skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, AC/DC wasn’t such a great example; I added that as an afterthought. And yep, ONJ already had US success - but she was able to hit the ground running with cool videos when MTV started, and she’d been big on Countdown for a few years before Grease happened.

But the point holds up well for Men at Work, INXS and also Split Enz.

INXS’s first US chart success came in 1983 with Shabooh Shoobah, that was recorded in 1982. The video for The One Thing [1], though low-budget, was very much not a filmed performance of the song, whereas the Van Halen videos I can find from that era were (though of course Van Halen would have been fast to catch up, innovators that there were). Then in 1983 they released Original Sin [2], which was produced by Nile Rodgers and had Daryl Hall singing backing vocals, so they were already in the big league by then. The albums The Swing (1984) and Listen Like Thieves (1985) all charged well in the US, thanks in big part to cool videos and MTV airplay.

Split Enz was one of the very first bands shown on MTV, with History Never Repeats [3]. They originated from New Zealand but were active in Australia and appeared on Countdown a lot, and thus had cool videos ready to go.

As for Dire Straits, the whole reason I mentioned the pre-MTV track Sultans of Swing was for its contrast with their work after MTV was established.

[1] https://youtu.be/XJyKTNdPL5s

[2] https://youtu.be/PTULqzrhBWA

[3] https://youtu.be/tzuJXqgsiSM
Today I learned a new non-SI unit, the Jansky, abbreviated Jy, a measure of energy flux "equivalent to 10^−26 watts per square metre per hertz".

Can somebody explain why it is interesting to get a much-lower resolution image than the VLA provided? Is it sampling some property the VLA image does not? (E.g., 8+ GHz samples higher-energy processes.) Or is this an exercise in technique (one person doing the work of an institute?), or in extracting usable data from antennas not built for the purpose? Background and motivation would be helpful.

[Edit:] The previous paper is helpful: "Here we show a complete description of the interferometric pipeline, covering from the IQ output of the SDRs to the CLEAN images. Therefore, this experiment is a valuable resource for anyone interested in learning about interferometry in radio astronomy."
Can the title be updated to be more descriptive?
They have the right to do so, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a bad idea politically. It comes off as Elastic prioritizing their war with Amazon over the community, leaving room for Amazon to continue to position themselves as the community's ally.
If you don’t like your situation, you should change it. If you don’t enjoy full-time programming, figure out why and change it or do something else.

I was in your situation once. I started remote contracting, then moved to a developing country where I could live on very little of my country’s currency, then started working less.

Instead of feeling stuck, start exploring all the different ways you could live. Here’s some examples to get you thinking:

- Get a remote job and travel and live in cheaper places.

- Figure out how to earn more money with programming. You’ll still be in the M-F grind but you’ll have more money.

- Downsize and live with roommates or parents, so you’ll save more money.

- Join a Buddhist monastery and live with no bills or job at all.

- Work part-time. Make less and live with roommates, but have more free time.

- Consider other ways to earn money besides programming. Become a personal trainer, do landscaping, work at a cafe, teach language classes, become a chef, write ebooks, there’s so many ways to earn a living.
Can you suggest some? Another commenter mentioned http://physicaladdress.com which seems nice but I’m curious what options are out there
Can you honestly say that any president really understands the science of wildfires (or anything else -- perhaps Jimmy Carter excepted, he did understand the science of nuclear reactors).
$540 a month!
Some requests seem to be so garbage it makes me sad. For example https://transparencyreport.google.com/copyright/request/1195... has "localhost", "unknown", and "apple.com". I hope we get some laws which allow saying "your request has so many bad links, we're going to ignore all of it and future ones until quality improves".
I agree with that sentiment for sure.
Minimalism Verse Growthism
I'm concerned about personal security risks of this move by Apple (e.g., Swatting-like attacks).

Just wasted the weekend on this, and now asking for options: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28111995
I've found that the best programs are the ones under the control of a single benevolent dictator. They can maintain their focus and consistency much better than any other structure.
I was using OSMAnd the other day. Wanted to change a setting that I knew exists, since I looked through them all at one point (don't remember which one off hand, sorry). Spent 2 or 3 minutes looking for it before I ran out of time and gave up. Not the first time this has happened (second or third, I think).

On the developer side, too many interrelated settings can increase the complexity of the code, making it less maintainable.

My favorite compromise is to use settings for the most common functionality tweaks, and then add script hooks to allow extensive customization of behavior. The Android app Simpletask[1] does a great job of this, imo. (There are many places where it could use polish, but it nails the overall approach).

[1]: https://github.com/mpcjanssen/simpletask-android
Most people are probably best off with good jobs that sound boring but are highly demanded. Could be plumber or software engineer or accountant or whatever.

People are happy to see you, happy when you do your job, and pay you well. People work as a team rather than compete. Don't underestimate the value of pleasantness in day to day interactions.

Cool sounding jobs are competitive and you are likely to be treated poorly unless you rise to the top (normally through brutal competition). All you get is a cool sounding job to mention at parties (when you have time to go).
What tangible impact in the life of an everyday Chinese citizen are you expecting if Apple offered an E2EE messging and cloud backup service in China? And why do you think the Chinese government would not just ban it and criminalise anyone found using a device which connected to Apple's servers, rendering any benefits moot?

(And why do you think it's morally right, or the responsibility of a foreign private company to try and force anything into China against their laws? Another commenter in a previous thread said the idea was for Apple to refuse to do business there - but that still leads to the question, how would that help anyone?)
Correction: because of CalyxOS' implementation of microG, signature spoofing can't easily be used to break out of the sandbox. Sorry to those whom I inadvertently misled. The fact remains that microG is still an insecure implementation that doesn't implement proper security or transit protection and disregards security.
Wow---you are right.

University of Phoenix does offer Ph.D's.

I would have never guessed.
Found an interesting page:

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/us-maps/3/201009?p...

Every year shows the same pattern: you can see how California is tinder-dry at the end of each summer.
So it works like SEO, if we mention the name of a celebrity then the site will get ranked higher in search results?

I guess they won't mind if we're thanking them. Thanks Larry Page for making the connection between academic citations and Google search results so we can all find things easily :)
I'm not sure things have really gotten faster. The increased communication rate might be balanced out by the higher inertia of a more interconnected global economy. I feel like the ripples from 2008 are still catching up with us -- look at how interest rates have been cranked low ever since. That's thirteen years.
> We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.

> But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

> What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us.

> This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.”
Some of the smartest people I know went to work for Facebook or Google. Heck, most people on this site probably would too if offered the chance. Suggesting that thousands of highly skilled, well paid employees who could have their choice of a job anywhere are just "paid to believe in it" is frankly insulting to a lot of people.

The fact is we are in the middle of a pandemic and spreading some types of misinformation is directly akin to facilitating the spread of the virus. If you were in a situation where your basic choices were a) use whatever means you have to limit the spread of harmful misinformation or b) do nothing and watch as the thousands of extra dead and suffering pile up, I hope you would have the same basic human decency as these "true believers who abuse technical power" and choose the former.
Productivity Meets Social-Networking = Looksee
I am Wasim, Founder of Real Life Apps. I have spent the past 3 years building my startup, team and products. Without a doubt, it has been the most difficult journey of my life. Our mission was to make getting things done as simple as sending a snap or a tweet. To make productivity both cool and social. I believe we have realized this goal. I would be grateful if you take our app for a spin and give us your feedback. The app is named Looksee and is completely free.

Looksee is an innovative Social Productivity app. The app allows people to get things done through a friendly visual presentation rather than old-fashioned “to-do” lists. As a visual person, I was tired of tedious checklists and text-based tools like Notion, Evernote, Todoist etc. That inspired me to create Looksee which uses the power of visuals (photos or video) to capture any task. Looksee enables the user to manage their own tasks, as well as delegate to others in their social circles

Looksee merges two completely different genres of apps, Social Networking and Productivity, into a new breakthrough category of “Social Productivity.”

Here is a 1-minute video that explains Looksee:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gfBK9L_woH0

Looksee is live on the Apple App Store. Here is a direct link:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/looksee/id1535769409

We are a small tech startup based in Austin, Texas. As a founder, I am requesting the community's help, advice & feedback!

Thank you so much,

Dr. Wasim Irshad

PhD Electrical & Computer Engineering (Purdue University)

CEO & Founder of Real Life Apps (www.reallifeapp.com)
I agree, but I don't think there is a threat here. I think this person genuinely wants to preserve culture or else they wouldn't be editing the video, giving credit and trying to contact people.

That said, youtube probably wasn't the best place to upload the video in light of all of that.
> software that attempts to disguise plagiarism

AFAIK today it has became necessary to "disguise plagiarism" even when you are not plagiarizing anything because bullshit "anti-plagiarism" software would detect many phrases similar to what somebody else already used. I believe the war on plagiarism brings little good in exchange for the hassle.
I agree that "localhost" and "unknown" aren't right, but "apple.com" could be correct. Those reports show only the domain and don't show the exact url. You have to drill down and eventually supply an email to get the exact urls.
>>Except it's actually hard.

Isn't being overweight hard too?

You just have to pick your hard. What ever choice you make, its hard.
That's a brilliant idea. You could store the hydrogen in some big balloons. There's no buoyancy on the Moon, so you don't need to anchor these balloons. You need to cover them with a dome to protect them from micrometeorites, but when you establish a Moon colony, building domes is the name of the game. At normal (on Earth) room temperature and pressure, a balloon with a radius of 10m holds about 60 kg of hydrogen. I did some back of the envelope calculations, and that would be enough to provide about 2 kW of power for the length of the lunar night (14 days).
> Amazom were contributing changes back to Elasticsearch before the license change

Not very many by my count; something like 2 patches/month on average. I mean, of course this is great, but there are several ES-based companies that contributed more, and about >95% of ES was written by Elastic.
Copy the files over to the new domain name location and change the css files.
Of course America has done harm. But tell me what peace has China kept over the last 7 decades? What little people are actually helped by the Uyghur genocide? By the One-China policy that ignores Taiwan and pressures the other southeastern nations? By the continued oppression of North Korea? By the resource depletion and territorial control in Africa as seen by the Congo power conflict? This is, quite literally, imperialism in action and often gets dangerously close to provoking war.

But sure, some misguided folks might prefer the lifetime dictators of Russia and China much better. I'm sure that'll last until a real conflict starts.
I find this odd because if that's true, in other words if the policy direction really reflects that there's no money or interest for scientific exploration in the pure sense, --specifically you know like 'let's go explore space, the great unknown'--I find that really odd because the policy direction would then sort of directly contradict the sort of pervasive sci-fi narrative that fills science fiction films and so on.

Maybe they're just unrelated I always thought of film industry as sort of expressing the soft power policy aspirations of the state. Like that's why violence and war is lionized because you need to create on the next generation of soldiers and in people's minds you need to have that occupation as something nobel... they'
Tho given our ape brains it's not that hard to turn people into soldiers, anyway... we are naturally. But I just find it a really odd juxtaposition between there seemingly being no policy mojo behind space exploration but we represent that in our films as if it's some great aspiration that fills us with awe and wonder. Like, from the psyche of our civilization how do we resolve that?
There is one particular thing I don’t understand about this Apple policy:

You can buy a SIM card and send images to your enemies/competitors through WhatsApp, and these images automatically gets downloaded to iPhone and potentially uploaded to iCloud.

What precautions are Apple taking against such actions? Or will it be some kind of exploitable implementation where you can easily swat any person you want and let them go to courts to prove their innocence?
A theory of why irony may be perceived differently by Americans vs British

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/why-americans-dont-get-ir...
Half of baby boys in the US are sexually assaulted and disfigured right after being born. We need a lot more people fighting against this, it shouldn't be so hard to stop.
Someone cloned one of my blog posts, relocating us from “Old Street” to “Ancient Road”.
For reddit, you can also look at inline-reddit.com
NewsBlur and a couple other RSS feed readers have built-in Twitter clients.
You can also use rss bridge to get Instagram in your RSS feeds.
> Instead of Marx’s race war, the Nazis instead believed in Racial War.

> So where the Marxists would call for a class war to violently overthrow the evil capitalists in a all-composing global struggle for communism, the Nazis called for a a “blood and soil” war to eliminate the enemies of the people - with everything subjugated to that violence.

Are you really using puns to try to make this argument? None of this has to do with the Nazis being socialists or left wing, regardless.

> Both were totalitarian in their nature.

Left and right wing ideologies can both advocate for representative democracy too but still not be interchangeable.
There was a huge brawl of sorts about "a mathematical proof is not the same as a code review" between Neal Koblitz, Alfred Menezes, etc on the one hand and theoretical crypto community on the other hand wrt "provable security". Here is a site: http://anotherlook.ca/
Having read the article now, I think what they missed was that a good NTP server implementation doesn’t depend on the commercial time servers that you can buy off the rack. They may have good GPS hardware and software, but many times their NTP implementation is … suboptimal.

So, you instead get good GPS refclocks that give you a good direct PPS feed, which you then connect via serial port to your NTP time servers that will have a good implementation and configuration, because you’re making sure they do.

And you make sure that you’ve also got some local-only refclocks in there to help ensure that you remain locked into a good frequency domain, even if you do lose visibility to the GPS network. This is typically a rubidium clock, although there are other options.

You then synthesize the best information you can get from the GPS network as to what the exact time is at the moment you ask, with rubidium refclocks that can give you a very precise indication of exactly how long a second is, and you combine that with 40+ years worth of statistical knowledge and real-world experience through the NTPv3 protocol, and then you serve that time to your clients.

Some vendors, like Meinberg, get all of this right, out of the box. But most don’t.

Generally speaking, NTP easily handles single-digit millisecond resolution (with the right configuration and the right OS, even on pretty basic hardware), and can get down into the single-digit nanosecond range, but it gets harder and harder to push it into smaller and smaller time domains.

The PTP protocol was created more recently, and they have a dependence on more modern hardware. PTP time sync won’t get off the local segment of the LAN, without support from the switches and other network hardware, whereas NTP is designed around basic UDP/IP networking and doesn’t place any requirements of this sort on the network. The requirement for hardware timestamping of network packets can cut both ways there, as can the requirement for using multicast.

But PTP and NTP can be paired together for higher quality and higher resolution timekeeping than either protocol is capable of on their own.

Then you get down to the trick of monitoring all that, so that you can prove what level of time sync you’ve got across your fleet of machines. That seems to be one of the real innovations here, but they don’t talk much about how they achieved that.
"Half Chess": use half the board, eliminate the pawn rows. Much faster.
That’s not at all clear to me. Are you saying that a company which burns 1 ton of carbon from 2021 grain is worse than a company that burns 1 ton of carbon from fossil sources and buys permanent sequestration to offset 1 ton?

That’s breaking my engineer brain.
>no one under 50 has really witnessed it in their adult life

I had a car loan in the early 21st century, and the rate was about 6%. It didn't seem that bad at the time. I think I remember when the bank paid 4% on savings accounts in the 80s or 90s.

That's not to say inflation was very high in my lifetime, but it took a long time for people to get really complacent that it wasn't coming back, and super low (or negative) interest rates are quite recent.

It's only been about 40 years since 30-year mortgage rates were over 18%. Someone in their 40s may not remember it first hand, but they probably have a sense from the older generation that is a thing that happened.
A horrible person got deplatformed and they're all angry with the world.
Companies get to decide how to run their platforms; if you don't like it, send your money to other horrible companies, or try and convince lawmakers that your horrible case should be protected.
Ultimately though, stopping being horrible is probably the easiest option but these people never seem to want to take it?

HN doesn't allow downvotes so I upvoted literally everything else on the front page to compensate. Thx
And the meaning much clearer as I thought we are learning about the basic of Pdp 11 which I would be interested as this is my first multi user computer and use a lot in U. But basic. Well it is also my 2nd basic other than Apple basic. Still, but not interested in basic very much.
Supermetrics for Azure Storage
Interesting to find some domains with LOTS of removal requests.

Like this one with 16 million requests: https://transparencyreport.google.com/copyright/domains/new-...

Looks like a place with torrent links for movies.
I am well aware but that is exactly the point. If Apple can't provide an accountable implementation they should not implement this at all. This should be table stakes that all users should demand, at a minimum.

Otherwise there is no way to detect if the system is abused to target lawful activities.

The fancy crypto in the system isn't there to protect the user, it's to guard the system's implementer(s) against accountability. It protects Apple's privacy, not yours.
Each individual deciding for themselves causes the tragedy of the commons.
Neither Technical Director or Lighting Director are roles that would naturally progress from being an animator.
Note that this is Japan; labor conditions for animators vary widely from place to place.
The Glock trigger safety is intended to prevent a discharge if something bumps the side of the trigger. It's not really comparable to the mechanism on this device.
> That they own the devices you rent and you don't have to worry too much about it.

You didn't need to worry about it because they did a sufficiently good job at making the choices for you. This is a sign that they stopped doing so.

An appropriate metaphor might be a secretary. They can handle a lot of busy work for you so you don't have to worry about it, but they need access to your calendar, mails etc. to do so. This is not an intrusion as long as they work on your favor. If you suddenly find your mails on the desk of your competitor, though, you might reconsider. That, however, does not mean that the whole idea of a secretary is flawed.