skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Syncthing can be a little confusing if you are coming from something like Dropbox or WebDAV. It’s not really quite like anything else I’ve used.

And with that having been said, it’s great. It’s maybe more powerful than you’d expect. My NAS for example has a one-way synced folder from a different box for backup, while having a default shared folder with all of my PCs. It’s also great because not all machines have to always be online; it can gracefully handle deferring stuff. For me, since my NAS is connected all the time, I can use it a bit like a central service, syncing between machines that have no overlap in uptime. Simultaneously, if the NAS needs to be down, it doesn’t interrupt syncing between other nodes. And unlike centralized solutions like Dropbox, I’m not limited by my internet connection, since it’s all local... unless I leave the house. In which case Syncthing appears to continue to stay connected, which is really handy.
I ended up using at least Twitter and Reddit just as much through the browser after deleting the apps. Had to install the NetGuard firewall on my phone to block them.
Why do peacocks (or really peahens) find giant feather displays attractive?

I think the answer is usually actually "because it is indicative of a healthy mate". If you need to be well fed and healthy to grow tall, or to maintain a giant set of ridiculous feathers, then it will probably be an attractive trait a few generations later, since it will predict success.
I think there is one group of people who are assuming that because it's a diversity thing it's justified, and another group that thinks that because it's a diversity thing it's unjustified, whereas it may be that NASA is right and that it depends on some old documents that they have to get out of the files, none of which we have seen.
Fair points. Though I’m not sure cloudflare is a good reference - they are a content provider and will pay for a competitive advantage (latency). The post mentions 50% of their costs come from 6% of traffic, they could simply choose to not pay for transit and let these be rerouted elsewhere.

Once Starlink has the satellite “mesh” operational they would probably become a tier-1 ISP and have zero transit costs. Maybe even sell traffic to other ISPs.
How's that even a question?

The new viruses created in the research gained human transmissibility.

Maybe it doesn't fit whatever loose definition of gain of function exists in the field, but, in layman's terms, it gained a function and it definitely sounds like risky research.
They didn't offer to teach JavaScript.
Asking a corporation to fix social problems is like asking the DMV to operate the space program or your local school district to build roads. Corporations are simply not "for" that. They are for production and service operation. They are not the right kind of entity, don't have the right structure, and don't have the right incentives.

Luckily corporations are not the only kind of human organization. We also have governments of various kinds and scales, international coalitions, non-profits, churches, universities, etc.

There is this weird idea that corporations are the answer to everything.
Back in the before times, we would carry around a crossword or sudoku puzzle as time fillers.

Being quiet with your thoughts is also an option.
As an ignorant student who was newly moving towards a fusion of HCI and AI at the time, I didn't really know who Mark Weiser was, but he seemed very personable, down-to-earth, and kind, when recruiting me as a student for a new project at PARC. I also got the sense that he was looking out for what's best for me.

(Not recruiting me because I was special enough to draw his attention on my own merits. I think probably he asked a professor if they knew any students who wanted to work on ubiquitous computing at PARC, I heard about it, and I said something to the effect of "Xerox PARC and ubiquitous computing? Holy crud, yes, OMG, yes, pleasepleaseplease pick me...")

The single biggest mistake of my life was that I chose a different opportunity over that.

What I've known of PARC seems not just about thoughtfulness and creativity, but also seemed in at least some cases to be motivated by very genuine and forward-thinking altruistic intentions.

I suspect that's something to keep in mind when looking at pre-Web-boom PARC work. It might be more explicit in some projects (e.g., in some of the Smalltalk-related work on education and empowerment for children), and implicit in other projects (e.g., implicitly wanting to elevate people's individual and collaborative potential; wouldn't even think of exploiting them).
You know, I was taught this as a kid and the answer was yes. But now I cannot find a reference to this anywhere. It’s possible I am wrong.
Why is it named after a bureaucrat anyway?

In fact, why do we name scientific and mathematical tools and discoveries after people at all? It adds a political dimension and an unnecessary layer of obscurity.
Still using a 2016 SE. I'm convinced that the small screen encourages me to read more text content (by discouraging me from consuming image content since it's only an OK viewing experience). And whether or not a site is unusable on the SE's 4" screen is an excellent litmus test of whether that site is worth visiting in the first place. Sites with giant popup banners that are so wide the "x" in the corner is off my screen? Not worth my time anyway.
ribit and others are correct. While this may have been possible in the past, at modern memory frequencies and timings, it's not really plausible to deviate from what the platforms are designed for: LPDDR being soldered and placed a specific layout area relative to the CPU, and for socketed DDR, the sockets being placed in one of a few placements relative to the CPU, with a little layout wiggle room.

Edit: I guess to clarify, the plausibility challenge is that whether or not it is theoretically possible, the platform owner (Intel, AMD, etc) or the memory vendors (Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron) are unlikely to support the lark.
Rust and the JVM
I see cheap ones on sale for 20 bucks or so. Cheaper than an NFC reader. Programmable "Java cards" are affordable.
That's a terrible analogy. You could just as well say that you don't care about the right to bear arms because you have nothing to shoot. Besides, I have never heard anybody say they have nothing to hide, so it is a strawman.

There are hundreds of good arguments for a right to privacy. This isn't one of them.
Meanwhile, at the beach: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/20/sports/norway-beach-handb... [https://archive.is/h9bAq]
Still tries to force cortana on me despite my computer not even having a mic. It places ads in the start menu. Heck, the start menu is basically completely useless. I've resorted to relying exclusively on search now, which means my start menu is a mess and if I can't remember the name of the app, I have to resort to using file explorer to attempt to locate it. I still can't for the life of me figure out how to change any of the system settings without fishing around. Every single time I have a bluetooth issue, it's 5+ minutes of poking around different menus to sort out where the issue is.

Case in point. Click start, settings, and look at the window that pops up. Where are the settings to add a new wifi AP? This is something you will do quite often if you have a laptop or tablet. Ohh wait, did you get the menu that actually has all the settings in it? Because there are two. Windows decides somewhat randomly which one to present you with. What sense does that make?
But having a file directory would be useful even with a tape because you wouldn't need to read the whole tape to get the list of files inside.
It's really strange seeing the anti-suburban attitudes right after we got a lesson in why relying on communal urban amenities doesn't always work.

We moved to a nice town in walking distance of several parks and small shopping districts in winter 2019. Six months later the shops were all shut or closed for good, and the parks had caution tape all over the playground equipment. They took the swings off the swingsets so the kids couldn't play.
> makes 30k a year. 40-45% in taxes right off the bat

Pretty much nowhere in Europe you're paying (effective) 40% on a 30k/yr salary. Nowhere. You're most likely not even reaching that tax level.

> New vehicle registration tax can reach 150% in Denmark

> Private cars: 25% of DKK 65,000, 85% of DKK 65,000-202,200 and 150% of the rest. https://skat.dk/skat.aspx?oid=2244599

So again you don't know how tax bands work (and Denmark is kinda of an exception)
Learn guitar. Can easily be done in 10 minute chunks, though the more time you put in, the more you get out.

Or if you insist on looking at your phone, you could do 2 or 3 Duolingo lessons in that time frame.

Or meditate.
Classical mechanics wraps up general relativity, Newtonian mechanics, and analytic mechanics (which itself wraps up Hamiltonian mechanics and Lagrangian mechanics) into one name. It can also include fluid mechanics and other forms of continuum mechanics. Newtonian mechanics specifically refers to the formulation of finite-particle mechanics as a second order differential equation set in an inertial reference frame. Typical introductory physics classes teach Newtonian mechanics specifically.
Maybe we should stop using people names altogether and forget them when they die? It's not like they're relevant anymore. A Soylent Green fate for everyone -- into the memory hole!

I'm LGBT and I'm not impacted by whether or not James Webb had straight Christian biases. Everyone of that era did.

Galileo and Newton would have been pretty trash by today's standards. I'd even bet Einstein might've harbored prejudices despite going through what he did. It was the zeitgeist.

Apollo and the old gods were pretty devious. Orion, who we're still naming things after, was a rapist in some stories. Where's the outrage for these cartoon characters?

If we keep doing this, we need to rename America itself. Because Amerigo Vespucci isn't clean. And then where does it stop?

History is fucked up. 20,000 years ago we all ate one another, and I'm not going to cry about it. Looking at the animal kingdom, we've come a long way. I'd hate to be game for a lion on the savannah. Or a Neanderthal snack. Past mistakes and evolution made us stronger, and there are too many problems on the horizon to fixate on trying to clean up and play pretend. Forgetting our past also weakens the muscles we had to develop in the first place.

Are we going to strip George Washington from all the monuments, too? I think the better idea is to teach the history so that we're kinder and more mindful. This project has been known as James Webb since its inception, and it's busywork and posturing to change it.

I'm LGBT, and frankly, I'm mad at this. I overwhelmingly get the sense that a group of people that I don't relate to very well are looking for targets to blame that conflict with their identity. I increasingly find myself less and less tied to a shared identity with these people and compelled to strong sense of individualism.

James Webb doesn't exist anymore. The language token embeddings of his name call back history and the role he had in early NASA. I'm not going to blame him for anything. In fact, now I want to know more about him to enrich my understanding.

I'm usually pretty liberal. I know my opinion on this issue isn't popular, but this is something that directly touches me. I'm an individual and I'm interested more in history than empty placating.

I'm sure whatever LGBT person we rename the telescope after will be culturally significant. Maybe my problem is just that _I_ want to be the LGBT person that people in the future look up to for my hopefully future merits and accomplishments. I don't need to be told to look up to some dug up idol. I'm too busy looking forward instead of behind.
Perhaps I misunderstood, but the article says Amazon already does not pay for egress to Cloudflare. But Amazon still charges their customers as if they did. Did I misunderstand something?
> we could easily make a new "dumb" memory slot standard that would allow us to swap out the chips directly - like we have for CPUs.

You could, but it would take up a lot of space, given the higher pin count, and would most likely increase power consumption.
But I could - happily.
Yeah I’ve lived in a few neighborhoods where e.g. I heard gunfire from time to time, had my car broken into.

Living there was gentrification and leaving was flight… kinda stuck between a rock and a hard place.
I recently got the app One Sec - https://one-sec.app/

It has been an absolute game changer for me in reducing my screen time. The app is really good at changing habits - it makes opening up social media apps annoying and disrupts the expected dopamine hit. My app opens are way down and I’m no longer even hitting my screen time limit for social media apps.
“Viasat is worried that its slower Internet service delivered from geostationary satellites will lose customers once Starlink is out of beta and more widely available.”

I am not a lawyer, but if I’m reading this correctly, the only claim here is that the FCC and SpaceX did not follow proper procedure, but the catalyst is fear of competition.

My opinion is that if a company needs government help to thwart competition, then competition is absolutely needed.

Edit: Formatting is having some issues it seems.
My fake FB account just shows TikTok videos and left wing propaganda and its even paid post promotion. I don't know how the advertisers make money off of that.
I also enjoyed that book. I have a friend who has never been taught a lot of basic life skills and this is the book I would recommend to them, because it covers a bit of everything. It explains that eating well is important for our mental health, it explains that one should pay attention to how much of the talking they do in a conversation and make sure others have a chance to talk, etc. It hit on a wide range of good topics and I found it helpful.

I'm a bit surprised how politically charged some people seem to be about this book though. You can see it in the Goodreads reviews, a lot of people giving it one star because it said something they don't like politically. This is not a political book. I don't remember any political commentary from my reading of it, but apparently people have found a sentence here or there that seems to maybe suggest support for a political view they disagree with, so they give it one star. But, it's only a few people doing this and overall this is one of the highest rated books I've ever seen across several sites.
So to be clear, in /old/ versions of Android before they started making apps get permissions per directory, Syncthing can write to an arbitrary SD card folder just fine.

In the newest versions of Android you give it Scoped Storage.

In the intermediate, if you want 2-way sync on your phone, your data has to live in sdcard/android/media/com.nutomic.syncthingandroid/<sync folder1 >, <sync folder 2> which it does not need root to write to.

But for just grabbing your pictures, Android 10 has the stupid limitations on external file system access that Syncthing has to abide by or root over.
The dreaded words, "your job is to write a CMS"
Relevant:
https://mobile.twitter.com/SamHarrisOrg/status/8480137859817...

What will be the reason hn_user cannot be the name of 2120s newest spaceship? Did they eat meat of real animals? Did they own more than they needed? Didn‘t they help others as much as they could?
Are you by any chance referring to "Bobby" Shaftoe the WW2 Marine Raider or his ancestor King of the Vagabonds, L'Emmerdeur, Half-Cocked Jack, Quicksilver, Ali Zaybak, Sword of Divine Fire, Jack the Coiner...
I can't think of anything I'd want to use less.
Revisiting Euclid vs. Ambler (2017)
I'm not even sure what this means or what it's based on.

Are human institutions imperfect? Absolutely, but that's all we have. Is democracy perfectly responsive or unresponsive? Of course not. But the track record of democracies is orders of magnitude beyond any other form of government. Look at all the most free, most prosperous, most safe countries in the history of the world - all exist now, and all are advanced democracies.

> There will always be a cadre of technocrats vying for control ...

There will also always be a cadre of people who believe in and work to do good for their fellow citizens, 'in order to form a more perfect union'. There is bad and good in people; it's not so dark. There's both bad and good in both you and me, and we can choose among them.

> history is the story of what we have always had to do to dislodge them

That's a core piece of democracy: Voting them out rather than fighting a war works much better.
In practice you could just turn on Trash File Versioning with infinite retention too.
What an amazing ending! :)
Blink with one eye
Really happy to see this news. I hope these folks succeed. I'd order one right now if I hadn't just bought a new System76 machine a month or so ago.

Still, if I can find some free disposable cash anytime soon, I might order one anyway, just to support the concept and to have a spare machine. I'm sure I could use an extra machine for something-or-other.
That's true from an ex-post fact PoV, but otherwise you get massive amounts of false positives.
No relation with https://epicpython.io/ ?
Where I live, Bavaria, you cna get all kinds of subsidies to refurbish and maintain historic places. You also need them due all the restrictions and general age. Also, work tends be quite expensive. Overall so, it is affordable. As long as you don't go into castles, bit then, if you can afford to buy, money probably isn't your problem anyway.

That being said, these places have. alot of charm and character. I am kind of sad to not have taken that one apartment with a Renessaince wall painting back the day.
I was expecting something a little different, where they passed on him because he didn't give the 'right' answer (what the interviewer had preconceived and/or looked up online).
Jeff Bezos flying with his brother Mark on the first manned flight of Blue Origin is the ultimate dogfooding event. Surprised people are so against it, it is an iterative step and was massively risky but proves out the technology.

Blue Origin will be a formidable competitor and working with ULA, JPL and NASA will be great for the space industry and new perspectives on sustainability on Earth.

ULA will be launching Amazon Kuiper satellites to start but eventually it will be Blue Origin itself. I wouldn't ever bet against Bezos. The competition is just beginning. I am glad we got a space race, competition is good.

The Blue Origin flight was extremely smooth and clean, I can't wait to see more.
I think the variables here are how tenuous the current name is, and also how cool/enduring the replacement name is.

Mt McKinely -> Denali is another great example.

I think these factors will usually be stronger than any moral dimension.
Ask HN: Tell how a startup/product died for a stupid or unexpected reason
Want to hear your best stories of products/startups dying or almost dying for the most unexpected stupid reasons
One billion is not a lot for rocket R&D.
For the full network:

42000 sats
20gbps each
~1k users
2gbps @ 100:1 oversub
1gbps @ 50:1 oversub

And that’s assuming next generations will not improve downlink speeds. It does assume satellites would be fully utilized which is wrong unless we populate the oceans, but that’s the theoretical max.
Read something, an article or a book which is more short snippets (try Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, those five minutes will change your life). I have a list with a whole bunch of tech topics that I could read a quick MDN/wikipedia/whatever article on. If its a quick game, Call of Duty or some racing game where a race only takes a few minutes. I actually find taking a break and then gaming for five/ten minutes to be really good for my attention since it really forces me to focus completely for that time. Otherwise, just stand outside with your coffee and breathe.
Additionally, using Facebook and Instagram from your browser will constantly expose you to their obnoxious "better in the app!" banners that you can never fully dismiss. Just making another one of their dark patterns visible enough to make you (hopefully) question the intent of the company...

Also, Instagram ads are actually blockable in-browser because they haven't bothered to update the site beyond the bare minimum of compatibility updates in years. So my iPhone on a VPN running a pihole made Instagram a little more bearable until I noticed that none of my friends ever posted anything any more.
I'm not sure what your concern is. Differences in how user space permissions are handled? You give synctjing read write access and it does its thing.
But can he do a heap sort on the whiteboard, that's the real question
You really should not use this ever in any situation, but for historical reasons[1], if they are the only thing on the line you can use HTML comments in JavaScript like so:

function foo() {
<!--- returns true ---->
return true;
}

This works at least in Chrome and V8, not sure about Firefox.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/1508005/1888964
I still don't fully understand how some of today's real estate prices are possible. There are not that many buyers of the income or net worth required to afford these prices. How can a large scale market exist with so few customers who can reasonably afford the product?
Aye, it would be better to name it after an astronomer, even if you would want a women there are enough names to choose from.

for example: https://youtu.be/damkjiFNn5E

Caroline Herschel Telescope would be cool, she mapped the skies so it feels appropriate
Can you expand a bit more on how you achieved this? It sounds interesting.
You can build the next generation bird app. This one requires uploading to the cloud to recognize bird calls.

What if you used the AI hardware in the phone to do the audio recognition?

For efficiency you could even use geolocation and figure out which species are found in a location and download a model just for those. Anything not matched could be uploaded as before.
History is all of the above: information, disinformation, and misinformation. Our world relies on us to distinguish between them.

If it was all disinformation, you and I wouldn't know anything about it! It's just an easy (and obviously false) answer to say it's all disinformation. The challenge is how to handle the some bad inputs and output progress and good things for our neighbors. It's very doable; generations have accomplished a lot since we lived in caves; what are we doing for the next generation?
I didn't see the amount of the discount in the article. Is there a place where one can see the pricing (i.e. 10TB azure -> CF)?
I can point you to hundreds of examples of people arguing against the "nothing to hide" position. I have never seen the opposite. I do not think it exists.
> I've been running Linux KDE dual booting for a year or so, and I've have touched Windows in (uptime...) - 22 days or so.

Sounds like how I ended up on Linux full time. I dual booted for a while before I one day realized I hadn't booted into Windows for months. At that point I saw no valid reason to keep my Windows partition at all and just put in the effort to get my last few "Windowsy" activities switched over to Linux applications (mostly gaming and graphics related stuff).
I think having IG and FB is a liability for them. Imo Epic Games is making better choices right now with their acquisitions and marketing strats. Seems more appealing to me.