skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Proves" and "refutes" are both pretty vague words in a historical context. In my experience when historians say "I will prove this to you" they typically mean "not only is it a good story, but unusually I have at least 1 piece of actual evidence". So in the loose world of history where nobody has any idea, maybe the idea is refuted.

Realistically, probably both posts are wrong but we'll never know about which aspects. 10,000 years is a long time, there should have been multiple occurrences of the impossible. History is huge, and we only have tattered records for 1 in ~3,000 years events.
For sure. At the time I felt like earning a full time job at IBM was a career maker. I now realize that the guidance that made me think that was not great. But it came from my parents and my professors at the time. I hope people who used to be my age are getting better guidance.
As I recently learned from semi-random Wikipedia reading, Sony didn't exactly come up with the idea of these kits by itself. Sony bought Psygnosis in '93 and had it develop some early PS1 hits—but it seems the dev still had some freedom, including developing for N64 and Saturn and publishing its games (until 99 or so). And thus:

> As Psygnosis had previously published PSY-Q development kits for various consoles by SN Systems, Psygnosis arranged for them to create a development system for the PS based on cheap PC hardware.

> While Sony had provided MIPS R4000-based Sony NEWS workstations for PlayStation development, Psygnosis employees disliked the thought of developing on these expensive workstations. When Psygnosis arranged an audience for SN Systems with Sony's Japanese executives at the January 1994 CES in Las Vegas, Beveridge and Day presented their prototype of the condensed development kit, which could run on an ordinary personal computer with two extension boards. Impressed, Sony decided to abandon their plans for a workstation-based development system in favour of SN Systems', thus securing a cheaper and more efficient method for designing software. An order of over 600 systems followed, and the company supplied Sony with additional software such as an assembler, linker, and a debugger. SN Systems would go on to produce development kits for future PlayStation systems, including the PlayStation 2: it was bought out by Sony in 2005.

It's also said that Psygnosis played a role in developing the console itself:

> Ian Hetherington, Psygnosis' co-founder, was disappointed after receiving early builds of the PlayStation and later recalled that the console "was not fit for purpose" until his team got involved with it. Hetherington frequently clashed with Sony executives over broader ideas. In the months leading up to the PlayStation's launch, Psygnosis had around 500 full-time staff working on various games as well as assisting with software development.

IIRC Psygnosis also functioned as help for external developers, having quite some staff for that—but I can't find the quote right now.
For table tennis? There's so many:

PingSkills: https://www.youtube.com/user/pingskills

Tom Lodziak: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqHc12tVGhzBtlMUq7MR7wA

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Coach Lin: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChW6mCKAPsYIEYnH5jnkCyw

And many more that them have very good and useful content.
Is SwiftUI Ready?
Practically every sentence in this article should be prefixed with: “Wouldn’t it be amazing if …”
The great society programs by LBJ should not be ignored. It created Medicare and Medicaid. They declared a war on poverty. They stopped people from littering literally everywhere.
> I'm subscibed to several newsletters out of my own volition.. Are they spamming me then?
reply

No, since you signed up on your own volition, obviously they are not unwanted emails.

But I always uncheck the newsletter etc. box and still get tons of them. From legit companies. That's spam, and goes straight to junk mail.
That seems a weird interpretation because the very act of reading the published code (including its license) is an act of copying.
tldr: it's not a nation because most of the population migrated to it rather than "naturally" born in it. Of course this is a dumb and arbitrary definition because everywhere where humans live they have migrated to it. The author touches on this as well.
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Considering the fact that they're fact-checking stupid memes, I wouldn't be surprised.
For that to work, each successive layer will need to remain cool enough for water to condense on it.
I always though that dragons were also sourced from a vague genetic memory passed down from very remote ancestors that met dino descendants.
Europe free up the 5.945-6.425MHz band to enable the deployment of Wi-Fi 6E
This reminds me of how many places we have on the planet which are beautiful but inhospitable. Fixing the inhospitable part will come its own environmental impact, and the places will end up being less "beautiful". I vote we go to live elsewhere and leave the planet as a giant touristic resort :) .
Whether we wish to switch or not (I'd be inclined to consider it but I am quite happy with Fastmail and am not super worried about a saving a few bucks a month):

Is there a generic solution for moving over IMAP inboxes from one provider to another?
Efficiency is still the wrong name. What you are describing is usually referred to a coefficient of performance, abbreviated to COP.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_of_performance
Yeah unfortunately the main cost I'm looking to reduce is a family domain which I have ~10 family members on.
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Relevant post about Purelymail.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27707857
For those curious I located the relevant wiki information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duga_radar#Jamming_the_Woodpec....

There is no reference to the jamming being successful however.
I’ve used Zoho for a while and you can add on domains. It’s pretty cool and the online mail is a pretty decent UI.
> "Speech recognition software" responds in a very humanly voice.

Speech recognition software responds to any voice it was trained to. It will respond to dog barking or morse code it there will be a demand.

It responds to "humanly" speech, but it likely mostly ignores the tone. (Although, I imagine eventually Alexa will learn to start different music depending on the tone of the person asking to play the music.)

> It's the very reason people want software assistants to have human voices, even female voices, because it makes them feel more at ease.

No, it's different reason. Human to assistant and assistant to human is not symmetrical.

It's hard to retrain humans to respond to a different form of speech, but it's easy to retrain the model to whatever is needed/used by users.
No, but I will. Thanks for giving me a term to research!
Microsoft's Adaptive Cards
I'm curious how well this will fare in a German context, as opposed to the US, where 538 now seems a solid part of the campaign season.

Some differences come to mind: voter participation in DE is higher and campaign cost is much lower, meaning it is perhaps a bit less about activating your supporters and more about actually getting people to change their preferences.

Volatility seems really high, too - see the recent rise and fall of the Greens. There's also a few weird turning points, like the 5% quorum that could conceivably hit the Left this season. And there's the non-fixed number of seats.

So: congrats, INWT, for the nice marketing. Let's see if you picked a good model :)
> [..] In March 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic spread across the world, travel restrictions left hundreds of thousands of seafarers stuck onboard their ships, working way past their contracted dates as they were unable to return to shore for repatriation.

> At the time, few states acknowledged seafarers as key workers, making travel extremely difficult, if not impossible. Since then a number of countries have acknowledged their status and more recently, certain states have rolled out vaccination programmes.

Imagine being at the at of a very long working period, months on sea. Then at the end you're asked to work for several more months. This as your relief cannot travel to you. Many additional months later you finally can be relieved. Except now there's still the issue of leaving the vessel, many countries ban you from leaving the vessel (often cannot even go to shore). Meanwhile the big shipping companies have been reaching out to their governments to try and fix this. Just to be ignored, basically.

Only a month ago or so I noticed The Netherlands vaccinating everyone on a Dutch flagged vessel. This instead of only vaccinating the Dutch people on a Dutch vessel.

It's quite shameful how these seafarers were treated by pretty much every country in the world.
I keep everything remote, so that every client gets the whole corpus. For now, that means that indexing is done with notmuch whose command line I use for search... Not as good as a webmail's UI but it puts search results as a maildir so I can open them from any IMAP client as a special folder.
Yes, I think that sort of instant feedback is very helpful and is probably one of the reasons Excel is so popular.
NASA talks up Perseverance Mars rover's self-driving rock-avoiding abilities
Web still isn’t optimal for mobile interactions: layout, fonts, scrolling, performance, etc…

Their solution seems somewhat specific to their needs. Sections and screens aren’t the right abstractions for many other kinds of apps.

May still be right for them since for big companies percentage improvements are worthwhile doing and maintaining.
I'll throw my hat in the ring for postale, they are a good service for both individuals and business. Is $1 a month really going to put you in financial stress? Is your business going to die paying $5 a month?

> Also, be aware that free 3rd-party mail hosting with a custom domain does not exist.

You can set up a custom domain on a free gmail account, it's hidden away but certainly possible.
True. Thanks :)
They contain an EEPROM and/or a microcontroller. Some just play a serial number, others can run full-blown Java (or maybe it was JavaCard) applets. "Java Ring" was such an iButton on a ring to be worn.
Now it's only a small step until we finally have the technology to make voting completely unnecessary. /s
The other way around is more plausible to me: the way we reconstructed dinosaurs was influenced by the corpus of representations we developed with dragons.
Exposing a deep body of water to sunlight is probably the reference.

edit: deep as in practically having unlimited heat capacity and the heat conductivity of water.
I sometimes think I live in another reality where I'm not using the same OS as these people. Because the macOS I use for 70+ hours a week just doesn't seem to be the same as I hear described.

I sat here trying to really think about what I could just be ignoring, but all I can come up with is sometimes when I disconnect my dock and then reconnect it later the OS doesn't remember to switch my sound output from laptop speakers to my docks audio output. But that's it I think, everything else just stays out of my way.
Why do we have to posit non-human monsters as explanations for these myths? After all, there were (and still are) real monsters out there that would kill, rape, kidnap and torture people - people from other communities. Strange danger was serious business back in the day, why could that not evolve into all kinds of boogeymen?
Both of these email provider options support TOTP so I omitted it; and TOTP ≠ U2F/WebAuthn with a USB token. I have an OnlyKey, but it’s mostly full of TOTP keys already because applications are not supporting WebAuthn. Posteo does not support this, and last I emailed them, they said they do not release information about future features.
Product Management is another area where some companies will value the combination of management consulting experience and some technical ability - especially if it's the "creating better products and more efficient workflows" aspect of coding that appeals
It's incredibly disappointing to see MIT put its name to some apparently PhD-level research that claims over-unity efficiency, and apparently (according to the picture) using a few baking trays and tinfoil.

It also does not explain how to deal with the increased salination of the water source, nor how water can continue to condense on the successive layers of the device as they are heated due to that condensation.
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Had to check a few times to make sure it was published as news and not as an editorial...
This. I am afraid, though, that a small number of academics recognizing and articulating the "crisis discipline" nature of this issue is too little to late. In the short term it seems that we will likely experience a haphazard balkanization of the "global digital commons". State entities now realize how much is at stake and will resort to known patterns to regain control but the outcome could range from comical to frightening. As the pandemic experience showed already (and the climate crisis will continue showing at each turn) it will be hard to solve *any* real collective problem before we address how we exchange information at scale.
We had to manage flagging problems at my company and even though we now sign our installers with a EV Certificate, anti-virus software have their own reputation database and still flag our work until a certain amount of users install it
Ive had a bad enough experience with migadu that I am compelled to actively warn people not to use them (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25054091).

Migadu has taught me bargain basement email is too expensive in the long run.
I'm probably just being cynical, but those graphs and diagrams scream of a lack of "meat" to what they're saying. Except for the first graphic, they are all just products of a marketing brain, as far as I can tell.

Showing the old engine as a graph that plummets, and the new one as one that doesnt, or the one that plots "frustration" against "features & complexity", is just utterly meaningless to me. Maybe this appeals to the small part of the community that gets excited for quirky and cool posts by big corps, but I only see about 5 paragraphs of info here.

Basically RenderingNG will more reliable and better and better and more reliable, and thats neat, I just wish they didnt waste so much of the reader's time.
Complete agreement — wouldn’t miss a Dead concert for anything.

Hmmm - I seem to be agreeing with myself. I tend to do that, occasionally.
An exercise in skepticism is actually asking a specific question that bothers you about the article. And not just a random "I don't believe this".
My point was that your definition of happy seems to be different from mine. From your description above you sound quite happy. Sure, you’re not living in a permanent state of ecstasy, but who is?

What is your definition of content, and why is happy not the same thing as being content?
The problem is that your 'developer workflow' sounds like you are assuming a particular level of insecurity that is unwarranted. Learn about the principle of least authority and try to apply it to your workflows. None of the applications you mention need complete access to the filesystem and in every one of those cases the access could be easily limited to a few directories and you would probably never notice.
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Your rely is not helpful. The problem with any desalination system is that it creates brine. And brine in large amounts is toxic to the marine environment.

The only difference with this example is its small scale. Once it is scaled up it will have the same problem as any existing desalinating plant.
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They will leak chlorine or iodine gas from water if that's used for disinfection.

Assuming something won't get into water via the pores...

Even in a cooling system contamination can be a problem regardless of how good the biocide is.
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Shortcuts on iOS is a godsend, so I'm very optimistic about this.
> The system delivered pure water

That's toxic! We can't drink pure water. You have to maintain _some_ of the minerals in there, you just want to take most of the NaCL out.

Does the system avoid this over-distillation? i.e. is the water properly potable, or is it just not-salty?
No.It is not. The question is when will be ready, with development cycles of one year it could be years ahead.
German elections are much less tactical and significantly more boring than US elections. The US system creates much bigger swings based on small differences and creates much more of a narrative around campaign strategies. In Germany you pretty much just look at one poll for all parties and the popularity of the potential chancellors, but that's it.
It can be very hard to determine who is really doing the attacks. For example, we know that North Korea is surprisingly active in this area[0]. Even though they are probably using servers in China, the only nation that they still have somewhat friendly relations with, it is better for them if the attacks appear to be coming from Russia.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/how-north-korea-robs-banks-aroun...
Do you support DKIM/SPF etc? Are these still useful?