skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While not aware of the phrase tensegrity I have rarely seen various forms of "floating tables".

Initial thoughts:

- seems like a manner of construction to swap tensile strength in certain spots, thus allowing for an awesome "against intuition" visual effect.

- could be nice from a packaging point of view. Collapsible objects, the wiki link mentions the nasa ball robot.

- maybe it could shift Bill-of-Materials costs through smaller amounts of expensive extremely high compression/tensile capable materials to be offset by savings on larger amounts of cheaper other capable sections.

- I am not convinced it would allow the superstructures much sci-fi requires as the basics of tensile strength, compression strength are still in play.

- As mentioned in the tensairity article, if humanity could make a pressure withstanding, airtight object, say a sphere, around a vacuum with less mass than the air it displaces, we could have architectural "anti-gravity".

Including an airship with a toe in the water. :-)

Finally, I simply don't know enough.(Do we ever?) It looks cool and is worth investigating further. I am going to lose lots of time thinking about, checking out and printing out occasional bits from thingiverse now!
West Virginia is offering up cash, too, as are some cities. Seems to work.

https://www.wiscnews.com/news/national/a-million-dollars-in-...
Wait. There's an asteroid with more water than Earth? How?!?

Aren't there only a handful of asteroids over a 100,000 cubic kilometers? Even if they were entirely ice - aren't there 1,350,000 cubic kilometers of water in the oceans?

Even if the largest asteroid was completely ice - it still couldn't have as much water as the ocean, right??
Even more reason to switch to other search engines such as DuckDuckGo.
There are more options than that.
Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if the SEC investigates him (again), this time for what was quite possibly a pump-and-dump. Personally, I don’t think he started accepting BTC in good faith, it seems like a (pretty transparent) move to manipulate the price.
No doubt, but he has been something special.
In TX people often, say ~25%, ignored mask mandates inside stores. When the mandate lifted it went to more like ~10%. I get it, I'm a contrarían, but it was surprising that once it wasn't required to be thoughtful, people were.
I have heard people who lack strong visualization are still able to get some utility out of it by verbally elaboratively encoding the thing rather than visually encoding it.
It's a minor surgery, and you can also donate without surgery via apheresis.

In the case of surgery you're put under and they dig around in your hip bones. You feel sore for a couple of days and then continue life as normal. It's safe aside from the normal risks that comes with any surgery. Source: I donated bone marrow
While you're not wrong, who knows what actually catching Covid will do to your body in 10 or 20 years? At least there we actually have evidence that it could in some cases cause long term deleterious effects.
I waited a couple weeks after it was open to everyone here. I waited because the only available vaccines were multiple hours away. I wasn’t going to make that trip twice (and potentially find out they screwed up their count or ruined doses or something) when I could wait a couple weeks and get one in my own town. Doubly so since I have less contact with strangers than most.
Your suggestion is contrary to the CDC's guidance. It doesn't say that it's only safe for vaccinated people to stop wearing masks if the prevailing positivity rate is low.
> The team sold for 8 times what he originally paid, not because of anything he had done, but just because television contracts for the entire league had become so much more lucrative over that time.

And what about your part in this play? The brand is valuable because of its fans. I assume you continued to support this brand, and by extension, this man you seem to despise. People like yourself directly contributed to his wealth — you might just as well not have.
I think you're kidding yourself if you think a company that gets "hacked" by off the shelf cryptoware is going to step up their game enough to have any chance of stopping a targeted state actor.

The fact they caved so quickly tells me they are years away from a reasonable security posture.
I would think it is fine. There have been a total of 340 Covid related deaths for ages 0-18.

https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-Focus-...
Cardano is actually more subtle than that: it simultaneously tanked because of the whole BTC thing but it also got good (and clearly carefully coordinated) press as a “greener” alternative to BTC as a result of the self-same crash, which boosted its price.
What you're missing is the scale at which ML allows you to do those things.

Classical algorithms for path-finding for example might work really well in narrow cases that have firm constraints. ML allows you to expand the scale of optimizations arbitrarily.
About 10-30% of Americans got COVID-19 so far, depending on how you tally the numbers. Of those, approximately 8% can be expected to experience long-term effects that disrupt their daily lives:
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/91270

>About 8% of all participants said at least one activity of daily living suffered long-term consequences, most commonly household chores.

That puts the net risk for non-vaccinated people at no less than 0.8%.

By contrast, the incidence of blood clots from the AstraZeneca vaccine, which caused its ouster, was about 0.001%. That's a factor of 800 in favor of vaccination with the worst of the vaccines.
I see the idea of "phone bricks" finally moved to laptops and that is cool. But in order to lift off that concept has to be open in terms of electrical and mechanical specifications. Otherwise I think it will be just another minor unsignificant event on laptops market.
> no one takes a bus when a train is available at the same price.

I agree, although I'm curious - was this trip to NYC, or somewhere else? Round-trip Amtrak tickets from DC to NYC sell for $150+ dollars, while equivalent bus rides are usually $60 or lower, depending on your departure times.

I've happily taken buses over trains, despite the cramped conditions, just so I don't have to pay $100 more.
seems fairly intuitive if you just think of fat and protein calories all being densely packed in a piece of meat vs a literal pound of lettuce? Just like people joke with celery being net negative calories, you would lose a good amount of calories just chewing all that lettuce. Almost that entire pound would be water.
Thanks for the large amount of effort you've put in to this; it really shows! I'm really looking forward to digging in to this, but I just wanted to ask: will there be an option to download an EPUB version as well?
Source for this??
I won't say freeways are immune to all these problems , but built freeways don't close for union strikes.
Those numbers don't factor in age or preexisting conditions at all.
It's easier than this — you wouldn't even have to sell the business. You can just dissolve the company and return the assets to the shareholders pro rata.
Is that something the SEC is even responsible for?
One of the functions of the government is to educate and train its population. I think using that function could resolve the shortage or high cost of talent.
They said a Japanese oil exploration company, not that it was near Japan. It could have been anywhere in the pacific, and it was as gifted to researchers in Australia not Japan.

Radionucleotide contamination is an issue though. Apparently carbon dating will be useless to date anything since the 1950s in the future due to carbon isotope emissions from nuclear testing. So they must have taken care to ensure they were examining clean samples.
A purely function language people can understand and use to solve problems they find important without dealing with their IT department. What a subversive notion!
Clickspring more or less did this with his antikythera mechanism build
Ask HN: Where is a nice place to host which is not AWS / GCP types
I have a small idea that I am hacking on and was wondering what would be the current recommendation if I don't want to use one of those large cloud providers.

I have no JavaScript, only HTML and CSS files and a few Clojure files which run the API.
Try syncthing-fork [0] on android, it has more features and automated scheduling of sync

[0] https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthing...
That is massively cool! I wonder if you can get depleted uranium. Would love to grab a cube of it for discussions on density.
Pro-rata only usually applies once. The investor has an option to retain their ownership by investing more in the next round, but only that one round. If they use it, it’s gone. If they don’t use it, it’s gone. Then they have to negotiate it again for future rounds and usually you can’t get prorata unless you are the lead investor.
Lynx is functioning correctly (although I would prefer treating user-entered URLs as relative). However, I think that in new versions of Lynx you can turn that feature off if you want to. However, I think that they really should add a NNTP server so that you can access NNTP, too.
I’d rather we pay the $5M in ransom, and then $5T to track the hackers down and eliminate them. Certainly someone died due to the pipeline shutdown. Eliminating the hackers would be fully justified.
I think so? He didn’t personally invest in BTC, he had Tesla (which is publicly traded) do it.
Watches of the USSR
The Raspberry Pi does not support PCIe I/O BAR space. That's not a hard requirement to run a modern GPU as far as I know, but drivers do kind of assume it's available. In particular, VBIOS stuff often needs it. The message from the Radeon driver is not a hard error, but presumably other things break as a result.

The Broadcom SoCs used on Pis still suck, and although this can probably be made to work, someone familiar with this codebase needs to care enough to fix the drivers to make it happen. It's probably quite doable for the open source drivers, but I wouldn't expect Nvidia's blob to work any time soon unless they take the time to fix it.

Not all PCIe root ports are equal. Some are, shall we say, less than amenable to devices more complicated than a USB controller.

Looking through the discussion here, there is some rather concerning stuff about DMA mappings (e.g. the thing with 64bit accesses not being supported). It's possible the Pi4 PCIe implementation is actually too broken to support these GPUs, though I haven't read through the whole thread in detail. It certainly looks pretty messy.

https://github.com/geerlingguy/raspberry-pi-pcie-devices/iss...
The one that got me was USPS mail forwarding. I am very privy to these things but I must have just misread the URL.

1. Googled “mail forwarding”
2. Must have clicked one of the ads like: https://www.unitedaddressupdate.com
3. Quickly used the autocomplete to fill out all the forms including my credit card information

The brilliant part of this scam is that mail forwarding for a year in the US costs $0.99 so the expectation is you have to pay the USPS so nothing seemed odd… the websites even look almost identical. The show was over when I received a notification from my Chase that they charged $70 instead.

Chase appears to have caught on before Google though because the charge didn’t go through
That was a scary read. Somehow I don't think that we've seen the end of them!
I teach everyone in my family to never trust the first few sponsored results now matter how convincing they may be. As far as I’m concerned Google know exactly what they’re doing and are actively complicit in perpetuating online scams against one family and friends. Are we seriously supposed to believe a company of their size, with their talent pool, and their money, can’t filter out such blatantly obvious crap? Sure.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/flu-vs-covid19.htm

> The risk of complications for healthy children is higher for flu compared to COVID-19.
For all of human history people have had to move to where they can feed their kids.

The smart people are leaving, of course if you want to stay in LA and struggle your entire life you're free to
The US is solving that by not getting enough people vaccinated :/
I’m happy with iTunes match, which gives you access to anything you own on Apple’s servers for streaming, plus uploads whatever you have and they don’t have.
Level Designer Breaks Down Ori's Sand Level [video]
That is indeed what the article says
Agricultural societies are very recent; current humans are no different from HG humans 7K years ago. Innateness comes from biology, not politics, evolved over several million years as primates.

Conservatism is a very thinly veiled biological argument in favor of a hierarchical society, which is seen as just. The majority of the society is expected to be bottom feeders serving those above them, this is the right way of things.

The French revolution which overthrew the feudal lords was seen as a threat to conservatism. Capitalism was seen as a solution to the possibility that superiority might not be fully heritable.

However, conservatism inevitably leads to biological justifications, such as white nationalism and objections to inheritance taxes.

Conservatism is really a series of polemics against egalitarianism that intend to say that society is hierarchical and those that belong to the top are people who look and act like me.

On another note, the philosophy of libertarian socialism comes closest in modern day societies to egalitarianism.
Yes, "ideally" that's what would happen. Do you really expect that to happen in practice?
Dropbox syncs over the local network.
At the start of all this, I saw someone point out that in Japan, where mask-wearing is more of a thing, their emoticon for smiling is ^_^ while in the US :) is used. One emphasizes the eyes, still visible with a mask on, the other the mouth. (Note: I am not an emoticon expert, let alone a cross-cultural one)

Given the number of women I've seen happy that no one has told them to smile during this pandemic, I guess a lot of folks in the US don't know how to tell when eyes are smiling.
How cynical is it to question whether or not this was timed at least in part to bolster economic outlook in the face of the market shrinkage this week over inflation fears?

(Experts have been asking for more explicit guidance from the CDC for months now.)

Edit: for reference, up until this point, the CDC has not even been willing to concede the safety of outdoor activities: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/briefing/outdoor-covid-tr...
Is DuckDuckGo better at this or just a smaller target people ignore? A couple quick searches didn’t turn up anything, but sure seems like they’re vulnerable to the same attack vector.
I think it's worth noting that among the demographics that frequent this site there is ostensibly a deep distrust and skepticism of the American government on matters of surveillance, and law enforcement. Yet simultaneously there is ostensibly a high degree of trust in the motives and competency of the American government when it comes to COVID.

There's been multiple threads lately, including one that is on the front page as we speak, critical of the American surveillance state. The comments exhibit a high degree of distrust towards the FBI, NSA, and other law-enforcement institutions. This degree of distrust seems almost absolute, yet the word of the CDC seems to be taken as gospel, despite clear hints of politicization of the COVID crisis on their behalf.
On the other end though, my company promoted me very quickly from mid-level to senior to architect simply because someone was needed to step into those roles and I did (i've maxxed out on Impact and Quality of Work on every performance review). I'm at a largish compay so taking a lower role would only make sense if I went to a FAANG.

I still feel like there's a ton for me to learn and when I look at any potential I have outside of this company I feel a bit limited. I would be perfectly happy just being a senior at the right company but perceptions are that you always need to move onto better things.

That's not to say that I'm not thriving in my current role, but when you're this far down the IC track if feels like there are fewer desirable exits available.
1. Our analytics showed that there were many robot installs coming from Google Ads. That's why I added captcha and then the strange installs according to Google Ads stopped.

2. You are dating people. some people like to put their pets picture on their profile. We can't control that.

3. Filter options are set to show everyone originally. You can uncheck the "no filters". I get your point though, so I need to fix that in the next update.

4. it's an app for animal lovers. So, you can ask questions form others about vets, wildlife, find pet sitters, etc. You can select to opt in or out of dating. The pet adoption section is for mainly shelters to post their pets and our users (who are animal lovers) to see if they can find a furry friend, if they want to.

5. yeah, but we provide filter based on inerest in animals.

6. You don't have to. They are independent of each other. People who love pets are the main users of the app. It's a separate service to them. You either want someone who loves your pet as much as you do, or you want to adopt animals. You can use the app.
That's good to hear. I guess I assumed it didn't because I'm pretty sure OneDrive doesn't, and that's mostly what I used.
As someone living in a country with very few cases of Covid suffice to say the govt is eagerly watching how this goes.

Since this country has good contact tracing they’ve identified multiple cases of fully vaccinated individuals getting infected (all mild so far) and transmitting it to unvaccinated individuals.
Totally. I did something along those lines as a kid to memorize the first 30 digits of pi. Basically coming up with an elaborate story and committing it to memory.
There was absolutely no evidence whatsoever that “improper wearing” could spread infection.

The problem is natural human bias to require higher levels of evidence to refute a practice than were required to institute it.
The Do’s and Don’ts of User Journey Mapping
Huh? You’re saying that voters or organizations that represent voters shouldn’t petition their politicians in issues they think are important? Because that’s what lobbying is.
And how do you measure the mid to long term risk of a novel mRNA technology which is effectively in trial now, under emergency approval, when vaccines typically take years of safety evaluations? Particularly considering that there are preprints out with a mechanism identified for reverse transcription of the spike producing mRNA, which could result in chronic inflammatory disease in some proportion of recipients, given that other preprints claim that the spike protein itself is a general inflammatory agent and may be responsible for clotting/vascular symptoms.

Note that reverse transcription of COVID RNA also is a convenient explanation for post symptomatic positive tests as well as long COVID symptoms.

I think it's irresponsible to downplay the risks associated with this novel technology, especially when people still have the option of continuing to socially isolate to some degree.
They’re not but they’re already built and therefore are already an ongoing concern. CEQA and a lot of the more asinine pro-labor and tax policies that exist today throughout the State postdate the established right of ways for most of the highways.
Show HN: Product Management as a Service
The NSA and CDC are fundamentally different institutions. It does not make sense to treat them the same any more than it makes sense to treat NASA and the IRS the same...
I was in a similar boat, but I went ahead and drove the couple hours out for the first shot...and then as supply opened up closer to me, scheduled my second 5 miles away. Totally understand the motivation to wait though; my wife got in due to some health stuff, and so there was more pressure for me to just hurry up and get it.
What's wrong downvoters, salty that you've been manipulated by the media to vastly overestimate the risk of covid for your age group? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/briefing/atlanta-shooting...
We're not talking past each other, rather you seem to lack a fundamental understanding of DDD but feel confident to speak matter-of-factly about it. There's as much a relationship between DDD and ORMs as there is between Agile and ORMs or queues and ORMs.
I agree. To use an example from a talk I attended last year:

A govt. department contracted out the development of an ML model to identify an invasive tree species from sat and aerial imagery. New Zealand is sparsely populated and mountainous, so crews are deployed for a week at a time by helicopter to remove these trees. It is very expensive. By being able to scan large amounts of the country for these trees, they can optimise the removal. The model appears to work very well and can identify the trees when they are young.

These kind of deep models are hard to do with traditional computer vision.
Please change link to Thom Hogan [0], not only does he give a thorough analysis, he also points out the japanese article nikorumor is based on. For anything related to Nikon bythom.com is handsdown the best source.

[0] https://www.bythom.com/newsviews/dslr-lens-discontinuation.h...
You're the second person who mentioned net-270 in this thread. What's the context?
And at the same time that Google supposedly can’t catch these guys, they randomly suspend my ads account without even an explanation. And of course no recourse or way of getting in touch with a human.
Hi Billy,

yes they all are. 1 -> high level idea, 2 -> basic simulation, 3 -> batching improvements, 4 -> the PR to bitcoin core. I have a lot more material scattered around too :)

You understanding of the shifting from high congestion to low is spot on, but there are other benefits. The technique can also be used for more general smart contracts. I've been building a language, https://learn.sapio-lang.org, for expressing smart contracts. You can do vaults, synthetic derivatives, sidechains, etc with it.

One niche point I like to make too, btw, is that the delayed payouts can be into non-interactively initialized payment channels. So you could immediate begin spending/routing payments in the lightning network on open, and wait for low congestion to expand out your UTXO.
You might find this more useful:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/of-fully-vaccinated-israelis-o...
The pessimist in me wonders if Senator Wyden is being funded by a company who stands to gain when their competitor can no longer supply the Pentagon with surveillance data according to the letter of the law.
We had a lady on Nextdoor lauding her ability to go outside without a mask and being able to smile at a friend from afar now that she’s vaccinated. Masks haven’t been required outside when social distancing for most of the pandemic, vaccinated or not. There’s reasons for wearing masks (or not), but the decision to wear one (or not) typically has nothing to do with reason.
In free fall, in a strong gravity field, you would be torn apart. Just as comets nearing A gas giant, except many times more forcefully.

One end of you is attracted more than the other. In a strong enough field, you would become a string of disjointed atoms, right?

The gravity alone would, actually, have killed them.
Palantir shares have been basically bombing for months now. Banks have repeatedly lowered their estimates of where the company's financials are going mid-term. The company's C-level execs have been dumping their stock in huge quantities. At this point, it's looking pretty likely that Palantir went public so that its executives can finally cash out after 18 years of no profits, and then sell itself to someone like IBM.