skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can anyone "in the know" (perhaps someone that can read Russian news) comment on this?

From what I've read (mostly linked from HN) it seems like he was poisoned by the Russian FSB. And, agents from those agencies were tricked into admitting on tape they did in fact do the poisoning.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/12/21/if-...

Are there any senators in the US actually moving sanctions forward regarding this kind of behavior? Is this likely to have an impact?

For example, this:

https://www.coons.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/09.24.2020%20Russ...
Many states have laws that specifically prohibit the intentional use of a drone for surveillance of someone else on their personal property.

This announcement isn’t at all related your concerns, and changes (essentially?) nothing there whatsoever.
I listed a lot more than just special needs. I'm talking about students that need remedial lessons, more support for problems at home, too. These are all things that will be more expensive and charter schools can decline for.
Surprisingly capitalism seems to be helping here. A lot of people feel they are unable to afford to own a house and have kids at the same time.
Keep Calm and Open Up Your Mind
Not just LaTeX, groff gets no love even though it can deliver nice output. The syntax is even more arcane, but on the other hand it doesn’t need GBs to install.

Asciidoctor is a good modern proposition that can handle more than markdown can, but it’s not without shortcomings. Unfortunately markdown, asciidoc, rst and friends have been focusing too much on publishing to the web. Conversion to PDF is mostly over html (in some cases by firing chromium in the background) and the results are not as great.

It is difficult to compete with Word for non-technical people, if the alternative is to install and learn multiple tools, configure a dev environment and setup build toolchains.
Spear phishing?
Is Firefox not supported? Tried submitting a paper and it says "File is not a PDF, too large, or corrupt" in Firefox. Seems to work fine in Chrome.

In any case, the paper I submitted is one I coauthored, so I like to think I'm a reasonably good judge of what's important. Maybe the tool just isn't a good fit for my field or my writing, but the highlights appear to be essentially random.
There are two "the"s in the HN title.
One of the challenges with voice assistants is that voice is a very low bandwidth medium for communicating information. If I ask Siri to tell be about Bill Gates, it would take her a minute to read to me what I could skim in seconds from a Google Search result.
QuickBase and Knack are along those lines.

A long time ago I used QuickBase. It was like a Google sheets before google sheets and you could couple multiple sheets together, relating them.

It has probably come a long way since then, but ironically, I can't get past the marketing ui of the website to see how it really works.

Fucking marketing people love to hide the product behind bullshit.
>Also, you can't grow more than an acre of wheat for self-use legally in the US anyways.

I find this very surprising, especially considering this should vary by state (although I know this might be the kind of thing the Commerce Clause could get up into).

I can't find any information that there's a cap on wheat production in the US. Got a source?
That sounds really convenient. How far away is the homed system from adoption?
The sample container separates from the spacecraft during the Earth encounter. The spacecraft performs a manoeuvre to return to an escape trajectory while the container falls to Earth. There's a graphic showing the re-entry procedure at http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp - the 'TCM' points are where adjustments are made to trajectory, the final one sending the spacecraft back into space.
I think it's the opposite.

Text rendering used to involve complicated hinting and then subpixel rendering.

These days on Retina screens you don't need hinting or subpixel rendering.

You just render it like any set of curves, no longer any tricks about it being a font, because it's hi-res enough.

What rendering tricks are you suggesting are being added rather than being taken away, for fonts?
I assume this is the v1 product, and simply preparing for the v2 using Apple silicon (M1? M2?)

Apple sells integrated hardware and software. They don’t license macOS to anyone else. Why would they start now having seen that strategy fail in their corporate history already?
That's not always the case, where they would only pay the $150k. It's situational, but if the company has some process in place where they basically only work through one recruiting agency, the scenario you spelled out is the practical implication. But if the company is also open to other avenues (referrals, etc) they may pay more than they would via a different channel.
Even if clearview is 100% white supremacists they would still want the software to catch the correct brown man.
How mRNA went from a scientific backwater to a pandemic crusher
There's a lot of cruft on /new which I'm sure either has no humans behind it... or has someone doing nothing BUT spamming their domain's links every day. They don't care and they don't engage.

Flag, flag, flag...
Regarding refrigeration appliances, this is a solved problem. Most commercial refrigerators and ACs have a separate condensing unit placed outdoors (which also houses the compressor so its own heat doesn't affect the indoor location which is a problem when cooling).

The problem is that most homes aren't build with this in mind and don't provide a place to run the refrigerant lines (nor comes with the lines built-in) especially for the fridge.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201228193320/https://www.nj.co...
Absolutely right. They need to have some skin in the game, or otherwise be held accountable if their actions cause harm.

That can't be solved with a software update.
While Armenia and Azerbaijan fought, their citizens battled on social media
When you think about how complex it would be, it makes very little sense to bother putting so much work and money in to such a little savings which also means you can no longer move your stuff around or easily replace your fridge with a different model.

Your time and money would be better spent on buying solar panels and batteries. And once you have those it would be better spent on investing in solar farms.
> I don't understand how the fact that the boss at your daughter's kindergarten hasn't complained addresses that concern

The data[0] appears to show that if you are under 60 and otherwise healthy, the risk from C19 is somewhere between "very low" and "zero".

The younger you are, the lower the risk. If you're a child, the risk from the virus itself is so small as to be basically meaningless; the impact from society's response to C19 is likely to be severe[1]

[0] https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/wp-content/uploads/sit...

[1] https://data.unicef.org/covid-19-and-children/
I think their cloud play _will_ be B2C driven.

I predict they will build customer-facing 'cloud-powered features' where 'third party app code' can run on the apple cloud infrastructure 'on behalf' of a particular apple customer.

They will present a utility computing model to customers -- where each customer sees 'cloud-computing usage charges' displayed by app.

Ultimately, the cloud-compute/cloud-storage charges will tie back to the customer associated usage costs for storage or some other abstract usage based model of for cloud resource costs.

"Apple Cloud: build features for apple customers using usage-metered cloud resources -- with the customer paying for the usage charges they incur."
A failed polygraph while inadmissible in court will still be used by police during their own investigations to confirm or deny their "gut feeling".
The attitude is behind the scenes. I'm not upset about the ghosting because I've ghosted my fair share of people accidentally.

The external view is very friendly, and I definitely don't apply this inside the org. Inside the org I play by the rules.
I thought that this error in the e-mail was funny since complaining to HR departments is in fact a little unprofessional. If you don't receive an e-mail back from HR or a recruiter, it means that the company wasn't interested in you. 'Ghosting' doesn't exist in the hiring world. No reply universally means that you've been turned down. Receiving a reply is an unnecessary courtesy provided by some companies. Job hunting can be daunting, but do not whinge to companies that have turned you down. They may hire you in the future.
Interesting. Do you know much about Montreal's metro.
For Toronto what is the proportion of open cut to covered? I was led to believe by someone who should know better that it was all underground!

This may explain the reluctance to accept they are not on the right track: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/upton_sinclair_138285
Unusual Locomotion
Sublet for a smaller amount till the lease runs out, at least you will lower your loss or even come even (considering that you'll be paying way less in the new place you move to)
Even in Seattle/Redmond so many people have relocated to cheaper places if they can WFH.
Apple quietly launched a one-on-one college mentorship program
There was a study in the last month showing telomere lengthening in humans via hyperbaric oxygen chamber. Still waiting for more reproductions of the study but quite promising.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/can-breathing-pure-o...
Fusion Energy.
Business automation.

There seems to be so much that can be easily automated by simple scripts. We just need a better UI and a better way to teach people how to use it.
I think this response and some others vastly underestimate the value and complexity of „unskilled“ or „menial“ work.

I ultimately respect middle class nerds with a sense for abstraction and upper class leaders with fine manners and so on. But the worker, who had to make hard tradeoffs, learn to serve and deal with having little, is naturally on a different level.

You don’t know the value of work, if you never _had_ to work.

And I think the world would be a better place if the most powerful understood that.
It is a race to the bottom. A vicious cycle of applying and recruiting being more and more spammy. If n positions consider n candidates who all apply for all the n positions we have the end game where no choices can be made and closing a position is played by dice.
I made https://dotfilehub.com as another solution for this.
I can understand it for some long-distanced batch delivery, by a giant drone.

However, swarms of little drones flying in the sky of cities or private properties seems incredibly irritating, however efficiently they improve deliveries.
To be clear, reward in this case is just progress in the application. No one is ever paying me (and I wouldn't ask for) any of this.
The actual release from the FAA today regarding the two new drone rules for "Remote ID" and "Operations Over People and at Night". The release includes links to executive summaries and full text of the rules: https://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsI...
I agree, which is why that name and email are total fabrications on my part.

I was mostly trying to make the point that my email is my firstlast and Mr First Notevenremotelysimilarlast registered with it and I'm a little skeptical it was an honest mistake.
Who's the "a lot" of us with a food and water crisis? My understanding is that the vast majority of water usage is industrial and I've heard for decades that food scarcity isn't an issue, it's just the distribution that's a problem (i.e. politics). Desalination can be done for fractions of a penny per gallon at scale.
It’s clever and cute but I don’t think it will last.
Back when I did my GCSE (mid schools exams) in 1977, I programmed a very simple tennis game that I read about in a UK games magazine sometime in 1974.

A 2 player game, the court is divided into 12 spaces (6 either side of the net). The serving player rolls two dice and moves the ball that many spaces. So 12 is out, anything below 6 hits the net.

Following a successful serve the opposing player gets to choose whether to roll one or two dice. Other than that its normal tennis rules. It's mostly luck with the main skill deciding whether to roll one or two dice.

Or how about Rock, Scissors and Paper?
Which will quickly be made illegal if it interferes with major commercial activity
It may be a jurisdictional thing or a lack of ad blocking? I didn't see a paywall here in the U.S. with a generic ad blocker on my phone, FWIW.
I’m thinking this is related to the machine-learning coprocessor. They likely expose this to developers through their ML API and don’t want to have to support this for external customers if it changes. Still this is a great find!
I'll take your comment in good faith but I must let you know it borders on trolling to me (not upset, just amused).

A key complaint I have is playing right out here -- there's no possibility for critical analysis without it getting, erm, not-calm.

Just for fun, let's imagine if you got your wish, but it was Islam that supplied that authoritarianism. You'd be good with that too?
Leary–Lettvin Debate
The software already are free
Given that the available equipment is what's available, saying that the equipment is biased versus that black people are harder to photograph is a distinction without a difference. I've literally experienced this when I saw how a film photo of one of my friends come out. He isn't super dark skinned, but he is dark enough that this particular film tinted him green! You can't tell me that was the photographer's fault, can you? Was it my friend's fault? No, of course not, and I never said anything to the contrary.

I also resent your implication that I meant anything other than that. I never claimed it was the fault of black people, or that there was anything any individual black person could do about it. I think you should check your bias here.
Real estate agent here... so I see a lot of houses and get asked a lot of questions about houses... at the root of your inquiry, I see a couple things going on:

1) Builders at scale aren't willing to make these kinds of investments. They want standard designs that they can throw up as cheaply and quickly as possible. Frankly some of the developments I've seen in my area are just hideous - like if they had just run the streets the other direction people would have had view lots, but they were too effing cheap and lazy to even do that, let alone hire an actual architect.

2) Distribution networks of building supplies are ineffective and feels like a market ripe for disruption. Just because there exists some cool new material or energy-saving option out there in the world doesn't mean that one's local builders have access. So, whatever is available to them is what's going into local houses.

3) Consumer tastes. Human beings have notions about houses. Lots of humans like house designs that are conforming to local norms and traditions. So thermally efficient designs like below-ground homes often end up as outliers that don't sell particularly well to buyers who don't understand the benefits.
Yeah, when you put it that way, it makes more sense.

I still hope they’ll make the rules more permissive at some point, especially as drones are integrating more and more flight automation and collision avoidance technology. Maybe certify certain drones with specific features and restrictions as being suitable for commercial usage without a license? Accidents can still happen, but... accidents can also happen with any kind of commercial activity, even without drones involved at all.
Here is a list of the top 10 selling games from 2018. Nearly all of them used in-house engines:

* Red Dead Redemption 2

* Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

* NBA 2K19

* Madden NFL 19

* Super Smash Bros. Ultimate*

* Marvel’s Spider-Man

* Far Cry 5

* God of War 2018

* Monster Hunter: World

* Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey

Further, what I would call the poster triplets for ray tracing Control, Metro Exodus, and CP 2077 all use in-house engines.
I've always wondered why big studios don't employ some people that just write bots to play through scenarios etc.

I mean the biggest issue with creating good bots is getting the required data to make decisions such as "you're getting attacked, you need to use this ability" etc, but if you're actually the company writing the game, there shouldn't be any issues creating APIs for that. Or even going directly into memory and read it out, you don't need to worry about getting banned after all.

Imagine Integrationtests in the form of bot scenarios. Is that too much overhead to implement in the usually very budged oriented setting of game development?
Fusion energy and regenerative agriculture. Maybe I’m naive, but I see those 2 being unbelievable transformative for the world, significantly improving quality of life and preventing all those really bad climate change scenarios that seem almost inevitable at this point.
Do people on HN ever get sick of making the same pithy comments and then going back to a world that doesn't change?

Say LVT twenty times, it changes nothing. There is no LVT. There will be no LVT. You have upvotes and nothing else.
> It would be very nice to be able to use the laptop with a dead battery as long as it was plugged in.

lol ... apple must be the only laptop manufacturer to not allow that... can you use your iphone while plugged in?
Cloud tools for musicians. It's a pain setting up a new environment. So many plugins and libraries etc. Also, version control and backup. All manual.
Also of note is that in some regions it is apparently common to run the power to the fixture itself, then extend down to the switch. Which means there will always be hot wires at the fixture unless the circuit is shut off.

My experience with this comes from people who were from the southern US and who found it very weird and even at first insisted it was "wrong" to run the power to the switch then to the fixture. My theory on where this comes from is that this is a result of most homes in that area being built on slabs and so the power feeds are generally run through the ceiling. Whereas locally most buildings have basement/crawl spaces so the power feeds are generally in the floor then run up the wall to the switch and extend from there to the fixtures.
Honestly this just sounds like NIMBY. First there are loud drones and quiet drones, noise pollution can be regulated. Next the video from a drone for spying on a woman jogging is nothing compared to someone with a decent DSLR with a telephoto that makes zero noise. And third drone deliveries could have airspace carved out that avoids residential or places that would annoy people.

Now that said some people are obnoxious with it, they fly by people, make noise, I agree that should met with criticism, maybe fines, but I also believe drones will have a big impact in quality of life not just from delivery bots but police, medical, and including hobbyists.
That Coons bill is very intriguing. Any idea what happened in the Senate after?
If they were offering to buy for $10k and up, maybe that'd be different? (more likely to be serious? Or a honeypot somehow?)
Anybody who owns more than a home, including "small" landlords.

If you look at land distribution in cities, you'll find lots of super wealthy families, hidden behind LLCs, and a few REITs, the smaller scale landlords, and then finally individual homeowners.

Those wealthy land hoarding families are often worse than REITs for cities, in that maintaining their own political power is more important than profits, and that can be worse for people on the lower end not the economic scale than even REITs' horrifying landlord behaviors.
Updated my reply above, we do support one-line embed code now, which means you can place your customer's video testimonial anywhere, whatever is Webflow, Carrd, Weebly, or anything.
How many? 4? 24? 42?

I noticed a decline almost Internet-wide since around the 2014 UK elections. I wish an opinion calling space exploration a waste of money was the worst of it.
I'm a whore. I write code for money.

I would say everyone I know in big tech fits into this camp.
You mean what we had with project Athena for decades? Or NFS mounted homework? Or plan 9?
You might be surprised if you ever worked in B2B or B2C sales. It's not uncommon to apply a "spin" to effectively set unreasonable expectation for your client, whether they be an average joe or a law enforcement agency.

Not ethical, but also not exactly uncommon.
On a vaguely similar note, I got recruitment inquiries from folks that recruited for Google for many years. I finally decided to look into it as I was considering going back to fulltime work from working on my own projects. Great hour long chat with the recruiter, great hour long phone interview with a Googler who went to my school. Was told that I'd hear from a manager in NYC when they got back from leave in a month. Nothing. Heard from the original recruiter a few months after that asking if I was still interested. Said yes and relayed my experience. And then nothing again. It really saddened me as I was quite excited about the prospect - I had friends working there and loved the idea of possibly being able to create and then build a big thing as a 20% project in addition to working with a smart team of folks. I never wound up looking into Google again.
There was a big splash about this just a couple of weeks ago: hyperbaric oxygen treatment triggering telomere restoration.

Don't know if anybody has shown any actual benefit from having the telomeres boosted. Some of what had seemed like a good idea (antioxidants!) have turned out to interfere in essential signaling pathways, and be therefore harmful in excess.
Paying according to which articles people click on has already failed as a model for determining truth and relevancy. We need to think of “one weird trick” that will have the same “stunning” effect but without the incentive to appeal to humanity’s baser instincts.
I think about the truly massive # of packages delivered all over the place and think we'll need some significant routing protocols in place before we can easily get enough drones airborne without crashing into each other. Sort of a tcp/ip for millions of drones.
I haven't followed drone stuff closely in a while. any idea how this affects an older drone like a DJI spark that wasn't designed with these requirements in mind? is it just impossible to fly legally now?
Commercial delivery drones will likely be some form of VTOL fixed wing craft, which can be significantly quieter when cruising.

Additionally they can usually fly higher which further reduces the noise pollution.
2 weeks is definitely not a short expiration date. Giving someone 24 or 48 hours is an exploding offer. Giving them two weeks is not.

An expired offer letter doesn't mean the candidate is rejected. It simply means that we need to move on to other candidates by that date. If someone has pressing circumstances, we'll make it work.

However, when you have a specific position to fill it doesn't make senes to reserve a spot for a candidate who wants to spend months interviewing at many different companies. The longer you reserve the spot for someone, the more interviews they're likely to take and the naive odds that they'll join your company continue to go down.

If you aren't in a rush to fill the position and you really like the candidate, it might make sense to hold on. Otherwise, it's best to move on to other candidates. If you can't find anyone else, you can always regenerate a new offer letter for the first candidate.
Is it really worth it to have your peace disturbed by hundreds of annoying little helicopters just so you can have a panini sandwich delivered in 2 minutes instead of 10?
How to trademark a business name or copyright a logo in 2011
For any entrepreneur starting a startup or a business online, how to trademark a business name, brand, and copyright a logo are some of the first concerns to face.
Not a hot dog tech for filtering, lmao!