skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My house happens to sit right next to a freeway and a mall, and would be the prefect spot for a tower. Can I sign up as a landlord if the land I lord over is a small tract home?
Agreed. The tech is just more powerful than the human will. Going back to a basic phone (or even no phone) seems to be the only way out of this.
That’s the theory. In practice, if judges want you to succeed, they’ll accept that you have standing even on very flimsy argument.
The example itself is not a great example.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-...

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If we used your standards to name the satellite then there would be almost nobody to name it after. If you dig deep enough almost everyone alive and dead is cancellable.
And yet devs can't entirely wash their hands of responsibility, since no one forces them to work at companies that don't respect privacy.
Spoilers follow!

I usually don't cry at movies. I cried when Mufasa died in the Lion King, and I nearly cried when the last prototype of Makani crashed into the sea in the linked documentary.

So much good engineering, and effort, and hopes and dreams and sweat went into the whole project. I really felt for the team there.
Development and Validation of an AI System for Review of Patient Records
Despite that, it was sad how many people not only couldn't complete this test, but frankly didn't even come close.

This has been my experience as well. Our options were:

1. Given a merge sort algorithm psuedo-code, implement it.
2. A simple binary search implementation.
3. Implement a singly linked list that support basic operations.

Out of 50 or so people, maybe 3-5 people were able to complete it during a 30-45 minutes pair programming session.
For anyone that remember the 90s it is utterly bizarre to hear Microsoft talked about as some type of potential savior that was unfairly muscled out of the market.

I don't disagree that having a third player in the space would improve things, but it is just weird how the perception of some companies change.
Yes. Aside from what I consider nuisance encounters I was walking my dog by my apartment one evening and I had a very close encounter with someone who was vandalizing a neighbors vehicle. I was able to get enough video evidence of the act in progress to assist the Police with identifying and charge the perp. I had to testify in Grand Jury for my troubles.
As an atheist I must say there are some useful lines in the Bible, like this one
It sounds like they're trying hard to find something, anything, to monetize Oculus with that isn't either extremely niche or games.
They might be right about "makes you smarter". I mean, here you are complaining that SA isn't "peer reviewed", which is pretty stupid because they're publishing the results of studies done by others, not doing or controlling them.
States Weigh Bans on Ransomware Payoffs
It seems like you are arguing that wealthy parents move to places with worse schools to make it easier for their kids to be in the top 10%.
If the goal is to somehow boost black or hispanic admissions, it won't work at many schools due to other groups dominating the top 10%.
Lineage OS here, works marveseouly.
Build web apps and free yourself from the tyranny of closed ecosystems. It's Closed vs. Open. Only the web is open. 99% of apps on both the Play Store and App Store could be implemented as web apps with no loss in functionality - in fact a very large chunk of them are web apps, simply wrapped in a web view.
Part of the rationale of Apple for disallowing emulators is really concerning:

> allows for downloading of content without licensing.
You know, so many comments, and nobody had mentioned Snow Crash yet?

I am disappoint, HN ;)
Doubtful, the Framework laptop is pretty much like any other USB-C-based laptop, except that it reserves some space inside the chassis so that the adapter dongles are flush with the case.
Imagine being able to say random stuff like this and getting rich off it as the stock market reacts. Must be nice.
For a counterpoint to this, look no further than: https://scholars-stage.org/history-is-written-by-the-losers/

The winners of history are often too busy with enjoying the spoils of their victory and building up their newly won empire to have time to produce historical narrative, while the losers often have nothing better left to do in their exile/imprisonment or similar situation.
That’s why Dropbox is an integral part of the backup scheme ;) but it’s pricey if it’s only for photosync!
I definitely support their mission and hope to see them do well. And you might be right that they form a culture or feature that proves to be game changing. However, on the surface, I don't believe modularity is something that the average consumer cares about enough to have this become mainstream just on that basis alone.
I’m not in either industry either, most of what I’m saying is based on what I’ve gathered as a space enthusiast.

The cost issue is multifaceted.

Most of it is sunk into launching itself, which is where things like space tourism come into the picture as a way to provide an initial business case and eventually, economy of scale. Addressing that alone will improve the economics of off-world industry quite a lot just on its own.

For the other part, initially companies will just have to eat the cost to get things up and running. This really isn’t that unusual — we just haven’t had much in the way of truly new frontiers in many years and have grown accustom to business ventures being relatively low cost and low risk. That said, this could also be partially subsidized by researchers and tourists, since there is certain to be interest from universities and other organizations to send people to study these other bodies, and there are most certainly a surprising number of individuals both wealthy and crazy enough to want to go stay on Mars for a couple of years.
Exactly right. Put another way, Viasat is saying "I will lose money because my service is worse, and I will be in a disadvantaged position because we followed the rules and the FCC allowed SpaceX not to.

If there was no material impact to Viasat's business, they wouldn't even be able to file the lawsuit.

The courts will decide if SpaceX/FCC acted unfairly towards Viasat by allowing SpaceX to operate under a different set of rules - again, causing Viasat's product to be worse and having a material impact to Viasat's business.
Alphabet launches new robotics software company Intrinsic
This was actually my first-glance answer. Consider that the Pepsi label can't possibly be the Pepsi button, but the other two can.
Regarding WhatsApp, How do you merge different database files into one coherent big database?
On mobile I’m getting a “Oops! Something went wrong.” page.
Pandemic Puts Mosfet Productions Under Strain Bringing Price Hikes
I live on the Central Coast and it never struck me as very windy around here, at least compared to other places I've been. I looked it up and as I thought, the winds are further North:

2020 Offshore Wind Resource Assessment for the California Pacific Outer Continental Shelf
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/77642.pdf
1. Thanks! we'll fix that!

2. Thanks for the feedback!

3. Yep! it is a cursor that we return to you after your first query

4. Thanks, we'll better document that! The type values are IMAGE & VIDEO

5. No only the newly updated values

7. Ah weird, which browser you using? for me it works.

8. Ditto all questions for products also for variants (page vs cursor, media & how to do narrow updates to it).

9. Atm we are discussing pricing based on customers needs, on a direct call with them

10. We are committed to making this work. If not we are open to many arrangements including helping customers run Appollo on-prem.

Phew! Thanks for all the questions haha!
Not showing prices anywhere until a user signs up is a dark pattern
I wonder if it can sync files from a machine in China to a machine in US which doesn’t have great firewall implemented. Anyone tried this?
I want to clarify that I am okay with foreign aid and disaster relief. The "foreign aid" that acts like soft bribes are the kind I really detest.
NAC is easily purchased as an OTC supplement to this day. And that's not changing any time soon.
I know there's Syncthing lite, but is there a way to "browse" your synced folders (without actually syncing) and then mark them for syncing to the phone? I'd love it if I could do that because my phone's storage is obviously limited.
This sort of disruption will probably be considered virtual terrorism one day... Imagine the CIA torturing some poor soul over dicks in the zuckerverse.
great design. looks like the 2015 mac book pro. i'll continue to use mine until the wheels fall off.
To me a PC is a device that runs whatever software you need, and that you can program to do the stuff that you need.

iOS imposes limitations on that, you cannot run third party applications that are not on the store, you can't write your own programs or scripts, or you can with 100 limitations that makes it in practice impossible to do so.

And I'm not talking about the hardware, it's powerful, probably more powerful by a lot of computers, but in the end the stuff that you can do on an iPad is far less than the stuff that you can do with a Raspberry Pi, a 35$ computer, but with Linux on it, and that lets you do whatever you want.
> mining asteroids,

I agree about the living in space and colonizing mars which are mostly pipe dreams (that I'm admittedly optimistic about as a spaceflight enthusiast), but I think mining asteroids is a feasible proposition. The material is there, and in-situ resource extraction and return has been demonstrated. It's really just a matter of scale-up and putting in the upfront investment.
Intermediate routers don't care about that; they only forward the IP packets; four target host/firewall will drop them (because they don't belong to a valid connection) but they will be still accounted for as ingress traffic.
Hey, We are adding script tag support very very soon!
I wish enterprise buyers or institutional buyers considered it.

Make sense to buy a fleet of these since they can be pretty easily repaired/cannibalized for parts.
If I know anything about capitalism, the primary reason manhole covers are round is because that's the most cost-efficient shape for the job.
and it actually had the best UI of the three options
What Is Aadhaar
"Aadhaar number is a 12-digit random number issued by the UIDAI (“Authority”) to the residents of India after satisfying the verification process laid down by the Authority. Any individual, irrespective of age and gender, who is a resident of India, may voluntarily enrol to obtain Aadhaar number. Person willing to enrol has to provide minimal demographic and biometric information during the enrolment process which is totally free of cost. An individual needs to enrol for Aadhaar only once and after de-duplication only one Aadhaar shall be generated, as the uniqueness is achieved through the process of demographic and biometric de-duplication."
Just checked the debian issue tracker. Not sure if there is supporting work that could move it along, but you are not alone in wanting the latest release https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=983500
> Neither side is necessarily wrong. It is reasonable to both be uncomfortable with Bezos' extreme wealth and what that means for society but also recognize that Blue Origin has advanced spaceflight.

How did a brief amusement ride into sub-orbital space advance spaceflight?

To reach orbit, you need to go one part up and four parts sideways. This flight was only the vertical component - essentially just 20% of the minimum bar for useful space activity.
Ah… I figured it out… I was blocking cookies which breaks the whole thing.
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>To think you can compete with companies that have virtually unlimited financial resources available to highjack your attention and get you hooked is completely naïve.

The problem is that ordinary people have absolutely no concept whatsoever of what all goes into an app like Facebook. They load it on their phones, open it up, and it's just a magical screen that shows them images and text. There's no understanding of it beyond that. They don't know that there is a huge office building in California full of thousands of some of the smartest people on earth who spend their entire working lives
and billions of dollars to figure out how to hack your brain more effectively.

Big tech really needs the Upton Sinclair treatment. But even then I doubt people will care.
I'm from Texas, went to UT when it had the 10% rule. It was a problem for kids who went to competitive/affluent schools that were so competitive that one or two Bs would put you out of the running. So you would get some lopsided scenarios where some kids would get into MIT but also be rejected from Texas because the standards were that high. Meanwhile the valedictorian of a bad school with a 900 SAT score would get in. Some kids would move to less competitive high schools to have a chance at going to UT.
If you take as given, "none of them are correct," I think both of those optimisations still start with pressing Pepsi. It is either Coke or random, so you have about a 75% chance of getting what you want on the first press.
Drawings into Reality: Next Level digital artist
Yes, we had a CoCo2 as well. What I mostly remember was the cassette recorder disk drive, which was kind of like recorded modem sounds. There were a handful of games that plugged in via a cartridge on the side (like an NES, but usually with more boring games). But then there were some commercial games distributed on cassette tape as well, such as this one:

https://www.pixelatedarcade.com/games/taxi
My point in bringing up the light meter is that in these "tree falls in the forest" thought experiments, it's taken for granted that your own biological senses are an absolute source of truth.

But your eyes are just another set of equipment, similar to a light meter. Just because your eyes are attached to the rest of your body, it doesn't make them inherently more trustworthy than equipment that's not part of your body.
The problem with consumer protection agencies is that they're subject to regulatory capture. Politicians take Apple's money, or are subject to threats to remove thousands of jobs from their jurisdiction.

What you really want is a third party app store which is operated as a co-op, supports multiple platforms (making it easier for users to switch and keep their apps), and has enough users to have bargaining power.
Thanks for all the hard work, greysteil! Long-time Dependabot user here and a big fan (currently in the throes of updating many repos to GitHub-native Dependabot).

I've reported all this in the past, but since we're giving feedback in this thread, some big pain points for us are:

1. The lack of a way to view all Dependabot security alerts/security PRs (across repos) in one place. With Old Dependabot, we could do a GitHub Issues search like `is:open is:pr label:security org:<our-org>` and see them all, and actually built quite a lot of automation around PRs with the `security` label. But New Dependabot has no way to configure security PRs to get the `security` label, so it's easy to miss vulnerabilities when you have two dozen repos, and our automation no longer works. :/

2. Dependabot reporting `No security update is needed as <dependency> is no longer vulnerable` when in fact there are multiple versions of the dependency, including vulnerable ones, in our yarn.lock file. (Webpack has a lot of transitive dependencies!)

3. Dependabot can't update a vulnerable version of, say, rails, because rails requires the same version of activerecord, even though these are essentially the same project. (I get the sense this is being worked on as "grouped dependency updates"?)

P.S. Just wanted to clarify: feedback is love. I wouldn't be writing this if we didn't find Dependabot valuable (Old Dependabot was actually the reason we moved to GitHub years ago!).
So glad I deleted my account years ago. That place is garbage.
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You're reading too far into what I'm saying. I was not likening it to the phrase "China flu" in that I think the CIA is encouraging hate crimes against Cubans. I'm saying that the name of any phenomenon is able to generate an association and a sentiment about what it's named after.

> you're going to assert that the CIA, despite explicitly saying they don't know where exactly it comes from

The CIA has a long and well-documented history of lying to the public. I'm not asserting that I know what's going on, I'm asserting that the CIA has previously used interviews and media statements to influence public opinion about countries the U.S. is seeking to destabilize. Colin Powell is the most famous and egregious example in recent history. This is obviously not as overt as what Powell did, but every statement the CIA makes to the media should be viewed in that context.
Feels like he is trying to copy Elon Musk
Personally, I didn't want to soil Snow Crash by associating it in any way with Facebook.
> no one forces them to work at companies that don't respect privacy.

I'll move if my customers move too.
I'm surprised how negative the comments here are, even if it is true that 'metaverse' is turning into a pretty silly buzzword. I think there's still coherent concepts defined by it (interfaces becoming much more inline with what humans find natural, integration of VR+AR capabilities, and the 'Internet' becoming more and more 'real life' in general).

Facebook is absolutely one of the best-positioned companies to be able to become a long-term market leader in these areas and has been investing heavily into R&D in all related categories. Although some of us dislike many ways the company operates, this still does seem like a very well thought-out and aggressive long-term mission that is worthy of being pursued, and I'm pretty excited to continue to see innovation in the more difficult areas like AI and VR here.
Some don't. Others definitely do.
Is TLP not enough? I would be curious to know how else people manage power on laptops here.
The list of Robot company failures and the robotic industry dead pool runs very deep. Just in the past few years:

* Rethink Robotics https://www.zdnet.com/article/sudden-unexpected-demise-of-re...

* Anki https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/con...

* Jibo https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/jib...

* Blue Workforce https://www.therobotreport.com/blue-workforce-robot-files-ba...

* Mayfield Robotics (Kuri) https://www.heykuri.com/blog/important_difficult_announcemen...

* Starsky Robotics https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2020/03/20/why...

* Reach Robotics https://www.therobotreport.com/reach-robotics-shuts-down-con...

* Google Schaft https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/15/18096469/google-robotics...

* Willow Garage https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-02-20/robotics-...

* Honda Asimo https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/28/17514134/honda-asimo-huma...

* Amazon Vesta https://venturebeat.com/2019/09/28/amazons-vesta-no-show-hig...

Everyone thinks that they are somehow different, but all these firms fail for the same reason. Robotics is hard. The market is not that big. Lots of costs. Investors are skittish. The combination of those things isn't that good.
I think there’s several issues going. The first is a lack of funding in poor schools. Less money, less resources. The second is that just having money doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to be managed well by the administration. Maybe that too needs some amount of state oversight.

Lastly, the phrase “parents’ hard work” implies a lot about the core problem here. It’s no secret that wealthy families have a multi-generational advantage on less fortunate ones. Immigrating to this country and working your entire life is hard, and you may still never break out of your socioeconomic class. Perhaps your children may go further, but that’s significantly harder when their education is funded proportionally to your initial circumstances. Success isn’t just hard work, it’s the luck of your innate talents and abilities. It’s also being born at the right time and place to make a better life for your kids.
If the author is here, it appears to be broken at a rather early stage.

I'm at variables part of the syntax intro and it reports an error, even when I select "Show Answer" and submit that.

food = "Pizza"

print(food)

---

Output:

ERROR: Looks like there was an error
How many ping pong balls would it take to fill a 747?

Why do you ask? What problem are you trying to solve?

We want to understand your thought process

I'd think it was stupid to fill a 747 with ping pong balls and think about something else
The simple explanation is that ingress is far, far lower than egress so the cost isn't relevant since links tend to be symmetrical. So the cost to them is determined based on egress, their ingress provisioning happens at no additional cost.
LOL. No.

A week or so ago I unfriended every one of my 'friends' on Facebook, many there since 2007. I'm now just squatting my own identity for the handful of community and sports clubs that use Facebook as a bulletin board. These people are 'acquaintances', I know most of them by sight, but don't see what they're having for breakfast or when their baby does something amazing. So, basically neighbours in a village.

I realised I did not want to be the reason people were using Facebook, posting their curated/fictional 'best self'. Basically, friends don't encourage friends to use Facebook[1].

Write that email if you expect someone to read it, write a blog post if you don't. But I'm over being party to mining other people's attention spans and identity for personal gratification and someone else's profit.

[1] Or any other parasocial medium in my opinion.
Sourcing in Automotive Industry Moving Toward Regional Suppliers, Says Beroe Inc
The Tourist’s Guide to Pub Etiquette [pdf]
/“However, it turns out that the 'soundscape problem' where the microphone is just attached to a tree is a bit more difficult than identifying foreground birds only, using a device that can be pointed in the relevant direction by the user.“/

Yes pointing a directional mic introduces a whole new set of mechanical challenges.

Maybe you could build an irregular grid of omnidirectional microphones and use signal processing to direct the beam digitally (similar to radio beam-forming). Now you’ll need more processing horsepower to do FFTs to do phase shifts. Although if you assume the bird calls only occupy discrete frequencies you might be able to save some computation by just computing those.

Perhaps a machine learning model could be trained that does all of this for you. Then you get the benefit of hardware acceleration. Some ML chips can handle DSP tasks.
VR has been the "next hot thing" since 1995. People were showing all kinds of alternative interfaces back then and you see where that got us. VR makes people physically ill and doesn't add anything to the experience of using software w/o VR. Every major VR product is a flop from Google Daydream and Cardboard to Oculus and MagicLeap and even DisneyQuest. I don't see that changing anytime soon.
He worked for an early computer manufacturer at one point in his life. The completely wacky Thinking Machines Corporation, who built probably the strangest computer architecture ever commercially developed.

There were building massively parallel systems back in the 80s. Literally thousands of parallel processors, but each processor was only a single bit machine with an incredibly primitive ALU and little else. Or maybe it would be better to think of them as the first GPU builder, at least 20 years ahead of their time.
Users want a local app for no real reason, as evidenced by the thousands of apps that are nothing but a wrapper around a web application.
I would say the quote is probably a poor choice of words. It's not saying the flight itself advances anything. It's saying that having another group of people working on space tech is competitive, and competition drives advancement.