skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're also a LOT higher budget than the vast majority of other YouTube channels, necessitating all the additional funding streams. I don't know what the final cost for that Protosaber was, but including all the R&D and Man Hours along with the materials, I'm sure its pretty crazy.
Most USB battery packs will go to sleep themselves though when you use that little current, and turn off their output. But some have a "low power" option that can be activated to keep them on.
I know work is ongoing in the CRDT space (Kleppman's work gets posted here regularly). I'm assuming Hellerstein et al. are continuing work on distributed consistency, but "what and where" is not immediately obvious . Bloom/bud is being maintained, but that seems to be about it.

It seems like event-sourcing draws a tiny bit from this well, but it could be much more powerful with some help from CALM or similar.

Can anyone point to any other areas of active research and development in the area of reducing conflict in distributed systems?
The WFH is a huge part. Just moved from a tiny 1 bed near downtown LA to a 3 bed place in Chicago with lower rent. My girlfriend and I both get our own offices, we have a yard, and enough places that are half open nearby that we're pretty happy.
It's impossible to give an accurate advice without knowing your precise location and climate.

As a rule of thumb, as an Architect (the real one), I would start by using the best insulation you can afford. In a good percentage of inhabited places this will guarantee you a livable if not a confortable home. Then, according to your climate and economic environment (wood and derivates, gas, fuel, coal and electricity prices are highly variable depending of your specific location) invest in an heating source.
I remember first learning of the concept oh aphasia from the late Dr. Oliver Sacks.

The essay "Recalled to Life" in his book "The Mind’s Eye" or the chapter about music therapy for aphasia from his book "Musicophilia".

I remember reading transfixed how someone could loose the ability to find the right word for specific objects. Or loose the understanding of what objects were represented by the words someone hears/reads.

> What is aphasia?

> Imagine knowing what you want to say, but your brain refuses to let you utter even the simplest word. Or imagine listening to your friends and family and having no idea what their words mean. Sometimes the ability to read or write is affected, too. [1]

[1]: https://www.oliversacks.com/words-words-words/

I cannot recommend the books of Oliver Sacks enough. He is such a warm writer, with such a profund understanding of how to transport individual stories so that readers can understand and empathize.

As a short get to know maybe a TED talk [2] can do.

[2]: https://www.ted.com/talks/oliver_sacks_what_hallucination_re...
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The video made me curious about eye protection. For any of the flame colors he created, was there the possibility of a strong UV component that could cause eye damage?

A few years ago I considered showing my kids some pyro demonstrations using magnesium tape and thermite. I know magnesium flame has a strong UV component, and I figured I'd just keep that out of direct line of site. But I couldn't get enough info on the spectrum of thermite flame to feel comfortable going forward with the demo.
Just in time for the official launch of https://upstract.com later this week.
I feel like this conversation is always relevant when giving Facebook data:

Zuck: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard

Zuck: just ask

Zuck: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns

Friend: what!? how’d you manage that one?

Zuck: people just submitted it

Zuck: i don’t know why

Zuck: they “trust me”

Zuck: dumb fucks

Anyone who thinks Facebook are in this to help publishers are dreaming.
If you look at the 4 big cities of Texas they are all blue. Its just surrounded by a sea of red.
wow :cry:
Oh they definitely are - just not on the listed prices. What you're describing is also only true of new luxury towers that don't want to lock in a low price, which is the minority of housing in the Bay.

I found it easy to get the landlords to drop the price $200. The few landlords who refused to play ball were messaging me a month later with discounts begging me to take the place.
I wouldn't think of that as the 'most widely known', tbh
2012. I had been coding for ~5 years at that point, so I had a fair bit of coding experience. Just none of it was professional experience. I made a CV that went over my actual coding experience and skills in details, then I applied to small companies (<40 people). Many of those don't have much in the way of HR and have hiring managers dealing with CVs directly.
It seems like there is no convincing argument to the contrary either.

I see people propose this kind of ‘law of conservation’.

It would be nice if that were a real law, but the only arguments I’ve seen in its favor have been inductive ones covering the last few hundred years.

There is also something a bit odd in my mind about looking at human existence in terms of needed occupations.

Isn’t the entire point of technology to eliminate work?
Agreed - first thought that popped into my head. Second thought: Wait, don't I do that already? I mean - there are certain news sources that I explicitly avoid (or at least, don't trust at all). Others that I check all the time and trust a lot. Then there's a slew in between that I check periodically and somewhat trust.

As much as my knee jerk reaction is against this, I also am asking myself: how's it really different from my own behavior? (and should I re-evaluate my own behavior).

Edit: Spelling/grammar.
Maybe you're right, but I think Apple will consider that a distinction without a difference.

A thief who breaks into a car using one of those hook things for the window still needs to know what (s)he's doing. That doesn't mean you don't get a lot of police attention if you're wandering around a car-park with one of them...

The eye of Sauron will blink, swivel, and focus hard towards these guys, IMHO. Hope they have good^better lawyers.
Wow that landing page has an animated marquee sort of banner (a bunch of company logos sliding across horizontally), and instead of using CSS transforms, they've done it with a 23mb gif.

Really curious as to why.
First I searched for "hidden game cover art" (adding "site:news.ycombinator.com") and when I didn't get results, I searched for "hidden game in url" since I remembered that some poster pointed this out in the comments :)

Funny how memory works :)
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Rent control means that renting at a low price this year means you're also renting it at a low price next year. Without rent control you could give a discount this year and then jack the rate back up to normal next year.
I don't think he's referring to notifications, but to those visual feedback icons that show up in the middle of the screen whenever you change brightness or volume (or mute sound) via keyboard.
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(Understandable) naïvité, and a lack of awareness of the downsides. Articles like this on Hacker News help other people who might be thinking of making a similar mistake.
If the gas is hot enough to be seen, its generally a plasma. Basically all fire is plasma.
You're not wrong. This entire article is a classic example of Computer Science failure. It's someone who knows program optimisation in the abstract and nothing about the actual target problem from a domain knowledge perspective. They went about optimising bad code as in quality of thought level, rather than actually getting to grips with the true requirement first. Though perhaps a computer science win, but a software engineer fail.
Calling people privileged reminds me a lot of a different social strata saying 'I'm not racist but...'
Skeletons give you a lot more to go on than the meme implies. We know, for example, where the muscles attach, and how strong those attachments are, giving a good proxy for how large the muscle is. It also reveals the angle of attachment, which tells you a lot about its posture, how it moved, and what kind of musculature would be required to support it.

That is calibrated against lots of existing species, and some rare fossils give even more evidence of body shape, giving opportunities to calibrate it further.

There's a lot of delicate inference and opportunities to go wrong, but it's not as haphazard as the meme suggests. The reconstructions are based on much finer details of the skeleton, including microscopic ones.
Maybe ‘retro-futuristic’ is a better term.
They chose a different gun, I think. If you told me in 2000 that, 20 years on, Microsoft would be the world #2 in cloud (or utility computing, a concept Sun really tried to popularize in the 90s) computing and IBM would be an also-ran, I’d have laughed at you.

(I guess the news that a bookseller was the world #1 in cloud computing would be even more of a shock.)
Based on my understanding of their platforms, that seems consistent with a Warren/Sanders ticket?
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>training an operations team to take over maintenance of a nested spaghetti of random interlinked services and bits of YAML trapped in random parts of the cloud is a total nightmare. The amount of documentation required and even the simple overhead of enumerating every dependency is a long term management burden in its own right.

Upon learning about it some time ago, this was exactly my conception of what a Lambda-like serverless architecture would yield.

And it would seem difficult, if not impossible, for any dev to maintain a mental map of the architecture.
If you think using THC in your goods makes you that "kind of business", do you think being AGPL makes you that "kind of project"? If you do, you can hardly blame Google for making the same distinction.
Interesting. I didn't even get a popup.

I checked the local storage for the site and they have stored exactly 0 bytes. Given FBs reputation, I'm quite surprised!
C++, while complicated, is actually pretty transparent about it. The difference between pass-by-value and pass-by-reference is one sigil, but at least you see it there and you have at least some idea that it is there for a reason.

Compare it with lazy evaluation languages like Haskell or declarative languages like SQL where oftentimes you have to run query planner explanation to troubleshoot the performance problems.
1) 'Marginal buyers' could explain it - but it might be something else.

There is a smaller group of buyers, investors, of the inelastic type - who if they run away, will cause a market to plummet. They are the opposite of price sensitive, they're maybe from overseas snapping up property at 'above asking' because they need to get $1M out of their countries and they're looking for any kind of return that's reasonable.

Consider 1% interest rates in a foreign country (or region within the country) and possibly a government who may come and confiscate wealth? This is a risky proposition for the burgeoning international middle class.

And of course, the cohort of 'IPO winners' who are less elastic in their acquisitions as well.

These 'inelastic buyers' (local, regional, foreign) are important because they are 'strong signals' to the market for price validation. Consider that nobody knows objectively how much a home should be valued at. Everyone is 'looking down the street' to see how some other property sold which is used as a primary reference. In a 'sea of ambiguity' then the 'inelastic/confident' buyers will anchor the prices. And if they don't care (i.e. inelastic), then then prices go up, way up.

The confluence of:

a) Low interest rates
b) Globalism
c) The 'belief' that real estate will never go down
d) Lack of capital controls and tons of corruption in one regime exporting to another with a different set of rules which creates huge asymmetries (really part of #2)
e) Expanding local economy.

Means real estate will go insane.

The numbers for SF are 4-6% [1] which is actually quite high, similar numbers for Vancouver and Toronto - and this only includes international buyers, whereas in the Valley there is obviously a cohort of IPO Winners.

It also means: there will be no local culture. Almost all citizens who were born and raised in an area will be pushed out over the course of their lives so local ideas, customs, language, norms etc. go away. This is not accounted for in our economic models. Edit: FYI the newcomers in the expanding economy won't be these 'inelastic buyers' who are
a small cohort and may not be residents anyhow - newcomers will be regional/national/international workers, but the side effect is the same. The Silicon Valley is not a normal community, it's more like a 'workplace residence'.

2)The issue with the traffic analogy - is that some drivers are considerably more likely to cause problems than others.

2-3 break-heavy drivers who are slow to catch up can cause a backlog.

[1] https://www.sfweekly.com/news/how-much-s-f-real-estate-do-we...

[2] https://phys.org/news/2020-09-foreign-homes-impact-prices.ht...
Most impactful part of this imo is:

> Chrome is not interested in this. The XML parts of our pipeline are in maintenance mode and we would love to eventually deprecate and remove them

> -- https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/903#issuecomment-707748...

Given Chrome's status as the new IE6 in terms of market share and outsized influence over the technological direction of the web, there's a real risk of moves like this being unilateral.

On the other hand, the last two comments re: libxml being their primary concern do give some hope.
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The fires will follow a sigmoidal curve just like epidemics. Once there are no trees left to burn, the fires will stop. But actually the big fires will stop long before that once the contiguity of fuel decreases below a certain level. This is "herd immunity from fires."

Yes, trees regrow, but global warming is shifting rainfall away from California so trees won't regrow at the same rate as before.
Webmentions are the modern standard that evolved out of trackbacks and pingbacks.

If you’ve written a blog post that references or links to another blog post, Webmention is the standard way to notify them.

An example use case for Webmentions is blog comments. A blog may publish a post which is a reply to another blog, then send a Webmention to notify them. The author of the blog post being replied to could choose to display the comment below their post.
>When an airplane hits the ground, it leaves a crater.

That's a strange/morbid example. I would have assumed meteor for the obvious example. An airplane leaves a trench since it's speed wouldn't allow it to bury into the ground, and it's trajectory is much more in plane with the ground. Meteors on the other hand plunge deep but do not travel far laterally.
Maybe a stupid question, but why? If you care about high resolution and good colors why are you keeping the low res second monitor?

If you don't care about hires, why not simply set the Dell one to a lower resolution and not worry about scaling at all?
It's super interesting to me how many viable companies are in any given niche in any given part of the world (e.g. Urban Tech Landscape Berlin). Maybe I've been too focused on the giant monopoly-like companies that dominate the news, but I had not realized how many companies could survive competing or niche-ing in one specific problem area!
Yes, it is only supported in Wayland because X is limited to one global scaling factor.
SF is great (really, just stop it haters!) and there will always be people who want to live there and prices will always be relatively high.

However, for a long time SF has been a place of extreme price distortion because of low (~no) new construction and huge concentration of high paying jobs. The result is many many people feeling trapped there way beyond where it makes sense for their lives. If you are single and living with roommates, making $200K at Twitter, then great! SF is awesome! But when you have two little kids, and/or you just aren't making that much, in a place where small houses are > $2M things are very different. That's me BTW. We hung on for 6 years after having kids and in that time almost all couples with kids we were friends with left. The people we knew who stayed were either much wealthier (had nice exit from previous company) or were really trapped and talked constantly about leaving.

So honestly it does make sense to me. Somewhat anecdotally, I personally know about 15 people who have left since April (including me, SLC is freaking awesome!). For comparison, I personally know exactly 2 people who've had covid. So yeah lots of people really are leaving and the closed bars are just a small factor (IMO), being able to finally move is the much bigger change driving this migration.

I don't think SF will die but rents and home prices coming back down to earth will be a very good thing for the city (my landlord bought the building in 1981 and was charging us $4K/mo for our 900sqft 2br flat, I won't feel bad for him if that deflates to $2500/mo where it should be). The ultra high prices have slowly gutted large parts of the city of anyone but the young or wealthy, mostly tech people. Maybe in a few years SF will be more affordable and consequently a much more diverse city again. That would be great IMO.
The battery issue really cuts against most places on the Moon. Getting through 12 hours of night is a lot easier than getting through 2 weeks of night. There is the peak of eternal sunlight on the Moon's south pole where the sun marches around the horizon forever[1] but the lunar night is a big challenge everywhere else.

[1] And right next to an eternally shadowed crater we know has hydrogen, probably in water.
how would this work? the only way I can think of is for the government to buy above market when prices are going down and then unload them when prices go up. it's hard to see how the public would actually benefit from this. it's a little insane to use government funds to take perfectly good housing stock off the market and prevent people from living in it. seems like the cure would be worse than the disease.

imo, it's best for cities not to try to influence the price of housing in the first place. but if you really want to bring down prices in a tight market, the best solution is to make it easier to build new (and especially denser) stuff. many cities could achieve this "simply" by relaxing zoning restrictions, but if necessary, they could go so far as to subsidize high-density developments. in the much more rare case that prices are collapsing, a city could be more aggressive in condemning dangerous structures.
I wonder if there is any sort of a market mechanism proposed from the libertarian side that would account for this?
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That "significantly" is quite the understatement!
Haha, it's janky and cropping parts of some logotypes too. Totally against the otherwise smooth animations and style in the rest of the page. It looks bolted on and I wouldn't be surprised it was a late decision to showcase some publishers and added by non web devs...
Some apps do behave badly with strictly tiling managers in my experience. Usually what I do is make one floating workspace and open them in there.
Ah, the good old popurls days ;)
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Business wise, I'm sure it's a good idea for them.

Unfortunately I don't completely trust Facebook to be impartial the news they report.

They could very easily skew a narrative on a particular issue by placing news articles they agree with at the top, and not displaying articles that they don't agree with.

That said, it's their business and they can do with it what they want, and it's still our decision if we want to use that feature.
Wisconsin blames Foxconn, says $3B factory deal is off
Also "I couldn't give a monkey's", though don't think that is CRS, but definitely slang I am used to (and use)
Yes this is true, I was over simplifying it.

But this is the reason why drawterm or rcpu is not very usable over high latency connections.
You're right on the price, but it looks like the $30 didn't fare well for Disney.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/12/cinemas-shocked...

> However, it appears Disney does not currently have plans to charge extra for Soul, which will be made available on 25 December.
I'm sure this is going to be very objective and neither manipulated or manipulative at all.
Anybody else having their browser history busted by visiting the link? Looks like it opens a new window for this page, and then closes the old one.
Hi Nikita, this is a fantastic idea. I've have been working with low level programming for a long time and would love to contribute new lessons. How can I do that?
> Why not any large ticket purchases like computers,washer/dryer,fridges,etc.)

Technically they do. You’re supposed to declare purchases on your taxes and pay the “use tax” on them. It’s just that you can’t get away with not paying the tax on a car so it’s easier to enforce.
Yep that is the beauty of having alternatives :)
Ideally I'd have a DE which is polished and has features that I need. Unfortunately there's nothing (macOS, Windows included) that does both, so we choose our poison.
Reinforcement learning is supervised learning on optimized data
Look up the joint NASA/ESA Mars lander that was lost because of a mix up between m/s and ft/s. I'm pretty sure that lander cratered.
America's true unemployment rate
Nowadays, I buy a screen protector together with a new MacBook. I've never experienced staingate but I did see how dirty keys ate into the coating of the screen.
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How the Environment Is Paying for Our Prime Day Discounts
Yup. The theme is "why isn't prefab assembly line production not taking over home building", and the (current) top comment is: prefab didn't work for my custom design.

While architects can be talented and make a great design on so many levels, can they really fully optimize space for usability and features to a deep level? I just think of RV interior design, which amazes me sometimes with the ingenious use of space that is clearly the result of dozens of rounds of iterative design over the year.

Not that a house should be that crazy (aside from the tiny house movement) with maximizing space, but if there were industrial production, then you could get to deep optimization of the floor design.

What always strikes me with (american suburban) houses, is that they are very inefficient at vertical storage of things like clothes, dishes, and a ton of other housewares that you need on a daily basis (so you don't dump them in the basement). I walk through 3000 and 4000 sqft houses and they are only marginally better than a well designed 2000 sqft house in usability.
CO2 emissions reduction in countries pursuing renewable vs. nuclear
It sound like this performed well enough, but it seems like a more efficient solution would be to crawl the grid from left to right and at each point only search the neighbors of the previous closest grid from the larger grid, assuming that a local grid cell will never be have a height or width greater than a global cell. This would be linear in the number of local grid cells.
Again, think on the margin. If there’s suddenly a lot of new luxury apartments then those looking for something cheaper have less competition from the deep pocketed. If they build so many luxury apartments that prices for them break that’s also a victory condition.
Would you back a UBI-based approach to this problem?

Any cool moonshot ideas for how to approach it?
Cool minimal concept :)
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