skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do we know the next one will involve air filtration at all? Perhaps it will thrive on surfaces for long periods and will react negatively to air. How should we prepare for this or any other etiology that might be significantly different than this one? If we're constantly preparing for the last pandemic, and the next one is surprisingly different, wouldn't that be bad as well, as those resources could have been used better in the intervening time?

But, also, wouldn't it be better to determine the cause of this one so we know not to do whatever it was that caused this? For example, try to discourage exotic meats that might be host to the virus and/or eliminate or strictly control gain of function research, depending on the actual cause (or some other cause that isn't actually either of these)?
But, we could always construct a dyson sphere around earth and rely on the rigidity of the structure to provide accurate polar images.

That said, it would be really difficult and quite likely not at all worth it.
Here is a dance music track originally mixed in 5th order ambisonics, decoded to a dolby atmos "bed" that you can try with the airpod pros. The audio has lost some fidelity and it would be better to mix direct to atmos in this case. I look forward to hearing some professional atmos mixes on apple music when this launches!

https://twitter.com/olilarkin/status/1353171949204221953?s=2...
> but the act of committing their changes (or pushing it to a branch, if you are PR-driven)

I'm not sure if I understand you entirely correct, but it seems the "you have to commit" is a large part of the problem.

You don't.

Your harddrive is not going to crash between tonight and tomorrow. And if it may, and this is crucial, git is not a backup system, so get a proper backup system in place.

Commit when you have a coherent piece of work done. Or maybe commit a "WIP: working on foo, halted for emergency hotfix X" if stashing is out of the question.

Part of my "INK" workflow is not committing to RCS. Leave the dirty state as another mental nudge what you were working on; and add your current memory-state as annotations in the code behind an INK.

I've mentored a junior and he was the opposite, never committed untill he was finished, sometimes work of multiple weeks, then he commited it with "finished the FooBar". We agreed he would try to commit at least daily. So then he made one commit a day. "17:00 going home. commit" in the logs. Every day. Needless to say, we did not keep him for long.
It depends on the environment and who's listening to it. High end lossy is really good these days (great for casual listening), but I think most people could tell the difference between the two with a basic setup and a quiet room.

Of course, ymmv since audio is entirely subjective. If you enjoy listening to lossy music, you shouldn't let anyone take that away from you.
Designing the Nordkyn Hull
It's also a twin engine aircraft.
Once you pass a certain zoom (looks like zoom 11.5 here) the imagery is no longer recent. You can see the copyright statement change to "Microsoft", where it presumably just loads data from Bing maps.

At lower zooms, where the copyright is something like "GOES-East", that's more real-time data because it comes from geostationary satellites that can take (low resolution) images every few minutes.
Just strap your phone to your head.
Best ticket system for devs is just plain old text file
Billions of cicadas emerge after 17-year hibernation – CBBC Newsround
A 2012 blogspot opinion piece? Alright bud.

"Now to be fair, I couldn't find the actual website for the above as the link now provides an error message"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27186495
Major storms can move faster than most sailboats can sail out of the way.
I wonder if it is specific to the country. I am accessing the US store and out of all link you posted I have no issues. All EPs and albums are complete and no tracks are missing.
All of your concerns regarding music players are actually already addressed by the MPRIS spec: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mpris-spec/latest/

This problem has been solved in the DEs for quite some time now, global hotkeys is probably the very last thing you want to reach for, when all other options are exhausted.

And when that happens, I don't know about other DEs, but the way you're describing with extensions is mostly how GNOME Wayland already works. If you want to intercept a key, you ship an extension for that, and display a UI to rebind the keys, or you can place additional entries in the system's keyboard settings panel. What you can't do is have random unprivileged processes intercept keys without the user's permission.
This is a stupid trap you're trying. See how they misdirect? I'm not saying d0mine is taking Russian money, I'm saying that the Russian money spent getting hooks into Trump leads inexorably to a bunch of chumps like d0mine trying to murk up the water in a shabby pretense of discourse.
Big fan of Will Larson's book. I once recommended it to an Eng director I worked under who had foisted 5 reorgs in four years on his team, and had proposed a sixth.

I didn't last long there as a subordinate leader. The tales I hear from friends made there following my departure, very few did
Not just that.

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33222.pdf
Similar thing in many liquid fueled rockets - provided you don't want to end up as early Falcon 1 or Juno launches.
Correct: to make a change we would have to bury millions of tons of valuable wood deep enough that the co2 stays trapped. In short, it would be the opposite of extracting and burning oil.
They should pull up their landing gear for additional savings
The details are sparse, but are these incidents happening exclusively in / around US govt buildings and installations?

I wonder if it could be coming from their own infrastructure - some side effect of an active RF shield or whatever.
I wonder in who's best interest it was to dismiss these theories as racist.
There's plenty of double blind ABX test results at https://hydrogenaud.io that contradict this, and with some material at even higher bitrates. Mostly it's experienced listeners making useful contributions to codec developers.
Molniya orbits[0] can provide continuous coverage of the poles if you've got a couple in orbit. The orbit has an extremely high altitude apogee and low altitude perigee. The high altitude apogee gives it a long dwell time (from the perspective of the ground).

It wouldn't be the most practical orbit for narrow FOV imagery but for polar weather, communications, and monitoring for things like over the pole missile launches they're pretty useful.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molniya_orbit
As it takes longer and longer to find any evidence in nature a lab leaking is becoming the most likely source.
You aren't even wrong here, you are incoherent. You say "government is the problem" then say "externalities must be factored in" (yet give no hint as to how)

You say "libertarian" but then you reject intellectual property.
The electricity still must be distributed around the ship.

Proper weatherproofing can easily make the battery the least likely point of failure in the whole system.
This was indeed good news. But most obese diabetic people find it nearly impossible to follow such a diet. I have such a diabetic friend who is trying, but even with the Covid quarantine and his daughter policing his diet he has yo-yo'ed in weight, losing 35 lbs only to regain 15, partially due to his cravings for snacks & candy bars that he smuggles into the house or eats while out.
Good point, my exact experience of live concerts
Tree contains X Co2 => Tree gets cut down without replacement => ship gets made and rots => X Co2 releases into atmosphere. Net Co2 = +X

Tree contains X Co2 => Tree dies => New tree grows in opened up space. Net Co2 = 0
Does anyone know what simulation software is used to test these models?
Yeah, it was worse than that, but waaaaaay under something that would get people to say "lock them up and throw away the key!" Also wasn't any kind of hate-related or vulnerable-group-targeting thing, of the kind that would get a person a torrent of death threats on twitter.

100% the kind of thing someone ought to be punished for (unlike simple possession, certainly). The main thing I find objectionable is that one must pay a flat-fee ransom to an assuredly-connected-to-important-people-and-overcharging commercial entity to get one's children out of jail. There are a few things wrong with that, but fundamentally it sucks that how much money you (or your family) have determines so much about how harsh a punishment is. It can be anywhere from "a little annoying but no lasting harm done to anyone" to "everyone in your immediate family's quality of life is now 10-80% worse, measured over a lifetime", for exactly the same crime.

[EDIT] and on a less personal level, the thing that bothers me about it is that a justice system that intends to reduce crime rates should avoid at all costs being a driver of poverty.
I always wondered how the index prefixing impacts RTL language strings.
I appreciate the clarity and correction offered!
Letting the Police take the money from Civil Forfeit is bonkers, John Oliver has an entertaining take on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
I miss what.cd

Despite what anyone thinks about music piracy, what.cd had hands down the best music organization I've ever seen. I wish they had just dropped the torrents and kept the indexing features
Because it’s a dump ?
It's one of the most heavily imaged areas in the world - on the ground, as it's an active conflict zone. In space, satellites will pass over the region every X hours no matter what. Planet's satellites have a fresh, high resolution map of the Earth ~3.5 hours. Google had, at the very least, 7 satellites imaging the Earth in 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkySat.

The question isn't whether the data exists. It does. The question is, why isn't it being displayed?

Correction: Google now consumes data from Planet - https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/googl...
> As one might imagine, a naïve implementation of this spec would be extremely slow (for example, decrementing n requires incrementing another variable m in a loop until m+1==n, which is O(n)).

Yeah, see that seems to go way too far, but then again this stood out as similar to ideas I've had:

> The algorithm for decrementing an atom is to count up to it, an O(n) operation. But if the interpreter knows it's running a decrement formula, it can use the CPU to decrement directly.

I had basically the same idea, only since my ideas still look a lot more like an instruction set it was in the form of explicit annotations to identify functions that could be replaced with a specialized instruction if available.

I'll have to look into this thing. Thanks.
Why is it an either/or? It seems like it would be possible to improve air filtration and have an inquiry.
No idea what you tried to do here, but this doesn't line up properly.

Fix it and I'll merge: except I wouldn't see it because CI won't pass code with tabs in it.
Have you tried https://redo.readthedocs.io/ ?
How is this even going to work? PRC will never allow access to the actual data if it was a lab escape/origin. The sort of propoganda happening on Twitter shows that even discussion is going to be difficult.
It is a good question.
Pipeline cyber attack not surprising, says Swiss Re’s Mumenthaler
The imagery on here is 5-10 years older than the imagery on Google Maps for much of Quebec, not sure about other areas.
70% fuel consumption reduction would be revolutionary. At 0.9 mach? Even more so.

Highly unlikely to be real.

If this concept had legs I would expect it to have been already gobbled up by one of the major aircraft manufacturers even while the company was in 'stealth mode'.

Not only it's supposed to be 70% more efficient, but it is supposed to be easier to construct. On another article(https://paxex.aero/se-aeronautics-fever-dream/) they are saying they have a "new construction technique" that can build a whole airframe in a week. New, unproven construction technique could be revolutionary in itself - and an uphill certification battle.

Oh and also the engines will be swappable in 30 minutes. And it's so efficient that even though it has two engines, only one will be in use at a time in cruise. So this means they will be close together. This is a safety concern.

Its economy class will be more comfortable than today's economy class too (how can you claim that, that's entirely up to the airlines, unless they won't offer other seating arrangements)

Lots of outlandish claims. Sure, the airline industry has only made very incremental developments over the past few decades and is overly conservative. Probably ripe for disruption. But to claim that you can suddenly leapfrog them on cost, efficiency, construction time and other verticals AT THE SAME TIME... sounds like snake oil to me.
> EDIT: aaand I figured it out. 256 * 3 is 768, then take away one for the null terminator. Wild.

That's the consequence not the cause. The cause is

> If you reduce the InnoDB page size to 8KB or 4KB by specifying the innodb_page_size option when creating the MySQL instance, the maximum length of the index key is lowered proportionally, based on the limit of 3072 bytes for a 16KB page size. That is, the maximum index key length is 1536 bytes when the page size is 8KB, and 768 bytes when the page size is 4KB.

So some ancient MySQL probably used 4KB page which only had spacer for 768 bytes index records (probably because of the page structure). When the page size was increased, the key length was likely kept.

Incidentally, Postgres' default (BTree) index has a higher-but-not-infinite limit of 2730 bytes. It can be surprising when you index a varchar column without restricting column length and one day inserts start blowing up because someone tried inserting 5k worth of crap in the column.
> up until the HDMI era

I think that's wrong: didn't PS2-era consoles use interlacing to get higher resolution? You're definitely right for PS1 and earlier though.
We still don't know how good is the FTL in the Apple controller; all the devices are still too new and haven't been dragged through the coal as all the other controllers. It is still in the "easy job" part of it's lifecycle, with brand new flash cells.

However, to quote @Dylan16807 from similar discussion few weeks ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26118415):

> The analog parts are the slow parts.
No this needs more investigation. Even if the Chinese side might be hard to crack, the American angle needs to be fully evaluated. Which American scientists were at least aware if not complicit (including Fauci) in this entire misguided attempt at proactively finding the next virus? Did they actively try to suppress their involvement once everything hit the fan?
70% less fuel doesn't make sense. The energy required to lift and move a certain amount of weight is a known static quantity. The savings would have to be made up entirely in efficiency, and modern plane designs are very efficient.

Reducing fuel usage to that extent based on wing and airframe shape alone seems rather ridiculous.
And, I'd argue, it's willing to negotiate in good faith. The PLO, over the decades, has turned down anything that doesn't give it 100% of what it wants (basically, the destruction of Israel).
Hash index is only useful for exact matches, a full table scan would be required for any other kinds of queries. That is why most database engines have settled with B+ tree.

Regardless the type of index, field length still matters if you care about performance. Smaller fields and smaller indices means you can fits more things (the working set) in RAM and less I/O when you have to hit disks.
Great so I'm using two kinds of invisible character in a pointlessly difficult way... why, exactly?

Can you write a linter for this which doesn't contain a complete parser for your language?
It might be true for GA, there's a lot of stuff from the 60s still around, but not for commercial aircraft. The average fleet age in NA is 14 years old. [1]

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/751440/aviation-industry...
Even for emergencies like flooding where it is very important to know which areas are flooded and which are not, I think presently there is no satellite based system which can give this information anywhere near realtime with anything close to the required resolution. So in the absence of such I assume the information will have to be gathered from ground reports and areal surveys, which I would think will be extremely time consuming and labour intensive to gather and collate and form a full picture of the flooding.
> This is a lot of really well expressed information

Well, no, it's all totally made up.
BBC Basic
Hmm. This seems like a good use of lock-free programming. Its not a technique you want to use very often (lock-free is known by a small minority of programmers, and is difficult to do), but... if mutexes can't work and you only can rely upon memory-level assumptions... that's the sort of stuff that load_acquire() and store_release() was made for. (As well as atomics, with associated memory orderings)
And unlike streaming services or paid "digital downloads", there's no chance of an "inaudible watermark" that turns out to be audible in some cases! Thanks, Universal Music Group.
Those aren't really pixels though: the signal can (and does) vary within them.
China? This seems pretty obvious. The far left also enjoys calling things racist so they probably pushed it too.
Ask HN: How to learn blockchain at practically handson level?
I am noob in anything fundamental related to blockchain, generally speaking. And am lazy. Is there a jupyter notebook or something similarly accessible on which I can interact with this technology, at least at some level. Thank you!
Since you know what you're talking about. Say I'm willing to accept the updated-daily or even weekly high-res imagery of the whole planet. Any idea what the cost would boil down to? How many parties are involved?

Just wanting to learn more about this.
KBA doesn't actually apply to Google.

KBA applies to operators of imaging satellites, Google's suppliers such as Maxar. In practice, it doesn't apply to distributors, only acquirers. (The text of KBA talks about issuing licenses for "dissemination" of satellite images, but you don't need a license to resell satellite images, or buy them then give them away for free like Google does.)

Legally, there is nothing stopping Google from using a non-US imagery supplier to get higher resolution images of Israel into Google Maps.

In practice, they probably don't want to. It is walking into a political minefield, and Google doesn't really gain anything for themselves by walking into that minefield.
Interactive 3D elevation models of National Parks
I'm being sarcastic.
I hadn't thought about that aspect. I don't believe they sold through Amazon, and I am not sure what the return address would have said, but I assume that wasn't a major issue for them if it was worth the effort.
>But modern HTML engines are designed for the web, so there still really needs to be some sort of agreement on a subset of HTML that handles the things necessary to make email like mail, without including things that make sense for the web but not for mail.

What would you think only makes sense for the web and not for mail?
what a load of shit, blatant false marketing--the airflow flowing over that wing is going to disrupt the airflow flowing over the wing behind it.
Server glitch allowed Eufy owners to see through other homes’ cameras
Should the UN intend for satellite imagery to be available to NGOs they can fund the creation and distribution of such images, rather than trying to seize the images acquired by a private entity. It’s not that expensive.
Chinese propaganda is the reason the US and all other countries adopted the lockdown despite there never being any precedent or literature prior to COV19. Chinese propaganda is also the reason why nobody knows about this. More power to them if the US and other western nations aren't able to deflect it.
I have recently had some improvement by splitting up life areas - work/self-care/social/financial where each area has a handful of reactive+proactive strategies to be employed

Each time I context switch between the areas, I recount 1) What issues I have in the area and 2) What handful strategies of strategies should I be actively using while I am 'in that area'

With this it's been helpful to divide & conquer, e.g. "these ~5 things help with work life, these ~5 things help personal life" as opposed to trying to adhere to a long list at all times.

At the very least, it seems more manageable to approach slide back events (slippery slope of poor inhibition) as isolated to just one of the 'problem areas'
Related (long) article in case you missed it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27071432
The current plan is to 6x the funding for gain-of-function research, from $200 million to $1.2 billion, in the name of pandemic prevention. That's one serious reason for wanting to investigate whether gain-of-function research may have caused the current one.

The risks of such research have been in open debate for years, and the Obama administration even banned it for a while. It's not a far-fetched possibility, and it's a shame that the discussion about it became such a political casualty for the first year or so. The fact that heads are cooling a little now is clearly the precondition for scientists to be able to start writing letters like the OP.
This is the original official PR Newswire article from March 17th, 2021.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/se-aeronautics-to-m...
> But, we could always ...

That's a very bold claim with no support provided.
Calibration and maintenance of electronic devices is much more transparent. Defense attorneys successfully challenge breathalyzers and similar instruments all the time.

One reason dogs are unlikely to be replaced by a device is precisely because 1) dogs are opaque instruments not readily susceptible to critical analysis, and 2) have long been given the benefit of a doubt--much like cops' famed mind-reading faculties. From the perspective of the police, it's a don't break what isn't broken situation.
Library -> Artists only shows artists that you have followed, which is a totally separate mechanism than adding songs or albums to your library. Also, I don’t see the Liked Songs option anywhere on the artist page.
Are you saying Trump was complicit in calling it the Chinese virus as part of their propaganda campaign? Sometimes things can just be explained by stupidity.
> - BSD-styled memory management causes frequent page faults and thrashes memory/swap

macOS doesn't use the BSD VM.

> If anything, it's GPU is significantly weaker than most other laptops on the market.

You meant to say "stronger" at the task of not burning your lap.
Yes, debt is a good thing for Ford which is why its market cap alone is not a good indicator of its value in this case. OPs entire point is that when you factor in the EV instead of the MC, Tesla still comes out looking good but within reason.
https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-peop...
not irrational at all! After reading about that I went from intrigued to NOPE!
These things often involve a number of newish technologies in the pitch. Using "next gen" engines from existing companies, going composite over more of the aircraft to save weight, using a new shape or in this case more wings.

By the time you stack up the evolutionary stuff - which is going to happen anyway - the revolutionary part isn't that big a deal. And by the time they overcome the challenges of doing a real design, the industry has evolved and the revolutionary concept fades away.
AuthaGraph World Map (2016)
Spotify may not, but parts of their available catalogue do disappear, depending on licensing deals.
Things your airline wouldn't want you to know. Also, your EV now charges in 5 seconds.