skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me it sounds like damage control lawyer speak: "Only admit what you can't deny any longer".

None of this is new information, only that you were called a 'conspiracy theorist' for bringing these up until now and at the risk of being ostracized, just like with the 'lab-origin' theory. Doesn't exactly inspire trust in BBC reporting when journalists could have asked these exact same questions 6 months or more ago, unless the reporting was suppressed on purpose.

You have to wonder what else will be admitted as true and if they will throw Dr. Fauci under the bus eventually.
I think you mean UDP. TCP requires a 3-way handshake first.
Usually WordPress or plain HTML/CSS for quick/small sites.
I've never heard a convincing argument for the upside of social media. It's never looked like a good way to spend time from the outside.

I guess this is the difference between people who look at drugs and decide not to even try them vs. people who don't think about any of that and promptly get addicted.

The connection of all social media companies to either DARPA or CIA is also a strong negative trait from the get-go. Having visited East Berlin before 1989 and seen what totalitarian surveillance looks like and operates like, I'm a bit sensitive to the sight of the same all over again.
Thanks so much!
We are building out more API endpoints so more customers can start building their app with our APIs. In particular some folks have asked for Front-end functionality e.g. to change the theme on the target website.
If you have any suggestions of things you would like would love to hear about them!!
Are there unique business websites out there?
I've been looking into redesigning a business website. I find the vast majority of business websites are similar, if not the same. The general structure I see is:

-Top navigation bar

-A picture or video panel with some sort of call to action

-A general overview of products/solutions OR a process flow/explanation

-Companies using the business offers

-Customer testimonials

-Footer

Between the call to action picture/video panel and footer the sections can be any order. But, that's it! Just about every business follows this template. The 'standardization' of business based websites makes sense to the point that any given individual can navigate any business website that follows a similar structure. I believe that this is the case due to template based web development and perhaps the aforementioned intuitiveness brought forth by standardization. I am wondering if there are any unique websites out there. Sites that do not follow the traditional business template.
Richard Feynman is not someone to look up to, he was an arrogant, sexist asshole that liked the sound of his own voice.
He’d be a great fit for the GOP.
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Well for one thing, it's painfully trivial. We had to estimate the number of marble candies in a glass jar back in 3rd grade. The closest estimate won the jar of candies. We approached it methodically in much the manner I assume the interviewer expects the applicant to there? Estimate volume of the container. Estimate volume of a marble when packed together. Divide. I guess it does serve as a very, very basic test of arithmetic and reasoning skills. But kind of insultingly so.
Why don't American cities redevelop older houses?

New England (except some posh suburbs) is filled with old rotting wooden houses. Fit for the 19th century but today they just look like slummy creaky shacks.

Just why wouldn't the cities raze old houses to build new ones?
Or you're a pro athlete
I'm very tired and I misread it, I recently watched For All Mankind (a solid series if you like space stuff), where the looking for gay people in NASA (by the state department I think?) is a big plotpoint, I think that is the origin of the mental image I had while reading it.

will edit it, thanks for the correction
I expect it's a case of metrics-measured, metrics-optimized-for.

Rankings are an easy "objective" measurement administrators can take to financial supporters (either government or private) and say "Here's what we're spending your dollars on." Consequently, rankings become very important to administrators.
> I'm keeping a weather eye out for the day that the majority of US spending is done by the government.

These folk [1] says it was 31% in 2020.

If you subtract the ~$6 trillion of bogus GDP from 'hedonic and imputed' adjustments [2] (as one must), then you are probably already there.

Welcome tovarisch.

[1] https://datalab.usaspending.gov/americas-finance-guide/spend...

[2] unless you thin $6t of home mortgage payments that never happened and improved electronics is describing the same thing as entire GDP of Japan.
Great comment! I've added points about most of these to the post.

But just to respond quickly to these directly:

- Writing in a single language, not multiple languages which requires you to speak IPC protocols, is the whole point.

- Added a note to the article

- Added a note to the article

- Several of the techniques I listed apply to C - raw, unsafe native code. If they work for C, they work for all languages.

- You can change the IO priority of threads, and track their IO usage separately. The question of separating memory usage is, I think, sufficiently addressed by the other points in the article (if you're using SFI, for example, you're already going to separate memory usage)
I like Syncthing, but it is significantly held back by Google's restrictions on running background apps on Android. Every working app has to display a persistent notification, and if you run xmpp client, vpn and Syncthing, on a phone with a notch, you are effectively down to ONE notification icon - it could be two but if you have more than that, they all collapse into an ininformative dot.

Working without a vpn and xmpp is a no-go for me, so I have to sacrifice Syncthing, running it only from time to time.
I interpreted friseurtermin's usage of the word "adapt" to mean living in a future with similar or few sacrifices to the modern standards of living. I think when most people express worry about adapting to changes in the environment, they do not mean 1B out of 7B surviving, they mean large portions of the population losing access to clean water, hospitable temperatures, quality and easy access to food, etc.

For example, we can adapt to volatility in rain by developing irrigation, or volatility in soil quality by using synthetic fertilizer. But you cannot adapt to zero water, or extreme weather, or poor air quality, at least not without war, which also creates its own problems.

And yes, some will survive and "adapt" in that sense, but the notable difference is "adapting" in the recent past meant innovations that did not necessarily take away from others (at least in the short term). In the future, it would be more zero sum, and hence uglier.
If we're talking square cover, round hole, no cover big enough to cover the hole could fall in.
Thanks guys! Yes correct! we are targeting developers that are building apps/extensions for the website.
Great idea about the sample app, will add!
Show HN: A MOS Kim-1 Simulator for iOS and macOS
SyncThing and FreeFileSync make computing so much nicer for me, I would not ever want to go back.

After several attempts, I ended up dividing the SyncThing folders by device storage and level of trust. Simply put, there are things I don't want on my tablet because it has very little storage space, but I still want small things like my todo list and my keypass database there. Then there is stuff I don't mind having on my work laptop, that's mostly stuff like music or personal things that are not sensitive, like desktop wallpapers (so no private stuff I would minder others at work seeing, and no work stuff I would mind being stolen from my other devices). Then there are things I want on my laptops and desktops, but not on my phone, because they're either too big or only useful on a computer, like downloaded software. That's about it, and this way I only have to think about what to put in those folders, but I don't really add new synced folders a whole lot, and when I get a new device, it's self-evident what folders "should" be on it.

FreeFileSync is for stuff I sync manually, e.g. Firefox and Thunderbird profiles, htdocs folder and MySQL database. The only reason is that if I forget to stop Firefox, Thunderbird, or my webserver before starting it elsewhere -- which I should never do, but it can still happen -- and try to sync, I get a much nicer graphical interface to resolve conflicts en masse.
Maybe Viasat’s shareholders are gangsters and the executives need to show that they tried
> "A computer on every desk" has become an internet node in every pocket.

Running mainly a few apps/websites tightly controlled by a few companies strongly incentivised (by greed and their governments) to keep a tight leash in the type of content that can be consumed AND created. I think Orwell and Huxley foresaw many of these perfectly clear even before the term "cold war" existed.
As long as this technology is not used to prevent country farmers to store their own seed whenever they want, and make it only legal to purchase 'Monsanto approved' seeds, I am completely fine with this.
Operating System Required for Proper Covid-19 Vaccination
The ballad of the Chowchilla bus kidnapping
In the end this might be the most simple and workable solution. Still feels kind of bad having to roundtrip all the data through the cloud when trying to get it from one local device to another.
1h weights, 1h spinning bike, 1h recovery run.

I used to run a half-marathon every day for ~two years but eventually got injured. Weights was the best decision to switch gears.
Should you use a freelancing platform? (A slightly biased take)
Linux never changes backwards comparability. Linus is literally famous for saying as much.
This looks great. My only comment is whether the population for whom this is interesting wouldn't be more likely to want Linux? I suspect the focus on Windows is misplaced.

I might get one, but I'd want 100% Linux support, notably wrt. power management.

EDIT: language
Oooh you can maybe geolocate users who don't give you location permissions by listening to the birds around you.
It's interesting tech, but a big part of offshore wind power is bringing the power back to shore. Onshore wind and solar are going to have the advantage there for the foreseeable future.
You also have to remember local tax contributions to schools is probably a good proxy for parental involvement.
Maybe he's being inaccurately hyperbolic by saying "all" and "exclusively". I'd agree that your disagreement there is reasonable. But I wonder, if he said "90% of our institutions" instead, how would you feel about his claims?

It seems that core areas sometimes go the way you're describing, but no peripheral areas do, and we're building a lot more of them, but no more cores.
Incorporated city land. EG: Where most people live. An example would be Fontana here:

https://www.fontana.org/DocumentCenter/View/28163/General-Pl...

A little less egricious is Costa Mesa which serves as a commercial center.

https://www.avenzamaps.com/maps/489436/city-of-costa-mesa-zo...
I'll follow up with you over email! Long story short, customers only used it once and didn't come back to the product. We also were more interested in working on this problem that we faced ourselves while working on the live stream application.
Completely agree about the Object-relational mismatch. The general term "Impedance Mismatch" is used in several industries to mean the loss in efficiency due to increase in complexity.
Metastasis.
Jails: Confining the Omnipotent Root [pdf]
Clarence Thomas' skin color is irrelevant. He believes the US should be a Gilead as much as the Taliban wants to turn Afghanistan into an Islamic nation: Christian state religion, no abortions, women and children as property, patriarchy, women at-home/barefoot/pregnant, no porn, no LGBT rights, no accommodations for disabilities, no dancing, no premarital sex, no divorces, criminalize adultery, decriminalize sexual harassment (irony!), no welfare except for the rich, no unions, and only teach abstinence and Creationism.
No. Just no... We need another PC revolution for phones. Not every problem has to be solved by force or coercion.
Lead-based paint is a legitimate concern for older houses (built before 1979/1980), especially if you have children staying in the home, or if you want to do any remodeling/repainting
> All this gnashing over test scores and booster programs is just showboating. If states really want to fix poor schools they should make school funding occur at the state level

Does spending per pupil even correlates with outcomes?

> rather than whichever random zip code you’re born into.

Is it random or the result of the parents hard work?
BirdNet is pure joy.

Thanks to everyone who works on it. We've used the app relentlessly for a couple of years in the UK and when you show it to people they are amazed. People thank us for it and all we did was share it with them. Great work!
My favorite example of this is a CISCO/networking class offered at my old high school.

It counted as 2 classes when it came to calculating your GPA...and accordingly was supposed to take up 2 "slots" on your schedule. However it didn't and instead the 2nd slot was always after school, which nobody went to anyways. So it allowed you to fit N+1 AP classes into what would normally be a N class schedule and gave a major advantage when calculating class rank.

As a result you got some very interesting people taking this class who you would never expect, simply to boost their class rank. It saddens me a little now to realize that these kids schedules were planned out from the beginning from fall freshman year to optimize their GPA...but I went to a very competitive school so in retrospect it makes sense.

Bonus, to your point they offered ap options for most arts and electives! You could take AP photography or "honors" art/music which counted as an AP for weighted gpa calculations :P
> brain damage leading to brain fog.

Define "brain fog". Tell me what the diagnostic criteria are, and how one might make an objective measurement of its presence and magnitude.

Bonus question: tell me how your stated criteria differs from the pre-established diagnostic criteria for depression.

One can survey a random sample of the population, ask them if they have ever "felt the presence of God", and find a strong signal confirming this. It does not make God a diagnostic factor in a medical study.
Thanks for the great app, been using it for years!
Just this week I was in a place without cell coverage and wanting to use it. I'll have to try out Merlin.
> They affect the middle class much more than the poor (who often aren't homeowners) and the rich (who can afford high tax rates)

Absolutely not. The burden of property taxes falls largely on the capitalized asset-value of real estate, so a typical middle-class household can offset much of that burden by paying for a smaller mortgage in the first place. And poor renters largely benefit by not having to pay local income or sales taxes, since the burden of the tax will fall on their landlords. Property taxes are in fact quite progressive.
Hi! We actually came across the idea for Appollo whilst trying to distribute the live-streaming app to ecommerce stores. It looked like too much effort so we built what we wish had existed.
This new market seemed a better founder/market fit and had much stronger customer "pull".
They don't need to build an online presence, they just need to join the app and upload a resume.
Almost everyone was sexist in his time. But yes, let's please continue to cancel history.
From the article: "People in power today would much rather do something that seems to promote “equity” than make an evidence-based choice that could lead to accusations of racism. This is the kind of infuriating policy decision that looks like it is going to help poor, minority students but will actually harm them."
> The typical educated European makes 30k a year. 40-45% in taxes right off the bat.

Drivel.

Here in Norway (widely reputed to be heavily taxed) a single person earning 30 kUSD and having neither debts nor savings would pay 4752 USD in tax, about 15%. You would then pay up to 25% VAT on things you buy (less on food and rent).

See https://skattekalkulator2018.app.skatteetaten.no/?aar=2020&a...
It sounds like the original question was just badly worded. It should have read "Show how it is possible to determine the height of a tall building using only a barometer.". The other answers, while not incorrect, do assume the availability of additional items such as rope and watches.
Yeah man, I'm serious. It took 5 minutes 30 seconds on my machine to run microk8s reset. This is well within the tolerance window for something I choose to run every 2 to 6 weeks. This is not part of my normal development strategy. Deleting whole namespaces is not a good idea for things like kube-system, ingress, etc. for obvious reasons.
Yh good catch! We'll fix that!
Huawei hiring former Democratic super lobbyist Tony Podesta
supply chain attacks
Sure. Take an "smart TV" and never connect it to the internet. It's pretty dumb then.
To add to that, Facebook/Instagram shows approx. one advertisement for every three posts you see. It's a constant barrage on your psyche that I'm happy to avoid on HN.
A setting I turned on to make it more manageable is to ignore patch updates and have dependabot only make PRs for major & minor version bumps.
It's very common for urban public schools in particular to have the highest or near-highest funding per student in a state and some of the lowest outcomes in terms of standardized testing and other quantifiable measurements.
Thank you for all your work on Merlin. I heavily use that app when I go backpacking, and in fact just last night it helped me identify a red crossbill in Deschutes National Forest.

It would be amazing if BirdNet eventually supported offline.
Yes.

rot13:

Bcgvzny fgengrtl vf gb fryrpg "enaqbz", gura vs lbh trg n Crcfv, fryrpg "Crcfv". Gjb cerffrf znk

Nsgre fryrpgvat "Enaqbz":

* lbh trg n Pbxr (1 cerff)

* Lbh trg n Crcfv

Vs lbh trg n Crcfv, lbh xabj gung "enaqbz" vf gur ohggba juvpu nyjnlf cebqhprf n "Crcfv" (bayl "Crcfv" be "Enaqbz" pna cebqhpr n Crcfv, naq lbh xabj gur ynoryf ner jebat).

Sebz urer, lbh xabj gung gur ohggba ynoryyrq "Pbxr" pna'g cebqhpr n "Pbxr", nf gur ynoryf ner fjvgpurq. Vg pna'g cebqhpr n "Crcfv", nf jr'ir sbhaq gung ohggba, fb vg zhfg or "enaqbz".

Gurersber, cerffvat "Crcfv" ba gur frpbaq gel jvyy nyjnlf trg lbh n "Pbxr"
Probably but even underused chat apps sell enough ad space to convince shareholders to trade at $100bn marketcap

So good thing Snapchat didnt sell to Zuck
Shazam for birds?

I don't know if it would hold up in a court of bird law
What you're missing is that these ports are actually USB C dongles. If one of the _original_ USB C ports dies, it's dead. Ie the hot swap ports basically connect to USB C ports built into the machine. It's a clever UX hack (which I'm totally for), but it's not solving the technical issue here.

For transparency I actually love the idea behind the Framework laptop, I've been hyped since January!
So glad I'm not the only one experiencing the abundance of .it TLD spam.

I've seen this rotating around different country-level TLDs, .de & .bg spam domains were filling the results previously.

I suspect some big-name spammer rents domains for a short period while they're pending expiration.
https://archive.is/2I7aq
You are making an implicit assumption that groups should be treated equitably. Some of us disagree with that--we feel *individuals* should be treated equitably and see these attempts to treat groups equitably as treating individuals *inequitably*.

Why should my chance of getting into college be hampered by where my parents live or what color skin they gave me??

Aiding one person is inherently discriminating against another.
> I’ve been blown away by the community efforts to iron out the issues.

What’s the best way to get involved?
Thank you. But I guess my real point is that Section 230 gives social media companies a status closer to the print shop, in my example, than it does to the nut standing out on the corner. But the new law will now pick and choose, and the government will be doing the picking and choosing. That's why I put "misinformation" in scare quotes. The government is setting itself up as the arbiter.

This won't stop with the current pandemic. You're familiar with the recent "X is infrastructure" fad? "Public health emergency" is setting itself up as the next trick. That's the real issue.
I think you have it backwards. Standardized testing was a liberal policy to promote egalitarianism and civil rights, and it was historically opposed by conservatives. Liberals persuaded conservatives that standardized testing was a Good Thing, but as with segregation, opposition to mixed-race relationships, and general race essentialism, leftists are copying right-most folks in opposing standardized testing. It's not "liberals appealing to conservatives".
LPDDR3 DIMMs exist. I assume everyone is talking about LPDDR4, which seems to use 0.1V less.

But the majority of people couldn't give a toss about how much of their laptop ends up in a landfill. They're using paper/glass straws, you see.

Perhaps electronics landfills should be local again.
It is rather remarkable how unenlightened and vulgar our interview questions used to be. Manhole is the language of the savage from an age long ago, isn't that something? Thank Ford our omniscient DEI Controllers replaced it with Personhole! As a result our species thrived as never before.
The Verge podcast[0] where Zuck made this comment was quite revealing.

Without naming Apple specifically, Zuck managed to communicate an intense fear that Facebook would be locked out of Apple's upcoming AR platform.

Is the 'metaverse' inevitable? Or is it merely sci-fi wishful thinking?

If 'interoperability' and 'decentralization' means that you can't avoid targeted advertising, I'll pass.

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/22588022/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-c...
or GrapheneOS
Hold the barometer up and shout that it's a bomb & you'll blow up the building if someone doesn't tell you how tall it is.

Use the barometer to prop open the door to the city's municipal building as the last person leaves for the day & sneak in to find the plans for building.
I think this is covered by (3), the anti-city sentiment.

This is why there are so few cities (in the European sense) in the US, and many of the largest 'cities' are just small downtowns in an ocean of suburban neighborhoods.
Who is this announcement supposed to appeal to other than shareholders
Are there any facebook products that have "the sense of interoperability and portability"? Seems like most of their properties strive for the opposite...
> too injured to make noise or move, but you're able to reach the light switch?

Sounds more likely to me, than someone getting a webcam and writing a computer program that switches off the lights when eyelids closed because he he blinks! :-)

Especially if follows the international SOS code
> Why would they even develop this new vehicle if it turns out more expensive than Falcon 9, or Falcon 9 Heavy? That would not make any sense. Plus those rockets are not reusable.

They are making a bigger rocket and making it reusable. The bigger the rocket, the more expensive the launch. For Starship the price per ton should be smaller than for Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy, but that doesn't mean it should be expected to be cheaper in absolute terms than much smaller rockets.

> $2M is the fantasy, I already added 400% to account for skepticism.

You're still talking about a price that would be a hundred times better per ton than any other rocket in history. Allow me to be extremely skeptical, please. Musk's arbitrary promises do not set a benchmark for me - he has been known to lie through his teeth about things like hyperloop, FSD, Neuralink, Starship earth to earth, and timelines in general.

And on the same note, what Starship is theoretically designed to do and what it will actually do when it is actually deployed may be significantly different things.