skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't overthink it. WordPress + LMS plugin + Zoom could get the job done.

Lifterlms is my current favorite amongst plugins.
The bookmarks API is being worked on and is on the roadmap https://t.co/roadmap
Maybe you don't understand how scales work. His description allows _everything between the endpoints_ he stated. How do you arrive at only a binary choice?
The fee is quite big, I do think that they should reduce it a little bit.
> Granberg and his colleagues found that women had higher positive employer response rates than men on average, an effect that was primarily driven by female-dominated occupations. There was no evidence of discrimination against women in male-dominated professions or in mixed-gender professions, but the researchers did find evidence of discrimination against men in female-dominated professions.

Duh?

The only reason that organized misandry isn’t taken seriously is the pervasive misandry in HR, education, and other female dominated fields.

Education has been female dominated for forty years — and becoming less equal. Universities are currently 60% women and 40% men.

Have you heard of a single scholarship to help men reach “equity”? …anyone?
You may want to check out the video / text from everyday astronaut pointed to elsewhere in this post, which goes through a much deeper research and explanation on the topic.

The TLDR as I remember it, is physical nozzles on the aerospike don't work the same way as they do on a traditional rocket. It's more like like just an exit from the combustion chamber.

The appeal of an aerospike is by having lots of exhaust port aligned around a spike, is it creates a sort of virtual nozzle that is the right size for the atmospheric pressure. And as such acts sort of like a nozzle that changes shape and size as the rocket goes through the thinner and thinner atmosphere.

This in theory gains efficiency over a rocket that has a set shape for it's nozzle, and isn't always operating at optimal efficiency due to the size of the nozzle.

* Not an expert on these things, just going off of memory
On what frequency do they transmit? What non-smart equipment does one need to detect one?
That there is no solution to be suggested is sort of the point.
This is really cool. Electric propulsion for small satellites is a hot field and has been advancing rapidly, and this is no exception. The rising cost of Xenon is a real problem in the field right now so it's great to see the work being done on alternate propellants (it would be great if we knew more about SpaceX's thrusters, which run on Krypton).

Doing some math, their total thrust efficiency seems to be around 29%, which is really good for a thruster of its size being ionized by RF power.
To add to the sibling comments, momentum is also a factor.

When you are going up, if you slip, your momentum will carry you into the slope. If you are going down and slip, your momentum will carry you into space. Then gravity will take over.
Time needed to fix that alignment is impossible to estimate, and also impossible to prove you have done sufficiently.
> Should you trust someone's advice, when you can't pinpoint their motivation? As a Ph.D. student, I run into this problem around three to five times a week, when interacting with colleagues or my advisor.

Maybe this should be named "The greedy thesis advisor problem"?
It’s also CYA among politicians, and the comforting illusion that you’re doing something. Same part of human nature that leads people to wear lucky charms to ward off evil spirits.
will some of these work for (compressed) variants of audio? They're never same..
Always Sanitary Pads: Exploring the Social Norms of Attachment
getting approval for a brand new drug intended for millions of people and you don't think its important to read all submitted data? reminds me of Nancy Pelosi "we have to pass the bill so you can find out what's in it"
Get Back used AI to remove guitars and uncover The Beatles hidden studio chatter
Wouldn’t you need to be always connected in order to get an alert for something that can happen at any time?

Also. This is mostly PR for Apple. If someone puts any other tracker on me. I’ll never be notified.
Because the law should not be targeting a specific company. If the government wants to make tracking illegal, then make tracking illegal.
Santo Grial in Spanish, I suspect neural machine translate would have translated their press release into more idiomatic English.
I am doing the odd contracting job for a company that deploys and manages edX for clients. It's not fun. Bloated and outdated..
> Doesn’t it also beep?

How hard is it to snip the speaker leads, or damage the speaker in some other way so that it produces no sound?
Rabia: Simplifying State-Machine Replication Through Randomization
One cool use I saw of it was in the instruction decoder for bochs. Duffs device is really nice for decoding instruction sets that are not necessarily regular in size (such as x86).
And MethaLox is just very hot soda water. :)
Okay going into it more:

An NFT can store on-chain metadata. A simple boolean flag would let you mark it as resellable or not. In minting the tickets you can create a validator that checks authenticity but you can check these things yourself: that it originates from the organization for example. The metadata is immutable so if it's come from the organization it's authentic. Because NFTs are tokens are money you can transfer USDC for BackstreetBoysGig#Ticket1021 where O2ArenaTicketVerifier authenticates the ticket as part of the transaction only confirming it if the ticket is resellable and authentic.

How does a company know their tickets have been resold, if they don't want that to happen? Well you look at the tx history of the NFT - if it's been traded > 1 time it's been resold.

Compare these potential benefits with the existing ticket industry (including resale sites) and you see several benefits. You can remove intermediary companies meaning people pay less in fees and you can avoid ticket fraud. Is this an issue? Yes: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/feb/24/touts-who-made...
I hope you get all the required boosters.
It sounds like that Android app is only going to be useful to detect being tracked yourself, but not allow Android users to track their own tags?

Hah. Imagine the reaction in this community if the parties were reversed: Google released a creepy device that can track an individual's location, and iPhone users had to install and continuously run a Google app just to defend themselves.
Maybe, but that can be kinda hard to hear ifmounted outside your car.
Konsole does.
Fair, but there may have been security reasons for not recording something like this (if the swordsman theory is true), you wouldnt want enemy castles to be built as well, so you might not write down any defensive design strategies in an effort to horde your knowledge.
Regarding your comment that:

> consistently 80+% of voters 'bullet vote', or simply select one candidate

St. Louis's election with Approval Voting in March 2021 seems to dispel that. In a Mayoral race with 4 candidates, voters approved an average of 1.56 candidates (https://stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/board-election...).

Voters understood and used the system, and they didn't bullet vote. 1.56 is a ton of additional expression.

As I wrote in https://twitter.com/SeattleApproves/status/14589200428425748..., with 15 Mayoral candidates in 2021, Seattle's average may be much higher. It's quite possibly the average will be above 2.
This is an awesome project! There have been others who have made their own computers using as far as a 486 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26407783 ) but making it IBM PC compatible really takes it to the next level. The only thing that would make it more amazing is if he didn't use existing chipsets and implemented all the glue logic on an FPGA (like the aforementioned 486 board) or discrete TTL.

The Pentium was when Intel started to get too secretive, I think; there's relatively little of the low-level information that's needed to create hardware like this compared to previous CPUs. I believe modern PC designs are all entirely based on a reference design from Intel so if you could get access to one, it would be possible to make your own motherboard, but signal integrity and such are going to make the PCB layout much more difficult. That said, there are plenty of laptop schematics out there... and (although a group effort) some Chinese managed to make a custom motherboard replacement for a Thinkpad: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15274644
As far as I'm aware, the construction industry uses different formulas for calculating how long typical classes of work will take to accomplish. They can plug the square footage of some task into a spreadsheet and have a reasonable estimate for building time.
Hello and thank you very much for your article.

Do you have any feedback on the use of BBB on Gandi VPS following this project?
I work with utility companies on multi year migration projects to move their entire tech stack. This includes, a different database, different data schema across thousands of tables, new front end components, desktop and mobile applications, multiple third party integrations and the training and documentation for the whole thing.

The utilities are heavily regulated, often beholden to taxpayers, lawmakers and public utility boards and working on use it or lose it budgets with hard cutoff times for delivery and go-live dates.

It's not just budgets and time constraints that make it impossible to do flexible estimates. Their internal personnel all have their regular work duties to attend to while supporting the migration and they can't drop everything for years at a time to dedicate support for the project. Add in the coordination with multiple vendors and you need to be hitting your time estimates, planned years in advance, within a week. Sometimes budgets don't matter that much, once they are a year into a three year project, they will find the money if it's needed, but the coordination alone requires this kind of accuracy.

It's amazing what necessity does to your estimates. We have become really good at it. This includes things like "Oh we're working with Oracle, add 3 weeks to that integration just because" or "this is a mobile app for the service techs who tend to be resistant to change, add another week for training and a month for revisions". Yes this is just "padding" but it's very specific padding that's tailored to the type of work being done and has so far been accurate and continually getting better for us.

edit: I should add that our estimation process involves multiple week long workshops with all parties. We go over every tool, process, integration and technology currently in use and then write a detailed design document that goes through 2 rounds of review with the customer before being signed off on. These design documents become the basis for a secondary contract to do the actual work and the customer understands that if it's not in the document, it's not getting built or migrated. Any additions require a contract change order.
Does it do any architecture-specific processing, i.e. BCJ filter? Or is there a generic version of this? The performance seems quite good.
If the Constitution sold for $42M in the end but this DAO raised $47M, why didn't they win the auction? I am confused honestly.
> Gradual/optional static typing are not new ideias. It’s just that they are fashionable now.

I'd add that Common Lisp has had optional type hints (as both documentation and performance improvement) for getting close to 40 years now.
What even is there to configure? An IPv6-capable SOHO router ships with a “forward only related, established” config by default, to put it in IPTables terms. Most of the time, you won’t even have the option to disable this entirely.

There is nothing to test either because this is exactly how SOHO routers have been working for decades.
There's no combustion requirement for a reaction drive ;-)
If you add 9 known not-very-good sources of randomness, it's still better than adding no sources of randomness.

Now if your 9 bad sources are 100% predictable, then yes, there's no point in adding them.
I quite like https://console.dev/latest/
It is curated list of tools mainly for software developers.
I also use bup for a long time, but found that for very large server backups I'm hitting performance problems (both in time and memory usage).

I'm currently evaluating `bupstash` (also written in Rust) as a replacment. It's faster and uses a lot less memory, but is younger and thus lacks some features.

Here is somebody's benchmark of bupstas (unfortunately not including `bup`): https://acha.ninja/blog/encrypted_backup_shootout/

The `bupstash` author is super responsive on Gitter/Matrix, it may make sense to join there to discuss approaches/findings together.

I would really like to eventually have deduplication-as-a-library, to make it easier to put into programs like nix, or also other programs, e.g. for versioned "Save" functionality in software like Blender or Meshlab that work with huge files and for which diff-based incremental saving is more difficult/fragile to implement than deduplcating snapshot based saving.
(Disclosure: I work for Arm, opinions are my own)

Author here. elfshaker itself does not have a dependency on any architecture to our knowledge. We support the architectures we have use of. Contributions to add missing support are welcome.

manyclangs provides binary pack files for aarch64 because that's what we have immediate use of. If elfshaker and manyclangs proves useful to people, I would love to see resource invested to make it more widely useful.

You can still run the manyclangs binaries on other architectures using qemu [0], with some performance cost, which may be tolerable depending on your use case.

[0] https://github.com/elfshaker/manyclangs/tree/main/docker-qem...
You wouldn't. He is just talking about a worst case scenario. He's is saying that as long as one of your sources of randomness is "truly" random you are fine.l
Marriott refused to host Uyghur conference, citing “political neutrality”
Do you have any examples of when this actually happened (a fight "continued, to protect the nobles, once the enemy got through the walls")? What I find most interesting is applying Occam's razor, it's almost certainly not a defense mechanism, yet we have dozens of HN folks defending it, and I'm not sure why? If there was at least one documented account of where this was an effective defense, then maybe there's something there.
FDA authorizes Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid vaccine boosters for all adults
Nice, installed it right away.
It's a difficult metric, that one. In part because I get the impression that high-specificity tech like Elixir and to a certain degree Clojure attract people who, once they're in the job, _never leave_, and their productivity is high enough (if you believe the marketing) that you just don't need to grow a team as hard and as fast as you would on a more "popular" stack to get equivalent outcomes.

If all that's true, it's a natural consequence that better tools will have fewer job postings: you need fewer people to get the job done, and the ones you've got have really good retention. However, so will tools on the other side of the bell curve: nobody in their right mind wants to go there, either on the supply or demand side. So all popularity really tells you is where the enterprise hype machine was, five, ten, fifteen years ago such that "nobody got fired for choosing X" and "learn X! It's got a lot of job postings!" still align.

But the enterprise hype machine is optimised for tools that have a very specific set of surface criteria: enormous libraries so you're not inventing anything, rock-solid vendor support so there are people being paid to evangelise it into orgs (or, like JS, are ubiquitous anyway, but I think that particular lightning only strikes once), and "easy to learn" ergonomics such that developers asymptote towards replaceable cogs in both quality and quantity.

"Well respected but obscure" describes a certain sort of success, by that reasoning. It just needs enough of a community to stay alive, and that's a bit more of a toss-up. Ruby haemorrhaged people in the Rails 4-5-6 cycle as people jumped ship to node, but Rails 7 and Ruby 3 are looking extremely tasty despite that, and I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a bit of a resurgence in popularity over the next couple of years outside big enterprises.

Most of the people I interview have got into tech after Rails 3 was released, and generally aren't aware of why the Rails/Phoenix/Django concept was such a breath of fresh air. I think what you'll see is that the reason Phoenix and Elixir have a "next big thing" isn't technical factors at all. It'll be a rediscovery by the new generation when someone unexpected goes unicorn and the story is "it was all down to Phoenix", even when the real factors were elsewhere.
Chomsky: Ending Climate Change “Has to Come from Mass Popular Action,” Not Pols
It would seem best for Apple, Google, et al to collaborate on universal tracking detectors, similar to universal hidden camera detectors: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AFjGQNaqmXA

* edit - It appears that may be in the works: https://gizmodo.com/apple-lets-you-scan-for-evil-airtags-tha...
Sigh, read it and abandoned it. The true price is never discussed. He who feeds the data dragon, supplies a Interface for Social engineering on a unprecedented scale.

Facebook or Google could cook subtle social control schemes up in a cognitive blindspot and we could not even observe or discuss them, because they would seem natural to us. Like a synthetic religion and cults, just replacing the old religions & communitys, easily accessible for manipulation via the social networks.
Everywhere not the US & allies
I agree, but the worse of Node IMO it's installing thousands of packages and MB just for doing a small thing, it's madness, every time I have to install NPM in a new computer I feel like I'm poisoning it.
Moodle Is Great! It's Open Source! If you need more functionality, just add a plugin.

WAIT. HIT THE BRAKES RIGHT THERE.

Yes. It's open source. But that isn't helping anything. When you find a plugin that does The Thing You Need, you find that it's for a version of Moodle that's several years old and was written by one guy who hasn't touched it since 2014.

There are some plugins that are great and up to date. They are not Open Source. They cost real dollars and aren't terrible.

But if you want Moodle because it's FOSS, then your motivation is wrong.
This is very different from the Greedy Doctor problem.

Why? Because, generally speaking, the answer to this question is "it doesn't matter". A student will never get a job in academia without their thesis advisor's good word.

If a student is ready to leave and their thesis advisor isn't ready to let them go, their best option -- assuming they have at least a few publications (for CS) -- is to find an industry job and say "Sorry, my hands are tied on the start date and I need a better paying job for personal reasons. I really wish I could write a better thesis but I think there's enough work here at least to graduate."

(BTW: industry is much better than academia. The work is more interesting, the teaching/mentoring is more rewarding, and you'll make enough to retire in your 40s instead of desperately clinging to a job in the increasingly MBA-ified Higher Education Industry until your 80s. The "Academic Life" sucks pre-tenure anyways. If what you want is the so-called comfortable and care-free Full Professor days, just get financial independence in industry first and then go be a professor of practice or even ad junct somewhere for the healthcare and vacation money... which, aside from pay, are both actually low effort and care free!)
Fees, funds reserved for transportion, safety, storage, etc. You can't just buy an original copy of the US Constitution, stick it in your carry-on, and drop it off at the local museum.

From their Discord announcement:

> @everyone Lots of questions coming up about why we stopped the bidding where we did. The proper care and maintenance of the Constitution requires a reserve that is needed to insure, store, and transport the document, and we calculated the absolute max we could go to while still meeting these requirements. The opposing bidder passed that max, and we were unable to go any higher while still ensuring that we could properly care for the document. Additionally Sotheby's takes a cut of every auction sale with their fees, and this amount had to be accounted for as well.
I’m glad they added the counter measures, but I largely think the concerns around AirTags are ignoring that hiding a tracker on a vehicle is not in any way a new novel concept. It’s trivial to buy a device to do this and hide it on a car, and they are purposefully designed to not be found. AirTags are probably one of the worst ways to accomplish this type of illicit behaviour
Tech journalism is less diverse than tech (2020)
This game has eaten quite a few hours of my time. I recommend it if you like SimCity, but with a different flavor.
Spin Launch for cargo. Can’t imagine being a passenger
What about people who don’t have smartphones or people with old smart phone OSes like Symbian? Doesn’t seem feasible to maintain a dozen apps like WhatsApp used to have. Maybe still has? Across many platforms.
there is an elixir client library, it was timing out a lot yesterday.
Next week's news story:

Individuals behind bid to buy Constitution copy have disappeared, and the money is gone.
You might be interested in my answer in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29266519#29277580

I give an example from this year's Seattle primaries where RCV/IRV would have eliminated the candidate that most accurately reflects the electorate but Approval Voting would not have. That's not a trivial or rare situation, either, it's just such a simple race that it's easy to spot.
I think I may have experienced this...
Intel did that with the Quark core. (Get the datasheet and compare with the 486 one. Some of the diagrams are identical, and I recall seeing one of the search/replace they did resulted in "QuarkDX" showing up.)
Imagine paying $10 to send money in 2021. Crypto is a joke.
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I agree with your thoughts on FB groups. They are also even more prone to repost spam and unintentional circlejerking than Reddit because the half-life of visibility of each post is even shorter and both have non-functional search buttons. While Reddit posts get hard-locked after six months, FB posts simply disappear into the datacenter.
Thank you, I’m glad to hear that! With privacy-first I mean that I don’t collect any data other than what’s needed for the service to function, as well as keeping the site completely free from any ads or tracking scripts :)
Was it a sealed bid auction or something? If it was open bid auction, then knowing the hard cap isn't really an impediment to them winning the bid. If there was someone who had more money than them, they'll still lose, and if there wasn't someone with more money, they'll still win. The worse that could happen is them paying more than they needed to, by the seller pumping up the price with shill bids.
Wouldn’t this logic extend? So a person who wants to track you because they heard about this has a good chance of hearing of the beeping and alerts. So then they get a different tracker that doesn’t alert you.
Yup, we're using documents and lots of training time with trainers.
"The ends don't justify the means" is an opinion that varies based on the ends, the means, and the person making the opinion.

It's certainly not a substantive, much less convincing, argument in defense of this blog post's discrediting of science and dehumanization of scientists.

Do you believe the ends of making their point justify such means?