skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you conceive of a universe where the abstract quantity 1 added to another abstract quantity 1 does not equal the abstract quantity 2? How would that work?

Edit: added the word abstract to make it clear that the context of the question is the realm of logic, and not the boundaries of nature (physics).
Top talent on display. That's why these people earn hundreds of thousands per year, meritocracy at work.
Sure, just like all the other people who have been called to parliament and suffered the consequences. Ah wait..

Our current leaders are useless in this regard. They'll be given a stern warning letter and nothing will come of it.
The correct answer would be, the actual creators of the tool felt this was a good design decision.

Can you please make a working alternative we can all check out?
In my past experience where I’ve won hackathons, coding has very little to do with winning. The goal should be to put together an amazing presentation and demo. This means writing just enough code to make everything look good, and certainly no point in putting together any sort of robust real world tech stack. It’s just a waste of time that won’t help you win.
Article is a rant. Author is uneducated. Using Asimov as example of "unscientific" science fiction is hilarious, even if the author bothered to look through Asimov's auto-biography and found "The Guide to Science" in multiple versions in there. Same goes for Neal Stephenson, etc. Science Fiction is based on science. A lot of the "prediction" have come to pass.
If I can suggest a change to the title for clarity (and still remaining in the character limit): "Google is capping free Meet's formerly unlimited group calls to an hour". Not perfect but more clear.
Still think changing the volume from just being one setting and hard mute switch to the granular ringer/volume and context based approach was a mistake.

I liked I could physical switch kill my phones sound so if you were browsing Twitter or whatever on public transport you knew it would always be muted. Now if you click on a video in most apps it will just ignore the mute and start playing it at likely full volume.

The physical mute switch only seems to truly silence the ringer and the OS overrules it if it thinks you want to listen to video.
>I think that falls under OC's argument and it seems eventually solvable.

Not solvable by purely technical means and the idea that the AI or algorithms will just keep getting better, which is what the OP seemed to be saying.

> Still, what you are pointing is a human bias. Humans have been taking similar unfair decisions without possibility for recourse or review since forever, so it would be interesting to have a review mechanism in general.

Sure. Having systems be human-driven doesn't inherently make them better. But over time the recognition of human fallibility has led legislators to enforce the creation of systems of review and recourse in many cases.
> blurs so many boundaries with a pretty poor tradeoff when compared to "normal" APIs.

I'd love to hear more on this, I've been feeling this way for a while when using graphql-code-generator and apollo-client with react. It feels like there's no layer between data coming into the view from the backend.

Because the queries / mutations are strongly typed with typescript, we end up passing the shape of the request around as a Type, so anytime we want to change our queries, we end up having to touch a lot of application code, instead of having a nice layer between that would handle the transformation.

This is exacerbated by the use of apollo-client's `useQuery` and `useMutation` hooks, which really seem to encourage you to make the requests directly from your views.

At first this all feels amazing, but once the codebase is large enough, I am really start to feel like not having a data transformation layer between the requests and the views is insanity, but everything in the documentation and ecosystem seems to encourage you to do it the way I described above.

This may not be at all what you meant, but I'd love to hear your thoughts, I haven't seen anyone else really talk about this.
Could Kubernetes Pods Ever Become Deprecated?
This made me scratch my head too. I see so many startups come up with an idea/product and then try to make it fit in the market. That is completely backwards; you need to find a problem that the market has and create a product that solves that.
Indeed you could use one of those. A sheet can't remind you however and Google Calendar has no financial insight such as Everlint.
While I agree permissions are an issue:

- lambda and JavaScript, out of the box in latest versions

- any .NET or COM aware language, PowerShell fits the bill, there is even a mini-IDE installed by default
dn42: A Big Dynamic VPN
spam account?
Have you seen the crazy stuff the NSA does?
why does the stdlib need to adopt generics? That would break the Go1 promise. They would likely introduce new functions rather than changing existing ones. RE: what they did with the ioutil package
This brings up the thing that really bothered me about Carl Sagan's novel _Contact_. A book that I really liked otherwise.

Warning, this might be considered a spoiler:

A pattern found deep in the computed binary digits of pi are used to "prove" that the universe was created by an intelligence.
> Keep in mind, The Atlantic is a lifestyle magazine.

Have you ever read The Atlantic?

Quite a few of its writers have either been nominated for or outright won Pulitzers, with one winner this year [1]. Even beyond awards, it has published important reporting [2] and very influential commentary [3].

[1] - https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/ed-yong-atlantic

[2] - https://pulitzercenter.org/publications/atlantic

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_for_Reparations
Office Portal: A nerdy solution to make distant colleagues feel nearby
Hey, I am Merijn! I am currently making a project called Office Portal for my internship.
I am currently doing the study software developer (2nd year). I am still a beginner in writing code so contributors are welcome on the GitHub page!

In these times of covid people usually work in separate rooms to prevent the spreading of the virus. When your colleagues are working in separate rooms the office can feel very lonely. So we came up with the idea “Office Portal” and make the project accessible for everyone on GitHub. Office Portal is inspired by the game Portal from Valve. With this project, we are creating 2 portals using a raspberry pi, television, and a camera module.
then hang both portals in 2 separate rooms and you will be able to see the other room “through” the portal. With this project, we hope to bring your colleagues a bit closer and make your office feel a bit less lonely.

I’ve written the instructions step by step so everyone even with little experience with a Raspberry pi can follow them.

All the instructions and necessary code to make this project are available on GitHub:
http://github.com/merijndewit/Office_Portal

All the instructions for making your own Office Portal are written there from hardware to software. For the software, I made a GUI to make everything a bit easier. This program will help you install all the necessary dependencies and help you setting up the stream. It also has a few extra features: use an led strip or digital portal mast to make it look more like a portal.
For the hardware I’ve written in detail what you need and where you need to look out for when buying parts, and how to install everything to make an awesome portal!
I’ve tested the program a lot and I was able to stream at a resolution of 1080p with a delay of around 400ms while receiving a stream from another raspberry pi.

I’ve Had a lot of fun making this project. One of the biggest challenges was streaming the video of the camera and receiving the video from the other pi in decent quality and low delay due to hardware limitations. Luckily I’ve found a way to do it with omxplayer and GStreamer.
If you just want to stream video from one pi to another without using the python program (doing everything manually) then follow the instructions on this readme:
http://github.com/merijndewit/Office_Portal/blob/main/Other.md

I want to say thank you to my internship supervisor: Rens
And the company where I did my internship: Rapide

Thanks for reading!
Simple workaround so you don't need the bot to download videos from reddit:

F12 -> Network -> Sort by Size -> Top entry is the direct link to the video. (Usually named DASH_720 or similar.)
Or just rely on Euler's formula: e^(iπ)=-1
Notice and appeals period isn't good enough. It takes UK banks millions to migrate to a cloud provider. Being given a notice period just means they have less than x amount of time to potentially spend equally as much as it took for them to get onto the cloud provider in the first place.
Lessons Learned from Programming at Google – Part 2
There is a pic with Clippy - "It looks like the music is loud. Would you like me to turn it down?"

If that is bad UI someone please tell the Android developers.

Getting real tired of the volume control warning me it's too loud and might damage my ears. It's plugged into a a damn aux jack.
> while the White House deletes tweets that likely anger the CCP

I haven't heard about this. Could you elaborate?
There is no evidence that the victims were bribed in that attack
Because all the good ones are flocking away to industry or other less ego-intensive careers. In my field it is gross, and if you are not talking on twitter you are not "active". And you have the same kind of citation rings you could (and still see) in papers but now with retweets... It is all about making it look-like science. We are really deep into the cargo cult... And at many levels, the grants, the papers, the presentations...
Gladly, will you pay me for my time?

Since we just came out of Euro 2020, maybe we could start tellig sofa managers that their opinion only matters when they are able to play football at the same international level.
I literally had to install a virtual microphone device with a fake driver and make teams use that - otherwise it would keep adjusting my real microphone gain despite it being perfectly fine. The virtual microphone cannot have the level adjusted at all, so teams can't do anything, but it's just SO STUPID. Just have an option to either auto-adjust or not, don't force it on everybody.
Function keys: do not use.

Number keys: either layer key+top row (qwertyuiop) or a key under my left pinky and a 3x3 grid under my right hand becomes a numpad.
Sure, a wikipedia reading can give that impression. What actually happened is that sytems with infected Xcode installations created infected executables. Those infected executables were then uploaded to the App Store. There were known to be thousands of infected executable images.
A magazine dangling this important humanitarian story behind a “soft” paywall to sell subscriptions, no less.

Imagine the reaction if they had done this with their COVID collection.
Ah thanks. It definitely looks like it has some similarities, hoping development picks up on it again.
Unlimited time version is available if adsense ads, and voice & video recording with telemetry is permitted for all users. */S*
Spotify volume is bad. I use a traditional mouse with a traditional scroll where where scrolling down moves the scroll bar down which moves the viewpoint down.

On say youtube, scrolling down on the volume control reduces the volume.

On spotify (well the webplayer anyway), scrolling down increases the volume.
This isn't embedded though,this is running a python script side by side and using python to query libreoffice as opposed to enhancing a workbook via python.
I see there is a setting in teams for using windows' notification vs using teams' notifications. I haven't tried it, so it probably doesn't actually work, but I figured I'd point it out.
If you do nothing it is your fault. That is what these camps have thought us you really need to critize them harshly and take action. That said the legal power nations have to put people in camp during war time is anachronistic. So there is alot we can do to make it better.
Italy bans cruiseships from Venice
The difficulty is inherent; C, C++ and so on live in a very different world to JavaScript. Whether or not WebAssembly had direct interaction with JavaScript objects at launch or not, writing bridging code would still be tedious.

But there's no reason you must write this yourself. Others have done the hard work for you and written libraries.
You need to believe and trust in science, you cannot verify everything. You have to use a model for a part of your experiment, or a machine, you'd better trust that. You can't spend more time checking everything again from first principles...
The European Green Deal
The victims are humans first (their religion shouldn't be a concern) so I don't find it surprising that many Western people speak up for them.

I would be happy to see more opposition from Islamic countries though.
I use https://meet.jit.si

It's open-source, you don't need to sign-in, and in my experience it survives bad connections better than Google Meet.
LNA, an aviation industry newsletter, recently came to a very different conclusion [1]. The biggest difference to Wendover Productions's numbers is a hugely higher estimate in the cost of replacing the battery every 5-10 years due to battery degradation.

[1] https://leehamnews.com/2021/07/01/the-true-cost-of-electric-...
This is my biggest problem with working in the video security / FR industry: the industry completely ignores end-user training and the obvious necessity for the operators of this class of software to be screened for A) computer literacy to the degree they understand this is just software and NOT an authority, and B) operators of video security software need to be screened for Racial Blindness - if a person cannot tell the difference between near age siblings or cousins of an ethnicity other than their own, and specifically the ethnicity they police, they need to be legally regulated as ineligible to operate such software.
It's controlled in the water heater by maintaining appropriate temperatures. No need to sanitize the fixtures when there is no growth in the tank.

All that other stuff assumes a minmax hot cycle in a waterheater tank.

On demand heaters work fine too.
Hmm… can’t point to one specific book, but there are lots of links. You can google “reforestation monoculture” and “reforestation native species.” This article is a great place to start: https://e360.yale.edu/features/why-green-pledges-will-not-cr...
It doesn’t get into the granularity of the costs, but highlights that the basic issue is countries are still hoping to make a profit off these “carbon sinks” by planting easily usable timber - aka monoculture - which greatly diminishes the benefits of forests and leaves them vulnerable to blights and other disasters.
I checked the second link. Almost no one is actually independent. I am on mobile and don’t feel like doing the citation for this. But that’s one issue immediately with that one. Almost everyone votes one way for senators and president.

The phrasing of the question and prompting of it plays a huge part too. Including Trump’s name at all is huge. It makes it an immediate reactionary political question. Swap Trump for something on the left and you’ll likely get different results. Even without Trump. The prompting is worded the way it is. It’s so political it’s going to skew anything and everything.

For the first one. Your description just sounds reasonable. Why would you say no to general regulation against big tech? Besides not wanting to be a hypocrite if you’re on the right (which clearly shows a ton of them are fine being hypocrites with that 80% figure).

Change regulation to oil companies or manufacturing and suddenly those centrists and people on the right won’t be polling the same way.

Which again means this is more political than any actual knowledge of the situation. People don’t know or understand online privacy by and large. It’s such an obvious take. To argue against it with credible sources that don’t actually relate much to the topic shows how far out your thinking is. There will never be agreement because you’re not even thinking about this in the same way.
I'd like to second this.

Winning a Hackathon is more about impressing the audience than technical prowess. I've seen more Hackathons won with a presentation than I ever have with code.
Which Came First: Low Testosterone Levels or Severe Covid-19?
Rockley Photonics Unveils Health Tracking Tech Likely to Come to Apple Watch
I was replying to a specific post that was discussing the morality of the West.

Though, I think it should also be a crime for the US to plot the kidnapping or assassination of foreign dissidents too.
>>Nobody's meeting those requirements just yet.

Someone is. What is very interesting about Harbour Air's approach is that they are not creating new aircraft but rather retrofitting electric propulsion onto their existing fleet. This is not an electric engine filling a niche application. Rather, this is electric replacing combustion engines on very longstanding commercial routes.

https://www.harbourair.com/harbour-air-magnix-and-h55-partne...

"After the successful first flight of the Harbour Air eBeaver powered by magniX in December 2019 and the ongoing flight tests since then, the companies have teamed up with H55 to bring their shared vision of clean, efficient and quiet commercial aviation to life by 2022. H55 will provide its proven modular battery technology to expand the eBeaver’s balance to weight ratio and endurance. The company’s battery modules have one of the highest energy densities on the market and will provide the entire energy storage system and redundant battery monitoring at the cell level for the eBeaver. "
Also consider that hangers are often huge and could be covered in solar panels making the electricity to charge the planes.

Drastically reducing fuel costs.
Ask HN: Help me find out what problems NFT creators and collectors have?
Hi HN,

I really into NFT and believe that it can be a perfect fit for mass adoption in the future. If you're an NFT creator or collector let's talk!

Just imagine people can collect NFT's to own a little piece of the internet while it belongs to all internet users. Having a piece of the internet that's fundamentally yours — something that you think is beautiful and unique and special — is not something we’ve been able to do until now. Or you can support your favorite artist, brand, or community by collecting their NFT's.

Right now I see several problems:

1. It is hard to create, sell or buy an NFT because of the poor UX of crypto billings. You need to set up your wallet, buy some crypto, spent it on gas and etc. This problem is similar for both creators and NFT collectors. I see it's as a bottleneck for mass adoption. Maybe it is needed to create a simple payment system that connects your credit card with crypto so you can buy NFT just like you buy any other stuff on Amazon. Something like Stripe for NFT.

2. There's a lot of competition between creators on popular marketplaces. Most talented creators need to promote themselves and learn how to sell, while they want just to create a new type of art.

3. There's no place to show your NFT collection. When in the offline world we can go to galleries or museums, online we only have marketplaces like OpenSea and Rarible.

If you're an NFT creator, collector or just interested in it let's talk to find out what we can do with that!
Apple deploys $1B in affordable housing support across California
Right. The big feature that append only logs allow is replay. I have never really seen the point, though - and I say this as a big Kafka user!
And I bet it still uses a linear rather than logarithmic scale. Can't even do audio right.
Healthcare has also advanced vastly since vaccines were introduced, so even if someone gets a severe case of measles, they're still likely to survive. The same principle applies to STDs like Syphilis. It used to be a death sentence, now it's annoying.
Who's "they", or "the world"? Do we have a world government already?

You either interfere (on a global scale) in the sovereignty of other nations, or you don't. Hitler was only stopped after a very costly war.

How would any alliance have the disproportionate resources to police the globe, while allowing free trade and the distributed opportunity that allows any nations to get rich enough to challenge them?

You talk of a unified humanity that doesn't exist. China is a superpower - the only solution to policing their actions would be ensuring no other superpowers can rise: neo-colonialism.
It’s almost as if it’s not the FSB… but somebody making it look like it was… (See the Vault7 leak attribution masking)
The fact that almost every IASIP is up is much more of an indicator than a few eps not being up. Same with South Park. Community snd 30 Rock aren’t controversial shows so they shouldn’t be grouped with the first two.
Do you like how Star Trek handles this? Your transporter can't determine a particle's location and trajectory simultaneously? Add a Heisenberg compensator. Fixed. You can't accelerate to warp without soupifying the crew? Inertial dampeners. But never explain how either of these things work.
Depending on the level of necessary engagement, you might be able to automate at least all of the large meetings with ease.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-VCzLiyFxc
About 5 years ago, I attended a hackathon, as I did every so often.

My team was comprised of CS undergrads and we made something that was technically interesting but not at all marketable. This was fine with us, as we were there to have fun. To us, that was "winning".

However, another team was clearly there to win. Their "leader" was a CS grad student, and they were developing an iOS app that would show you a random weighted complete graph. The task for the human was to build a hamiltonian cycle with minimum edge weight sum, i.e. they had to solve a TSP. Their app only showed very small graphs (<= 5 nodes IIRC) with significant edge weight disparities, such that it was usually trivial to find the correct solution. During their presentation they went on to say that they were using the solved puzzles as input for an AI that could then be used to solve larger TSPs. This was very interesting and valuable they said, as the TSP is relevant for delivery companies, logistics etc.

That grad student must have known that it was pure nonsense, but they actually won. There were people from pretty reputable tech companies in the jury, yet they won.

My teammates and I weren't mad though; to us, and some CS students from other teams who clearly knew what was going on, it was pretty funny.
Hetzner is fantastic, at least if you're European (it only has data centres in Germany and Finland). We've used them for 8-ish years, and _never_ had any problems.

At the moment we're running a 3-node Galera-powered MySQL cluster on the EX52-NVME servers,[0] costing a _total_ of $2,800/year.

[0] https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex52-nvme
This is so exciting that I almost wanted to sign up for biology/bioinformatics degree after seeing this. I think they will get Nobel prize.
Not without breaking NDAs. Also not saying you’re in the know, but people in the know start source hunting when truth leaks.

FWIW, I’ve seen you comment on Google email and ads. From what I am aware of, your information on what was/wasn’t and is/isn’t done has been… optimistically colored. I stayed out of it. But you could be less confident in some of these and/or disclose more readily that you are coming with a pro-employer lens while (you say) being far enough from it you might not know for sure.
EU proposes effective ban on new fossil-fuel car sales from 2035
please, tell me this is a joke! what's wrong with a good ol' slider? I honestly don't know what these people are thinking...
Yes, so long as we don’t mind machines also getting that wrong.
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