skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Analytics are an invaluable resource for a volunteer-run project. To their credit, they issue a noticeable warning with the command to turn it off. It seems to me your issue is more about using Google Analytics - if there's a better alternative that is sustainable (read: free and doesn't require much effort to maintain) that should be suggested.
Youtube algo blessed me with his channel recommendation couple of weeks ago. Finally looking forward visiting UK to appreciate his arcade and the Museum of Everything Else.
I don't like arguments about definitions

i agree. i do however like to clarify definitions so that we all know what we mean. i am quite happy to continue the discussion with OPs definition of natural, because now that we understand what that definition is we can get back to the actual core of the issue.
Changing orbital plane requires delta V, and the Shuttle had barely enough to make it to LEO (the highest it ever went was servicing the Hubble).

Cargo capacity... Not that much really, since you're carrying yourself a whole lot of orbiter already. It had a large volume in the cargo bay, and the mentioned ability to retrieve things in that cargo bay.

But yes, DoD/military influenced the design of the Shuttle. It just turns out they never used the capabilities they requested. And so you end up with a craft that makes little sense for civilian use, except for the building of a massive space station in orbit and eventual servicing of satellites.
As long as we ignore the violent things done by our country for the past few hundred years, it will continue to poison our society. Reparations for slavery could be one approach, but it doesn’t account for enough of the pain we’ve caused.

Genocide, slavery, civil war, imperial conquest, overthrowing democracies in favor of repressive regimes, to today’s bombing of people in other countries with drones. We don’t discuss these things because they’re painful, conflict with the narrative of ourselves we’ve been told, and are drowned out in modern media because both “sides” agree with the policies.

America is bloodthirsty because we always have been, and have taken no meaningful steps to change it.
New plan:

1in = 2.5cm

1ft = 3dm

1yd = 9dm

1mi = 16092dm

I'm not sure whether it would be more or less likely than eliminating imperial units entirely :/

(edit: This wasn't entirely snark. For reference: the circumference of the earth is ~24901mi. With the new measure it would be ~24903mi, which isn't too shabby)
Metric is currently the “ preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce”

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml;jsessionid=8314B6B7A95CC...

As you mentioned, the foot and all other U.S. customary units are based on the International System of Units (SI).

https://www.nist.gov/pml/weights-and-measures/metric-si
Prior art: the “Total Perspective Vortex”
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex
> nothing prevents you from using expressions like “3/8 of a cm”.

I'm going to use that with one of my European colleagues. And watch their eyes cross as they try to make sense of it.
Where i studied there were maybe 2 girls max in all of my engineering classes, And all of the guys i met were just interested in video games and had no social lives (like myself). The social networking aspect of uni was the biggest joke of all.
Apple has a monopoly on Iphone app stores, your number is irrelevant.
It's always hard to know if tech based phenomenon is actually new or just a migration of something to digital form. There are two ways to be wrong, broadly.

One way is the "technically true" error. There are plenty of predecessors to twitter, spam, podcasting, etc. Legally, philosophically and such... it's usually easy to underestimate impact because it really is "nothing new." But... in different medium, at a different scale or higher velocity things change. Junk mail is like spam, but the junk mail problem rarely got beyond manual handling scale.

The other way to be wrong is the opposite. Assuming that digitization will create change, but all we get is a digital version of the previous.

It's hard to know the future. I agree that Deepfake is likely not going to change the world of imposter/fraud too much, though it may get a lot of attention.

OTOH, I do think it has the potential to weird up the entertainment world. I also think it could be high impact in media. If nothing else, it'll strengthen the "skeptical of everything" segment's skepticism. That said, guessing these things is a losing game.
I expected to see just one or two, but this really does have quite a few good ones!
The White House is not a modernist / postmodernist building that was designed with planned obsolescence in mind, so I'm not entirely sure why you've used it as an example. In fact, it's a perfect example of a beautiful neoclassical landmark that was intended to inspire and last through the ages.

Survivorship bias is always brought up in these discussions, but I believe it to just be a cop-out. Take a look at any well-preserved medieval / renaissance / early industrial era city in Europe (Bruges, Edinburgh, Venice). They are all absolutely gorgeous, even the buildings used historically by the lower classes (ones that were not even built with longevity in mind).

No, something flipped around the 1920s, and architecture, along with our whole societal philosophy around it, has clearly changed. I'd argue that it's for the worse.
Minivans are the most practical for this purpose. The third row seat in most suvs are for children at best.
Swanlove is a cool website.

Has there been much response from linkedin users?

I'd have thought that men and women might want to steer clear of mixing business and dating.
You don’t have to change everything all at once. Make new things use both. Then later make new things use metric only. Maybe. In the UK milk comes in multiples of a pint but with millilitres shown on the packaging too.
Things that are all possible and payable in every country on the planet, poor or rich, except the US of A
Most of this is nonsense, but I'll point out a few things:

> "Infringement and damages are unrelated concepts"

No. They're the same concept. Infringement is okay if there are no damages. That's how a lawyer reads a contract. You're merely confusing types of damages. There are many ways to calculate damages. You're describing statutory damages. You usually run the calculation all ways, and take the greatest number which applies (but not always). That's how you might get into hundreds of thousands of dollars of damages for an MP3 collection.

> "unless you're sitting down with a lawyer (which let's face most open source projects are not)"

No, this isn't right. Most major free software projects do have access to lawyers. I've worked on several, and what I did was always reviewed by in-house counsel (and not just one organization). Even if there isn't a corporate sponsor, that's what a lot of the free software / open source not-for-profits do. I've had conversations with volunteer counsels too. Most minor projects generally won't need a sit-down session with a lawyer, but if they want access for whatever reason, it's not rocket science either:

1) Look into your social network. I have 3 or 4 lawyers who went to the same college I did. When I have a legal question, I do call them up. For something as simply as the nonsense you're spouting, any lawyer can set you straight.

2) If you are doing work at a company above a hundred people, it will have an in-house counsel. Shoot them a quick email. Most are friendly; that's what they're there for.

3) If you're not (1) or (2), you probably have someone like me in your network.

4) And if all else fails, you can go to the right meetup.

My experience is that for a volunteer project, open source, or similar, most lawyers are glad to chat.

> "Just read the damn license"

This is just about the worst advice on HN. Your options:

1) Read the license with a lawyer

2) Read the license as well as articles from actual lawyers about the license

3) Learn enough about law to read the license correctly.

You're misreading the licenses, and that's what's dangerous. It's kind of like referring people to WebMD over a doctor.
The biggest historical reason for the current state of affairs is that metrification largely came with industrialization, but in the US industrialization had already happened with US customary units and industrialists resisted the change. Or that’s how I understand it.
Critical race theory in 2021 is so absurd that if you wrote a novel about it being used as a cultural weapon to destabilize societies it would be rejected. But it's happening and there are no signs of it slowing down yet.
So do American products.
You got the right idea. The sum vanishes once $k > \min{i, j}$, so WLOG if $i \geq j$ you've got $\sum_{k=0}^j \binom{i}{k}\binom{j}{j - k}$, which is equal to $\binom{i + j}{j}$ by Vandermonde's identity [0], which is well-known enough that you can reliably expect people working in combinatorics to recognize it on sight. This goes through for every entry of the product, actually, so there's your proof.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandermonde%27s_identity
There were apps like this among Facebook friends, I don't think something like this would pickup because you need to know about the app.

Women are showered with people approaching them so they don't feel the need to register - or they register to something more on-point (see tinder, bumble).

That said, women may be in the situation where they like someone and that someone is blind/shy to make the first move (men rarely imagine being the recipient of female attention).
I would focus with something where women-only can send a flirt and men can register with the hope of getting one from someone they know.

Best of luck
Hmm - based on the comment I thought I would find an article full off synth terms like LFO or subtractive synthesis or low pass 12db filter or whatever,but it reads like a regular movie review, focused entirely on people and their plight...
#1 is a mixed bag. Access by car is "easy", but traffic can be awful.

#3 is a negative. The separation from housing makes them LESS suitable for office space.

Put the two together, and even if the mall is redeveloped into nice office space with room to walk around, people outside the mall have to drive to do so. For people on the other side of those major arteries, they literally have to drive 1-2 blocks to walk around the mall (or former mall).

None of which is to imply we shouldn't redevelop malls into mixed use "urban" hubs. But, we shouldn't assume that redeveloping the mall in isolation will succeed. The surrounding area might need significant changes to fully utilize the former mall zone.
Thanks. I've already installed nix/nix-darwin and tried installing wireshark, but it isn't working for some reason. I have some reading to do.
I don’t use version control when I’m writing
From the first wikipedia paragraph, I don't see anything wrong with building things so they'll look cool a) when they're maintained and in use and b) when they're badly maintained and crumbling. I'll take 'Ruinenwerttheorie' buildings over brutalist concrete piles that look disgusting the day they're built and worse as they age.

The 3rd Reich had a lot of problems, but they had some good aesthetics (Huge Boss, etc). To ignore that, and shun a whole realm of aesthetics because it was appreciated by The Devil, is a waste and a poor strategic move; you're abandoning the beautiful elements because they had the misfortune to be mixed into a dark brew. It's an artistic tragedy, and a poor political move, putting you in a similar spot to the 3rd Reich themselves with regards to their ideas about 'degenerate art'.

The height of technology, and we cloak ourselves in ugliness and mediocrity, not daring to build anything beautiful. What a fucking waste. The sorts of small-souled people who build modern western identikit cities don't deserve to go to the moon.
Nobody's even going to mention the effect of welfare here, either, which subsidizes single motherhood and each additional child out of wedlock? Or the effect that this has had especially on the families of minorities?
An European household rather uses 10-20kWh/day, usually closer to 10. The question is, what is cheaper, to build a 6 M tower that can lift 2 tons of concrete or a nice Lithium battery pack which uses a lot less volume too?
I can tell you (I'm English) and i would expect most people can (with those preferring feet skewing older of course).

The only "in your face" use of imperial is speed limits. Maybe one day that will get fixed.
There may be some merit to the "money problems" arguments, although I'm not sure that people buying luxury fashion items have been hit particularly hard by the crisis.

> Luxury spending is made to satisfy a very deep human need: show off purported wealth, possibly like animal dances before mating.

This seems more likely to me. To show off, you need to be in the presence of other people. With widespread lockdowns and bans on gatherings, there's less of an opportunity to do this.
Flu vaccine Phase 3 trials with over 40,000 participants? I couldn't find one. Most are in the 15K range.

As is the latest shingles vaccine trial:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6590925/

(14,759 patients who received two doses of HZ/su (n = 7,344) or placebo (n = 7,415))

So if 40,000 is "kinda untested" than this one must be complete and utter made-up then
Culture is what is there when you subtract work and manager. Defining a "good" culture depends on your personal work style, role, experience and general life priorities.

Interviews are much more of an art than science and asking good questions is hard. In general, they should be open-ended and get people out of their comfort zone to avoid canned answers. At the same time it's an interview, so you will want to leave on a positive note.

My advice would be to think of what is important to you at work. Then research about the company (maybe also by talking to current/past employees). In the interview, carefully probe for any red flags to confirm your suspicions. Personally, I'd go for things like work/life balance, WFH and career progression due to Covid, but that's very much up to you.
imperial distance units are related by 12. 12 inches in a foot. 12 (* 440) feet in a mile. 12 has more integer divisors than 10, so it is more likely that you end up with whole units when you apply simple ratios. it's not a big advantage in the age of digital calculators, but it arguably makes day-to-day calculations easier.

but to answer your question, I don't think imperial distance units have an advantage with halving. 1 m / 2 = 50 cm, and 50 cm / 2 = 25 cm. no less straightforward than 1 ft / 2 = 6 in, and 6 in / 2 = 3 in. either way we can't go further without creating a fraction. imperial distance has a clear advantage with thirds. 1 ft / 3 = 4 in, but 1 m / 3 is unrepresentable as a decimal number.

of course none of this applies to imperial volume units which are related by various powers of two. these are much easier to halve, but do not have the advantage with thirds.
>Apparently both Apple and Google are monopolies despite being competitors of one another.

It is called Duopoly.

>but it seems we've completely lost the thread on what a monopoly is.

monopoly | məˈnɒp(ə)li |

• a company or group having exclusive control over a commodity or service:
There are plenty of competing walled gardens on PC that sell video games. They seem to do fine.

Apple doesn't even manage to protect its customers all that well with $64B in revenue: https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/8/22272849/apple-app-store-s...

The App Store’s function is very similar to HR’s. It protects Apple, and other benefits are ancillary.
This could mean that video calls can be compressed more aggressively. I.e., just send someone's face once, and then send posture and facial expression parameters for the remainder of the session.
> How about to retrofit wind turbines? They are tall, strong, and empty inside.

It's still basically piss-stakes: the largest wind turbine right now (14MWe Haliade-X) has 765t sitting on top of a 150m tower, so let's say you keep the 150m tower, rejigger it so it can move a 765t weight up and down the shaft without crumpling, and add your weight (a lead weight 4m in diameter and 5.4m tall), how much energy does that store?

250kWh, 2.5 teslas, or a medium-large electric bus battery.

And it's not like you can add that to a working turbine: the tower was set up for 765t not 1500, and you need space for the crane.
It's not really in the interests of Dutch politicians to claim they were duped by a deepfake when they weren't. It makes them look foolish.
Good point. Clearly us humans are not spread out enough.
works with some, breaks with other

on one vpn i use sometimes it doesnt work
For some context, the ‘Anti-Corruption Foundation’ of Navalny and Volkov was giving talks for European and US state/human-rights organizations for years. It's actually a bit weird if MPs didn't get Volkov's phone number and other contact info from colleages of other countries.

But then, phone numbers can be spoofed, and if these incidents are done by the state—the FSS follows ACF for a long time now, they probably know quite well who Volkov speaks to.
This exchange reads like a Fry & Laurie sketch to me.
> “cross chain yield farming aggregator”

For folks like me out of the loop, this is a real thing:

cross-chain / inter-chain: https://archive.is/5ncNj

yield farming: https://archive.is/7JupX

aggregators: https://archive.is/qmUOO
This is like polishing a turd and put it on display.
Well from the consumer side it seems to work pretty well, my bank (Monzo) has wise.com integration and it all works seamlessly.

But now we are specifically just talking about international payments where you explicitly don’t want any currency conversion or buyers protection, and the use case is just getting farcically narrow.
For clarity (since the article doesn't make it clear), there are two "standard" definitions of the units. Is the inch exactly 2.54 cm [the standard international foot], or is the yard exactly 39.37 cm [the US survey foot]?

These two definitions are off by 2ppm. For all intents and purposes, they are the same. If you measured the distance between San Francisco and New York City, the error in measurement between these two definitions would be between 8 and 9 meters.
i dont know what they make , but I like their Ideology
The passenger flight thing is the one I have to really chuckle at. Nothing against the work being done in this area--hey, not my money. But effectively you have lots of folks, who probably mostly take trains, super-excited that maybe one day CEOs and high-end lawyers will be able to fly from NY to London.
I think the point is that it takes a sort of hubris that's quite typical for autocratic regimes to show off to the rest of the world - and future generations - with gigantomanic architecture.

IMHO a healthy society should be "above" this sort of stuff.
Store your timestamps in a long int or string.

Positive = timestamp

-1 = false

0 = null
AI generates new evidence to identify unknown scribes of the Dead Sea Scrolls
It's like how no one cares about which chip is in their smart TV, regardless of price range. They just want to watch Netflix without UI bugs.
When you are an organ donor in the UK, they still ask your family and follow their wishes. The family can override the default or even the wishes of the deceased if they really want.
Apple’s ransomware mess is the future of online extortion
Might I recommend they standardize on 39.3701 inches ?
Claiming they were duped by a deepfake makes them look foolish either way, at least to me.
https://github.com/cncf/foundation/blob/master/allowed-third...

I haven't read the details, or ever seen this policy before (I'm new to both projects) but it was summarized by one of our counterparts at the Linux Foundation here:

https://twitter.com/cra/status/1384859663615864833

Tl;dr: licenses must be approved for use, and the CNCF has this list of allowed licenses, AGPL is not on it. The CNCF is in the business of distributing permissively-licensed software is the short version I guess. I don't understand, I don't work on the legal side, I am a dev and I support end users.

It seems if your Apache 2.0 licensed project needs to modify and distribute as modified an AGPL project, (which for Grafana it seems likely we will need to do at some point, the Linkerd project already has needed to do this if I understood correctly) then you cannot distribute them together, or something about this becomes much more complicated. Chris says they are going to try to work something out, but when a component has made a decision to re-license with a restrictive-copyleft license such as AGPL,

I don't know what there is that can be done to fix it. I hope they come up with something.

Maybe the CNCF adopts AGPL too, (which would mean that then all those "viral-GPL" FUD-spreaders will have been right...) that seems counter-productive if that is the outcome. (So I hope they come up with something else than that!)

Everyone is within their own rights to do whatever they want with the output of their own labor, I just wanted to help dispel the notion that only exploitative companies are affected by this change.

If the "why" rather than the mechanical/legal "what" is what you're after, this is the CNCF position paper on the topic: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2017/02/01/cncf-recommends-aslv2/

> Proponents of copyleft licenses have argued that these licenses prevent companies from exploiting open source projects by building proprietary products on top of them. Instead, we have found that successful projects can help companies’ products be successful and that the resulting profits can be fed back into those projects by having the companies employ many of the key developers, creating a positive feedback loop.
It wasn't a close thing. It was a blowout, substantially worse than 2-to-1 against. (1,798—738).

Maybe you're right, and there will be lawsuits. That's a far cry from saying that the workers there wanted a union.
I'm sure it's hyped up to the point that if you went up there, expecting a cosmic experience, you'd be disappointed.
I've always understood 1 foot = 12inches = 25*12mm = 30cm
I'm sure it's hyped up to the point that if you went up there, expecting a cosmic experience, having imagined and simulated it a million times, you'd be disappointed by the reality.
Because the inch is already metric. Has been for 100 years.

1 in == 25.4 mm

Therefore US customary units, while not being SI, are just as metric units as the calorie (energy to raise one (metric) gram of water one (metric) degre C.

Switching to metric doesn’t have too many advantages - learn the bloody definitions - but has trillions of dollars of disadvantages (think the capital in machining tools. Now add the cost of training the old guys to metric)

In fact the imperial system has some advantages over metric: the measures are often divided by powers of 2, meaning they can be better represented in binary.

Also, there are some very fun quirks with the imperial system that I love:

1 in == 2.54 cm = 2^8 /100 cm. Very useful if you need to convert from a 64th of an inch.

1 mi ~ phi km. Also very cool.

And then all the history behind those beautiful, since forgotten, customary units.

[im a European-Canadian who moved to the US as an adult; trained on metric my whole life]
I attended a conference back in the early 00's, where a member of GHCQ presented. He spoke about assisting on 911, obtaining forensic evidence from hard drives and the lengths that his team had to go to, to make sure that no files where changed while creating a clone of the drives. He stated that they can not just turn on a computer when they have seized it, as there would be about 800 files altered before Windows had even booted to the login screen. This, he stated, would destroy the chain of evidence.
He might have been full of shit though.