skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Base jumping has a ridiculously high fatality rate (~1 in 60 people who try it die). I wonder if adding engines makes it safer or less safe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASE_jumping#Safety
That's a deep and realistic analysis, and Russian trolls attention proves you right.

Unfortunately, Western leaders treat Russia just like Germany in 1936-38, hoping that "this last occupation would finally make dictatorship happy". We all remember how this practice ended in 1939.
It seems to me like there's a good future for electric VTOL. Whether for package delivery or for carrying people, you can take off vertically, and then transition to a horizontal flight regime using wings that's more energy efficient, so you can get more range.
I can't speak for Anbox support on Pinephone, but regarding your bank's Android app it probably uses Google Safetynet, which I don't think Anbox has support for, or will ever support. Without Safetynet the app will probably not function, or will function with limited features.
Thanks that second link sort of explains. I think maybe I just misundertstood. The way everything i've read about this stuff says all of these platforms and instances should be able easily communication with other instances and platforms. So an account on a mastodon or funkwhale instance should be able to find and communicate with people on other mastodon instances or even other platforms using the fediverse's open communication standards.

But, from your second link, people are saying to just make multiple accounts across instances and platforms.

I guess i'm not understanding the 'open communication porotocols' part.

A bunch of them are listed as using ActivityPub. So does this not mean that having an account on an instance of a platform using ActivityPub should allow you to communicate with other platforms using ActivityPub?
You're missing the point. Obviously, you can write your application in Cython and have decent performance.

The entire purpose is to demonstrate that you can build a reasonable performance application built on high performance libraries and stick with idiomatic Python code.
Not to "hate" on the government, but 10 years to anybody in the government is like 1 year in the private sector. A lot of places run in government institutions with lifers still work on paper. PAPER!

I interviewed at a government job in my area a several years ago before I got into tech and the guy I was talking to told me when he took over, he spent his first few months just converting everything to digital formats. All because the guy in it previously didn't want to learn how to use a computer. Since the position was an agency arm of something in the penal system, there was no oversight besides the people that essentially paid him to make certain reports for higher ups to then make available to the public.
Smart lighting only makes sense in niche cases. I use the same Z-wave switches in my 60s-era house for a basement guest bedroom where the light switch is bizarrely in a storage closet outside the bedroom. I have another Z-wave switch to turn on an existing front porch light at dusk. This spared me needing to install a separate photocell.

The main value for smart home is in monitoring. I mostly use it for flood and door sensors without having to pay for a Ring/ADT subscription.
I suspect they do this to stem the use of abandoned accounts by bad actors. Emphasis on "suspect" because I don't have a Twitter account or look at tweets unless someone else links to them, and then invariably I still can't see them because I get an error message.
I was not referring to Ethereum lol
Thanks, yes. Although my gps receiver acts like it didnt get the memo.
Yeah, and banning CFCs affected the ability of poor people to have AC.

The price we pay for a functioning environment.
What about lithium and memory? Do lithium batteries have big memory issues, or is all the stuff rattling around in my head about batteries having memories mostly because I grew up when NiCd and NiMh were all the rage?
Lots of people only have access to street parking and won’t be able to charge their cars overnight.
> I disagree with pretty much every statement you've made here.

As long as you do not want to make it impossible for me to say these things I'm fine with that.

> Extremist views on one side do not "balance" extremist views on the other side.

They don't, but having views from both sides of the spectrum available to the public makes it clear to them that what is written on the one side is not gospel. Having only one side represented in the media means that people will not be confronted with opposing views.

> "Left" media is already more Centrist than Liberal/Socialist.

That is besides the point, this being that there needs to be a balance in the way the news is reported. That is also why I stated that there needed to be media on "the right of the middle", not "on the extreme right". There is a difference here, not everything to the right of the middle is "extreme", just like you stated for the left.

> Centrist views are already the majority held beliefs. 42% of registered voters are Independent.

They are but they are not the ones driving opinions in the media. If they were the problems I mentioned would not exist. The New York Times would not have pushed the 1619 project to give an example. They would have reported on it but not pushed it as an alternative history. The media views centrism as 'boring', probably because media consumers are more attracted to the simplified world view professed by more opinionated writers. Good versus bad is a large driving factor here through times, from the "good free west" to the "evil dictatorial east" of the 50's to the current "good ethnic minorities" to the "evil white patriarchal cis-gendered majority". The former gave us McCarthyism, the latter gives us Wokeism. These will be seen in a similar light by historians.
You can switch to Bing or DDG in less than one second. Good luck doing that with the EU.
I learned to use vi because it was the only full screen editor available in the Unix machines I was using in 1983. At that time, I occasionally still used ed for simple edits because I didn't want to wait for vi to startup :)
Carless household # has been increasing in the uk. Helping the poor by enabling them to buy new fossil cars after 2030 won't have very good bang for the buck.
M1 chip the beginning of the end for Hackintoshing?
And dangerously. There is no redundancy.
By your definition, a job is a “get rich quick scheme”.
I see no mention of what I thought was the primary obstacle to using CRISPR to modify whole organisms: pre-existing immunity to the CRISPR machinery.

Identification of preexisting adaptive immunity to Cas9 proteins in humans

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-018-0326-x

Immunity to Cas9 as an Obstacle to Persistent Genome Editing

https://www.cell.com/molecular-therapy-family/molecular-ther...

Evasion of Pre-Existing Immunity to Cas9: a Prerequisite for Successful Genome Editing In Vivo?

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40472-019-00237-2
Charging at home isn't an option for many people in the UK. In most cities there are a large number of homes that only have on street parking (mostly housing built prior to WWII which still makes up a sizeable amount of housing in the UK). One solution that has been proposed is for charging points to be built into street light poles.
As seen in a recent tweet by Patrick Collison [0].

I wasn't familiar with this expression (Italian born; lived in the US for 8+ years; my English is really good but occasionally I discover new things like this one here).

[0]: https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1326632173944762368
probably depends on whether you're buzzing mountains and not deploying a chute till 1000ft.

in this vid he's jumping out at 10k ft which makes it closer to skydiving.
Emacs is not an IDE, it’s a multipurpose tool with many of the same features commonly associated with IDEs. Spacemacs and Doom Emacs (my recommendation) are highly useful distributions that make a lot easier to achieve that goal.

But, even so, Emacs will still not be an actual IDE like those made by JetBrains.

You sacrifice some specificity for a world of flexibility.

An IDE-like Vim would be a negation of everything that Vim stands for. I don’t see any point in that.

If you really need an IDE, just use one.
>Citing unidentified industry and government figures, the FT said Johnson now intended to move the date forward again to 2030 in a speech on environmental policy he is expected to give next week.

>The BBC reported a similar plan earlier on Saturday, without giving any sources.

So it didn't happen yet, but they think it might. Why not just wait a few days to report it when we have something more concrete than anonymous sources?
Almost thought this was going to be about Rudy Giuliani.
The market, not the government, should decide the transition time. If gasoline and diesel fuels have such strong negative externalities, the state should tax these fuels until hybrid and electric become compelling alternatives. These top-down, non-market edicts damage the ability to the market to find appropriate resource allocation via the price mechanism and thereby make everyone worse off.
There are no drivers and no documentation that would make it easy to write drivers. The checkra1n jailbreaking team is planning to port Linux but "it'll take a while to bear its fruits". https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=196533&curpost...
Was "mainstream" the natural state of things or an accident of limited amounts of over-the-air bandwidth in the 20th century?
I don’t think deniability is an interesting property honestly, I’d be much more interested in a protocol that protects against insider attacks (e.g. there is no transcript consistency, you can send some messages to some participants and some messages to others)
All new street lights (as of a couple of years ago) have to have charging points built-in, (or perhaps it's every alternate one or whatever) which I think is good, and also a good way of ensuring a gradual increase rather than trying to set arbitrary targets each year and do random disconnected things to meet them.
I would guess most people will not buy an used ICE car in 10 years when they can also buy an used electric car. The people into ICE engine sure, but they are not that many and rarely buying economical ICE cars.
> This is the ambition on which, for instance, Leonardo's sketch book was based. And today ? 'Science as the way to nature' would sound like blasphemy to youth.

Yeah but his sketchbook was literally art and drawing. It was not technology or science in modern sense.

It is raised to level of science by artists, basically.
Interesting take. I came from a CS background but our school was mostly in emacs land on the surface (e.g. newcomer CLI tutorials included it as an upgrade from nano, and nothing on vi)

What brought vi to our attention was the holy war itself, and the sheer appeal to decide which camp we fit in.

50 years ago I think it’s a completely different story, but from the point BBS and shitposting were a thing, we got most information we needed on the net, including editor wars, linux distribution elitism, PHP and javascript and so many things.

It can be a kind of indirect mentorship, but I think even today a lot of people go try vim for the memes (and stay or not for the efficiency)
Would you be willing to share these patches? I'm interested in this.
Indeed, the Reuters piece notes, “The FT said the new timetable was not expected to apply to some hybrid cars which use a mixture of electric and fossil fuel propulsion and could still be sold until 2035.”
So they want to restrict everyone's movement? No longer can you just travel around Europe by car. There are some good Top gear episodes showing the issues with recharging.

In before all the Tesla/EV apologist team downvotes this truth into oblivion.
> it is unclear exactly how many users of these models have been affected

An unknown percentage of millions of a particular product have failed, news at 11.

Seriously, I don’t know what anyone is supposed to take out of articles like this.

If you don’t back up your stuff all bets are off, regardless of what device you own or whether you even decide to upgrade the software on it.
Yep, turbolinks. We’re all waiting for TL6 though to revive the android adapter.
They also label most discussions now as "Flaired users only!" and to get flair you have to prove you're a conservative.

It's not about free speech and being oppressed, it's a literal safe space - which is fine, but selling themselves as the opposite of that just makes them look foolish.
Both! We all need to understand each other better, and off of the internet.
Have you considered insisting they credit you as your MIT license requires?
Facial masks (for your skin), washing my hands with fancy good smelling soap,endurance activities (run/cycle far), light a good smelling candle, open windows/blinds/increase lighting, cleaning, organizing a closet/room, talking to friends/family (you don’t need a reason!), avoid caffeine, alcohol, etc., purposely be very kind to others, execute on a side project, have a comfy bed/pillows.
What kind of unintended consequences we could expect? People setting up transportation companies and buying old diesel lorries?
Now increase that by orders of magnitude and you need a new protocol due to efficiency reasons. Things don’t always scale well.
The "grid overload" story is fossil fuel industry propaganda, I'm afraid. You can find the details here: https://www.virta.global/blog/myth-buster-electric-vehicles-...

...but the salient point is that if 80% of all passenger cars become electric, this would lead to a total increase of 10-15% in electricity consumption. (Far, far from the "order of magnitude" claim.)

And even this ignores the vehicle-to-grid features of modern EVs, which can actually put power back into the grid during periods of high demand.
You know that we have electricity outside UK?
The problem is not on HN. Making changes here will have precisely zero impact on society.
I don't think maintainer is the right word for someone who isn't interested in maintenance.

The long tail of FOSS projects might be things people wrote just for themselves. The most used projects aren't. Most of the projects most people use aren't.

Almost all software has a warranty disclaimer. It would be irrational to assume it means the software is unsupported.
Yeah, it might even return many similar products of varying quality, which is likely why the person you're replying to is asking which particular one they found useful.
interesting, although it reads like a school assignment with a minimum word count requirement. ironic.

> I have never seen someone recommend splitting up blog posts into multiple files.

i guess author has never worked with a marketing department.
Ok, I hadn’t heard of Codeberg before. Yeah, I completely agree testing self hosted performance would not be straightforward.
That's interesting. I found this: https://www.thecut.com/2018/12/can-hot-chili-peppers-make-me...
Equating nudity with porn is maybe understandable as a business minded precaution ; It's not less revolting to do so. The fact that many non-european countries would like to deny the freedoms hardly won decades ago is not something that american companies should be happy to share value with either.
Cultural relativism will have you banning much more than a nipple if you decide to go that way. Good for business, but not what we should thrive for.
Every occurrence of "twitter" in the top level comment could have any other social media site substituted and it would read the same and still be entirely accurate (HN is one of the rare exceptions obv.)

I've ditched the lot, deleted my reddit and twitter accounts, configured my pihole to block the domains for the occasions that my willpower fails me and my life has improved dramatically.
Oh, certainly, you can make causal inference under uncertainty. But then, rather than privileging a single hypothesis just because it's the first one you intuitively generated, you should probably instead:

1. generate a good few hypotheses;

2. rank them by their seeming plausibility;

3. discard the ones below some cut-off of "being worth the mental effort";

4. and then try to construct isolated contingent mental models of each of the worlds following from each of the hypotheses being true, making sure to store them in your mind as contingent models, rather than as "facts-in-the-world."

You can reason with inferences over contingent facts, but—especially in situations where several of the hypotheses you generate are equally plausible—it's very useful to sort of mentally "tag" those contingent-facts as contingent, so that you'll realize when you're using them in your reasoning; back up; and "drive down all the roads" (i.e. work out what the answer would be under all the contingent models you're holding onto) instead of just one.

However, if after some actual effort there's only one plausible hypothesis you can think of, then sure, just update on it directly. If there's only one contingent world, keeping it tagged as "contingent" in your mental model isn't doing any useful work for you. You can just learn it, and then unlearn it later if it's not true. (And, of course, that comes up all the time in regular life. Some things really are just "predictable.")

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In domains that are about resolving uncertainty — like scientific research — I would say it's pretty unlikely that you'll ever run into an interesting hypothesis (i.e. the kind you get a grant to study) that is so plausible that its alternatives — or even its null hypothesis! — can be entirely mentally discarded in advance of doing the experiment.

But, on the other hand, this doesn't matter so much; science is nice because it actually is quite tolerant of its participants' mental models being all over the place! "Scientific rigor" is externalized to the scientific process (enforced by peer review) — sort of like rigor in programming can be externalized to the language, and enforced by the compiler. There doesn't need to be much of anything happening within the minds of the researchers. (Thus incrementalism, scientific positivism, etc.)

But this isn't true once you leave the realm of process rigor, and enter the realm of regular people deciding what they should do when they read about scientific studies: how they should—or shouldn't!—seek to apply the "potential facts" they hear about from these studies in their everyday lives.

This is especially relevant in areas where non-scientists are closely following — and attempting to operationalize — the cutting-edge of scientific research, where there is not enough aggregate evidence to prove much. In such domains, it's the consumer of the science that needs good epistemic hygiene, not the scientists themselves. (Good examples of such areas: nootropics; sports nutrition; macroeconomics; and, amusingly, software engineering.)
Awesome! In Canada they just announced the ban of new petrol cars from 2035
As a man who isn't especially fond of radical feminism or silencing men, Bumble has been the best experience I've ever had on a dating app.

The "women message first" rule takes a lot of pressure away from my shoulders.

By applying a few common sense rules (eg only swiping rights on profiles that have a minimum of text), I've been able to have conversations that were mostly with women who were actually interested in talking to someone.

I've still had some bad experiences (eg woman who already had a boyfriend and only mentioned it after a month, then dropped out), and there's still a sense of "you're a man so you're the one who has to keep the conversation going no matter what", but overall the interesting-conversation-to-effort ratio of the app has been way higher than I expected it to be.

The conversations pick up faster, there's way less ghosting, I actually get the sense that the woman I'm talking to actually read my profile, etc. I really wouldn't call it humiliating.

(I've heard from others that their experience was more in line with the usual apps though)
Not the OP, but I used btrfs till a couple of years ago for my root partition.

Because of the nature of snapshots, the partition gradually fills up after big system updates. The usual `df` command is inaccurate with btrfs. Instead there's a set of btrfs specific tooling that you need to learn which can show the actual space in use.

Freeing up unused space from older snapshots also requires manual work. I often had to start removing the oldest snapshot and it'd turn out that it didn't free up enough space. Continue repeating the step of deleting oldest snapshot and hoping it frees up enough space.

It's possible the tooling is better/convenient now, but I prefer to stick with ext4 now.
A sad but inevitable day. He was one of the last remnant of a by-gone era in Bengali films, when even a budget-constrained industry like ours gave us works that even today are counted among the greats.
SQL is almost never used in algorithmic trading by data scientists.

Learn Python, it is used universally.

Don't learn R.
>most people will be able to charge their cars at home

How many people in the UK live in a detached or a semi-detached house?
It only relies on users outnumbering developers.
It seems to me if Trump is going to launch an online media property he’s more likely to cannibalize Brietbart and OAN views than Fox News. Fox News has the benefit of being readily available via every major cable TV carrier in the US, Trump TV may pull a few members of the MAGA crowd further into their echo chamber, but I doubt that it has any real chance of doing much to the crown jewel of the Murdoch news empire. Maybe if he siphons off one of the more popular talking heads, but even then, how many people will really follow Hannity or Carlson if it’s not as simple to access their content?

What will be interesting is how Fox News would react - what’re the chances the commentary shifts harder against Trump to combat competition, but dividing conservatives along the way versus continuing to toe the line and kowtowing to a perceived Trump stranglehold on the right?
Totally agree. I think a "I'm sorry I don't have the bandwidth to look at this right now, but thank you for your contribution" would be perfectly fine IMHO. It's polite and decent, but still respects the maintainer.
Psychiatrists warn of lockdown's toll on mental health
Is it not because this specific instance of sourcehut[0] is called sir hat. Or is that something I have made up in my mind.

[0]: https://sourcehut.org/
Well you could diff the data.csv file from before and after that .NET 5 commit

https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame/...

README

https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame/...
Tesla managed to create a good coverage of western Europe in 3 years. If there were a complete ban of non-electric cars in 10 years, that should be enough time to make sure there is good coverage of charging stations. Besides, hybrid cars (unfortunately) still can be sold.
I remember the same happening to reddit conservatives floating to voat
this is a common trope - but Canada has lots and seems ok.

Also the USA is the poster child for this; it's arguable that without the California gold rush there would be no USA as this is what is thought to have capitalised the federal government sufficiently to impose order on the west and fight the south.
Because competition.
Is their competition a medium like mobile calls and text messages? Or is their competition curated content streams like newspapers or cable news networks?

Legally, maybe the distinction doesn't need to be made, but I think users of social media deserve to know up front what they're in for.
I'm genuinely wondering when I can buy a personal, commercially available, vehicle that will let me fly (or maybe sail) over the Hudson river on my commute into NYC. What are the stoppers for something like this? Landing? Economics? Regulation? I'd pay more money than a car for something like this.