skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am aware it is. My comment is about app stores not being an integral part of an operating system. Or, at least, they didn’t use to be.

OTOH, Linux has had package management for decades.
Being a personal blog isn’t really relevant here, and yes people should know the law, and now they do.

Stifling free speech is ridiculous hyperbole - no one was silenced by this. At worst people needlessly wasted time consulting a lawyer.
> For context, police have made arrests in just 8.8% of commercial burglary cases this year.

Isn’t this a data point for more/better policing? I get that they’re using it to push back on the “nobody prosecutes” messaging, but it feels like it cuts into their core argument.
Agreed, very much a user tool -- once it's released most people will get it via brew/yum/apt/conda/chocolatey and compile time will not be relevant for most folks.

Miller has always been a user tool and will remain so.

I think the confusion arose because I did the port per se and feature-adds first (which has taken most of the time), and left analysis/optimization (even low-hanging fruit like output-buffering) until the very end -- https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/786 for example merged just a couple days ago.
Seems very much needed. Direct access to production databases with current tools is clearly not safe.
If you accept the evidence that Omicron is a weaker variant (eg. the low hospitalization numbers in the UK despite the surge in cases), then our strategy of partially vaccinating the 3rd world was a success.

Omicron seems to be at the same level of deadliness now as the flu, so this whole pandemic is being maintained now purely by political and media energy, rather than any scientific justification.
hey timr, i really appreciate your level-headed critiques (in the positive sense) of covid research despite the continued negativity you're receiving. few folks have been able to ignore the fearmongering and dig more deeply into the turbulent and harried research to tease out where we're really at in terms of understanding and uncertainty. just wanted to go beyond the anonymous upvote to show some appreciation and support.
Is a judge crossing ethical boundaries when they have their clerks research into technical, medical, historical, policy and scientific matters, or even case law from another nation? I believe this happens all the time.

Aren't judges also free to consider or disregard information from friends of the court?
I didn't want to claim that you should use C libraries when you don't have to. But I knew the article, and it underestimates the value of being able to use libraries which are already there. Rewriting them is often not practical or even possible.
Initial Tailwind support in Phoenix
Lead acid batteries in that form factor were the staple for many UPS systems, and the thing most people didn't really appreciate was how expensive they were to maintain. If you didn't do regular maintenance, you'd find out that one of the cells in one of the batts was dead causing the whole thing to be unable to deliver power at precisely the worst time. Financially strapped companies cut maintenance contracts at the first sign of trouble.

Edit to add: I was at a place that took over a company that had one of these. With all of the dead batteries, it was just a really really large inverter taking the 3-phase AC to DC back to AC with a really nice and clean sine wave.
Please edit swipes out of your posts here. Your comment would be fine without that last bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So, basically, a reverse discrimination against people who know what's going on?

The same thing happens with corporate VPNs. I guess it only makes sense that Apartment.com doesn't want your business if you're making a bank at one of the larger companies who are big enough to require a VPN service!
That's where we find how technically incompetent ICAO is I suppose?

Something that has been a decade in the making, they haven't been able to conduct basic tests on. I'm a lay person, but can easily think of basic tests that would help resolve this question.

"On a large aircraft two or three altimeter systems are employed and these systems could utilize a frequency offset of 5 MHz to 10 MHz."

Something is rotten with the regulators.
I don’t understand the complaint. Steam is available and Apple clearly is playing ball with them, so what’s wrong? Is that the Windows API translation layer isn’t done?
Flash cards, in the sense of-- things that show you questions you're trying to memorize/learn the answers to. Not like, cards with flash memory on them.

The person uses their phone for contained things that are not likely to cause a faux-social-reward-cycle.
The difference in response from the US to hacking of their diplomat phones compared to the response in Germany to the US listening on calls from Merkel and others is really telling. It makes you question how independent European countries really are from the US.
Did you miss the word 'primarily'? That's the most important thing in what I posted above. These links explain why:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

As for ideological battle generally—the site guidelines make a distinction between that and curious conversation, which is what we want here. Not only are they not the same, they're not compatible—for the same reason that having a tank battle and playing frisbee in the park are not compatible, or that boxing and dancing aren't.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Many topics here have ideological and political overlap—. That's generally ok, as long as there's a basis for substantive discussion (pure flamebait articles, for example, are off topic).

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

But the question is how people go about talking about them. If they're just trying to smite enemies and using the usual weapons (snark, name-calling, etc.) to do it, that's clearly against the site guidelines and not what we want here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There will be if you make one.
I would appreciate this baby box even as a parent fortunate enough to afford the material goods it contains. A large part of its value lies in the time and effort saved and the psychological comfort in knowing I haven’t forgotten anything essential.
The EFF has raised this issue repeatedly (that stringent requirements on content filtering will be an advantage to the large players who can afford to do it).
Why do metal detectors need any form of remote connectivity? Aren't they simple enough that everything should be possible just with buttons on the device?
In the sense that they take almost an entire screen, yet do not convey information comparable to an entire screen's worth of text.

The hex of these types of graphics is that they don't actually say a lot at all beyond "one thing is slightly bigger than the other", or "the thing is a bit faster now".

There are things that are easier to convey with a picture than with words (like the how much bigger the sun is compared to the earth, "really really big" doesn't quite cut it), but this is not such a case.
That's the problem though -- it will skew the data towards friendly and helpful people like yourself. But it doesn't capture reality.

To be honest, I don't know how you get this sort of analysis done without poisoning the intent and maintaining integrity.
I'm the English guy that about 1 in 50 of those people will walk up to afterwards. "Excuse me, but where are you from in England? I find your accent very easy to understand." (I'm told this around once per business trip.)

It's mostly my accent (or lack of accent, if you wish to think of it that way), but I'm also used to speaking to non-natives, so avoiding idioms and slang.

In the last 2 years, I've sometimes told other natives in Zoom calls to slow down, speak more clearly etc — if I have trouble understanding, non-natives probably have more trouble, but can be more reluctant to admit it.
How would I know "if the owners gave validity to this collection later"
Sure, I am not a libertarian or anything like that.

I'm all for good regulation and strong government. However, making good laws and regulations is not easy! The details of these things is incredibly important and can't be solved by some sort of generic market vs government debate.

And while I do think government has a role to play, most of our regulations are poorly designed and have been captured by corporate interests.

I don't see how the proposed rule could be implemented in a way that would have the desired outcome.
I would disagree with this. You don't have to be that attractive. Average will do fine. Just make them laugh. I am from Europe and Tinder works pretty good (at least for me) and I am just an ordinary dude.

Also, don't stop just with Tinder. Use Bumble, happn, OkCupid, Badoo. I've got dates from all of these.
Other subjects generally have a well-defined “100% score” and time limit, and assume some basic range of ability (and people outside this ability range are treated differently). It’s not like math tests are usually graded on how fast you could complete the test.

Of course, you could establish a similar grading schemes for physical education, but that would essentially look like grading based on effort and participation.
Multiple questions for aerospace folks here:

Why are designs with multiple wings no longer developed, not just bi/tri wing planes with wings stacked, but why aren’t their rows of smaller wings, or multiple wings? Do the vortices of the trail of a leading wing fuck up themlift potential on wings behind it?

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We simple golf balls for greater distance through the air, and Wales see an advantage to the barnacles that grow on the leading edge of their flippers which have shown to create eddys behind the tail edge of the flipper which aids in greater vortices and greater propulsion..

Why don’t we dimple wing surfaces? Or plane bodies?

Or helicopter blades?

What happens when we simulate the leading edge barnacle bumps on the leading edge of a wing, or more aptly, the leading edge of a blade on a helicopter?

What software is used to model the airflow over a wings surface, such as solid works…

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How much overlap is there between fluid hydro and aero dynamics? (Specifically the observation of the impact to flow/eddy creation over a surface?)
Heroku is closing accounts with Indian Credit Cards
At TeachEdison, We rely on Heroku for all our backend services and been using for the last 24 months. Today, we received the following email about termination of services to Indian Customers who are using Credit Cards issued by Indian Banks.
"Effective December 15, 2021, Heroku is no longer accepting credit cards issued from India banks. Customers who are unable to utilize a different credit card will have until end of January 2022 to download their data, at which point their account will be suspended and then deleted. Enterprise India-based customers are not impacted. All paid services consumed prior to this time will be credited and existing credit cards will be removed from the account."
Ask HN: What is your ideal working arrangment?
As many firms with physical offices begin to implement return to office plans, what is your ideal working arrangement? Several of us have gotten their first experience the past two years as a remote employee. What would your ideal working arrangement be? Are you planning to go back to the office in a hybrid or full-time setting in the future?
“Facing a possible scandal” from my quote you replied to. The battery warranty I quoted is public information and documented. The scandal may be nothing, but the subpar battery storage engineering is evident from the warranty terms.

Regardless, upvoted for transparency.
> As you say, some will benefit from autonomy more than others...

I think that actually sugar-coats a truly cruel approach. It's not "some benefit more than others," it's "some benefit while others suffer."

Pushing the autonomy slider to its limit is just breaking governance and letting the strong rule. Maximum freedom is nature red in tooth and claw. We build heteronomous structures to escape that chaos.

Of course, pushing the slider all the way towards heteronomy is also terrible. But given these two thought experiments, I fail to see how one passes moral judgement on someone who likes the slider tweaked a bit further towards either extreme than I do... "Moral judgment," to my mind, implies an absolute virtue that is absent from the equation. It's a struggle for balance, not for supremacy.
history: created in 2002, actively developed until 2008

So it's old and dead? What's the point in posting this on HN?
We had this too. It somewhat frustrated me to be able to understand the theory and apply it but not being "good" enough in the eyes of the PE teacher. Excellent grades in other subjects though, just didn't see the fun in running after a ball or the worth of investing time and effort at being faster or better at it. College change that. PE was stil mandatory in the cursus but was more oriented towards a healthy lifestyle. Benefits of physical activity, research on muscle development and training methods, what consists of a healthy diet, how to enjoy physical activities and include them in your schedule etc.

Oh and in primary school, teachers would go in the teachers lounge to smoke while they were given a break by us being in PE.
You should never, ever keep a positive balance in PayPal. They love freezing accounts with big positive balances, because they basically keep all the money indefinitely when they do that. Any time you receive money with it, immediately transfer it to your real bank, one with a branch you can show up at in person if necessary.
Except that’s not a real solution at all, is it?

Whitelisting orgs would either be an opt-in or opt-out feature. If it’s opt-in, it won’t prevent 99.999% of spam because nobody will set it up. If it’s opt-out, it will break sharing for 99.999% of users.

These are never easy problems.
I'll barge in and say that there's this meme in business schools that: "what gets measured, gets done."

They're mostly there to serve as the source of truth, whether or not a specific manager is getting a bonus (and by how much).

Generally, the best metrics are "based in reality" (and usually revolve around inflow and outflow of money) -- but those are hard to fudge, without playing accounting games, and even harder to meet (it takes actual skill, rather than being able to pass the buck endlessly for a couple of years, before moving onto another org); so you may find it common for the managerial horde to pick "bullshit metrics" to cover their own asses (doubly so, if the metrics are decided by committee).

There's no reason for practical metrics to exist in most large corporations -- the incentives just aren't aligned. Bonuses are decided by metrics (and anyone who has a modicum of intuition, will always pick the metric that can be most gamed for himself, and his underlings). Also, if we're being real with ourselves, there's very little that managers "control," so picking a "real" metric would just breed an environment that selects for luck (or lies).

In my opinion, the only useful metric is profit generated. Everything else is just an emotional safety blanket for uncertainty.
Yes, I was saying Tinder is full of straight up prostitution and people seeking sugar daddies who ge offended if you call it out as prostitution. I have nothing against prostitution (and I'm in the UK where it is legal), but I do find it really annoying when dating apps don't do more to keep it off their apps.

Often patterns of fake profiles that were immediately obvious to me as a user took months for them to block.
When HDTV became a thing. Mid-late 90s?
> Why do folks host their stuff in us-East?

Off the top of my head, US-EAST-1 is:

(1) topologically closer to certain customers than other regions (this applies to all regions for different customers),

(2) consistently in the first set of regions to get new features,

(3) usually in the lowest price tier for features whose pricing varies by region,

(4) where certain global (notionally region agnostic) services are effectively hosted and certain interactions with them in region-specific services need to be done.

#4 is a unique feature of US-East-1, #2-#3 are factors in region selection that can also favor other regions, e.g., for users in the West US, US-West-2 beats US-West-1 on them, and is why some users topologically closer to US-West-1 favor US-West-2.
If they aren't an EU website, GDPR effectively doesn't apply. EU can word the law however they want but at least in the US without a treaty to enforce such a law, it lacks the force of law here. Europeans have an extremely hard time understanding this and I'm not quite sure why. I see this assertion again and again across the web.
> disconnect all long-lived TCP sockets in an availability zone in unison

I don't know what this means, but it sounds ridiculous. This would cause havoc with any sort of persistent tunnel or stateful connection, such as most database clients. Do you perhaps mean this just happens at ingress? That is much more believable and not as big of a deal.

> office networks of large customers would do the same thing.

Sounds like a personal problem. In all seriousness, your clients should handly any sort of network disconnect gracefully. It's foolish to assume TCP connections are durable, or to assume that you won't be hit by a thundering herd.

Maybe I'm old fashioned but TCP hasn't changed much over the years, none of these problems are novel to me, it's well-trodden ground and there are many simple techniques to building durable clients.

Also, all of the things you mention also affect plain old HTTP, especially HTTP2. There shouldn't be a significant difference in how you treat them, other than the fact you cannot assume they're all short lived connections.
Harder to hide tax avoidance if everyone knows the ballpark of what you make. If you buy a new car each year but pay nothing in taxes, it's immediately obvious.

It can help lessen pay gaps. Between genders or other groups. Removes the power from the employers when you know what you should make.

Makes it easy to see if someone is making loads of money while underpaying their employees.
There's a custom FPGA mod that allows you use to a usb drive to load games. I've been meaning to get around to that since eventually the GDROM drive fails. I just loved playing Dreamcast with friends.

* Dynamite Cop

* Unreal Tournament

* NBA2k2

* Army Men
US Army close to developing vaccine against all Covid variants and coronaviruses
With respect, it just doesn't matter whether you think the researchers were doing a service or not. What I mean is, the researchers are (depending on jurisdiction and funding source) bound to abide by certain standards when doing human subjects research, and informed consent for participation is one of those standards. Even if receiving the email was 100% beneficial to everybody, and had no risks at all, the participants would still need to been told about those benefits before participating. They get to make the choice to participate or not. The IRB process exists to make sure those practices are followed in every case, to take the personal opinion of a researcher out of it. These standards were developed in response to researchers who did very harmful things to subjects without their consent, in many cases because they thought it was for the greater good.
You don’t have to design a new protocol. There is an open protocol which works nice for this use case. It can handle dropping connections, has a nice routing mechanism, it scales pretty well, has different QoS levels, pub/sub, request/response. That protocol is... MQTT v5!

Personally I’m surprised it is not used more often by web devs.
Yep, was confused for a minute -- all the Beowulf cluster hype I remember was around the PS3. Sony even got sued for later removing the ability to put Linux on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS
Ask HN: SDR that's a step above the RTL2832U?
So I've been getting into SDR and really enjoying it. My biggest problem so far is trying to rig up some sort of accessible waterfall display to help me find interesting signals since I'm blind and the typical software is deeply inaccessible. I think I've managed something using the rtl_power program and a Python script but that's a discussion for another day.

What is the best hardware to purchase that's a step above the RTL2832U USB stick which should have both greater bandwidth and transmit capabilities for under $500?

So far I have seen the HackRF One, but according to my research this is built on a fairly ancient DSP platform and there's more modern stuff out there.

I'd prefer SoapySDR compatibility as that seems to be slowly becoming the standard library for accessing SDR hardware.

I'm not averse to ordering from aliexpress.

I'm actively working towards my amateur radio license and would love to be able to use my computer for both sending and receiving interesting digital signals and also chatting with the old farts using FM voice.

Thank you for your suggestions.
I have a Raspberry Pi running Wireguard that's pretty reliable - but it's really just running Wireguard.
The investigation to justify the introduction of the Cut function was an interesting read. Really solid numbers on those data to show that the function, while redundant with other functionality provided, is an extremely common operation and worth special casing.
they should be really two views of the same thing?
It's the cheapest.
I believe that Porsche SE are a holding company that own a majority share of VW Group who then own the Porsche company that makes cars - it is probably the latter who are making this fuel.
Ask HN: What are your book recommendations on drawing or animation software?
You're probably using an unreliable power supply. Use something official, and put any USB peripherals on a separately powered hub.
Are you aware of any online courses that teach these things?
What would it mean to break up Tinder? How do you partition a company that only has one product?
Imagine if a company had this business idea: If you get married to someone we introduce to you, you pay us 10000 USD. Else you pay us nothing. Would not that raise the bar?
Sorry, but you really gotta lose this attitude man.
Show HN: Options Trading with NFTs on Solana
Inverted totalitarianism symptoms may include shutting an individual out of a large portion of their life for no real reason, for a misunderstanding, or for daring to challenge corporate power. Often this occurs with minimal or no human intervention, and lack of due process becomes normalized. Welcome to Dystopian Hell, population: everyone not digitally cancelled.
I enjoyed reading this because it reminded me of a moment of hubris as junior developer. I was working with a complicated data structure I wanted to visualize, so I decided to write some quick code to basically read the data structure and output a graph as rectangles and lines connecting them.

I was chastened by the complexity of just drawing the lines between boxes so that they didn't overlap (as much as possible) and were drawn on facing sides (one of the later problems discussed in the article). I don't recall how I did it, but I do remember a sudden refresher on matrix multiplication.

It drove home how simple things can be more complicated than you might expect.

EDIT: also, I appreciated the way the article was written. No cruft.
Did you read my last line? I did not suggest they do so now, but I do genuinely wonder how long until they do. It's a big issue that they have been allowed to control this market the way they do. It's somewhat tolerable today because they've avoided taking steps to call nsolidate them
. But also only for that reason.