skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard and there is a lot of weird pushback against national ID cards. E.g. In the UK they had it and then abolished it after public backlash. To me it's utterly backwards to not have one and then point the finger at banks as if they can have a magical investigation and "due diligence" department that can solve fraud and figure out who is who.
I briefly considered their advice and am now using the-com-remote-home8080-amail.local.fu why? because it Further Upsets authoritarians.

To pick your own free TLD just run a nameserver check against the TLD on [1] and watch out for TLDs that hit root servers

[1] https://dns.google/resolve?micro.soft&type=NS
Ah, yes... the "if I put everything in doubt, even the most painfully obvious things, it makes me seem smart" crowd.

Here's the thing, though: if one is basing their "doubts" on random brainfarts or propaganda pieces they saw on youtube or facebook and decided to trust blindly, they're probably also doing it wrong.

Skepticism that is not accompanied by critical thinking, actual knowledge, intellectual honesty and a dash of humility is useless or worse.

TL;DR: Epistemology is hard, but "just doubt everything" is not it, chief.
Safety costs money.

All those masks, gloves, helmets are not cheap in India. Saddest thing is even if it's being made in India the raw material for making this comes from China and taxed by Indian customs.

If you've choice between buying yourself protective gears vs a new welder to weld the rotor which one do you think will be take him one step closer to his dream?

Sure protective gear can give him more time but most have choices to make, if he could fly this helicopter off the ground, highly likely he also knew about the protective gears yet he choose to not have any maybe because he didn't have much money.
What about scatter from the objects?
When I was in Junior High / Early High School I went through quite the loompanics phase (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loompanics), buying lots of the books available there, including The Poor Man's James Bond, and several volumes of the How to Kill Series.

My stepfather was remarkably chill about it, considering our relationship, but maybe he didn't differentiate between those books and others as he never really understood the value of reading.

At any rate the only thing to come out of it (for those who worry) was that I got several talkings to when a rash of bomb threats hit our school. Maybe that was the first time I ever got put on a list!

on edit: I should probably mention that the books weren't very well written either, but I suppose literary quality was not on the top of their requirements list.
Pinenote
I wish I had the drive and discipline to write about some of the things I have done; airplanes, software projects, etc. but I just get so caught up in the process itself, I don't have the energy to to write about the process. I love reading other peoples descriptions of their journeys and am envious they can do amazing things and also write about them during and after.
And then the identity thieves will just have to fake those. What's next, calling your landlord for a reference and asking them to send a photo of you to check that it matches the photo you submitted? The goal posts are guaranteed to move.
Yes, this is a very good point. Access to good tools is essential to do this kind of work safely, you can have all the knowledge in the world, if you can't measure accurately, test your welds non-destructively, machine things without adding stresses that the material is ill equipped to handle and assemble properly then it is very easy to mess things up in a critical way. Miss an inclusion in a weld (which could very easily happen), have some vibration due to imbalance, a hairline fracture from metal fatigue and with a helicopter as your project it can only end in one way.
Lack of editing doesn't make the output garbage, just a little more difficult to read, and sometimes with a little too much personal 'English' on the ball.

Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibi, Andrew Sullivan, The Dispatch are all fine Substack publications.

Their audiences are really small however, it's the total opposite of populist, I'm not sure how much influence they could possibly have.
On https://www.pine64.org/2021/08/15/introducing-the-pinenote/ you can find the details
Helicopters are particularly unforgiving in this respect.
Use sovereign instead of setting everything up by yourself. You should know the basics of linux system administration, however
Good boy: https://dev.host/~shmup/thot/2017/IMG_3091.JPG
I’d answer the original question…

> Is there an error in the examples? You have

const mesh = useRef()
...
<mesh ref={mesh} ...

> You'll be rendering an undefined element (before the ref has a chance to attach).

…as follows:

1. On that last line, <mesh> is just a regular element[0].

2. Ref assignment makes this element’s instance accessible within component code[1] under a constant, here coincidentally (and confusingly, I must say) named “mesh”. The constant could’ve been named anything else, like “el”, and the example would work exactly the same way:

const el = useRef()
...
<mesh ref={el} ...

3. How come the constant in the original example does not shadow the equivalently named built-in JSX element? Well, there is a convention/hard-coded rule in React/JSX/TSX where it simply would not resolve lowercase identifiers to custom components. If we change “mesh” to “Mesh” in the original example, then the app would attempt to use the ref constant as a (malformed) custom component, and predictably throw.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/CR-SVG2-20160915/shapes.html#Mesh...

[1] https://reactjs.org/docs/refs-and-the-dom.html#refs-and-func...
Counts of software companies in the United States
Yep, good point on the highlighter! I forgot that one. When you overlap grays and layers of highlighter (as it gets darker with each layer... maybe in 1/8ths?), I suspect it's just doing a gray/black checkerboard - I can't tell for sure with one or two layers of highlighter, but it's pretty clear to me on the third layer that there are gray pixels between the black pixels.

And yeah, the highlighter's ghosting can get pretty extreme :) Since it clears up with a back/forward page turn I think it's a reasonable tradeoff... but it does serve as an interactive example of how much eink struggles with gray<->grey transition accuracy, which is why anti-aliased text is so much of a problem after a couple pages on literally every device.
What about visual studio code with the python plugin?
This is very true, just note that we smell when there is too much marketing involved in documentation.

Keep it real, honest and well structured and have some feedback loop. There are no shortcuts, no tricks. We’re not stupid (in that sense), so just do it right.
This does look impressive!

I wonder if the bitmap support is limited to terminals which support sixels.

I also wonder what is the CPU price of the raster graphics, flying windows, etc — I suppose it's depends heavily on the terminal emulator? Which of them performed best?
This was my first reaction too but probably every DIY/educational video I’ve seen on YouTube has had strong warning disclaimers before introducing the material. Generally most people would be extremely cautious around industrial machinery that moves at high speeds, let alone ones that you design yourself. The higher the stakes, the higher the caution should be. I don’t know how that got lost here, he seems to have had a crew too.
I had this experience learning to work on cars and motorcycles. Initially I learned from videos, trial and (expensive) errors. Years later I got my hands on an official Honda tech manual and some real engineering knowledge and realized just how basic, incomplete or mistaken most of YouTube was on the topic.
> I checked into a hotel yesterday, and will check out this morning. I don’t consider it bad customer service that they want to get paid for that room.

What if you forgot to check out, and the hotel kept charging you for the room until you got a bill at the end of the month? (ie you got a bill for 20 nights).

I know that’s not how hotels work, but it’s how these cloud services work.
Luajit should have the break statement (Compatibility is Lua 5.1 with some backports from 5.2, and a couple extensions).
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I remember reading a biography of Aleister Crowley (the guy was boring), in which was put forward the theory that reading the news was a waste of time because:

1. It tended to be poorly written.

2. It was often false or at least incorrect.

3. If there was anything really important you will find out about it quickly enough.

My summary of the points may be off - I read this 30+ years ago.
Google is quietly meeting selected publishers to talk Privacy Sandbox tech
Malaysia PM's Cabinet Resigns
Natural immunity is super strong and not sensitive to variants.The risks with infection are minimal for young people below 70 years, and the advantages are enormous compared to the leaky vaccines. Natural immunity is 99% effective, the Pfizer shot is down to 40%. This study shows that natural immunity is "ultrapotent" and works against 23 tested variants including delta. Natural immunity is what will end the pandemic, all vaccinated people will get infected.

"Ultrapotent antibodies against diverse and highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 variants"

”Wang et al. identified four antibodies from early-outbreak convalescent donors that are potent against 23 variants, including variants of concern”

””The B cells isolated from donor-derived blood samples were sorted for antibody identification. This led to the identification of four potent neutralizing antibodies targeting the spike RBD. These antibodies showed a high affinity for the SARS-CoV-2 spike even at nanomolar concentrations.”

”The findings revealed that of 4 antibodies, two bound to RBDs in the “up position” and two bound to RBDs in the “down position.” Moreover, three out of four antibodies directly blocked the RBD – ACE2 interaction, and one indirectly inhibited the interaction through steric hindrance - the slowing of chemical reactions due to steric bulk.”

”By conducting multiple rounds of selection using combination treatments with two antibodies, it was observed that antibody combinations might reduce the risk of escape mutation acquisition and subsequent development of resistant viral variants.”

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/06/30/scie...

Add to that, CBD has a better absolute risk reduction compared to the Pfizer vaccine in the clinical studies, where the vaccine only had 0,84%. CBD has 11%. CBD blocks replication of the virus.

"Cannabidiol Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 Replication and Promotes the Host Innate Immune Response"

"Strikingly, only 1.2% of the patients prescribed CBD contracted SARS-CoV-2 whereas 12.2% of the matched, non-cannabinoid patients tested positive (p=0.009), suggesting a potential reduction in SARS-CoV-2 infection risk of approximately an order of magnitude."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7987002/

Young healthy people doesn´t need vaccine. The vaccine doesn´t even protect from hospitalization and death in younger people. Not because they can´t do that, but because young people don´t get severe illness. Here in Sweden we have 99.9% survival rate in people below 70.
To further add on to other commentators, wooden utility poles are cheap in North America and expensive in lots of places in Europe. Wooden utility poles are made of a solid trunk, not smaller pieces of wood that have been attached together. North America has lots of long straight pine trees to build utility poles out of. European forests have lots of thin or bendy trees which don't make good utility poles. Much of Europe has been denuded of its natural forests.
Where did you learn this? Were they specifically teaching you want to do if a power line lands on your car? That seems like a pretty rare situation. Or was it about electric cars or busses?
I can't access the article, but I'll mention something else. One year ago I met a guy who was working with trying to make bacteria produce caseine and whey. He had some experience making cheese and said that the proteins found in milk are really the secret behind making cheese taste and feel like cheese.

The goal was to just have bacteria, feed them molasses (which is cheap and easy to come by) and get raw milk protein as a result. Much more efficient than actually going through a cow.

"I would love to say that products in stores is only 2 years away, but let's say 5 to be on the safe side".

Milk is substitutable. You loose the taste for it in a year or so. Cheese? I have tried many vegan cheeses. They all suck.
> Michael Levitt is not listed in Wikipedia.

To clarify for others, who might be as confused as I was. Levitt is listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Levitt . He isn't at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease .

It looks like the chronology was opposite what you described.

Levitt was added to RationalWiki's list in 4 September 2020 - https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Nobel_disease&old... .

From what I can tell, the earliest attempt to add Levitt to the Wikipedia list was 24 February 2021 - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nobel_disease&old... .

RationalWiki's list also includes Marie Curie, Alexis Carrel, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Ernst Boris Chain, Wolfgang Pauli, Hideki Yukawa, Eugene Wigner [citation needed], John Eccles, Julian Schwinger, and many more.

Evolution-denialism is psueodscience even in 1971 when Chain wrote "Social Responsibility and the Scientist in Modern Western Society." His paper includes the same invalid arguments that are still used by modern evolution denialists.

This makes it easy for me to conclude RationalWiki simply has a lower threshold for inclusion than Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrington_Declaration never uses the term "pseudoscientific" but does mention the following from critics:

> The World Health Organization (WHO) and numerous academic and public-health bodies have stated that the proposed strategy is dangerous and lacks a sound scientific basis.

> Tedros said that trying to achieve herd immunity by letting the virus spread unchecked would be "scientifically and ethically problematic",

> not possible to rely on an unproven assumption that it is possible for people who are at lower risk, should they contract the virus, to avoid subsequently transmitting it to those who are at a higher risk and would face a higher risk of ending up in hospital, or worse in an intensive care unit.

> the declaration was "dangerously flawed", "scientifically weak", and "ethically really difficult".[ ... "Focused Protection" was operationally impractical and would "inevitably" cause the deaths of "a very large number of people"

> "ridiculous", "total nonsense" and "very dangerous", saying that it would lead to a large number of avoidable deaths.

> it doesn't make much sense", saying the declaration's premise was neither "accurate" nor "scientific".[

> The John Snow Memorandum ... states that the herd immunity idea is "a dangerous fallacy unsupported by the scientific evidence".

Given the current spike in US cases, the critics appear to have been correct.
Saw the "English version" of Indian news articles keep refering to the guy as a high school dropout in the headlines and sub headings. That's a mighty odd description that has nothing to do with the incident. I found that rather derisive and left a bitter aftertaste.

Education does not neccesarily prevent accidents. Even spacecraft, built by the best engineers in the world, with the best materials, tested for years, routinely fail and sometimes get people killed after spending 100s of millions of dollars.
DNS was not the reason for the cloud. The devices you talk of exist and DNS is not an issue. Some central discovery server can point you in the right direction if you do not want to set up your own dns. The problem is these products suck really bad. The hardware makers do not get top grade software developers and they do not support their devices for long enough so you get the recent issue with the home cloud nas product that exposed everyones data to the internet and an attacker remotely wiped them all.

I would much rather pay google $1/month to hold my data fairly securely than have to trust WD/Seagate/whoever to secure it.

And for IoT bits the problem is solved, Apple Home allows local only IoT devices and if you have an ipad or apple tv in your network you can always reach your iot devices without having to care about DNS. You might complain that this is a centralized cloud service but thats not far off what DNS is. You have to ask someone where your network is.
That doesn't work for certain devices, TV's/IoT devices, etc.
Not just a Chinese problem, it's increasingly present in Western games from Team Fortress to FIFA.
> Email is at the centre of most of life and business, and so we must ensure it is trustworthy and authentic.

While it‘s certainly true, to me it‘s missing the most important aspect for practical use here: Email must be deliverable.

I only started down the rabbit hole of email authentication long after we discovered important client and outreach mail never reached its intended sender.

Back then, most of this stuff was hidden in some layers of documentation in G Suite instead of in your face after setting up your custom domain (where it would belong imho).

If you‘re setting up your freshly bought startup domain, please do yourself a favor and follow this or a similar guide from A-Z.
No. There is no alexa feature in the app as far as I can tell.
All of them, I hope...
As long as there's more than 1 thread processing the queue, the queue is being concurrently processed.

Particularly, the queue items will be picked up in a nondeterministic order, driven by CPU utilization.

> Is the idea here that you’ve reimplemented scheduling on top of the jvm?

No, I'm implementing a fairly vanilla pipeline pattern, just with simpler, more explicit blocks than those used by async frameworks/abstractions. IIRC it's described well in the JCIP book.
Can you suggest a way of extending v4's address space that works like BGP or AMD64 do?

I've asked a lot of people this question, and the only answers I've ever gotten are either impossible or already implemented by v6. Perhaps you will be the person to finally explain how to do it -- but as far as I can tell, it's just not possible, and I don't think it's fair to criticise v6 for not doing the impossible.
> The news typically gets the literal basic facts right, but they tend to distort and omit facts to fit their narrative.
> The mainstream news may distort and omit facts, but they do get the literal basic facts right, so if one's worldview contradicts the literal basic facts, then that person is wrong.

Without clarity as to what constitutes literal basic facts vs facts that are distorted, this is just more plain bullshit.
Maybe my question wasn't formulated precise enough. I just wanted to understand, why "clearcut logging, followed by replanting, creates fuel conditions that make fires easier to ignite and harder to control. These effects persist for decades."
Sorry, meant to write "without those pesky"
Is power line landing on things all that rare? There's lots of power lines on poles in cities around the world. Also very strong winds like to down trees, which then sometimes down such powerlines.
Time and Material vs. Fixed Price billing in software development
Morgan McGuire, the Chief Scientist for Roblox, was on a panel at SIGGRAPH last week where he described one goal of their R&D to be basically "taking a half page written description from the user and autogenerating their desired 3D game experience".

[1] https://twitter.com/CasualEffects/status/1425152593945321476
>That’s substantially only true of the designs we stopped building in the 1970s

That's what they say every time. This time will be different, new designs are safe, etc...
With passports and real id standard driver's licenses along with other photo ID, I imagine it would be a lot more difficult for a fraudster to open a line of credit in someone else's name in person as easily as they could do now.
When studying history though, we shouldn't lose track of the fact that it needs to be analysed based on the period it happened. From fighting a closed and patented *Nix systems, Linux has emerged as the current torch bearer of open systems in our era. It has made so much stride, that we are even thinking in terms of open hardware today (and it is a reality too, even if not yet successful).

Today's computing world is no longer like the past. Open source is an accepted reality in both the corporate world and among the general population.

You are right that in the past, reverse engineering helped clone hardware and make it more open. It was necessary then. Perhaps I am ignorant here, and I would like insights on this, but I don't understand the practicality of trying to reverse-engineer Apple's custom GPU when it is not even freely available or can even be used in any custom hardware configuration. Especially when alternative GPUs with open source drivers already exist (and need work). And Apple can anytime thwart such efforts very easily with a firmware update.

My main concern is that the BigTech are again closing ranks together to fight against the open movement - today, we are at the cusp of losing our computing freedom again with the aggressive push towards cloud computing, and locked down systems like the Apple M1. Apple is in the forefront here as it has build its business with closed-box systems and resisting against right-to-repair legislation. Fighting and avoiding open systems is in their DNA.

That is why I believe porting Linux to the M1 is not only unnecessary but also a waste of resource and talent. Supporting existing and new open systems (if necessary by reverse engineering it) is more practical in the long run.
Probably because the reference to Q

Their biggest line was "nothing can stop what is comming" and sure enough the biggest thing to ever happen happened, Covid.
Magnesium is huge in terms of supplement uptake...be deficient at your own peril.
'disruption'.
Thank you! You are right and I adjusted it. I use Vuetify which is a great design framework for Nuxt/Vue.
Banks Are Picking Up Less Than a Percent to Carry Mortgages
How is unleashing imported predators and contributing to native wildlife extinction [0] not animal abuse, including 33 species that are now extinct [1]?

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380
[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2486....
This is insane. Inflation is not good for a majority of Americans. It is only ok for the upper class with lots of assets, and at times, in the short term, it benefits the lower class. It is simply a tax on the middle class who are still generally on fixed income and might own a house.

I’ve saved let’s say 10 grand. Then the government gives everyone including the person who has saved nothing 5 grand. Now the new appliance I was going to buy costs more than it would because the person with no savings given 5 grand is also going to buy one. So sure the person with no savings can now also buy that appliance, and we can argue the merits of that, but ultimately the person who saved for it is robbed the increase in price, and the rich capitalist who owns the company that sells the appliance makes more money, and his assets go up in value, so he is fine.

What we effectively did is tax the saver to give to the person who didn’t save.