skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s not completely clear what inspired these young Parsis … but Babani believes it was their way of participating in India’s freedom struggle. “Instead of waving flags and joining demonstrations, they chose to pedal on a perilous path,” he says, “to paint for the world a true picture of India that would depict the glorious civilization, culture, and architecture of our native land.”

What a beautiful idea.
I did my undergrad in Seattle and had this issue. I eventually made 10 or so unprotected wifi printers spit out the "how to turn off wifi printing" page of their manuals. Definitely cleared up a bit of 2.4ghz room.
It's the binding energy per nucleon that matters.

The nuclei you're producing needs to have a higher binding energy than the nuclei you're fusing do on their own. There is nothing you can fuse with iron, or any heavier nucleus, that will produce a stable element with greater binding energy than its components. Nickel-62 is actually the most stable nucleus, with the most binding energy per nucleon, but stellar nucleosynthesis ends with Nickel-56 which decays into Iron-56, which has the lowest mass per nucleon. All nuclei heavier than Nickel-62 are produced endothermically.
Nice quote, and fun read - thank you.
The point is, obviously, that any of those events could have rapidly ended up with me dead. For doing absolutely nothing wrong.

Do you really enjoy living in a country where police have power of life and death over you and your loved ones?

And what constitutes a criminal? Is speeding an executable offense for you? What about shoplifting? Selling weed? I'm curious.
> However, rejecting it isn't cowardice. It's spiritual growth.

sure is. it's also what gives us the feeling we have a right (if not duty if you add religion or moral arguments) to forcefully integrate these societies (for the purpose of taxation / corvée / slavery) the way we have done it since thousands of years. Oldest example perhaps China's expanding kingdoms creating hill tribes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Scott#The_Art_of_Not_...
Compare and contrast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83VzCP_E1mg

{Astral Matrix - Elastic}
If I am going to be ruled by someone (this appears to be the case, at least for the forseeable future), I would rather it be someone like Alexander than someone like Brezhnev

>I'm not sure if this is better.

Spend a little time seriously thinking about it. The status quo is a very low bar
A 100+ yrs of toxic culture with no end in sight to toxicity in immigration officials

‘They found other parts of the American experience disheartening, such as the rude and insulting immigration authorities. “The immigrant is at best tolerated and viewed with suspicion,” they wrote‘
> As for the Minsky defence, Stallmans position is an entirely rational one and the world would be a much better place if more people would stand up to defend those being attacked by the mob.

You're talking about defending a client in a child sex trafficking ring. That is absolutely disgusting and irrational. It does nothing but harm the free software movement, just as RMS' many other actions have done.
Would it help to use multiple sensors at different positions and use the common points to filter out the 2nd+ bounces?

I think this would work for, say, a mirror but what about something like brushed metal?

Are those other bounces scattered enough that multiple perspective still produce an error?
> or useful to college applicants

This. So many things was skipped and glanced over in school, because it won't be on final exam, so you don't have to know it. This constant focus on exams and numeric results is driving the education system into the ground.
> Reports from N’Djamena, the capital, suggested that in the wake of Déby’s death, parliament has been dissolved and the government replaced by a transitional military council led by Déby’s 37-year-old son Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, a general.

This is so alien to me. Why would they dissolve Parliament in this case? Is this a coup, or an expected turn of events?

The article is a tangle of names, allegiances, rebellions, and dictators. It makes it sound like Déby was one of the "good guys", but I have so little trust for the Western powers mentioned in the article (USA, France). I have no idea what's going on in this part of the world, but it seems like a total clusterfuck.
The right thing for the company to do would be to hire people as employees, but it appears that worker protections are too strong for them to want to financially.

Universal healthcare/dental/paid leave would allow for companies who’s employees currently are the only receivers of these “benefits” to not require companies to hold onto people so long.

Worker protections are supposed to be so that catastrophic job loss is less catastrophic and companies can’t just arbitrarily decide they need 20000 people one month and 0 the next. But we should definitely look into a better deal for the workers and give companies less power over their livelihood.
The Puzzling Power of Simple Arithmetic
LED hack teaches DJI mini-2 drone new tricks
1. Copper is expensive

2. This would block your cell phone signal
Not being as user-hostile as the dominant browser would grow Firefox's market share.
To be blunt: Because they don’t have to.

If they were struggling to find or retain talent or if they weren’t getting the caliber of employee required, they would certainly increase wages as they did with engineers.

When I was tangentially involved with a datacenter company several years ago, they had hundreds of qualified applicants for every job opening. It’s a job that a lot of people want but with few openings.
There are definitely good reasons to, at minimum, have you _available_ from 9-6; say, for a meeting or to bring a coworker up to speed on what you're working on, but at the same time you don't necessarily need to be pinned to your desktop for the entire period of time to do that. Since remote working started I've taken advantage of that big time by just running errands during the work day but keeping my phone close by in case I get a ping on Slack.
This sounds a lot like ADHD, especially in terms of the focus on getting 'to the point' (which can be maladaptive if it results in routinely skipping over the 'filler', which is very often crucial to developing deep understanding).
> I'm using Paint Shop Pro 7

Same here, and TextPad from the same era still works (I occasionally try the version in my download archive saved back around 2001).
> Each time it's been met with surprise that I might object to it.

I’ve never run across a situation where someone wanted to remove a clause from an employment agreement and the company was not utterly shocked that someone would not find the terms acceptable.

I generally think it’s a tactic to get the individual to accept the contract wholesale.
Hello fellow Fairfield County native, there must be literally dozens of us on HN!
Over the course of 10 or 20 years, you can build out the infrastructure to support the previous boom (well, it’s harder in Montana since they are more anti-tax). But in the course of 1 or 2 years? And if that boom turns into a bust before you can get the infrastructure projects going?

Urban planning is useful for a reason. Building housing is far from effective on its own, and not all areas can support the same densities (in the Middle East, they have to be really careful about where they grow). And even if you “win”, the result is a more livable city that attracts even more people, leading to price increases nonetheless.
I'm using Firefox as my daily driver. This sounds like a slope so slippery that you can turn it into a water slide. "After doing research, we've found that it works even better when we remind users every week". And since somebody's bonus will be tied to "default browser" settings, eventually it'll be "we found that users appreciate it if we just make that decision for them".
Lovely. And IBM's subsidiary RedHat are the people who pushed through the dominance of SystemD in the Linux Software Stack.
WiFi calling or nano cell?
> The traditional answer to that is that you have to pass through a pair of antipodal points.

Tedious.

I would be happy defining it as a journey greater than 40,000 km since that constitutes the circumference of the earth.
I second this. Personally I can't tell a Dragonfly from a Fulla 2 from a Fiio E10K from anything else. Well, my Fulla 2 is louder in its left channel and crackles when I change the volume. But no discernible difference in 'quality'.
You don't have to be an "SJW" to be disgusted with Stallman. The vast, vast majority of people will not defend someone involved in a child sex trafficking ring. That doesn't make you a "socialist", it makes you a regular human with a modicum of empathy and functioning moral compass.
There's a sense in which APIs are elitist, but that's a misuse of terms, I think. Where I'm from, elitist has negative connotations. There's a difference, at least to me, between expert and elitist. Elitist is if you would refuse to use a download csv button, even if it fit your use case because you are a real developer who only uses APIs.

Lots of things require expertise, and conflating prerequisites and elitism seems like an overall loss for effective communication.
Thanks for the videos!

For the first one: The conclusion as outlined by the producer was that Tesla has implemented restrictions around how autopilot can be used and that it is safe when used correctly.

(Someone actually in the seat, holding the wheel, paying attention).

He had to jump through a significant number of hoops in a controlled environment to get exiting the car to work. The autopilot disengages when you unbuckle or open the front door, which sounds very reasonable to me. As he stated, idiots are going to be idiots, you can also get out of a moving plane if you try hard enough...

Also, he didn’t ‘almost get locked out’, that is an exaggeration. He just observed that the car won’t open the doors while driving. Pretty standard.

For the second one:

That’s concerning that autopilot would allow you to engage without lane lines at such a high speed. What’s more concerning is that any human would engage it in that situation. You can technically land a small plane with Garmin autopilot systems but it’s really only used for emergencies when a pilot is incapacitated. Should such features be disabled? Or should it be up to the end user to not be an idiot when situationally applying the technology?

As all Tesla owners know, this isn’t FSD level 5 and it’s up to the driver to situationally deem the environment safe to use autopilot. Pretty much limited to highways and large multi lane roads at this point. From my experience of ~5k autopilot miles it works very well in those environments. I’d never engage it on a backroad or parking lot etc. even if it ‘let me’.

What happened to the men in this recent crash was tragic but easily avoidable.
> Why 5 weeks? [...] It's not often enough that it will annoy users.

You know what's annoying? Asking me to change something that I've already said no to, especially when you don't give me an obvious way to turn it off. 5 weeks, 5 days, 5 months, doesn't matter.

You already asked at install time and every time I started FireFox until finding and changing that setting. If I still haven't approved it and you keep asking, you're just going to piss me off.

Respect your users, Mozilla.
> just stop shooting yourself in the foot

It's just non-stop with Mozilla, isn't it?

They have the curious pairing of technical excellence, and a long history of awful non-technical decision-making.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14754740

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22616740

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23391659

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10680925

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24144137

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26262031

* http://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html

* https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1185193
Emulation and API compatibility layers can be done in more ways than an hypervisor-based VM. And many of those other ways perform better.
Stalin jumped on the chance to "liberate" Manchuria and North Korea, after the Americans fought and won the war in the Pacific. When the soviets entered the war against Japan everything was already decided, there had been two nuclear bombings, Okinawa was under American occupation and it was clear there would be an imminent surrender. To make things 100% clear it was not Stalin nor the Bomb it was almost 4 years of fighting in the pacific.
How do people write this with a straight face?

Could they also show the modal 99.99% of the time and claim that meets the language they used?
I also had to engage with this bodyshop arrangement. Heard a fellow contractor referring to it as "paying the pimp", which I guess has some similarities.

It's worth noting that you can usually contract directly with a company as long as you maintain scoped part-time contracts with multiple companies, instead of a single open-ended long-term contract with a single company. It's true that independent contractors are somewhat disadvantaged by this whole setup, but we should also recognize that voluntary independent freelance contracting of this type is quite a privileged position and it's good our desired style of work isn't being used to undermine the rights of W-2 employees.
How so? Mail couriers are surely much older than semaphore systems of any kind.
Yes, they both use the same AK4376A chip.
At a certain points (generally 6 gbs), you're getting network that is faster than internal SATA, so unless you're using pure NVME storage, your network is faster than your filesystem, which means your network isn't limiting you. That happens well before we max out speeds that can be accomplished with twisted pair copper. Even with pure NVME, PCIe as far as I know still maxes out under 100 gbps and no actual storage devices support read or write at full PCIe speed anyway. I mean, not consumer grade at least.
You imply that you are more likely to get killed if you aren't white but this is the classic narrative that you where told by media. The whole George Floyd and BLM nonsense. There is absolutely no evidence that this claim is correct. There are disproportional more police interactions with non-whites and thus more such police interaction can result in a killing.
That does not put a randomly-selected individual that happens to be not white at a higher risk of getting unjustifiably killed. The main reason people get killed by cops is because they are criminals and dont comply.
I agree; anyone who deselected that check-box isn’t going to think - “ok now Firefox will only sporadically check if it is the default browser”
I guess the counterpoint is what does someone, who is uncomfortable about this, think the urban centers they lived in prior to the moves used to be like?

Urban poor or rural poor, techies/finance/etc displace them all the same.

The missing link here is, IMO, community involvement. Don’t become a ghost resident jacking up rents. Do join a community board, PTA, etc. Become an active stakeholder and learn about and contribute to wherever you live.

Locals, urban or rural, aren’t pissed only about rising rents or home prices, but also millennial wealth moving in and not giving a f about what’s already there.

Empathy and demonstrating community interest towards the locals goes so far but that seems so low on the problem population’s radar as an easy solution.
the city school system is indeed abysmal by pretty much any metric you could choose to evaluate (test scores, high school graduation rate, violent incidents, odds of imprisonment, etc).

I'm familiar with the argument that the cohort of students matters more than the quality of instruction. in fact, that is what I'm getting at here. the city has an explicit policy of mixing students from different backgrounds across the school system, the goal being to break the cycle of poor students going to poor schools and staying poor. it's a good goal, but it seems kinda pointless when all the students they are trying to mix them with are fleeing to the county.
The "HN Hug."
I'm a bit confused about the ssh-rsa ("with SHA-1") situation. Does this only refer to the way host keys are presented to connecting clients? Public (client) keys of the RSA type also start sith "ssh-rsa", but I don't understand where the SHA-1 hash comes into play there?
Clubhouse, being the market leader at this moment, doesn't even have good enough content to keep me going back after two weeks. How will having more clone apps on the market (Twitter, FB, Reddit, etc) make it any better? At that point, I probably won't even install any because the content will be diluted so much on each platform, it won't even be worth it to bother.
It's called the Pizza Stain medal for a reason. Service-members are still eligible for it 20 years later, handily beating the Vietnam's 13 years of eligibility. See also the GWOT [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_War_on_Terrorism_Servic...
Reminds me of how the music in Rez for each stage is a single short loop. It's longer than a bar; I think it might be four bars or so. A 32-bit bitmap for each "layer level" controls which of the loop's 32 MIDI channels are active, creating the illusion of an ever-shifting soundscape.
Maybe Bitcoin needs a “proof of proof of work” now. If some entity wanted to brute force an attack on the worlds passwords, the increased electricity and heat would be detectable. But they could hide the activity it inside Bitcoin mining. A proof would be needed.
The FSF is already beyond useless. They don't "need" anything as they don't accomplish anything. It's just a cult of personality around RMS at this point. It's beyond redemption.
>and it can still run MS-DOS code apparently.

Use ReactOS NTVDM, it's far more compatible. Just copy the DLL in the game folder and voilá.
> they have an HDB that’s worth a lot

That got my interest. Apparently there's a HDB lease buyback scheme, basically a reverse mortgage I guess? Though with stronger family ties over there I'm not sure how popular that would be when considering children, inheritance, and all that.
> Unfortunately, it did not perform anywhere near as well

Just guessing here, but I strongly suspect that by "performance" they're only paying attention to the number of people who made Firefox the default browser right away and totally ignoring the number of people who were so irritated that they won't use Firefox again, ever, unless forced to do so.

It's like the websites that justify throwing up a million interstitial popups by claiming that it increases mailing list signups by 0.012%, while blithely ignoring all the people who are angered by such time-wasting shenanigans.

You're allowed to ask me to install your software/subscribe to your newsletter/like your app on the App Store.

Once.

More than that and I'm going to do anything I can to avoid using your product ever again.
1km or especially 2km is not in any way a reasonable walk. It is just barely reasonable for a healthy adult in good weather, and still tedious. I personally find that mid-density is the worst of both worlds, and not just in this regard... I used to live in downtown Vancouver BC and it was great to have everything I use within 200m, now I live in the kind of area you describe (semi-urban detached houses) and I almost always drive, just as if I lived in the woods. In fact, after COVID I wish I had originally moved to the woods!
For me, when someone is critical of another person having spent their time checking out if there are any optimisations for something submitted to HN with, lets face it, snarky, "Well, raise a PR then", that's quite a shame.
Very nice!

I've been prototyping something server-side in the style of the SQL Kappa architecture: facts on immutable logs, possibly keyed (and compactable by key), and SQL materialized views streaming the updates with Flink. And I'm in search of a React state manager in that philosophy.

Rows are sent to each client requesting a feed of them:

INSERT INTO user_orders_total_feed(user_id, data)
SELECT
uo.user_id,
SUM(o.price) total
FROM user_order uo
JOIN order o ON uo.user_id = o.user_id
JOIN user_live_subscription uls ON uo.user_id = uls.user_id
GROUP BY uo.user_id
WHERE uls.subscription_topic = 'orders_total'

But: maybe you want all the orders in the UI and do the aggregation client-side, to have all orders alongside the total. You could move the aggregation to the client side. And it would be great to have the same data language than on the server (so that business rule expression is the same).

In that case, a React Hook library like SimpleR State could aggregate in SQL the sum and update the view reactively. It would look like:

const TotalView = () => {
const view = state.view('SELECT SUM(price) total FROM order_feed');

return (
<>
<div>{view.total}</div>
</>
)
}

I don't think that would be easy to do; but I think there is a market for it: The business folks doing no-code+SQL client-side, and they would sometimes ask through proper channels for a query to be computed globally server-side or be brought client-side.
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In this case that isn't true because the seller is paying out of the full value of the house. When realtors decide give a discount (ie when working for a friend, or other marketing), the seller gets more money and the buyer doesn't see any difference.

There are other ways of looking at it where you are correct.
I have been doing an art project about life on a space colony where the sky is a screen (sorry we can't afford enough nitrogen to fill up huge airspaces.)

I was looking at the possibility of turning the sky into a kaleidoscope with multiple laser projectors under conditions where there is a cloud layer within (say) 1000ft of the ground. I'm pretty sure I could get a permit from the FDA/FAA to do a scale test but I don't know if you could make a real show or art installation of it because whether or not it works depends on the weather, air traffic, etc.

That drone array is another attack on the same problem.
Have you heard of New
England? Lots of educated people in small towns, and want to be there.
That's just the genetic heritability of intelligence and other personality factors. High IQ, high achieving people are disproportionately attracted to certain job markets. Those people tend to have high IQ kids. Those high IQ kids tend to grow up and become high achieving adults. The outcomes would largely be the same whether those same kids grew up in Palo Alto or Peoria. Don't confuse correlation for causation.

Similarly, I'd be virtually certain that children who grew up with a Tesla as their family car are much more likely to attend elite universities. That doesn't mean that Elon Musk has solved the problem of getting your kids into Harvard. It's just that Teslas are expensive, and therefore rich, high-achieving families are more likely to own them.
Yep, they might as well hire a lawyer to defend their bad decisions based on the exact wording of settings.

Nobody cares if the option doesn't literally imply it'll never "nudge" the user, I'd be annoyed regardless. And it's the only option visible to normal users.
One big problem with your wish is that it's underspecified. How close to danger would you put the politicians, exactly?
Being unpaid reviewer is not privilege that is a duty.

Claiming that reviewing patches is a "privilege" is bad for the kernel, and bad for IBM.
The notion of a social or family honor has its own psychological problems.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/minority-report/2014...
If you live in Boulder or the Northern suburbs of Denver you will STILL get the smell of Greeley on days when the wind blows strongly out of the North. It’s a harbinger of snow.

Doesn’t seem to be stopping anyone from moving here though.