skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The catalog portion of the Secoda product is similar to Amundsen, but we also have a Data Dictionary for defining metrics, Analysis Documents for queries and charts, and Requests for handling data questions. We take these different pieces of functionality and make everything interconnected, so that it's one unified repository for your data knowledge.

Additionally, we try and make Secoda easy to use for both technical and non-technical users, whereas a tool like Amundsen is more focused on the technical user.
Maintaining air superiority indefinitely isn't sustainable. An F-15E costs something like $29K per flight hour, a B-1B double that. And that's not even counting the cost of munitions. Those aircraft have been used so hard since 2001 that the airframes are literally falling apart, and there isn't enough funding to replace them on a 1:1 basis.
End of an era.

Best pair of basketball shoes I owned were the 1st Reebok Shawn Kemp Kamikaze shoes. They were such a good deal and such awesome shoes.
In many places you can text 911 - and mobile text is much more likely to work than mobile data.
I would say that compared to Greykite, Darts really attempts to unify a wide variety of forecasting models under a common simple and user-friendly API. There are many differences, but for instance, AFAIK there's no deep learning model in Greykite (it focuses on two algorithms: their built-in algorithm and Prophet), whereas Darts tries to lower the barrier for using deep learning models for forecasting. Crucially for ML-based models, it also means being able to train on multiple (possibly thousands or more) of possibly multi-dimensional time series.
At least an upper bound on how much they should be able to own would be nice.
How to Tame AI Art
That's a novel use for AI: excuse for slacking. Joke aside, that's also how most of the "driverless" accidents happened - they expected the human would jump in but they were doing what any human would have done - slacking. Because AI is supposed to help us, right.
Satellites Can Be a Surprisingly Great Option for IoT
And here I thought the most popular way to use SQL on the web was with a backend API. Shows what I know...

On a similar note, have this nagging feeling that we used to have this ability to use SQL in client-side applications. I just can't recall how?

/s
I think it is. I can recall driving alone trying to steal quick peeks at the paper map. Safer (but more difficult) was doing map-based navigation in light aircraft.

Database-backed GPS transformed both of those to be easier and safer to use while traveling.
You're forgetting about the Gulf War, Kosovo/Bosnia War, and a handful of significant "interventions" and "police actions" around the world. Plus there is the ongoing crisis in Syria, Iraq, and Libya (Not an Asian adventure, but still battling Islamic troops).

I would not be surprised if the country is dragged into another war during the current administration. Could be Georgia (the country), Pakistan, Israel, Somalia, Iran, Sudan, or any number of other destabilized nations in the region.
The way current administration was handling evacuation of translators was a big tale, but one would assume that they would not do same to actual US citizens…
Almost exactly 25 years ago, the Taliban captured Kabul for the first time. I still remember the sense of foreboding while following the coverage in the Times of India in Aug-Sep 1996. We all know how that played out.

The situation is very different now, and there will be much less violence this time, at least initially when Kabul falls. But it is difficult to imagine how this round plays out in a fundamentally different way. History may judge Biden very harshly for this withdrawal.
And catalytic converter theft is also rampant.

Well that sure seems to be true.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/catalytic-converter-thefts-n...

“According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, the pandemic has seen a rapid rise in catalytic converter theft. In 2019, an average of 282 catalytic converters were stolen every month; in 2020 the average had risen to 1,203—and that's just an average. In December alone, 2,347 catalytic converters were stolen.”

And anecdotally, living in Chicago: I know of so very many people who have had their convertors stolen. The wonders of outdoor parking.
> still stronger than expected.

They're only stronger than expected if you let the US media and US intelligence services set your expectations. If you had come to your own conclusion, you would have realized that the Taliban is one of the few entities actually able to hold Afghanistan and nothing the US did made it less potent in its ability. All we did was give them a twenty year break to amass more forces, more resources, and more training.
I'm not a fan of Electron, but Etcher is one of the few exceptions where I'm happy to do that. It's just that convenient.
Political leaders feel compelled to provide a “service” in which they “solve” societal problems. Not all problems can be solved across the board, however, so what happens is a sideways motion into violations of privacy in exchange for a visible “difference” in handling illegal behavior which was previously beyond the reach of law enforcement.

This fallacy is a direct result of the technologies developed and discussed here, so we’re all culpable for what has been already laid down. Maybe keeping this in mind with AI will help, but given corporate stakeholders, probably not.
I don't think this passes the usual concerns around base load, local energy needs vs. overall network totals, and storage capacity for nighttime use. Maybe that's ok. Maybe we just get a ton of solar and what we can't do in batteries we just funnel into carbon sequestration. And at night we just turn off the lights unless it's an emergency or high priority task.

But I have my doubts that this is likely to play out...
https://archive.is/2kQBG
Also works well for purchases
A British term, means formally charged with an offence. Police compile evidence and/or arrest a person. If the Police think there is enough of a case, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decide if there is enough evidence to support a 'charge'

https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/cps-says-role-cps-deciding-w...

Basically Police arrest, looked at the evidence then took no action as Police decided no crime - therefore not charged.
I'm not sure when the clock starts exactly. After ww2 the ussr looked like the biggest badest empire. Doubly so after sputnik and their first atomic bombs. Maybe the 70s?
Daily energy expenditure through the human life course
Hiring for AppKit x readiness of SwiftUI
No, no no no, atleast the font is crisp and the contrast is good on HN.

The line wrapping I can quasi-forgive as this being a place for discussion rather than dumping <pre> code blocks.
Ops. Sometimes those things don't come across as well over text. My mistake.
This is a critique of natural gas derived hydrogen. It's also an argument for specific use cases where hydrogen is optimal and for using renewable energy to catalyze hydrogen creation. It's actually a pro-hydrogen article IMO.
> Additionally, a lot of people think this kind of work is below them because they went to a university to study a field that they can't make it in.

People think it is "below them" because they saw the people who went into white collar professions in their parents' generation come out ahead. Pay enough (and advertise the pay) and people's perception will change.

>But you would think it isn't even available - but it is.

Where are the job postings showing the pay and benefits? Why do the stats indicate the wages not increasing much?

>There's a career out there in modern manufacturing if they are willing to humble themselves.

The situation might have changed recently, but those jobs have definitely not paid sufficiently for the past few decades to make it a worthwhile investment. This is shown by definition, since they are complaining about lack of candidates for the job positions. If they paid appropriately and competitively, by definition people would have opted to work those jobs.
I just open the bookmark sidebar cmd-B

Then I use the search box at the top.

The bookmark appears.

Close the sidebar cmd-B

(Why does the HN text editor ignore single new lines?)
If a medical professional believes there is a flaw in modern medical practice, they have many options:

1. They can correspond with medical researchers and try to convince them of the flaw.

2. They can analyze available literature and data, write papers, and submit them to medical journals.

3. They can transfer to an institution that performs research and then perform research on the flaw and collect and publish data on it. An institutional review board (IRB) checks and approves each experiment before the researcher performs it.

4. They can correspond with regulators and try to convince them of the flaw.

When medical professionals are allowed to pick and choose from accepted medical practices, patients will suffer. As an extreme example, should a heart surgeon be allowed to omit one step of the standard procedure because they disagree with it?
This was incredibly apparent to me when I recently bought a house.

The seller was foreign, and had picked and escrow company that hadn't been in business for long. I was originally worried it was a scam and someone was trying to run off with my money, but that wasn't the gig.

The two owners of the escrow company had owned multiple other escrow companies that were shut down. No complaints against them, so it's not like they were taking people's money and running.

The escrow 'company' didn't have any sort of need for a paper trail of where money came from when buying my house. I imagine if I had shown up with a suitcase full of cash speckled with blood and coke they wouldn't have cared.

There's likely no record of where all the money came from for me, (tech money) nor any of the other foreign buyers they regularly service. They're likely shut down again and opened with a new name.
I was thinking of 2D sprites, but yeah. We are not talking about making real, just putting people at different distances in order to make these meetings a bit more natural.
Gotta pay the team of people that wholesale censor information there
From the article you linked:

> But managers demanded that worriers and doubters "prove something was wrong,"

I have no productive words to convey my astonishment.
It took a while to setup, but fixing the problem in the font rendering layer has worked really well. Several years ago - after being annoyed by blurry/bad fonts, extremely bad hinting, and other font problems - I spent a few weeks investigating the way fonts are rendered and a few more weeks comparing many different fonts and various permutations of rendering/hinting methods. The result of all that work included a set of fontconfig files with long lists like this;

<fontconfig>
<alias>
<family>Arial</family>
<prefer><family>Ubuntu</family></prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>Helvetica</family>
<prefer><family>Ubuntu</family></prefer>
</alias>
<!-- Many more aliases that -->
<!-- force fonts to Ubuntu. -->
<alias>
<family>sans-serif</family>
<prefer><family>Ubuntu</family></prefer>
</alias>
</fontconfig>

This way, my font overrides happen in any software that uses fontconfig (i.e. most X11 software that uses TrueType fonts).

$ fc-match Helvetica
Ubuntu-R.ttf: "Ubuntu" "Regular"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28typeface%29
Right-Wing Activist $500 Freedom Phone Rebranded Chinese Android Model
Due to a quirk in treaties, the US does not have to notify other countries about US assets held by non-US-citizens. This makes the US the ideal place to hide money for most of the world.
Given Apple’s privacy track record in general and in the US in particular, I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt—for now.

So far, everything we know makes sense and checks out on a policy and technology level.

The rest of the industry scans for the same CSAM in the cloud, which is less privacy preserving. It appears Apple has gone out of their way to create a system that preserves privacy unless you surpass a certain threshold of CSAM while and use iCloud Photos.

Even the feature for minor children on a Family sharing plan is opt-in by the parents of those children; the machine learning to identify potentially dangerous content is on device.
This is the dumbest thing I've read today. It's noble, but just completely and utterly unachievable. Most people would choose the global warming over not seeing family for Thanksgiving or not being allowed to travel over 100 miles.
Precedence:

1975 US embassy, Phnom Penh: Operation Eagle Pull https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Pull

1975 US embassy, Saigon: Operation Frequent Wind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Frequent_Wind

1991 US embassy, Mogadishu: Operation Eastern Exit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eastern_Exit

1997 German embassy, Tirana: Operation Libelle ("Dragonfly") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Libelle
Docker port 55555 not available on Windows
They are not 100% frozen in a 100% perfect lattice structure. They still move a little around the positions where they "should" be. Something similar happens with atoms in a normal crystal.
You shouldn’t be able to buy property using an LLC. Real people’s legal names should be required on every transaction. If you’re later found to be facilitating a transaction for a money launderer you go to jail too.

Bam, we just solved 80% of this problem.
> The excuse was that a standard needs to have multiple implementations otherwise we are standardising implementation details and bugs.

Looks at Chrome
Not sure what it is about this film, the aesthetics, story, atmosphere, the acting? I think it’s perhaps my favourite film. The first 20 mins or so in particular are outstanding.

I’m sure many know but the idea of having the mundane industrial theme transferred to space was supposed to have come from a student film called Dark Star[0].

Alien Isolation is also fantastic though hard to fully enjoy the atmosphere for the most part as it’s fairly terrifying.

There was a piece on hacker news a while back where a programmer talked through how he was asked to code up the graphics for the landing sequence.(3D terrain wireframe).

[0] https://lewtonbus.net/editorials/dark-star-chest-alien-burst...
Digg closed before it was defeated really. I can't remember if it was the v3 or v4 that caused the migration but they didn't even try to roll back... or just stick with their new plan. They just gave up it seems.
large corporations are the least american thing in american society
Sure thing dang, thanks! Sorry!
I think there's a case to be made for rooftop solar even when your local power generation is green. The reason is that the grid is a distribution network. By lowering demand on local generators, you're lowering the relative price of green energy across the grid.
What about a foreign business? Or even a domestic business owned by non-citizens?
Two specific feeds, /r/popular and /r/all, are a lot of this.

There are a lot of good niche communities that have deep, meaningful conversation on Reddit.
For your first point I disagree. Once a life in a different aeon becomes sufficiently different from yours it is no longer fair to consider it you.

For your second point, I don't think physics rules out the big bang "recurring" because it does not deal with time before time. The big bang theory is not at all in conflict with cyclic conformal cosmology or eternal expansion.
Wasn't it up around 75% in Providence RI? Yes, an outlier but it's indicative of the potential.
Yes, but I had initially thought that the selection pressures would be similar enough, particularly around disambiguation, that good for one would be good for the other. Either that was untrue, or... they didn't do the design particularly well.
Open any GitHub repo in VSCode in the browser no extensions required
Its why I like Oz (series) too. There is something to be said for understanding the boundary conditions in full. Funny thing is that my partner hates this kind of thing :/
The real percentage of people who would care to do either of those two things is infinitesimally small. Not non-existant, just very small compared to:

All HN users in this thread < All tech journalists who are writing about this topic < All iPhone users
Kosovo/Bosnia was more about taking attention away from the impeachment of President Clinton.
Thank you so much!

I remember reddit being stumped by this question years ago.
Yeah. I'm not sure. Sensors can stay in for 1-2 weeks, but it's not delivery device.
“huis clos”? It’s commonly used in French at least. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/huis_clos
Yeah, Jake made idb not too long after I made small-indexeddb. I think it's one of the most reasonable options (and it has TypeScript types!), but it's still about 5x as much code as small-indexeddb.
The Ur-Example is the oldest known example of any given trope
It seems like there ought to be an "... in Europe" at the end of the headline, at least given the evidence they presented. Truck haul lengths are getting shorter in the US as well, but

> Close to 80% of road freight activity in Europe is performed on trips below 800 km

doesn't really apply in the US yet, where the average haul length is still 848km as of 2019[1]. Battery-electric trucks still might end up being the winner here, but there are still lots of hauls in the US where the battery-weight/range tradeoff is likely to be a significant obstacle with current technology.

[1] https://transportfutures.net/navigator-blog/length-of-haul/
That is not feasible. What is feasible is simply making the owners of companies visible via a search on a government website.
Part of the problem is how ideas and techniques that are at best tangential to productivity have been dragged into the field and rebranded. The big ones that come to mind immediately are things that are about relaxation and entertainment have now become "productivity enhancers" or some such garbage, and must be planned and scheduled alongside actual tasks.
That article is about the European trucking industry:

Close to 80% of road freight activity in Europe is performed on trips below 800 km

I suspect that in the USA, the distances are much longer, though I'd really like to see more of our long-haul freight being hauled by rail rather than truck. A lot of the cost of trucking is externalized -- one study says "Freight trucks cause 99% of wear-and-tear on US roads, but only pay for 35% of the maintenance". Trains are already around 3 to 4 times more fuel efficient than trucks... start electrifying rail lines and emissions could be cut even more.

Charge trucks their share of that road wear and trains would become more competitive even if they take longer.

Trucks won't go away, they'll still be needed for the last mile (or last hundred mile) delivery from the train terminal to the customer.
> The mRNA vaccines have all been put through standard safety testing

Patently false. Name one vaccine in history that was broadly released to the public after mere months of testing. We don't even have a placebo group from the trials anymore because they offered them all the vaccine after it was authorized for emergency use.
I was in my 20's in the 90's. It's tough to say. On the one hand I feel like I was the last generation to take a mid-level software salary and pay off a degree and a "short commute" detached house before I was 40.

On the other hand, since I was in my 20's in the 90's I was a young child in the 70's and 80's when nerds were to be bullied, gay people were to be beaten, and God help you if you were Trans. That's still the case in much of the world, but looking at how my kids grew up, vastly improved since then.

So as a nerd, yes, the 90's were probably better for 20 year old me, but the 10's were definitely better for the 10 year old me.
>but etcher seems to be way faster than dd for me

bs=1M will help you.
Reddit currently supports many third party freemium clients ( Ala Twitter 2012). These third party apps offer a no ad experience too. Unsure how much revenue reddit shares with these apps though.

It helps with growth(more options for users to be on reddit) , but definitely hurts ad inventory, ad targeting insights etc.
I would be surprised if break rooms or cafeterias could be legally bugged without displaying a prominent notice where I live.

That said, I totally agree about company phones and email addresses - those are under employer control and so could never be trusted, which is why the side-channel would be something like an unofficial WhatsApp group of a few co-workers who know each other well. Brain implants are not part of the threat model just yet, and I was sharing my observations purely in the context of my own recent experience.
Yes. But instead of trusting that (is it Binace?) has a million dollars in the bank (no really honestly !) you are trusting that say the US government has. Full faith etc. It sounds simple but even a moment makes for some hard problems. Amount of actual cash in circulation - yeah that's fine the US Mint probably has a spreadsheet. So we could just go with that. Let's say that's 10% of the "total". But who uses cash these days? You want all the currency in bank accounts denominated in US dollars - ok we just go ask CitiBank et al. Now that probably gets us to 70%. Now we hit the hard stuff. The dodgy bank accounts (That's going to be fun one - hiding money off shore. We are about to make any dollars not "registered" effectively unspendable)

Now what about things that are not really US dollars but convertible? There are a thousand weird instruments I barely have heard of. God knows if they should get a UUID?

And loans - look everyone loves to rag on fractional banking but we want the amount of currency in circulation to prety much match the value. Having banks create currency at the margin works pretty well as a distributed solution (we like those). Imagine the federal government assessing what your widget factory is worth every ten years.

Do we stop banks doing that? do they hand out UUIDs as well? Will there be two tier currencies (see Scottish banks).

It should be a simple solution, but nah.
Some information in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26469566
That doesn't seem to be the case any more, as nearly everybody opts out of that on iOS.
Right, which is why there's no bite behind their remarks about resisting government imposition. They could have implemented E2EE and fought the government about it openly, but they didn't.

Now, I really doubt the only reason they didn't implement E2EE was because of government pressure because making E2EE an invisible feature (which Apple loves to do) is a difficult task. I will however plainly state that the option of creating spyware to scan images on your phone with E2EE on the cloud or neither of these features being able to exist is a false dichotomy that is being pushed as a narrative by a lot of people.
Republicans, Democrats United in Concern over Big Tech – Survey
Once upon a time the Japanese and German governments were quite popular too. Have you heard about that story?

The difference lies in the type of Leaders the US has propped up across the board.
> But we don't have the same cultural concern against underthinking. I have never heard someone telling their employee or friend "you're underthinking this". Surely overthinking is bad, but when underthinking can be severely dangerous, it's easy to see why some people overthink.

We do this all the time. We just don't use the word "underthink". "You didn't think this through." "It sounds like you haven't gotten to the details yet." "Are you sure that's how it works?" "You need to start thinking things through." "You have a brain. Use it." "Pull your head out your ass." I think all of those phrases are suggesting the same thing underthink would.