skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obfuscated Javascript didn't render here (Chromebook), found what looked like the abstract:

"A well-known phenomenon to cat owners is the tendency of their cats to sit in enclosed spaces such as boxes, laundry baskets, and even shape outlines taped on the floor. This investigative study asks whether domestic cats (<em>Felis silvestris catus</em>) are also susceptible to sitting in enclosures that are illusory in nature, utilizing cats’ attraction to box-like spaces to assess their perception of the Kanizsa square visual illusion. Carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study randomly assigned citizen science participants Booklets of six randomized, counterbalanced daily stimuli to print out, prepare, and place on the floor in pairs. Owners observed and videorecorded their cats’ behavior with the stimuli and reported findings from home over the course of the six daily trials. This study ultimately reached over 500 pet cats and cat owners, and of those, 30 completed all of the study’s trials. Of these, nine cat subjects selected at least one stimulus by sitting within the contours (illusory or otherwise) with all limbs for at least three seconds. This study revealed that cats selected the Kanizsa illusion just as often as the square and more often than the control, indicating that domestic cats may treat the subjective Kanizsa contours as they do real contours. Given the drawbacks of citizen science projects such as participant attrition, future research would benefit from replicating this study in controlled settings. To the best of our knowledge, this investigation is the first of its kind in three regards: a citizen science study of cat cognition; a formal examination into cats’ attraction to 2D rather than 3D enclosures; and study into cats’ susceptibility to illusory contours in an ecologically relevant paradigm. This study demonstrates the potential of more ecologically valid study of pet cats, and more broadly provides an interesting new perspective into cat visual perception research."

Thought that might be of interest to other who, like me, couldn't grok the headline.
Loved the idea. While it is US specific. There could be contry wise version of this idea
This is a poorly written statement but the point is valid.

Above, another commenter linked an analysis that showed 2/3 of “preventable desths” occurred in patients with a life expectancy of 3 months and that only 1/3 of the preventable deaths were for people with a life expectancy greater than 3 months.
Thanks for pointing to ArcaOS. Never knew it existed!
Show HN: It's Been That Long – Compare your favourite movie to an even older one
Le Guin is popular for her speculative and scifi books but her Earthsea cycle is also very nice fantasy.
Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll read “Strangers”. I liked “Dispossessed” and “The Left Hand of Darkness”, specially the later. I have to ask - which “icy word” you mean?... :)
Happiness vs. Pleasure
I don't think Apple let Uber record device screen from background. I think this is something that Uber would be proactively avoiding doing to remain in App Store.

The linked article states that it was granted to render map on old Apple Watch.
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We're talking about birds portending human death. The author even suggested a likely explanation for how the old wives tale started (animals being attracted to run down places because the building's owner is being cared for elsewhere), which would seem to indicate they don't actually believe birds can tell when someone is going to die. I don't think this situation qualifies as "Spidey sense".
I can’t help but believe that California will again be the bellwether for the USA.

In my time in the USA I have seen California signal major trends, from the neocon movement of Nixon/Reagan, tax protest, the rise of megachurches, growth of civil rights for some repressed groups (e.g. LGBTQ+), and so on. And this predates me — it’s a long term trend.

Birth rates are dropping and there is a demographic bulge with the boomers. Instead of laughing at California as the WSJ likes to do, people should consider if it’s what the future holds where they are. Some of the trends discussed (huge separation between mean and median income, overt ecological shifts) are already widespread, and increasing, in the rest of the country.
My Google account is configured right now to only support the Android prompt, TOTP, and Backup Codes. SMS is specifically not enabled, both for 2FA and account recovery.

Either that answer is out of date or it's lacking nuance. I haven't done it in a while, but it may be that you need SMS 2FA initially, and then once you've added TOTP you can then remove SMS.

But SMS is absolutely not required and anyone who thinks it is and is avoiding 2FA for that reason needs to go take a second look at their security settings.
Well, it's an illusion to a certain extent. However, it's an incredible amount of wealth. His net worth increased by 75 billion in 2020. Perhaps that's an illusion and he could only liquidate that stock into 20 billion in the short term. That means he could still buy a 50 million dollar home every day of the year.

To answer your question, he can certainly buy a yacht or multiple homes at any moment. However, if he wants to cash out 100 billion dollars in stock this year, he's not going to get full value, and he'd have to slowly pull it out over a matter of years or decades to do so.
For anyone that hates resizing windows in general on a mac, I've found the combination of using a Hyper Key[1] + Moom[2] to be amazingly ergonomic.

Here's a quick demo[3] of what this looks like on my machine.

[1] https://brettterpstra.com/2017/06/15/a-hyper-key-with-karabi...

[2] https://manytricks.com/moom/

[3] https://my.supernotes.app/share/wire+unaware+noble+meadow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Harry_Dunn
Not to mention supporting the local economy.
Where I work, we have this post as part of our software developer on-boarding experience. It's required reading.
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"First is the diversity of the characters. It's not all white people"

I read The Wizard of Earthsea when I was 11, and didn't even notice the race of the characters. I don't think much of it is made in the book. It's just a passing description.

Much, much later, as an adult I heard someone mention it, and I went back and checked and sure enough they were right. But the characters' race had absolutely nothing to do with why I loved the book.

The characters could have been blue, or purple, or glowing orange for all I cared. The book was not about that.
Being able to test clothes before you buy them to so if they fit is so much more convenient than ordering the wrong size online.
This is not accurate.

I just checked because I thought I was crazy: my account has SMS-based 2FA specifically disabled. The only enabled options are the Android prompt, Google Authenticator, and a set of backup codes.
https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli
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(Submission title is the gist of two tweets by the official SpaceX account.)

This is the first booster to be used for ten flights (without major refurbishments as it is said). Now let's find out how far it is to the end of the bathtub.

More SpaceX news: per Elon we might see Starship SN15 fly for another time: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1390569345361883136?s=20
Clever email subject lines I just HAD to click on
Sure there is. Developers have very different goals and responsibilities than their managers (regardless of whether they were once developers themselves).

The dean serves a different master than the researching/teaching professor. It would be absurd to assume their incentives and goals are always the same, or even aligned.
Generate a temp table with a sufficient number of random values and join. Add an ORDER BY RANDOM() to those results to subsample.

Another approach would be to create a table with a small sample of the main one and refresh it periodically -- each query just needs to do a random reordering on the small sample, and the results will be truly random over time.
I use and like Rectangle a lot, but fullscreening an app on macOS brings real performance and battery benefits. It's not just fancy for being fancy.
I can also go online and buy it from any retailer living in 2021 for a similar or better price. It's really not practical to call up the store and ask about every single item I'm looking for.

You're not wrong that those are options, but those options are the exact reason brick and mortar stores are struggling to stay afloat. They offer an inferior service.
With Google you can disable SMS-based account recovery independent of your 2FA options.
Almost free apartment... I think you mean almost free room for a family of four, inside a three bedroom apartment with two other families.

It’s easy to look back now and say: “They had free health care, everything was great!” But that doesn’t explain why they had to build a wall and use exit visas to keep people in.
I hear what he is saying, although I haven't run into issues with applications so much. It makes you respect how much trouble Microsoft has gone to through the years.

If I've had a problem with desktop Linux, it's been on the driverish edges. Sleep behavior, printers, graphics cards, wifi, multiple monitors. That's also what seems to make OpenBSD a pain.
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Any advice for making a transition like that?
In rural England I've heard of that for magpies (which are corvids I think), but never crows themselves.

Someone I know from Scotland sings a song with the same sort of pattern but about crows proper (like 'Ten green bottles' but for crows - "the last craw wasna' there at a'").
That's massively inconvenient, although I'm sure necessary in some cases. Some businesses actually perform analysis in 'real time' so they can adjust the process accordingly, witch requires that data be accessible. This may actually be such a case as I'm sure they have to interface with customers (tank farms) to react to supply/demand on the branches. For all I know Colonial does have a private network for that purpose though. Usually PAT is really for chemical processes where you are looking for a particular yield and those analytical services are located closer to the process (in terms of networks).

There are devices called data diodes that provide unidirectional network topology, but not all time series data interfaces can work with them.

All in all, I agree that total air gap is obviously the best way to mitigate network attack vectors, but sometimes not practical. No controlling device should be at level 3 or 4 though (business or enterprise level).
I suggest this article: https://www.cryptologie.net/article/474/bits-and-bytes-order... (shameless plug)
But the padding rules between fields are a mess.
> LTS/stable distros just work, out of the box, for most people.

Do you have any source for this? I know a few people who use Linux (or used it in the past, including myself), and number of complaints is definitely a lot higher than from the people on macOS/Windows.
>This is my point, it’s all me, me, me. What about the people that lose everything.

I think that's a very important point. Contrast cryptocurrencies to free software. The free software activists intended to give every user more power, to let anyone modify and share the software they use.

But crypto is different. Instead of empowering everybody, it replaces one concentration of power (old money and fed) with another (new money and whales). So naturally, the arguments in favor are increasingly of the type "this will be good for me": support crypto so that you, too, can carve out your part. Or don't and "have fun being poor" (i.e. left out of the concentration of power).

If crypto were about empowering everybody, it would consider pump-and-dumps in particular and preferential attachment in general to be bugs, not features. But it doesn't, not as long as number go up.
Congrats on being on the HN homepage! :). I’m wondering tho - does this check if a website that claims to be selling something online is a scam or not?
It seems once you are sufficiently big and rich a lot things that are required for smaller players become optional.
I had one job during university at a café breakfast shop which the point of sale, scheduling, payrolls, and such were run by the owner's custom FileMaker program. (She did not like to spend money on commercial software.) It was not so enjoyable as we nostalgiac would think. :)
If I hunt for specifics I usually call small shops:
"Hello. Do you have washing lines? Oh, thank you."

Bigger chains usually has a website you can browse instead.

The value-add is that I can see the washing line before I buy it. Pictures just doesn't make it - they lie. And then I would have to live with a crappy washing line because what are the chances I would bother replacing it with another cheap random internet washing line.
Good suggestions but these do not offer redundancy/seamless-failover nor load balancing in case one of the links is poor (only failover), needs excellent and fast connections (the entire thing crumbles, BLEST barely helps), at this point a load balancer with sticky session is better.
Very little packetloss with OMR is unusable, and MLVPN needs equal homogeneous uplinks (at least in latency), ubond fork needs manual tuning. Overthebox = OMR, infact OMR is a fork. MPTCP requires excellent connections, unless redundant mode is enabled, no aggregation. Overthebox also switched to Glorytun UDP due to the failover issues, but the performance is poor, and upload is not aggregated.

Speedify/Riverbed($$$) can do bonding, load balancing, and redundancy at the same time per each flow going to the VPN, it also does packet steering if one link goes down in aggregation mode. If parallel downloads are detected, or flows with the same source, they are load balanced instead of aggregation, provides much better performance and no buffer bloat. Uses DPI to detect sensitive connections and routes them to the redundant channel.
It also stops bonding and sticks to load balancing if the majority of the uplinks are bad. e.g:

ISP1 Good: LB + aggregation channel with 2 + redundant channel /
ISP2 Good: LB + aggregation channel with 1 + redundant channel /
ISP3 Bad: LB + redundant channel

or

ISP1 Good: LB + redundant channel /
ISP2 Bad: LB + redundant channel

"Bad" as very high latency difference or/and packet loss.
Packet aggregation is used only when a single TCP download session is detected. LB is preferred.

It solves all the issues when combining different types of internet which deemed to be impossible or poor before.
This one in particular is good because, it's public, it's not that scary, but it's easy to make the jump to scary attacks.
In that world, what is local availability except that someone happened to already ship some quantity to a location closer to you?
You can try them on in the local store and then buy the same size online. Works wonders for some products like brand sneakers or jeans.
The AUR is wonderful. Ubuntu's support for PPAs comes in at a close second, though less from a tech standpoint and more because of Ubuntu's massive community. Both provide a middle ground, inbetween the ideal of the package manager (which almost always works) and the frustration of trying to build the software from source. With the AUR, someone else has resolved most of the kinks for me already, and that's time saved that I can really appreciate.
So my choice is to harass/insult a minimum wage employee and distract them from their already-overloaded and already-minmaxed job so that I can spend more, get in my vehicle and spew carbon into the atmosphere to......give money to a family of ultra-billionaires instead of one ultrabillionaire? And that's helping my local economy?
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> If you have a Google account for work you also have a work issued computer at minimum

I have a Google account for work. I don't have a work issued computer.

I think you're assuming too much about how other people might work.

I agree there are enough options that it shouldn't really be a big problem, but it's not surprising that not everyone are aware of the options.
He's almost certainly exposed to more cultures, though you are right: he could be extremely bigoted and xenophobic. It's just less likely, even if marginally.
Does Apple care about privacy? Yea, maybe, as you said there are a few evidence to support that.

But does Apple have the competence on security to fulfill that care? There are also a lot of evidence to support that the answer is no.
Why is that? Basically why you dislike Tolkien, as LotR and TWoE have different flavor so liking one over the other isn't strange.
The MacOS theme currently at the top of Show HN (https://portfolio.zxh.io/) lists this earlier project in the credits.
As a worker one deals best with large companies by maximizing thru put. I always keep more than one project going and when one is blocked I do something to save state, and pick the next most urgent one to work on. (Where urgent can also mean “fun, no deps and a clear improvement towards the long term goals,” even if relatively unimportant). However for development process, latency is a total killer. Your growth equations vary smoothly between “development work returns simple interest” and “development work pays
off as expinentially with time” as the interval between a change and it being fully known to be good in production drops to zero.

Put it this way. I am going to have that second cup of coffee. Making the whole pot at once pays off consistently day over day. Will this slightly different way of doing the load balancers pay off tho is less certain. It needs experimentation. And if I can turn the dial and watch the effect in real time, I learn quickly. If I wait one week for each data point, I learn slowly.
When multitasking the black line splits the bar into two so, Apple could reasonably just put the camera icon on the correct side.

When the app is in overlay mode, there is a bar at the top with the grabber, the icon could go on it as well.

There's enough space, and bars.
The difference is that managers ultimately have to answer to a different type of crowd (consumers, shareholders, whatever). External pressures play a role. At universities, it is professors all the way. The people who are on NSF grant committees are professors. Journal editors are research professors.

There is no external pressure on these people. NSF grantors don't value Nature publications because they have to answer to the public. They value it because they value it.

If a professor becomes a dean or head of NSF, and they decide to make changes to what is considered prestigious, the only opposition they'll get is from their peers.
I certainly don't want to disagree with you, though the sheer scale of what I saw is difficult to believe.

I'm talking in the order of a million square kilometres. (DRC alone is 2.3 mil...) Do you think that could be done with stone tools and fire?
If that is the case though, you are not really enabling SMS 2FA. It is just SMS (1F) authentication.

Real 2FA would (theoretically) never make your account less secure than 1FA, because even if the second factor has 0 security, it shouldn't decrease the security of the first factor.

However, it is true that this may not always be the case for imperfect implementations, like your example. I can aldo imagine that social engineering might have a higher succes ratio if the intruder can say "it really is me! I have the correct second factor, I just lost my first factor...".
As other comments have noted, it's easy to get this implementation into a state where it throws "S" pieces at you over and over.

It would be better if it used a variant of the Random Generator algorithm, which guarantees an equal distribution of pieces.

https://tetris.fandom.com/wiki/Random_Generator

Lovetris should choose, from the remaining pieces in the current bag, the one that it thinks is "best".
Nice idea. There’s a moral there somewhere.
Not sure I’d consider Walmart the kind of local business being discussed here...
Kohls solves this by giving you 120 day returns so I disagree. Plus you don't have to sort through everything and check the prices in store. Just wait for it to show up, try it out. Keep it if it's good, ditch it if it's not.
Sales needs to adjust to the new reality. Recognize that people have options and other sources of information and focus on answering their actual questions instead of trying to sell them on something.

If I walk into a car dealership it's because I need specific information not available online, even if it's just to see the car in person.

What I don't need is a whole sales pitch. That's wasting my time and the salesman's.
The most obvious trick is that there is always at least one crazy priced dish on the menu that almost nobody ever orders but it is placed there so that in comparison everything else looks like a great deal.
Show HN is for posting things you created yourself.

I guess Amit isn't Vivek.
Perhaps, but what I've witnessed: (in the broadest strokes of unspecificity)

Rural: "I don't like what the city folk are doing. They should change."

Urban: "I don't like what the country folks are doing. This is how we should change them."
You're right. Sturgeon's Law applies to all ages, and there are a ton of awful old books.. but it's just a lot easier for me to find good old books than good new books.
I feel like it's not a knowledge problem to the counterfeiters, but more of how the economics work in counterfeits.

A lot of people are ready to pay for a 20$ bag on AliExpress and probably never seen how a real Louis Vuitton bag feels, so they don't see/feel the difference. Same thing for jewelries, watches, shoes, etc. You see a lot of fake Yeezy (for example), and you can probably get a similar enough shoe to the real one, but it'll cost 100-200$, and most people are not ready to pay this price for a "fake".

On r/repladies, I've seen girls pay 1200$ for "fakes" that are very similar to the real product, at a certain point that only a handfuls of people will see the difference.
I see any suggestions on subreddits related to business
I'm currently taking a small Hacker News break from my Coursera course on project management (the one made by Google!). This is oddly relevant.

When compacting timelines because of a schedule deviation, you typically decide to crash or fast track. A crash is your typical nightmare of achieving more throughput (like the author mentions). A fast track is performing previously sequential tasks (high latency) in parallel (more throughput).

I realize this isn't groundbreaking information but I wanted to share what I learned of project management lingo :-)

https://www.simplilearn.com/fast-tracking-vs-crashing-articl...

PS - The course is very good. Coming from a world of consulting most of my life I thought I had a good grasp on terms, ideas, etc - but I've picked up quite a bit here, Google did a great job with the course.
In German _ein hundert drei und zwanzig_, literally _one hundred three and twenty_. The hardest part is are telephone numbers, that are usually given in blocks of two digits.
By the same token, I think most uses for C++ these days are nuts. If you're doing a greenfield project 90% of the time it's better to use Rust.

C++ has a multitude of its own pitfalls. Some of the C programmer hate for C++ is justified. After all, it's just C with a pre-processing stage in the end.

There's good reasons why many C projects never considered C++ but are already integrating the nascent Rust. I always hated low level programming until Rust made it just as easy and productive as high level stuff
Honestly I disagree they had anarchism. Seemed they had a sort of collectivism where they replaced some authority with "computers that hand out assignments" and pseudo-authority from the capital (Anares? I forgot).

It looked like an odd system where presumably you were free but conditions were so hars and social pressure so strong that you did what was required. Sweden in space desert.