skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But on low earth orbit, the L2 term of earth's oblateness dominates by an order of magnitude compared to the moon and the sun, and the rest of the planets are negligible.

Source is a table in the first chapters of Fundamentals of Astrodynamics.
The one number never mentioned is the number of people taken out of useful life by incapacitating habits.
Great you like it
> This is truly the peak of art.

[1,2]? Hamilton?

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/09/18/provoc...

[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
That is an extremely common disclaimer for a non-lawyer to give, to the point that it has its own initialism IANAL, which is slightly unfortunate but very widely understood.

I think the implication is pretty clear: if need this information for a real practical purpose make sure you consult someone who actually is a lawyer.
Except it was outsold by the Commodore 64 (5-6 million Apple 2's sold, 17 million C64s + 5 million C128s). Even Vic-20 sold close to 1 million. The Commodore PET sold 4000 units in 1978. The Sinclair Spectrum ZX sold about 5 million units.

Given Apple's revenue of $7.9 million in 1978, and a base price of $1300, Apple sold about 6000 Apple 2s in 1978. So I guess on that basis, Apple II > Commodore PET,
but the history of 8-bit home computers was written by Commodore. Everyone else is a footnote.
> Matt Cutts (when he was at Google) had no incentive to lie to anyone

Umm. Yes, he had a paycheck and bonus package as incentive. Performance reviews too.

But as to Walter's attacking on Cutts, that's just someone not willing to put in the work to being a responsible adult. When it comes to Google search, you can't accidentally hurt yourself/your-site unless you're a bull in a China shop. Also, Google's search is really complicated and I can't generalize for his specific situation but it's extremely likely that it was OP's fault for using 'black hat' techniques (either directly or indirectly).
Patents is the R, copyright the D in R&D.
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EV is not a possibility in India without some serious breakthroughs in batter technology.

India does not have a free market for gas stations and as a consequence there is always a shortage and you will see huge lines to fill up gas. A large number of drivers live in slums which may not even have proper electricity so they can't charge it at home. Most buildings are not designed to have electric chargers as we do not have a concept of "parking spot". We park wherever the car fits.
The inspiration for this was wanting to develop and test file access and backup tools on many large files, without actually requiring the physical storage for origin data, and minimal memory or system overheaad.

Files are regular files (not FIFO's, named pipes, sockets, or symlinks), and data are random (not simply ASCII null as with /dev/zero).

Access is read only.

To be clear, this is a test rig, not for actual data storage.
Agreed, this person needs a smart lock on their basement door so they can monitor its status at any time.
Glad I dodged this bullet.
Last year I dedicated my Intel Nuc i3, 8 gb Ram with a 500gb hard drive but the amount of files/contracts was so low that eventually I shut it down.

I'm very surprised about the 128 gigs of ram requirement, guess this network isn't that decentralized as promised. Anyway, from the beginning it easy to see that competing against something like AWS S3 would be super super hard if not impossible.

With a low token price, electricity costs, hardware costs and your ISP asking about your absurd bandwidth use, I would be shocked if anyone can actually make a profit on this.
> and of the studied compounds TDCIPP was the only one with significant odds ratio of exposure being associated with hyperthyroidism in cats (1.36, p value = 0.059).

Am I correct in reading that they tested 24 different compounds (or compound groups)?

Not often you see such a faithful recreation of https://xkcd.com/882/
In Egypt you already have long stretches of the Indian Ocean coast without mangrove or any other vegetation.
But the problem with mangroves is that these grow more or less in a belt between tropics (~ <= 25degs latitudes), require some rainfall and salinity not exceeding some limits.
I am not aware of any patch of mangroves on the mediterranean coast.
Last but not least, these trees are adopted to tides or estuaries with lower salinity.
You will not reproduce such conditions in an oversized saharan Dead Sea.

See also:
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/3/646/htm
Sounds quite scary assuming it could „interact“ with your actual files on the hard drive. But that fits well to the idea of a Dungeon and makes it more exiting.
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The PC (R7 is the program counter on PDP-11's) would have been auto-incremented to point to the next word in memory, so the first -(PC) pre-decrements the PC with the result it points back to the instruction in memory. The contents of this location (the instruction itself) is read, and now the second -(PC) comes into play as the destination. The PC is again pre-decremented (so it now points to the word before the instruction) and the source operand (the instruction) is stored in this location.

In other words, the net effect is the instruction has been copied down 1 word in memory. Finally, because it's the PC that's in use and it's been decremented to point to the new copy of the instruction, the copy of the instruction is fetched and the operation repeats. So the instruction copies itself down in memory, until all memory below the starting point is filled with 014747; what happens next depends on the particular system, but generally not useful (the instruction was often used to check memory; key it in at the highest address, run it and then inspect memory to see if it has the same value everywhere).

As an aside, in octal this translates to 014747; 01 is the MOV, 4 is the pre-decrement mode and 7 indicates R7. Thus an assembler is barely needed on a PDP-11, because knowing the opcodes for the common instructions and the addressing modes makes it trivial to convert an assembly instruction like MOV #123,@#1000 into the octal 012737 000123 001000.

The bootstrap routines are often only a few lines of assembler, thus it was easy to remember, translate to octal on the fly and key them into the front panel switches with a few well-practiced sweeps across the toggle keys.
Would you be willing to pay extra for privacy? Seems like that could be a business model.

I wonder if the VPPA applies to Youtube?
Not really, the algorithms are most likely represented mathematically
The netlabels section of archive.org has a good selection of permissively licensed songs: https://archive.org/details/netlabels

You can certainly find some gems if you are willing to dig.
Such person would say that. Some people believe and response with offence if they can't support their believes, flat earth etc.
It's not even just Rubocop -- I've had this exact problem with any heavy-handed auto-linter/formatter that complains loudly about complexity without being able to understand context
Thank you for the callout. I appreciate the warning, and the direct point to the guidelines.

You're absolutely right, I have been tense and short-sighted, and have been in complete and blatant violation of each of the first 4 points you mentioned.

I will take care to be more restrained with my emotion and contribute more productively and with substance.

However I must say I do not know how to react to that last line, and I propose that this guideline is well-intentioned but too broad. I grew up (and I'm sure most HN posters did) at a time when we considered "politics" as something that is totally distinct from science and technology. What attracted us to tech was the meritocracy, the purity of ideas, the ability to pursue and explore that curiousity and creativity.

Yet...the last decade has revealed at least some new truths that responsible technologists can ill-afford to ignore:

1) Technology cannot be disassociated from politics if it is wielded for political purpose.

2) Science has become politicized, and subjects like "climate change", "alternative energy", etc, are actively stifled for political reasons, so cannot be explored or developed without acknowledging their political counterarguments.

3) Ignoring political subjects that are independent of technology and therefore may seem frivolous or redundant to some people is itself a privilige. For example, US immigration or LGBT policies directly feed into the talent at US tech companies can hire, the culture they can sustain, and that manifests in the technological choices and outputs of these companies. This is why by and large, "diversity and inclusion" topics become such hotbeds of discussion on this site.

So while I acknowledge your overall broad point and will strive to do better, I do think it is appropriate for me to comment or call out certain "political" or "idiological" points in the context of the discussion that is being had. For example, I do think there is evidence that the most highly-upvoted perspectives on the subject of Twitter/Facebook censorship are themselves political/idiological. The most heavily upvoted comments call out censorship of right-leaning news while not acknowledging the role of right-leaning misinformation under the guise of news. They claim to hold an absolutist position on free speech yet denigrate "cancel culture" (which is a form of free speech that has the potential to be harmful to societal majority in-groups vs protected hate speech that is only harmful to minority out-groups).

I absolutely seek out those top-voted comments that are stating an idiological position and am looking to provide a counterargument.

I have not done so with appropriate substance or care, and will do so from now on. But I cannot and will not in good conscience avoid those subjects as they are the most important issues of our time.
Sorry but that’s just not true.
I was there so I know for a fact that the most destructive kind of addicts simply vanished.
I'm not going to say there aren’t many high functioning addicts, there might be.

In the late 90s the streets in certain cities were overflowing with addicts (as in walking corpses almost) and that is simply not the case anymore.
> I am going to start releasing details of my email conversation with the Google employee, culminating in my release of an MBOX file including full headers.

That seems like a bad thing to do against the whistleblower, since according to the redacted excerpts the whistleblower was using their Google mail address.
General Relativity may be a theory with an excellent prediction power but to me it is the one that's lacking in realism (as in the philosophical definition)

It's not a fundamental problem, nobody has abandoned Maxwell's equations for EM except for the most specific cases, but it's a similar case.

There's probably a better explanation than just "distortion of space time" which is a great way of viewing it, but it's a bit of a stretch (pun intended)
None of these are problems which cannot be solved within a decade. If an EV with decent price comes into the market, the market will solve the rest of the issues. Too many startups already working in all these spaces.
The amount of bitcoin on the ledger is increasing all the time, it has not reached the limit yet. This is also defined by software rules which can be changed.
I understand that nobody likes critics from foreigner. But I still stand by my point that infrastructure in India is among worst in the world. I haven't traveled the whole world, but traveled enough, and what I've seen in India is probably the worst I've seen.

I was working remotely so I needed reliable electricity and Internet. I had problems with both in every city I visited (and I visited many, from New Delhi to Kanyakumari.

Also, while traveling between cities on my motorcycle, I frequently saw powerlines burning or electrical poles burning in rural areas. Something I've never ever seen in any other country.

Only in Nepal the situation with both is worse.
The logistics are obviously challenging too. But their process is a trade secret, so of course the video glosses over it. Having thousands of block types also means solving the challenges I listed thousands of times.
As a Portuguese citizen, I find it quite fascinating that this topic is trending for quite a while now.

Doing the same in USA won't work due to lack of a public health system, without it is impossible to help people recover from addiction. Providing methadone is the easy bit, having a public network of doctors, therapists and social workers is the key ingredient.
sry pls delete it, i dont want to share it
it's a platform for instant voice chat. really the best option is to go outside and talk to someone, but if you're indoors because of the lockdown, i've create a central space that has enough freedom, customization, and privacy to simulate real conversations. Think of it like a bar. You can call people, msg them offline, add friends, and join random rooms. Also, make recordings. Other features coming soon.
So gravity is not a force even though it acts on mass as a force?
This is really confusing.
I was expecting IP concerns, but that the moment you put something out, or patent it, entrenched companies will immediately sue you to find out everything about your process and copy it, even if they don't have anything similar
This is a very successful marketing gimmick. Mattress industry in the US is a scam. Yes, you should invest in a good mattress. But a good mattress doesn't need to cost $8000. Just get a simple, relatively firm mattress. Mine is a simple $120 spring mattress from Amazon, and those are the best I've had. (Also reviews from other people who slept on it and used more expensive ones).
Probably should have also mentioned you should always get liability insurance, with any business for that matter.
It still doesn't sound physically distinct any more than distinguishing any continuous quantity as being zero or nonzero. If we measure something that looks like 0, we can't be sure if it's just below the sensitivity of our instruments.

For neutrinos, even if we accelerated an rocket and somehow checked if a neutrino was at rest relative to it, we might find that it's not. That means we won't know if we need more speed or if it's impossible. I suppose it's a bit easier than that because we only have to accelerate the rocket fast enough that the neutrino's speed becomes measurably less than c, rather than 0. But still, what if we can't even get it to go fast enough for that? No way to prove that it's travelling at c, it seems.

I'd like to add that even photons have a nonzero upper bound to their possible rest mass. At least they used to. Is there any way, in principle, to show that it's exactly zero, and thus falls into this distinct category?
And don't underestimate the cost of traditional materials either. Those usually have a high labor component baked into them.
There was a significant thread and, to judge by the comments below, a better article 10 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24704986
I just checked it and it turns out AdGuard is open source. Interesting. I always had an impression (assumption) AdGuard would be closed source. It's also free (that's even more surprising). So, it's more like uBlock Origin, isn't it?

There's another famous OSS ad blocker - AdBlock Plus and it's quite shady as it goes. AdGuard isn't like that, is it?
Here’s a podcast episode that talks at length about this:

https://overcast.fm/+NnCED_ISg

It’s from a New Zealand perspective - hosted by a young Green Party politician who is looking to change laws here in NZ. It would be relevant to anyone wanting to organise/message in their community or country to do the same.

For context she just won a major election seat in what was a huge left swing in our largest city.
I think they meant specifically in the context of avoiding being penalised by Google; my admittedly lay understanding is that "nofollow" would've helped here -- the spammers would still spam of course, but the penalty would not be as severe? Or apply at all, perhaps? Please correct me if I'm misunderstanding though
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I learned to Shut Up when Learning
Like in the tweets, many miners don't understand this, nobody tell them the risks in the community, not even the Protocol Labs.

I think mining equipments are over sold, maybe 10 times, due to the lack of enough warnings.
Good. Blatant cheating software. You're not even trying to hide it since you specifically talk about using it in RuneScape. I hope "this program has never been detected or banned by any site or game" is put there as a honeypot to get cheaters banned because it's clearly not true.
I like many others also decided to effectively dodge the news as much as possible. For the last three years, I subscribed to the British magazine called 'Private Eye' which comes out fortnightly which keeps me up to date, but I see no reason for me to know what's happening at a higher frequency than that.
Google will discontinue its Trusted Contacts app in December
Most miners thought they bought 10TB storage, they will mine $FIL with that 10TB, but according to the rules, they can only start from like 1TB, most of the storage they bought are useless for mining.
Wow, that is hideous. Well done, sir.
It's only partly open sourced, the premium features are closed (open-core in other words). Also, Open Project is a fork of Redmine. I evaluated both a while ago, and Open Project differs in two ways: fancier design and a broader scope. While redmine is geared towards software development, Open Project has generalized the interface, language and some features to be better suited for any business out of the box. Redmine, on the other hand, has a lot of plugins that is not compatible with open project and can be customized to suit your needs.
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This issue is not being fixed because it improves the downloads of the native Twitter app, which makes more money (no ad blockers, push notifications, more tracking).
That's how they were doing it everywhere else for decades, no? Maruti only started in the 80's. Hard to call that pioneering.
I can see how that sucked for you, but personally, I don't want google sending me to forums infested with spam bots. I don't agree with google's hidden penalties, I think transparency is crucial, but the burden of cleaning up your spam filed website was yours and I'd expect every search engine to bury you until you managed to get it under control.
Most of the chemicals are preservatives.
From what I understand, once you accept that gravity isn't a force, the usual symmetry between the earth and the apple doesn't hold anymore.

The apple doesn't curve space-time as much as the earth does.
Nonsense bills like this are what will keep social media giants honest. The market won't on its own because the network effects are (largely) insurmountable.

However, Facebook has to regain the goodwill of the public and fast, or they'll be legislated out of existence through bills like these.
Not if your goal is to capture the text. I've used a phone for this purpose many times with nothing more than room lighting.

Don't believe me? Try it yourself, right now!

Remember that the HP archives burned down while waiting for a "proper digitization". Oops.
I looked at the requirements earlier and was blown away. Their official recommendation is three servers with some very expensive hardware. Three Epyc processors, one machine with 128GB of RAM (and a lot more swap space), and one with 2x GPUs. And all that to "seal" like one TB an hour. But it's OK, because this is totally not a proof of work system.

https://filecoin.io/vintage/mining-hardware-config-testnet-v...
Do you mean PWA's? Because firefox has had that for a long time.
This is typical in Egypt. There are or have been dozens of “plans” —- most of them half-baked, to develop parts of the desert to reduce densification and centralization in Cairo. When I lived there, the joke was always about how these developers (in cahoots with the military oligarchs) would source the water for these adventures. In practice, it makes no sense. Egypt is approaching critical water vulnerability.

As they try to develop out in to the desert, most of the projects have nothing to say about this critical resource. These developments are therefore totally unsustainable as it requires constantly importing water by truck, building enormous infrastructure from the Nile or desalination facilities plus the transport infrastructure. Even then the cost to actually change the soil composition from desert to anything less arid have absurd water costs, to say nothing of what happens when these theoretical cities have to start providing for demands of the expected hundreds of thousands or millions people.

To make matters worse, development around the city continues, and the prime agricultural lands, where water use is most efficient per calorie grown, has all but disappeared.

In Egypt, like so many other places, but especially in Africa, are increasingly vulnerable to compound effects of man-made and climate change crises. Books have been written on the corruption, but the combined effects with climate are truly frightening to contemplate.

Whatever transpires there after the proverbial well runs dry is going to make the January Revolution look like child’s play.
Old school wetshaving with a brush, shaving soap, and a DE razor have worked wonders for my skin.
Agreed ! The "spherical cow", has to first become a circular cow /s
No, you don't, not unless your income is about half a million EUR.

42% is the marginal tax rate (and 45% above 250k). The effective tax rate only exceeds 30% above ca. 71k EUR.
I'm sure they already opened it and looked through it to see what it was. After all, there's a picture of it, open, with the article.
Same thing happens with everything unless you're a big company with a bunch of money to spend on IP protections.

We have this really screwed up system where if an individual creates unique product you'll have to deal with copycats before you cash the first cheque, but mega-corps can have white noise demonetized for copyright infringement on YouTube.
If anything, GDPR has made this easier provided they have the users' consent. If the user agrees you're allowed to do pretty much anything with their data.

It has also become a lot easier, unfortunately, to get that consent.

Both the convoluted legal framework itself and the dark patterns that arose from it (such as the "Allow everything" button being the primary action button and "Privacy settings" being a small, obscure link) are prone to putting off users, who more often than not will just click on anything just do get rid of those annoying pop-ups and banners.
I am well aware of the compatibility issues and the associated difficulties. I wasn't saying the option of turning it off shouldn't be given. I'm saying that the setting should have been mandatory.

People wanting to do it the "easy" way (using scare quotes because turning any XSS into an RCE feels like hard mode to me) set contextIsolation to false and they are done.

Also consider newly created applications: when the limitations exist from the start, it's much easier to build this correctly (the same way it's easier to get to 100% test coverage if you start with TDD than if you have to refactor years of static methods and global state and implicit dependencies).

By having a default setting and having it default to insecure, even newly created applications will be unsafe and will require refactoring in the future.