skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm inclined to think that's artistic embellishment.

There might be some disruption of the asteroid during its final approach due to tidal forces from the Earth. Whether or not that would result in significant heating of the asteroid's interior is another question.

Early in the history of the solar system, it's possible that many bodies were still hot from latent heat of formation (effectively: the conversion of gravitational potential energy to heat, plus whatever contribution comes from radioactive materials in the body). Note that the heat of Earth's interior is just this, still leaking slowly into space after 4.5 billion years. Large objects take time to cool, and the vacuum of space eliminates conductive and convective cooling, leaving only blackbody radiation. Thermal management is a major issue for satellites and space probes, particularly if they have a significant energy demand.
"We are monetizing intimacy and sex at a level like nothing before. Sure, it's always consenting adults exercising their constitutional rights and freedoms. But it feels wrong. Like the parent said, maybe I am just getting old."

Unpopular view in this day and age but maybe you're getting wise. Whatever the thing you're out of touch with, gig economy prostitution essentially, isn't worth being that in touch with. Maybe I'm just an old man too, but this sort of hyper-commodification of sex mixed with the nightmare that is social media just seems like a dystopic nightmare on so many levels. This sort of thing is not a good direction for society. The obvious emotional emptiness and moral bankruptcy that underlies this is stark.
Of course it was obvious. The issue being the implication that all social sciences are suspect, despite the obviousness.
Is this true? I think big organizations just end up in the news more often.
Says who? (Citation needed)
It's delusional to think you have an absolute choice in this matter. Of course at any one point in time you can always chose to pick options that make a slightly different trade-off between convenience and freedom than the mainstream. But a few years into a strong persistent trend in society at large, even a tin-foil hat, self-flagellating setup will be offering you far less freedom than experienced some years back by someone who always chose convenience over freedom.
> they'll take risks that they can't ever repay (and jailing their officers might make us feel better but it can't un-steal your identity).

I'm not sure exactly who the officers of a company are (genuinely) but if we're talking about the decision makers - the board and CEOs and whoever - not the employees, then most of them aren't going to take risks that make them genuinely likely to go to jail. Creating that genuine risk is probably the only way of manipulating their behavior, especially when they haven't got any real skin in the game (e.g. a CEO paid a few million and some irrelevant stock holdings in the company that make their net worth high, but which are safe to lose).

The main issue is that such people are often well enough connected that they can spin a story that it's completely unreasonable to hold them responsible for their decisions. Personal responsibility is something for poor people. Someone will find a way to make the law that says legalese for "If personal data from a company is stolen because they chose to interpret the risks in way that unreasonably exaggerated the migitation costs and downplayed the restoration costs, or because they failed to consider the risks to the personal data they ought to have known they were collecting, then the CEO should go to prison for eight to eighteen months" mean "If the CEO personally steals personal data from a company and sells it to foreign agents, then they get twenty days in a luxury resort - but if they just use it to increase the cost of customers' insurance, then they get saddled with new high paying job, poor fellow".
If you are still interested in AirClick, I am more than happy to show you our ideas through a 30 mins Zoom meeting.
"CONTROLLER SUPPORT in steam

valve never encouraged people to support controllers, WORSE, 99% of games expect you to use XBOX controller, as a result XBOX controller are displayed even if you use a DUALSHOCK one

valve could have provided APIs so they can feed games with proper icons etc etc, but nothin"

Out of all of your rather dubious points against Valve's plans, this is by far the most absurd. Have you heard of a little thing called Steam Input? Valve in fact have provided an API that does everything you've listed including feeding the "proper icons". It's up to the developers to use it. That would not change even if the game was 100% native because xinput is still the industry standard. Controller support on Steam is second to none.

"you don't come up with such a device over night, they had years to think about that, they focused on emulation

we will see who was right in the end, i think i am"

No, I think it's safe to conclude that you are wrong even from this date. You're asking Valve to compete with a platform that has all the games available. You're also assuming that native is always better than non-native but as I've already seen, a crappy native port is often beaten in both performance and feature set by Proton. Instead of asking developers to gamble away valuable time on the OS of a device that could be a flop, it makes a lot more sense to release the device with the games currently available in the market in mind and then give developers an incentive to add special support for a device that is actually out in the wild in the hands of paying customers.

You also really do not need to implement every Windows API, you only need to translate draw calls to Vulkan and then a small subset of API's that actually relate to games such as sound. Your example doesn't make a lot of sense, the only way a security API would matter for Proton is if the game is from the Windows store but most people do not in fact use the Windows Store even on Windows so games tend to get released on Steam as well - including even many Microsoft titles.

At the end of the day though, Valve's approach has made it so that I already do not miss Windows for gaming even with the current non-ideal situation with anti-cheat. If they adopted your approach, we would have likely had a small increase in the number of native games but most of the industry would have probably ignored such a call. It would also be very unlikely to magically make desktop Linux a real competitor. I think we need to stop chasing that dream because frankly, it just doesn't make a lot of sense to me. The only way you would be able to compete with Windows and Mac is by having a similar marketing and UX budget and by removing or downplaying many of the attributes of desktop Linux that likely drew us towards it in the first place - package management, hyper-extensibility, the terminal, GPL licensing, etc.

I do not think it's worth it frankly. There is nothing wrong with being "niche".
I ****Ing Hate Science
Wild pigs are releasing 4.9M metric tonnes CO2, equivalent to 1.1M cars/year
and I'm over 100 years old on some sites that demand a birth date to register
Consider also https://basthon.fr/ which is used for education
Start up at MVP stage, need guidance on a strategic person equity
Hi everyone. I wanted to get some framework to think about this situation I am in. Hoping I can get some perspective from your experience.

I have started a start-up whose MVP is out currently and we are testing every week with users and getting good insights on the problem/solution space. I am currently a solo founder and obviously want a co-founder in the not so distant future.

During the journey of putting the product out there and generally talking about the problem in public, I encountered this person (lets call them "P"). P has good insights on the problem area and they have been a product person with significant experience (decades).

They feel quite passionate about the problem space. Our insights on the problem, mission for the company resonate quite well. They have also been thinking of starting up in this space for a number of years (but haven't yet).

We started doing sprints together where they opined (advised) on the product aspects, sat with me on user interviews and we brainstormed different aspects together. Their inputs have been very useful generally. We have discussed how we can work together. They envision their role to be that of opining on product roadmap, features and direction based on insights on data and user testing given their deep empathy with problem and expertise in product field generally. They also have expertise in team, culture and company building - that they expect to contribute towards as the company grows.

They have a number of side things too - like their own consulting business so they will be devote 7-9 hours per week towards this and maybe going to 20 in the future.

I will be doing the heavy lifting of building, growth, project/product management (running sprints, delivery etc), customer support, logistics of the product itself, hacking way through things etc. Now these seem to be a lot of tasks on my plate but idea is to get another co-founder onboard (or employees depending on how this goes). I am currently working 40-50 hours per week on this and doing all the execution. As the start-up matures, I will also transit completely full time on this (>50 hrs).

Now P wishes to be co-founder in this relationship with double digit equity (less than 50% though), whereas I think this is an advisory role (with single digit equity, but more than what FAST advocates). Which is where we do not agree - as P wishes to have a founder's say in company's decision making and future. And I believe the level of contribution that we have discussed is not in line with the equity ask.

Have you encountered or been in such a situation and what is the best way think about it?

I would really appreciate your insights and help. Thank you.
So you don’t believe that the effects of climate change are serious?
To be honest, I'm doing it because I like the idea of owning my own machine, the flexibility of a VM and because I want to learn more about Nix & Linux.

Trouble is, now that my Nix setup is good for everyday use (Not yet development, I wish to see Flakes mature soon) I barely ever tinker with it, might be because it's summertime here too, doesn't encourage me to geek out too much.
Power bi and Tableau offer a number of ways to transform data including python and R. There are a ton of plug-ins out there for custom d3 graphs or even using matplotlib right inside power bi. Check out "the charticulator."

I've also been using Google data studio and it is great and offers tons of way to connect to data and refresh for free!
When somebody cares about seeing it enough to pay it becomes harder to pretend it's nothing.
Basically you are saying any product thats free should be able to break the law arbitrarily? Google can decide to post your all email online, your location history for all time, your photos and you would be ok with that because its free? The undoubtedly free DNS server you use can leak all your requests too? You're ok with that?

Yes its free, no they did not tell me or ask for my permission before using the code in this way. Free does not give them the right to break existing laws and licenses. Its pretty simple.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Nhất_Hạnh
As with many other types of exercise, practitioners are bound to have injuries. I'd even say the injuries the author suffered are equivalent to breaking a leg while running.

This is the take away for me:

> "I believe that these practices, with the correct framework, dosage, and education, can be a valuable tool for improving mental health. "
Even when everyone is in the same open plan office a lot of communication goes through messaging, to avoid disrupting everyone else and to avoid interrupting the person. So it's really just meetings.
I read in the newspaper today that the EU issued an ultimatum to Poland: get rid of the unlawful special court that deems itself above the EU law, or face repercussions. Finally they're growing some teeth.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/europea...

However, after Googling for an online source, I came across this article about another ultimatum for justice reform in 2017, and things only got worse after that :-/

https://euobserver.com/justice/138627
Understanding “same-site” and “same-origin”
Should probably clarify if this is allowed -

func void Point.add(Abc * p, int x)
...

i.e. a method with the first argument of a non-matching type. If it's not allowed, then why not use this ?
The companies sliding into workers’ personal DMs
Also see "The Dark Knight of the Soul: For some, meditation has become more curse than cure..."

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/the-dark-...
While I agree it definitely has some disadvantages, these influencers turning OFs understand the trade off: my reputation, my private photos / videos for millions earned passively.

All influencers hoping to make decent money on OFs already need to have some kind of platform, so they already massively traded away their privacy. Selling a nudie is the next step if you're struggling to make money.

This guy (a fellow Software Engineer actually) is a growing YouTube channel who's doing a sort of vlog / reality show about his family and friends. Once he started approaching 1mln subs by consistently putting out great content, his friends and family launched their own social channels as well to benefit from the clout.

His mom and his girlfriend have their own YouTube channels but they're not as popular. Still, their onlyfans passed his YouTube's channel revenue in a very short time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQsp54kyMwE
"The San Francisco-based security firm said the bug was mysteriously patched in January 2021 with the release of iOS 14.4 but without much fanfare from the Apple security team."

Small bug, not many killed.
While most people are safe --most of us struggle to keep a 30-min daily meditation practice- there is also a lesson to be learned: there is no such thing as a free, harmless lunch.
Moreover the mRNA vaccines arrived at their statistical targets far ahead of schedule and when more data came in, the hypothesis was only strengthened. The documents are all public btw, on Moderna and Pfizer's websites.
Ah yes, the realizations of pointlessness of life, inevitability of death and the prison-like construct of our physical bodies for our actual minds.

Don't need meditation to get there. But more importantly, you're supposed to keep going and find peace with it. Not stop and run away in terror.

You have yet to succeed at awakening.
Society empowers the creeps this way.
That’s just called tracking and it’s already present in many countries.
Since this is a long article, here’s a summary for fellow readers — it’s mostly about the negative side effects of meditation that the author believes is under-documented or under-reported due to the ‘hype’ of meditation as the 21st century cure-all. He talks about dissociative experiences (which is well documented in medical research), it being a pseudo-religion, and lastly, his belief that the extended use of meditation is the ‘opposite’ of stoicism in the way that it can render a person not less, but more susceptible to breakage from smaller stresses, like one of a traffic jam. He also attempts to make a biological argument on how this works by invoking something he calls the limbic system feedback loop, however I have found that argument unconvincing due to lack of any actual evidence.
Sounds like cultish behavior to me.
No engineer that knows anything about batteries would call a battery pack/BMS design that meets automotive requirements simple.
It's interesting that you make that comparison, because I would choose the mysterious math problem every time. Probability of success is about equal, but it's far less dangerous to do math than to cut through a mountain.
What You Need to Know for Outstaffing and Outsourcing with Ukraine
Is statista a reputable site? Sources are paywalled, which seems dubious at face value.
>By uprooting carbon trapped in soil, wild pigs are releasing around 4.9 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide annually across the globe, the equivalent of 1.1 million cars.

Which, with an estimated 1.4 billion cars, is an insignificant 0.1% of the respective car pollution. And now factor in industrial and consumer pollution, and it's not even a blip on the radar.

Why do they even bring this thing up? We shall start killing animals that produce CO2?
Isn't (esp dissociative experiences) what is called "dark nights" in the Buddhist traditions?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Bantala_rape_case
Not pretending to be in the same league as The Daily, but we have a more tech-focused interview with Teel Lidow (the guy I think you're talking about - he's the lawyer who founded FairShake, the company in that NYT article) for the Anvil podcast, along with their tech lead.

Fun fact - the entire thing was prototyped by the lawyers using no-code systems, then only rewritten with an actual Web framework when they had proven out the idea:

https://anvil.works/blog/podcast-fairshake
@rishav_sharan Unfortunately, a party like the one you describe is yet to emerge. This is a not a realistic option.

> I myself will be happy if any good party with a more pro-democracy and progressive views takes up the mantle. Be it a new party, a regional party which has gone national or even a revitalized congress.

Politics almost always is a choice between bad and worse. Until a better third option emerges or the (dynastic, corrupt & inept) Congress changes its leadership / policies (of which there are no indications), BJP is a far less worse choice.

> Thats your assertion. For some reason BJP supporters cannot see beyond Congress and Nehru.
I’m sure he’ll get a huge GDPR fine for using transferring that much PII without consent. And not even one cookie warning! How much is 4% of Hungary’s GDP?
I like your take on it. Unless the entities running the simulator directly enter the simulation and tell / show everyone that it is a simulation, we'll never know - and it won't actually matter.

That said, it does make sense; do characters in The Sims as it is now, or as it may be in a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand years, know that they're living in a simulation? We're adding more and more computing power, and more and more details to our own simulations; at the current pace it seems to be a matter of time before we can simulate physics to the smallest quantum details, at an universal scale, at a fraction of the energy cost of our own universe. And maybe not real-time, but if we live in a simulation, who is to say that time as we experience it ourselves passes as fast on the "outside"? It could be that every second of our existence takes the equivalent of a hundred years outside of the simulation. But we're going down a philosophical rabbithole now.
Epistemological philosophers have debated this question for hundreds of years, it's pretty much Descartes' Evil Demon problem. It hangs on whether the simulation is perfect or flawed. If the simulation is perfect there would be no way of finding out.
It’s hard to issue these ultimatums when in Germany the constitution is supreme too and the courts would and do take it over EU law when there is conflict.
Ffs just be normal.
I see a lot of defensive comments here, but this post made me aware of the fact that there are a lot of documented cases of adverse effects of meditation as well. TLDR:

> Willoughby Britton is a clinical psychologist, neuroscientist, and associate professor at Brown University

> The meat of Britton’s talks was the results of a 2017 paper she co-published with her husband, Jared Lindahl, called the Varieties of Contemplative Experience1. In it, they examined distressing and functionally impairing meditation experiences of 60 Western Buddhist meditators. They documented 59 types of adverse effects in their study, including involuntary convulsions, panic, anxiety, dissociation and perceptual hypersensitivity—a far cry from the mainstream branding of mindfulness meditation as a panacea for all our woes.
First of all, if I live in a simulation, you probably do not even exist. After all, as we are likely never going to meet in person, it would be extremely inefficient to actually simulate you, too.

Second, the simulation would have to be restricted in some sense. Either its reality's laws of physics would not be the same as ours or it would run slower then real-time (which would be odd, at least).

If the simulation would run slower then real-time, but within the same physical reality as ours, we could observe it, albeit in a very unfortunate manner: The evolution of the universe (expanding space, decaying particles) would show earlier in the "host reality" then in our "guest reality". Presumably, the simulation would become inconsistent before it would break down.

If the host universe has different laws of physics it is literally metaphysical. There is no point in trying to understand such a thing within the limits of our existence. So we can put this into the world of (religious) believe systems.
I asked on indie hacker if anybody interested in my website
I do not follow recent CV research anymore, but there were various "3D from a single image" techniques even 10-15 years ago. I suppose some progress has been made. A quick search turns up this paper https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2021/papers/Zhang_... So it's possible to infer not only depth map, but also an accurate scene graph. Estimating illumination and texture synthesis have also been done in the past. Maybe it is not necessary to go all the way into proper 3D and ray tracing, but it can be possible to use 3D representation as one of the intermediate layers. My point is these generators should embed some kind of domain model to look more realistic.
Yes, this is mentioned explicitly in the article too.
Gender relations becoming gameified and being turned into monetary micro-transactions is not a net win for society. Women debasing themselves and selling their body to appeal to an army of lonely simps that take refuge in a simulated relationship that is emotionally exploitative is not the kind of healthy pair-bonding I wish for my kids. It is socially corrosive.

> Have you considered the alternative that this is not an evil

We have considered it, and came to the conclusion that it is evil. A society that has its morality purely based on "consent" has accepted its own demise.
My wife who is a sex worker is in therapy provided by her camsite because the work is so toxic. She was as pro-sex-work as you can be when she first started five years ago. It's majority trauma and I have to hear the stories every day.

The men who drive by want to cum as fast as possible with as little damage to their pocketbook as possible. So they drive in, maybe critique her appearance, say, "tits" or "ass" (usually it's just singulars as imperatives), cum, then leave.

She's started keeping a list of clients who say thank you. Almost none.

The far left has really hijacked the discourse around sex work and used language of empowerment to encourage young girls to get in and get what's theirs. Mostly what they're getting is trauma that will haunt them for the rest of their lives.
That's Negaverse :)
This makes me think of Hari Seldon's Prime Radiant.
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> Congrats, you failed awakening.

This is needlessly dismissive and condescending. It's like saying "Congrats, you failed running a marathon" to someone who suffers an injury after 20 kilometers.
Your examples will not compile without alloc. IMHO, kernel needs another kind of String type anyway, e.g. https://github.com/paulocsanz/arraystring .
If someone spends one or two entire days doing little more than eating, and then has a horribly unpleasant night, I don't think that disproves the free harmless lunch.