never buy a first-gen Apple product

FUD. First Intel Macbook Pro, first iPhone, first iPad, first Apple Watch... these were all excellent devices.

Also, I believe you are misinformed about the types of processors available in the first Intel macs.
Eh, they had realistic space ships before - one of my favorite sets was the Space Shuttle (6339)!
I want to chime in and agree with this. Thank you dang and sctb. You guys are amazing.

(Is sctb still a moderator? Looks like his last post was 8 or so months ago.)
I admit I've never used signal for chatting (since no friends of mine have it) but just browsing the menus on Android and iOS left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Everything looked and felt very amateurish.
In interests of the public health during an emergency, yes, society gets to decide. You rights end where your neighbor's nose begins.
I don't know. Just about a pound/day ground, I guess?
America’s “Caesar” Sanctions on Syria Will Damage the Middle East
"... losing most HN comments would be a great way to browse HN"

Thanks for this comment /s
Should children do more enrichment activities? Correcting for endogeneity
It has a prefix index so it does indeed have the concept of hierarchy.
Iraq? Vietnam? Surely those count as slaughtering massive numbers of people on flimsy bases.

But yes that trend seems to be slowing down, which I'd attribute to the splintering of mass media. Are we actually becoming more divided, or are we just becoming more aware of divisions because we're all more connected?
That's curious, I had plenty of Knex pieces brake when I was a kid, while the LEGO never did.
My SO used to work seasonally in Venice.

It is said that Venetians swear a lot, but perhaps those who got this impression were simply overhearing conversations about this system.
18k/year with 6 mil users is... 0.003 euro per user per year? Certainly even running ads would meaningfully improve this.
A look at the Apple silicon Macs' graphics architecture: Tile-based rendering
So here's a startup idea: create an HN-like forum for topics that are usually avoided on HN. Such as politics.

And the only way to have a civil politics forum is to have some professional moderator like dang who can step in and explain the rules to anyone who gets carried away a bit too much. Little by little, the users get educated and start enforcing the rules themselves, either via downvotes, or via actual comments.

Wouldn't that be great? In an age of complete political polarization, to have a sanctuary place on the internet where you can go and exchange thoughtful ideas with considerate peers who may or may not share your political alignment, but treat you with respect.
I've been reading a bit of the anarchist literature on the topic.

The traditional answer to unfair power structures is revolution and replacement of the power structures by something else. However, revolutionaries always seem to end up building similar power structures in one form or another. The abuses of Marxism against the general population were obvious, although it can be claimed that the Marxists did little more than establish a form of state capitalism, with a single "company" running a country (and preferably the world). Only the anarchist tradition is in favour of abandoning power structures completely, using direct democracy in each community to make decisions. Each person is supposed to have equal power but be subservient to the community (although anarchists vary in the details).

Basic income, like social democracy, is basically a way to alleviate some of the worst aspects of capitalism (for the poor) so that the system can continue with less chance of revolution. Social democracy lost influence as the Soviet threat diminished, so that capitalists felt less threatened by revolution and were able to impose a harsher form of capitalism. Capitalism has had the advantage that basically everybody with a decent income ends up supporting this idea of personal wealth and lower taxes. However, the harsher (purer) forms of capitalism are more likely to concentrate wealth (power) in the hands of a few over time, bringing back to the threat of revolution.
I'm moving into your territory, I think. I find that I absolutely love the smell and flavor, but the caffeine is starting to be an irritant as I age. I don't (and never have) like sugary soda drinks, and water is "OK", but boring. I just like sipping on ice-coffee as I work.
That's an evasion. The police use violence, threatened or actual.

If I have to choose between that and being shamed, I'll choose being shamed every time.
Only if the government tells us when they find a back door, which they obviously would not do.
Photo Scents and Sounds
Ever gotten a stomach bug? The common cold? The flu?

Hand washing helps with all of that.

And Covid is a respiratory virus, but that doesn't mean hand washing doesn't help. Some coughs on their hands, you shake their hand, then rub your eyes. Awesome, you just help transmit the virus from their respiratory tract to yours.
E to E encryption will just go offshore - - - and the US Gov't. will claim that if the offshore co's encryption is used inside the US to commit a criminal act and that co refuses to hand over the keys (which they don't have) - - then the US Gov't have the right to arrest offshore co principals using extra territorial rendition if necessary (kidnapping), plus interpol red notice. E to E encryption developers will be forced underground.

Signal,
Telegram,
etc.
Does Bitwarden work offline? I thought it needed a server to sync to
The first gen Apple Watch has not held up. My friend has one and it has nearly intolerable UI lag.
Heck, I’m using ring buffers in some high performance image processing stuff right now. There’s non-constant-time processing in the pipeline, and dropping frames is acceptable if we hit some kind of pathological case where the image processing stuff can’t keep up. Pseudo-real-time is more important than processing every frame, but processing as many frames as possible is still desirable. By adjusting the size of the ring buffer relative to the input rate, we can put a bound on the maximum age of a buffered frame (camera runs at a fixed fast rate) while guaranteeing we’ll never exceed N*frame size memory usage.
How often is the map data refreshed? If I submit an update to OSM, is there a way to verify that my changeset has made it to trail router?
IIRC Blackboard is also pretty aggressive about acquiring and/or enforcing patents against competitors.
The bar for Confluence isn't Google Docs or OneNote. It's Notion or Coda. After using Notion I can't go back to Confluence, for the same reason I can't go back to any Atlassian product - it's way too slow and the UX is too convoluted.
And this is a reasonable and understandable policy. It just means that Rust in it's current form is not a good fit for OpenBSD base system.
When I looked into starting an official non-profit around the Ardour (https://ardour.org/) project, I was a little disappointed to find out how much success made it much more complicated.

Founding a non-profit that deals with less than about US$10k a year is pretty easy, and seems worthwhile.

Go above that number (let alone up towards the levels where you can actually pay people to work full time on somethine), and you need a real board with real officers, and the board needs board insurance to imdemnify them against charges of financial malfeasance.

That was just the first complication I came across. After finding a couple more, I just gave up. I've love to have a "real" non-profit associated with Ardour, since that's entirely the way we conceive of the project, but the legal aspects to it when you're actually pulling in $100k a year or more just don't seem to justify the extra complications and requirements.
I tried making something like this for closed windows out of a pair of broken NC headphones and some surface vibration speakers stuck to the window. It didn't work very well.

This did get me interested though and am curious of what software libraries and solutions are out there for noise canceling. I would very much like to hook a mic and speakers up to a raspberry pi and get some of the road noise reduced. I'm not sure where to start with software though. I know the basic premise is invert the signal coming from the mic and output that. That's not exactly state-of-the-art though.
Wouldn't the filter simply be placed on the air intake side prior to passing through the HVAC coil and being cooled? Why heat the air after it is passed through the coil and is cooled?
This makes as much sense as claiming that I am cozy to Hitler for favoring government healthcare.
Letting Venice go is also an option. Going to happen to a lot of low lying geographies as sea levels rise and mitigation becomes unaffordable. Hard decisions ahead about what’s worth saving.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180703190745.h... (“Rising sea levels could cost the world $14 trillion a year by 2100”)

For comparison, the EU’s budget is around €150B/year.
I haven't compared them recently, but gopass [0] is compatible with pass. It has a few more features that makes it nice to use with other people.

[0] https://github.com/gopasspw/gopass
Binary trees I agree. Binary search and friends? That’s come up quite a bit for me.
I understand Git, but for my rebase-based workflow, I don't like how Git doesn't understand commit identity when you rebase. Git doesn't know the old and new commits with the same name and contents mean the same thing, though rebase tries to skip commits it thinks match.

When you rebase one branch, it doesn't move other branches and tags pointing along the history.

You can't rewrite a repository and change your username in past commits, without completely rewriting all of history, creating two parallel histories, and merge conflicts.

Git's mental model makes "moving a branch onto a different commit" (git branch -f) a natural operation. But no graphical tool I've used allows you to do that on a branch you're not checked out on.
Imagining an Open Source SwiftUI
Where Wizards Stay Up Late (https://www.amazon.com/Where-Wizards-Stay-Up-Late/dp/0684832...)
Also being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23800201
Tesla drops Model Y price by $3k
>He then tried to start a lawsuit making it about his politics, which never went anywhere.

Settled out of court for a non-disclosed amount. That's somewhere, so, you're wrong.

>Why is there sympathy for this man?

Data-driven adults place a high value on facts and truth. Virtue signalers don't.
> But in merge commits with several parents all parents are considered equal, and the system does not contain info about which commit belonged to the "main branch" and which was imported in.

I thought that merge commits stored an ordered list of parents, and the first parent is generally the main branch, and second parent is a side branch.
That is so true. A lot of people use git as write only repository. Still better than nothing, or copying directories. Maybe at some point they'll figure out how to retrieve a previous version.
Yes the warm air passes through the HVAC coil and is cooled?
We use Skype internally but some people have started to use Microsoft Teams.

At the risk of sounding like an old curmudgeon, these Microsoft Teams meetings never seem to have a dial-in number (my laptop microphone is horrible). If I try to use my computer's microphone to speak, it asks for camera permission at the same time. I don't want everyone to see me in briefs, just listen to my voice. So it's apparently either share my video and audio, or just be silent. I've been choosing to be silent.

I've spent the majority of my only two Teams meetings trying to figure out these issues. I never had a problem with other apps like GotoMeeting, Zoom, or Discord, or even Skype (also owned by Microsoft)
My work week is generally 30 hours or so, which provides me more than enough to provide for both myself and another, as well as excess for savings.

If you're working that long, I feel the other parts of your life may be suffering. Do you have a fixed time contract or are you contracting?
If I just wanted to write long overly verbose code I’d write Java. Bash is great for getting things done quickly.
>I would also abolish votes in general and only sort comments chronologically.

Congratulations, you invented Usenet. :)

Back in the day we didn't have voting, we had kill filters. If you didn't like another user, you'd have your reader filter out their messages. There were far fewer kids on my lawn in those days as well.
Industrial Engineering / Operations Research studies that kind of problem: https://ieor.berkeley.edu
Creators might have another venture they want to work on in the future. Being seen as amoral could increase customer aquisition costs and lower lifetime NPV
The Chinese Da Ng?
You don't! I switched to using links on the linux framebuffer and it rocks. Yea, there are a few sites that I have to pop over to X and Firefox, but for the vast majority of web sites that I visit, including this one, it works like a charm.

And it's lighting fast. Trully stunning. 10-20ms to render on a circa 2008 thinkpad.

And it's pretty good straight C, and very hackable, and only around 70,000 LOC. First thing I did was join it with guile and write a bit of glue code and I'm now adding features to it faster than you could git clone firefox, let alone begin to read its code.
6 months ago, as I hopped on the Rust train, I told a friend of mine that I'm convinced that Rust will "eat the world" like Python did[0]. These moves to see Rust enter the Linux kernel only prove to me that this pace is starting to pick up.

0. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/python-is-eating-the-wo...
Oh, I just meant a tangent in the discussion. It’s definitely critical to Nintendo’s success!

Also, very interesting to hear your experience with the other companies.
They’re apparently trying to switch from using something like confluence markup to using the markdown that just about everyone expects now... https://support.atlassian.com/jira-core-cloud/docs/markdown-...

But like everything Jira, they can never seem to find the energy to redo everything all at once, so they do it one screen or one section at a time instead... reminds me of how Office apps never improve all at the same time, just a bit at a time... in one app... if you’re running the Cloud version...
Regular meditation more beneficial than vacation Blog Publishing
seems like a lot of people are imagining a caricature of what school actually is and blaming it for problems they would have had anyway.
These are true but with Air France what made it profitable were all the special and charter flights...

And realistically it also failed because while flying west makes sense as you could land "before" you took off, going east didn't work like that. Sure you're losing less time either way compared to a regular flight but flying east, you might as well take a slow flight to get some shuteye.

This problem still hasn't been solved.
That's brilliant, my username has been "fuckyouidontwanttologin" since they started requiring a login a few years ago. I had to create a separate account to post bugs in the forums though because the username was blocked.

And what's the deal with the captcha during login? I sort of get why some websites require it to login, but for software installed on Windows? Do they seriously have that many bots running on Windows trying to install drivers? Is that even a thing?
I love hacker news and attained a lot of knowledge from this. I’m just curious how much traffic does HN gets
Should businesses who exclusively build iOS apps still be using Objective-C then, since Swift only has one compiler?
My experience with confluence is that it just becomes a landfill of articles that are never read or cared about after 1-2 days they're created.
While I completely agree with your general comments, I still want to emphasize how hard this ideal is to implement in practice.

Yes, every subject is linked to every other subject. If I'm tutoring introductory physics, I will use examples and analogies from math, computer science, engineering, biology, or more advanced physics, depending on the background and taste of the student, and it works fantastically. But if I'm lecturing to a crowd, this is impossible, because the students will differ. If I draw a link, some people will think it's enlightening, some will think it's totally irrelevant, some will think it's boring, some will think it's so obvious it's not worth saying, and most will just get more confused.

The same thing goes for the top-down "working backwards from cool results" approach; it's supposed to bottom out in something you know, but whenever you teach multiple people at once, everybody knows different things. The bottom-up linear approach is useful because it gives you a guarantee that you can draw a link. If I'm teaching quantum mechanics I expect to be able to lean on intuition from classical mechanics and linear algebra. If I didn't know the students had that, I would draw a lot fewer links, not more.

Similarly, "if people learned X in school, then Y would be easier to understand later" is true for almost any values of X and Y, because of the interconnectedness of knowledge. But if you ask any math teacher, they'll tell you the school curriculum is already bursting at the seams. You can't just add logic and set theory to existing school math without taking something out. In the 70s we tried taking out ordinary arithmetic to make room for that. It was called New Math, and everybody hated it.
ironically, that makes a ton of sense.

it’s also why I would no longer recommend minorities to seek funding from YC.
"Astronomy Picture of the Day" has a picture from the ISS: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200710.html

(There's a beautiful 10-minute video from the ISS apparently based on time-lapse photos from eol.jsc.nasa.gov on July 5th, but I don't want to link it directly.)
I wish the U.S. could make a New Hong Kong territory on the west coast somewhere. I think that would give the HKers access to the Pacific and a place to rebuild. I'd love to have those brilliant entrepreneurs and engineers over here.
> Also, I believe you are misinformed about the types of processors available in the first Intel macs.

I owned one, so I believe you are :)

https://lowendmac.com/2014/core-solo-mac-mini-a-compromised-...
> Because of all this, I find it a bit disingenuous when senior people say to younger people that you should always ask questions and not being afraid of looking stupid. But being curious and asking questions is good overall. It is just not always easy.

I agree with your general point, but a minor comment here: in many cases the professor/leader asking those (stupid) questions may be to create psychological safety for a more open conversation. It is less threatening to the person being questioned; it also encourages other people to participate.
to get line numbers:

:set nu

to remove line numbers:

:set nonu

the line numbers aren't added to the file. they're just shown on the vi editor.

and if you like vim & git i highly recommend: vim-gitgutter
i truly hate when a colleague at mentions the entire department in a channel. my only choice is to leave the channel or continually be annoyed by the notifications. in general, i also am disliking the context switching from these type tools.