skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A more charitable interpretation is that the copy/paste isn't because the authors are hopelessly out of touch: instead, they're seeking to enable the direct re-use of all of the executive policy and judicial precedent which has developed around those legal particulars since they were first codified.
it doesn't strike me as impossible or impractical that programmable interferometers could be constructed in the near future. Is there any limit blocking this today?
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Among other interesting things:
"for the exchange of DNA profile information [...]: Data are exchanged by Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and other state-of-the-art technologies, using a central relay mail server provided by the network provider. The XML file is transported as mail body"

Well, this is not good
let's say someone is born into extreme poverty, and through decades of hard work becomes wealthy enough to give his child a great education and a 1 million dll inheritance. is it not his right to use his money on his child?

then lets say this child turns this education and inheritance into 1 billion dollars worth of wealth. does this have no merit??

ive seen many people squander privileged upbringings, i think if you 10x what was given to you, you have some merit regardless of where you stared from.
This is not what the article is about at all. It is saying we should not reserve the second dose in the freezer for that patient and should instead immediately distribute it to at-risk populations. Then we should trust the supply chain will come through for the second dose and that a 1-2 week delay in case it did not would not overly harm immunity. It is perhaps a very sensible suggestion that would depend on the supply chain quality.

I think we should all make efforts to tone down our rhetoric and not tilt at windmills.
It could. But so could a crash of a truck or a train carrying any type of liquid/gaseous fuel (e.g. truck carrying the gas to your local gas station). The article talk about LNG requiring thicker tanks than ethylene and ethane, both of which could also 100% explode if in a wreck.

I think the worry is that the volume of shipments for LNG would be much higher, and hence the probability of something happening is higher. A singular shipment of LNG would be no worse than a single shipment of car gas.
Does Google? They've been publishing cool papers for many years but the experience while using Google Maps has been consistently highly-unrealistc ETAs with things like unprotected left turns across 4 lanes of traffic “saving” time (in areas like DC, NYC, BOS, etc. where they have tons of data, too).

Maybe this is the iteration where the results will actually match the publications but it's been years since Apple Maps wasn't consistently more accurate on actual arrival time for me.
I was not planning to fly on a 737 Max for at least a few years without crashes, just because there's no point taking what still seems to be a risk when there are so many alternatives.

Reading the Verge article and the senate report findings (linked in laydn's comment) just confirms that there is still cause for caution.
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Who in their right mind is memorising IPv4 addresses, at least beyond the IP range used on their home network? Nobody remembers MAC addresses because nobody needs to: IP and the upper layers hide that. If you don't want to adopt IPv6 because it would make remembering your IP addresses harder I'd say you have much more pressing issues to resolve first.

I'd also argue that many people, me included, have simply stopped remembering phone numbers (and maybe addresses) now. I have some (my parents', etc) committed to long-term memory but there is no way I need or even try to remember new phone numbers I come across. My contacts list does it for me.

IPv6 adoption is slow because a) it hasn't been essential so far, b) it's weird and different to IPv4 and if using it isn't essential, why bother? It's the technical equivalent to rewriting all your recipes from imperial to metric units, despite owning scales and measuring tools that still do both.

(Note: I am a nerd and like playing with this stuff so I am mostly v6 where possible.)
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Doesn't mean that the "Sherpas" team, should not have picked that up earlier on.

Sherpas in this sense is the actual career diplomats who do the hard work - but I suspect they did not have subject matter experts to pick this up.
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I so so much appreciate this article. Google's maps dominance has been frustrating me, both as a user who wants innovation, and as a developer who wants affordable access. Very excited to read about these combined efforts (and, like you said, anti-tragedies-of-the-commons)

Thank you!
It's only mentioned in one line, at the very bottom of the page, but Jason Snell also is doing this series as a podcast:

https://www.relay.fm/20macs

It has a lot of brief interviews with other long-time Mac users on their experiences with each machine.
And my lasting impression is that LibreOffice is trying to make CSV import/export as easy as possible when MS Office is trying to make it actively harder and harder in every version.
It sounds like nobody cares what the rules are, only that there are rules. Humans are strange.
The article mentions a couple of new spaceship discoveries from 2020, the Speed Demonoid and the doo-dah spaceship (look them up in the LifeWiki). But it came out just slightly too soon to be able to mention a third one that was discovered only yesterday:

https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Anura
> Maybe the relationship is the biggest difference.

Yes, I am a newlywed, married just before the lockdowns started in a stroke of great luck. My wife and I have fared pretty well, even though she is in a vulnerable group and so we have been in isolation together since March. We have kept ourselves entertained but don't have kids yet. It might be a little strange adapting to regular married life after this. We went right into isolation after our honeymoon..

Really the biggest toll this pandemic has taken is on my liver
Unless that model was expected to also function as some kind of push-to-talk device on a local radio network.
The issue is not who gets the vaccine, but whether to hold the second doses in reserve or distribute them as first doses and use later-arriving doses as second doses. The former has the obvious advantage of vaccinating more people quickly, but runs the risk that if the second doses don’t arrive on time the effects of the first dose will wear off.

Edit: I originally used the phrase “back to square one” but I agree with replies that it’s the wrong phrase.
Cough Magna Carta Cough.
I think for those of us who have played any amount of shooters can attest that the game itself wouldn’t make you any more violent. It’s one of those “common sense” things that for non gamers seems obvious: “violent games make you more violent”, and the for the gamers out there the opposite is true, it’s obvious that they don’t.
The more competition the better, though article’s take might be somewhat rosy-eyed.

In the end-user apps domain, alternatives including Apple Maps lose to Google Maps miserably in all regions I have been to in the past 2–3 years with the exception of mainland China. If I need to get somewhere and accurately estimate arrival time, I am not happy feeding Google my movement data but I will since it’ll be the most reliable option available no matter where I am.

As far as developer-oriented solutions, I know that Algolia Places shut down earlier this year citing insufficient quality of OSM data[0]. If Mapbox is indeed getting there and we’re about to have some proper competition in this space, I’m all for it.

[0] https://www.algolia.com/blog/sunseting-our-places-feature/
There's plenty of room if the IPv4 header to extend it.

The most significant bit of the IP protocol number field is mostly unused. The IP protocols that use it could be safely deprecated on the open Internet.

Setting the MSB indicates a 64-bit address.

In 64-bit mode the source IP and destination IP fields in the V4 header become the most significant 32 bits of the source and destination IP. The least significant 32 bits of each are present in the options field, which contains enough room for both. In 64-bit mode any other use of the options field is deprecated. The bit index of these 32-bit chunks in the options field could be standardized to permit easy hardware decoding. The part of the options that indicate the option type and length could be present for backward compatibility with IP64-unaware routers but otherwise ignored.

Uglier than a clean slate design? Sure, a bit. But if this had been done, we'd already be using it everywhere and the problem would be solved.

TCP, UDP, and other IP protocols could remain almost entirely unchanged, though I imagine tables in software stacks would have to be extended to support 64 bits of address space. That's not a major change.

I just came up with that in 10 minutes while replying to this post. I assume it would take a committee several years to write the above spec.

The big "win" here is that existing IPv4 routers in the Internet's core infrastructure do not need to be upgraded all at once. They'd just lack the ability to understand anything beyond /32.

Honestly there are probably enough /32's to give one to every major endpoint, so I wonder if the core would even need to worry about it at all. I imagine that ISPs would hand out /32's to business customers (maybe for an additional fee), but once IP64 were widely deployed they'd probably hand out /48's to most subscribers. That would give you 65,535 "real" IP addresses for your house or small business. Mobile phones might get a /56, which would give them 256 IPs for tethering and permit cellular networks some additional IP space.

There are nice things about 128-bit addresses, but I am not sure they are worth adding 30+ years to the transition and having to lug around the hideous boat anchor that is NAT for an extra few decades.
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s/literally/theoretically/

When I'm looking to spend money to solve a problem, I search for a product or service to buy.

I never, ever, ever search for a patent to license, because that's stepping into a legal minefield.

Show me a field where people looking to spend money to solve a problem search the patent database for solutions, and I'll believe there's a field where patents are a good thing.
It can predict, but that’s a different thing entirely.
This reminds me of when I was at grad student in that area. It was really frustrating to read all of the studies from e.g. Anderson and Bushman asserting the links between violent media and aggression.

These publications were headline-grabbing, but some of the study design was laughable. The whole state of affairs led me to leave the discipline (which led me to a career as a software engineer). I'm glad that I did, because the reproducibility crisis hit hard within a few years of me deciding to do something else with my life.

Some of the studies that I read made me think that there was a link between frustration (caused by e.g. undesirable outcomes in videogames, or performance issues like high latency) and aggression, but of course the researchers assumed it was the violence.
> What Dan got wrong: Both problems discussed were created by computers. A large collection of machines generating logs is possible to analyze, but that possibility comes from massive investment in tools designed to parse, extract and report on linear and structure data.

I don't understand your argument. In what way does that disprove Dan's point?
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What advantages do you plan over Ubuntu?
> In every instance I've seen, redistribution does limit mobility

Much of Western-Europe show you otherwise, I'm not sure how you could have missed that?
It's not enough to just aerosolize the LNG, it needs to mix with air in a rather narrow fuel-air ratio of 5-15% to burn. Further the flame front speed of methane in open air is only 4 mph - it won't explode, though as the flame front spreads it might kind of look like an explosion (think about what it looks like when you light a gas stove or grill). Such a fireball can potentially ignite things in close proximity, but there won't be a pressure wave that damages structures, so you can't have a situation where one tank 'exploding' causes other tanks to explode, though in a crash it's easily possible multiple tanks are damaged.

Natural gas is an explosion hazard in enclosed spaces. If you walk into your house and smell gas, that's very dangerous. Note also that even if there is no explosion hazard, fire is still dangerous.

If you are uncomfortable with rail transport of crude, that's a perfectly legitimate stance to take. Honestly, transporting any flammable substance (and many non-flammable ones as well) does pose risks. If you know the risks and benefits and think the former outweigh the latter, let people and especially your representatives in government know. However, society generally seems to accept rail transport of oil and similar chemicals, so outrage over the transport of a less dangerous substance seems like it would be more likely to come from a place of ignorance than rational analysis.
Why does political activism have to be related to political ambitions? (I'm assuming you mean personal ambitions). Of course you could be an expert within a field but also try to promote or intervene in some decisions with your knowledge, without greater political aspirations. Is not a requirement, but if you're interested in providing useful insights from your field, just go for it.
I went through wxBuilder, but the problem is the same... it's a one way trip, and once you start hooking python to the generated code, you lose the ability to tweak the UI without losing work.

I got around this with wxBuilder by building my own interface layer to decouple everything, but then I needed to change a list to a combo box, and everything broke.

Things that take HOURS this way are a few seconds in Lazarus.
Google wants to control all the ways people search the web so that they don't have to share profits and so that a competitor can't emerge. That's why we have Maps (location), Android (mobile), Home & Assistant (voice), and Chrome (URL bar).
It is closed.
Not everyone feels that the Maxes will still be significantly more risky than the alternatives. I suspect that risks from other factors dominate, and few people choose not to fly if the weather is bad. It would probably be more useful to know how long the flight crew has been on duty, or where the airline gets its maintenance done, than what airplane is being used.
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There's a big difference between still using a very-common hashing algorithm that happens to no longer be secure, and discussing the use of programs that haven't actually existed in decades.
It would probably be easier to fly two mechanics up in SpaceX's Starship and just install it. No rovers needed!
for the west highland way, you don't necessarily have to camp. it runs along various cities and restaurants, so you can hike it each day using a day pack, and stay at hotels and hostels overnight. there are companies that will move your luggage to place to place while you hike. I tried the west highland way, got about half way before I slipped and hurt my knee, but i would like to finish it at some point.
So, death by a thousand cuts instead of by a single blow?
If git is able to detect that the file was renamed - which it will if the only change to the file in the commit is the file’s name - it will work. I’m not sure whether this works if you also change the content of the file in the commit.

Same logic applies to git blame; file history is maintained for renames.
Apple is behind, yes, but you overestimate how dependant many core services are towards Google Maps. Many Nordic services like transit apps and websites among others use either OSM with the country's own Land Survey's map data.

As long as Apple and competitors can a) have businesses add their locations easily and b) have public transit companies' timetables in their system, they are already within arm's reach of GMaps.
>They have full coverage of high resolution pictures taken from planes and not satellites

...as opposed to google maps not using aerial photography? AFAIK most urban "satellite" picture on google maps is also taken with planes.
Database of many missing or detained Uyghurs is available here: https://shahit.biz/eng/

It's very upsetting to see companies such as Apple, H&M, etc using forced labor.
Install code-server (https://github.com/cdr/code-server) on a server, and using it in your phone's browser to develop small web apps (works well in landscape mode with 6 -6.7 inch phones)

If you have a powerful processor and adequate RAM - you can do almost any thing that you do on desktop/pc
The ads on Google maps are getting ridiculous.
And whos at the head of U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services ?

Sonny Perdue... A charming, forward thinker and believer in science. /s
I’ve seen multiple experts in the media mentioning this idea in Belgium. Not sure if it is really considered by the government though.
I hope that if people don’t bother to read the article they at least see your comment. Most of the comments here so far are debating the merits of what they assume from the title rather than the text of the article.
Or as a starting place to make money and then get out. Not everything/everyone has to have an altruistic motive.
No, the author did not mention a monetary loss/profit, nor would I expect him to. It sounds like he has issue with how he became obsessed with it, to the point where he went to the doctor thinking he had cancer.
I'd be interested in seeing some studies that focus on possible links between gaming addiction and violent behavior, or other addictions in general (or other undesirable outcomes).
Can we do a study on a link between video games and ADHD or dopamine deficiency?

https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/childhood-adhd/adhd-and-video...
My favorite has always been what I call the "bowling ball iMac," more properly the iMac G4.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G4

The smooth spherical half-ball and the swivel arm was perfection. I think the current iMac was a step backward from that.
> We are going about things backwards, because it was all we could do: create organizations surrounding particular subjects, then have people join in. In many cases people are surfing around these groups as a means to an end, they don't care the slightest about the subject but they need it as a medium to connect with others.

As a long-time member of a hackerspace, I've always envisioned it as a "church" (of sorts) for tech. I feel like I've learnt quite a bit from just immersing myself in the place, and having conversations with people from various disciplines.

Unfortunately, we're always struggling to make rent. It's a pity that the concept doesn't seem to work well in high-rent areas — many people view use of such spaces as a transaction, and won't contribute financially if it's just like any other office or co-working space.
Do you have a "before" screenshot to show it used to show this information with mobile? I didn't remember seeing it on mobile before, but again I don't really use it frequently.
That is probably the silliest argument against IPv6 you can make. Just look at the header structure and IPv6 becomes pretty clear. And without old cruft that IPv4 is burdened with, I would argue IPv6 is easier to grok.
The danger is that it's untested and might not provide any more benefit than just the first injection.
I hear you. I’d like a phone that I can plug into a desktop station and use as a desktop computer. Surprised Microsoft didn’t go that route with Windows phone.
> which I’m still scratching my head about.

I'm no type theorist and - per wikipedia - 'strong' is not precisely defined.

'Static' may be closer to my idea : a JS where `typeof` and Number.isInteger are of no use.
Great article full of examples, learned quite a bit new things.

Personally I don't quite get why something like

a[a > 5] = 0

is possible (a is NumPy array).

I think it is confusing to use same name for element wise comparison and the array itself. Are comparison operators overloaded to generate this kind of predicate function or view in other contexts as well or is this some sort of special case that is handled by indexing (__getitem__ call)?
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Yes. Propane is heavier than air, so it sits on the ground and just burns and burns.

LNG rises up into the air and is gone.
They never do let a good crisis go to waste do they? Tell you what all those talking heads arguing about who get's to be first can have my dose.
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The initial vaccination statistics I saw over the weekend suggested that the US/UK have both far outpaced the Canadian vaccination rate (adjusted for population). I don't want to cite specific numbers as I don't remember what they were, but it was a pretty large gap among countries that had approved the vaccines.
I wasn't aware the FCC was going to use that money to buy malaria nets. Each life is worth a star, but the price of a life is far lower.

I wasn't aware the purpose of government fines was bronze-age eye-for-an-eye-ism. But if it is, then I'd point out he didn't kill anyone.
A display for a pihole or a display for a pi based streamer
I'm finding the touch keyboard too impractical for my purposes so I'm going back to BB, probably the Key2 LE. There are other keyboard phones on the market now that run Android but they also don't have the productivity toolset that I'm accustomed to and prefer.
Domestic producers of [all products] in [all countries] have a longstanding tradition of using the apparatus of government to protect their business from competition. These arguments typically take the form of national security, consumer safety and unfair competitive practices.

In some cases these arguments are made in good faith.

In even rarer cases these arguments are true.

But initially it's wise to take them with a grain of salt.
You could make an analog version of this fairly easily too, with a handful of resistors and capacitors to form a high pass network and a signal booster to get the 60db of gain you need.
I'm working on this and I completely agree! I'm a LOOONG way away, my first goal is to create a drawing app similar to http://worrydream.com/DrawingDynamicVisualizationsTalkAddend.... From there, I want to create a WYSIWYG where you can drag in these drawings and add controls. Controls -> data -> drawings.
PS: if you want a real treat, take a look at how some of these studies measure "aggression".

My favorite was where they used the volume of hot sauce poured into a cup as the measure of aggression.

Hopefully they've come up with some better ways of measuring it since then.
ARP I'll give you (though even there it's only actually in the binding of IPv4 to ethernet-like lower layers. IP over e.g. PPP doesn't need it). DHCP isn't inherent in IPv4 at all though. You want to throw it in, because IPv6 has address autoconfiguration built-in. But this is actually just more evidence that IPv6 is more complex.
What's really needed is an internet that connects everyone, where we can all just run our own applications, like it once was.

If we get the OS security issue pounded out by adopting multilevel security, we could get back to actually freely using our computers.

I'm waiting until I can deploy Free Pascal programs under Genode, or if it ever surfaces, GNU Hurd.
Not necessarily, but if you're a well known hacker who is active since 80s and about to visit Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy and the questions appear to be asked mainly to stall you, then MI5 could be involved. At least it's a possible interpretation.
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