skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice! Was thinking it'd be cool to have a little tool that calculates the height of an object (tree, building, etc) given the length of its shadow and the time of day (GPS coords might also be necessary).

Seems like you've already performed most of the necessary calculations here.
Are there any official benchmarks for swift compilation times ? I’m curious to see if they’ve been going up or down with the latest releases.
Is ‘Dune’ scientifically plausible? We ran a climate model to find out
The centralized, heavily regulated solution is slower.

If they could impose all the regulation they want on permissionless, trustless p2p decentralized networks, those would be slow and massively expensive, too.

Fortunately, they haven't the power. They can attack the edges (and ultimately every centralized stablecoin can be attacked) but they can't stop, say, uniswap.
Link Traversal and Portals in A-Frame
I do not think I have slept since 1982...
I continue to believe that minor differences car safety ratings are red herrings. (In a previous life I worked as a mech engg in car manufacturing)

It reminds me of benchmarks on MNIST datasets, to decide which model is better.
It is like patting yourself on the back for funding better helmets, when your bike infrastructure is straight out of mad max. The real problem is somewhere else.

Crashes almost never occur like we see in these crash tests. The prime culprit is what you can call 'dangerous actions'. If a Tesla driver is far more likely to be distracted (FSD, Touch controls) or more likely to be out of control at speed (insane acceleration with terrible braking), then a Tesla is an unsafe car. This is irrespective of the marginally lower likelihood of death in ideally controlled circumstances. Taking standard customer behaviors into account is one of the basics of design. If you market your lvl2 system as FSD, then a few idiots will let the car drive while in the back seat. If your car can't brake effectively past 120 mph, then maybe it shouldn't accelerate to that number within the blink of an eye.

I am also ignoring the safety risk posed by these vehicles towards anyone else on the street. It has long been my complaint that the SUV & Pickup craze is actively making the roads unsafe. They have worse blind spots & can kill with the kind of efficiency that sedans can only dream of.

Tesla's safety ratings are misleading too. For one, Tesla's high safety has to do with being one of the first truly electric cars on the market. Electric cars can't roll, are heavy and thus the crash zones can absorb more energy due to having more mass. Electric cars are thus objectively safer in straight line collisons. [1] But, that's like saying that your military tank is incredibly safe, but crushing dozens of cars in front of you. Safety should be about how safe the streets are with your car on the road, vs not being on the road. Alas, this is a problem with the car industry at large. So, Tesla isn't really to blame for this one.

[1] https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/with-more-electric-vehicles...
Climate Change is a reaction to people going, "There's still snow" or "There's a polar vortex in Texas" and using cold weather (driven by Climate Change) to argue against Global Warning.

It makes sense as when most lay people think of "warming" in connection with the "global climate" they likely think "weather" and the idea that it will be 2-3 degrees "warmer" out doesn't seem like a big deal. 68F feels pretty close to 71F, no biggie.

At a planet wide scale though, this is a huge amount of energy and causes a massive change in the climate.

There's a lot of "greenwashing" in the world, but the term is generally applied to corporations that use "a form of marketing spin in which green PR and green marketing are deceptively used to persuade the public that an organization's products, aims and policies are environmentally friendly." The term "Climate Change" is the preferred term from the scientific community and isn't promoted by corporations to make themselves seem more green.
Not very active. Maybe it works good enough? I don't know. Definitely a lot of open PR's from 2019.

Meanwhile CouchDB is supposedly switching to FoundationDB. There's a document layer for ya!
I’m not of the right age to know, honestly. That being said I have never seen a car maker ship a feature to me that is self described as a beta. Obviously mistakes happen and plenty of features fall short, but seeing a company knowingly ship a feature incomplete safety system for real world testing by their users with a mere EULA agreement seems like a step beyond the hypothetical of the ABS you raise.
Climate change is a market failure. Market-based solutions exists, but they require directly affecting market dynamics through policy.
Bit of a nitpick, but the standard APRS frequency in North America is 144.390MHz, well above the "shortwave" bands (granted, it's still "radio in general").
the only purpose of tax is to rob people of their hard earned money and then spend it on stupid stuff that nobody wants such as vaccines in response to a fake pandemic
You mentioned liver health.

Have you looked at the state of your liver before starting the regime?

AST/ALT/Ferritin etc.
Few people try to make a profit on cash holdings. They prefer safety, liquidity, and convenience. Is that 50-100 bps worth it to keep shifting all your accounts around? Perhaps you should just invest a little more into a different asset class and less into cash.
That was true only in limited scope and a very long time ago.

Most people in the US in the space just use Coinbase and in practice use that just like any other bank.
Exactly this - the idea that Tether not being legally obligated to let you cash out USD somehow being a shield against a run seems ridiculous.

Being unable to redeem your USDT for dollars - regardless of reason (because Tether is out of money or Tether is refusing) - is what causes the run and the crash.

An entity that is holding a bunch of cash but refusing to honor IOUs it has issued will find that the value of those IOUs will rapidly approach zero. Permanently. Even if it laters starts honoring those IOUs, the IOUs have lost their utility forever and the price will remain at/near zero.
Pathfinder got enormous benefits (3x performance difference as I recall?) switching from Apple's default allocator to jemalloc. Apple's allocator has not kept pace with the competition, especially for multithreaded workloads.
(Vouching for) Facebook Stole Our Name and Livelihood (Meta.company)
HN, give this company a chance to explain itself and don't be so quick to side with the big guy.
CNN isn't spying on my browsing habits. If I don't want to watch ABC I don't have to.

Back in the days of AOL you could use Juno or whatever to send and receive email from AOL users if you weren't interested in the platform.

FB, Google, cloudflare, and a few others control way too much information flow, globally.

CNN only gets like 2 million viewers on a good day.
Bipoc or POC? Equity or Equality? The Debate over Language on the Left
Lucky for you, you're doing more than you think.
A common sentiment on HN (and other programming-centric communities) is nostalgia for early computing days, and specifically, how easy it was to become a programmer. You turned on your Commodore and it booted into a BASIC prompt, for example. No webpack/babel/toolchain nightmare between you and making a computer do things.

But as someone who started programming as a kid in the late 80s/early 90s, I think this nostalgia vastly understates how many barriers existed between enjoying doing things in BASIC and moving forward to different levels or paradigms of programming. I was made vaguely aware of the existence of C by computing magazines, but the idea of actually buying a C compiler was totally out of the question. My high school had Pascal available, but nothing else.

It wasn't until the mid-to-late 90s that the internet and open source evolved to the point where programming languages and tools became ubiquitous to the point where you stopped thinking about how you might acquire them.
Perhaps true. I would extend this to say that RTFM by attaining drips through blog posts that summarizes the M would lead to good competent developers over time, but this exclusive approach would create knowledge gaps (or “secrets”) that would make them excellent developers if they had RTFM otherwise.
That is the way it works for a private institution, but not for government institutions. It is supposed to a safety net to prevent the government from consolidating power by putting their thumb on the scale of public discourse.
"Has anyone tried to make "VSCode: the game"?"

No, but something along that line. It is actually very hard, to do so in a consistent way, that is fun and useful.
And "the ability to receive" means "has a browser and internet access".

https://aprs.fi/
> In three other points their physiology differed strangely from ours. Their organisms did not sleep, any more than the heart of man sleeps. Since they had no extensive muscular mechanism to recuperate, that periodical extinction was unknown to them. They had little or no sense of fatigue, it would seem. On earth they could never have moved without effort, yet even to the last they kept in action. In twenty-four hours they did twenty-four hours of work, as even on earth is perhaps the case with the ants.

- H. G. Wells The War of the Worlds
Not OP, but I think both questions you proposed would be good places for you to start.
>> Where this gets kind of crazy is if you own a property and have title insurance on it from when you bought it, then you do a refinance, you're often required to buy the insurance again because that original policy ends.

That's when you ask for the re-issue rate.

http://www.insuranceqna.com/title-and-mortgage-insurance/wha...
I recently got into CAD and 3D printing, which combined in a weird way with my other hobby - guns. Currently I’m designing and prototyping parts for a parametric workholding setup that will help me repeatably produce an item whose dimensions match some of those which make an AR-15 lower receiver capable of mating with other components of the gun. Now, I have no background in any of the above, but I have lots of patience and no fear of failure. All this helps me keep sane while listening to yet another interminable sprint planning.
Users Reporting 'Memory Leak' Issues After Updating to macOS Monterey
Fair point. Maybe this comment should be deleted then.
How about we eliminate party affiliation on voter registration, census, etc. Make it as difficult as possible to gerrymander with confidence.

Of course, that would destroy party primaries, party nominations, etc. Hmmm... even better.

Who ever thought it was a good idea for a private club to control who can or cannot participate in elections?
Why do you want to a place that makes you feel bad?
No need for this study, it's been shown that teen and beauty magazines increase stress markers and if you're already depressed they're not helping.
China's hostage diplomacy is a bit different than breaking export laws.
Read Stroustrup's blue book written after C++11 was released. Not only is the font nicer than the white 2003 edition, it goes into sufficient detail to understand the new (now old!) features of C++11.

I couldn't imagine writing C++2003 any more.
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I suspected it might, but was too lazy to check. Thanks for doing that.
Oh, I didn't know what X did and made assumptions.

If you split file permissions into two halves - defining the initial permissions / modifying something that already exists - I can see how it makes sense to do both with the same syntax since modifying existing permissions is worse with octal.
Because software engineering is not the same as mechanical engineering. We’ve tried to apply mechanical engineering principles to software projects; it didn’t work.
Driving in a curve (make it infinite if you will: a circular track) your tyres will try to hold you glued to the road, and the centrifugal force ("doesn't actually exist", yadda yadda -- but it works for the purposes of this discussion) will try to push you outwards.

The tyres exert their force at road level, the centrifugal force at the height of the CoM. The CoM usually being above road level, the centrifugal force will tend to tilt the car outwards.

Lower the CoM to exactly road level and there is zero tilting moment; your car might slide outwards if it loses grip, but it will remain upright with no tilt, because the centrifugal force has no vertical leverage relative to the opposing gripping-force of the tyres -- they're opposing each other in the same horizontal plane.

Lower the CoM below the road (magically travelling through the soil without interacting with it), and there is again leverage, only this time with the centrifugal force pushing outwards below where the car is trying to stay attached to your desired trajectory and thus tilting the top of the car inwards, towards the inside of the curve or the center of the track.

:: Moving the CoM down has a stabilizing effect down to road level, but if you go lower than that it starts destabilizing again, only applying its rolling force in the opposite direction.
Take a look at Frederick Beiser's works on Hegel & German Idealism overall, as he's very clear and competent about this whole period of German philosophy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_C._Beiser#Works

Also, it's much easier to start with Hegel's lectures (on aesthetics, history, religion etc.) and just go read the Phenomenology & Science of Logic after one has a sense of his style and general philosophy. It's foolish to start by the most difficult texts.

And don't take Schopenhauer's criticisms of Hegel too seriously, as they are mostly due to personal misgivings and envy (Sch. couldn't stand Hegel's popularity, while Sch. barely managed to get any students for his classes).
Hey, it is still better to only have 1 group spying on us than 2 groups.

Even if the US government is spying on us, that is not a good reason to also allow China to do it.
Has anyone ever written a set of documentation solely by asking questions on StackExchange? I mean make an outline of exactly how you would do written docs, but pose each one of the sections in the outline as questions. You could have another user designed to be an expert for this app answer the questions.

I'm not trying to game SO for points. I'm trying to head off the fact that nobody reads docs, but will head straight to a web search.
Yes so most rendering of vector art(including SVG) is done on the CPU. It would be nice to use the GPU to greatly accelerate that rendering.
Screw governments and screw legislation.

After all the damage and destruction and lies of these past couple years such as the FAKE pandemic i do not wish to be governed.

Good day to you.
do you think chip fabs could effectively be moved there though?
This matches 'red scare' quite nicely and might give you some food for further thought.
I worked on a product called "Media Center" which we applied for a trademark on. The USPTO turned it down claiming it was too generic.

Then 6 months later Microsoft comes out with a new version of Windows, with a Media Center in it.
Catia and Ansys are crazy expensive.. though my boss is buying me an 8000 dollar gpu so... basically differential equations are expensive
These are visible not just by anyone who can receive, but pretty much everything on APRS ends up online. Most areas have an igate that forwards messages from the radio to the Internet. https://www.aprsdirect.com/center/40.55354,-104.97842/zoom/1... is my favorite site for seeing what is going on in an area and where digipeaters and igates are. https://aprs.fi also works.

Some areas have one that works in reverse, taking what is seen on the internet and relevant to the active stations in the area and broadcasting it out over radio.

When I started using SMSGTE I had great success getting a SMS from my radio to a phone, but only 1 in 10 replies from SMS made it back to my radio. I put up a gateway for my area and so we have some decent bi-directional coverage.
It's worth a try, but if they can't positively assert "infringing on what," they have no case.
As discussed at the time DevTools are not the same thing as right-clicking->View Source.
I suggest Father and Son https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.tuomuseo.fa... on Android.
I posted that link because I didn't find any other one which illustrated the point I tried to make so well with one large picture. To put it in different words: this exists like pictured because it is the most simple and cheap method to safely implement with currently available parts.
As you already mentioned, the word "meta" isn't defined and is entirely conceptual. As such, it can't reasonably be associated with an existing product or service, so it can't and won't be subjected to the same strong trademark requirements.
The government has no right to pass laws about something just because it feels like it. Cryptocurrencies are harming nobody.

In reality our leaders just want to destroy this thing that is enabling the people to succeed and exit from the perpetual slave/debt/fiat system.
Games as teaching tools is definitely an interesting topic.

You might get a kick out of https://vim-adventures.com/ or https://cssgridgarden.com/ or http://www.flexboxdefense.com/

These are just off the top of my head - would love to see other examples.
Are you somebody who believes that finance generally is not useful?

Traditional financial institutions also more or less shuffle USD around. Crypto is that.
I didn't, partially because a liver panel is like $350 and I have no reason to think my liver is anything but healthy. I'm injecting the testosterone directly and not using orals. Injecting it doesn't really have a reputation of being hard on your liver - orals do though. I mean they both do have an effect on your liver but it's not really the focus of all the material I've read on injection (which does advise strongly against a lot of orals).

I will likely get one in a couple months mid-cycle and if it's fine then I won't get a follow for my liver speciically up at the end (but will do all the other common markers still)

I mentioned liver health only because I was comparing steroid use to drinking, not trying to imply injecting really messes with your liver.
Why would that matter? Do you believe that you aren't transacting with USD when you buy something using the VISA network? Or with apple pay? Or a check?
On the other hand, lack of internet allowed one to "borrow" (pirate) software from a friend who had it. No sign in required to ones Jetbrains account.
There are no private companies in China.
It would be trivial for China and the U.S. to send each other back to the stone age with atmospheric EMP blasts. In such a scenario both countries lose.
What about putting using std::vector or whatever in the header or implementation?

Saves littering the codebase with std:: everywhere without having to do a blanket using namespace std;
I remember wanting to create Windows applications but couldn't because Visual Studio (or Visual Basic) was so expensive. The only "free" alternative was to code it in assembly[1] which wasn't exactly easy beyond "Hello World"

[1] https://www.grc.com/smgassembly.htm
Yeah... I hear shortwave and amateur radio (aka ham radio) used interchangeably all the time - but it isn't correct.
Relatively speaking:

https://accelconf.web.cern.ch/napac2016/talks/mob2co03_talk....
But the house wasn't really stolen. It was fraudulently sold.

You might think that such quibbling cannot possibly matter, and maybe it doesn't in the UK, but in the US it can.

Here's a case from 2008 in Washington state [1].

Company X leased a car to Y.

Y forged documents to show X had released their interest in the car and then Y sold the car to innocent buyer Z.

X sued to recover the car from Z.

Washington law (RCW 10.79.050) states "All property obtained by larceny, robbery or burglary, shall be restored to the owner; and no sale, whether in good faith on the part of the purchaser or not, shall divest the owner of his rights to such property".

But there was no larceny, robbery, or burglary in this case so that did not apply.

Z got to keep the car.

[1] https://caselaw.findlaw.com/wa-court-of-appeals/1210407.html
I'm not sure how having a single code base would help anything. Sure, interopable standards are needed, but what benefit does a single code base get us?

> Also, affordances for encrypted delayed transmission, i.e. storage in the middle. For instance, email providers would need to store encrypted messages until your local reader downloads them (either to read or store locally).

So the scenario here is we add encryption transparently at either layer 3 or layer 4 and the encryption is end-to-end (the email provider cannot read it, only the intended recipient).

How would that work? At the very least the email provider would have to know the application level "to" address to route the email. If its end to end encrypted, they cannot as they are a middle party. Maybe you could say that some metadata is unencrypted, but then the encryption is clearly not happening transparently on a low layer if the application layer turns it on and off for different parts of the message.

Not to mention - who are you encrypting it to? (Aka which key are you using). If this is transparently on layer 3/4 one presumes the key is tied to the ip address (and maybe port?) as the only identifier available. If its end to end encrypted through a middle man (email provider) for an eventual destination for whom not only do you not know their ip address, they are offline right now so they literally don't have one, how can you possibly get the right key for that transparently without involving the application layer?

> There is some thought needed for the design, as with any platform. And perfection might never be achieved - but things are much less perfect today.

Personally i think TLS is pretty good all things considered. Its not without trade-offs but most of those trade offs are pretty reasonable given the technical constraints we have.

> The return on that careful work would be an insane drop in the number of disparate implementations needed, and a much safer internet without all the cracks in and between disparate implementation.

Very few security issues are caused by interoperability issues between different crypto implementations. One implementation might have a bug a different one doesn't, but settling on a single implementation wouldn't stop bugs from being a thing.
Leaky SpaceX toilet problem will force astronauts to use backup 'undergarments'
Key word is believe or have actual knowledge.

If you bona fide thought it was legit it's okay.

The commenter above mentioned pawn shops, a highly regulated activity. Had the tv already been sold, he would have had no recourse to the new owners. The pawn shop may still be liable, depending on how the jurisdiction handles pawn shops.
This is an ios problem. Never seen this on Android
Why are flakes included in the release notes if they are still "experimental"? Has there been a change in the status of flakes between 2.3 and 2.4?
Context:
Japan using cassette tapes and faxes (2015), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10497355
"Should those in the Bay Area be concerned?"

Wow. That's such a strange question. How about the guys in Seattle? The residents of Kansas City? Should the good citizens of Detroit be concerned, or will the weight of the conflict land on Cleveland?