skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you! It's life-changing news! You know, I didn't even take the time to get nerves over it, because the comment was so easy to post and later edit (no forms to fill out, etc...). Just an overall awesome experience.
As both a software developer and a pilot...

We're (much?) closer to Fully-Self-Flying planes than FSD cars because the problem space is - perhaps counterintuitively - MUCH smaller to tackle. And we have a lot more experience tackling it.

Additionally there could easily be remote pilots as backup in case of catastrophe (See remote piloted military and border patrol UAVs)

And pulling a parachute at 1000'+ altitude actually has quite a bit of precedent (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_Airframe_Parachute_Syst...)

Now... There's probably a lot of cultural and regulatory reasons why the "string of automated glider ports" idea will never come to fruition.

But... As far as technical hurdles go, there's not much new technology that would need to be invented here.
Because civilized societies can provide electricity at night.
That LP didn't exist until after the article was published. There is some hope that it could be leveraged to remove that kind of guidance from mid-level leaders.
I can see how "written in safe-only Rust" can be a plus, as that comes with certain security and safety assurances, but Rust itself doesn't warrant anything. You can write unsafe code with Rust too.
30 more years of not being carbon neutral is exactly why the carbon removal XPrize is such a great idea.

We must be active about carbon capture. It's not optional.
> I'd much rather store properly encrypted personal information or financial data in North Korea than storing it unencrypted in my home country.

You might feel comfortable with that as an individual, but geopolitically speaking, India would be giving North Korea a pretty bargaining chip by letting payment processors store their data there (if they were so inclined). Imagine the havoc that could be caused! By requiring data residency, it is instead India who gets a pretty bargaining chip against these huge multi-national corporations.
Yes and no. If done right, you can get bio-gas from old landfills and food waste, and that's gas that'll end up in the atmosphere anyway -- we might as well use it.

Then there's the issue of growing crops for use as bio-fuel. In theory it's a renewable energy source, but in the real world it'll use valuable land that we will need for climate-friendly but inefficient organic farming for food.
Amazing, thanks for sharing! It almost feels like cheating the system.
Don’t fully thank me, I was also the architect of the Transfers API to Connect transition :). There’s a lot I would have done differently there were I doing it again, though much of the complexity (e.g. the async verification webhooks) were to satisfy compliance needs. Hard to say how much easier the v1 could’ve been given the constraints at the time, though I’m very impressed with the work Stripe has done since to make paying people easier (particularly Express).
Shipping widgets or coffee by ship is efficient. Flying fresh fish to Japan from Norway isn’t expensive enough.
That was it. It was also all fully licensed chauffer type drivers (all the vehicles were pretty much town cars with TCP numbers etc) so service initially was so ridiculously better than cabs it wasn't even close.

The drivers they had (initially) were used to talking rich execs around - so everything was leather and usually pretty dressed up.

Then SF started in on "rider / consumer protection" and weirdly the drivers became just random / unlicensed folks! Literally, uberCab was amazing, then San Francisco started fighting Uber and before you know it the cars were random / drivers random etc.
Hopefully we don't squander basic respect for our fellow human beings either. Not everything is a science experiment or a thesis. Given that the number of people that died from COVID based on excess mortality where I live is approximately 50% higher than the official figures the chances of a bunch of people having unconfirmed COVID are rather high.

So unless you are going to go out on a limb to suggest a better alternative I suggest you leave well alone.
That's kinda the point of censorship though isn't it? So the populace doesn't know things. I didn't know the US was requesting journalistic takedowns on Twitter until today. Keep in mind, the same government is also threatening anti-trust action and subpoenaing CEOs of these companies, while making these requests, so I would consider that a coerced request.

I request that you let me search your car or you go to jail isn't really a request.
Hey I made leerly.io for people exactly like you! Check it out and see if you get any utility out of it. We are in the early days so your feedback would mean a lot; you're our target demographic :)
If your parents are wealthy enough to not qualify for need based aid, but not enough to be rich, your $50k tuition + $30k NYC living situation adds up quick.
A visual version:
https://i.imgur.com/sKQ6dbD.png
Try scrolling. It's right below the fold:

monocles - search engine
ocean - data sync (hosted nextcloud)
email - (literally the name of the service)
chat - (same)
confer - video conferencing
Netbanking and UPI is so popular here. I last used debit card about 3 years ago.

I do not think its not even concern if MC is entirely banned
I'm from the UK and lived in France for a couple of years. French food is almost always superior to British, from carrots to kebabs (if expensive) with the single exception of eggs. French eggs are OK, but British eggs are noticeably better. On visits to the UK I would return to France with a dozen eggs in my bag, prompting suspicious looks from customs inspectors at Paddington station.
> I don't get it either - I use Windows (the default cmd, Powershell and Cmder), Linux and MacOS and don't recall a terminal emulator being slow... ever.

You might be a particular type of person... I don't remember Windows Cmd being not slow, ever. It feels extremely sluggish. It supposedly has something to do with Windows ConHost, but I don't know about the details.

In fact, even most terminals on Linux are unbearable to me. Not only do the antialised vector fonts tire the eyes on sub-4K screens - most of the terminals I've tried feel slow as well, though not as slow as Windows Cmd.

http://danluu.com/term-latency/

https://github.com/cmuratori/refterm

Personally I use xterm with bitmap fonts whenever I can, it feels sooo good. It has both crisp font rendering as well as being reasonably fast/responsive. (It's probably not the fastest ever in throughput if you want to display /dev/urandom, but that's not my benchmark).
Not the original commenter, but thanks.

In my case the "Request access" button was blocked by uBlock Origin.
Looks interesting! I'm surprised. I've been working on my own emulator [0] and we share some ideas. I think you could go a little farther with what you have. If you watch my demo feel free to reach out.

Banter is always useful

[0] https://media.handmade-seattle.com/terminal-click
There are probably better examples you could've used. They've literally added "Strive to be Earth's Best Employer" to the list of principles like yesterday. At the very least they seem to have recognized the problem, shouldn't we give them an opportunity to actually try to fix it?
Fair point, but does that really change the conclusion?
> This already assumes people are good and get along and are high trust.

It does assume most people are good, but that is something I believe deeply in my bones. (A simple logical argument is this: if people were on average harmful, we would all choose to be hermits. Since we don't, it implies that in aggregate our human interactions are a net benefit to us personally.)

It does assumes that people can choose whether or not to get along and that most people will choose to do that when placed in an interaction with strangers. I think that's a safe assumption for probably like 90% of groups of people.

It does not assume high trust. You only need to trust your dinner companions enough to not poison you or attack you, which is not a very high bar.

> It’s the same thing that did in the lonely hearts clubs. Swindlers came in to the rescue and take advantage of a lonely set of people.

I think the stakes a low enough to not make the situation much of a honeypot for bad actors. There's little to gain beyond a meal and my hypothetical "game" would require all participants to sometimes be the cooks.
The three? Purple? Maybe it's different for different languages. Each lesson (as in topic badge type button) done through 5/5 crowns (1-7 stages per crown iirc), I just go through fixing the broken ones or practicing ones I know I'm rusty on now.
Years ago, I dismissed photography as a pretentious hobby that would be rendered obsolete as smartphone cameras and digital improvements became more ubiquitous, but I have since learned to appreciate the talent behind a good photo.

I only bring this up because I had a similar experience with these photos that I had locally. My Hudson Valley town is a delicate balance of many cultures (primarily white, black, and Central American) and our downtown reflects that blend. Most folks would be quick to dismiss one small storefront with a messy front window of leather goods, sculptures, and various Latin American flags, but inside is an expert leather craftsman from Ecuador who makes most of his products by hand.

I never would have bothered entering the store until a local photographer (once recognized as the "town's photo laureate") featured the store in a few social media posts. Some combination of sharing the craftsman's story and recognizing the beauty throughout the store struck the interest of the rest of the town. Suddenly the eccentric storefront became a destination for everyone (kind of like this colored pencil man's stall)
I found devdocs years ago but lost the link. THANK YOU for bringing it back to me
Meanwhile Twitch has locked in many of the creators with 24 Hrs platform exclusivity. High viewership count twitch streamers are not going to risk their twitch partnership status because Facebook is offering some subsidy.
Did I ever claim the opposite?
For context I have a pilots license and have tooled around in a glider a few times as well.

Some problems with this scheme come to mind quickly but these are the first few:

1) Weather. It exists and basically makes this plan totally unworkable on any practical level.

2) Physics. An unpowered glider would have at best 1/100th the potential energy to fly distances like the ones you describe assuming perfect weather. Remember there are hard limits on altitude (due to oxygen) and speed (need to not rip the wings off) and those plus weight are the variables in your equation that tell you how far your glider can get unless it’s able to exploit unpredictable thermals.

3) Refundancy, or lack of it. The failure mode for the slightest miscalculation is certain death for your passengers and maybe a few on the ground. Unpowered flight leaves essentially no margin for error which makes it a non-starter.
Facebook's 'On This Day' feature makes me want to delete my account every day
I don't think radar can sufficiently differentiate between stationary obstacles and background - hence the long habit of smashing into stationary objects.
I can guaranty you that stuff using GPU ect ... are using unsafe anyway. They don't even advertise safety on their page.
I wonder if you might have misinterpreted it. It could have been that the grad student's team was also there for fun, but the game they were playing was "can we sell the judges on complete nonsense."

Honestly, that'd be a fun hackathon in of itself. You'd declare this the stated goal, and at the end of the hackathon there'd be big, dramatic presentations. You'd bring in a half dozen judges who would not be informed of the hackathon's purpose who would judge the projects in earnest, and you could have a couple more judges who'd be judging primarily on the audacity of the fiction.
This is an interesting point, and I did consider it as I was typing the comment. If I remember correctly, the password was fuckStateU+1 with my university name (abbreviation) subbed in (like I said, I was getting angry trying to meet the special character etc requirements). Do you think password cracking software they use would break suck a password any faster than brute force? I suppose its possible but I'd discounted it.

This was about 15-16 years ago I think.
It's a fair point, but we don't feel ready to accept community contributions yet.
Do you know this to be true? Most artists that I know, which is most people I know, struggle with as many work-related distractions as I do. My sanctioned office distractions at least "count" to my employer (I get paid for that time).
Not helping anyone unless you share the results publicly. That’s my mandate with these type of surveys, and I wished more people would follow that/state that beforehand.
> Platform/publisher isn't a thing, that's a made up talking point.

It mirrors an offline legal distinction that has a huge impact on liability. A printer is not liable for what they print because they don't exert editorial control while a publisher is because they do.

There are specific legal protections for online platforms that allow they to exert some moderation without qualifying as a publisher for liability purposes.

Thus the platform/publisher distinction is extremely relecant when discussing exactly how much moderation (and especially curration) can happen before a platform should assume the legal liabilities of a publisher.
It's been a while, but gnome-terminal on earlier gnome 3 releases used to segfault very frequently for me. It's the thing that finally made me seek out other terminal emulators
Alacritty's performance in day-to-day use is actually very underwhelming, I tried to use it but there was just so many little lags left and right I promptly switched back to urxvt
The idea that Twitter — or any other company or person — should not be able to choose or express it’s own side in any matter of political contention because one side or the other wouldn’t like it is insane to me.

How does that even work? Who gets to decide which topics or points of view are off-the-table for normal social-media moderation? I guess you’re saying government figures and major political parties could decide unilaterally. We’ll have to repeal the first amendment, anyway.
> I can't tell you how many people whose views or mannerisms I hate, and who I can't stand being around. Forcing me to eat with anyone, let alone strangers, would only make me dislike them more and cause tension.

I think you are either an unusual outlier or are very much underestimating how well you can get along with people different from you when sharing a meal with them in person.

People are not who they appear to be online.
Becoming an Organizational Leader
“Strive to be earth’s best employer” isn’t a leadership principle. - oh shit, it is now! My bad!

And “instruct managers to hide from employees when they're on a PIP”

This is not as clear cut. The document cited by Seattle times clearly states to not go into details of the Focus application, and instead go into how they can improve.

A quote:
“Do not discuss Focus with employees. Instead, tell the employee that their performance is not meeting expectations, the specific areas where they need to improve, and offer feedback and support to help them improve.”
This guy is a total troll and I'm seriously surprised he's managed to hold on as long as he does. Check his comment history for some pretty obvious proof.
ssh -x
Flu has about one base pair RNA mutation between each viral generation (cell to cell), coronavirus's with rna the length of the current one aren't possible without an error correction mechanism, and as a result of having that they have about only one base pair mutation between each host transmission (person to person).

I don't know the answer to your question, but it seems much harder with flu due to more rapid variation.
A Return to Cottage Work
Ask HN: What did you do after being fired?
I feel like I could be fired soon. I have been looking at internal and external postings, but haven't found anything that would be a good fit. Part of it might be that I'm tired of the corporate BS and think everywhere will be just as bad as where I am now. I almost want to quit and just work at someplace like Lowes or Walmart.

What did you do after being fired and what was the situation surrounding that?
So the person writing this article (Cliff Mass) is a professor at the university of washington, in atmospheric science. If you read his blog, he has numerous past posts discussing climate change, and he has noted that activist organizations (like 350) are corrupting climate science and confusing messaging to the public with hyperbolic claims. An example post discussing the politicization of the issue is at https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-real-climate-deba...

Regarding this recent heatwave event in the northwest, right off the bat there were numerous news articles attributing the event primarily to climate change even before this attribution study (example: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/unprecedented-hea...). I can only speculate as to why a journalist would think that is appropriate. My sense is that journalism has to some degree become more biased and political in recent years, more reactive to pressure from activists (like climate change advocates), and more ready to sell "fast news" rather than "correct news". I don't doubt that these are ultimately well intentioned people, but they are acting on emotion rather than scientifically, and acting with a particular political outcome in mind. As such, they seem to push messaging that is as strongly in their political favor as possible, even if it doesn't strictly match reality, because they want to ensure their policies are implemented to avert a catastrophic outcome due to climate change.

When it comes to the extreme headlines featured in this post, it feels like this may be less the fault of the journalism industry and more the fault of the study's authors. The main source for the provocative claim that the event "was virtually impossible without human-caused climate change" is the very first sentence of the study (https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/wp-content/uploads/N...). This sentence is not supported by the rest of the study, since it notes that it was a very low probability event (once in a millennium) even with climate change. The same misleading claim was also used to title their public-facing blog post (https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/western-north-americ...). This was picked up verbatim by journalists, as was visible in the numerous examples of news headlines shown in the professor's post. So I would say that this is a result of the editorialization from the study's authors and the group behind it (World Weather Attribution). Perhaps the extent of the journalists' culpability is that they didn't fact-check the claims or dig deeper, and just blindly repeated the same line.
> But I'm much more comfortable with regulating business than people's desires

What's the difference?
Wonderful gallery! Interesting sharpening technique in image 7 with a blunt writing tip. Typically you'd seen a more angled cone [0] and a sharper end, but I guess this means no color is wasted when doing the initial sharpening?

Anyone note a list of his brands? I think I see some Faber-Castell but can't ID anything else.

[0] https://unsharpen.com/the-parts-of-wooden-pencil/
> On Wednesday, mobile insights firm Sensor Tower said that TikTok was the most-downloaded app globally in the first half of 2021. TikTok also surpassed 3 billion installations globally, SensorTower said, making it the first non-Facebook app to exceed that figure.

Seems a bit cheating to combine Douyin and TikTok download numbers even if they are nearly identical apps.

https://sensortower.com/blog/tiktok-downloads-3-billion
> The fact that this even needs to be stated makes it a hard no, especially for a terminal emulator.

True. And a terminal that requires an e-mail login? I doubt they are going to build a social product, then users can co-op or date in the terminal.
Check if your PC can run Windows 11
Look super cool, i definitely think there is a need for a modern interpretation of the terminal experience.
Please think of a good licensing scheme for single dev. who would want to use it and support you guys without being tied to a subscription. Something like sublime text on time fee.
Agreed, but to be fair people rarely mean it literally when saying something doesn't exist in their country - it was probably more in the vein of that 'it's uncommon'. There certainly are differences and in some cultures it's a lot more common that people talk to random strangers as compared to others.
I've met lots and lots of Christians and a decent number of alcoholics. Most are very nice folks, just like all the non-Christians and non-alcoholics.
A lot of things work like this. Call it "the lucky chancer game." The winner is likely to be a fortunate risk taker, with a side effect of survivorship bias... the "wrong lesson."

Two thoughts...

First, it's not necessarily the wrong lesson. It teaches a real reality, and results could be interesting... especially if real money was involved. I can see why an accelerated game of "play the market" isn't what a schoolteacher wants to teach. But... if you did want to teach it, I would make the game high repetition. High risk-reward strategies and games are a real thing in the world. I don't think it's bad to learn how to play them.

From the POV of playing such strategies/games, it's a short path to internalizing that "secret sauce" is generally an ingredient in a sequence, and therefore not really one thing.

Second thought... One relevant way to teach kids about compound interest & saving is via "subsidized" interest rates. You might start with 10% per week with very young kids and recalibrate before financial meltdowns happen. This might be the way of getting your teacher friend's "right lesson" across.

Anyway... That "just showing up" is surprisingly often the missing ingredient is also often true, and worth remembering. It just often isn't the ingredient for regular work/school life. We do "show up" for our school and work careers. That's the baseline. The reason, IMO, "just show up" is effective, where it is effective, is that most people don't show up. Everyone is showing up for work, for class. We do have something to show for it, it's not something that's an outlier.
There are a lot of promising options for native UI, but none finished and mature. As of today, that number sounds like it is one more.

Druid as it exists today is not a great fit for what you're trying to do, as drawing on mac is all based on Core Graphics and Core Text. GPU-based drawing is the future, and we're working on that (piet-gpu), but it's not yet in a really usable state.

In any case, hope this goes well. It's clear to me that Rust-based UI is the most viable path to an Electron alternative in the future, and the more evidence we have for that, the better.
I'm not talking about physical measurements. How do you make a simulation that makes the sum of 0.9 + 0.09 + 0.009 + ... not equal to 1.0? It really comes down to whether math is universal. Maybe it's not, but I certainly don't see a trivial way to simulate this.
Twitter is shutting down Fleets, its expiring tweets feature
Isn't the survey space enormously fragmented though? Is there something that prevents a company from spending a billion dollars and wiping out everyone in the space? Are there just too many niches?
Windows 365 – Microsoft launches Citrix competitor