skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it’s more like “how dare you go around and record the license plate of every vehicle observable on the street and put it in a location/time database”.

You’re right that it’s technically public, just like the license plate on a vehicle. However, there is still a privacy expectation that all of that localized data won’t be pulled into a massive database for correlation.

It’s beyond the SSID, using your logic, it would also be fine if Google observed all of the client frames to track the locations of users that don’t use Google services. Randomized MACs aren’t usually used for home WiFi so this is completely feasible and well within your “privacy” framework.
Let's have Windows switch to GPL while we're at it too ;)
I doubt most Americans have even ever heard of Zoroastrianism.
It doesn't have to be 100% impenetrable to do its job most of the time and make it economically not viable with scale. Biggest issue is expecting a big chunk of users to actually have a FIDO2 token. They would have to be as ubiquitous as thumb drives or be built-in into phones and notebooks.
Thanks! Will adjust the layout to make post-game analysis easier
I even refer to myself and my wife as a "babysitter" when, well, sitting our kids. We're also cooks, drivers, cleaners, and so on.

It's a job, sometimes you do in the family sometimes you outsource. No need to be super-rich for it.
Blogger wasn’t used heavily internally. What’s your point?
And from the pushback received by the previous admin, it’s looks like they don’t take kindly to getting sidelined or downsized...

They spied on congress during the Obama years, they spied on the Trump admin when he was a candidate, and then of course the embarrassing revelation that they got caught spying on allies —which is par for the course, but still.
In many countries of the Warsaw Pact there was much more support for the continuation of socialism than for free market capitalism, though sometimes a mixed economy as was advocated by Gorbachev was more popular. So it could have been very many.
Great article. Notice in the section "The 6 Types of Tech Debt", there's nothing about sloppy, badly-written code.
1. Have you observed that almost every other developed, first-world nation on earth has some kind of nationalized health care service for its citizens, rather than leaving them to fend for themselves?

2. Have you considered that Adam Smith's anecdata from 200 years ago may not be accurate anymore?

Having made progress since 200 years ago is no excuse for piss-poor progress compared to where we could be.
Disclaimer: not OP and I'm neither American nor South American.

I think that yes really it is. I agree with the many people in this thread that say Americans are way over the top with rushing and stressing out over things and putting unreasonable demands on themselves and others.

That said I completely agree that no its not fine for a regular bus driver to just stop and take his lunch and chat with friends just because he feels like it. That's would be what I agree is "this attitude" and selfish.

However, in this particular case we might be talking Greyhound style long distance service and it might just be how this service route is planned out and everyone knows. Then it's fine.

Context matters I would say.

Made up example: your company has a rule to end all meetings 5 minutes before the scheduled end (for real, not just a fake rule to 'make people feel less stressed'). In this company, if you are late to your next meeting you better have a good explanation.

Next company over no such rule exists and higher up regularly end their meetings late. Don't even expect me to make up an excuse when I come 5 minutes late to the next meeting.
Has a single law review article done more to propel anyone’s career or drive policy than the Amazon Antitrust Paradox?
The lack of ICU beds might have been a clue...
Interestingly (or not), there is some weird drama with Bam now...

https://www.tmz.com/2021/06/15/jackass-director-bam-margera-...
do there need to be "hordes" before it's a problem? Assuming your Google isn't broken, there are plenty of examples.
The American system was intended to be torn up and redesigned by 1800 and every 20yrs afterward.
Agree. Emacs lisp is crappy for silly reasons—archaic names and lack of complete or consistent standard library, but I think the language fundamentally gets a lot of things right, especially for the domain of a user-customisable text editor.

Quick comparison to some other languages:

- vimscript: lol

- JavaScript: the lack of dynamic scoping may be tricky for extensibility, and not having macros is a shame (eg save-excursion and friends). But the language is mostly reasonable. One interesting aspect of elisp is that functions are typically just the symbols of their names, so it is easy to inspect and modify lists of hooks. I also worry about the pervasive use of modularity constructs like IIAFs—a great feature of elisp is the ability to poke and advise other code

- C or Rust: I think it is too hard to do something small or hacky in these languages and the constraints of type systems and manual memory management make ad-hoc extensibility hard.

I’ve also seen emacs (module) extensions written in a strongly typed functional language and they sort of work but can be fragile (eg advising a function but making incorrect assumptions about their types), or needing to use functions and closures for common operations like switching buffer or saving and restoring state. (It also amazes me that more languages don’t have unwind-protect and predictable evaluation order as standard, but that’s another topic)
If we're talking target value, I rather think that servers are higher value than people's desktops - they have lots more juicy info, and richer owners.
There are plenty of different definitions of the word "bubble" out there, but most of them relate in some way to asset prices coming untethered from fundamentals. For example, here's Schiller's from 2015:

> A situation in which news of price increases spurs investor enthusiasm, which spreads by psychological contagion from person to person, in the process amplifying stories that might justify the price increases and bringing in a larger and larger class of investors, who, despite doubts about the real value of an investment, are drawn to it partly through envy of others’ successes and partly through a gambler’s excitement.

You can find more academic definitions, but this one seems pretty spot-on when you hold it up next to the famous manias throughout history. Price increases drive further price increases, because the draw of future price increases is strong and the concept of "overpaying" for an asset ceases to exist.

The author, on the other hand, attempts to define a bubble as:

> ... an objectively irrational shared belief in a better potential future

While it's true that innovation/invention (and sure yes marriage too!) do require optimism and some degree of irrationality, it's a far cry from the "animal spirits" that cause investors to abandon any notion of a fair price in favor of momentum.

Sure, in some way bubble-era investors "believe in a better potential future", but it usually seems to be a future of further price increases, and any narrative required to support those prices becomes thinner as the price rises. This can be a lot of fun! However, it is neither sustainable nor a clear net positive.

One of the reasons that (certain!) bubbles are so damaging is that the least sophisticated investors with the most to lose get pulled in last. A series of investors are holding the assets through the entire post-bubble price decline - someone "cashing out" at the peak means that someone else is "buying in". It's a little uncomfortable to claim the following benefit to the 2008 financial crisis:

> It created more housing inventory, and since the new houses were quite standardized, that made it great training data for “iBuying” algorithms

On the other hand, some bubbles do create useful infrastructure - the Dotcom bubble laid a lot of fiber (mentioned in the article), and the railway mania of the 1840s laid a lot of track - although the latter was pretty "inefficient" due to high construction costs, parallel routes, and etc.

I'm not really sure what the author is trying to justify here. Bubbles are what they are, we basically know how they work, and we appear to be living in one today! They'd probably be getting a lot less push-back if they avoided trying to re-define the word "bubble".
Yes, Airtable is exportable. That's part of the reason I chose this solution. I'm big on redundancy.
> I need to know where you're buying monitors.

Amazon has Sceptre 27" 1080p monitors for less than $150 right now. The two 4K ones I'm using of the same size/brand were about $250 as of October.
This is an interesting (and confounding) topic.

On a corollary note, Austin recently experienced a mass shooting in a popular Downton area. 14 people were shot. One died. Another is paralyzed. The local paper of record explicitly declined to publish the description of the suspects as released by the police so as to not "perpetuate stereotypes". The question I have is, what is the obligation to report the facts of a story, regardless of consequence? My belief is that reporting should report all the facts and let the chips fall where they may. But I also understand that reasonable people can disagree. (In this case, it seemed unreasonable to me as one shooter was still at large.)
The Day the Dinosaurs Died – Minute by Minute (YouTube, 12 Minutes)
While you can’t perfectly reliably, a fever is a pretty good indicator; anything beyond a mild fever is very unusual for the cold, but standard for flu.
Along the same lines, have somewhere to put your keyboard and mouse.

Bam! You now have a full normal desk to draw, paint, glue stuff, solder etc.

I live in a 2 bed apartment with a 3 year old. My desk is an Ikea Ivar shelf with the computer sitting on the highest shelf to keep it all away from my toddler...
Speaking of work-ethic - I've noticed how much less Australians work than everyone else. Knocking off at lunchtime on a Friday, leaving at 3 or 4pm, etc. The only people I've seen working a full 40 hours in Australian companies are the people who own the company, and foreigners.

I know Australians have are able to easily get a work visa to go to America. The cultural shock must be pretty big once they're actually expected to work a full day, though I guess the salary increase makes up for it.
It shouldn't? The one bright part of it is it's completely general. I've never known it to fail - although again, it's too slow to be useful in 3d.
By the powers of compilers computers got the ability to read code. To leverage their powers we need to write code which the computer (~ program, aka compiler) understands.
I write code for the compiler to read and translate. And yea, also for humans. But not exclusively. The compiler is not a human. It is only made by humans, like the computer.
As soon as I resize the code menu this[0] happens. Everything shifts up and I cannot scroll it down or get it back to normal without refreshing.

[0]https://imgur.com/a/N82Zutz
I haven't laughed that hard since I saw that 5 years ago
1. Salaries in academia are peanuts in comparison.

2. The boss just needs to provide money.
Unfortunately, flu has animal reservoirs; it’s going nowhere permanently.
Isn't that just a special case of 794?
I have friends who are experts in the other fields.
Most schools already close for Juneteenth; it's summer break.
They don't need to brick anything, they can just throttle those that match for a bit. Cloudflare are not in a business of blocking people, they just need to protect sites from being overwhelmed by bots.
Both the cognates Asura/Ahura and Deva/Daeva come from proto Indo European roots describing supernatural or divine beings ("divine" itself is derived from the same root as Deva/Daeva) .

The polarization of the two into inimical identities is thought to have happened at some point in antiquity, but it cemented after the Indian Vedic period. During the Vedic period the Asuras weren't all bad - indeed many import demigods of the pantheon are Asuras. They are quite analogous in this way to the Norse Æsir and Vanir, who are not strictly good and evil, and like them often had their conflicts play out on Earth.

While some scholars have suggested that the Asura/Deva split must represent an actual schism that took place between the Zoroastrians and the Vedic peoples, it could just as well be the result of cultural drift or the influence of other adjacent cultures.
This Magnet Can Lift an Aircraft Carrier and Will Attempt Nuclear Fusion
Since many other countries fund their universities differently, I imagine weeder courses would be less unnecessary there. As such, is calculus taught differently there? If intuition were valued more in math instruction, I think many US students would take more math courses, as well as more technical courses that employ higher math and math-based insights.
Absolutely agreed. I'm bewildered about how entrenched Windows and Office is, for one - in government and in schools. How the hell can they put so much control into an other entity like this? Especially if there are fine alternatives, although I agree that large migrations are really, really painful. France, for some reason, has a higher frequency in news regarding adoption of free software, for example the adoption of Matrix [0], LibreOffice [1] or Framasoft's activity in the education [2]. This gives me some hope.

[0] https://matrix.org/blog/2018/04/26/matrix-and-riot-confirmed...

[1] https://itsfoss.com/french-city-toulouse-saved-1-million-eur...

[2] https://framasoft.org/en/
Another Bitcoin Exchange Scam–This Time “Live” on YouTube
there are like 10 federal holidays. most of them are not door-buster sales. what's leading you to believe election day would definitely be one?
Isn't 759 just a special case of 754?
In Australia, Queens Birthday public holiday is even celebrated on different dates in different states. Most states, first Monday in June. Queensland, first Monday in October. In Western Australia, it is not a fixed date and the state government chooses a new date each year, but usually they pick either the last Monday of September or the first Monday of October. (WA does have a public holiday on first Monday in June, but that's not Queens Birthday, that's Western Australia Day.)
"Hinduism" is more of an umbrella term for hundreds of different religions, practices, and beliefs.

Christianity and Islam also have many, many different sects and varying beliefs, but Hinduism is even more varied.
>> What do you think of non-history based CADs using direct constraint solving? Can they even hypothetically match history based ones on functionality?

I may not be the right one to ask. jwesthues wrote solvespace originally for his own reasons, I think partly to experiment with better ways of solving constrained sketches particularly during user interactions (dragging).

I'm not sure about the history aspect of these programs. The group structure of a solvespace model is not really as necessary as it may seem. I don't think the capabilities of the constraint solver are even close to being fully utilized.

>> As I understand history is a "hack" for low capabilities of 3D constraint solvers, which are limited in shapes they can express by what the solver can express.

We could in theory apply the constraint solver to any set of points and lines - Vertexes and skeletal structures in Blender for example. It gets tricky to make predefined geometry with only some specific degrees of freedom. You're basically using automatic constraints to define the non-movable parts of an object, but leaving out just the right constraints to allow the user to move/stretch/bend the thing in an intuitive way. Again, we're just scratching the surface now with extrude/revolve/helix operations.

Extrude-along a path is a long sought feature that I plan to implement. It will be like chaining multiple extrude or revolve segments (with uniform cross section) in a single group. The solver will be maintaining that cross section while allowing the user to drag an awful lot of stuff around. Most other CAD has the feature but they seem to want you to define a path ahead of time and then just create the geometry to follow it. We can do better.
>more CAD seats than MechE's

Unless you're an EI fresh out of college, engineers probably won't spend many billable hours in CAD. Your time is too valuable, and most contract rates won't be high enough to have engineers doing drafting.

(EI = Engineer Intern, for getting your 4 years of experience for becoming a PE, which is similar to a Medical Resident for physicians.)

We have a pool of draftsman that handle most of the actual drafting, at the direction of PEs, which let's the PEs focus on actual design and other things that can be billed at higher rates.

But since CAD is still installed on the PE's computers, they're probably still counted as users, even if it's mostly for review, printing, minor redlines, etc.
we have a company directory with everyone's photo in it all employees can access. It's part of the HR onboard to put a photo in your profile day 1.
I think the MTA and port authority are so corrupt that there is nothing the Chinese could do to unseat the current incumbents.
Show HN: fcp – A significantly faster alternative to cp(1), written in Rust
Unscientific as it might be, I often wonder if this is a strong cause of the mass shootings in the US.

Yes we have a lot of guns, but that's nothing new. We've had a lot of guns for centuries. And yes, gun crime in the US isn't new either, but the sheer scale of it seems to have grown dramatically in the last few decades.
Excel, Python, and the future of data science
The place desktops will always win is sustained performance. Sure, a $5000 Mac can run very fast in sprints, but as soon as it's loaded up and running at 100% CPU for more than a couple minutes it's going to start throttling. That's pretty much unavoidable for a mobile computer - there's only so much space to move air around. Processors are just fancy ways to convert electricity to heat when it comes down to it, and desktops have lots of surface area to dissipate that heat.

The only laptop I've ever owned that had good sustained performance was a Dell Precision workstation machine[1] which could run at quad core i7 full load at 3.8 GHz for hours thanks to its pair of massive internal blower fans.

[1] https://www.myfixguide.com/manual/wp-content/uploads/2014/05...
Thanks! Yea I was trying to make the game's visuals as simple as possible. Especially for mobile players, where screen real estate is quite small.

But looks like there's demand for more indicators for the game's state. Will need to think more about how to have indicators without cluttering the visuals.
Weak article

I already know what Juneteenth is.

What is a "public holiday", legally? Is is the same as "federal holiday"? What is a "federal holiday"?

Is Flag Day a federal holiday? Public holiday?
“Not particularly compelling” is consistent with my assessment of these kinds of consumer level apps
Slanting is moderately ambiguous, what do you mean? Obviously national news orgs are centric to their country where their readership is.
The bbc is hardly a Nationalistic or propaganda or even aligned with the government
yeah, call me in 5 years when those devices are no the crap they are today with their own subpixel problems where everything is blurry unless you use giant size font's .
would we really need URL shortening if people didn't play SEO games by making URLs a complete sentence?
For anti-bot / reputation systems, I think there's some value in the type of proof of space and time (PoST) algorithm used by the Chia blockchain.

Algorithms that do proof of idle resources switch the economies of scale so it's cheaper for the average user to participate in a system than it is for an industrial scale botnet or bad actor. IE: Scaling up costs real money while I have a ton of idle capacity sitting in front of me right now that I could use for proofs with an incremental cost of $0 to me.

Reputation and identity are ripe for disruption IMO and systems that prove idle capacity for a period of time are pretty interesting and in their infancy right now.
A little artistic license is better than foolish pedantry.
Depends on the day that people say God ordained her to be Queen?
It could also be "IT didn't turn it off and on again" in reference to https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/02/boeing_787_power_cycl...
... Are they though? That doesn't match my experience at all. People shop on the days after thanksgiving and before Christmas.
This is basically what happens in Canada, where our national holiday is official July 1st, but ends up moved to the closest Friday or Monday.
Thanks, what I'm wondering is whether you can program one of those boards as a USB converter one time and be done with it. It really shouldn't take KLOC, I hope, and it even seems likely that such code is already out there. The idea then is that you can use a board with that code instead of an FTDI cable from then on.
But of course Common Lisp has similar qualities: one can still write unexported symbols, there is just the worry that the internals may change. I think the important qualities are that the configuration is typically done with global and buffer-local variables (a super-lightweight and extensible solution to the obvious problem of per-buffer state) with simple types (alists, hooks, etc).

One issue with Common Lisp style packages is that they may interfere with lazy loading. In emacs you can setq a symbol before the package loads and then the defvar will not change the value, but in CL you cannot read the symbol until the package is defined so things like eval-after-load (ie lazy load then configure) suck.
No point linking it - we can't see what it says.
No it pretty much is out of the frame.

I'm allowing for 3,000 active cases in mid-November in Wuhan. It is expected that "patient zero" was closer to September, and I'm aware of the evidence from WHO and the genetic "dating" that leads to September/October timeframes for when it emerged.

That still doesn't get it all over Shanghai by mid-November.

And if there were more than 3,000 cases in mid-November the problem with the way the virus doubles every 3 days and kills about 1% (particularly before we knew anything about it) is that if you increase that number then you wind up with bodies stacking up way too high.

And now if you assume that there was more than cryptic spread in literally a handful of people in Shanghai in mid-November then by mid-January it would have been slaughtering people in Shanghai in a way that couldn't have been hidden, and Shanghai would have looked like Wuhan wound up looking.

And taking 3,000 active cases in Wuhan in mid-November you get 3,000,000 cases in mid-December after exponential growth, which is 35% of the population which is way over the 7% seroprevalence in April 2020.

Once this virus really gets going it doesn't hide. It can only be around in a population for about 2 months before the bodies really stack up and you cannot miss it (it was probably around Wuhan a bit longer than 2 months without detection because the progenitor virus strain was less well adapted).
Every Google product/team blog I've ever seen is on blogger.
Surely you wouldn't just be server side rendering though. Nobody needs a page load for every route change necessarily. These are implementation details.
Ask HN: Is anyone using forwardemail.net? Are you able to get support?
I tried the free plan. It worked with my single Greek letter domain which I thought was good. I decided to buy a paid plan. Changed my setup to match that, now the original domain does not work. Tried contacting support to no avail. I know I had heard of the service on HN. Is anyone still using it? Is it a zombie service? Are you able to get responses to your support tickets?

I really like the simplicity of it and would like to be able to keep using it.