skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ubiquitous sensors would be a great thing for owners of large parcels of property ... such as farmers and ranchers.

But maybe not such a good thing for civil liberties.

I love how Vinge explores these issues in his books. He's really underrated. When The Expanse was announced, I was excited ... but a bit disappointed that that series made it to the screen as the first hard sci-fi book across the line, before Vinge's work.
At this point it's very difficult to take that kind of comment seriously. The actions of the mainstream libertarian movement has fallen in line with conservatives and been co-opted so consistently by the worst reactionaries in the conservative movement that, regardless of philosophical underpinnings, it's a distinction without a difference.
[meta] questions like this are a great antidote to the survivorship bias that plagues entrepreneurships. Lots of great insights, but also just great to hear about all those ventures that didn't succeed.
Incredible.

Most people I know? It is almost a daily occurrence. Including if senders are in address books, and "not spam" is clicked when found in the spam folder.

Most people I know see legit emails in the spam folder, all the time.
Independent is very different from second order.

And, yes I know interest on loans increased substantially but that has nothing to do with the new saving product and everything to do with the meltdown in the lira that preceded.

Edit: And in any case why would banks raise loan rates if they don't have to bear the cost of the new product?
> Why can't it unfold etc in Earth orbit, where a repair mission can be sent if needed, and then travel to its Lagrange point?

Another comment mentioned that it's not designed to accelerate while it's fully deployed, and that's true enough. You'd wreck it.

The other essential thing is that there's no way to give it and its instruments anything like their designed operating parameters (pretty hot on one side of the sunshade, something like 40 kelvin on the other side) in Earth orbit.
"The renewed push adds choices for employees who may not be able to do deliveries, a spokeswoman said. Besides WeSupport, which will allow employees to shadow customer-service workers, the company will also eventually offer WeMerchant, a way for employees to take a closer look at the merchant-support side of DoorDash’s business."
Can I ask where the capital came from? Did you all pool together to fund it? It's a lot of dedication for something that sadly didn't ship.
I don't see how your paid service is any different from Google beyond interface and lack of ability to use it for free/no signup to compare.

Or I can use duckduckgo without needing to sign up and get your promised security with 1-2 second searches for free. Maybe you'll have enough takers to get off the ground but I'll rely on other tools.
That sounds like a good reason to re-think ouf current medical and insurance industry, not a good reason to throw grandma to the wolves.

Otherwise, the inevitable end of this logic is folks committing plausibly deniable suicide to get an insurance payout.
> Concentrate on learning words, not on grammar

I have to disagree with this. If you focus on just learning words in a target language, you just become a foreign language dictionary. Knowing how to say "train station" in Spanish doesn't help when you can't use it properly in a sentence.

I think Michel Thomas has a fairly succinct take on the topic: “If you know how to handle verbs you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary”. Although he is a somewhat controversial figure in regards to claimed past achievements, his system for language learning works well. Don't worry about amassing large amounts of vocabulary at the outset, just use words like "it" (Where is it / What is it / I can do it). You can swap out "it" for any other noun you learn later on.
The modern way to use this is through Overleaf. It is just a breeze. I had to create a new Beamer presentation from old material, and in a few minutes I was able to select a good looking theme, import my material, and add pictures to the slides. No need to bother setting up a LaTeX environment or dealing with error messages directly.
Cuttlefish-Like Robots Are Far More Efficient Than Propeller-Powered Machines
No, lots of people do actually think that, but we believe that three main methods can be employed to mitigate this:

1. aggressive triage based on chances and QALY remaining

2. increased healthcare funding

3. voluntary isolation of individuals who see lockdown as being preferable to their personal coronavirus risk

Will it result in more deaths than February 2020? Sure. But we don't have that choice because sars2 exists now.

We think it's better to ration healthcare and therefore doom an unlucky minority, versus rationing life itself for everyone (via lockdowns and restrictions) and slow killing everyone.

As far as I can tell, most of the lockdown debate centres around an erroneous idea that we can just do X, Y, Z, and then immunosuppressed Harriet can rejoin the world and avoid contracting coronavirus.

But she just can't. Even the original strain would have eventually infected her with high probability unless we continued to cycle lockdowns or she voluntarily isolated.
I have experienced a few earthquakes, big and small.

In one of the smaller but not trivial ones, at night, I was sleeping, woke up due to the vibrations, looked out of the window, and saw the ground shaking.
Went out of my house to check, and yes, it was.
For space walk accessibility maybe they should have docked it to the ISS for initial setup before then boosting it to its final point?
The one in the title post.
Good military grade clothing - someone designed them to be robust, well fitting and usable. It's like good software:

* HAIX P3 Shoes - best shoes I ever had.

* UFPro P40 Pants

* Eberlestock F3F FAC
$100M is 1% of what JWST cost.

Looks like a reasonable repair cost (and only if) it turns out to be broken.
Just wanted to thank you for this comment. I have very broad shoulders but have been hacking on Apple keyboards for a few years now - the results are that I have essentially permanent internal rotation of my shoulders. This has led to not being able to breathe properly with my diaphragm, which causes all kinds of issues!

I missed the pre-order, but I grabbed a Logitech ergo kb from the local Microcenter a few days ago and already the changes have been substantial! Of course I am also focusing consciously on the breath, using my diaphragm not my stomach or clavicles. Thanks again! I never considered it until I read your comment.
I've learned two languages other than my native language (English), and use both actively. I'm probably categorized as a "language nerd" because I wasn't required to learn either. But I do agree with almost everything in this article, especially that kids aren't any better at learning languages than adults. I will say that one of the biggest keys for me in learning a new language is to start using it as soon as possible, and to do as much as I can in the target language. I think most languages could be learned in this way with very few formal classes. In essence, you trick your brain into thinking that the language is necessary, even though the reality might be that you could get by without it, and your brain will just start picking things up seemimgly through osmosis.
Presumably every language that can visibly take advantage of the ligatures mentioned on the page: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Fira+Code#about
Never is a long time. Imagine trying to conceptualize modern shipping capabilities before the industrial revolution. It is not only that the cost per ton/mile has fallen drastically, but also the amount of purchasing power average people have. Not to mention the entire classes of industry that were created.

Costs to get to space will trend downward. Our knowledge of the solar system and it's potential for economic benefit trends upwards. At some point someone will find a way to make money, even if it is a niche application. That early industry will create the infrastructure which will open up other areas of development etc... A positive feedback process.
Yeah, mostly its that people overestimate how much (or what kind of) tech prowess they need to convey to close a deal or offer a service that people want to pay for
The book Cadillac Desert and the documentary of the same name (narrated by Alfre Woodard) woke me up to this problem. (I live in CA but grew up back east). It's astonishing that we use so much imported water on our lawns (including during Winter) while watering lawns is not even necessary elsewhere.
> I believe Chinese leadership when they say all they want is a more multilateral world.

They say but don't do it. China's behaviour towards Canada, Lithuania and most of Eastern Asia is anything but multilateral. It is plain and simple imperialism.
Another coronavirus probably caused a worldwide pandemic starting in 1889. It killed a lot of people, but the survivors gained natural immunity which gave them significant protection against symptomatic reinfections. The same virus HCoV-OC43 is still endemic today. This seems relevant to the current pandemic.

https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/175...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7252012/
Poweramp Equalizer app (much more bang per buck than any headphones)
Isn't it cheaper to mine resources in space for space travel then to eject them from earths orbit. If we found an astroid that had water that'd be worth it to bring it to a space dock or to any habitat that doesn't have water (planet, spaceship, satellite).

I do agree the idea of bringing them back to Earth makes no sense, and the technology necessary to do that will probably make it not necessary thru other breakthroughs. But if you believe that Earth isn't the only location for humans to live we won't want to bring ML (Mega Liters) of water to future habitats, we want to either find it, or manufacture it.
Merry Christmas, hacker news! I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend full of good things.
Exactly, everyone wants to oppress the juniors and use them as cheap labor. It is no wonder that they do not want the job. Seniority without real increase in productivity or merit is why unions are so unpopular.
This creates an incredibly unbalanced view of Bucharest, honestly. Bucharest is a very diverse city, with a rich architecture, and the authors of the post seem to have focused strictly on poor neighbourhoods and communist-built apartment buildings.

Such a missed opportunity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
Merry Christmas people.
It has very interesting effects. You'll find that it helps with ingrown hairs. They'll begin to get out on their own, within hours of taking it orally and in general become very eager to come out with simple hand motions.

Someone should look into it. Consistent effect. I looked into it years ago and indeed PDE5 inhibition has something to do with ingrown hairs.
Majority based on what and where. I would say that varies greatly globally depending on culture, social structures, government policies etc etc
It's a bit off, plenty of not-a-programming-language entries, & it isn't comprehensive

Anyways, if you want lots of silly languages https://esolangs.org/wiki/Language_list

I'll list some languages I've implemented which aren't on this list:

https://github.com/serprex/Rue
I implemented Rue based off of https://esolangs.org/wiki/Thue but with the idea to extend it with regex & modules

https://github.com/serprex/oilrs
https://esolangs.org/wiki/OIL someone shared an esolang they'd been implementing in Python, I decided to implement it in Rust. Making a second implementation made for good discussion, such as "how strict is integer format?" where it was decided 007 shouldn't be accepted, that empty cell vs empty-string cell being semantically different be kept, & the stdlib was moved to its own repo

https://github.com/serprex/NULL
I decided to port https://esolangs.org/wiki/NULL to Rust. If there were more programs in NULL I'd consider digging for a faster bignum implementation

Bonus: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Three_Star_Programmer is an interesting one-instruction machine. One instruction is a neat space, a somewhat different dimension of minimalism from brainfuck, see also https://esolangs.org/wiki/Jot
Regarding Garth Brooks specifically, the lack of availability of his music on streaming services is entirely his own decision. He owns a streaming service called Ghosttunes that exist /solely/ for hosting and streaming his own music and refuses to make his catalog available on anything else.

Edit: actually looks like he sold it to Amazon a few years ago and it was absorbed into Amazon Music where his catalog is now available. Regardless, Garth owns the rights to all of his music except for his 2014 album "Man Against Machine", so the lack of availability is again entirely his own decision.
I think the biggest thing is size. HN is "big" but also the size of a large subreddit in terms of users.
Nail status = hit. Merry Christmas ;-)
> everyone is fine

Except the people who aren't.

> the hospitals aren't overwhelmed

Except the ones that are.

> forcing your experimental medications on the entire planet

No more experimental than any other vaccine; due to how quickly COVID spread, we were able to do the same level of testing on the vaccine as for any other medication. It's as safe as anything else you take.
"The concern is Turkey becoming a failed state..."

Of course, there is a real danger of that happening. Turkey can indeed become a failed state...if USA attempts another coup or color revolution.

Look, there are multitude of concurrent attacks, both military (inside Syria by using Kurds/SDF) and economic being made agains Turkey for it's failure to be a "good NATO ally". I don't like Erdogan, and I care not about what happens to him. Turks do, though.

Many people will die if Turkey turns into another Iraq, Libya or Syria. And I don't want that to happen.
Excellent! This is a constructive suggestion, instead of the rants about LaTeX that amount really to nothing, because the whole community around LaTeX will not stop using it just because some outsider doesn't like the way it works.
We Linux users get crushed by zoom, meet, teams, etc. as well. They’re all based on WebRTC and electron/chromium. We don’t get hardware decoding or encoding because Google doesn’t even want to attempt to support it. There are PRs for chromium going back 10 years.

I’m surprised WebRTC wouldn’t be hardware accelerated on macOS, especially considering the great lengths Apple has gone to to hide the hardware differences of the various machines behind CoreVideo, VideoToolbox, and AVFoundation.

Edit - For macOS, it may come down to the fact that WebRTC, being a Google project, prefers to use the VP9 codec. It doesn’t look like Apple enables the use of hardware accelerated VP9.
It isn't. It just makes it cheap and easy. Its not a problem for a government agency to run a PKI, and for verifying identities they probably should.

But what about smaller entities, or even individuals. And what if they don't want to verify their identity but maybe an action.

Its not introducing anything new. It's just lowering the capital costs to doing it. Much like the internet lowered the costs to publishing and distributing an essay.
> So first, Taiwan is not sovereign nation. Under international law, Taiwan and mainland is one nation.

This is the CCP position, yes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=justicezyx
Guessing corporate market caps is surprisingly hard
istanbul does not plead for anything, ankara may though.
I'm posting the entire distribution and describing two data points because the post would have been very long if I described every country.

My aim isn't to cherry pick but simply to describe the distribution of outcomes we currently observe.
Any source on that claim that Obama was behind the coup attempt in 2016?
And so the plot thickens...
you're muddying the waters and it's absolutely relevant (History and historical context is always relevant). In 1949, the Republic of China retreated to the island of Taiwan and continues to this day to claim to be the government (in exile) of China.

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

This isn't a simple border dispute between separate countries. It's a governance dispute between two competing claims to a single country.
https://www.CocktailLove.com I built last year on my paternity leave and haven’t had significant time to work on it since. I tried to monetize by selling Nick & Nora glasses on the site but didn’t know how to market it (or just no one wanted them).

It still gets a sign-up or so a week and 1.5k visitors a month from Google but it’s far from where I wanted it to be.

I think the biggest learning is that trying to work full time at a new job (moved from FAANG to a scale up), raise a young kid, maintain a relationship with your partner, workout occasionally, and work on a side project all at the same time is near impossible. At least for me :)
Well, he is pretty open about this, despite his ambivalence to Facebook he even says he realises that it has more a hold of him than he thought it would.

Hang in there. De-Zucking your life is a net positive.
The DMV is motivated to be efficient because it's the only shop in town and people who have to use it will make noise when it sucks. But they may not pursue efficiency because they are the only shop in town unless pressured.

In Oregon they seem to care. I've never spent more than 25 minutes in line and often been out the door in under 20 minutes even with complex forms to complete. They often have someone near the door to check your needs and get you the right form as you take a number so when you get to the window you're set to submit your form, pay any fees, then leave vs sitting down again to start the form or something. Oregon has it figured out.

Washington though, they have private offices running all aspects in separate locations ex emissions test up the highway, licensing across town, and vehicle registration down south. It took me over 3 hours to register my car when I moved and the DMVs there only proceeded to be worse.
Good to hear!

Lets be clear that this goes both ways, Kagi is a really nice Christmas present: so far this is the biggest software improvement I've seen in a number of years: on the same scale as when generics was introduced to Java (and this was a big deal for me) or in fact even on the same scale as when I was introduced to Google. I'll have to keep using it for a few months to see exactly how big it is but feels like a really bif deal so far :-)

Wishing you a merry Christmas whenever you celebrate it (we are celebrating tonight).
china already back to normal, crowded beaches all maskless during the summer.
it's economic and psychological warfare that's about it.
and we lost.
I'm not sure why this has rule 8. Don't do this. This is handled by git blame and PRs.

In regard to rule 5, I've found it's a bit more nuanced than:

> Without the comment, someone might “simplify” the code or view it as a mysterious but essential incantation. Save future readers time and anxiety by writing down why the code is needed.

What is idiomatic? Well that depends on nested organizational requirements merged with some community merged with developer experience.

I have some methods:

public void doSomething() {
myType foo = createType();
foo.monitor();
}

public myType createType() {
return new myType();
}

There are no comments. What's idiomatic about this? Well the doSomething tests needed a mock, so we get a random create method. Why did the doSomething tests need a mock? Because the organization wants code coverage this way. You have to assume, because of company policy, there's tons of these things everywhere. I hate the term "idiomatic" when it's more subjective than anything else.
My suggestion it to watch the investor day meeting along with Ananadtech reporting on the issue. As usual not sure what Charlies is on about.

>who decided to try to use those cores in Mobile despite the actual designs not being suited for that. I

Not sure where that idea came from. It was designed with similar wattage in mind as current A15.
Superpower logic is far too cold for terms like colonizing. There is very little focus on such ideological by-products of power when the General Staff makes its considerations and recommendations for the security of the state. If you think in terms like these, from some liberal shitlib university, against military superpowers who can guarantee MAD with nuclear weapons you are not going to make heads or tails any of it.

It is best to purify your mind and just read Thomas Schelling.
I heard that Ubiquiti went through an outsourcing / cost cutting phase recently and a lot of complaints about their software.

So I spent a little more and went with Aruba Instant On and it seems good so far. I really just wanted the ability to make however many VLANs I wanted.
It's actually a sunshield [1]

[1] https://webb.nasa.gov/content/observatory/sunshield.html
[1] Top quality laptops (high spec XPS13s running Linux) rather than cheap ones.
[2] A good (non-electric) bike in my small flat town.
[3] SailfishOS rather than a surveillance or walled garden phone.
[4] Intel Synology NAS with maxxed out RAM and storage.
[5] Brix laptop bag.
[6] Standing desk and wobble board.
Many people still don't understand you can run millions of threads on Linux on a beefy server. The bottleneck with python will always be the CPU doing something with those requests.
I never really thought about it, but your description made me fear some well-meaning persons will "revamp" HN and turn it into something "fresh and modern" and introduce new features that allow us to "engage".
> So first, Taiwan is not sovereign nation. Under international law,

And who made that "international law"? The CCP? Taiwan is sovereign because they want to be, overwhelmingly.

China's imperialism towards Taiwan is just imperialism, like in Tibet and Hong Kong. And like Russia in Ukraine.

Nothing different than the U.S. did in Philippines, Iran and Latin America during most of 20th century.
If you want to skip the Super Bowl pre-game, the actual launch window starts at 7:20 am EST (12:20 UTC) and lasts for 31 minutes.

It can launch anytime during that window.
I don't really see the point of using LaTeX for on-screen viewing, well, not unless you want to impose some amount of focus on the reader (which printed forms usually do). HTML or markdown for on-screen content usually works better.

The main asset of Lamport's LaTeX is its high quality formatting for printed artifacts. Most of that in turn comes from Knuth's TeX, which is a much lower level language. One can do (and many definitely have done) markup to TeX languages, but they never expose as much control as LaTeX does, so aren't very popular. Madoko (https://www.madoko.net/) does pretty good, however, so maybe try that? Otherwise, there are plenty of commercial and expensive typesetting systems out there, but besides the cost, I don't think they are even as user friendly or flexible as LaTeX.
Do you have to be signed in for that to work? I get the same result as with the app, the same list of tweets, with the tweet I tapped slightly larger than the rest. I am running Safari on an iPhone if that matters.
If you screw up your personal details, you won’t be able to get back in. No matter how you try.

It’s one of the best things that can happen to you, to be honest. Facebook is a cancer on society.