skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you're going at exactly wind speed, there basically is no wind at all. If you had frictionless wheels, you could turn off your propellors and you'd just be coasting along, feeling no force whatsoever from the wind, as if there was no wind at all and you were not moving.

The difference here -- you ARE moving, relative to the ground. You can, instead of coasting, reach down and grab some power from the huge mass rolling by below you. That'll try to slow you down -- it'll apply a force in the direction of the ground speed -- but if you harness some power and use it to drive a high efficiency propellor, you might be able to get a little extra speed, but as you speed up, you have more resistance both from the wind and the ground, so you can't do it forever.
> that it means workers now have to be the best in the world to get business and thus earn a good living. It no longer suffices to be the best in a local region.

Yes, though for most jobs there is far more demand than can be met by the best in the world. When someone needs a lawyer or software developer, they are very unlikely to hire the best in the world.
For some, we don't need more features, we just need reliability and speed.

I don't care if my IDE takes an extra beat or so. But I want and need my password right fast, as soon as I need it. Every slow app that I use is by necessity not choice. Slack would be the first thing I uninstall as soon as my work doesn't need it, it would honestly be my first action.
Disappointed he doesn't have t-re.xxx.
From your link:

> these findings cannot be used to infer causation

Do you have more data to support your claims?
That's actually a good idea. It takes away all the stress over deciding if some released thing is ready (for what?, anyway, it's not up to you to decide), and removes the stupidity of "semver does not apply if it starts with a zero".
>> your participation in this discussion...

Which is also just a lot of empty words that make you feel good about the fundamental change you're helping sweep over the world.
Not true. The "folder index" being referred to in Thunderbird is the local .msf database which is constructed by Thunderbird to provide its own local information about messages in the folder. Repairing it means throwing away all the local data and requerying it from the IMAP server (or in the case of a local folder, reparsing the mbox file).

The corruption bug likely lay with Thunderbird and not the IMAP server.
In a slightly different universe you'd have to have a certificate to be a "software engineer".

In this one there is no standard to meet to get into the industry. Some people have a CS education or the equivalent, other people really understand HTML and CSS and are valuable for that.

There are distinct communities of practice.

I've worked at some places that have a MSDN subscription and the world revolves around Microsoft products, some excellent, some junk. They thought "Linux is not ready for prime time".

I've also worked with Linux users who think "MS = shit" and are just as indiscriminate when it comes to open source.

I worked at a library that felt threatened by the electronic revolution (e.g. I went to the stacks recently to get a copy of the Tale of Genji and got personal service because I might have been the first person to use the stacks in a year) and faced a "glass ceiling" because I didn't have an MLS degree. Many devs work in situations like that, supervised by people who might not really get software, and that too is a source of conflict.

Sometimes I take it personally when I use systems that have bad user interfaces because it reminds me of times when I wasn't taken so seriously. (e.g. at least when I am involved a bad UI is not a failure of empathy on my part, but it might be a failure of understanding -- compounded by production pressures that don't let me revisit it.)

Given all those stresses and people looking at it from their personal points of view it is no wonder people are snobbish.
This is the title of a personal article. It may be an accusation, but if the victim is writing it they don't see the need to state that. That would be like a cop arresting you for being the attacker and you saying... You can't arrest me cause it is merely an accusation at this point. Yeah that isn't how Rs work.
Nothing, I'll be continuing to use iCloud Photos.
> but if you ask those in 1991 what the good old days were, they wouldn't say "right now!"

Is this sourced? In Europe, 1991 was when the Soviet union fell. Sure, in many now-ex-USSR countries 1991 wasn't the best of times because the collapse wasn't very well managed. But in West, suddenly the impeding doom of nuclear war near disappeared overnight.

2021 has ... exciting climate events and Covid.

edit. What is the soundtrack of 2021? In 1991 it supposedly was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4RjJKxsamQ . TIL the year ended with band donating bunch of royalties from the single to Gorbachev 10 days before he resigned and the USSR disappeared. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_of_Change_(Scorpions_song...
I came here to grump about the fact that if Tutanota cared about privacy they would upgrade from using STARTTLS to using DANE for SMTP.

But lo and behold tutanota.de is using DANE for SMTP. I know the last time I checked they didn't have it, and I think that was a few months ago or maybe a year.

Good job Tutanota!

https://www.huque.com/bin/danecheck-smtp
New kind of accelerator for top creators and experts
Hey HN Community, saw this exciting announcement from the team at Disco, an all in one platform for live learning experiences, that I thought was relevant to many of you in the group.

They just launched a new 4-week accelerator to help an exclusive group of top thought leaders/experts/creators convert their IP into a premium live learning experience. They're teaming up with some incredible instructors including @BillyBroas (who has worked with Tiago Forte + David Perrell) and Suzzanne Howard (IDEO U founder) to help you make it happen!

The deadline for applications is September 1st, so definitely recommend applying! Creators like Adam Davidson (https://www.disco.co/accelerator) are participating.
It's almost like biology and aptitude play a big part in what you end up doing in life.

Here's a definition of aptitude from Google:

What is an example of an aptitude?
Aptitudes are natural talents, special abilities for doing, or learning to do, certain kinds of things easily and quickly. They have little to do with knowledge or culture, or education, or even interests. They have to do with heredity. Musical talent and artistic talent are examples of such aptitudes.

Our industry has things backwards, rather than trying to cattle chute "Women and Minorities" into tech, which is bad for the industry and bad for people who land roles they won't be happy in, we should simply not discriminate against those who show aptitude towards the roles they're applying for - which in all of my experience has been the way things are.

As an aside, wouldn't it be weird if we were all required to be artists to make a living?
Many countries were built with the labour of slaves. I'm a slav, from a slavic country, and the words "slav" and "slave" are not just coincintally similar. We were also a communist country, and the definition of 3rd world (and technically leaders of the 3rd world/nonaligned at the time).

Somehow we have no issues with master/slave. Most people (except failed students and former party members) know communism was a really really shitty system. And most of the current racial issues are imported from america, during the democrats-vs-trump "battles", and are so americanized, that people forget minorities here (gypsies,...), and use BLM for maybe 10 black people that live here.
Not to worry that is just the "terrorist" hashes
But we don't do it. We sit here worrying about dying and trying to ensure we will live forever instead of enjoying the time we do have alive.

This is a false dilemma. People can enjoy the time being alive while optimizing for the long term.

Exercising increases our health and make us enjoy life more.

Read experiences of people who suddenly find out they are going to die relatively soon- the richness of their life takes on a whole new dimension.

This is a rationalization or terror management. Moreover, the richness of life should come before having to face one's own mortality.

We always have a choice of living life to our fullest, or don't at any given time, immortal or mortal.
It was hidden long before the 1P7 beta.
> To give him the benefit of the doubt, perhaps it was some kind of lack of social skill on De Greys side rather than actual sexual predatoriness?

I really take issue with this defense. Just because someone has NPD for example, doesn't mean that they are free of the consequences of their shitty behavior toward others. Why should autism (or any other socially inhibiting condition) be given special treatment over other disorders?
You're misreading the chart. It's a histogram of what _names_ people give to a particular color, shown at the bottom of the chart. The regions of color in the chart are just the weighted average color of the samples that were given that name. The chart does not claim to show what the archetypal hew for any given name is, nor does it try and find the boundary between two colors.

This is why in English 'Hot Pink', 'Magenta', and 'Fuchsia' all look about the same ... it's because they're different words for basically the same color.

A similar situation is going on with the blue-greens you named. If you look at the slice of the graph for CSS cyan (0% red, 100% green, 100% blue), you'll see that about 20% of respondents called that color "blue", with light blue, cyan, aqua, teal, and turquoise all taking roughly equal amounts of the remainder. Teal, turquoise, and aqua all take approximately equal portions of the same colors, explaining why their representative averages are nearly identical.
> Either way, it would be absurd to add TeX into a Web browser ...

I agree. Nobody is seriously proposing adding a full LaTeX implementation to a browser, but rather a parseable subset of TeX strictly for math markup, à la MathJax, which incidentally has become the de facto standard for embedding math in webpages.
1. If you don't do any sports, you need 50 grams of protein daily (roughly, you can adjust somewhat if you are taller/shorter). If you do some sports, 100 to 200 grams of protein daily. Those are numbers from scientific papers, do your research if you don't believe me. Fats and carbs can vary and you can experiment depending on how you feel.

2. Start to measure and write down the weight and macronutrients of everything you eat.

3. Measure your weight every morning and adjust calories every week by 100-200 depending on your weight gain/loss. But do not fall below the desired protein amount. You should learn to do it reliably within a month.

4. Take your average daily weight every week and try to not lose more than 1-1.5% of your body weight weekly (increase calories if losing faster).

5. When you reach your desired weight, start increasing by 100-200 calories daily, until you reach equilibrium for your weekly average weight. That is your optimal calorie intake.

6. Start learning patterns and you'll figure out how (what and how much) to eat in order to maintain your body weight. After several months of daily calorie tracking, you should be able to eat within reasonable margin of error without measuring anything. At this point you can stop measuring calories.

7. Every now and then, when you gain several extra kilos, repeat the above process for a month or two.
> Your posts are long and confusing

What’s the average length of a post on HN and where does that post stand?

> How are your preferences different than Reagan's?

You just stated that he acted contrary to his claims, if your position is that I say I’m for small government but wish to spend, spend, spend, then I can see why you’re confused. Try dropping the assumption I’m lying, the principle of charity is a wonderful thing.

More to the point, as you are confused by sarcasm in the service of proof by contradiction, I’ll rephrase:

Would you claim that the government was historically small in 1983?

Is today’s government smaller or bigger?

How do both of your answers correlate with the increasing number of private prisons?

Finally, since your answers should be no, bigger, and bigger government correlates with more private prisons, what on Earth are you on about?
The article mentions that if Netflix detect that you're connecting via a VPN then the content is restricted to Netflix Originals.
For whatever it’s worth, similar conclusions are shared in ayahuasca rituals. The source of many journeys are reconnecting with the memory within DNA. I’ve had similar intuitions and heard this from more than one source that has partaked.
Precisely - the reversability makes a huge difference. Just make sure you use version control.
I'd say the costs outweigh the benefits, and the benefits often go to the politically connected who can influence the regulations.
We've spent the last thirty years _not talking about totalitarianism_ and it's come back to bite us.
At any point of human history, one could convince themselves that the future is bleak. There had been pandemics and plagues, cold and hot wars, revolutions and dangerous technologies and -isms.

And yet in retrospect humanity's trend has been of greater ingenuity, connectives, safety and well-being. Sure, it's possible that THIS is the high point and it'll all go down-hill from here, but that's like being a broken clock - if you think every thing will kill you, you will eventually be right.

But I see no reason to think like that. For example, sure the pandemic sucks but relative to what it could have been, especially in such a connected world, humanity is handling it pretty well. There seems to be resilience in our economies, supply chains, and people - that when they are tested they have bent and strained but not broken. Like a ship that gets rocked but doesn't sink in a storm that's actually a GREAT sign.

I can related to your emotional state though. I remember walking in NYC a few days after 9/11, and seeing a half-completed building on 42nd street and thinking: this will never get finished. Nobody will ever dare come or invest or live in NYC - we're doomed and dead.

That building is worth a billion dollars now and that neighborhood is thriving. It's important to remember that feeling of gloom and realizing that it doesn't always (in fact, most of the time) pan out as we feared the worst.
An easy way to customize a websites appearance is to add a stylesheet via a bookmarklet. For example to set the font to Arial, this works:

javascript:document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend','<style>*{font-family: arial !important;}</style>')

Using "mono" instead of "arial" also makes for an interesting Twitter experience.
Why arent there more Native American restaurants?
We can add camera drones to this list. They would have been a sci-fi fantasy in 1990. Now you can get incredibly stable and clear aerial footage for a few hundred dollars that would have required a film crew, a helicopter a pilot and a flight plan a few decades ago.
Thunderbird and Firefox both use the same internal rendering engine (Gecko) and several shared components (Toolkit). In a source checkout, all the code in comm/ is specific to Thunderbird (/ SeaMonkey), and all the code in browser/ is specific to Firefox, and almost everything else is shared betwixt the two.
Biden White House jammed on gas prices
> and I didn't have to fight with their GUI all the time.

I don't even know how to make it open my folder for me in the file explorer any more. I just ignore their thingy and go to the folder by myself now.
Physicists Create a Bizarre ‘Wigner Crystal’ Made Purely of Electrons
Ask HN: How to protect online games from bots?
Brilliant Negative Space Illustrations of Animal Predators and Their Preys
I owned duckduckno.com for a few years. Lots of typo hits.
Your view is too optimistic: [1] mentions "Kindesmissbrauch" amongst other reasons to withhold end-to-end-encryption for the masses. It's newer than a year. By the way, bringing uncomfortable things via EU is a common tactic.

[0] https://www.heise.de/news/Crypto-Wars-Deutsche-EU-Ratspraesi...
Perhaps ‘technology’ is defined as ‘anything but can fall off’?
I'm trying to imagine being back in the late 80's living in the squat or in the animal house I lived in during the early 90's and having this guy time travel back to tell us about the future.

"You mean we don't all die in a nuclear war or from AIDS or global warming?"

"No, the future is much better! Riding lawn mowers are cheaper, teddy bears are much more cuddly and silky, board games have been revolutionized and you can get goat cheese at Walmart!"
Pinterest, Lyft, Uber to name a few
Using a custom domain doesn't necessarily mean using a custom mail server, they can point to a really common mail server such as gmail for instance. This is how a lot of business emails are set up.
Meanwhile, if we actually understood brains, I bet we would find endless examples of 'improper' behavior. Evolution picks up what seems to work, and sloooowly improves the parts that break, leaving good enough alone. (After all, if it doesn't affect reproductive probabilities, it doesn't matter.)

Activation functions will almost certainly not be the crux move for solving AGI.
Do you have any plans to implement some sort of model averaging or stacking? I believe it would bring great benefits to this landscape to have a working implementation of hierarchical stacking across various backends wrapped in a Python library.
This is what I've started doing, and I'm definitely a life-long convert.

I still experience a few glitches (extensions randomly stop working, Intellisense sometimes dies, and auto-detecting architecture for launching mobile apps sometimes fails) but I'm sure those will be ironed out.
Another thing that helps with retiring early here: lower base costs. We were able to buy a row house within walking distance of an U-Bahn station, which makes it easy to live with one car and possible to live without, and it will be paid off when I’m 50. Smaller cities still often have usable bus systems.

Health insurance is not the single-payer utopia some in the US make it out to be, but the public option being default puts a check on the private insurers and even full retail medical costs are usually much lower than in the US: my c-section plus 3 day hospital stay would have been about 5k EUR.

Having my “happy surprise” baby at 40 in the US would have killed my “retire at 55” dreams from fear of college costs. Here, it merely delays it a bit, because we’ll need to pay his living costs for a few more years, but not monstrous US-style tuition costs.
It is a VERY useful tool that I have used every day for at least 3 years.

There are two really annoying niggles that I have with it, but both I have solved by using a Screen session on the server:

- Scrolling turns out to be very important to most workflows.
The choice to start mosh in Append mode (with chance of output corruption) rather than replace mode would be a cool thing.

- There is no easy way to pick up a session again when the client dies. I understand that this is an intended security "feature" though.

But beyond this it is a truly fabulous tool that has saved me many many hours of frustration.
Consumers were insulated from this because they only pay the price in their contract, not the wholesale price. There was one provider that offered lower rates in exchange for not giving that protection, which did not work out very well.
Yes, that's the point masks are better than nothing. They might reduce the likelihood (without much of a negative impact). That's why we should wear them.

A vaccination also just reduces the likelihood you get covid. People can still get it and still spread it, even if they are vaccinated. It just reduces the likelihood and masks might do that as well ...
A lot of this new Metaverse hypes stems from the idea that AR glasses will be the next mobile and with AR you need 3D space.

Interconnectedness is really just a hyperlink, but instead of going to the link by clicking a link, you go through a space. That space could be a portal or it could just be moving from one area to another, a web equivalent would be that you're scrolling a website and after scrolling for a while the content is loaded from another server.
Should we be measuring at all? Claiming that people have to be more happy over time is a weird proposition for a biologist like me. Not only happiness does not exist (see reification), the idea that it can be 'measured and improved' is silly. Should the next generation of birds be more happy and fulfilled than the previous one? Should the next generation of chimps have stronger lasting relationships? Does it even makes sense? To me it doesn't. We are biological creatures and each one of us chooses to construct meaning of life (or lack thereof) individually.
(disclaimer: am an AWS employee)

Hello,

Where did you get that from? The drivers for NVIDIA networking cards are in the upstream kernel. You have the option of using newer versions from DKMS if the built-in version for your kernel is too old.

You can see the release notes for each version as present on the upstream kernel at https://docs.mellanox.com/display/kernelupstreamv512/Linux+K... for Linux 5.12 for example.
Pfff, i've owned localhost, without the dot, for longer than that.
> It’s still true that it compromises the main goal of the glue—compromise is the point.

That may happen, but it's not generally true. Regulation can, for example, increase competition which increases innovation. It can standardize safety rules, which reduces the risk for manufacturers clearly defining what they do and don't have to do. Etc.
That was me, then induction changed my life.
Indeed it predates my entrance to the industry by a half-decade but one thing that's notable about this period is the technology stacks being built during it would in large part be heavily de-emphasized later when the web exploded.

If you were at Apple, you'd be working on a platform (Mac OS classic, or Copland, or Newton) that would be thrown away by the end of the decade.

If you were working at DEC, likewise. (VMS, VAX, even Alpha)

Sun is more complicated, as they pivoted better and took longer to die. That would be a good place to be maybe.

1991 is an awkward year since it's about 2-3 years before the HTTP/browser revolution.

One thing though is that to my eye when I look at what these companies were working on then, it all seems more interesting to me now. The actual employment of a programmer (who wasn't stuck in finance or insurance etc. doing COBOL) had the potential to do some stuff that we at least thought Was going to be groundbreaking back then. NewtonOS and Alpha and Copland, CORBA, PowerPC/PREP, OS/2, research projects like Sun's "Self", etc. it was all exciting stuff. Just very little of it went on to be used later.
It probably does plays a part in why France's grid holds so well, but it doesn't explain why the US tolerate theirs.
I guess if you had hindsight it would be great, just live very frugally, choose the right company and above all buy as much real estate as possible in SV :)
> Furthermore, this screenshot shows that the Nostromo has a refinement capacity of “200,000,000 tonnes”, and not the “20,000,000 tons” mentioned in the Foreshadowing Inventory. That’s not just a factor of ten out – it’s also an entirely different unit of measurement.

"Haha. Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder."
Yes, the ERCOT energy market doesn't pay enough for grid stability, i.e. idle dispatchable capacity.

Also the Texas regulator did not require enough weatherization. This is changing somewhat [0]. Also to be fair the Texas weatherization requirements currently exceed the NERC ones, though those are due to be revised this year. In any case they were obviously not good enough.

[0] https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/26/texas-power-grid-ref...