skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is false. At least two very large organizations (Microsoft and the Department of Defense) have decreed that their employees not use "sensitive" terms like "whitelist" and "blacklist".
I love this. Now that you have a working version, what's next on your road map?
That's a distributed database with more ceremony. I'm sure there are use cases I'm not aware of yet with novel technologies, but governments are not going to allow their monetary policy to be usurped by distributed writer Merkle trees run by randos.
Varicose Vein Explained in Tamil? Exercises
I am a fan of city building games, and one thing that greatly annoys me is the fact that all of them use the USA-only model of "Euclidean" zoning (named after Euclid, Ohio, that sued on the supreme court to be allowed to implement that kind of zoning now popular in USA).

These games will never recreate brazillian cities for example... São Paulo, it has a neighbourhood that was a farm, and another that was a swamp. Some guy bought the swamp, and started to build offices on it, a ton of them. The construction workers then started to build their homes on the farm, back then intended to be temporary homes while they built the offices, but today the ex-farm is a full blown dense residential neighbourhood in the middle of downtown, and the swamp is a place full of towering glassy high-rises. Meanwhile in another area, a neighbourhood that was USA suburb-style full of big houses, that formerly belonged to wealthy farmers of the region, people realized that place was very easy to reach compared to some others, so perfect for offices, slowly the houses became offices, then torn down to have proper office buildings, then those got torn down and turned into towers, and then some towers had residential apartments built on them so people could live closer to work.

None of that would been possible in US model.
It’s technically possible, but this things are barely cost effective already. A system for sinking them and raise them for repairs would be too expensive.

As for ships, they already use custom barges, but if they’re deployed somewhere it’s because there’s heavy winds, so most repairs need to be workable even in (somewhat) adverse conditions. This also makes matters worse, because you don’t want your ship to be tied to a massive windmill if the wind picks up.
>Houston is trying to adapt. ... developers are now required to practice a kind of “leave no trace” policy when it comes to rainfall—once ... as a result, alongside Houston’s ubiquitous parking lots, many new projects feature grassy flood pits.

There's a strong case to be made here for more community parks & woodland trails. They serve as extremely good water containment areas
You should PictureThis for plant indentification. It works really quite well for me in the Pacific Northwest (though not perfect).
I don't typically whiteboard. I'll write the prompt on the whiteboard, but otherwise it's a tool. The candidate has a computer, either their own or we provide one, with whatever tools they requested or want to use.

Yes, plenty of candidates with otherwise amazing track records can't code comically simple functions (not dumb questions) together, with tons of help and hints and direction provided. They can't articulate their thought process, can't describe what they're doing, can't ask for help or get combative or aggressive or entitled.

The question is entirely not the point. It's everything else that is signal. Could I work with this person? Could I give them a task and have confidence?
In my view, we shouldn’t be suspending it for anything. Giving the government an inch on this should seem foolish to anyone who’s even skimmed a history textbook.

Sometimes the slope is slippery.
> Even if you put bricks on the lids, they would team up to topple them off and get the lid open.

Sounds like a perfect opportunity to place a jack-in-the-box. :)
Keep in mind that a person who do 100 push up a day is still doing 100x the pushup.

That said, it's a good idea to get started, no matter how little or tiny your progress is.
I think it’s fine to ask for just 1 week. Unless you architected something and have a responsibility to document and do knowledge transfer, no one should bat an eye.

This is a morbid analogy, but think about a dying relative. You mostly should have dealt with their death long before it happens. If you are that deep in your job search, you should have already reduced your role, in which case the full two weeks means nothing.
Why AMD? What about ARM?

I don't want to use an Apple laptop, but I do want a fanless design with M1-type performance and battery life. Can you do that with anything from Intel or AMD?
WindowMaker was never a clone of NeXT—it was more of a cool window manager that just happened to superficially look like NeXT. If you want to play with a real attempt to recreate a “deep down” NeXT clone you want this:

https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace
Does the light meter function properly while blinking?
I read it as "if we have to choose between maintaining nature and having cruise ships, we'd rather maintain nature and not have cruises".
ZIP is a product of the microcomputer era, which was filled with hobbyists, many new programmers learning the craft without the benefit of experience with mature systems and the preceding decades of CS work, and even experienced programmers who needed to take shortcuts to do a lot with a little. It was an amazing time where many unpolished programs were developed to try out all sorts of ideas, and there's a lot I find fascinating about the era. (For example, flipping through old computer magazines, it's always interesting how few advertiser addresses were in Silicon Valley.) But as a professional developer in 2021, looking back on that time and genre of computing is also a bit horrifying. ;)
Congrats on launching, it is always nice to see more startups in LA. The first question that came to my mind seeing your landing is that it's everything in Brazilian Portuguese. Your market now is only BR? Because the rest of the countries in LA speaks Spanish (with a few colony exceptions).

Are you planning to open to the rest of the countries? Have you already customers in Chile, Argentina, Mexico?

Thanks!
I wish we could do this with houses.
I used a similar program which said there was a red tail hawk. I looked up, and there was a red tail hawk.
1 watt active is low. But so is 2 for dimm ddr3 [1]. They switched to make upgrading more difficult.

"Typical Power Consumption of PC Components - Power Draw in Watts" https://www.buildcomputers.net/power-consumption-of-pc-compo...
No. These things are designed to turn on and off hundreds of times per second to emulate dimming.
Ironic given the average “abandoned Disney castle” style of the McMansions that pervade in the suburbs around my city!
## Codelabels: Component: title

### ENH,UBY: HN: linkify URIs in descriptions

## User Stories

Users {__, __, } can ___ in order to ___.

Given-When-Then

~ Who-What-Wow

~ {Marketing, Training, Support, Service} Curriculum Competencies

### Users can click on links in descriptions in order to review referenced off-site resources.

Costs/Benefits: Linkspam?

The URL from this {item,} description:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27600539
Like someone else said, 'don't take attacks on a tool you like as an attack on you.' I think theirs is the overly-sensitive reply. Why get worked up because someone doesn't like software that you do like? Bizarre.
Yes, the consensus seems to be for 2: this change is not seen in the wild as it not beneficial there. i.e. it is not towards in a wild plant's local maximum of producing most offspring given limited resources.
Which breed, German Shepard?
"A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody could possibly know in what area it would become useful; and there were no general indications that it ever would be so.”
― John von Neumann
But that's true for any rights. The right to feel safe, the right to safety and not be harmed, raped or killed. Without society, sure, real-estate, personal safety are out the window and we could expect expropriation, rape and death.
Thanks for pointers. I looked how to create a junction and I found this small app: https://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextens..., it's a GUI for creating symbolic links/junctions/etc. Which for me is great as I'm not an avid user of cli.
> how deeply associated dense, urban environments are with random violence and crime.
> If I could live in an environment like Berlin, I might consider it

You made me chuckle. Berlin is heavily associated with crime. There's multiple better and safer cities to live in Germany.
Yup, as soon as one exception is allowed, everyone will jump on the bandwagon and demand their slice of the pie. They already got the "sex trafficking" exception, and of course new exceptions are being thrown out there.
I’ve only been a parent for five years so do with this what you will.

For us, it started at me - I had to make some big changes. When she was very little, I caught myself pushing her on a swing with my nose in my phone. Once I caught myself doing that, I broke the habit - now when we’re spending quality time together, my phone doesn’t exist.

This gives us space to do things outside, go on adventures and use our imaginations.

Devices are a huge part of her world so at other times, we either share one device and I let her quarterback or we spend an hour in bed on our own devices. I’m open about what I do on my device and she’s open about what she does on hers. In some cases, this creates an opportunity for me to teach and model. In other cases, it gives her an opportunity to teach me.

The last part has been especially important. As my girl has taught me things about her world, I’ve learned that some of my ideas about kids being kids are based on my own prejudice. I’ve caught myself expressing an overly rosy view of ‘when I was a kid’ and have tried to project that world upon her. Thankfully, my kid and I have the kind of relationship where she’s more than comfortable to tell me that I’m wrong.
I'm sure there have been plenty of attempts at this, but ultimately became Not A Hotdog for birding.
For the 'theory' behind this
https://web.archive.org/web/20210301101828/https://fireinabo...
"Relatively easy" is brushing over an awful lot.

https://xkcd.com/793/

You can get a rough approximation, and that's been done at great effort for the entire US at the FEMA website:

https://msc.fema.gov/portal/home.

It's not a simple problem to solve. Some of the caveats are discussed in this Practical Engineering video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EACkiMRT0pc

Volume of outflow through a stream is equal to rainfall times watershed area. Seems intuitive, right? Except what about water that gets absorbed into the ground, or captured in a temporary holding pond, slowed by vegetation, or accelerated in a storm drain...I think Grady put it well when he pointed out that the silly Imperial units of outflow in cubic feet per second, rainfall in inches per hour, and watershed area in acres multiply together to 1.008, which is off by about 1% but close enough that civil engineers just throw away the constant entirely because it's such an imprecise approximation that the error is irrelevant.
These places offer a level of perceived safety [0] and measured public school performance that are somewhere between outrageously expensive and impossible to replicate in an urban setting. Not many people are excited* about living here and don’t choose it in their 20s, but in your 30s it’s understood that you’re not going to walk your child past needles and homeless encampments to a 2/10 school. It’s also understood that doing anything about the needles and homeless encampments would be a human rights violation, even if somehow the money were available, which it’s not. Mechanisms which once allowed upper-middle-class urban families to put their kids in good* public schools, like testing-based admissions, are also being recognized as unjust and dismantled.

[0] The absence of threatening humans makes them feel safe, but what we should really be worried about are all the vehicle miles traveled.
1 watt vs 2 Watts. Stop shilling.
> Financial data can reveal uncomfortable information about a consumer’s preferences and habits; our finances give a window into our lives. Any US CBDC should prioritize user privacy and data protection. In addition, collecting and storing personally identifying user data at all makes it vulnerable to accidental leaks or malicious hacking attempts, so the design of a US CBDC should strive to minimize data collection to only what is critically necessary to safely process transactions.

> A CBDC which is in some part run by the central bank does not necessarily require the central bank to have visibility into fine-grained transaction data. Legitimate public policy goals relating to combating criminal activity can be fulfilled while preserving the privacy of the public and preventing a central bank being drawn into the commercial surveillance models which are now prevalent in the private sector.

It sounds like they're prioritizing a system that uses cryptography to ensure a zero-trust and plausible deniability environment similar to cash. For the US, I think this is the right path for their government. They need to be able to easily transfer monetary assets to foreign agents or governments without anyone snooping in on them. Even the possibility of a back door would mean that one of their enemies could see where resources are being allocated internationally, which would be a vulnerability.

This would also promote use of the currency among others in low trust environments, which is part of why the US dollar has such significant international hegemony in comparison to something like the Yuan/Digital Yuan. No third world government wants to be in the position where the Chinese can see how they're spending their funds and immediately freeze them based on this oversight.
Billion DOLLAR INVENTION: Save money while blinking [video]
Recently I had to do some simple flat file parsing and aggregation - for some reason, I picked up Perl for a it and it was as easy and performant as ever. It just felt natural and got the job done in a few lines of code. For all the hate Perl gets, I think for specific tasks like these, it is pretty much only rivalled by Python (and compared to Perl even with strict on/avoiding magic variables etc, Python still feels verbose).
A dollar is not a stablecoin period. A stablecoin isn't just a number on a ledger and it isn't a physical dollar.

It is a really bad idea from a privacy perspective. Physcial cash is better, the fact that bitcoiners like this idea means they aren't really for privacy and stuff like that.

Also blockchain has many design flaws including that they can be attacked and there is only 'rough' consensus about the order of transactions. It is a no good terrible idea.
Just bookmarked "Group Theory in the Bedroom", thanks.

I just listened to interview with Rama Ranganathan about "evolutionary physics".

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/big-brains-podcast-explores-...

I couldn't really follow their discussion. From your post I'm guessing you'd get a lot more out of it.

Your questions about redundant encodings seems related to Ranganathan's assertion that biology can be both efficient and adaptive. Whereas with human design, efficiency and resilience is a more of a tradeoff.

Any who...
I am also not an astrophysicist, but here is what I have read. Every planetary body has an imaginary envelope called the Roche limit [1]. For Earth, this is about 18,000 km in radius. Debris inside this radius will tend to get ripped apart, while those outside tend to coalesce. This is not due to gravitational instability or chaos. This can happen even if the gravitational field is be assumed to be uniform. (Earth's gravitational field has some non-uniformities due to non-homogeneous density of the planet. But I doubt it has any role in preventing debris from coalescing. More uniform, but heavier bodies like Saturn tend to rip debris apart even more).

What really rips smaller bodies and debris inside the Roche limit is tidal forces caused by gravity-gradient. Imagine a smaller body like a satellite or a comet. The region of that body closest to the planet will be subjected to greater gravitational force and acceleration than the region farthest from the planet (gravity-gradient). If the satellite/comet's self-gravity and material strength is not strong enough to resist this differential pull/acceleration by the planet's gravity, it gets ripped apart. This is roughly the concept of Roche radius.

In case of the giant impact hypothesis, the ejecta that coalesced into the moon was certainly outside the Roche limit. Ejecta with sub-orbital velocities would have fallen back onto the planet surface shortly. I am not sure what happened to the material that was in orbit inside the Roche limit. There is another phenomenon at play here - called tidal acceleration [2]. You may be aware that the moon is slowly moving away from Earth. This is due to tidal acceleration.

Tidal acceleration causes large objects (like the moon) outside the planet's geosynchronous orbit to slowly accelerate and move away. In case of the moon, it's Earth's tides that drag moon like this. Conversely, the objects inside the geostationary orbit tend to get decelerated and pulled into the Earth's atmosphere. I am not sure how strong this effect is for small and distributed objects like planetary debris. But that may be why Earth has no ring. It may also be that those small bodies were too close and drag from Earth's thin atmosphere may have pulled it back to the planet.

The moon is believed to have been very close to Earth (a few tens of thousands of kilometers) at the time of formation. The impact is also believed to have sped up Earth's rotation a lot (reducing the length of the day). This means that the geosynchronous orbit would have been much lower and likely below where moon was back then. Tidal acceleration slowed down Earth's rotation and elongated the day, just as it raised moon's orbit.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_limit

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_acceleration
Adam Ondra Is the World’s Most Accomplished Climber
A deliberately misleading title to farm clicks. I've flagged the post for this. A plain title would be "two senators want to change section 230 to ban 'misinformation' on social networks".
What's the difference? Some people make a big deal out of males/females vs men/women and I don't get it.
IIRC, wayback machine has a pretty wicked flaw in that if a domain adds a restrictive robots.txt at some point (say, a domain changes hands), then all prior archives for that domain are retroactively taken offline. Not a problem for archiving things just to keep them online under heavy load, but it's a big problem for future use.

I'd prefer something like archive.is for longer-term storage.
iOS and Android must respond to NSO-like attacks with better security
Very excited to see modular and repairable tech in production! Just wanted to make a top-level comment in support of a trackpoint option. Given modular design and the Marketplace it could make sense to have a simple drop-in replacement for the keyboard module that would potentially lure many hardcore Thinkpad fans.
This is how the Fed is run, they need the power to issue money whenever there is need without oversight.
> * So unless you got burned in 1995 nothing about them was new.*

I didn't mean to imply that they were new features to the language. I meant to imply that they were new style of coding to the manager & coworkers.

Some other features that have burned me from managers & coworkers is `using` to change the visibility of parent class members & functions and CRTP.
GitLab employee here

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Yeah, it’s not very clear to me either. From my reading, the poem is comparing the overwhelming majesty and elegance of the natural iceberg to the comparatively shoddy man-made vessel. But it’s open to interpretation.

The author definitely doesn’t do themselves any favors, though, by making an analogy with a fairly obscure poem and not even bothering to explain it.
> Nobody expects defaults to change between patch/minor versions.

Can you provide an example of an application-side (IOW, not a DB-infrastructure-type variable) that has changed it's default in a patch version after GA in 5.7 or 8.0?

IIRC, all of the defaults changed in very early non-GA versions.
Drainage networks take a lot of time and money to build. They are built for the best flood information at the time - but time and climate crisis has changed the inputs. Even if you have the money, it seems likely like a major risk that many areas will have shifted flood inputs and it will take more time than our current capacity to respond quickly. This is another reason to start addressing climate crisis more seriously ASAP.
Local bird/wildlife tracking company near me is launching some consumer hardware that records/analyzes birdsong as well as links in to the radio tags that researchers put on birds they are tracking. If you are a bird person you might be interested: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/terra-listen-to-wildlife-...
Get out of Ca.
I agree, there are necessarily some background facts that must be consistent with the environment. Science might eventually be able to trace the trajectory of the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs, but that doesn't necessarily mean you would need to simulate every asteroid in the solar system since its initial formation.

The amount of information science could infer on many questions is strictly bounded and in those cases we could only reason stochastically. The data presented at time of first observation can then be generated randomly from the set of answers consistent with what's already known.
Check this: https://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextens...
See https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/harford/aegis/bs-md-jl...
Key quote from the article:

> The trick is to strike the right balance between offering more system indicators without inadvertently making attackers’ jobs too much easier. “There is a lot that Apple could be doing in a very safe way to allow observation and imaging of iOS devices in order to catch this type of bad behavior, yet that does not seem to be treated as a priority,” says iOS security researcher Will Strafach.
I moved from a semi rural area about 30 miles outside of Medford OR to an apartment in a reasonably nice area inside the city about 2 years ago while I am developing and building a house on a piece of property. Compared to the area that I moved from and will be moving back to the level of random violence and crime in this area is much worse and completely offsets any other benefits such as being close to work, city infrastructure (water sewer power and fast internet) and easier access to shopping and dining. Crime and violence thrives in densely populated areas because there is more opportunities for such per square mile. So yeah people think this because unless you live in a dream world that’s reality.
> Now I am starting to acknowledge and recognize reactionaries and unbelief. Constant. Overwhelming. Exhausting.

> Worse, any progress begats pushback, backlash, doubling down.

> It's like we can't win.

> Today, I subscribe to David Graeber's theories for making social progress. Work in the margins. Push forward where you can, strategically. Don't storm the castle. Conserve your strength. Pick your battles. Take the (really) long view.

Do you have any links or references that go into that in more detail? It sounds interesting.

I do kinda feel like too much progress too quickly seems to just break society.