skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's how people used to do it and we certainly don't have any objections. The main problem is that it probably won't get off the /newest page. If you make it a text post it might make the /ask page.
Aircraft are heavily regulated in the US. I suspect this will be for government/military/rescue, or super rich kids/people to buy and fly around in rural areas where there's no law enforcement. I could totally see some rich Instagrammer teens doing dangerous things with these.

This is the stuff I dreamed of as a kid. Very cool. I'd love to pilot one, as I'm a drone hobbyist. I bet it would rattle my organs loose, or deafen me. A 7" quadrotor with 9500kV motors is loud enough!
Related: The mayor of Long Beach has increased the stacking limit.

https://mobile.twitter.com/RobertGarcia/status/1451679404757...
That's really interesting, that you take advantage of symbiosis between the YC and HN functions. Have you ever published or written about the relationships and benefits to each? I'd be fascinated to read more. I'm sure some of it is completely obvious and some much less so. Curious to hear what would surprise me.
...huh. I just tested this in my Emacs instance and it works as you describe.

I could swear I remember this working in the past, but I can find no hint of it in a few quick searches, so I'm likely mistaken.

I'm sorry for the misinformation.Thanks for saying something.
If your email dress is firstname@domain.com, Fastmail redirects e-mail sent to mysite@firstname.domain.com to your inbox. For example, if your e-mail is bob@dole.com, you could register on Facebook with facebook@bob.dole.com, and e-mails to that address would show up in your inbox.
I've been using Fastmail for years now and love it. I understand that no SaaS can have 100% perfect uptime always, and this is the first Fastmail outage that I can recall experiencing. So, just in case anyone is worried seeing this, I'm a happy paying customer and Fastmail has a lot of goodwill built up with me.

That said, it does sound the status page could use an update: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28964509
I started working on this exact problem a few years ago. Didn't get far, though, I think I stopped because I assumed there just wouldn't be any real interest.
Paywall: https://archive.md/fTqEX
I've been using Fastmail for several years and this is the worst experience I've had with it, so at least it's not common.

I think it'd take this happening monthly for me to consider switching back to Gmail? Not sure.
..huh. I just tested this in my Emacs instance and it works as you describe.

I could swear I remember this working in the past, but I can find no hint of it in a few quick searches, so I'm likely mistaken.

I'm sorry for the misinformation. Thanks for saying something.
We're indeed replacing links with canonical URLs now, as of maybe a month ago. But we were stripping anchors from URLs even before that, with a list of exempted sites. I've added pluralistic.net to that list now. If there's a better way to do it, I'm interested.
The problem is that there are always problems.

Many look at a problem as a frustating situation, and wish it would go away.

That's what "they think I'm stupid" is mostly about.

Most people just want things to work, which is understandable and reasonable, but not rational. It's wishful thinking, that has no action or teeth.

In reality, constant change and development will always bring about frustration.

The true problem is accepting that you can't control everything.

But after realizing that, pretend that you are in control.

Be ok with the results, no matter what's the ultimate solution.

ie. Ignore what you can't control, and BE YOURSELF.

BUT, listen to your elders.

Listen for at least 3 months. Think about it. If you're still willing to listen to their advice, but don't want to take it, go slowly forward, and live your life.

The next generation is always unfathomable to their parents, but you need to respect, and listen, for they truly do know things you don't know, but the reverse is true as well.
Just maybe not choose one that's close to an ocean, lake or river.
I'd be interested in learning more about that if you could share a name of the professor or project?
I'll take a Texas tall tale against your KC doused in sauce version any day of the week, and twice on sunday. ;-)
The power of unconditional love
Simply put - nobody wants/needs CDs. They are too bloody fragile and get damaged real fast. At least that's how I remember them based on my experience with them years ago.

So let's say CD usage is going towards ZERO. Vinyl is more of a fad/hobby/experience/collection thingie? So their sale is going up i.e above ZERO?
Please don't change it, I like it as it is; 'ycombinator' is a cool word.

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Explain me this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28055839
In defense of “Q-plasma” – a response to Sabine Hossenfelder
One might question your ability to do basic research and a division.

ExxonMobil reports 120M tons of CO2 per year [1]

Our total anthropogenic emmissions according to IPCC, EPA and other credible scientific organizations are close to 35B tons of CO2 per year [2].

You can also calculate it by using the concentration of CO2 and the total volume of air on earth. But I guess this is out of your league.

Now divide 35B with 120M. You will get 0.0034. That is 0.34%.

One piece of advice. Don’t become a researcher. Keep posting on HN.

[1] https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/-/media/Global/Files/energy...

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions
Assuming the news gets printed before market open (not really a safe assumption in the digital age), for this to have predictive power one would have to be looking at the intraday difference from market open to close, or the difference from previous close to today's open, not from previous close to today's close. It's not clear from the abstract/article which they looked at.
You started out saying you can't build complicated applications entirely on Workers. That's the point I was debating. It sounds like you're now saying that, yes, it is possible to build complex apps but they don't really count as "edge" in your mind.

That's fine, "edge" isn't the point. The point is that we make it really easy to deploy an app globally. No need to think about multi-homing, no need to maintain multiple "regions", there's just one global network and the code runs everywhere.

On the database point, to be clear, we're not expecting everyone to build their own database. We're saying that many applications don't actually need a monolithic globe-spanning database and may find that durable objects are a good fit as-is. For apps that do need a globe-spanning database, the expectation is that one or more of those will be built on top of Durable Objects in due time, and can then be reused by many apps. This is an ongoing process, we're certainly a long way from done.
Reminds me - I was filming for a cruise in a remote area a few months ago. There was a baby turtle that was struggling to get out of the hole from where its siblings had escaped that morning. The guest lecturer ended up in a feisty debate with a guest (who happened to be some sort of environmental researcher) about whether it was appropriate to even-just-slightly help the turtle out of the hole or leave it to struggle and be picked off by birds. All in front of 10-20 other guests who were all pretty keen to see the turtle bolt for the ocean.

The lecturer wanted to prevent it being helped but eventually gave in. (The turtle wasn't particularly weak, just got a bad break with the shell or caved face of the hole it seemed.)
Because the empty needs to be either filled and put back on a ship going back to Asia, or put back empty. Either way, all the containers that go from Asia to the US need to go back. And it makes sense for the port that unloads to also load.
Sterilization means “removes reproductive capability” in a medical and social context. Yes it has other meanings too. I can frighten many people by saying I’m going to give them a sterilizing anything.
I didn't mean to express that the outcome was good or bad.

And I don't take a position on whether the authorities are grouped with the "anti-social" crowd. Some people would say they are.

Purely for the sake of discussion, I presumed the conceit that there is a "justice system" which is "pro-social".

In that context, it seems clear to me that criminalizing things is a very useful tool.

If you reject the premise, you might be perfectly correct, yet I would still expect people to be addressing those who believe there is a "justice system".

Surely all sensible anarchists can imagine believing in "law and order", and assume that a random person probably does?

Even if one doesn't believe there is a justice system, one might believe there could be. I automatically assume anyone who wants to discuss topics like crime and justice believes in the concepts.

The judgement "obtuse" comes with the sense I have that the context is otherwise violated.
You got a nice detailed rebuttal already, but I need to add that HN is not a place for ideological battle, and we ban accounts that use the site primarily for that (regardless of which ideology they're for or against). Not only have you been using HN primarily for that*, you've been posting a ton of low-quality flamebait comments. That's really not what this site is for, so I've banned the account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

* though I did see one comment about D!
It's getting up there, but still has a way to go before it hits the high ($4.05) from 2008.

https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/xls/pswrgvwall.xls

Adjusted for inflation that's about $5.15/gallon.
Agreed. The lack of trust in the 2020 election isn't because the voters have a reason not to trust it, it's because they have a need to not trust it - a psychological need. And they'll follow the flimsiest of evidence to fulfill that need.

Obfuscating the election results with a cryptographic framework that only PhDs understand (which incidentally, they trust even less than the under-educated) would be a disaster. It would provide the kooks and charlatans with more than enough fodder for all manner of conspiracies. I can just imagine them grepping the blockchain for "666" now...
I'm talking about the change on the 17th of October, only a couple of days ago, not the one from a month ago which I know (and mentioned) is the new pass manager. The change doesn't show up in all of the graphs, but for the cases where it does show, it's a similar size improvement to the new pass manager.

Maybe it was enabling PGO rather than any code change, I've heard it mentioned that happened recently.
Facebook's SMS account unlocker is not functioning
Has anyone else faced this situation?
1. Your account gets locked due to "unusual activity".
2. You try to follow the process to unlocking it via SMS verification.
3. You receive a text with an unlock code.
4. Attempting to use the unlock code within 15 seconds of receiving it - either via copying and pasting, or entering it by typing in the numbers fails because the code is "incorrect or expired".
Because your analogy is faulty. If you call a plumbing company and they send a plumber who nursery’s you, you would damn sure sue the plumbing company. The police would handle the plumber as a criminal matter.
"Within one week, Smith’s feed was full of groups and pages that had violated Facebook’s own rules, including those against hate speech and disinformation."
Doesn't seem like it makes sense in this case, though, does it?
GOOD NEWS FROM ROB ALIEN 666 ON SPY TOP SECRET SITE NEWS.
"Properly" still entails RIAA equalization with munged up bass.
IPFS I guess.
They do?! I don't remember that. Damaged CDs that would skip or hang were not super uncommon, but they had to take quite a lot of abuse until problems even became audible.

But especially in comparison with vinyl records, which was the context here, CDs seemed almost indestructible. It was one of their selling points: Even visibly fine vinyl records still skip sometimes, while a CD that picked up tons of scratches sitting on someone's desk would still play fine.

Not a big surprise given that CDs have their data with lots of redundance below a protective coat, while on a vinyl record the surface is the data...
That. Is absolutely what I want and have been thinking about. It could be worth doing CS just for this alone. The only high-paying field that doesn't need you to chain yourself to any place.

Thanks a lot, this is a crucial point and good to hear it from someone with the same background as I.
When you've got thousands of packages, I'll take a scanner over nothing. For a big ass monorepo like the one I maintain at work, it's a great tool.

Snyk does report on vulnerabilities that don't necessarily affect your usage of a package, but IMHO, that's erring on the safe side and I'm ok with that.
By that time, every website on the planet has been rewritten as a native app.
What are you switching to?
Recorde is one of those intellectual heroes I only learned of a few years ago. It seems like no big deal now, but using a symbol instead of words to represent am equation was revolutionary.
GOOD NEWS FROM ROB ALIEN 666 TOP SECRET SITE OF SPY CLUB GOOD NEWS.
Clarifying…we agree

You are trying to explain this point to someone who’s entire belief structure relies on not understanding it.

You are right, damn right, but I’ve learned it’s not worth your time.
They could just be an ISP. They can take money, provide services, and be regulated like a utility.
Figure out what you really enjoy doing in life (even if it is nothing at all), and do more of that instead :)
What evidence is there that fossil fuels were suddenly depleted for cause 1?

Isn’t cause 2 basically agreeing “it was the pandemic”?
I find that the piece is called "They Have Yarns", and the Confederate mentioned was Robert Toombs.

There is also a curious reference to the number 42 some paragraphs earlier.
Will Apple be the last US tech giant left in China?
> Maybe the right thing to do is do something so great for society that they want to write books on you (eg: George Washington).

Rarely do the people that seek this actually achieve this. --quoth the raven
It's weird to me that thousands of people work at the docks or with the trucks, and likely understand these problems quite well, but only after a silicon valley guy rented a boat to take a look and tweeted about it did it come to attention of the larger world.

Is it just that these other people don't want to "rock the boat" at their place of employment?
Bitcoin is 13 years old.
I interpreted it that way though, that was not the misunderstanding.
Yeah seeing it here too now. Damn.
Ask HN: What big companies (really) hire recent graduates?
I'm graduating next year as SE and I got an offer from IBM, and since Covid I just see Senior jobs openings, increasingly in the last two years. Why is that? I wonder are big companies still hiring recent graduates? Where should I look at?
One skeptical way of looking at it is that the the explosion of "data science" and ML is basically comp sci running into modeling space in a way it never had before, and getting into territory that it wasn't equipped to handle.

It wasn't that long ago that there were posts on here about statisticians giving conference keynotes about how data science was basically old wine in new bottles, and were being ridiculed for being behind the times, etc.

Now we see that basically no one actually knows what's going on. My guess is when the dust settles a lot of things will be explained, but it won't be as different from established statistical and information theory as some would make it out to be. That is, some of this is new discovery and figuring out new territory, and some of it is neglecting basics that have been there all along.

My guess is the next phase of this is basically comp sci ML research rediscovering mathematical statistics and information theory.
People often claim to "find" new market factors - but in reality they're just re-hashes of some other very well known and mathematically defined factor. I think in this case, its just called "momentum".

Sentiment analysis is like alchemy. People have searched for it forever in hopes of some sort of pot of gold. Turns out, sentiment is directly caused by the markets. If you're in the red you're unhappy... its that simple.

Then what happens? Your favorite WSJ reporter will write up some pessimistic article with a stock photo of some long-lost stock broker dinosaur with his face in his hands. Market might go down another few days... momentum.

I haven't read the whitepaper - its paywalled. But probably not worth a read.
Too bad they didn’t switch to collapsible containers: https://www.shiplilly.com/blog/collapsible-shipping-containe...

That would handle the trade imbalance by allowing more empties to fit on the way back.

Or the USA could actually make something worth shipping. But that’s probably a lot harder than replacing a worldwide fleet of existing non-collapsible containers.
What would suspending the Jones Act do? The container ships are foreign ships already.
I don't think it has evolved much at all. New words, yes, and some words fell out of favor. But you can find a book written in the 50s or a movie from the 50s and you would have no trouble understanding it. I'm fact, without context, you likely wouldn't notice it was from 70 years ago.
From one of the Youtube comments.

Game recommendations on the final slides:

Leanne:
Parkitecht,
Pokemon Go,
Banished,
Mineko's Night Market,
Ooblets,
To the Rescue

Kels:
A Short Hike,
Abzu,
Animal Crossing,
Mineko's Night Market,
Skatebird,
Ooblets

Josh:
Yonder,
Kind Words,
Quench,
Tunic,
Welcome to Elk,
Get In The Car, Loser!
Short story where SETI programmers turn new message hunting code on archived files and it detects a message in the human genome rather than in radio signals from the cosmos: https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/sftriple/gpic.html

( https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/252832/short-story... )
Building Open Source Network Security Tools: Components and Techniques
China’s ByteDance lays off dozens at game publisher Ohayoo
Original inception dates back to Leonardo da Vinci, but it is not until recently that we have been able to achieve these flight characteristics on small scales.

I wonder what is meant by recently.

The first ornithopters capable of flight were constructed in France. Jobert in 1871 used a rubber band to power a small model bird.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithopter

I think the work would also be improved by a mention of bio-inspired work on the PRANDTL-D wing.

The Armstrong team (supported by a large contingent of NASA Aeronautics Academy interns) built upon the 1933 research of the German engineer Ludwig Prandtl to design and validate a scale model of a non-elliptical loaded wing that reduces drag and increases efficiency. The team also applied these concepts to improve propeller blades.

https://technology-afrc.ndc.nasa.gov/featurestory/prandtl-wi...
I can't believe it's even close. Who the hell is still is buying CD's ?
With the right tape deck and the right tape formulation, cassettes could get incredibly good, with SNRs over 60dB. Not bad at all considering that vinyl also degraded much faster from playing than tape did.

It's just that a lot of people had cheap tape decks and even cheaper tapes, hence the bad reputation nowadays.
I think that playing music on real speakers and 'for the room' is the actual magic. If you put the same time and energy into just setting up a decent stereo system that works well then the medium doesn't mater.
Please make creative use of that awkward round window found in the gable end of many houses.
Speed holes on various upsettingly ugly vehicles would agree with you I suppose.

I personally don't care about the function or lack-there-of, but many of your examples seem to embody the desolate nature of suburbia in the same way as awful cul-de-sacs, lawns, or Applebees; they're a bad compromise. If you don't need pillars, make something good using the framework you're operating in and add other decorations that aren't trying to be something they're not.

Fuck fake pillars. They're as gross as the stupid greyish peach tan colour the house is painted.
For any particular industrial customer? OK. For a medium-sized town? Maybe. For hauling containers from LA to Dallas, or even from LA to an air force base 100 miles away. in a world where interstate highways exist? No.
There are no empties in the ports because all the spots to put containers are filled with full ones. In order to get empties back into the ports and onto ships you need to do three things.

1. Get full containers out of ports to make room for empties

2. Bring empties back to port and queue them up

3. Unload a bunch of fulls and reload a bunch of empties onto every ship that comes into port

Right now there's no room to store empties do they're being stored on trailers. Which means there are no trailers to unload full containers onto. So nothing is being unloaded. Deadlock.
And why would it die? Would you choose your romantic partner just by reading their PDF "prospectus", or during a ski trip (which will certainly include discussion on the key parts of the "prospects")?
Exactly. Vinyl is just fun. You don't need any reason beyond that.
I wish NPM had an option to disallow pulling dependencies from accounts that don’t use 2FA. Even if you trust a publisher it is so easy for their packages to get compromised because they are lax about security.
There's also stereo to consider, right? So you could get up to 2X bandwidth. (Channel separation issues might mean less than 2X in practice, though.)

If you want to stretch the definition of "cassette", tapes are two-sided, and there were 4-track recorders that used all 4 tracks in one direction. They weren't anything too exotic. Musicians used them for cheap recordings for demos and such.
I know little about ship operations - but what is ballasting them when they’re sailing away now without empty containers?
It’s not clear to me whether the zoning regulation was changed in response to the Twitter thread.
Time aboard a square-rigger is days of near idleness punctuated by a few hours of sheer panic.

Holystone the decks!
I'm actually not convinced we aren't being trolled here after giving this some more thought.
What about hood scoops on a die cast model car?
Seems like the greater feat would be keeping your family size small over 650 years. Most any level of wealth will start to fade if you have to split it amongst 1,000 heirs.
Why not? You could be the loverboytoy of older cougars, or be the fuckpiece for gay- or bisexually oriented man. If that's not your thing you still could join the military and be cannonfodder.
Would S3 exist in 500 years? Bezos would be long gone. Our tech would be long gone. I'd think about the only thing we could do the same is walk and open our mouth's.

And who knows what the unexpected looks like...Wars, political shifts, etc. Hell, until 2019, I thought toilet paper was unlimited. Once again, toilet paper is starting to look like the currency of the new-world.

:) That's a joke BTW. But is it? I don't want to go back to using squirrels as toilet paper!
> These "fake shutters" are just window trim

Window trim serves a purpose.

These do not serve the purpose of window trim I wouldn't think.

They would have to have window trim underneath them.

Window trim is purposeful and it needs to look ok or beautiful like any normal part of the house, like a roof or door.

I think most people complain about fake brick or fake columns.

Something like fake plastic wood flooring, again serves a purpose.