skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people set way too many of those. Especially "background", where you're in for a surprise if you hit the actual background performance guarantees, since it may not run for minutes.
Not a sailor nor a maritime expert by any means, but IIRC Japan now has submarines that uses lithium-ion batteries to power submerged movement. Granted it is mil-spec.
you think a US Federal institution would attack a major US Company and cause suffering to a large swarths of the population, just cause?
Commercial aircraft? As in passenger airliners? Not many from 1950. But plenty in use for the past 2 decades. Average age in North America is 14 years

https://www.statista.com/statistics/751440/aviation-industry...

https://thepointsguy.com/news/airlines-oldest-fleets/

There are _plenty_ being used as freighters. Take the DC-3. First flight in 1935. Produced until 1942 (1950 in the URSS). Still in operation.

However, the 737 design is from 1968. Is that better?

In general aviation, there are lots of planes flying from that time. In flight schools you'll see a bunch of Cessna 150s, first flight in 1957. Thousands of aircraft still operational from that era, even some from the WW2 era (Ercoupe)

In the military, we have the B-52. From 1955. It was only produced from 1952 to 1962. Expected retirement is sometime in 2050, maybe later. That's a full century of service.

Planes are expensive. They are expected to be in service for many decades. Maintenance keeps them working almost indefinitely (even more so if they are not pressurized).

Airlines will only retire them when there are other, more economically viable, options(which sometimes includes new models of essentially the same airframe).
Reasonable suggestions, I think you are probably correct.

I do believe that the zeitgeist that wants to abolish or defund the police does genuinely mean that they do not want the police to exist in any capacity. They mean abolish in the sense that the asylum system was abolished.
No-code app development platform Adalo nabs $8M
Great. Now get everyone else who touches your codebase to do the same.
I feel like I made a pretty good call out to this in the last paragraph of my comment but just to elaborate. The UN is an organization with essentially no organic power - it has no citizens, nor a tax base, nor an independent army. It does collect "mandatory" fees from members that, if halted, would likely suspend the membership of the nation in question, however even those are only enforced by various nation's desires to be a part of the UN. It'd be like me selling a Netflix disruptor that collected a monthly subscription fee for you to have the prestige to be a member and then sending you a card informing you of how to sign up for Netflix - literally nothing the UN does wasn't possible before the UN, it just centralizes where this is all happening. That all said, for smaller nations in particular, the membership can come with real benefits in terms of peacekeeping forces along with financial and humanitarian aide.

At a basic philosophical level laws and police have no power, nothing can stop you from committing murder. The only thing we can essentially do is give you pain in reaction - that pain could be pre-emptively acting guilt or fear of the consequences, it could be moral regret, it could also be physical restraint or torture. Given diseases like alzheimer's and essential tremors or a plethora of other physical and neurological ailments the list of people who can absolutely control your actions might be an empty set[1].

That all said, the UN has been granted some pretty wide authority to pass treaties that are generally acknowledged across the world - those treaties are generally respected and the US might hit you with a big stick if you violate them. So, honestly, I think the comparison in authority to an individual is pretty thin.

1. I think that by definition if we're talking in absolutes then it is always an empty set because there are actions you can't voluntarily execute, like, for instance, willing your heart to stop. But let's just assume that "absolute control" is a level of control achievable for most people at some point in their lifetime.
Also, in the USA there were a lot of things that were on paper "not allowed" but it didn't matter because it wasn't enforced at all. Mask wearing, social distancing, stay-at-home orders, did people actually get cited for violating? I know, at the height of the pandemic, I could easily drive out of my region, eat at a restaurant indoors, gather somewhere unmasked, and there was zero chance I'd be fined. Even for things like mass-gatherings, usually it was just the business owner who got fined, and the 1,000 people caught gathering got off scott free.
I don't get it. Why would you have an init system where half of the logic is in C, and half in the shell?

Having most of the logic in shell (like sysvinit) makes sense from customization perspective.

Having most of the logic in C (like systemd) gives you speed, especially when combined with multi-threading.

But this? Neither speed nor customizeability.

(The "speed" claims are especially weird given that it starts everything _serially_ [0]. Unless you are running things on a slow, single-core machine and/or have no services, I bet systemd is going to be faster)

[0] https://github.com/Sweets/hummingbird/blob/master/dist/kiss/...
Gwern is a little more optimistic. https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3-nonfiction#marcus-2020
There is a correlation between homogenous population and growth but as it is complex subject there is no clear distinction

[1]https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314469686_Does_Ethn...
re: liability.

Surely your liability is to the shares you borrowed, not the fraction your account has to meet margin requirements? If not, why would a broker ever let you short on a margin account under the same rules as other margin?
I built a website that makes it easy to find comedy nights to perform at in London: https://apuchitnis.github.io/open-mic-nights

It's been out for a week and got ~ 400 users so far :)

Before, I would have to use a google sheet with the same information. I'd first make a copy, because you weren't allowed to edit the original spreadsheet, add filters for the columns I wanted, find out where the comedy night was, only select it if it was convenient, and finally sign up.

This was too slow for me - I'd be spending an hour a week managing where I was performing, opening dozens of Chrome tabs, and getting frustrated when travelling hrs to a venue on the other side of London. So I built the site to make my life easier!

Source: https://github.com/apuchitnis/open-mic-nights
More details: https://twitter.com/apuchitnis/status/1391122602920382469
Not sure what your point is. The source for SARS and MERS were found within months. We're over a year into this with no clue. Based on the current circumstances' inconsistencies with historical circumstances, this appears to be something different.
The shape of the data matters. In particular the cardinality of the tags. If clickhouse works well for you, chances are that your use case will be well served by influxdb_iox too
Importantly it doesn't do this for dispatch_async/dispatch_semaphore/dispatch_block_wait.
That's not how audio codecs encode audio though. If we directly cut off bands that were difficult to encode, most codecs would stop writing anything above 1500hz, and then you'd be listening to a useless mumbled mess. A lossy audio codec will use the FFT algorithm to encode the entire spectrum, and the quality controls how aggressive the algorithm quantizes the waveform (through a process called sampling). On a lossless file, the compression will decode to an identical representation of the original master.
How far into the atmosphere does a nation's air space stretch? Would I be breaking a country's law by picturing said country from orbit?
Please don't copy-paste comments. It strictly lowers the signal/noise ratio, and it contradicts the principle that HN threads are supposed to be conversations. People don't repeat long pre-written statements in conversation.

If you want to refer to something you said in a previous context, that's fine and is what links are for.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
As the OP said designs, it would be true that many of those designs are still flying today. The 727 and 737 are derivatives of the 707 and the 757 isn't far off. Just different engine/gear/wing/length configurations.

New 737's may have more composites and more modern manufacturing techniques but it's not any radical departure.

For General Aviation, there are tens of thousands of planes from the 50's and 60's still around and the engines they use (Lycoming/Continental) are still based on designs from the 50s with modernized metallurgy, valves and fuel injection.
> It's just a job like any other, and it's only in certain bubbles that developers are treated like rockstar prodigies.

The bubbles that did however did incredibly well compared to the rest of the market. And often crushed traditional companies with a traditional view Software and engineers.

> Software is an incredible tool and I'm glad to still find ways to love it, but as a profession, it's just like any other.

The thing is, software scales almost infinitely. For a doctor to double his output, he'd have to put in twice the hours. For a software engineers to double his. But a 10x userbase growth? Happens overnight at some companies. That's where it's different.
The article mentions the Kyl-Bingaman Amendment once around the middle, that's the main reason. The wikipedia article is short and covers it well enough, but in short:

> The Kyl–Bingaman Amendment (KBA) prohibits US authorities from granting a license for collecting or disseminating high resolution satellite imagery of Israel at a higher resolution than is available from other commercial sources, that is, from companies outside of the United States. An exception exists if this is done by a US federal agency, or if it is done in order to abolish the secrecy of such recordings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyl%E2%80%93Bingaman_Amendment
> China's global reputation is going to take a hit.

If having openly racist culture and running concentration camps has done nothing to their reputation, I don't think anything will.

> I don't think they did this intentionally.

Regardless if this was intentional or not, they should take responsibility. Imagine if Russia dropped a nuclear bomb on Europe by mistake. This is the same calibre of "oops my bad.".
It's not a secret that these viruses were researched as a potential bio-weapon. In that sense whether it was intentional or not, it has done immense damage to worldwide economy, which is exactly the goal of such bio-weapon.
Wayland obviously cannot solve all security issues and privilege escalations in the underlying OS -- the solution to that problem would be to just disable debugging within that security context.

In Wayland the situation is also not so much different from Windows, you would just reconfigure and extend the DE itself. You are already relying on them to provide most of the UI to an extent.
Besides, forgoing any investigation is a political statement and indeed the preferred outcome by one major political player.
I'm not 100% on this, but my understanding is that it was worthwhile due to the vast amount of money involved in the oil industry and the projected time to restore from backup.
It's always done this but the effect wasn't visible on x86.
The FTC is investigating Intuit over ‘free file’ tax returns
IBExpert (firebird GUI), used to have something like this in cyrilic in Help -> About: "If you can read this, this program is free for use for you. Have a nice day."
Big discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27155497
They’ll support spatial audio, but they won’t support lossless, which would need additional hardware. It’s worth noting that you wouldn’t use wireless tech for hi-res audio streaming anyway.
And maybe liability on the offending party?
That is a downside, the "the" downside. I'm not even convinced that it is close to the biggest issue, considering the obvious counterarguments. Not all tax costs have direct benefits to the payer. That is a feature, not a bug.
Currently we build binaries per-OS/per-distro.

What varies between Linux distros, for your purposes? Different libc? I would naively assume it’s all just ELF so it shouldn’t be that big a deal to make a portable Linux binary.

That seems separate from swizzling ELF/Mach-O/PE, specializing the binary on first run(!), etc, which is all super cool but something I’d be wary of relying on as a solid platform. Maybe I’m being too cautious, though!

Reading the Cosmopolitan docs, it has some really clever optimizations, and I think I’d be more excited about simply a small and fast libc over the flashier APE parts.
Recently, I discovered Street View sometimes captures car crashes:

https://goo.gl/maps/kJdgWQUU3eUMReUE8

https://ibb.co/x18fy3s
A 5 year cannot understand puts/calls =\
Sleep deprivation got so bad for me that I would nap in my car at a gas station halfway home. Park at the far end of the lot and set a timer for 20 minutes.

I no longer work nights.
EU devs get a lot of respect... here in the Valley!
Yes but this was referring to Gaza. Do you think that post disengagement Gazans live under "apartheid"? An Israeli can't even set foot there.
Technical issues apart , there are whole host of privacy issues with that kind of data. Stalking, theft to national security problems.

Imagine if there is real time /continuous feed of your house, it would be very easy to know when you are there and not by just looking for cars parked in the driveway.

Controlling access would be quite challenging.
IMO unreasonable expectation that PRC can out-propagandize US / west in their own territories which is not remotely feasible. This is on top of western MSM / softpower / propaganda apparatus already being much more developed and mutually reinforcing, with an entire ecosystem of NGOs and think tanks to launder opinion and set narrative. It's why PRC netizens and PRC western diaspora (well western diaspora from many global south countries) are frequently awestruck by how "brain washed" westerners can be despite having "free media" - US propaganda power is very sophisticated relative to the crudeness of GFW and PRC censorship.

There's also point that PRC's western propaganda has been mostly defensive, trying to explain PRC perspectives - Xi's "tell the China story well" and where most of the FARA spending goes. Whereas Kremlin is fine with going offensive by undermining US polity on domestic fractures because they know you can't counter-program against decades of western narrative that's ongoing. Exception is influencing diaspora populations, in which case both PRC and Russia are fairly successful. But broadly PRC has not heavily invested in attack yet.

And ultimately PRC global propaganda is not... terrible considering what survives the filter of western MSM, bad translations, exaggerations, omissions, outright fabrications etc. PRC still has more supporters for XinJiang being counter-terrorism than human rights abuse. Compared to global positions on US/Israel/Palestine. Or how polling still consistently conclude US is still viewed as biggest risk to democracy / stability. It took 10 years of pressure, sanctions and finally a pandemic for most of FVEYs to get on board of Huawei ban.

PRC will be wasting time refining defensive messages against the tide of western MSM. Better off going on offensive and weakening US society itself which compromise global alliances. There's zero amount of lobbying / propaganda PRC can do to affect US security planning, but it could absolutely compromise US systematically to undermine US credibility and shift global politics in way that favours PRC.
Everyone should read Frank Herbert’s White Plague.

The transmission vector can be anything.
The only people who think human brains run on strict grammar rules are K-12 language teachers.
> The question isn't whether the data exists. It does.

What is your basis for this claim? However many satellites Google has, why are the regions I named blurry too? Lebanon isn't that far away from Gaza. Cars at Chekka looked like specks. Across the sea, in Cypress, I could make out the front and rear windows of cars.
> (The best way to view 3D movies, funnily enough, is in a virtual theater on the Oculus Quest 2.)

I don't deny the drawbacks of stereoscopic 3D—even as a personal 3D fan, I'm not surprised it never caught on—but I don't think a VR headset is the best way to consume stereoscopic content. Because, well, you have to wear a headset!

I have a BenQ W1070 projector which supports stereoscopic 3D, and a Valve Index. For actual VR content, the Index is great, but for normal stereoscopic movies, using just the projector with a pair of special glasses is much more comfortable.

I do wish enabling 3D didn't dull the colors on the projector, but it's still clearly preferable to a headset IMO.
The pico-8 of computers
Doggo is the meme coin with a tiny carbon pawprint
People have been asking for similar grab-type things since early on in Wayland, and there have been many proposals, but nobody has actually stepped forward to build such a permission system that would work everywhere and would not create additional security problems or would not severely overcomplicate things. It's not a simple thing to do, by any means. If you think you know how, I would urge you to get started designing it and contributing it to some of the major Wayland implementations.
Study in China programs
The trouble here is that a lot of institutions and public persons have more or less staked their credibility on dismissing the lab origin hypothesis. They had their reasons - if anything, over the last years their standing and the value of expert opinion was under constant pressure (notice I'm talking about a reason, not a justification).

But this makes any admission of an error and, by extension, any useful reflection on it very, very improbable. I think if the lab origin is true and at some point becomes common knowledge, it will be treated like the Iraq war. The people responsible for botching the response and the message will fail up and treat the pandemic as if it were a tsunami, rather then human error.
Nitpicky, but useful for anyone interested in spatial data: WGS-84 is not a "GPS standard" but rather a geographic coordinate system and is usually paired for consumption with a projection like wgs 84 web mercator to view those 3d coordinates on a 2d plane. Super interesting stuff and reconciling these standards across the globe is a really fun problem, and one you'll likely run into if you ever find yourself dabbling in remote sensing pipelines.
I am not an aerodynamic engineer but I am an ultralight pilot and work for an aeronautic company, and for me, the design doesn't make much sense.

First, having the fuel in the wings is the most obvious choice, it stabilizes the plane and reduces strain on the wing spar. It makes the choice of 3 short wings instead of a single, longer one, and yet, as seen on gliders, longer wings are generally more efficient. It is probably necessary in order to make them thin (which is good) and strong enough to support, among other things, the fuel that isn't in the wings. And having the wings one behind the other doesn't look great for aerodynamics, I can easily imagine the wingtip vortex of the front wing hitting the back wing on the way down.

It looks like the kind of thing that can do well in a simulation with very well defined parameters but I don't expect it to pass the real world test (or even just a wind tunnel).
That is bad. I'm glad you don't do that anymore
I have nothing to say about the rest of the article, but here's one bit that doesn't make the point the author hopes for.

> The obvious difference with the app is that the Java version size is 74Kb, the Kotlin version is 781Kb. Rather a lot of bloat for a small simple app.

No, it really isn't. Anything less than one MB is negligible. Importantly, since we have exactly one sample for each we don't know if that's fixed overhead or variable. Does a 5MB Java app become a 5.7MB Kotlin app? Then the overhead is fully fixed and it doesn't matter. Does a 5Mb Java app become a 50MB Kotlin app? That's a problem. The truth is probably somewhere in between.

We don't know because the author made the unfounded statement about bloat with just one data point.
Sentinel imagery is weekly and is quite good. I use it to see snow melting in the mountains when planning hikes.
TotallyTubular™ Private Music Pipeline
What would be better would be formatting as a display setting in whatever IDE you're using.

There debate settled permanently.
I wonder if that's why the comment was downvoted so heavily and flagged.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. Nationalistic flamewar is particularly not welcome here.

If we're to have a thoughtful, substantive conversation about a topic as sensitive as the OP, not jumping straight into the flames of hell is...rather a precondition.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Even if it was a lab release, it's still a natural virus and could have happened without the lab release. Without previous studies of related viruses, it would have taken multiple years to produce a vaccine.
That might actually be a really good role for the UN to take - satellite imaging and GPS tracking are security issues for most countries and companies trying to leverage that data have been hit with a lot of regulations and surprises in the past. Niantic had to specifically bow to a lot of concerns about military personnel being trackable through pokemon go when it first came out and private satellite imaging companies need to comply with a long list of deadzones issued by the US Government and other governments across the world.
It stops being a fallacy and starts to become a valid consideration when the search for the thing not found has been thorough enough that it would have been very likely to be found if it had been there.

Suppose that I remember leaving $5000 in plain sight on a table. My initial priors are a 90% chance that it is there, a 9% chance that I put it somewhere else by accident, and a 1% that my friend Bob took it. I conduct a search that would have found it with 100% odds if it was on the table, 95% odds if I had put it somewhere else by accident, and a 0% chance if Bob took it. Add in the evidence of the search and all of a sudden the new odds are 0% chance that it is where I thought it was, about a 31% chance that I put it somewhere else, and a 69% chance that Bob took it.

This is the first major disease to jump to humans in the last 20 years that we haven't quickly tracked down the path to us. We're good at it. The fact that we didn't succeed this time when more effort was put into the search is something that should give us pause.
> the failure to establish a functional Palestinian state or government.

Wonder whose fault you think it is that the Palestinians who currently live under what HRW and several Israeli human rights organizations consider apartheid, don't have a state.
I suppose we both underestimate how far we've progressed in simulating physics. Either we're utterly, totally wrong in anything related to astrophysics or we have a basic grasp on fundamental stuff like aerodynamics.

If the latter, we don't need to spend billions on R&D for more efficient designs. We just devote the same comparatively few bucks spent on GPT3 and other ML models to inventing a new, more efficient airplane design.

If we did, maybe an improvement like the one in this linked article is bonkers. If so, we could invest in other assets.
This is cool! I used Phabricator (https://www.phacility.com/phabricator) in the past, which I really liked, and this seems to have many of the same features.

I think your landing page could be clearer though. If I hadn't had used better tools than GH in the past, I don't think I'd understand what I was considering signing up for.