skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice. Seems related to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_equilibrium_temperat...

The temperature of a perfect black body in earth’s orbit would be ~255K (-18C)

(This is not the case for the technology under discussion because it’s very much not a black body)

I will point out that even at modest (astronomically speaking) distances, the solid angle of a star gets preeeeetty small. For example, a black body at just 1 light year from the Sun (just a quarter of the way to Alpha Centauri) would come to an equilibrium temperature of ~1K (assuming an otherwise empty universe). So that’s already a smaller effect than the CMB.

I think in intergalactic space, the thermal equilibrium of a black body would be absolutely dominated by the CMB.
This comparison isn't reasonable. Yeah, contact tracing can be an effective tool, but there's something very different between that and homespun apps to track who has run into who.

If you don't think these apps will be used

1) during wartime

2) to track political dissidents

3) to gather data on interactions between people in a country for things like 'urban planning'

4) as a monetized version of each of these

Then I don't think you're treating distributed, scalable contact tracing like other technology.
tl;dr: France made a program where they defer idea/talent assessment to third-party "incubators". Some of these guys are now taking the opportunity to give you the approval for a "fee". That's around 5.000 euros.

ps: UK/Hong Kong have similar programs.
Why would online dating make offline dating harder? Unless you're young and in the LGB group most people find their partners offline.

I think the truth is that dating is considered optional nowadays, which makes it more competitive both offline and online. People have minimum standards and if they can't find someone that matches these standards they can always stay single.

I personally don't believe in online dating, because the business model just doesn't work for me. Most dating apps are built for singles and once you find a long term relationship you cease using the app. An online dating company can only make money off of casual dating and perpetual singles. A "real" dating app should still provide value years into a relationship, otherwise there will always be a conflict of interest.
Brutalist and Modernist Architectures Collide at Sunshine Plaza in Prague
> But yeah, other software would just be more stable. When a change needs to be made, the benefit is weighed against the potential of breaking addons, but I imagine that's probably OK with addon developers as long as the change was reasonable.

We thought that too, for a time, but eventually, we had to realize that we were burning out our add-on developers.

(updated the article to clarify this)
The article is an impressive historical treatment of the topic. More than 40 pages, almost a diploma thesis. I personally would have been more interested in the technical aspects, but that would probably multiply the text length.
Recently we have a surge of research linking medical conditions affecting the brain to the gut. Often attributed to bacterial that found a way to bypass the blood brain barrier via the gut .
> This heavily points to dysfunctional development team with fault being primary on tech leads making more and more mess the more they code.

You are correct.

> I don't think it fixes the dysfunctional team above, it is just avoid the issues.

Sometimes avoiding the issues is good. My point is that some developers cry wolf too often, focusing them on solving problems and shipping features may yield better results.
In my mind it's a good enough reason to justify trying to fix it.
And works on Linux! I still have a working MacBook Pro (now 6 years old) to do FCPx on, but when/if it bites the dust I am not planning on replacing it with another Apple.
I'm intrigued on how it's just the opposite of the United States. Here if you get accepted into an incubator they pay you. In France you pay them!

If France really wanted foreigners to start companies there why wouldn't they make the tech visa as close to free and frictionless as possible?
Reminded me of this xkcd comic (Cosmologist Genres):

https://xkcd.com/2340/
(article author) Pretty sure I didn't write that :)
Why does a mortgage cost the bank $2300?
The same way Allo revolutionized instant communication
It's true only if you find torrents "in the wild". You can lurk/participate in an established torrent forum which gives you user reports, discussions, seeder score and a community mindset instead of a c00l w4r3z download mindset in general. Idk of english or international ones, but only because I never looked for one. TPB and KAT are not good examples, cause these look(-ed) like boards rather than forums, although I never had any issues with using them either.

In addition to gp's point: After settling my income I began buying software (games mostly) on steam/etc to support studios I like, but it is still much easier to torrent it afterwards and to not deal with bs that stores represent. I never realized before how much hassle it is to own a legal version of everything. You pay your money and they don't even bother of your convenience or digital rights, only theirs. Recently I bought starcrart remastered (without torrenting) and that battle.net downloads over 200mb over my adsl line every flipping time I try to run it. As a result, I just watch falcon pal match reviews at youtube and never run it. Blizzard deserved that money for sure, but man isn't that stupid.
There's even a cost-effective solution available:

https://mse.umd.edu/news/story/cooling-wood-an-ecofriendly-b...
a) this doesn't apply to all distros in practice
b) this definitely doesn't apply to non-unix systems
c) This ignores the fact that often a user may want/need to control which version of a library they link to, including one which isn't installed in the system (I personally frequently build stuff with intermediate dependencies which are not available in my distro: installing these on the system level is madness especially when you have multiple projects, so I make sure everything is isolated in a project directory). Being able to control where libraries are picked up from is very important in these cases (though of course cmake does have an impressive ability to get it wrong when trying to autodetect).

You may wish for a situation where libraries can just be specified easily and consistently (and many languages have a package manager which does just that), but the reality for C++ is incredibly messy (because there's not one package manager but several, most lack a way to distinguish between project and system package or an easy way to add your own, and some platforms still don't have a package manager at all) and a build system which does not deal with that messy reality does not have a hope of adoption.

Cmake sucks. autotools even more so. But denying that the problem they're trying to solve exists does not help.
Near? (I read the article, it also seems not to know any actual distances).
Just checked out the main site - on top of trending is a seven-second clip of a headless woman showing off her cleaveage. Remember when YouTube had to fix that problem?
Your first comment was too short to get your idea across and easy to misinterpret. Now that you have clarified your stance it's much easier to understand your argument.
Ask HN: Our YC W2021 video application. Do you get what we do?
Hey HN,

We are newscatcherapi.com

We made a first try video to our YC W2021 application [1]

It's a "raw" version we did not submit our application yet.

Well, any feedback will be much appreciated

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdUVjlXAunI&feature=youtu.be
Well, that's hopefully answered in the article.
No, it's almost certainly not legal. They're unlikely to pursue for damages though, and it doesn't feel unethical to me.
How about "literally everything wrong with the world is caused by an evil conspiracy of cis-het white men?" It's a common belief and not less crazy.
Many Native American tribes do not sell food. They prepare it and share it with their community. This is why it is hard to find authentic Native American restaurants.
For video editing you can always try DaVinci Resolve. Free and very powerfull. There are some limitations, but they will very likely not be important for "some editing" work.
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I bought one as a balloon tracker the other year (I didn’t realize this was illegal).

As soon as you connect it to a network (including WiFi) it will automatically download gigabytes of malware from the play store which will keep launching in the background and crashing things by using up all the ram. It was pretty eye opening to realize what people actually deal with if they can’t afford nicer phones and don’t know how to (or can’t) replace the firmware. Cheap android phones make cheap PCs look nice.

Also an emulator or container is $0.
Wait, so Chrome leaks the first word of my searches to my ISP? That doesn’t sound like something I want to happen
Citation needed.

Chrome had already beat Firefox' in market share before it was even released on Android. Unless they included time-travel in that release, there's no way that influenced them overtaking Firefox before it happening.

When they released on Android, Chrome already was the biggest on Windows, having surpassed Internet Explorer as well.

Sorry, but you're either intentionally misleading people or you haven't actually looked at the timelines.
> “Companies like Uber are the caretakers, not the owners, of customers’ personal information,” said U.S. Attorney Anderson (for the Northern District of California)[1]

I would like that to be true, but everything I've read indicates otherwise. Uber, Google, Facebook, banks, and credit bureaus have my personal information, but I am not the owner of that information. I've been told that they own it, at least under U.S. laws. If I do own it, why can't I demand that credit bureaus delete all my personal information?

The quote comes from the prosecutor of the Uber executive. If anyone should know the law regarding who owns your personal information, he should. Is he right or wrong?

[1] https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/florida-man-and-canadia... [this was a link in the featured article]
DaVinci Resolve free version should provide enough functionality and powerful features for even most professional work! DaVinci is a product I'll happily promote. I feel that the software somehow flies "too much under the radar": if you don't know where to look for and seek free video editing software, you end up easily in a swamp of terrible freemium software even when DaVinci Resolve is easily available.
If memory serves me right DKIM only mandates that the DKIM signature header is valid for the d= domain used by verifiying that the protected fields where not changed - but it makes no claims on alignment of the d= domain in the DKIM signature and the protected headers.

So anyone can sign for any domain for which they have published DKIM keys, and produce valid DKIM. It's DMARC that requires that a valid DKIM signature match the d= domain with the From domain to consider the message DMARC aligned and be awarded a DMARC pass. [or otherwise pass SPF checks and have SPF domain aligned with From domain]

Edit: typo, clarity
CA appeals court, Amazon is liable for defective products sold by third parties
This has already happened before. The great depression will simply repeat itself. However, there is a big if. Will the worst case scenario actually happen? It is entirely possible that more people switch to remote work over the long term.
New languages would better be written on the JVM or at least on the coreclr, otherwise they loose all hopes of seamless interoperability with existing production ready ecosystems and therefore loose most hope of success.
Firefox's omnibox is probably my favourite feature, it's so much better than separate bars. The reason is that it also searches within your bookmarks and history for items matching the terms you enter. At least half the time when I use the location bar, I am looking for a site I have been to before or bookmarked, and it will pop up as the first result in the suggestions. If nothing is found, it makes sense to fall back to a web search a lot of the time. How would this work with separate bars? Surely the history should be searched when typing in the location bar, but then you couldn't fall back to searching the web. Also, when looking for that site in my history, I might be typing part of the URL or part of the page title, so it is ambiguous whether it's a URL or search. Even if I am typing part of the URL, if it turns out nothing is found in my history, it might make sense to continue with the same terms as a web search instead of me trying to remember or form a whole URL from memory.

Chrome's implementation is terrible as it's designed to just funnel you into Google search, and doesn't give you a good idea of how useful it can be.
In a corporate / enterprise network where the DNS servers are Windows servers (domain controllers, in my experience, most of the time), the best thing you can do is stand up a few instances of <insert favorite DNS server here>, running on Linux, set them up as slaves for your internal zones, and point your users at those servers instead of your Windows servers.
"Depend heavily" is different then, "can't operate without". Uber and Lyft would have zero revenue if you took away their "independent contractors". Literally zero.

Uber and Lyft have always lied about the nature of their business.

The first lie was that the passenger was, "sharing a ride". This lie was necessary to support the second lie which was that, "were not a Taxi service" but a "technology platform".

Your Uber or Lyft driver was not planning on going to your destination until you "hailed" them to do so. So it's not "ride sharing". It's a livery service.

But by lying both companies could ignore existing laws.

If it's ok for people to lie about what it is they do so they can skirt existing laws than I guess robbing banks could be classified as "undeclared venture capital opportunities".

Also why aren't predatory business laws ever used against VC backed businesses? Why is it ok for ultra wealthy people to destroy businesses by offering products and services at below what it costs to provide them? And to do this not for short periods of time but for over a decade?

In international trade this would be called, "dumping" and the US complains and files trade disputes about it constantly. Why? Because it destroys good paying jobs. But apparently if your a VC backed Unicorn and just so damn hip and sexy then everyone is supposed to just look the other way and praise you for "your genius".

I hope whatever you do for a living gets undermined in the same way, perhaps then you'll reevaluate what's actually legal, just and sustainable for a nation of people
Screenking screenzilla screenolio screenmega screencaptain screenogogo screeniac screenscreen screenempire screenmirror any of those would be better.
I never said majority.

All I'm saying is that based on my observations people's views on what Firefox should or should not be are different, and that this explains why people are still "angry" about the extensions breaking and such. I'm not having an argument with anyone.
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You do not even have to dispose it. You basciall have a single-use card. When it is used, another one is generated.
See my comment over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24233291

Some of these incubators are gaming the system to make money. I'd not be surprised if they are giving these approvals to people who should not be eligible (ie: people not interested in starting a startup).
I was pissed off and left Firefox for Chrome not because they removed XUL add one, but because they didn’t have a good replacement.

Chrome extensions are ugly and have no unified design. They are glorified web pages in a floating window.

I liked XUL because it provided a framework for extension authors and extensions felt like part of Firefox.

I eventually returned to Firefox and I find the extensions to be not so terrible.
Could you share the list with me? I’m just starting to get into sci-fi literature myself, and appreciate such resources.
I second this recommendation, especially if you deal a lot with 4K footage (no need for proxy videos that both Premiere and After Effects needs to not be janky) and color grading, as it's amazing in DaVinci Resolve.
How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer (2019)
> "usefulness of firefox" < "usefulness of chrome"

This was the missing hidden variable not explained in the narrative.

Firefox was previously significantly behind Chrome in the technical design, now it's getting better but there is still some lag.

And as explained in the article, this lag has been historically to a large degree caused by the extension model (need to keep backwards compatibility on a huge API surface, impossibility to introduce multi process architecture, need to always negotiate with extension devs on what can be changed and what not...).

There were two options:

1) specialize on power users with XUL extension but lag even more behind Chrome - leads quite certainly to drop of users, slide to irrelevancy and the eventual death

2) try to catch up with Chrome in technical design, but drop historical baggage, including XUL based addons - does not guarantee success but still provides at least hope

> ... and stopped installing it on computers of friends and coworkers, so there must have been some small effect.

It's sad to see people supporting monopoly this way ...
> 2120: The environment is all full of poisonous gasses from the people of 2020. Each house needs its own air purifier to make the outdoor air safe to breathe.

That's the case in much of the world already... I live in area where there's tons of smog in the colder months and consider installing a system for bringing in filtered air from the outside, so that I won't have to open windows for the 6+ months smog period.
Especially if you do tethered shooting. Many photographers switeched to it for that reason (among the others).
Yes, my thought exactly. Seems to be a recurring theme, especially with autoimmune diseases.

Is there some central source to follow on developments on all the research surrounding this?
> the real money is in being able to make decisions that benefit your interests

And that's why there's so much fuss around him getting the job, the opposition is very worried that he'll do just that.

https://www.nrk.no/ytring/fire-sporsmal-og-svar-om-tangen-sa...
yup, that's how i got into it. lpmuds were the first to have builtin ftp and later http servers, because they were just other protocols and their programmability made them easy to add.

when i explored webdevelopment and discovered this webserver written in µlpc, i was elated to discover that i already knew the language from mud programming.
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Qlik Named as a Challenger in the Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Data Integration
Because it is. I only upload on the desktop and I dump a card full of RAWs and then can deal with them as if it's nothing.
Tullio.jl outperforms OpenBLAS
> Of course that doesn't mean that programmers shouldn't form a union.

That's potentially quite an expensive trade-off. You give up your ability to negotiate so that somebody else will collectively negotiate on your behalf.

That can work out well, at least for a while, but it's worth considering the longer-term consequences. E.g., in the longer term it can favour cheaper labour or cheaper competitors elsewhere. (Yes, you can argue that's the case even in the absence of unions, but there are stark examples of unionisation bringing about the premature demise or severe shrinkage of large industries: steel in the UK, the auto industry particularly in the UK (and also, to some extent, the US), coal in the UK, and the list goes on.)

For me outsourcing your negotiating power falls into a similar category to outsourcing your thinking: it simply doesn't feel like a good idea to me.
Well, it is exactly what he has claimed to do, but given his history with truth, it's highly unlikely.
US/China Trade, Visualized
They're much better off starting with a highly restricted sandbox and extending that sandbox in safe ways when demand is demonstrated.

The alternative is letting their largely tech-naive user base install all kinds of add-ons under the illusion that it's no more dangerous than installing phone apps from an audited walled-garden app store.

Mozilla doesn't have the resources to audit all of the add-ons out there, and generalized automated auditing with a wide-open API would require solving the halting problem. (Accurately enumerating all reached states of a Turing-complete program would allow you to check if it reaches the halted state, thus solving the halting problem.)
We also have a similar problems with taxi (and short-distance private mass transport) licences here in Turkey. However, we have learned a lesson from our history and solved medium-distance bus licensing problem, with a very thorough regulation (taxis and short-distance privately owned buses still are a problem, though):

*Suburban and rural passenger transport on a route, within the same province regardless of distance, or shorter than 100 kilometres without regards of provincial boundaries, count as medium-distance mass transportation.
*Those medium-distance bus licences are tied to vehicle and non-transferable.
*Medium-distance bus owners have to get a licence called D4, which is similar in shape to a European intercity bus company licence, however, subject to a more stringent regime. I am going to explain that below.
*A D4 licence is primarily intended for end-to-end and end-to-mid transportation. Up to 12 such vehicles is allowed to be registered to each such licence.
*In case that there are multiple overlapping such routes, shorter route takes the precedence of transporting inside the common section. For example, if you want to go from B to C, and there is a medium-distance bus covering B-C route, and one covering A-B-C-D route, the latter cannot accept you (you could also think of this as a mandatory gentleman's agreement). However, if you want to go from B to D, you can take the latter without requiring a transfer in C.
*D4 licences have their passenger capacity strictly regulated, such that you cannot have more vehicles than that, 100% demand at least one week's worth of trips each year, and 80% demand in average throughout the validity of the licence.
*D4 licences are reviewed thoroughly during renewals as if you get afresh. It takes approximately two weeks to process a D4 licence application (one week in the provincial transportation coordination centre, one week in the national D4 coordination centre).
*Those medium distance buses are usually operated by private operators, and allowed to enter the city centers more freely than long distance buses, subject to the restrictions above.
I think this article is a useful overview of the risks associated with relying on 3rd party software loaded into a website, which in turn rely on their own 3rd party vendors to make their software work.

The one thing that the article lacks is links - to referenced organisations, to primary data sources - which support the assertions made by the article. I'd like to investigate this aspect of site security further, but the only links offered (at the bottom of the page) are to the company's own sales/marketing teams (I assume). I think this is a pity.
Here is the original paper titled "Supernova triggers for end-Devonian extinctions" by Brian D. Fields and others:

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/08/17/2013774117
thanks! If I find a way to use multiple stores in pass, I will switch to it. It seems that it's autofill on Android is a lot better than any Keepass app that I tried.