skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN has a very good search feature, and "you don't like police" turns up an earlier mention from the artificialLimbs:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28028743
Building $30 DIY speakers using flat panels and audio exciters
Could be regional -- I would bet that in most cases houses in the upper midwest have to deal with much colder temperatures in the winter than houses in the PNW. Maybe that influences the HVAC design.

But I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to find that there isn't really a specific reason, it's just "how we do things in this area." A surprising amount of building choices seem to be made that way.
I'm referring to the original report that he claims is anti-mandatory vaccine - in hindsight, I should have also pointed out that if they were, they surely would have mentioned mandatory vaccinations in public schools and universities at the time
Parties Request 3-Month Extension to Complete Discovery in Hachette vs. IA 'Suit
Hours of Lemons
Is there a relevant time point in that presentation? It looks like the bulk of it is about inflation as in cosmology & physics, not economics.
No off set optical viewfinder, to that’s the Single Lens bit covered…

(I’m guessing here, the article is 404ing for me…)
Neat. I've been holding onto a domain thronehunter.com, for 10 years now, after a stint at a startup in a downtown metro, where the office was a very small "loft" with 10+ people squeezed in.

Myself and a few others fairly quickly had an aversion to using the lone bathroom in the loft for respectful reasons and instead began seeking out bathrooms at nearby hotels and elsewhere. We would often joke "hey I'm going to run to the Hilton, I'll be right back" or "has anyone checked if the Mariott is open?".

I bought the domain thinking it'd be fun to build a bathroom finder/rating app but never got around to it!
I was impressed recently, while waiting for DuoLingo to load. The load screen asked "What can 15 minutes of social media do for you?".

Oddly poignant.
> the transition to k8s only took a few weeks and a couple sleepness nights

Only?

I have had a home server for fifteen years and used to have a homemade router. That's significantly more time than I have ever spent on them. I don't even bother maintaining scripts for my home installation. I have reinstalled it once in the past decade and it took me significantly less time than writing said scripts would have. There was enough things I wanted to do differently that any scripts would have been useless by that point anyway.

At that point, it sounds more like a hobby than something saving you time.
The Internet Archive isn't perfect either. They can be pressured to remove pages.
As of now the tradeoff of Rust's type system is that code may leak memory and you may need to investigate all occurrences to fix it, because there is no tooling yet (testing everything is infeasible).

You can have either extensive static analysis or fast compile times. Tracking ownership down to semantic analysis (where type layouts are in resolved form) requires adjusting and slowing down the complete compiler.
Most of the time and money was spent on design. If it blows up they should be able to build a second one for a fraction of the time/cost of the first one.
The death rate for COVID infections in the US has been 0.6%, almost all of which were unvaccinated. 40 million cases is a drastic underestimate; the best estimate of actual cases was 120 million as of July.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

I encourage everyone to get vaccinated if they can, but vaccinated people can still infect an entire office by accident. It's possible that vaccinated people might be less contagious on average but we don't have solid data on that yet.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02187-1
>its basis focused on the planet instead of on a body part

It was based on both, and both measurements are completely determined by the happenstance of life on earth rather than the laws of nature.

>which caused major issues when bordering jurisdictions used different sizes for a "foot"

The meter has also had varying definitions leading to slightly different values. Obviously if you are going to base it on the size of the earth there is going to be some uncertainty and of course that's not the current definition.

I'm not really trying to convince you or anybody that meters are not superior to yards, just that it's hard to explain why without appealing to prejudice and/or making categorical statements that are false.

>The choice for the decimal system is much more akin to the choice of 3/12/8/10 in the imperial system.

Is it correct to call SI the decimal system? Powers of ten time units never caught on above seconds.
I think science is interesting enough in its own right that you don't need to oversell it. It is not a 'massive creature', but it's fascinating nonetheless when explained in context and without the clickbaity headline.
A tutorial about GObject for beginners
> Then you basically are in the same situation functionally as having a house...

Provided you're lucky enough to run out of gas in a location that your RV won't be a nuisance. And if you're in hurricane territory, an RV is not functionally equivalent to a house.
Yes and its moving to HCL and Go

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/toward-vagrant-3-0
I’m the same.

I left Twitter and LinkedIn this year which were my main vices. Probably 70k reasonably organic connections down the drain.

However, I feel much happier and relaxed and have better relationships online and offline with a smaller group of people.

Would definetly recommend binning social media. It’s a toxic time sink.
It's not about the numbers as much as it is about the state of mind of those who read them.

People are extremely scared about everything nowadays.

There have been thousands of COVID like viruses in the history of civiliaztion and they aren't even recorded because it's a rounding error in the metric that matters the most but that nobody wants to use:

Months trimmed off the life expectancy of the deceased (ex-COVID)
What's the difference?

This Opal has a good quality lens. f/1.8 is a large aperture. That means it can gather a lot of light. Six glass elements probably means it has good geometric and color distortion characteristics. The specs say it has a fixed focus from 10cm to infinity. That's not bad.

Lenses like that for DSLRs retail for $100 or more.

The Dell webcam specs say nothing, but nothing, about the lens. That usually means it's a coke-bottle shard. (meaning cheap and barely acceptable.)

Opal are also bragging about a beam-forming mic array (that is, a software shotgun mic). That's worth money. No mic at all on the Dell.

Compare various smartphones. Many smartphone makers brag about their lenses.
Trash-d - A near drop-in replacement for rm that uses the Freedesktop trash bin
> 3. aarch64 uses UEFI while amd64 don’t need to (I don’t know why)

Sounds like amd64 is falling back to BIOS, while aarch64 never really had any other standard than UEFI. You should be able to run UEFI for amd64 too if you force the machine type to pc-q35-6.1 (or whatever QEMU version you're using).
Plan Ahead for Phase Out of 3G Cellular Networks and Service
Working with SQL in X (any language) usually has a poor developer experience that is why ORM or query builders are popular. Things like proper syntax highlight or type safety (I remain to be convinced that sqlc can really check the validity at compile, usually it only works in specific basic cases).

You just have to choose wisely your tools for sure, but most of the code you write needs to be rewritten anyway every X years.
"probably the beginning of the "fusion age"."

I wouldn't call it that, even if there would be a energy gain.

I call it beginning of "fusion age", when we solved fusion ad can build them reliable and reproducible - and if we still need them by that time, for main energy production.
Nope, note their readme says:

These combinations of GOOS and GOARCH are currently supported

darwin amd64,
darwin arm64,
freebsd amd64,
linux 386,
linux amd64,
linux arm,
linux arm64,
windows amd64

and if you look at their source tree https://gitlab.com/cznic/sqlite/-/tree/master/lib you can see they have

sqlite_darwin_amd64.go
sqlite_darwin_arm64.go
sqlite_freebsd_amd64.go
sqlite_linux_386.go
sqlite_linux_amd64.go
sqlite_linux_arm.go
sqlite_linux_arm64.go
sqlite_linux_s390x.go
sqlite_windows_386.go
sqlite_windows_amd64.go
Had my reddit reminder trigger back in July. I think I've set it up like 6 years ago. Amazed it actually worked.
Related to 3.3 (You can’t restart a single job of a workflow), is there any reason why the numeric id of a specific job run isn't available anywhere? There's GITHUB_RUN_ID, but that only identifies the workflow run, not the individual jobs, and this isn't unique across run/job restarts. Services like https://coveralls.io/ need an actually unique job run id, and they could also use the numeric id to link to the specific job run in a build matrix.

To clarify this further, in https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/actions/runs/1201348600, GITHUB_RUN_ID=1201348600, GITHUB_RUN_NUMBER=168, but there's no way to get the 3514203530 out of https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/runs/3514203530 (that's one of the jobs of that run).
If the goal of cpi is to reflect what consumers feel the inflation rate is regardless of what any consistent measurement scheme says, the BLS could get rid of the pesky measurement nonsense altogether just take an annual survey. Think of the cost savings!
There is a housing component to the CPI. It uses rents instead of home prices and makes some tradeoffs, but it seems fair to me overall. If you live in SF or NYC or similar cities it can seem that CPI underestimates inflation due to high rents/home price, but it is a national level metric, so that's somewhat expected.
The HN crowd loves to promote urbanization, density, blah blah blah. The fact that such an app exists at all is de facto proof of a failed city. Just a comic level of dysfunction. "NYC, we're so progressive we can't even address the basic requirements to support human life"
I've used Camo and other phone-as-a-webcam softwares before. My issue with them is setup is required. If I need to 2fa into something during a zoom call, I have to turn off my webcam and use my phone, then re set up my phone as a camera, turn on the software, and link it to my computer. It's too much friction, especially if you only have 1 min before a meeting to prep.

With a dedicated webcam, it's alway set up. There's no software to start up, there's no positioning the camera every time.
It seems more likely that in the time we could get a viable hydrogen infrastructure in place (I imagine decades) that both the refueling and 'chemical disaster' aspect of batteries will have been solved. We're getting fairly close on both counts, I believe.
Lately, Covid has been the holdup. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/covid-4/coronavirus-fre...
> I just don’t think it’s particularly well suited to the HN that I want to see. It seems more fitting for a philosophy board than a startup/technology board.

Had the problem been limited to academia - and, more specifically, the humanities - I would have concurred. Now that it escaped out into the wild where it is wreaking havoc with societal institutions and commercial entities it has become something which directly concerns the areas of interest for this board and as such should be dealt with.

One of the best ways for dealing with these authoritarians is for people to just say "no, I will not be bullied into submission". As long as there are only a few people doing so they can be singled out, demonised and de-platformed by the authoritarian 'new puritans' but this becomes ineffective in the face of growing resistance. Once they can no longer scare people into submission they will lose their power, once they lose power the problems they created can be dealt with and true academic freedom can return. Once true academic freedom returns there will still be space in academia for critical theory and related 'grievance studies' [1] but they will no longer be able to force their ideologies upon the institutions.

Resistance is not futile, we will not be assimilated.

[1] ...although I suspect they will not be able to find enough funding to keep going nor will there be many employment opportunities for those with a degree in one of these fields - which will eventually lead to their demise.
NTP is really not that good. I'm looking at "chronyc sources" on my GPS-disciplined clock, and relative to GPS time, the NTP sources are +/- 100s of milliseconds off. I'm sure most of this is the flakiness intrinsic in a consumer-grade ISP, but even after measuring them over a long period of time they tend to drift at about 1 part per million. (That's a second off every 12 days.) Comparatively, a tuned TXCO connected to the same clock is about 0.009 parts per million off, and many would consider that unacceptable.

GPS is actually an extremely good time reference. On the ground, you can be sure of the time to about 50ns, and the internal clocks on the satellites are kept synchronized to UTC time. (Which variant of UTC depends on the satellite constellation. The US uses the US Naval Observatory for GPS; China has their own version of UTC for BeiDou, etc.)
You could push nixies down from +200 us to roughly +/- 5 us with a current sense circuit feeding a tracking circuit (either a hardware PLL or digital DLL) with feedback from the PPS gen circuit.

Most of the inaccuracy of nixie displays (that are done properly and conventionally) is that the nixies require a few hundred us to build up enough charge to ionize the gas. If you send your HV trigger out before the actual start of second then you can account for the static part of this offset.

Reducing the random part would be... a trick. Low and constant temperature would be a decent starting point.

My next ideas are based around taking out the feedback loop and replacing it with static offsets based on an empirical model. Taking measurements of the nixie state transition delay (ie 1 to 2 takes a different amount of time than 2 to 3) would provide useful information. You could take temperature measurements and induce temperature over a range and build a matrix of the nixie state transition delay measurements. The temperature and transition matrix you can use as a priori that is weighted against actual feedback measurements.
That's moot. It's totally reasonable for the SEC to not regulate account security best practices and still regulate the company implementing those practices making off with your cash. A Ponzi scheme whose website has mandatory 2FA is not somehow better. The SEC was never designed to protect against all kinds of risks.
Per a comment by nielsbot, they're saying 2025. So, four years away, not 20. That's progress...
Great idea! Even if my first song was "O come all ye faithful".
I was gonna say, call the app “Costanza”.
It's duck typed but let's say your "template" takes an integer and divides by two depending on some boolean (perhaps you need to return a lookup table of sometimes half the bitwidth of an integer type). That function called by your template at compile time to maybe-divide-by-two is in the same language as runtime zig, and you could even conceivably call that very same function as a compiled entity in the runtime context.
We replaced TV with social media. I still believe this was progress.
There aren't any permanent shadows in space. Every orbit goes "around" eventually -- and there's no configuration where some combination of objects works to permanently shadow you.

(A technical exception is a planetary solar L2 Lagrange point [0], *if* it would occur close enough to a planet to be totally eclipsed. But that doesn't happen (AFAIK) -- they're generally far enough away that although the planet is always in front of the sun, the planet's disk is much smaller than the solar disk. Like a partial eclipse).

With cryogenic cooling, you have an even more difficult challenge: the light of a planet's infrared radiation emission is something you also have to shield. That's a major reason JWST (and similar cryogenic telescopes) go to solar L2: its sunshield doesn't only block out the sun -- it simultaneously blocks out the sun and the Earth. That's the unique advantage of the solar L2 point: the sun and Earth are always in the same direction.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point
Also vaping.
> we've left discussion of the law and what the police "can do" and entered a discussion about what to do about the problem of overtly criminal police

I genuinely think this point has long since come and gone. Most encounters with police are going to end fine, but there's basically no recourse in the majority of cases where they don't.
It was hard enough to make it small and lightweight enough to get out there, with epoxy instead of bolts for example.
40 mpg is what you got 15 years ago in Ford Focus 2 Wagon 1.4 tcdi.
It's like saying the ocean is full of gold for anyone to pick up. It is. But not worth picking up with the very low concentration.
They pay their engineers below and in cases half of market rates, place no organizational value on quality engineering, their CEO/head engineer is a buffoon and they have a history of screwing people with regard to equity compensation. It's not a complicated explanation at all.
This is scary as hell.
I spent years “learning to code” only to have to compete with language models.
Maybe codex isn’t so good yet but It’ll only get better and scarier.
I probably have 5 or 10 more years left before the field is totally automated, except for an elite fraction of humans, and I don’t know what to do then.
Same here. I'll click a link to go to the mobile app, and it doesn't load anything. Go back and open in mobile Chrome and it loads just fine.
Can you list any claims that fell apart?

For example, one of the biggest claims has always been fast compilation. Here's V compiling itself in 0.3 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvP6wmcl_Sc

V was also self hosted (written in V) from the start, which says a lot about the maturity of the language.

> Combined with all the delays

There were no delays. The project was announced to be released in June, and it was.

By the way, we now have a cool OS written in V, that can already run Bash, g++, and V itself!

https://github.com/vlang/vinix
- Cooking is insanely bad for the air in your house, even with an outside-venting hood.

weeps in searing steaks with no hood at all :'(
It's a way to avoid copyright / piracy claims by recreating the work.
I run a domain name recovery service and I can’t begin to tell you how many domains have been stolen from network solutions. We are still finding out about them every day, when the domain owners finally realize they don’t own their domain anymore.
I am also very annoyed that Reddit is slow, bloated and forces me to use their app.

I built an alternative Reddit client, if you know TweetDeck, then you might like Rdddeck.

https://rdddeck.com
I think you are assuming we have access to the vaccine like the US. Where at this point, if you want to get it, you have the opportunity to do so.

We don't have enough vaccine to do that yet. We have a shortage and consequently we are in 'a race' to get a somewhat limited supply of jabs into arms before the delta strain gets out of control here and starts killing folks like it's the peak in America.

I would say, Australia cares more about it's citizens than in America. But there are definite downsides, like for instance, we don't produce Pfizer or have the very strong industrial/tech base (and the good jobs that go with it)
I think this is generally right, and if "real" CPI was much higher than calculated you would see it eventually since the difference between real and calculated would be compounded over time.

However, because CPI is done at the national level while people typically live in one area, it is possible that HN readers in SF or wherever experience higher inflation than the CPI calculates. Certainly their rents have gone up much more than someone's in Kansas City.
That's a minimum 1000 of these giant facilities to even scratch the surface of what the article mentioned would be required to see dramatic improvements in climate change. The article mentioned the first one of those will take ~5 years from now to come online. In that time, we will have emitted far more carbon than can ever be captured by those facilities.

I don't think we have the time to wait for (minimum) 1000 of these facilities to come on line. I mean, they would help some, no doubt, but proper forest management and logging is existing knowledge, and the best part is the forests can mostly manage themselves. Forests are scaleable, and could be huge carbon sinks given the right speciation. The logging companies would be paid to cut the forests down, and sink them to the bottom of the ocean/turn them into biochar. Additionally, something similar could be done with kelp-forests (and I believe a startup already is doing just this). Scale is the issue here, what better way to scale planet-wide than self-reproducing carbon-capture technology (plants)?
At the time the design was locked in, there was nothing even planned that would be capable of supporting a crewed servicing mission. They have however included a grapple bar so that there is something to connect to should there be something in the future. SpaceX's Starship is the most likely vehicle at this stage, but that is still substantial development away from being capable of a James Webb servicing mission.
I don't think "the HN crowd" has anything close to such a consensus. But I do think you could find broad agreement that cities should have more sanitary facilities in general.
I think "it's kind" refers specifically to a magnet for plasma containment. As this doesn't set the record for a REBCO magnet.

https://nationalmaglab.org/news-events/news/lbc-project-worl...
> All in all, it's a good webcam, but they're picking wrong competitors. A modern mirrorless is too powerful for them, and MacBook's pinhole webcam is too good for its size. They need better marketing and targeting IMHO.

I disagree. Their target market is the person who says, "I'm tired of looking lousy in my Zoom meetings, but I know nothing about cameras. What can I do to fix this?"

Then they see the Macbook Webcam video and think, "that's how I look now", and they see the Opal and A7 videos and think, "that's how I'd like to look."

Then they see the prices, where the Opal is in the "accessory" price range, and the A7 costs more than their laptop. And they're sold on the Opal.
I run into the problem of hard coding testing urls all the time, this is nice to seperate that from my app.
State funded propaganda has always been a bad idea. Maybe the BBC is the best example of a bad idea but either way, good riddance.
How would we get there? There is no current vehicle that could be used to service anything at L2.
The Next Chapter of Readwise: Our Own Reading App
I'm not opposed to calling GNU E3. Basically no one uses unix or multics or whatever anymore.
Antifacist is to fascist as positron is to electron.
LIGO's size is also deceptive, the legs are kilometers long but the design is an L with the important bit being to vibrationally isolate things, maintain dimensional stability, and maintain vacuum.

ITER is likely bigger in terms of volume of concrete or actual footprint.