skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes sense to me. Apple wants to have their wallet app hold some state IDs so they reach out to states to talk about how it might work or not work with them.

The quotes from the technologist in the article just seem kinda random. I feel like those would be the basis for an article ... once you know them, but nothing in that article answers any of them or tell me that any of them are a problem.
Internet goes dark for millions in Indian state's bid to stop exam cheats
Or... It's subscription only, and maybe those other things don't matter so much.
Does anyone even use the Go? I'm a full time VR developer and I haven't heard of the Go in over a year. Still great to see this kind of move coming from Facebook though.

Here's hoping for the same initiative for the Quest 2
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No worries, I've always been more interested by the technical aspect more than the creative aspect of filmmaking, hence my interest in programming. It's a personal project, I've been making films since the age of 11, although I haven't been able to do much since I started my Bachelor degree...

I encode H.264/AAC for compatibility, usually 2-pass at 8Mbit/s for FHD content or around 30Mbit/s for UHD, 256-320 kbps for AAC. This gives a size of 1-4 GB per video. My Dad worked in broadcast, gave me those figures 10 years ago, I generally stick by them for any work I'm proud of!

You are right, that bitrate absolutely isn't necessary :D , and there are better codecs too. I don't have more than 17 films at the moment, the whole backend costs me about 4 euros a month on Hetzner with an attached 32 GB of block storage, no bandwidth costs (300Mbit/s max), single-core running Node.js and Nginx.

I make films during travel and events, and share them with friends and family who were there and for who it has some intrinsic value. They're mostly personal, not just for consumption. Short compilations that I would like to keep for the future, like old photos. Hence why people watch (and hopefully rewatch!) them on a TV and don't mind the wait.

Buffer-less streaming is absolutely not a priority (although nowadays I think it's more expected, people have shorter attention spans, despite the hours of work that goes into a short travel film). It's a very niche case, but would have cost me at least $50 in bandwidth alone with the big three. It's not going to break the bank, but it's also unnecessary.

You don't usually notice the drop in quality on YouTube or Netflix, until you actually try working with high quality source footage (high-bitrate from a dedicated camera, not phone footage). Then it's very noticeable (purple/green flickering on even surfaces from chroma subsampling, I'm guessing), and makes you sad when you realise what everyone is missing!

If you're still curious, my website is still live. I beg you not to judge, I started making short films very young and never got very good at them either (I'm studying nanotech & engineering, no film career for me)!

https://mastermovies.uk/glacier
A week ago I posted one of the 10 most popular Show HNs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28595967

It's an app that aggregates book mentions on HN. Dev costs (server, gpu training etc) would be one concern going forward. I can't monetize the app to cover the cost due to my current visa status (even donations are tricky to handle). Nevertheless, I'm more than happy to maintain the site up given that many people on HN find it useful. :)
It incentivizes homogeneity and greatly decreases the amount of discussion on controversial topics. If posts are permanent, tied to your identity, and potentially subject to legal punishments, people with minority opinions become much more skittish.

That could be considered only a risk if the moderation is bad, but bad moderation becomes more likely over time due to feedback loops. An optimally permissive moderator will risk inviting an overly strict moderator due to that permissiveness. An overly restrictive moderator will not. There is a greater likelihood of moderation becoming increasingly restrictive over time because the moderation narrows the pool of moderators.
Now I’m imagining monetizing an ad-blocker by selling CAPTCHA services based on users training an AI to recognize Facebook ads.
That’s the first I’ve heard of that; it would certainly be an update to my general understanding of the world if so, though I don’t think it would be likely to modify my opinion of “does government money for SpaceX have anything to do with Tesla suing for defamation?”
‘White Dissidents’ Raise Millions in Cryptocurrency
> Sources outside the home include avgas which is the largest source for lead in the atmosphere

In the atmosphere, sure (as it is not naturally occurring in the air). But how large is this source? And what harm does it actually cause?

There are indications that the levels of lead around airports are very low - even the article linked said that ~2.5% of children around the airport had "detectable" levels of lead. But it doesn't provide enough data to tell if the contamination came from the air. If this was significant, wouldn't many more children around the airport have high (not only detectable) levels of lead? Everyone has to breathe, but not everyone has the same contamination sources.

From Wikipedia:

> Final results from EPA's lead modeling study at the Santa Monica Airport shows off-airport levels below current 150 ng/m3 and possible future 20 ng/m3 levels.[108] Fifteen of 17 airports monitored during a year-long study in the US by the EPA have lead emissions well below the current National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for lead.[109]

To be safe, obviously we want to reduce all exposure to zero.

Avgas was changed in formulation to reduce lead.

There are alternatives to avgas - in Europe, avgas is already hard to find. Automotive gasoline conversions are available for some widely used engines. The problem is that you can't just take it to a shop and covert it - the airplane was originally certified with one engine type. If it is changed, it is no longer certified. No company is willing to eat the costs to re-certify - for the planes that are still in production. Let alone planes made by companies that no longer exist.

In the 'experimental' category, there are many types of engines that can directly burn either avgas or "mogas".

Some manufacturers, like Diamond, can use "jet fuel" (essentially, diesel) in their piston engines (as they have their own engines, based on diesel car engines). But even they will have avgas-burning versions (with Lycoming engines) for the US market.

Then you have competing agencies dragging their feet. There's the EPA, which should be issuing regulations. Then there's the FAA that needs to come up with a solution with the certification issue - they are pretty underfunded so it's unlikely they will. One agency points the finger to the other, none take action. I'm probably missing other agencies. There are alternatives in development - without a full government push, progress is slow.

Meanwhile, planes (and many helicopters) in the US keep spewing lead. Many of which provide important services.
Thanks so much! I hope you like this new version. Much more about building good habits and less about having something telling you over and over how much time you’re spending on Hacker News. :D
I took a very long break, about one year (but realistically, 6 months, the other 6 months I was busy renovating my apartment). I then eased into work; started with 4 hours a day, and didn't go to full time until I didn't feel ready. But also, I don't plan to work for long full-time. Even 40 hours a week is too much, to be perfectly honest.
The privacy settings on this website are like a minigame. Didn't have time to complete the puzzle, so just closed the tab.
What about the AWS bandwidth costs of accessing cloud fare’s data over the internet?
Understood, but is this robot anything more than surveillance? A mobile Alexa basically? Seems like a non-starter to some folks, including myself.
It's almost as purjolok said, but actually even simpler. You don't bother taxing the goods, and not even the train company!

The diesel fuel that the train company will buy has already been taxed at the refinery (if it's a diesel train). The gas that the power company will burn to generate power for an electric train has been taxed at import. The train company will simply pay the price of these goods, tax included, and pass this cost on to the owners of the goods being shipped. How is up to them.

Likewise, the "hidden" emissions from the production of the train are likewise "hidden" in its price: The steel that the train was made from was already taxed when it left the steel mill (not 100% familiar with steelmaking, but this may be one of the cases where it's insufficient to just tax the inputs since the steel mill might emit GHG that don't just come from fuel). The cost of the energy used in processing that steel already contained the cost of the emissions tax that was initially levied on the fuel. etc.
One of my fondest memories of BYTE is why I have the career I have today.

It was a how-to discussing making your system more secure against a virus (boot-sector/TSR).

It explained how to edit your io.sys, and command.com; so that the system would use different files then: config.sys & autoexec.bat to boot.

I failed at this task, and learned a very hard lesson about backups, but it wasn't as painful as it could have been. Format & re-install was rather common back then too (1-3'ish months on average)

But I learned that I WANT to hack on my systems. I learned that I COULD run MY hardware how I wanted.
It opened the world to me.

I do not accept a system as it's presented to me, I must find the edge-case and break-out of the conforms that would keep me contained.

I also learned about the difference between obscurity and security too. And that combined they are greater then the sum of their parts.
The midwest gets more than enough water via rain, so nobody worries about water. Farmers don't irrigate crops, they just accept lower profits in drought years. You might be thinking of the west where water is a problem.
That's straight out of Monty Python's rat tart skit[1]...

"We got Acme's new Lead-free plumbing!"

"Lead-free plumbing? As in no lead?"

"Well 8 percent... rather a lot really..."

[1]: https://youtu.be/bAs1_FxTyFs?t=198
Hypersonic HAWC missile flies, but details are kept hidden
I'm old enough to remember back when those of us who said vaccine passports were coming were conspiracy theorists, now we're calmly talking about implementation details.
Yes, although so far I have not run in to being flagged for fraud, some have been very confused by it. So I have started doing short variations of it to make it less obvious, so The Tracor Supply Company would be something like trasu@s.domain.tld

And instead of having a catchall on my domain.tld I have it on a subdomain, like s.domain.tld , easy way to keep them separate.
Good news; but it’s hard to trust Facebook at this point.

- They already demonstrated user hostile approach with the mandatory FB accounts.

- People might use sideloading/rooting to reduce tracking and ads; long term I believe FB will want to fight that.
The article suggests that the successful business model of such robot would be to provide hardware and open it to third-party apps. This is exactly what Pine64 is doing with their laptops, smartphones and other devices, and it seems to work fine. No software is required at all, everything is done by volunteers with FLOSS!
Why do you think OP tried to stop it by moderation? They simply wanted to not propagate it further.
To encourage the advancement of FOSS software, we should work to make the practice of selling only unlocked devices codified into law.
You talk about a "reality distortion field", but you are the one here who is just making things up.
> but if Tail Call Elimination is required in the implementation of a language as it is in Scheme

This is also supported as a non-standard extension in C, C++, and Objective-C as of Clang 13: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AttributeReference.html#musttail (I implemented this).

> see Guy Steele's "Debunking the 'Expensive Procedure Call' Myth

Yes! :) I cited this paper in my blog article describing how we are using musttail: https://blog.reverberate.org/2021/04/21/musttail-efficient-i...
Knowing the military, they'll make those stick.

We can disagree about whether he is guilty of them, or should be punished (I don't think so, considering he is critical of mistakes that lost American lives), but yeah, the military will probably make them stick.

That's one reason I left before I incurred an obligation. So glad I did because I do not have to follow orders that I disagree with.

Edit: Upvoted your comment because, well, you are correct.
The beauty is, you don't even have to tax the operator directly, as long as the train is traveling between countries participating in the same scheme. The fuel (or power) the train uses has already been taxed, as has the production of the train itself.
Check the agenda for your next shareholder meeting. You're welcome :)
>they could start with waiving permitting fees and bond requirements

This was my first thought as well, then I remembered Chicago.
> Not strictly the cycle of the moon but close.

Meh. Just the old 49.7 days cycle that it takes to overflow 32 bits when measuring miliseconds.

I was hoping for a "it works when I buy vanilla icecream and doesn't when I buy other flavour".
If you need collective action to find meaning in life you're already screwed.
Research. Ever wonder how many telnet servers are exposed to the internet (hint: way too many)?
It may also be economically unviable. Phoenix is around
1000 ft AGL, and much of the rest of Arizona that is populated is higher (Tucson 2300, Prescott ~5k, and Flagstaff almost 7k ft above sea level).

Someone above was quoting CCF/HCF (Centrum Cubic Feet, or 100ft^3 of water or 748 gallons), which is a customary way to measure water volume in many utilities, and noting ~ $6.89 per CCF I believe. I did some random googling and ran across [https://www.tucsonaz.gov/water/residential-rates-and-monthly...], which shows a connection charge of ~ $12

Which shows that the average Tucson resident seems to be paying less then $5/ccf right now - discounting connection fee- with 'high use' (~ 60 CCF, the top bracket they list), around $10/ccf.

1 ccf being 748 gallons, and each gallon weighing 8.34 lbs means you're getting 6238 lbs of water for less than $5 if you're a typical Tucson resident, and for ~ $10 if you're a high use resident.

Lifting water from ~ sea level to the 2300 ft AGL level takes energy (in a conservation of energy sense, regardless of efficiency). Specifically, approx 27,176 joules per gallon (yeah sorry) to lift in this case, or 20,327,648 joules per CCF, or in 'American' raw energy terms 5.65kwh.

Properly sized electric motors are around 90 percent efficient, with the best possible about 97%. Large centrifugal pumps, properly sized, can hit up to 93%.

Combined, that means in theory we could pump water uphill at, at best, 90% efficiency, and assuming no losses to friction in the pipes (which would be notable over the distances we're talking about, but is too complex to guesstimate here, but feel free to check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friction_loss),

So, if we pump in energy at 90% efficiency, we need 7.38 kwh of energy to get that water from sea level to Tucson - not counting cleaning or treating the water, infrastructure maintenance/piping, friction losses moving it over that distance, losses due to leaks, etc.

Tucson has cheap electricity by California Standards (my typical price per kwh is ~ $.45, there are a lot of misleading numbers out there), and though I see .12/kwh, CA says .24 and that is blatantly false. Even so, if we use that number .12, it would add $1, literally if all we were doing was taking perfectly great water and just pumping it to Tucson, with no need for pipes, or any other infrastructure.

That may not sound like much, but for a typical Tucson resident that would increase their bills by 20%. High users less as a percentage, but still over 10%.

When you add in the major infrastructure building and maintenance costs (which probably swamp the energy costs), you're looking at 50% or more increase. If you add in acquisition of drinkable water from somewhere closer than Oregon (which bringing it up and over multiple mountain ranges is going to be fun), also even more of an increase.
If they own the platform, why shouldn't they get to make the rules?
I don't mind if it's something that does actually require more discussion.

However, pre-slack there used to be a certain type that would never read e-mail, but instead would call 5 seconds after the e-mail and want to be walked through the e-mail rather than read it themselves. Also had one time about 15 years ago where someone literally tried to break through a secure door to ask about an e-mail I had sent 3 minutes ago. I was on VPN @ home, and they got pissed off thinking I was just ignoring the call to my desk.
It literally delivers a beer in their intro video. Of course, it can't open the fridge, but I think it's pretty hilarious that they actually put a cupholder on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj1t3msy8dc
I just installed and tried out HACK and I think it is pretty neat! I am a long time user of BeeLine, been using it on HN and on the interweb in general. Would love to have a mobile app like HACK for HN with BeeLine integration! Nick is very prompt with his email, I am sure both of you can get it running very soon!
Bitcoin wallet from the Satoshi Nakamoto era suddenly activates
> I am not sure how it is going to be paid for: public money? homeowner pays?

I'd suggest that the Union that voted to keep the lead as a requirement pay. /evilgrin
Looking at a few videos, it definitely looks pretty sweet. I guess in my mind I've always just thought of everything in Blender outside of 3d modeling as "tacked on", which really isn't fair.
This kind of completely horrifies me, but it's also not the worst idea I've ever heard.

I was more convinced by the author's pitch than I thought I'd be, but the problem I see is that the technology just isn't quite there yet. Thus it'll probably come out to be more like the early PDA's than the iphone.

Still, the general direction could have more promise than my first judgement of it based on the title.
The history of robotics is littered with the corpses of companies whose plan was to waive their hands until an app ecosystem appeared.
at the cost of a rod per hogshead
The existing sideloading, other than on PC desktop, was only for developers (no cost, but you had to sign a non-disclosure agreement and more). Other than the lack of cost it was more similar to Apple's limited developer sideloading than it was to sideloading on Android for mobile. This is actual consumer sideloading and root on the device.
Yeah, Hell is other people does not mean "other people suck". It's more that people perceive you one way, that you then perceive this perception of you resulting in painful dissonance between who you are viewed as, and who you are subjectively. To others you're an external object. To yourself you're the subject. Your inability to escape this dissonance is what the hell here is.

Basically, it would be less confusing if it were phrased 'hell it my perception of other people's perceptions of me'.
Social Media Use in 2021: A Majority of Americans Use YouTube and Facebook
The two are not mutually incompatible. There could be an app for that.
We're primarily trying to prevent fraudulent payments combined with expensive VMs. Throttling CPU to almost nothing on high risk accounts sounds delightfully irritating.

We also get the less resource intensive, but still harmful abusive apps that port scan the internet. Those are relatively easy to detect. We generally don't want to be a source of port scans so we shut them off pretty quickly.
> all wire meant to be sold in the EU must be ROHS complaint

Just an aside, this is a personal gripe. I grew up on lead solder, making Heathkit projects with my dad.

I tried re-engaging with the electronics hobby as an adult, decades later, in a world filled with ROHS solder, and I have to say it is a huge pain in the ass to work with. Adhesion, balling issues, etc, regardless of core type, flux, etc, even on nice controlled-temp Hakko stations, versus the Weller crap irons of my youth.

Maybe I'm just a grumpy old man, or maybe my memories are covered with rose glasses. But electronics seemed be more enjoyable in the lead era. And to my knowledge, my IQ did not suffer.
Use a no-logs, anonymous VPN. I do it all the time.
Well the "-s" is denoting the subject but yes "-E 'set escape'" is the mitigation fail2ban are employing though it should be noted that this is specific to Mailutils. Many (most?) other mail(1)'s use the -E option to mean don't send messages with an empty body which left me very confused when I first read your comment so had to do some digging to understand it.
How Can I Build My Own CRM?
This is an aside but not really since we’re discussing a representative of a disgraceful social media platform who’s posting on a different disgraceful social media platform: I can’t even look at a Twitter user’s profile now without being logged in to an account? What a disgrace.
I doubt these experiments.

The participants weren't practiced in mindfulness, nor where the experiments comparing mindfulness to its opposite.
Maybe someone here can explain me something.

I dug up my old duplo blocks from around 1980. Most colors are ok. The blue ones, however, have all gone brittle.

Is this normal? Why only blue?
This is well timed. I was actually going over the Internet Archive's collection just the other day. It's a bit sad to watch the decline in quality as you move through the volumes. Somewhere around 1985 - 1986 BYTE shifted towards becoming just another magazine hocking hardware/software. It got so bad that some issues started to look like a rip-off of Ziff-Davis's PC Magazine. Around that point I'm betting a lot of BYTE readers left for greener pastures at Circuit Cellar Ink and Dr. Dobb's.
> Even if you just hosted audio

Absolute worst case! You're going to end up DMCA'd by the entire music industry.

> It's no longer 1991, when you could assume that such people wouldn't find you.

Even back in the nineties, there was abuse .. but the internet was so much smaller, and it was possible to manually ban them. Except on USENET. The labour of dealing with spam fell to a small number of people, one of whom wrote this astonishing rant: https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/writing/rant.html

(and partly disowned it, but I think he was right first time)
"home is always going to be a nightmare environment for this kind of thing"

We have two choices: 1) Design robots for places optimized for humans, or 2) Design places optimized for robots -- a future where the living space (and all the machines and other things in them) are redesigned from scratch for the robot that will cook, clean, and move around there. Then a second priority is making it comfortable enough for the humans to also live there, too.

I suspect it's easier to adapt a human to an environment optimized for robots than it is to adapt a robot to an environment optimized for humans.
For a second I thought there was a new rocket launch company and got excited.

I guess this is good too.
When did "half the product is free, the full product is a $30/yr subscription" get rephrased as "free with extras"?
> 2. People uploading things like pirated content tend to do so in bulk. You might see people uploading hundreds of videos of TV shows or whatever. It may exceed legitimate uploads in the early days of a platform. You do not want to burden users with this level of moderation

Not to mention that viewers aren't likely to flag the complete discography camrip of My Little Pony unless they're stupid or have an axe to grind (either against the IP that was uploaded, piracy in general, or the specific uploader). The viewers are often drawn to platforms specifically because they are flooded with piracy in their early days.