skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to work at the VLA as an RF engineering intern. I learned a lot. There is a good technical answer in these comments already, in regards to reception.

But AO was also a transmitter - it could pump out millions of watts to illuminate asteroids, the moon, and other orbiting objects for mono static and bistatic radar measurements. For example, images such as these [0] are created by receiving the reflection of energy emitted from transmitters like AO and Goldstone (I didn’t find an exact image of an AO-VLA measurement but they’re out there).

The AO and VLA had a unique relationship, in that one could precisely measure and image irregularities of any particular VLA dish panel down to a few tenths of a millimeter using bistatic radar of the moon. It’s somewhere in the eVLA library but my google fu is failing me (also google really sucks now).

They also had a few events for ham radio where AO lit up the moon and hams across the world could hear its reflection with basic equipment. [1]

[0] https://m-cacm.acm.org/careers/182810-high-def-radar-images-...

[1] https://youtu.be/SUr1z5XeOE0
I don't know. They have already had "not advertiser friendly" caveat which is a way of just disqualifying anyone they like.

There has been several moral panics incited by the conventional media (TV, newspapers etc) about adverts being displayed alongside edgy content a while back. Several rounds of this eventually brought about a TOS change where they could deem you "not advertiser friendly". This of course ignored that Google does targeted advertising.

Some claim it is "political" however I believe it is simpler than that. It gave youtube an excuse to stop paying people without outright removing them from the platform which saves them a fair bit of money and doesn't quite bring the same outrage from the respective fanbases as outright removing people. In addition to that the people that have been demonetised have ranged from progressives, anarcho-communists, people doing ben-shapiro compilation videos and edgy boys and girls that tend to shitpost. So I don't see anything political about it.

They've also made it harder to be monetised on the platform generally, IIRC you can't be monetised at all and cannot receive super chats if you have less than 1000 subscribers. You also can't put custom thumbnails on your videos which makes it harder for your content to get attention.
Both of you have renewed my faith in humanity. It means a lot to run into a kindred spirit.
So, naive question, and I know the concept of a ‘database’ is a bit different between MySQL and Postgres, does Postgres require a FDW to communicate between multiple databases on the same server?
There's now also a more recent CH FDW written in C by the team at adjust, https://github.com/adjust/clickhouse_fdw
A detailed look at the negotiations that led to leap seconds shows that they were not for maritime celestial navigation. During the process several different times the celestial navigation folks set a limit on how far radio broadcast time signals could deviate from astronomical time, and every one of those limits was violated as the negotiations proceeded. By the time the draft recommendation was given to 12th Plenary Assembly of the CCIR it allowed for leaps of multiple seconds, and that draft was amended on the floor to leaps of only one second before they voted to approve.
Hmm, LibreOffice (via libpagemaker) can read PageMaker and it is open source and runs on ARM so it should work on Apple Silicon at some point. Also pmd2odg (from writerperfect) can use libpagemaker to convert PageMaker files to OpenDocument
> So then what's the magic that keeps Google users using Google products if they stop producing what their non-paying, but ad-watching customers want?

Free is one hell of a competitive advantage. And again, Google does enough to keep the customers coming back as much as the rancher does to help the cow grow. The rubber really hits the road when you consider customer's need for say, privacy.

Or, try and get Google to help you out if your account gets locked. Good luck. Now if you're having issues with your ad account, they'll happily hop on the phone to figure it out with you....

> The needs of the users are the needs of the paying customers, that is what I am saying. Without the users there is no opportunity to have paying customers, period.

An overlap in requirements is not the same thing as being the same thing. For a short while, the rancher meets the cows needs too.

> Users choose to use Google products in exchange for ad impressions.

Unclear. Users choose Google products because they're free, it's not obvious if they fully understand the implications of that, or if they see that they have a meaningful choice.
Maybe I'm just getting sensitive in my old age, but IMHO there's no benefit to using brutal metaphors involving rape and murder when talking about insulation. I appreciate your comment otherwise though.
Hi,
Author here.

I have to admit, I haven't done any benchmarking against the existing FDWs for Clickhouse.
But I actually wrote the Go FDW 2 years ago(around Dec 2018). ;)

There weren't any Clickhouse FDW available at that time and I probably would've tried them as well.

Now I just got around to write the blog post and convincing the team to release the code.

Though I have a suspicion that the percona FDW might win in the benchmarks as they won't have to pay the penalties when crossing the Go land to C land.[1]

1: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/the-cost-and-complexity-o...
Ah yeah suppose that can escalate.
Interesting. Haven't seen links being used in a while. Thanks for posting.
Nothing filled the gap left by flash?

I see that as a good thing. Flash was a power hungry, slow and obnoxious technology. Not to mention it was a security nightmare.

I'm glad the barrier to entry to make pointless animations is atleast slightly higher
The best creators are demonetized, anyway. They wouldn't want a toilet paper ad to be besmirched by association with intelligent entertainment.
I agree with the sentiment of the article and the extreme usability of FP. It was easy for anyone to create a website for recipes or knitting designs and to publish it to your corner of the web.

For the longest time, I've felt that an open source project that basically mimicked it would be a great idea. (And for all those widgets, it should be easy to have those operate in asp.net or php... Bring back the page counter!)

For all those static site generators out there (I've written 4), I'd still use a FP clone that edited HTML, rather than markdown, or other.

The closest thing seems to be WordPress, but it lacks one fundamental thing: it's not a desktop app, and requires server config (db and user login).

I think it fair to state that with the demise of FP, (& then flash), the web became too 'professional' as the grandma and 10yo were pushed aside for the semantic web. I still feel strongly that it can all come back with a nice desktop app that worked offline.
The documentation for mutt suggests using lynx with mailcap: http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#mimesupport

But using mailcap + some terminal browser should work in general. w3m, lynx, or browsh should work.

For example: http://jasonwryan.com/blog/2012/05/12/mutt/

Even a normal browser will work:

text/html; firefox -remote 'openURL(%s)'
I think is valid criticism ... even if you pick a subset sometimes the types are "forced on you" by libraries or even by code written by coworkers.

TypeScript advanced types are there to model existing JavaScript codebases, but when designing software from scratch I've seen that is too tempting to go crazy with the types, ending with something pretty messy (JavaScript! :-).
"Content creators" almost universally only make significant money when the content they create are ads or porn. It's also about as viable a career choice as "becoming a pop star" was a while ago.
Merriam-Webster has a 1998 [0] reference that sounds close to the modern usage, though I don't know when got popular - at or before 2008 though, based on their next example. I do vaguely remember "viral video" and "image macro" were distinct in the early/mid-00s though, at the time I don't think they were grouped together under "meme".

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/meme-word-orig...
Oh, my bad at that, got a brain fart I suppose. Sweeped surveillance (which is usually SIGINT) is not minded, and often the backbone of programmes such as Five Eyes relies on that. Targeted surveillance (SIGINT cases that I mentioned) and espionage (mostly HUMINT) is frowned upon. HUMINT is especially frowned upon since it means you're actively investing in recruiting citizens against their government, and the intel is usually much more valuable and more expensive to garner. HUMINT Intel isn't practiced between staunch allies either, but maybe between uneasy allies and enemies.
I just remember its appearance in “The Arrival” as “el radio”
Ah. So basically a multi-tier building code that builders/etc certify during their work? Makes sense - I'm not sure if there's an equivalent in USA or not. There are certainly minimums in most/all? places, but I have no idea how much consistency there is. The bigger problem is probably that there are a bunch of old, cheap buildings in places that experienced major housing booms during lax requirements, and those still exist :|
to make the 'small impact' much bigger - can someone turn this list into a search engine ?
Interestingly, that comment was made by an HN user who laments that Elm was mocking them and is one contributing factor to them leaving Elm, due to having such a dictatorial style where Evan thought he knew better than the community.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22824899
How did you pivot from kernel programming to designing chips? Did you already have a background in embedded electronics?
60 years in a tropical environment, no less. The humidity there cannot be kind to steel.
Hi,
Author here!

Yes, your hypothesis is correct.
We chose Go, mostly because almost all of us were quite familiar with it and there weren't many C experts :)
Well in C# the collections have efficient searching and sorting built in :) but as for whether they can recognize design patterns — VS and R# can definitely move members and symbols around fluidly within a class hierarchy.
Province of Britain
EUV Challenges and Unknowns at 3nm and Below
I loved Frontpage, I used it when I was young (15?) to create an inordinate amount of websites that I ran on one of the IIS servers with Frontpage Extensions, and other doodads, on a computer in my house. That server software came with Windows NT 4.0, which I got in a package of Microsoft software (pretty much everything developer-related that MS sold) I got for free when I went to the MS dev conference in Phoenix (late 90's) because I thought it would be fun. I remember eating quail or some other small game bird at lunch and talking to the real developers who thought it was really cool that I was into computers and showed up at this fancy conference at 15. I don't remember barely any of the presentations, but I do recall seeing one ASP.NET presentation at the time showing an interactive page with a database and everything (whoa! it blew my mind) and I thought that the internet was going to be really cool someday soon after that.

I never became the superman techie that a lot of the folks here became after getting into computers that young, but this article reminded me of those happy days programming with a free version of Visual J++ (why god?!), so thank you.

On another note, as I looked up Visual J++, I read that it was sued out of existence by Sun in 2001, but Microsoft supported the MSJVM for J++ for security updates until 2007! Then, they created J# in order to give those developers a way to transition to .NET technologies, like C#, which was then supported until 2017. Can you imagine any other company supporting old, decrepit technologies like that other than Microsoft? I have a kinda newfound respect for them and their engineering culture of long-term support.
Did anyone else read the title and instantly think of Gavin Belson from Silicon Valley?
sr.ht supports ARM64, PowerPC, and SystemZ from what I can see on the list of supported builds: [0]

They also support MIPS (and their BSD builds support SPARC).

[0] https://man.sr.ht/builds.sr.ht/compatibility.md
Using something like io-ts gives you the benefits of static types and runtime types. JSON Schema typically just provides runtime guarantees but doesn't come with the same development experience. I've been very happy with io-ts so far.
I suspect we might even see a reduction in all cause mortality: Those who were going to die in 2020-2025 without the virus for health reason, were more likely to die this year because of covid.
High-NA will run $300 million per tool
Let’s Kill Security Questions
> $17.99/month

That... is quite steep as compared to India, where the family plan for YT Premium (if I recall correctly) costs Rs. 99/month, approximately $1.33/month. PPP is real :|
This author talks about media houses having staffs skewed towards the young and educated as if that's not something naturally supposed to happen.
Paint is preventative maintenance. It's a lot cheaper in the long run than not painting at all.

For those that don't know, paint should be considered a non-optional component of most iron or steel objects, since paint serves the important role of preventing rust formation. It's less important in most uses of aluminum, since aluminum oxide tends to form a protective layer instead of flaking away.
The secret Demon's Souls door was unlocked and it's guarding a cool item set
[..] and ignore my installation time (since this is something I would enjoy doing) [..]

Therein lies the fallacy that has made many founders/CEOs rich, exploiting the sweat and tears of brilliant folks who were just having too much fun building products:
My time is free because I enjoy what I do.
The article fails to mention new companies that are trying to solve this problem, e.g. https://tidelift.com
They just re-recorded their first album which was a pretty straightforward but still weird trash album from 85 that's arguably as good as anything else from the era. It was recorded by a kid on a 4 track though so the quality of the original was too bad to really understand how good it was.

Dave Lombardo (Slayer Drummer) and Scott Ian (Anthrax Guitarist) joined three of the original members for the re-recording. Scott Ian was a fan of it back in the day and thinks it was more musically complex than what they and most of the other big metal bands were doing at the time. And it was written by 15-17 year olds inspired by Slayer's Reign in Blood.

But yes Bungle did a later album that was crazy circus metal and eventually they did a really great album of music that was less heavy (not metal at all) and more accessible called California.

I love all of it. Search for the 2020 version of Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny for their new stuff. Easily the best album released this year IMO. RTJ4 was also pretty good though.

Bungle wasn't really an offshoot of FNM, it was the lead singer Mike Patton's first band. FNM is also criminally under-rated. Their only really famous song "Epic" isn't really representative of the rest of their work. IMO the follow-up album Angel Dust is the best album of all time. They experiment with lots of genres and its still weird stuff though so its not gonna be everyone's cup of tea.

Sample of the Re-Recording:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U5ZKKxqUzY
Can you point me to some evidence for this huge portion of the population wanting lockdown until vaccines are distributed?

Should be pretty easy, given that so many people believe it.

Well, it didn't work forever, but one can clearly see that most countries of the EU locked down in March/April, which reduced cases massively. They then held cases at a low level until September/October.

This is much better performance than the US, where on a country basis, the numbers basically never went down, and are now increasing massively from a much higher base.

Sure, it's not causality but it's suggestive evidence.
Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
Something I never understood is why don't more maintainers just post the rate at which they'd be willing to do the work other people want?

I suspect very few open source maintainers are doing so well financially that there's NO rate they would accept to perform other people's requests for their own project.

Whatever number it would take to motivate you to do the work, just put it out there. Aside from the fact that you might get paid, there's a hidden benefit: cheapskates who don't value your time as much as you do will quit asking for freebies.
This is a youtube dl production.
A New Generation of Autonomous Vessels Is Looking to Catch Illegal Fishers
guilty as charged
No, steel is an alloy of iron, carbon, and other trace elements. Saying that "Steel is iron" is like saying "Bronze is copper".
That took 4000ms on a phone.
> Put JavaScript into types.

It's not without precedent - Haskell has a Turing complete type system. (There's also Scala, Rust, and C++ templates which are all arguably Turing tarpits.)
Welcome roblox overloads
> whatever they have

That's what is being threatened, other browsers. Google is throwing its weight around to try and enforce browser standards that are bad for a lot of people. Just like with amp.

> It's much, much safer, because the app can't see or hijack the login process - it doesn't get access to the login form and can't phish you with it.

Apps that try this shouldn't be running on your computer. This is not much safer, it's negligibly safer with a significant cost.

> The utter ignorance in comments here is really depressing, what happened with HN?

The irony.
Something I keep having to remind myself, and other engineers in teams I work on is "Good enough is good enough".

There are plenty of projects they're working on that could be better if they could spend another week or two working on it. But is it sufficient to actually justify that time vs working on other projects? Can we quantify how much difference that extra polish will make several months down the line?

I find it hard to fight myself, because no small part of me sees my work in the same way Durnik does:

> "Always do the very best job you can," he said on another occasion as he put a last few finishing touches with a file on the metal parts of a wagon tongue he was repairing.

> "But that piece goes underneath," Garion said. "No-one will ever see it."

> "But I know it's there," Durnik said, still smoothing the metal. "If it isn't done as well as I can do it, I'll be ashamed every time I see this wagon go by - and I'll see the wagon every day!"

I landed a huge improvement on a product at work about 9 months ago, after months of work on it. Cut execution times down by a huge amount and made the customer experience more consistent. Managers look at it and see what I achieved. I look at it and see all the things I don't like about it, all the ugly hacks and things that make it work.
Have you ever thought about your house? The whole damn thing is fuel.

Do you store things in the attic? plastic tubs? How about the basement? cardboard? Do you have wool, paintings, plastic toys, plastic anything, wooden anything? Look around you and the places you keep things. Oh my god curtains they are more or less just flame conduits.

Your couches, your clothes, everything around you is fuel for a massive fire. It can be a bit scary when you really evaluate it. I bet you have never thought seriously about the risk before.

Admittedly at a city level, 3 kilotons of ammonium nitrate in a strategic location should definitely have set off some real thinking but on a personal basis most people are surrounded by fuel and don't think about it at all.
Now is the time HN. We need a decentralised YouTube alternate.
This is a strange complaint because PageMaker etc are document editors which produce paper documents - or PDFs in the worst case.

There's no benefit to archiving the source files and demanding they be opened on new hardware because the historical interest is in the content. And the content hasn't been edited for decades and won't need to be edited in the future.

If you really need the content you can pull it out of a PDF or scan it from paper. And if you really need to preserve it you can scan or screen shot the source files - which takes work, but so does setting up old software on new machines. (Probably at least as much considering how hard it is to emulate an identical operating environment with all fonts, deprecated image formats, and so on.)

So this makes as much sense as complaining that MacOS or Windows don't support the ancient professional magazine typesetting systems that used to run on minicomputers.

The files for those are doubtless backed up somewhere - probably on mag tape, possibly in landfill - but they're culturally irrelevant because the output has either been scanned and put on the web or simply forgotten because it's of no cultural value.

The bigger question is why there's a cultural fixation with preserving every last element of the past. It makes sense for content of record such as newspapers and certain magazines, but it's hard to understand why a crossword puzzle magazine for seniors from 1982 or a zine that only ever had twenty five readers needs to be preserved.

And what's going to happen 25 years from now? Are we going to have the entire archives of YouTube, Spotify, Facebook, IG, and Twitter to sift through?

Would we want to, even if we could?
I'd love to spend a year there, but what always stopped me was communication. The Internet in Antarctica is absolute shit because geo satellites are only barely visible, sometimes.

Starlink might finally fix this problem. Anybody know the current status of Internet access at McMurdo?
> That's what is being threatened, other browsers.

Is it? Oauth regularly opens Safari on mobile and Firefox on OS X for me; it's not clear that this move itself is forcing users to chrome per se.

If they're blocking non-popular browsers, that's obviously a problem. But if they'll let users open Firefox or Safari, then it seems fairly obvious to me that this is a mistake more than a sinister plan to drive Chrome adoption forward. After all, if they were trying to drive Chrome forward why would they push me more towards Safari?
Gonna have to disagree here, they made a great Q&A despite the software not being designed at all for Q&As.
NYT would probably do very well if they assigned a staff to just pull interesting stories from their archives and promote in their front page. Maybe make it so readers suggest and editors would pick them. Historical staff is fascinating

(I know they are several websites that do that, but this is NYT traffic we're talking about)
https://youtu.be/EuwmWnphqII?t=2119
I bought and started reading the first few chapters. Great writing style and content as well. 10/10 would query again.
Is the case available on the court portal? You can email me richardbarosky@gmail.com if its been removed since it was retrieved.
Please don't cross into personal attack in Hacker News comments. We're trying for a different sort of conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Without a CDN, the streaming experience is going to suck for anyone outside of the geographic proximity of your dedicated server
From their website

> Functions can also be inverted so that you can solve for their parameters. Note how we were able to use the one equation for Fahrenheit temperatures f to calculate a Celsius temperature c.

This looks really cool. Thanks for the recommendation
Why I will not exercise my Gitlab stock options (2017)
If you go to Site list and click on "Invert listed only", you can then have it enabled for a list of sites. To add a site, just click the site's domain on the extension when you're on that website, that website will be added to the list, and dark mode will automatically be enabled for that site.

It works like a whitelist instead of the default "Not invert listed" option being a blacklist of sites to disable it for.
Opposition to Afghanistan Withdrawal Shows Its Key Factions